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US? When has that ever happened in the last 30 years? I’d buy the EU stepping in to mandate interoperability though. I’d welcome that!

But… shouldn’t mostly everyone here view needing the EU to force the behaviour of a US company kind of against the entire supposed benefit of the US system and the purpose of the domain this forum is hosted on?
It currently doesn't because Beeper Mini users are able to get access without paying. This should change, if anything just to make the upcoming onslaught of spam unprofitable.
The nm nomenclature is nominal and not an actual measurement. i
It's a concept of the level of improvement. Also not what TSMC uses

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-renames-process-nodes-intros-a...
True, generic test-and-set ops can be used. But what about if there is already a request in-flight? Do you wait or fail? What is the experience working with either? What is the experience invalidation the cache key? And similar other questions :) So more practical than theoretical side to idempotency
> If you’re looking for the criminal that killed a bunch of people but not that specific case it’s not that uncommon.

Here you're saying that mass-murderers are common, but despite their extensive trails of corpses, we can't pin the actual crime on an actual criminal. No, there's nothing magical about criminal prosecution here, it's no more than bullshit as you've described it.

Back to my question, why do you think mass-murderers are so incredibly overrepresented in the American population?
> but you can't stop collisions with neighbors

I’m not convinced this is true. Right now all equipment screams at full power all the time, but it doesn’t have to be this way. They control the spec. They could enforce self-limiting when an AP detects more than 5 other APs, for example. And currently there is a lot of neat stuff in the spec for APs to collaborate with each other when they share a backhaul, but not so much for independent APs. Sure, you will have some jerks that go out of their way to override these features but for 99.999% of people who just plug in an appliance and never touch any configuration there are wins to be had there.
I bridge my Signal communications through my self-hosted Matrix server, so I'm already going to get the benefit of Signal not going through Google's servers.

That said, MollySocket is a pretty neat hack that I had never heard of until now. I'll keep it in mind for a future use.
> Git has no such problem. There’s nothing it can’t do.

It can't display me the branch I'm working on, starting from the commit that began the branch, until the last commit. (Or if it can, I have no idea how to do it.)

This isn't a functionality issue, but rather a conceptual one. Git just fundamentally thinks of branches differently than I do. (And, maybe most humans?) To me, a branch begins ... when I branch it. To git, a branch begins ... at the very first commit ever in the repo, since they consider commits that were made before the branch point to still be part of the branch. The branch point then is just another commit to git - and not even one that they think is important enough to highlight. But without any ability to clearly identify the branch point, you can often find yourself looking through a forest of commits that are irrelevant to what you're really searching for.

I spent the better part of an hour the other day trying to figure out how to identify my branch point. (For the record, the best solution I eventually found was: cat .git/refs/heads/<branch name>.) Just my $0.02, of course, but IMO this is absurd - and a big feature gap / user friendliness issue with git compared to other VCS's.

IMO git is just another step in the evolution of VCS's, and not necessarily even one of the better ones. Its concepts, functionality, and feature set are focused primarily on distributed development and multiple people maintaining different source trees ... which is fine for the Linux kernel and other projects that heavily use that use case. But many/most projects don't work that way, and for them a centralized VCS is sufficient. I have no doubt that a better VCS will come along and replace git one day.
It seems like to me that whether it's real or not, removing the potential for it to be used in a bad way is a good thing.
For headline news that's probably a good rule of thumb. But in an academic context, especially data science, anyone who is data literate should know to check the axes.
I'm surprised people are defending these guys. This is paid-for illegal breaking into systems.
GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
Thank you so much! Very cool, and as fascinating an accompaniment to this article as expected. Chrome does a decent job translating this over to English.
Suggesting a fourth category, in which I consider myself and know I have plenty of friends and colleagues:

When you don’t have the space at home for a proper office, so you end up with something that is ergonomically suboptimal and makes a mental shift between ‘home’ and ‘work’ harder. When I’m already balancing my effort carefully to not end up spending more energy than I can recover week by week, asking for WFH without also cutting work days is something I find draining.

The “it’s great, but not for me”-crowd. Forcing people into the office or out of the office is the employer drastically changing the terms of the employment, and should at least be done over an extended period of time or in consultation with the affected employees (not including exceptional circumstances such as when it was part of the temporary efforts to dampen the pandemic).
> My best answer is for us to provide every court have an on-call statistician, reviewing every case.

Is this not the exact reason for expert witnesses?
This was in Europe and I was working from home during that time. We only had one cat. I played with it for sure, but not for hours. He had a window. Made weird sounds, especially at night. Once we got the second cat it was much better, at least to us he seemed way more chill.
Why do android users want something they have everything else ahead? I don’t want interoperability. If I did I’d use the other messaging apps that are far beyond apple’s. The only value I see is stubbornness with older family as many see iPhones as a simpler device
Sure, there's still a lot of ambiguity. If you want to say "the only thing we definitely know right now is that the board was incapable," then I can agree with that. That doesn't mean there's not more to be learned and we need to dismiss new information. Obviously there's a distinction between the board being incapable of making good decisions or the board being incapable of effectuating good decisions, which is what everyone is keen to learn, and why people are interested in these articles.
Very, very much yes. Criminal courts really, really aren't a good place to address technical matters. For example, ankle electronic monitoring (obviously) doesn't work well in faraday-cage like apartment complexes. And yet time and time again, GPS skew is used to argue that someone left their home -- sometimes even months after the fact. I've read emails from a local sheriff's office that said that they consider a sufficiently weak signal to be a result of "foiling", period. Through FOIA though, I've been able to get over 100 million instances where a GPS device didn't have a strong enough signal. There are even criminal trials where an EM company will send a sales person to testify and to claim that they're not aware of any technical faults with the system.

https://thetriibe.com/2022/11/many-on-house-arrest-in-cook-c... (disclaimer: I'm the author)
No, they are always annoying. I'm here to read an article, the only thing this pop-up window does is get in my way.
> Apple’s next move would likely be to release some kind of official iMessage Android client rather than cede control of the space to Beeper.

You say this as if it's a bad thing, I think that would be mission accomplished for Beeper... tbf, though I suppose their moment would be over by then.
>sued into bankruptcy

Good luck with that. I'd like to see this play out in court with a technically inclined judge. Be careful what you wish for.
It wouldn't surprise me if computer forsensics is about as bad science as bullet forsensics.

Ever since I had a porn virus hosting kinda lame porn videos over BitTorrent like 20 years ago, I thought about exactly how computer forsensics prove intent in child sexual abuse material cases.
California's system only cares about 1, 2, or 3+ passengers. The counting is primarily done with a transponder that is set by the driver (and a display is shown so the highway patrol can catch violators). At toll booths, they also snap photographs from the sides to catch violators. It is not only far from perfect, but wouldn't be useful if you actually need to know the exact number of passengers in (say) a van or bus.
The quality and refinement comes from the control. They don’t ever have to support a device they didn’t make themselves.
> *why* they’re learning the material. What they can do with it.*

If the honest answer is that of the few students that every do anything with the material, those will be academics who go on to just study the material more, that should be articulated too.

"In this course we will be descending into a branch of mathematics that hitherto has found no practical application. Perhaps some of you will go on to find some."
Having an RSS indicator in the URL bar used to be the first step to subscribing a feed. How do you get it if its not there. When a feature is removed, slowly everyone will forget that it was even a thing once.

Opera (my main browser back then) use to have so much stuff built in (RSS, email, IRC, note taking, mouse gestures). Chrome use to have a resizable extension bar recently. OneNote use to have a more colorful and compact UI. Start menu and taskbar used to be useful before windows 11/10/8.

Reminds of an article posted here about removing less used keys/letters from keyboard. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock/
Agreed. By far the most impressive company out of the current AI wave.

They managed to put out the gold standard for 7B models in like 6 months, and are quickly moving up the scale.

I mocked the funding round back in March as being signs of hype, ($300m for a team of 3 with just an idea?) but clearly I didn't know the details. Really remarkable execution.

They may well be on their way to eat all use cases that don't need gpt-4 performance and hopefully soon tackle the big leagues as well. Exciting times!
I’m hoping Apple find a perm shut down solution. A proper iMessage client for android can’t come from a hack.

I do applaud them for getting a home run in PR for themselves
For Android, Edge and Opera both have ad blocking built-in. It's comments like these that remind me what I'm (not) missing.
Maybe true, but 87% of teens self-reported owning an iPhone [1]. The blue-bubble effect is real, and this cohort is facing enormous pressure to use iMessage specifically. I wouldn't call it a footnote, personally.

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/04/iphone-is-still-t...
> Beeper is charging people who haven't purchased devices

Do you have numbers for that? Sure, some of the users haven't purchased devices, but many of them have an apple device or two and just want access to the network across all the devices they use.
This is already in Firefox: https://rlbox.dev/
>building production applications on top of an undocumented API

Sort of like how Apple builds their apps?
I actually like the walled garden, things “just work” in here…

I also have devices outside of the the walled garden but they take a bit more effort as far as initial set up and upkeep, things I’m willing to do but average Joe just wanting his tech to do what he tells it to do might not have the patience for.
Starting and running a company is very scary, so it's not surprising that many people who are not cut out for the emotional work involved end up like this.

> The company was running out of runway, we just hadnt been told yet.

At least your CEO didn't dump all the bad news and resulting anxiety directly on the team. Good job, it's exactly what he's paid for.
That's easy. 6 inches. We have stuff that thick in stock.
I'm not in the space at all, but from my naive reading it seems like for bigger outfits the success monkey—er, manager—would be a great deal at borrowing an engineer with deep technical knowledge of the platform to do your bidding and fix all kinds of things not really related to porting.

If people take them up on it, I could imagine it becoming substantially less valuable over time as they get massively overbooked and you end up getting either 1/20th of an overworked engineer or 100% of a recently acquired clueless intern. (Though you could still get lucky and end up with 100% of a recently acquired clueful intern who is actually more valuable than most of the long-timers but is being given a conservatively sized workload.)
I can’t find it anymore, but there was someone who had some home automation where they could open or close their garage door from the internet. However it would occasionally open automatically. Eventually they realized it happens whenever they opened their browser. Apparently, they visited the page often enough for it to be favorited on their homepage. Unfortunately, it was written to act on any request, including GET requests and so whenever they opened his browser to the home page, it would fetch the favicon or preview and trigger the automation.
Yes, they can advocate for getting better spectrum allocated to WiFi. They would have a strong case since WiFi is by far and away the most used wireless technology it’s just that nobody is really advocating for it to politicians in any meaningful way.
... negative content. Ensure replies promote fairness and positivity.

I have gotten really annoyed by this kind of guard rail when asking LLMs to compare approaches. It is really difficult to get it to generate a Pro/Cons list, instead only generating Pros lists or a Cons list that is very "soft." They will very willingly generate encouraging advice, but never discouraging.

As a natural naysayer, I have come to understand the importance of focusing on the positives. Most people don't want to hear the 57 caveats on why that approach may fail, they just want to hear the single reason on why it will succeed. When researching it just as important to see what has failed as what has succeeded, and LLMs just won't ever say something is bad. They always try to find the silver lining.
So far, the highest number of 4 day week companies in the private sector appears to be in the US, followed by the UK.

Source: I maintain a page listing 120 4-day week companies. For every 10 new companies I add, 6-8 will be from these two countries.

For anyone interested:https://okjob.io/companies/
Ouch, 6.7MB feed: it’s including all the pages (is this a blog engine or a CMS?) and then it’s inlining all images (um… who decided that made any sense as an action?).

Yeah, that feed sure ain’t ready.
The curse of being familiar with its content is that you know when the author of the article is giving bad advice, explaining wrong about how things work, or having an opposite opinion on a polarizing topic. If you are not familiar with the subject these things won't bother you.
Seems like an expensive way to tell us all something we've known since the iphone was released.
A back-of-napkin calculation says this maneuver can also be used to send a probe to Proxima Centauri in ... 128 days? Why are we not doing that?
I don't think this is painting Apple in a negative light for their actual customers, who pay them money. It's painting them in a negative light for a small segment of Android users who obviously are unlikely to switch to Apple anyway.
I think it would be more interesting to compile to LLVM IR, so you don't have to deal with C. Part of the appeal of Wasm is that it's a modern system that doesn't have to deal with 70s nonsense.
Olvid [0,1] seems interesting too.

[0]: https://olvid.io

[1]: https://github.com/olvid-io/olvid-android
> Non growth is problematic too since we need to still help millions of people out of poverty in a sustainable way.

By letting surplus value go to those who own the...
For the US the biggest impediment is healthcare is based on a per employee charge, not per hour charge. So there's this perverse incentive to extract every possible hour of labor from an employee, even with overtime at time and a half, to defray another fixed cost.

Without public health care and the subsequent lifting of healthcare costs from employers back over to a progressive tax system, I can't see the 4 day week being widely adopted.
I have no capslock and I must scream (2022)
Invisible creatures have been a hack to make a lot of channeling spells work since Warcraft 3
However, they also traditionally had school on Saturday, right? For some reason, that made me irrationally upset when I thought of my kids going to school on Saturdays. I get the argument behind it (it let's the parents take care of things outside of work), but it seems like it also would prevent family outings.

Best I can tell, most schools no longer have classes on Saturday, but they do have Wednesday morning at least. And, at least at my daughter's school, most are there (or at another _recreation center_) in the afternoon.
I’m not excited about beeper but am excited about the drama around beeper!
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I don't think this law is meant to stop these things at all. It's meant to make sure that companies and governments who do this and use models as an excuse go free and have someone to blame if they get caught.
> it is why many people like Apple products so much

and it's why (well one very big reason why) I hate Apple products, and avoid them.
This is frequently cited by law enforcement and criminal justice officials, but this is an impossible bar to set, because they have not been convicted of those other unspecified crimes. The excuse "he maybe didn't rob this store, but he did rob those other stores, so let's nudge the case a bit", even if done in good faith by law enforcement, is still fishy, because ... why not convict them instead for the other crimes being purported, since we're more confident about them?

In many cases I think this is likely to be a post facto rationalization for the fact that the case against the suspect is weaker than initially thought but represents a great deal of manpower that feels wasted if the suspect is not convicted.
The jail mechanic is not too complex to implement, depending on the kind of game. It sounds pretty similar to the Keystone Kops in Nethack. Like Dwarf Fortress, it exchanges graphical detail for complexity.
"No reverse engineering" is a pretty standard TOS item.
I think you are mixing up what you are calling “the party line” with a mixture of - people cheering for the world they want (EU yet again forces a US company to change behaviour), and people who view the chances of this (at best interpretation legally grey) gamble working without that as extremely unlikely.
>This is one of the better litmus tests to see if the expert witness is knowledgeable in the field, and more importantly, up-to-date on the tech

It's an absolute travesty that it should fall to expert witnesses at all. Judges, police, and criminal trial lawyers should know how common forms of evidence work in general.
I would love to learn more about this. My assumptions is that everyone is dealing with this issues but some people are able to push through with motivation/discipline and the right environment.

I'm not convinced that calling "ADHD" anytime we have a hard time doing something is the right way to recognize that we now live in a society that is absolutely full of small dopamine hits.
Sokpop is fantastic. A tiny game coop based out of Scandinavia releasing interesting tiny projects every month.
Without phone number registration working isn't this far less useful?
> that unlocks a proprietary security

Beeper Mini is not "unlocking" anything more than a real iPhone does. It's not exploiting anything, it's following exactly the same protocol and registration flow as the real thing (that's why it works in the first place). No security is being broken here.

You could argue that it's using an (insignificant) amount of resources on Apple's side without having paid for it (since most users wouldn't have purchased an iOS device), but Apple can trivially mitigate that by offering an officially-supported registration flow that charges a reasonable fee.
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Been like this since at least Skyrim, maybe earlier
It's not quite 2024 but the content still applies.
Was this the case involving Alice Sebold? The man was cleared, but I don't remember whether DNA evidence was involved.
There has been discussion of this change a few times, e.g. https://bugs.python.org/issue44603

I generally agree with your overall sentiment, but I think it's important to note that the behavior is _not_ special handling; it's just the normal `repr` behavior at the REPL, where `exit` is an object like any other, and `repr(exit)` is that message.
We do: SMS

It's just worse than the alternative that Apple provides for its own ecosystem of users. Any Apple user is free to opt for that more universal system if they want.
I think social media should go first.
> The police and prosecution are the ones using these tools to attack innocent people.

... and the defense fails to hire their own expert witness, or use same exact method to keep people out of prison.

(Remember "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"? Cochran did not come up with it by himself, but an expert provided it to him, the glove not fitting.)

Assuming you are talking about US, adversarial courts.
It's not really that simple. I'm an iPhone use, who thinks Android is kinda pointless, but I don't understand why Apple hasn't opened up the iMessage protocols years ago, or at the very least made their own Android application
Most voters couldn’t care less about Apple’s iMessage antitrust concerns. Even within the realm of antitrust questions it’s an extremely low priority.
I got my first iMessage spam from an email address ever. I wonder if this whole thing is related..
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No, Apple won't be charging for that service.
Frozen marimo?
I believe it is possible to use your own relay with Beeper (original Beeper, not Beeper mini).
Sounds like a straightforward deal, not sure why he's suing.
If we’re talking best case outcomes, then why settle for 10%? 0%! Free distribution for everyone.
I get why many people might want this, but open standards are the way to go, and this seems to be playing into the hands of proprietary in some ways.
For better or worse, a huge amount of our justice system depends on eyewitness statements.

For example, if my crazy neighbour knocked on my door, pushed their way into my home when I answered then beat me up - the only evidence of who did it would be my eyewitness testimony.

There would be incontrovertible evidence that someone had assaulted me, in the form of my bruise-covered face and body. But only eyewitness testimony as to who.

With the current justice system, that would almost certainly be enough for a jury to convict.

There are tragic miscarriages of justice from time to time, and certainly DNA evidence should be used whenever possible. But would I prefer to live in a world which rejects eyewitness testimony, where a crazy person can barge into my house and beat me up with no consequences? Or a world where I have to have CCTV in my own home? Not really to be honest.
Blame laws like fruit of the poisoned tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

If you want to act in bad faith and call it magic and bullshit feel free to grandstand.