skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're using false or duplicate Apple devices for this. I think that it may be likely they are using AWS resources for it: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/

When AWS first came out with these, this was my first thought. People could spin up an EC2 instance and use it for iMessage, and Beeper came to be shortly after this feature went live in AWS.
How long does it take for Steam to deposit the revenue from sales to the developer's account?
> I don't get it. It's a product the whole country wants, rolled out to only 25 cities and they're done growing? Can anyone make a case for why this isn't a horrible business decision (if true)?

The regulatory and logistical challenges to rolling out in new cities vary extremely widely, and this isn't their core business or core competency. Compare that to telcos, who focus exclusively on these problems, and it's relatively expensive for Google to compete in this area compared to telcos.

Of course, that's assuming telcos are investing at all (which they aren't, at least not when Google or municipalities aren't threatening them with competition), so this argument isn't automatically categorically correct. But that's the gist of it, and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

Selfishly, I want Google to expand Google Fiber, but I would actually rather have municipalities force existing telcos to deliver on the investments that they've already paid for (with taxpayer money, in many cases). At the end of the day, that's the real problem. Google Fiber is just a stopgap.
My main problem is that the person that suffers from the poisonous tree is the public at large.

The actual criminal in this scenario (the police officer) gets off carte blanche for breaking the law. Additionally, if they managed to find evidence then an additional criminal (the defendants) also gets carte blanche. The only people punished is the public that now have two known criminals that evaded justice!
That's way before I started following pro CS, but this past Sunday was the finals day of BetBoom Dacha, a tournament named after one of the competing teams. They placed 3rd-4th. https://www.hltv.org/events/7499/betboom-dacha-2023
>> You should respect the user's preferred font size.

>This is impossible because what's desired depends on the font.

I'm confused by this statement. Let's say I'm using a font that looks smaller than average. To compensate for that I (the developer/designer) set the font-size of my body text to 20px instead of 16px. Using rem, it'll be 1.25rem.

Now when someone with bad eyesight comes on my website and they have their default font-size set to 18px instead of 16px, the body text is 18*1.25=22.5

They will still see a larger text (22.5px) than the average person (20px), regardless of the font I picked.

If I had set the font-size in px, everyone would get the same size regardless of their preference.
Everything you say applies to all large breeds. Judge a dog based on its owners and behavior.

Don’t judge someone just because they own a pitbull. The breed isn’t the fundamental problem.
Under this logic, no hacking would ever be illegal. After all, there's obviously no way any attacker ever did anything the code actually made impossible.

Fortunately, courts aren't computers, judges aren't compilers, and legal code isn't a programming language.
Announcing angular.dev
I'm not a lawyer either but I don't see what's wrong with that argument. The tool that Beeper built isn't infringing any laws, reverse engineering in this context is perfectly legal. They're not responsible for their users' use of the tools they build and their consequent violation of the TOS.
I think the economics of a physical drug substance and gambling are different enough that it’s actually un-apt to draw a comparison between sports betting and alcohol prohibition. Indeed I think it's actually highly misleading to extrapolate the harms caused by alcohol/drug prohibition to the prohibition on gambling. Caveat: this is all armchair speculation, I have no expertise or research on the matter.

In the case of black market gambling it seems much easier to keep everything within my direct control, thereby limiting the risk of getting a bad product. I can make a wager or play a poker game with my buddy without taking on virtually any “undue” risk (aside the risk I’m taking on intentionally) because he’s my friend and I know he’s not going to kneecap me if I can’t pay. The chain of trust only needs one link, and it’s an easy one to verify. Some people clearly do go farther, and this isn’t to say that large-scale illegal betting doesn’t exist, but it seems like the majority of recreational gambling demand is met by this type of direct person-person transaction where trust is easy-ish to establish or enforce. In this case banning betting has limited harms, because for most people the black-market is relatively low-risk. Indeed legalizing it, and thus allowing big players into the game, actually seems less safe to me. A friendly poker game on Friday nights is going to self-regulate: nobody's too sharp, everyone has roughly equivalent cash reserves, and my friends are probably going to cut me off if it seems like I'm developing an addiction. In the long-run I'm unlikely to find myself too deep in the hole. Compare this to sports betting with DraftKings. I'm against an odds-maker who's WAY savvier, has much deeper reserves than I do, and is incentivized to keep me playing at almost any cost. It's orders of magnitude more likely that I'm going to blow everything I have and then some, and all through a frictionless iOS app while sitting on my couch.

Compare this to the illegal drug trade. Unlike purchasing gambling services, buying ex. cocaine from the same buddy requires a much longer chain of trust, because of the manufacture and distribution processes involved. Even if I trust my buddy not to sell me fentanyl, I have to trust his dealer, and his dealer’s dealer, and the dealer’s dealer’s supply, etc. In this case I very much want lots of regulation ensuring the product isn’t contaminated, contains what it’s supposed to, etc. Legalizing just takes the already-existing supply chain and big players and moves them under government control. In this case the legalized version is far safer than the black market equivalent.

W/r/t legal enforcement side of things the differences seem similar. A small bet between friends is basically impossible to prosecute. It’s only the really big organized stuff that is even possible to detect, legally. On the other hand, a small amount of personal cannabis is very easy to detect and prosecute, often easier than the professional distribution network.
For residential accounts, it is not considered acceptable use[1] to "operate servers for commercial purposes."

[1] https://fiber.google.com/legal/accepteduse/residential/
It definitely might be better at the moment without registering your number as then you won't have messages disappear into nothingness if the service goes down again.

I missed a few messages when I switched from iPhone to Android because I hadn't deregistered my number from Apple.

I don't think I'd use my existing Apple ID for this -- probably easy enough to create a new one with a new email.
https://twitter.com/sylefeb/status/1258808333265514497 ?
> Why should I pay costs for server uptime and maintenance for clients that I a) did not authorize and b) did not pay for me keeping up my servers and c) actually accept that a third party is getting money for providing said access to my servers?

Because you designed the system in such a way that interoperability was impossible without non-customers using your servers?
I believe that sports betting should be legal, and for context I do a little bit but in the few hundreds of dollars a year total range.

When I weigh the legality of things in the harms-vs-freedoms sort of way that you're describing, I tend to use alcohol as my point of comparison, since that's probably the most harmful behavior we allow.

So is sports betting less harmful than alcoholism? If you look at it from the perspective of the cost to society (which I think it should), it seems pretty clearly to me to be correct. The dollar cost to the consumer is less (remember when comparing numbers that the headline for gambling is the amount wagered, of which only a minority is actually lost, vs. for alcohol it's what's spent, which is all lost). Add to that the amount we have to spend on Medicare/Medicaid treatment for issues caused by alcohol, and in my view it's very tough to say that it's reasonable for alcohol to be legal but sports betting should not.

> On the other hand, I think weed and alcohol should be legal, despite it affecting people's lives in negative ways, but the majority if their users are completely normal people.

I do want to address this point - I don't think the majority of their users being normal is a good metric. There are an estimated two million people in AA, and those are just the ones for whom drinking has become a problem so serious that they felt the need to seek help. The consequences for those people are absolutely devastating.
Jurors aren't expected to blindly accept expert testimony. Normal jury instructions are exactly the opposite: that jurors should treat it just like any other testimony and make their own decision on how trustworthy it is.

I think the concern is more that they don't want a self-appointed expert on the jury having too much sway over the other jurors.
This looks like a useful value-add, but I'd hesitate to call it a replacement for Azure OpenAI. Governance and observability features of Azure OpenAI are really secondary to the stability and reliability guarantees of Azure owning and operating the model instead of OpenAI...
Is this supposed to be an example of thinking freely, or reactionary thought because of "reddit"?
I do find this annoying, but to play devil's advocate, it is supposed to be just entertainment. The question is who is losing money when you find an edge like that? Is it the sportsbook? Or is it poor souls (The fools) on the other side of those bets? Probably a bit of both. To some extent, the sportsbooks is simply acts as a marketplace to pair up two sides of a bet, and taking a cut. In all honestly though, if they set limits, fine, but they should set the same limit for everyone. I am intrigued by your web site, I have to say.
Yup! With search results being so bad these days, I've actually "regressed" to reading man pages, books and keeping personal notes. I found that I learn more and rely less on magic tools in the process.
I'm curious if these low-code models matter. I understand that small codebases can be cached effectively speeding up computations, but isn't it the data load the bottleneck in training?

Furthermore, how important is the breadth of data in the dataset to getting the desired results? I was under the impression that the main reason these LLM work is based on massive data sets.

As such, is there data-breadth metrics to validate whether training on a given dataset is even worthwhile? (ie: avoid sunk cost on a dataset that will yield a poorly performing LLM)
I suspect a lot of folks never worked with Enterprise / Gov customers and don't understand the restrictions and compliance requirements (like data residence, access control, FedRAMP, TISAX, reliability SLAs, etc. which you get with Azure but not with some "move fast and break things" startup like OpenAI).

My comment is not dissing on the author, I'm just pointing out what most folks get from Azure is compliance (and maybe safety), and an OSS cannot solve that (unless they're running some other models in owned infrastructure or on-prem).
Yikes, the reviews for the game are pretty terrible. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1372880/The_Day_Before/#a...
2-bit and 4-bit versions of Mixtral
We are releasing 2-bit and 4-bit quantized versions of Mixtral utilizing the HQQ method that we just published https://mobiusml.github.io/hqq_blog/ and https://github.com/mobiusml/hqq.

The 2-bit version can run on a 24GB Titan RTX.

In terms of perplexity scores on the wikitext2 dataset, the results are as follows:
Mixtral: 26GB / 3.79
Llama2-70B: 26.37GB / 4.13
I'm sorry to hear it. The game didn't turn out as well as they'd hoped, and I imagine they might have been crossing their fingers for a miracle to happen on release, only to have it become a disaster. Many of us have been on failing projects, and know that it can be due to a hundred reasons unrelated to the talent and commitment of the people involved. I don't know what happened in this case, but I can sympathize with the people on the line, slogging for years on a doomed game they can't save.
Sounds like a great UX to me!!!

/sarcasm
For those who are primarily javascript developers who want to go back to the basics, Astro.build is very nice. Ships plain HTML pages by default. Easy to progressively enhance with client-side interactivity if and where you'd like.

And for the client-side stuff, you get to pick how to tackle it: plain javascript, htmx, web components, react, vue, svelte, qwik... all enjoy first class support.
As far as I understand, in order to talk to Apple iMessage services/backend (and all auth pieces) you need a "legit" Apple ID and legit Apple hardware model #s / serial #s

If you don't have that, how are they able to get auth tokens / send messages around without basically "exploiting a hidden hack that might get patched"?
> might involve learning something new about the problem

I think that's almost literally what sfink said though:

> > they're creating a whole new form of proof that will almost certainly allow further decreases
That’s not what I meant/said. It’s insane to me that we don’t just throw more spectrum at the problem. WiFi has definitively proven its utility and popularity. It’s insane that we allocate more spectrum to things hardly anyone uses instead of something that literally everyone is using, all the time.
I have no clue, I'm not an engineer at Apple, that's why I trust them to make that determination (and again, not Beeper).
While they are at it, can they file an antitrust action against Google for making changes that break ad blockers and third party clients for YouTube?
Is there a better article that explains what's going on here? What is (was) Fntastic? What is/was "The Day Before"? What makes this relevant to hacking/startups?

This brief paragraph leaves me with no idea whether this was a documentary, a crypto product, a timepiece, a React framework, or what.
Wow this is super cool!

Do you plan to add discussion?
On the other hand, the classical approach lets you treat the boss as the one-off actor of an one-off scene, which it really is. This narrows the scope of your work (and associated testing). Integrating it into your overall ECS means you either make all aspects of a boss fully generic, working everywhere, or risk someone at some point adding "SpecialLaserCannonHelmet_Boss1" component to a random mook and breaking the game.
One area Google has a big advantage is in its massive crawling and indexing infrastructure. As good as ChatGPT plus is, the search with Bing feature is so. damn. slow. It seems do be doing a normal search request in the background rather than using any kind of index, and multiple links are visited serially rather than concurrently. Did I mention that it’s slow?

That’s a large and difficult problem obviously and one Google is clearly well-positioned for if they can ever catch up on the model front.
I would guess Discord is more popular, based on my teens’ usage.
Over the years I took part in few similar discussions. Almost every time argument against regulations was “but alcohol prohibition in USA made things worse”. I don’t have knowledge, but intuitively I’m not sure if it’s really that bulletproof argument. Have someone any thoughts? How to approach that critically?
The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues. The right to say most things, including advertising legal things, is more culturally significant than the right to make wagers in many societies.

Though oddly, this is a place where we can take some inspiration from tobacco. Restrictions on advertising work, but restrictions on sales mostly don't. The thing that works may be preferable even if it is culturally more difficult to accept.
I've been following this train wreck for a while, as it was pretty clear where this was headed.

There was a supposedly leaked internal screenshot surfacing purporting that roughly 50% of the game's sales had been refunded. Hopefully Steam does the right thing and removes this product from the store immediately and refunds ALL customers.

For those out-of-the-loop this situation goes far behind over-promising and under-delivering. This "game" was largely just an Unreal Engine asset flip that appears to be hastily cobbled together with duct tape and fiddlesticks by amateurs, and didn't even deliver the same genre it advertised for years.
Other differences tied to road safety:

- winter tire legislation

- highbeam usage

- mandatory yearly car inspections
I can't see TFA; does it discuss that it's highly likely the average parent is much better at teaching reading than maths?
Also worth noting that map is by county, but pale pink can mean only a town or two in the county has it available. If anything it overstates availability, despite how little coverage it shows.

I’m also bitter about it living in CT where we have almost no competition for ISPs so offerings are slim.
That's not generally true in practice. Especially when it is marketed to end users as a TOS-violating product and doubly so when it was originally a commercialized product.
So more Burroughs and less Asimov? Shall we start digging now or shall we start the bunker after lunch?

Roddenbury’s vision is quickly coming to life. Ship’s computer AI, pocket communicators, advanced medicine… surely some of this matters (barring the ongoing threat nuclear apocalypse, granted).
For those of us who don't know Fntastic, could someone give a quick summary of what's going on here?
As a Disney Adult that learned about capitalism long before being a Disney Adult I approve of this message. Good work tef.
It seems like "murder almost back down to 2019 levels" would be a better description, but perhaps it amounts to the same thing.
Thanks, but: neither of those links say it's a California requirement, nor that it's stored with PII, nor that it's necessarily/always kept for 10 years (your original claim).

Instead, it's said to be kept for at most 10 years, & even that is in a paragraph describing what happens if a customer specifically chooses optional storage!

Further, if you're referencing 23andme's own privacy/terms documents, those also repeatedly pledge that samples are irreversibly destroyed upon request.

So while I can still believe your original claim might be true – California requires many dumb & anti-privacy things, sometimes in dishonest ways! – the links you've forwarded provide more grounds to doubt your claim than support it.

If it's truly a state legal requirement that overrides a user's explicit discard request for a full 10 years, that should be easy to document with a clear and authoritative link, shouldn't it?
> I sorta thought this type of quality writing was dead and gone from the freely accessible web

It is working because its funded by Hedge fund founder billionaire/mathematician and they are not looking for subscription revenues (yet).
Maybe, but they probably text you through iMessage.
It's the old "you are not the customer" but applied to management. I really really want to be told what the high level goals are and come up with a solution. So of course when I started managing people I worked really hard to communicate those high level goals and let them decide the how. They told me no thanks please just let me know what tickets to work on.

People are different and motivated by different things and that's ok.

The dictator who listens really seems to be what the majority prefer because they don't actually want to be accountable for those decisions they just want a seat at the table.
Its sort of like how in a lot of universities when taking a computer architecture course, the focus is usually on MIPS or RISCV or LC-3 and not something like a modern x86_64 processor. Tons of books exists to teach computer architecture in these architectures. They are also small, compact, and straight forward. You can understand every thing in 6502 or simple MIPS processor from logic gates, instruction set and how pipelining instructions work and branch prediction. I could be wrong, but if I had to guess, not even an engineer at Intel can break down their current processors and have all of that fit into their head.

Retro stuff also presents a challenge. There is a guy who writes some crazy software for I believe the Mac-II. It can be a great test of skill to take an old machine have it capable of doing modern things, because it requires getting knee deep in the weeds on optimization and such. One issue I think we have in software is, modern machines are really powerful. To the point of even shitty un-optimized code in average use cases can run decently well. Targeting these kinds of machines can help build those skills in learning how to optimize because, well, you would actually have to optimize to get these older machines to do modern things.
Alot of you may be looking at it wrong.

Each distribution is a different operating system. You cannot package the "same" app for Windows and mac, so why should you be able to package the same application for Debian and Arch, which, even though they run a lot of the same code, have different underlying layers and assumptions?
They would use bovada, which was the solution before sports betting became legalized.
Here's a small, crude, Scrapy spider, with hardcoded values and all. You can set the value of `DOWNLOAD_DELAY` in `settings.py` for courtesy. It puts the comments in a `posts` directory as `html` files.

It doesn't do upvotes nor stories/links submitted (they have the type `story` in the response, as opposed to `text` for comments). You can easily tweak it.

from pathlib import Path

import scrapy
import requests
import html
import json
import os

USER = 'Jugurtha'
LINKS = f'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/{USER}.json?print=pretty'
BASE_URL = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/'

class HNSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "hn"

def start_requests(self):
submitted = requests.get(LINKS).json()['submitted']
urls = [f'{BASE_URL}{sub}.json?print=pretty' for sub in submitted]
for url in urls:
item = url.split('/item/')[1].split('.json')[0]
filename = f'{item}.html'
filepath = Path(f'posts/{filename}')
if not os.path.exists(filepath):
yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse)
else:
self.log(f'Skipping already downloaded {url}')

def parse(self, response):
item = response.url.split('/item/')[1].split('.json')[0]

filename = f"{item}.html"
content = json.loads(response.text).get('text')
if content is not None:
text = html.unescape(content)
filepath = Path(f'posts/{filename}')

with open(Path(f'posts/{filename}'), 'w') as f:
f.write(text)
self.log(f"Saved file {filename}")
So they released what they had as a hail mary, it didn't work.
And then saying publicly that they should be "fired" after they take his message to "f*k off" and stop advertising seriously and halt their advertising spend on X/Twitter.
I like how the destroyer is the love child of the Millenium Falcon and the front of a BSG battlestar.

Also can't say no to a cat video (even if it doesn't really remind of Van Gogh).
Saying you're "not aware of" something that is real but that you've managed to avoid awareness of, isn't illegal. The individual representative sent to testify probably really was unaware, and the company probably does a good job of making itself as a whole mostly unaware. As long as all knowledge of something routinely goes straight to the shredder before anyone important hears about it, unawareness is achieved.
Wouldn't code written in JS be just as fast after being turned into wasm?