skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data is available and the results seem mixed and difficult to interpret so far, here's an article with links to a bunch of studies: https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-seven-new-studies-o.... It seems like most studies find either no effect on academics or a small negative effect, and sometimes positive social effects like reduced bullying. One point I found interesting:

> The four-day work week is an attractive work perk in rural America that may lure better teachers.

This makes sense but obviously would disappear if the four-day week became widespread.
Most iPhones are not purchased by parents for kids. You’re fixated on this but it’s a footnote for why people buy iPhones.
To a first approximation, yes. There is some small cost for the workflow function itself, but as this doesn't wait on responses and only really executes the side effects, it is not that much. Especially, given that this has comparable semantics to the accurate mode (not the express mode) of StepFunctions (which is charged by number of state transitions and not super cheap).
> Beeper Mini made communication between Android and iPhone users more secure. That is a fact.

It seemed like it would make spam and scamming over iMessage worse. At least it requires an Apple Id now.
I wrote a program last year that automatically downloaded articles I cared about and allowed me to print them in a booklet I could read when I woke up. Right now, you've got to view content in a web page and it's not very transportable.

Another use case is converting articles into audio for listening on the go.
Ah, totally makes sense. In that case, I'm all onboard. I'm sure the kids are too. Who wouldn't want 3 days off every week?
As a Californian, I feel obligated to point out that:

(a) this isn’t necessarily about environmental policy, and

(b) speed of changes isn’t necessarily part of it.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–2001_California_electri...

I agree that a bunch of the regulatory pushes for clean energy seem to be poorly done. I would much rather see a carbon tax along with sensible regulatory changes to avoid excessive red tape when building new clean energy projects. (But even that could cause problems if the market fails to prioritize reliability — see the California situation above and the recent problems in Texas, both of which involved.)

(Also, for Pete’s sake, what’s up with trading credits for not producing carbon dioxide? Just tax greenhouse gas emissions already — if you don’t emit them, you don’t pay the the tax, and if you do emit, then you just pay the tax instead of paying someone else to supposedly reduce emissions.)
Supermajority of people would probably enjoy 4-day work week, but there needs to be a giant push from the labour side. All the needs of "big companies" and such theoretically could be ignored, if such supermajority stuck together, and pushed through legislations. But I fear, this push will resonate with the word "unionization", killing all the efforts, since there is a hate towards such movements.
US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting
Yes, exactly. Care to share an example of what you're talking about? You may have found a new realm for research...
CHAD stack is still my favorite.
I quit in 2015 because the place was becoming like any other big company and I’d already been there for a decade. Larry becoming CEO in 2011 again probably started it…once he took the helm, Google soon got really concerned about expenses, likely because his net worth was tied to pleasing Wall Street. CFO Pichette left and bean-counting CFO Porat got hired who came from Morgan Stanley with a mandate to cut expenses.

And the culture changed at the same time. Lots of seemingly needless rules to protect rising fiefdoms that started the sclerosis that only got worse over time. Gamergate internally felt like a Civil War waged over Google+.

Google+ itself was the height of Google’s hubris, thinking they could kill a beloved product (Google Reader) to kill a different company’s beloved (at the time) product, Facebook. I remember being deeply disappointed with the release of Google+ like I was when the Segway was released. All this hype and promise for a secret product built with an enormous group of highly-talented people, kept away from the teeming masses of similarly talented people that could’ve told them that it was a dumb idea and here are the reasons why.

Really, if I had to blame one thing, it would be Google+ because of the corrosive effects of social media. Before Google+, my colleagues were just my colleagues who brought their whole selves to the office but we still mostly talked about work. Folks had mailing lists I wasn’t subscribed to where they would talk about their abhorrent political beliefs so I wouldn’t find out about them.

And then, all of a sudden, after Google+ came out, some guy I thought was cool revealed that he didn’t want women to be able have abortions. And some other guy was a randroid, hellbent on not understanding that taxes pay for roads. And on and on…seemingly everyone just spent a lot of time being mad at each other.

Obviously it’s hard for me to point to a specific thing or time period, but the writing was on the wall in the early 2010s (to me, anyways) and I bounced by the middle of the decade.
> iPhone customers desperately want to be able to chat together

is also laughably false lol. iPhone users just want android users to get an iphone.
https://archive.is/7mfli
> Let's say we have a food ordering application, and to keep our application simple, let's say we have two basic services, Shipping and Order. When one of our customers places an order, first the order is created, and then shipping instructions are created. If all transactions are successful, it sends a notification to the client. Even in this simple scenario, many failures can occur.

In a real-world scenario, this is what seems to happen to Uber Eats in India back in 2019 when everyone can gets free food because of a bug in Uber's backend.

https://youtu.be/PVzcWBmN2L0
Agreed, especially if the solution is just to cram a resin into the wood. That kind of defeats the purpose of competing with other plastic alternatives.

They point out in the article that they need to be better than petroleum alternatives, but they don't need to be a little better, they need to be much better.

I guess we'll see though
Hard to beat this for explaining how a mechanical watch really works
Of course. This now puts Apple in a prickly situation.

One which paints a negative light on Apple which of, if a crowd following gathered "why isn't there iMessage for Android?". As I see, it would result of one of the following:

- They sue and cause a backlash of Apple users.

- They do nothing, shows Apple solely interest is in itself.

- They create, happy times.
Tried to use the app.
2FA error, and can't connect to iMessage, so I can't use the app :|.
> but regulation - by definition - limits the free market.

Not always true.

Consumer labeling laws enable the free market, because a free market requires participates have full knowledge of the goods they are buying, or else fair competition cannot exist.

If two companies are competing to sell wool coats, and one company is actually selling a 50% wool blend but advertising it as 100% wool, that is not a free market, that is fraud. Regulation exists to ensure that companies selling real wool coats are competing with each other, and that companies selling wool blends are competing with each other, and that consumers can choose which product that they want to buy without being tricked.

Without labeling laws, consumers end up assuming a certain % of fraud will always happen, which reduces the price they are willing to pay for goods, which then distorts the market.
If you're doing interesting, deep level work, I've found I'm a lot more productive when I spend my weekends doing "literally anything but computers." I'll typically spend Thursday afternoon curled up with some datasheets or architecture references related to my current project, and let my mind chew on it over the weekend in the background, while I'm doing other stuff. The distance from the problem allows a fresh perspective, and I not-really-joke that a lot of my most clever solutions to a problem came while I was banging on rocks or running a chainsaw.

But I've also built the habits, over the years, of trying to make sure I have way more than just work going on in my life.
There is nothing quite as hard as making a man understand something that his paycheck depends on him not understanding.
Pop-up windows that take focus over other running applications are a whole another ball game, dude. In-app popups are a pattern that may or may not be annoying, like most things used well or badly. This case seems pretty innocuous to me.
A lot of attention window stuff is fluff IMPE, just gotta look at the benchmarks regardless of what the raw numbers sat.
Personal and subjective opinion ahead.

Any smartwatch will become unusable, polluting garbage a few years (months?) from now: a canonical example of planned obsolescence. Their self-tracking functions are a double-edged sword, a source of stress as much as relief.

Any well-built and well-maintained mechanical watch will last you decades. No dependencies on electricity and network connectivity, it's a self-contained and entirely autonomous piece of human engineering. Mine was built in 1975 and is one year older than me. In a world where everything fades away so fast, wearing it everyday feels like owning a precious relic.

Easy choice if you ask me.
> when we enter deflation

There was a survey showing that a lot of Americans believe the recent inflation will be over once prices go back down to where they were in 2020. They, and you, are in for an unpleasant surprise.
> How much faster is GPU access to the unified memory model on the new Macs/how much less of a hit do you take?

Intel Core i9-13900F memory bandwidth: 89.6 GB/s, memory size up to 192 GB

Apple M3 Pro memory bandwidth: 150GB/s, memory size up to 36GB

Apple M3 Max memory bandwidth: 300GB/s, memory size up to 128GB

GeForce RTX 4090 memory bandwidth: 1008 GB/s, memory size 24GB fixed, no more than two cards per PC.
it is a revolving door in real ways
In the event Apple loses in Europe, I wonder what would happen. Would they really open up iMessage worldwide? Just in Europe? Shut it down there altogether since WhatsApp is already so popular there anyway, and their US market is bigger?

And what does this do for Beeper, anyway? If they open it up, wouldn't Google and Samsung just integrate it into their first party messaging clients?

It seems as precarious a position as Trillian was back in the day: only usable if the source protocols don't shut them out, but only valuable if those protocols don't open up completely. The moment either happens, they die.
That's great for 9 to 5 type jobs, but some work just needs to be done outside office hours and on weekends. We have teams in other countries to help with time zone cover, but that can only get you so far.
NeXT had Steve Jobs. And I don't mean a man of his calibre, I mean a person saying yes and no to features. This is sorely lacking in the open-source world, where they have a total aversion to any kind of structure and oversight.
A publisher is a company that can help a developer handle things like marketing, support and other things. Basically the same as a book publisher not actually writing books, which is what authors do. Sometimes, the publisher and the developer is the same company, sometimes there is only the developer, and sometimes they are two different companies.

A porting house is a company that specializes in porting games across platforms. Lets say you've built a PC game with Godot, and now you wanna launch it on PlayStation. Instead of doing the porting yourself, you can outsource this to a company who would do the port for you.
I would give it up to 48 hours. It's important for Apple to architect their fix carefully so that they don't break the world for legitimate users.

For my part, I had fun using Beeper Mini last week while it lasted but I cancelled my subscription and I'm likely not going to use it again due to the risk of incoming messages getting dropped on the floor when Apple blocks it again.
This is really cool. We've just created a POC that bridges Federated GraphQL Subscriptions and NATS, so this could maybe work together? Here's a small video of combining Federated Subscriptions and event driven architecture through NATS: https://twitter.com/TheWorstFounder/status/17341349261133783...?
Can you post the prompt? I'm curious as to how much hand holding is needed.
> Arguably, users are less secure since "fixing" Messages (i.e. breaking Beeper) means Apple and Android users lose a secure communication channel.

If you hack a secure communications channel so that unauthorized client software/hardware can pretend to be authorized software/hardware, how does that make the channel more secure?
Thanks for that insight. My discomfort is with the notion that they could know that the defendant is guilty- sure there may be some obvious cases, but I do not trust most humans to differentiate their intuition from hard evidence.
more interesting, the codellama:13b-instruct has the same elliding issue
No. Apple given their scale and position in the market should be forced to operate and interoperate with an open standard for messaging. iMessage should no longer allowed to be proprietary and stay part of Apple.
You said nobody, I provided evidence that "nobody" is false.
If the only thing Beeper does is continue to make Apple look anti-competitive, they've succeeded as far as I'm concerned.

I'm deep into the Apple ecosystem and don't see myself getting out anytime soon. But I think their stance on iMessage sucks, even while understanding the strategic reasons they're doing it.

I don't see this as "leeching off an undocumented API" as much as demonstrating that iMessage is already in a state that allows 3rd parties to interact with it, documented or not. Every time Beeper starts working again, it shines a light on the fact that iMessage was never so locked down to begin with. It also puts pressure on Apple to answer the growing # of their own customers who are frustrated by the limits. These are good things, IMO.

Apple may have every right, but that doesn't make their stance good for the ecosystem or good for consumers. This is pretty clearly about forcing people to switch ecosystems and not about security. If security was the only issue, Apple could easily provide supported iMessage APIs that make it clear that the other user is not a verified Apple user, while still allowing interoperability.
Devil’s advocate: does Beeper opens up iMessage to spam bots?
Running the iMessage service for a billion iPhone users can't be cheap. Opening up the API and running it for the entire rest of the world for free is a non-starter.

No company on earth is that generous, let alone Apple.
I read about a case once where a man was convicted of rape. The evidence was that the rape was done face-to-face with the victim, and the victim positively ID'd him. How could she not, when she was face-to-face with him? It was a slam dunk.

After some years in prison, the convicted person managed to get a DNA test, which proved he was not the rapist. How could this be?

It turns out the DNA matched a convicted sex offender who had, in the meantime, died in prison. A picture of him showed that he looked just like the falsely convicted man.

The victim, to her credit, profusely apologized for mis-identifying him, but she acted in good faith.
I really dont see how these hot climates are any worse than corresponding northern cities. I live in Chicago and we dont leave our house for 5 straight months in the winter and then there are 2 more months where the weather is consistently shit. Is a summer where its consistently over 100 for 3 months worse than the 6 ish months of not going outside that northern cities see?
Apple is lucky that iMessage usage in EU is irrelevant.

Otherwise this kind of thing would have been regulated already.

See what's happening to Safari on iOS. Took a long time if you ask me.
CCI imposes a penalty of Rs. 1337 crore ($160M) on Google
Visualizing objects from the 4th, 5th, nth dimensions
I think it's valid feedback from Beeper, but to insinuate that this gives them to right to force Apple to run their reverse-engineered access is where things go a bit too far for me. Apple's customers are not Beeper's customers. They have completely different incentives.

I guess the approach is to try and force Apple's hand or push some legislation for interoperability, but Apple is working on RCS so it's not like they've been completely ignoring criticism...
What d'ya mean? At least their website is still up, and they seem to have some recent tweets too
That looks very interesting. I will give it a try soon.
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Many people have an old phone they could wipe, however. Even a brand new phone for this purpose would be cheaper than this smart device.

Still very cool and there are UX benefits to this device.
I think you have some good points, but others just don't make sense.

> you don't know the font metrics of that are and then it turns out that stuff breaks because the font is tons wider or whatnot

Your site breaks so you make the text too small for the user to read? Browsers also have accessibility options to override website's custom fonts. So your site is broken either way, best to fix it an let the user have their preferred experience than mitigate it for some users and leave other users broken.

> This is why browsers have zoom, which solves the problem without tons of downsides

Zoom is great as well. But what downsides does it avoid? If the user wants their text wider your layout that assumes a max width for text is still going to break. The main downside that it avoids is web developers assuming that 12px text is easy to read.

I could argue that zoom is a hack to mitigate websites that use px for things that need to be readable. It scales px, which fixes a problem that wouldn't exist in the first place if the developer just used em.

> All browsers

Not all browsers. But most common browsers.

But I think at the end is what is the point of all of this? You are dismissing an approach with clear upsides without arguing what advantages the px approach brings. Sure, maybe most browsers are 1rem == 16px and maybe zoom is a good enough mitigation. But what advantage do you get by relying on this? I think you are right that browsers have done lots of good work to mitigate sites that set the body text to 12px, but it still seems that doing that doesn't have any advantages over just using em.
Llama: Add Mixtral Support
Apple is at a scale in smartphone dominance that they're anticompetitive.
There are only two vendors. They control everything about one of the most essential functional pieces of modern society.

A smartphone is essential. Apple and Google tax 30%, control when and how software can be deployed, control browser tech (Apple), prevent web downloads of executable software (Apple) or scare and confuse you about it (Google). They control the payment rails and increasingly enforce using their identity and customer management, so they can sink more claws into business and innovation. They're partnering with governments to be authoritative identify providers. They're usurping payment rails to become the entire payment ecosystem of the future.

The devices are user unfriendly. Can't repair them, can't use third party components, can't replace the battery. Unofficial pieces break core features due to unnecessary cryptographic locks. Updates obsolete old hardware.

Nevermind the petty bullshit about green and blue bubbles giving children (and even adults) fear about their image and reputation. Being bullied for not buying the latest and greatest.

This is scary shit and we're letting them do this.

Nevermind all the fluff of them owning movie studios and music and the arts to keep eyeballs locked.

Car companies wish they had it this good. They'd love to charge you for third party accessories, or to charge McDonalds a fee every time they drive you there. That's essentially the deal Apple and Google are getting.

This is all at once worse than Standard Oil, and comes with heavy Orwellian vibes.

We need more than two vendors, and we need different companies to own different parts of the stack. As it stands, these two companies own everyone and everything these people touch.
oo. Bad move. Tobacco companies killed people in a theoretical, impersonal, non-contact manner.

Some of the folks in the gambling industry have direct experience with impediment elimination.
Isn't Whatsapp a proprietary, single vendor implementation? Isn't Signal a single vendor implementation? I'm confused on your point.
Like Signal?

To my knowledge, you can't make a 3rd party Signal client and connect it to the official Signal instances.
- SQLSync: collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite
Your Apple ID login is not routed through a third party when you use Beeper Mini. You don't have to input your Apple ID at all.

Edit: Should have read this new post more closely. They are now requiring an Apple ID, when they weren't before.
I'd say in general getting into the best university you can if a good idea. CMU/MIT/Berkeley for example.
While I never did something like that as a middle finger to the grown-ups in fancy cars, I did it as an angry pedestrian one night upset because the sidewalks next to a five lane one-way street were peppered with "Sidewalk closed, cross to other side" signs forcing me to keep crossing the very large street with lots of high speed traffic. What pushed me over the edge was a point at which the sidewalks on both sides of the street were closed and both that arrows pointing to the other side as where pedestrians should go. I was upset with the city government for allowing so many sidewalk segments to be closed and for whoever approved of both sides being closed at the same time, both the signs instructing pedestrians to use the other side.
well, it seems like GPT is causing issues and there's only so much you can do

iirc, there is some analysis that the alignment training nerfs model capabilities, so we are likely unintentionally making the models less capable because... FUD?

> Codellama is likely a lot less powerful than GPT.

Certainly true, but is it capable enough for your task? You'd have to try and find out. There is more analysis showing that smaller models trained for a specific task outperform large, generalist model like GPT-3.5/4
Mixtral 8X7B has a 32k-token context window. GPT-3.5 models have a context window of 4k-16k. As for the sliding window attention, the model does not lose all the information about the tokens before the sliding window. Hidden states store information about past tokens.
> Apple given their scale and position in the market should be forced to operate and interoperate with an open standard for messaging.

You mean like SMS and MMS right now, and RCS next year? https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
I'm not sure there's really a solution to that issue though? There are strict limits on the channels you can utilize, and the power output of radios. There's no magic bullet to pass through physical objects.
Fear/panic is not known for inducing rational decisions.
The main objection I have to this essay is the running metaphor of religion. Cult maybe, but is it a religion? You need to study the history of religions and their hallmarks to establish the metaphor.