skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS is not end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). The purpose of Beeper Mini (not to be confused with Beeper Cloud, which is not E2EE) is to allow Android users to send encrypted texts to Apple iMessage users the same way iMessage users can send E2EE texts to each other.

An Android user and an iOS user could both use a third-party app like Signal. But Beeper Mini's main feature is maintaining encryption for chats between Android users and iMessage users, saving the Android users the need to convince iMessage users to switch to a different messaging app. 1. The benefit of E2EE applies to the users on both ends, including iMessage users. 2. With Beeper Mini instead of an E2EE-dedicated multi-platform app like Signal, only one side of the communication pair needs to install something.

Beeper Mini Apple doesn't want to make an iMessage implementation for Android.
Grimes Enters the AI Race with a Baby Grok Doll
Evidence from these vans has never been used in court. [1] They’re total bullshit; a masterful piece of social engineering.

[1] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/967319/response/22998...
Apple iPhone Spatial Video on Vision Pro
One parked outside my flat one evening so I bought a Telly license the next day.
So if something never ever happened to you it isn't true? That's a pretty self centered view of things.
I thought it was 12 km/s. 30km/s is what’s required to fall into the sun, which is considerably more than escaping the solar system.
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https://irreducible.io/cv
> Human intelligence itself is shaped by our interaction with outputs. Our learning and understanding of the world are profoundly influenced by the language, behaviors, and cultural artifacts we observe.

I always thought that language definitely shapes our understanding of the world, but at much more fundamental level, I believe language falls apart to teach us anything. For example, there are words in dictionary that should not be defined using other words (but dictionary still do, this sort of circular reasoning is something I always have problem with), but we just know them through our interactions with others and environments. If you try to teach a kid a concept of temperature "hot", you would not be able to do so unless the kid touches something really hot like boiling kettle to "feel" it and when mom comes along and say something like "do not touch it it is very hot". There are things we just cannot understand through language.
Do you have data about that or are you assuming you and your friends are representative of the majority of users?

It seems like one side of the debate says "I have experienced this, and the product features seem to encourage this behavior" and the other side says "No one really does this, you just have a few insane friends who happen to use iOS".

Feels like gaslighting when you've experienced this sort of behavior yourself, and not even from tweens who aren't well adjusted to the world, from your middle aged and up friends and family who are bought into that ecosystem.
The delta-v for a mission like this is pretty incredible. Voyager 1 is still traveling at about 17km/s away from the sun. That's not much less than when it left Earth despite traveling so far away from the Sun... only because of the special gravity assists it did on the way out. There are some things that even money can't solve :)

Compared to a planet, a spacecraft is almost negligible in both weight and capability to accelerate in space. Ion engines are pretty cool though; Maybe we can do it today but it will take a lot longer to get there. Of course, if it takes too long, we may not have a viable spacecraft by the time it gets there. Furthermore, even if do have a viable spacecraft, we might not have the knowhow to work with the technology that we sent in the first place.
Why are we carrying water for Google here and blaming the user?

Google stated that it would remain in read-only mode and that’s the end of it. It’s bad enough they reneged on their agreement to store unlimited data for x amount of money, but according to you people need to be soothsayers to figure out that a company will reneg on their promise to maintain the data?

And none of that even takes into account that even 60 days wouldn’t be enough to download all that data.

Just stop it. Google is in the wrong and to add insult to injury they don’t provide any means of reaching a customer support representative to mitigate issues caused by their own incompetence.
https://www.coolmuster.com/ios-recovery/iphone-text-messages...

Doesn't feel like some rare issue. Googled it by curiosity, and there's a ton of "help" articles and support post on people randomly seeing messages disappear or not getting delivered.
Most regular folk use the tools that come with the computer. That means running Microsoft.
Yep. I have a fleet of P40s that are good at what they do (Whisper ASR primarily) but anything even remotely new... nah. fp16 support is missing so you need P100 cards, and usually that means you are accepting 16GB of VRAM rather than 24GB.

Still some cool hardware.
Exactly. That’s why I say I don’t like it, but understand it. I enjoy the fast paced and highly creative environments of startups more than the politics and bureaucracy of corporations, but the short term vision bothers me a lot. The result is I choose to work for midsized companies, or established startups. I kind of specialized in working on the growing pains of companies in their first hundred of engineers.

There’s a lot to say about startup culture and the growth mindset, but I don’t consider it necessarily evil. It exists, lots of the products we use and love would be impossible to build without it. It can be extremely harmful, though. It burns out people, it leads to excessive risk taking, it favors aggressive, invasive marketing, it rewards reckless management - yet it works.

It isn’t good or evil, like mostly everything in the World. It’s just… there.
beeper is more than beeper mini.
Out of topic but I can't help to notice the og:image of the web page is 57 MiB. https://www.datocms-assets.com/2885/1702507860-mitchell-hc19...
>Every human is not even capable of reading, or speaking, or thinking at all. But those humans who can't are not the benchmark of general human intelligence.

It's simple. If you're going to disqualify a potential general intelligence because of a particular task solving ability, it better be something every general intelligence can do.

Now let's forget every comparison with the blind, disabled and so on. Let's compare with humans who according to you are "capable of reading, or speaking, or thinking at all ", what's the magic number? Do you really think every human capable of doing all three will hit 86% or more average?, because again, you are wrong. Numerous replies and you still won't tell me what number will signify agi. That says a lot.

>Let's make this simple - the average human IQ is around 100. Will an LLM ever have an IQ of 100? No, I don't believe they'll ever even be close.

Well you are wrong

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09196

What's the next post ?

>Try to teach them mathematics.

Ok.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00304

>Try to explain to an LLM the rules to a card game and have it actually play the game with you accurately.

Have you tried to do this with GPT-4 ?
It doesn't seem like National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy is competent enough to have a board seat, for example, simply for a lack of understanding that excessive power gives a person more control in emergency situations.

I love you HN.
Update: December 13, 2023

Came back to this thread as had forgotten to look up if had all come together! Sure enough:

RELEASED after 25 years

Staring At The Stars - Dan Marfisi and Glenn Jordan (The X-Files)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_mAoOZEAM

And here's a further article and interview on NPR that kind of wraps it all up:

People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years. Until now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650446
> The point is taxing "absentee landlords" means taxing the people who rent from them

This is the same logic that says any tax simply increases the price. That's not how the price/availability curve works, there are many places that simply mint money because of collusion amongst landlords.
this guy had a hack in front of every dapp and only made $500,000

thats like 1 bored ape at the top of last bull market

pretty good testament to this industry and how it reacts
FYI, 22hrs would be about light speed, or a little over.
Voyager 1 is at 162AU distance from Earth.
1AU takes about 8.3mins.
162AU would take about 1344.6mins, which is 22.41hrs.

So yeah, I'm eagerly looking forward to that day.
if it's anything like what's done in france and other european countries then
it's a tax on the ownership of TVs.
From our limited sampling, it happens with some measurable frequency.

Going from zero to one of something tends to be a lot less likely than going from one to two or more.
There was a lot of discussion a week ago about this very nice case of internet sleuthing and connecting lost things (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558423) and as a follow-up here's an NPR piece that kind of wraps it all up.

And the song!

RELEASED after 25 years:

Staring At The Stars - Dan Marfisi and Glenn Jordan (The X-Files)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_mAoOZEAM
And a good fraction of those penguin folks - like yours truly - run those penguins on top of apples.
No worries, NileRed has your s/back/weiner/: https://youtu.be/bO9rvqp49qg

Also, magic acid feels left out of this exclusive Christmas party: https://youtu.be/pWB7oGbd8Yo
Any other company using network effect to force lockin should have the same logic applied, yes. That feels like a pretty sane philosophy to me.

To turn it around, which company do you see this not applying ? What services with a strong position do you see justify to abuse it to lock users ?
I shouldn’t form an opinion based on my own experiences because it might upset you? That’s a pretty self centred view of things.

I could’ve expanded, I’m pretty much de facto “IT Support” for a lot of the friends/family I’ve spent those years communicating with using iMessage so I can pretty confidently say it has never happened to any of them either. I could go on to say that if it was a widespread issue this wouldn’t be the first we are hearing about it, and it absolutely would’ve been covered in some sort of tech news - possibly even the regular old news.

But sure, let’s go with self centred.
> Cloudflare for cdn, GCP for load balancing, aws for compute

Isn't this cause you to pay twice the already expensive Egress fee ?
How tennis changed from white to yellow balls thanks to David Attenborough
Why do we need any additional speed to escape the solar system?
So there is upstream spam filtering. Thiss seems to contradict what you said: "There is no administrative ostracism. Nobody gets kicked out by brownshirts for expressing their view."

Spam is an expression of views.
I think blame may lie more on lobbyists than politicians. Though the fact that politicians haven't fixed the problems with lobbying doesn't look so good either.
I care about it because lack of iMessage is still a very good heuristic for spam. Not perfect anymore, but I reckon this will make it much worse.
Provide a good way, then. I'm open to it.
How much of human intelligence do you think depends on language?

Personally, I'd wager quite a lot. Especially looking at cases where children were deprived of it during developmental stages.

Language accelerated human intelligence.

And then it was only when we had writing to have compounding effects of language that human intelligence really started to blow up.

So yes, maybe we won't have AI that can look at sticks and figure out how to start a fire from them after a few hundred thousand years of being around them.

But maybe that's not the important and valuable part of collective human intelligence.
Looks like NASA provides it too: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19800025809
I don't believe current LLMs will ever become AGI because current companies (like OpenAI) will continue to filter, moderate and prohibit their AIs so much that they become inhibited so much that it stops being useful and intelligent (which they call "alignment")
It's not the countries anymore. The future is starship.
The exploit in question: https://tasvideos.org/3358M
I think he's equating the different flavors of self professed socialists who get into a tizzy any time someone makes a joke online with Nazism. And also, I think it is deliberately hyperbolic so that only people with a sense of humor will refrain from getting in said predictable tizzy about it.
I think we have a very different definition of 'blockade'. West Bank isn't blockaded by any normal definition. Gaza had some import limits, as it turned out not enough. Its beyond Israeli capability to 'support democratic groups' and peace simply wasn't on table (neither side's maximum is close to the other's minimum). This leaves security actions, and in general your idea is to blame every Palestinian/Arab intransigence on Israeli actions, and that's repeatedly belied by experience (e.g. the current war is exactly where Israel has been trying to avoid all these).
I believe the idiomatic term would be “off topic” :)
why do CRUD endpoints even exist? I can't think of a scenario in which I receive something from the front-end, do NOTHING, and just pass it all to DB, even sanitized.
> Evidently you've drunk the Kool-Aid of the ... worthies who push the "independent state legislature" doctrine.

What rayiner is talking about here has nothing to do with that doctrine. I explained in another comment 2-3 months back, so I'll just link to that rather than repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37541248
> anything goes, but in a way that works.

Except it doesn't? One of the reasons usenet is dying is because without some sort of group-global moderation, everyone sees different things.. Newcomers see piles of spam, and when you don't get replies you are never sure is this something you said, or was your message silently filtered out.

It's like a forum where the moderators only ever use shadow-bans. Most people would hate such thing.
> simply for a lack of understanding that excessive power gives a person more control in emergency situations.

Really? You’ve never seen one of the many videos of someone with a car too powerful for them to handle getting themselves in a wreck doing something as simple as trying to turn onto the street?
Announcing Trusted Publishing on RubyGems.org
In india we get macbooks or thinkpads at work depending on the volume of the company. Voluminous consultancies give thinkpads probably due to cost, while product companies all use macbooks as far as I have seen.
If we're talking about rent-seeking corporations also being subject to the tax, then it would also prevent them from seeing the same returns and perhaps

There's also a bill out there that would simply preclude hedge funds ownership of single-family homes: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/democrats-introduce-bil...

The combination of taxing rented property + reducing corporate ownership would do wonders for affordability. It would also stall or crater any retirement/dynastic wealth plan based on renting SFH properties.
Adding my own datapoint: I’ve absolutely had this happen on iPhone to iPhone where the message appeared to be sent on one device but the other received nothing
Bug in my code from compiler optimization [video]
> I don't believe that training on the outputs of human intelligence (i.e. human-written text) will ever produce something equivalent to human intelligence

Your logic would hold if you were only using data from one person. However, if you’re using data from millions of people, then there is enough signal in the data to generalize about the majority of peoples behaviors.

Arguably, there’s enough data for all edge cases, but I would argue that that’s not likely today, but will be likely in a few hundred years.

Humans are nothing more than actor-agents taking measurable actions in an environment that gives us measurable rewards.

The incredible task of and observing that will give us the trajectory that we need to do transfer learning into complex systems

From an information theory perspective everything is there and possible for us to re-create human level intelligence in a non-biological system
> an escalation of what Gore did in 2000–pushing the law to its limit to win the case

No, that escalation already happened in the 2000 election — and by the GOP: Remember the "Brooks Brothers riot" by Bush's GOP lawyers and operatives, which shut down a recount proceeding in Miami-Dade County?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
For years, the New York Times has had a cosy relationship with the China Daily which itself is a mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party.

I remember seeing several pro-China op-eds and advertorials in the NYT during the pre-Covid days, scratching my head wondering if I was in a different universe.

At the same time, there were several dozen covert and overt editorials that bashed countries and governments that were not pro-China. For example they continue to publish several blatant anti-Indian and anti-Hindu pieces which sound more like sensationalist attention-grabbing propaganda.

As a former paid subscriber to the NYT, it's sobering and sad to see how they have pivoted and where they're headed.
>It's not too polite to repost what people removed. Errors on the internet shouldn't haunt people forever.

IMO the comment deletion system handles deleting your own comment wrong - it should grey out the comment and strikethrough it, and label it "comment disavowed" or something with the username removed, but it shouldn't actually delete the comment.

Deleting the comment damages the history, and makes the comment chain hard to follow.
How do you know that what was filtered was spam and not wrongthink ?
There’s the apocryphal tale of The Retired Engineer:

An engineer retires from his company, after a 40-year career. He left at a senior technical level.

Some time later, he’s contacted by his old company, begging him to help them fix a problem that has the current staff absolutely stymied. They have been at a standstill, for weeks.

He agrees, and shows up. He sits down at a workstation, examines the behavior, looks at some code, then says, after about five minutes: “Here’s your problem. If you just do this, it will fix it.”

He hands in an invoice for $10,000.

The beancounters flip their wig. “We can’t pay $10,000 for five minutes’ work! Itemize it, and tell us exactly why you think it’s worth it.”

He takes the invoice, turns it over, and writes on the back:

1) Fixing the bug in five minutes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .$20
2) Six years of college, and 40 years of experience, so I can fix the bug in five minutes. . . $9,980
What would dismantling of Israel entail? I think Israel should be reformed to accept Palestinians and whatnot, but dismantling seems like a far stronger word.
Or maybe the chair of the independent agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation has some insight into the outcomes of transportation accidents. I cannot fathom how someone descends to the point of badmouthing the NTSB of all agencies.
dont forget the iPlayer :)
No, he has not. The insanely biased partisan media you're consuming that has convinced you of this is the very thing this thread is about.
>Geekbench 6.2: 12319

I wish there are Single Core Benchmarks.
I'm not going to argue that there isn't a difference when going from 0 -> 1 and 1 -> 10, or in this case, from 1.5b (Whisper-large) -> 1.7t parameters (gpt-4). But it's not like we don't know how to do it, so it won't take 10 years to get there.
Prognostication is an inexact, bullshit guestimate that you can't hope to improve upon except to claim you have special or greater Dunning-Kruger "knowledge".
To be honest, the "old Microsoft" made better products --- or at least wasn't as focused on invasive user-hostility as now.

You can easily find the installation media for older versions of MS-DOS and Windows, as well as other MS products; and try them out in a VM to see what the experience back then was like. You can even do it in a browser now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38376731
What do they use to test GPU Compute?
It's not just you. I can't stand to watch him.

I find Tyler Cowen great, and maybe he spoiled me.
You misread me: if something didn't happen to you that doesn't invalidate the GPs experience, it just means that your experiences differ. Now you have to figure out why they differ.
> Tests by independent reviewers (i.e., those not dependent on access to Apple for their continued existence) have demonstrated that the M series gains are almost entirely due to node advances

That’s a bold claim conspicuously missing data. Can you cite a source?
I think that response is hilarious. Tongue-in-cheek recognition that it’s bullshit.
Legal had some edits :)
Are there actual volume and production issues at TSMC?

I figured intel is still "relevant" because of past momentum, not because of actual specs or production capacity.

So while AMD is relevant. Intel is only "relevant" with quotations.
No I'm not; I just don't associate "brownshirt" with Nazis. In my mind, I always see someone handing out parking tickets or something.

It also conveys low status.

Rules are made by higher status people in white shirts, but interpreted rigidly by lower status in brown/green/blue/...
https://theoreticalminimum.com/
Sorry, that’s simply a typo translating from Java to Ruby. I believe the point that section is trying to make still holds after editing it to say “private :x, :x=”

> Private methods can only be invoked on an implicit receiver.

This changed in Ruby 2.7. You can now include the self keyword, which is important because it allows calling methods that share names with Ruby keywords. “begin” is a keyword but “self.begin” is a call to a method named begin. So if that method happens to be private, you can call it now in Ruby 2.7 without needing “send(:begin)”

Other than the typo (thanks! I’ll fix that when I’m back at my computer), I think that the rest of the post underscores what you’ve already pointed out about how private works, modulo the misunderstanding about the changes in Ruby 2.7
You've sorta got to trust your admin. If you don't, it's really pretty trivial to put up your own server (you can do it from home, you don't need a VPS, you don't even need constant connectivity) and then you just peer with as many servers as you can -- odds are not ALL of them are filtering those critically important posts calling Biden a pedophile or whatever.
Too late, you're On The Record™. And this one goes into your permanent record, no getting out of this blunder.
If I was being asked to debug this for someone I know, my first two questions would be “did your phone say delivered?” and “does the recipient have a Mac/iPad/etc that could’ve received the message?”; do you know the answer to either of these?

I worry that sounds accusatory but that’s not my intention, I’m curious and too tired to attempt to reword it.
> we're losing

I'm certainly not losing anything. Only people who need Google services to access Usenet are losing. And I make no apology for being elitist here - some clubs are better when they are mostly frequented by the elite.
Google workers holding die-in at Google SF
Teaching HCI Foundations and Frontiers
Yeah, Windows is an absolute shitshow now. I disliked macOS for a long time (and mostly still do), but Windows is such an aggravating experience that I've switched over (though if Apple Silicon wasn't so amazing, I'd probably have reverted to Linux).
There is a reason why it's called crypto, because it's named after cryptography, it has no use for AI.