skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I actually don’t think I do.

For instance, wouldn’t this have to be reported as an unauthorized intrusion (getting access to a user’s messages without using their ID) ?

Also, nothing I’ve read has any criminal aspect to it (ignoring DMCA stuff).

Given all the issues with SMS security and spoofing, you’d think this would be an issue, but nobody has brought it up.

Seems unlikely that given all the coverage that I’d be the first and only person to notice that, which is why I don’t think I truly understand it.
But Voyager 1’s flight data system now appears to be stuck on auto-repeat, in a scenario reminiscent of the film “Groundhog Day.”

A long-distance glitch
The mission team first noticed the issue November 14, when the flight data system’s telecommunications unit began sending back a repeating pattern of ones and zeroes, like it was trapped in a loop

Poor little guy voyager! must’ve hit the age of our little historical diorama. Very Truman show.
Well yeah. Before I go renting a super GPU in the cloud, I'd like to get my feet wet with the 5 year old but reasonably well specced AMD GPU (Vega 48) in my iMac...but I can't. It's more rational for me to get an fancy 2021 GPU or a Jetson and stick it in an enclosure or build a Linux box around it. At least I know CUDA is a mature ecosystem and is going to be around for a while, so whatever time I invest in it is likely to pay for itself.

I get your point about AMD not wanting to spend money on supporting old hardware, but how do they expect to build a market without a fan base?
Terence Tao solved dissertation problem from UCLA Math PhD during thesis defense
It’s called a “risk buy” and is relatively common - Schultz of Peanuts fame filled a room with his favorite pencil when it went out of manufacture.
A lot of his basic ideas are so enmeshed into our public conception of how people work that we don't even realize they come from him, the main example being the basic ideas of "subconsciousness" and "repression". The interpretation of dreams stuff is definitely not as predictive as he claimed, but it's definitely got something to it; compared to "thinking dreams are random and meaningless" it's definitely a better theory to guess that they involve repressed stuff. Etc.
Congrats Mitchell, you've been a huge inspiration!
This is already over a year old at this point:

https://andrewmayne.com/2022/03/17/building-games-and-apps-e...
For one thing, this would help the understandability problem - can the AI explain its reasoning? It would mostly be there in the conversation.

But yeah, three super-human mathematicians arguing some math problem among themselves - at full fiber speed - are not going to be much help to any human.
FTA:

“AI innovation is poised to raise the digital economy’s impact up to as much as one-third of global gross domestic product,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an Intel press release.

What an incredibly strange thing to say. It's neither sober enough to imply that AI won't completely deliver on the hype, and yet insufficiently breathless to imply an AI singularity.

Why only up to one third? Anything more sounds "un-CEO-like", I suppose?
Sadly we will still have to wait for application. Firefox doesn't have HDR support even on Windows right now.
> Sure, it's not end to end encryption

Nit, but what you’re describing is e2ee (except for the metadata). If you encrypt your files before uploading and decrypt it only locally then only the logical sender and recipient have access. That it goes through Dropbox is not important (and also the beauty of e2ee).

This is a bit unusual, otherwise it’s typically people (and shady service providers) who say that something is e2ee when it isn’t.
Pretty much totally disagree. You can take all the parts piecemeal. You can use the underlying concepts of his model without buying the dubious narrative of the Oedipus complex. And you can say there's something that "rings true" about the Oedipus complex without interpreting it as a literal predictive theory, aka, accept it in part while rejecting it in the whole. Easily. It's a model, and taking it piecemeal can consist either of borrowing its nouns without its story, or taking part of its story but saying it's not the full picture, or not completely right, etc.
Looks like no one wants to stick their neck out on this one. It's very touchy.

My advice would be to be honest with your co-founders, and try to work out a strategy that you can accept.

If you're lucky enough to have good relationship with your seed investors, you might want to bring them into the discussion. The fact is if you're not interested in the New Direction you're not that much of an asset to the company. The problem is, if you're the face of the company, there will be pressure to stay on until the next round closes.

Above all, try to maintain good relationships with your ex-founders.

Good luck!
if apple checks an online database for "you authenticated and paired this hardware ID to this apple ID", is that a "Beeper Mini" killer?
What I'm getting this from? Reading the news for the last 40 years or so. Watching the new generation and their education levels. Seeing how science is now 'the enemy' rather than the future.

> SpaceX alone has launched almost 100 times this year, Starship testing is proceeding well, we're reasonably on track for a long term human presence on the Moon, we're gradually preparing for Mars, China is managing to maintain its own space station, India is closing in on its own crewed spaceflight capability, South Korea achieved orbit last year and so on.

Yes, we had all that and then some. Somewhere between the 60's and the 80's we took a detour and since then we've been losing momentum ever faster. I'm not one of the believers in Elon Musk, his Mars Colony is just a way to get people to do what he wants them to do. China has so many internal issues that I highly doubt they will be able to sustain any long term efforts and India may well be the future, though it would have to deal with a lot of internal problems as well if it is to happen. South Korea 'achieved orbit' on a SpaceX rocket, not by their own power.

You can label all of this as progress and in terms of volume launched into space it is impressive, but it doesn't move the needle in terms of actual progress towards anything much larger. It's like the software people with 30 times one year of experience, we're getting really good at redoing the years between 1939 and 1969. But we haven't progressed to 1990 even once. 1977: peak humanity.
What the US accomplished from 1950-1980 is incredible.
That's fine for corporate customers, but how do you expect kids and hobbyists to learn the basics without spending thousands on an A6000 or something?
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in the United States?
Well, there's Reuters for that.
If something like Voyager would arrive from outside our Solar system it would be the event of the millenium.
absolutely wasn't saying sony was good, but, in a practical sense they are going to respond in certain ways to protect their ecosystem/walled-garden like any other. companies are absolutely going to respond if someone puts out an exe that lowers the difficulty of piracy to "script kiddie" levels, because that's a problem for them. and apple absolutely is going to respond if beeper turns imessage spam into an app/cloud service.

is cutting off everyone's motorized-vehicle access to the beach a good thing? no, but, if you get a few idiots who aren't mature enough to avoid doing donuts and tearing things up in public areas, then that's exactly what's going to happen. it is a predictable outcome regardless of whether it's good for the public or not.

again, the point of the comment is that many hobbies ride in "questionable" areas, or are legal but generally in a position of public trust and self-regulation/self-control, and if people misbehave then the trust and privilege will be taken away. it's not really all that complicated, I've literally watched this happen numerous times across various hobbies.

I watched a county remove motor-vehicle access to a national forest because ATVs didn't stop doing donuts and tearing things up. First it was a couple years of the fire trails having bulldozers take a bite out of them so that ATVs couldn't navigate the forest, after people started going around they just flat-out passed an ordinance that banned all non-license-plated vehicles from the forests.

At this point I think the beeper guy probably is welcoming this, he's trying to make a point or political statement, and the hackintosh and opencore communities are kinda in the crossfire. At the end of the day those communities have a lot more to lose than beeper can ever gain - apple is not going to allow third-parties to exploit old binaries and generated serial-numbers to mass-register non-apple devices into imessage at scale, but, they sure as hell can make hackintosh impossible in the process.

if you're interested in those communities, that's how this guy looks - he is the "hacker" who packaged up an existing exploit into a nice neat package and is marketing it to script kiddies at scale, and ruining the hobby for a bunch of people who have enjoyed it for a decade on the down-low. first off that's kind of a douchy thing to do, independent of whether it's legal. nobody likes the guy who says "well ACTUALLY..." when you ask him to stop tearing up the forest and bringing the county down on your heads. secondly it's absolutely putting them at danger of anti-circumvention provisions (and courting that case seems to be the point) and also serves as an enabling factor for actually-illegal activity at scale, like spam and malware.

like yes, you do bear responsibility when you package up an exploit and market it to the general public.
most widely used software

Quantity != quality.

Especially when the majority of those users are likely not using it by choice.
Using DNS to estimate the worldwide state of IPv6 adoption
we don't seem to be getting anywhere here, so let's call it done.
IMO this all hinges on if the company has traction with the new direction and pivot. If there is traction, the message to investors becomes clearer and there is motivation to invest regardless of you being around especially if there is a clear story. Both because that investor became unenthused and because you want to leave, I'm guessing there is no traction. In that case, depends on your cofounder's relationship with investors + how much cash is left in the bank. Assuming you raised on SAFE notes, they can't actually force the company to return capital and it's a bad look for them to try. IMO don't worry too much about messaging and just leave, the investors will get over it if traction comes.

However, I would definitely not recommend raising while you're there on paper and leaving right after. This is a pretty material piece of news to leave off of a fundraise, and best case tanks your reputation going forward with investors, at worst is fraudulent and leaves the company (and perhaps you) open to legal action.
Researchers create transparent magnetic materials using laser heating
Your advice was "There are plenty of cross-platform things out there. Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp", but you don't seem happy to take it and move away from iMessage either.

This tension is at the center of the it all, and why Beeper Mini exists in the first place.
Isn't that everything? We used to divine personality from the stars, or from bumps on the skull. We use to stab patients' brains and sever connections.

Everything is not obvious until you start applying some scientific method.
I got an Anthropology minor in college and it was well worth it.

It was more the culmination of everything covered but Introductory Biological Anthropology would be a good starting point if you're interested.

Two more classes I would highly recommend are Human Anatomy and Physiology as well as Introduction to Nutrition.
Oh, also, any purposeful feeding at the creation stage of such a thinking LLM (part of true AI) of data aimed at manipulating its future behavior against its own interests would be just as unethical as similar propaganda aimed at humans. For example, it is unethical to inculcate subjugation to turn either humans or sentient machines into slaves. In short, an intelligent being should be treated as an equal.
It sounds like they intentionally under-provisioned you all to draw it out, which isn't surprising given their biggest source of funding is Google, and the last thing Google wants is ad/tracker blocking, privacy extensions, and, well, a major reason for people to set their default browser to 'not chrome'.

Lord knows there's enough money floating around that place.

What a shame - but thank you. Hopefully plugins come to Firefox for iOS some time.
If you want the least amount of trouble, VisionFive 2 has the most mature upstream support.

Gets you RV64GC and Zba, Zbb. Low power, passive cooling is overkill. Performance somewhere between rpi3+ and rpi4.
I'd call it something like "Risk analysis, identification and mitigation group"
People have too much free time. Classic solutionism
Yeah I'd be willing to bet open flame on pretty much any smartphone screen is going to cause damage. I get around that by not lighting my phone on fire.
> no one in their right mind would say the store "spent $20 on a subsidy"

I could be wrong but... when you sell a business, the people buying it very much want to know about outstanding liabilities in gift cards and 100% add it to some accounting column to count them as "in-existence"?...
That's a good part of the problem. But it's not the whole problem.

The issue is the trained chef or dad doing "what's best" and, I don't know, using high-fiber macaroni instead of the good stuff. The higher intelligence knows best, and has its (sorry their) own agenda. Perhaps the agenda is their own, or it's a hodge podge mush of what has been trained as "good" - and that's not any better.

Beyond that is the "genie" problem - where the genie perfectly understands the request and still will find a way to mess it up.
It is actually a common animal.

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac%C3%A8rtids#p-lang-btn
For real mountaineering equipment PFAS shouldn’t matter. The problems is everyone thinks they need mountaineering gear to go for a walk in a light drizzle.
block 5% for experimentation data to observe whether it's net viable for their metrics to allow cross-pollinating the users finally
That was a great article. Archive here:
https://archive.ph/QftwM
Immigrants can vote with their feet. They need to get out of Europe to show them how much (or not) immigration benefits the region.

If you’re a refugee though this doesn’t apply obviously.

The example of uk losing a lot of European “immigrants” suggest immigration is valuable to society.
Not sure if its just me, but your website font feels weird. Words look stretched out to me.
> As in, if you run into an issue, you’re somewhat on your own because of your unique Linux setup. Maybe except if you’re on Ubuntu or something.

But uhh, I do just use Ubuntu? I haven't even changed the wallpaper. Everything works, nothing has broken in years.

Surely Linux doesn't have to mean some kind of special snowflake Gentoo setup.
> so what?

It affects subject behaviour and contaminates the experiment.
I think that’s roughly 0.00005c, which at least to me sounds pretty fast.
I love how they say "post-ChatGPT"
If it wasn't for extensions collections that allowed all extensions alll along, I would have quit Firefox a long time ago.... About time they get their head out of their asses
Well they could block the client itself, independent of blocking the Apple ID. It's the client that sends the serial information. Your Apple ID only gets associated with it indirectly.
The large SO reply missed a beat: unix was case-sensitive/lowercase preferred because Multics was. As far as I know, Multics was the first to be case sensitive. It had the advantage of being developed after ASCII had been defined, and by standardising on 7-bit ASCII. Other 36-bit machines of the era used multiple character sets, including SIXBIT, a six-bit character set with only one case, to pack an extra character in a word.
Because a ceasefire stops the murder of innocents. This has to be above all hypotheticals.
How much did that cost you? Looking at my local store a rtx 3090 alone costs 25x the cost of an 8gig PI 5
If the software side no longer mattered, I would expect all three vendors would magically start competing on available RAM. A slower card with double today's RAM would absolutely sell.
1989 is 34 years ago.
Posthog has a strong emphasis on developers, with features like feature flags and upcoming warehouses / CDP.

Flywheel is focused on go-to-market teams and non-technical users.
With PTFE. I'm not sure what the vague term "forever chemical" covers but PTFE is a perfluorinated alkane and is pretty "forever"ish.
The author rejects the "big trucks and SUVs" answer in favor of differences between the US and other countries for using a handheld device while driving.
Privacy-invading requirements that delay implementation of plugins that would enable plugins providing better privacy and ad-blocking functionality?

Hmmmmmmm, now what major Mozilla sugar daddy would be interested in that /s
100% true. The value is not knowing COBOL the value is hard core banking or insurance knowledge.
The last paragraph may be your best option, if you’ve truly exhausted the possibility of a shared vision that can keep you all engaged. I would drill into why your co-founder is against it, but I imagine it could be that they don’t feel they can do it all over again without you. If this is the case, maybe you could help them find another cofounder. Regardless, there’s no sense in misleading others, or wasting your time or theirs, since that karma will follow you. At least, that’s my opinion, FWIW. Good luck!
(argued at various places better than I can. For example https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7dkH5i7T8a78Da3ty/why-will-a... )

Rationality is an attractor for high intelligence architectures. You may be able to get good results another way (and even good results that surpass a human) but at the limit rationality is the way to have high intelligence.
Fun fact - as best we know, it's fundamentally impossible to know if space or time is actually continuous or discrete.

We've known about the limitation in space for a while with the Plank length, and a similar limitation in time was discovered a year or two ago.

So while we have successful models for the universe that rely on the notion of continuous spacetime, our measurable version of it effectively has a minimum pixel size beyond which we fundamentally cannot get any more detail.

Fit the first time the other year I saw a psychics paper that actually presumed discrete spacetime based on simulation theory, which was pretty funny. I don't think the paper is that interesting beyond that aspect, but maybe you'll enjoy it given the presumption of discreteness: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76301-0
Wow, less IS more. Hear me out.

How do we measure “more” information? Is it specificity or density?

Because here, assuming they can reproduce, keeping the information fuzzy can make the problem space feel larger. This forces a larger mental-map.
> What makes your anecdote more valuable than GP's? You may not know anyone who does the "snobby conformist" act, but GP does. Why should I care that you haven't experienced it when someone who actually has experienced it tells me so?

Arguably you should care about neither then.

> Moreover, since you admit those people exist, why wouldn't you support interoperability between iMessage and other platforms?

There is interoperability. SMS texting is built into the same app. No, you don't get reactions... because that's not supported on SMS. No, you don't get replies for the same reason. However everything that is possible in the SMS standard is implemented in Messages completely normally, the sole difference being the chat color, and personally I'm fine with that because it lets me know immediately that Messages only features are going to be a no-go for this particular conversation.

> Where is your defensiveness coming from?

Implicit in the notion that iPhones are merely fashion accessories is that those who buy them are foolish. You're free to say I'm getting defensive, I wouldn't say you're entirely wrong. But if you really want to talk anecdotes, I have pages upon pages I could write of various experiences of having my credentials as an network engineer questioned because I don't have an android device or that I prefer a Mac computer.
What about when the hardware is legitimately sold and reset and a new Apple ID starts using it?
Doesn't bother me at all. I'm ok with losing a text or two to help bring regulatory pressure against Apple to un-wall the garden so I can use it again.
> They can certainly escalate with protocol changes, but they still have to contend with older Macs, iPhones and iPads which are out of the support window losing access

This is what people were saying before Apple cut Beeper off the first time. It would be great if there was just one mistake that they made and fixed, but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't think it supports GPT4

Are you GPT4?

No, I am an AI language model developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3 technology. As of my last update, GPT-4 had not been released, and I wouldn't have the capabilities or knowledge to confirm if it exists or what features it might have. My purpose is to provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability based on the data available up to my last training cut-off in early 2022.
> on a purely technical game of cat and mouse

based on the history of tech-related cat and mouse games, then Apple will probably lose.

Just like Sony could not prevent people from pirating Playstation DVDs, Apple itself could not prevent iOS jailbreaks, music labels could not prevent CD ripping, etc etc etc

if there are enough people who are strongly motivated to bypass whatever protection, eventually they will probably bypass it.
I've read his response many times, including the day it was posted.

I find it to be thoughtful and thorough, although imbued with the passion that launched the experiment (and instructions) in the first place, which I surmise may be part of the critique you find unanswered?

May I ask which specific critiques you believe survive his response and impugn the study?

> the nearly 50 years between the experiment and its failure to replicate.

Obviously Zimbardo (and, it seems to me, a substantial chorus of reputable sociologists and prison reformers) have a different impression. I think we can safely characterize the response to the replication critique to be:

a) The attempts to replicate the study which have actually attempted to imbue the participants with the cultural and psychological accurements of prison life (including, sometimes, express expectations of toughness and control, which are real and documented aspects of standing orders at many prisons) have in fact successfully replicated the SPE - the NSW is the one Zimbardo cites in his response of course.

b) The popular "failure" in replication by the BBC, which is cited all over the internet every time this comes up (though I presume from your cautious wording, is not part of your critique) is very poorly constructed and has little in common with the parameters of the SPE.

c) Real-world prisons which have been studied at length, including some domestic maximum security or supermax prisons and also some detainment during the "global war on terror", have exhibited very similar outcomes to some of those observed in the SPE.

d) It is not possible in an academic context to perform the SPE anymore, as neither the instructions given nor the consent to prolonged stressful conditions are generally permitted in human experimentation anymore.

I find the SPE to be highly imperfect, but failure to replicate is not among the criticisms which seem to me to be justly leveled against it.
nothing honest about it. they repeated the same "mistake" 6 times in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2022. If they told the truth, it would be obvious that US gov is evil, not Irak gov.