skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter if an Apple device user (having bought a device and paid Apple for access to iMessage servers) subsequently makes software that mimics this Apple device's interaction with the servers but runs this software on his Android device?

We'll assume it's still a single person using it, thus whether they use it on Apple or Android, the amount of messages sent shouldn't increase (they'd just be spread across the two devices) and server load should thus remain constant.

Would it be a problem? You're coming back to the idea of cost but not only are those costs negligible but Apple has never made any argument about it even though Beeper was open to paying a reasonable fee.

> it calls Apple's servers, and Apple owns those servers and is within their rights to dictate how they are used

Should websites then also be allowed to dictate that your browser should not run an ad-blocker, should accept (and persist!) cookies and not run a VPN? I'm sure websites would indeed love that but I think we'd both agree this would be a very sad day for the internet if this became law?

I think the control stops at the protocol. Apple is welcome to change their proprietary, undocumented protocol as they see fit, but people should also be free to reverse-engineer and implement clients for it. As long as the client perfectly mimics the official one (including proving any eventual purchase, using an Apple ID associated with an Apple purchase or the serial number of an Apple device the user purchased) there should be no legal/moral reason it should be rejected.
That makes no sense. One derailment erases any profit that would be gained from ignoring safety.
I hadn't heard of eGroupware before, so linky for others who are similarly curious: https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware#readme (also GPLv2)
Last century it was bell whining about customers connecting unauthorized equipment to their network. This century, it's apple whining about customers connecting unauthorized equipment to their apis.
However DEA was claiming a few months ago that manufacturers had not used their allotted cap, so naturally the DEA did not raise it.
Did I read it right? I’m extremely surprised to read that the cuts were made by projectionists in theaters that were are already planning to show the longer cut using precise notes. If this is in fact the case, I can easily imagine the trims floating around.

I’m guessing this was only the premiere prints?

I know theater owners would take films like Lawrence of Arabia and cut out segments so they could trim run time and have more showings. This made the long epics hard to keep intact.
“You’ve got to pay us for protection.”

“From what?”

“From what we’re gonna do to you if you don’t pay us for protection.”
Those are exceptions. Being able to take a screenshot simply isn't in any way comparable to silently transiting every single message through a service, with unknown management and unaudited security, with < 50 employees, and that doesn't even appear to employ a single security engineer per my skim of their linkedin page.
Holiday oncalls are a fun tradeoff. On one hand, no one should be making any changes (and if they do, they'll have some explaining to do), so it's more likely to be calm. On the other, traffic patterns are weird, and it's time off where you'd rather not be tethered to your phone. What's universally bad is being oncall when the code freeze ends or the week leading up to the freeze.
As a Western European, American tipping seems out of control and arbitrary.

I tip the waiter but not the cook or the cleaner. I tip the cab driver but not the bus driver or the train conductor. I tip a bell boy (maybe a maid too?) but not the front desk. Do I tip a barista but not a McDonald’s worker? Don’t tip the cashier at the big box store?

15%? 20%? Why should someone’s tip depend on the price of the bottle of wine that I had them open and pour, especially if it was equal effort for each bottle?

Absolutely bizarre to me.

I just booked a cruise with a Norwegian operator and this is their tipping policy:

> On board Hurtigruten Expedition Ships, it's not common practice or expected to tip. However, we have learned that many of our guests wish to give special thanks to our service crew on board. It is at the individual's discretion to honour the service provided by the crew in the bars, restaurants, cabins, and behind the scene.

> The money collected […] will then be divided equally among all crew members after the voyage, we ask not to tip individual crew members during the voyage to ensure the people behind the scenes also are included.

> Please Note: Officers and Expedition Team are not included in this breakdown.
Hinderburg-like at 100 ton itself can carry about 120 ton payload, ie. payload of 2 train cars.
Fantastic response.

Yes, in situations like this I prefer to keep things androgenous. I don't talk much about the gender of my kid or spouse.
And unlike the last eight predicted recessions, this predicted recession might actually happen! On account of it still being in the future.
Pretty cool. This shows part of the downside of consolidating email into a handful of massive providers.
Same from here. I read reddit from the cli using rtv (Python). I just tried now and can't access it. Anyone know of a fix for rtv?
You can see the FDA tests here:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/science-and-research-drugs/drug-qu...

It's not something they do for very many drugs or very often.
Pardon my ignorance, what does URM refer to in this context?
If they adopt open-source tool chains Xilinx & Altera would be signing their own death-warrants. The hardware would be reproduced by third parties (the open source code would contain all you need to know to produce the chips) and it would become a commodity like DRAM. Profit margins for the incumbent companies would go to zero and the users would profit immensely.

Instead, FPGAs are sold to big entities like governments and big corps who can throw bodies at the crappy toolchains until they produce what they want.
I was trying myself to come up with a title that didn't editorialize the words Beeper or Apple into it but was still catchy enough to hit the front page. But I didn't come up with anything. If some journalists write articles about it with catchy titles then maybe those will pop up here.
> Due to the current economic situation we don't have new headcount for our org however feel free to reach out if you have a diverse candidate that would be interested in joining"

This is largely analogous to the "Opportunistic Hiring" policies Dropbox introduced in April 2019. We set aside reserved headcount for "diverse" candidates (ostensibly this includes women of any race, and URM men. In practice, almost entirely non-URM women). When a team hired a "diverse" candidate, the headcount was drawn from the reserved pool not the team's normal headcount allocation.

In practice, this meant that women were often hired into roles without much work to do. By far the most common complaints I've heard from women in tech is that the company doesn't have enough work for them and they aren't being given projects. Makes me wonder how many companies are engaging in similar behavior.
It's not surprising at all.

It's tragedy of the commons, race to the bottom, etc.

If everyone else has one income and I have 2, I am suddenly way ahead in the social dominance hierarchy. I liiike.

Before you know it, everyone has followed suit and now nobody's happy.
having spent an unreasonable amount of time hacking on yaml for… well… no reason… this tickles me endlessly. and im not surprised that he / they gave up on YAML. honestly i feel like half of this project is just flexing ridiculous syntax YAML hacks, and im here for it.

if he happens to see this: wtf is up with YAML anchor syntax, man? who in their right mind is like “hmm i just loved typing that key name in, i wanna do it right next to the original one”? so good they named it twice. xP

i actually hacked in a custom tag that lets you !ref <path> instead, which… i’m not saying it’s better, but… it’s definitely not worse xD. i have been having fun, though. i guess.
You're forgetting two absolutely massive and completely endemic plastic vectors:

1. Car tires.
2. And literally all clothes that aren't natural fibers. Which is a huge, absolutely huge percentage.

Neither of these get any better by preventing littering. Driving and clothes washing and drying is spewing your plastic mist into the air 24 hours a day.
Incredibly long time to get a service appointment, same for just parts. Best to have a second vehicle.
> This feels needlessly confrontational

if you make an assertion about there being "too many" of something, it begs for someone to ask how you know this. Almost anyone on HN might ask that. However, you've now added some nuance to it.

I think in general a low barrier to entry is a good thing: most of the music on Bandcamp wouldn't have even been available to the public 50 years ago.

Most of the self-published books out there now also would never make it past the Mean Girl "agents" who populate literary agencies. Most of those books are crap, but then so are the books from major publishers in airport bookstores.
Novice Question: How can you have a relational database at all without foreign keys?

In other words, if your tables aren't referencing other tables, how do you perform JOINS for your queries? From my limited experience, they seem pretty essential for most databases. Or is the article just talking about foreign key CONSTRAINTS and cascading UPDATES and DELETES, rather than literally talking about the values stored in foreign key columns?

If anyone can explain, I would greatly appreciate it.
Argh those pesky regulators stopping Tesla from delivering robotaxis to their customers since 2018
Same here. I usually access reddit from rtv (Python package) from an EC2 linux instance, and today I wasn't able to. Any tip on how to bypass or fix this with rtv?
Why do the villagers keep complaining about the widespread bandit problem when they could simply improve their swordfighting or hire bodyguards?
Yeah that was my bad. I meant platform owners

Don't write an angry reply before your morning coffee everyone!
Is it by any chance this one? https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/12/Quantu... (from https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-theorem-maps-out-the-li...)
Sure, in the same way that rubbing alcohol is basically vodka.

I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but it's frustrating to hear this line over and over as someone who needs these prescriptions to function.
I wish so much for it:

Despite all our advances, we lack an editable, local, multimedia, platform (and form-factor) independent, self-contained file - essentially a word-processing file for the 21st century (and I mean it's almost a quarter-century overdue). epub has that potential as a format, and being based on web standards it has capability, a universe of supporting tools and technology, and easy adoption to different applications.

But I haven't heard anyone else express that particular interest, and as of a few years ago epub doesn't allow annotations and is not stable (i.e., I don't know that today's epub file will be readable in 20 or 50 years) - two essential requirements for a serious local content, imho.

And even if it meets those specifications, we need epub editors that are the equivalent of word processsors for non-technical users.
Sadly I can confirm, structuredClone is still not performant. At least on my various devices.

I just did a test again with 40000 times cloning a simple object and JSON.parse/stringify was 6 times faster than structured cloning.

Since I heavily use deep cloning, I am still disappointed with the new native, but slower solution. (And was hoping there would be more than old news in the article)

Edit: Code for testing was as simple as

for ... 40000

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj))

vs

structuredClone(obj)
and service centers.
This case is probably relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

In that case, breaking the ToS superceded the fact they were merely accessing public information.

The other question is whether Beeper is violating terms of service or their users are. I'm guessing Beeper is not and they instead need to be implicated for some kind of tortious interference. I would love if Apple individually started suing their own customers though.
Input Leap: Barrier KVM Fork [GPLv2]
> There's no straightfoward, standard way to read an html document on another platform.

Such as? What doesn’t have a browser but can render pdfs?
As a JS/TS dev since the early node says I still can't believe how long we used the json stringify method for.

Not because it worked well, but because it was _good enough_. I feel like that in itself is an important lesson about our industry and probably the world.
CO2 based tarifs? Nuclear energy? Us plebeians have zero leverage to have those implemented. It requires international coordination. It’s about the chosen few thus the constant hammering on the average joe is pointless.

Regarding plastics and soil pollution there are very actionable daily and local measures we can take the reduce it. Yet nothing is done.
I think you might be right about Beeper not having any legal right to iMessage interoperability.

On the other hand though, if Apple's legal right to continue locking them out was as certain as you make it sound, wouldn't it make sense for them to file a lawsuit and set precedent for anybody walking in Beeper's footsteps?
Getting rid of third party cookies is basically the status quo. IIRC if you use Safari or Firefox with default settings, third-party cookies are turned off.

This feature compared to that status quo is worse for privacy.

I think this might be the first time I’ve seen something that promises enhanced privacy instead doing directly the opposite, outside of the realm of malware and scam apps.

Imagine if there was a “save space on your hard drive” checkbox that used more storage space when it was checked. That’s what this is.
Not even stores, "galleries".
Siriusxm isn’t even a good product. The quality is just awful hardly any better than FM and sometimes even worse. In the age of CarPlay, why in the hell would anyone use it? Even if you don’t have CarPlay, you have Bluetooth or an aux input.
Mercedes E320 World Record. 100k miles at 140mph average speed (2005) [video]
Because a controversial centibillionaire didn't do the math on 0 atm tube transportation and proclaimed it to be so. Also, people hate people like Thunderf00t who tear down dumb ideas that people desperately want to believe in because feelings and tribal toxic positivity > logic.
Also, as far as I can tell, I just can't get a commercial display equivalent of one of the recent oleds sans smart crap.
I need to scroll up and down a lot more with two-column layout because a single page doesn't fit on my screen in my chosen font size (which is fairly large).

But HTML is so much more flexible, and ideally people can choose how they want it, although at this point it seems that's not (yet) implemented.

I find jumping back and forth is always a pain on computer screens and ebooks by the way, and is the major reason I much prefer print for this type of thing.
Democracy is not required for a free market to function well.

Running a company as a democracy pretty much requires every employee to be an equal owner of it. That doesn't work well. Sometimes a fearless leader, like Jobs, Gates, or Bezos, who gets things done without endless debate and compromise.
Why the hell are people still buying Teslas is beyond my understanding.
Underrepresented Racial Minority
How do I save an HTML document locally, and annotate it, in an easily sharable form, and in a form that is stable - i.e., in a way that will be readable and useable in 20-50 years?
And at two of the three companies I've worked at, diversity initiatives came in the form of explicit discrimination. Both instituted explicit percentage quotas, and at Dropbox we straight up reserved a segment of our headcount for women and URM candidates. Ostensibly, these quotas were for both URM of any gender, and women of any race. In practice, nearly 100% of people benefitting from these policies were non-URM women.

So at least in my experience, DEI == affirmative action for white and Asian women.
As I get older I care about bigger fonts and therefore bigger monitors. Higher resolution does nothing for me really. I need bigger fonts not better anti aliasing. My main is a 4k43"144hz which is basically the same dpi as a 27" 2560x1440 which I have 4 of in a semi sphere setup. If I ran that 4k at half the resolution to get nice fonts I'd have massive eye strain. Instead I can keep the monitors at a comfortable arms length so I don't squint up close and still get tons of text on screen.

I also get a lot better frame rates than pushing 5 4k or 8k screens.

I tried out apples absurd 8k display and it's just so small I'm getting half the text on the screen which is basically throwing money at Apple for no reason.

The 4k43 is glorious for games and for fusion360. Also as a grow light :)
I think it's relevant because to me the article isn't actually about Adderall vs meth, just using that as the framing for a story about why they think it's bad for anything pharma-related to happen out from under the watchful eye of a US-like medical-industrial-congressional complex.

The author is preying upon readers' cultural understanding of meth (via the news media and shows like Breaking Bad) as something inherently dirty, something for which there is no possible safe usage. The existence of FDA-approved meth ruins the framing even if FDA-grade is not what a buyer would be getting.
The internet existed without ads and big centralized sites. People ran their own sites, link rings, email and other services. The big guys have taken away so much of the ability to effectively self-host, but fundamentally we do not need them and we do not need ads.
> If the author weren't trying so hard to scare-monger

Uhhh I am a biochemist and I think being sold methamphetamine as Adderall is completely problematic. Under no circumstances is that okay, and it's potentially quite dangerous. Completely unacceptable.
Cousin marriages are still fairly common throughout the developing world.
Can anyone get the actual JavaScript example posted to work with Node or any JS runtime for that matter?

I tried it with Bun and I feel weird showing examples that don't seem to run.

> $ npm install @wasmer/sdk

```js
import { Wasmer } from "@wasmer/sdk";

let cowsay = Wasmer.fromRegistry("cowsay");
let instance = await cowsay.entrypoint.run({
args: "\"Hello world\""
});
let output = await instance.wait();
```

I also tried to use the <script> approach and I cannot get it working on a local dev server due to CORS.
Even in a criminal matter, wouldn't Apple's description of their systems and services matter quite a lot on how that would go?
Democracy is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others.

That's why not. Have you ever seen democracy be efficient at anything?
We discourage changes starting early/mid november and completely freeze deploys a week before thanksgiving and christmas, but there's still so much that can go wrong. The other commenter summarized it well, but in addition there's also systems that require continuous automatic updates as part of their functionality, and sometimes those automatic updates can start to go haywire. For some systems, the holidays are the most important part of the year, and it's extra crucial for people to be monitoring and ready to respond at a moment's notice.
Note: I tried it with both Bun and Node, neither worked.
Long COVID would, though. And if people who would mostly have been retired or lower productivity are more likely to die and children don't contribute to the labor force in most of the US, long COVID would affect working age people primarily, no?
Its away from weather and extreme temp changes.

Its super common in Australia for railways to shut down due to warping of the rails from heat.
But Google doesn't get the user data, right? Chrome is just conveying it to advertisers - Google gets the same experience as everyone else.

It's not like it goes to Google first and then it goes to advertisers. Chrome is what decides which data leaves the browser. Or have I misunderstood?
TODIL cargo ships are slightly cheaper to operate than good trains.

I still haven't seen the math to prove ground effect aircraft are less efficient than cargo ships, but I suppose it's true or it would've been done already.
I mean, how do I save it locally on one platform and read it on any platform? Or share it with someone else to read (without them downloading software)? I.e., we don't have a standard, local, single-file html format.
Among non-technical lay people, the perception is Android can't interoperate with iPhones due to inferior technology. (For example, people call low resolution photos android photos. They don't realize photos sent over sms were downscaled by the protocol, they assume it was taken in that low resolution format to begin with)

Suddenly being able to text androids without issue made it clear to everyone it's a policy-limitation, not a technological limitation
Main issue with cbind()ing to matrix then data.frame is conversion of all columns to the same type and potential loss of information
> "Fair" or "unfair", what is the crime? Your intuition pump doesn't include enough details to be useful, I don't understand it.

Beeper does not talk only to Apple devices but also to other Beeper clients. There is no authorization by Apple to use their backends, and they are not sharing any revenue from their business, while Apple funds all the million messages.

CCFA covers the value gain, should be less than 5000 in one year, what I doubt is happening here.

I am not even sure if they are authorized in any point, because they violate ToS. Technically they fake authorization by preventing to be something other than they are, and not authorized by the terms and conditions.
> that specifically market "non-tracking" as a feature

Which ones? All the non-tracking, supposedly-GDPR-compliant ads/analytics out there just use a convoluted and overcomplicated interpretation of the GDPR to claim their solution complies while it ultimately doesn't, or stretch the "legitimate interest" definition quite a bit.

For example, if it's able to reidentify a user coming back to a website, then it doesn't matter if they hash the IP address 20 times which is salted with the outcome of a crystal ball and all under the supervision of a magic unicorn, it's still processing personal data for non-essential purposes and should require explicit consent.
However that two years of excess mortality is still less than one year of population growth. How do you answer that
All about Cloudflare's hardware, AI inference, Impact, and happy holidays
Is the manufacturer still disputing that they're the ones who installed that logic bomb?
And yet most of humanity's scientific and technological progress happened in a part of the world (Western Europe from about 1500 to 1900) with relatively weak kinship networks by world-historical standards.
There's little indication that democracies are more flexible. The politicians spend all their time arguing with each other, eventually reaching an ineffectual compromise.

"more mission focused", I seriously doubt. More like "everyone pulling in a different direction."
Looks nice but seems strange to switch from two columns to one column after the first page? Although maybe they’re just trying to demonstrate its capabilities.
It used to be trivial.

Lately it hasn't been as easy I think.
You're talking about the internet when it was tiny and inaccessible, and you're acting like that was good. That's a position to take, but I don't think it's a good one - again, I would not have been able to write my blog for free, the sites we take for granted today would not exist.

The only way to actually publish would be to have technical skills and money, which I don't think is good.