skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they don't need Beeper to make that decision. They can just as well leak screenshots of the conversation, backup their phone to iCloud (which breaks E2E unless Advanced Data Protection is enabled) or a compromised computer, or just leak their Apple ID credentials which would allow any attacker to take over their iMessage account (using a real device) and download their backups, or run an outdated iOS version with known vulnerabilities or jailbreak and install a malicious tweak.

I don't see how Beeper makes that any worse - I've listed a myriad of ways a user can choose to compromise the security of any iMessages sent to them. These ways have been known for decades and Apple hasn't done anything (they could lock-out outdated and jailbreakable iOS versions).
I believe Adam Savage described the mechanism at play here very well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PcSMWbBA8&t=340s

til 9:15 or so (~4min if your attention span is shit too)

Tldw is that other peoples lifes exist even if you are not around. Counter intuitive, i know.
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I just came back from Puerto Vallarta, and it's shocking how pharmacies advertise their drugs to tourists. I'm talking massive signs with every prescription med under the sun-- Adderall, Xanax, Retinol, you name it. All next to the HGH and testosterone posters featuring unreasonably muscular bodybuilders.
> The reasoning is a person living in the country would close this gate by fear of loosing families

I don’t think that’s true. The official argument is that human operation wouldn’t reach the required reliability level (https://www.cs.vu.nl/~x/sil/sil.html: “The failure rate demands for this system were required to be 1:10000 for not closing when this was actually necessary, and 1:100000 for not opening the barrier when requested. This asymmetry is caused by the fact that if the sea surge barrier does not reopen, the river discharge can lead to flooding from the inside.”)

I think nobody knows for sure whether the conclusion that software alone would be more reliable than humans alone was correct (my money would be on “it wasn’t”). That’s hard to verify for such a system that “cannot be tested under the conditions for which it was designed” (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220592956_Human_fac...).

You can’t do that statistically, either, as in real-world use it would take millennia to collect the necessary data, and that’s way longer than the design life of this structure.
That was important, maybe the most important. But bringing down the price was also key to mainstreaming, also making attractive cars. Eco cars tended be in the ugly for a cause style, like the Prius.
It does, but the ventilation is still not designed for diesels. I guess we are just discussing boring, in that case, electric something is required, maybe battery would work out better than overhead or below lines. Or maybe the only way to do this right without any ventilation is via supercooled magnets or air pressure.
You can also have that cheaper already. But having it stable and reliable - will take some time and possibly more money, depending on your definition of reliable.
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I grew up in Ventura county so outside of LAUSD. Other Californians will have to chime in about Riverside, Orange County etc.
The antitrust angle makes no sense. Every device, even android and windows have defaut apps but to allow competition replacement apps are tolerated.

Regardless of size, no company owes users or the public free service using their servers. Fairness always cuts both ways. As an iPhone user, I demand apple provides me iMessage and ensures non-imessage clients can't message me.

Beeper can make a chat client and compete, they can advertisr in the appstore and elsewhere. Internet Explorer and now Edge are default on windows but Chrome is the number one browser (despite edge using chromium). Why can't beeper do the same?

This whole "eat the rich" crap needs to end. People like apple products the way they are. You succeed by figuring out why that is and competing. I used signal on iphone for a couple of years and then got rid of it for example. Didn't like the ui as much as imessage, can't import backups and lost all message and contact history I built on signal over many years. Similarly, i have had a lot of bad experience with usb-c but lightning has been great in every way for me but thanks to this same anti-capitalist attitude my choice was taken away.

My problem is not that the biggest company on earth is being treated unfairly and will lose chump change. My problem is that I am being affected! My choices and preferences are being taken away in an undemocraric and anti-capitalist way. I didn't have a vote on usb-c, to the contary I paid apple a lot of money for their product to show support. Same thing with I message, why donmt the voices mine and the majority who use iphones' voices not matter here? What is apple doing to prevent beeper from creating a chat client that does things just like imessage and then have other better features? Of all the chat clients I have used, imessage has superior ui and reliability, that's why I use it. They make it sound like iphone users don't know how to search the appstore for better chat clients. Outside the US, even on iphone people use whatsapp as a default for example, because that's what they prefer (international calling friendly) and most americans haven't even heard of viber.

Clearly othere have demonstrated that you can compete with default apps and even beat imessage in some markets outside the US by competing fairly. Now what is the reason you all have your torches lighted and pitchforks sharpened so that mine and iphone user's choices get limited once more?
Personally, I would prefer the conventional Latin Modern math font instead of Palatino math.

Latin Modern is used by:

- Wikipedia.
- Math.StackExchange.
- Nearly all papers, including the ones hosted on arxiv in PDF format.
- Nearly any math videos, slides/presentations, notes.
- Almost everything, really.

Palatino just looks weird.

Also, I imagine that authors might do math formatting hacks that were only tested on Latin Modern, and might end up breaking on Palatino.

TL;DR:

Palatino :(

Latin Modern :)
Because there's nothing "sad" about people exercising their freedom to not have kids.
You really think the safety bar for running a commercial autonomous taxi service should be set lower than the average human legally entitled to drive!?!
I know I'm just repeating what others have said here, but just wow. Publishing something like this less than a week out from Christmas, with apparently no responsible disclosure.

Maybe it will come out that somehow they messed up and the postfix crowd didn't get the memo when they were supposed to, but otherwise this is almost malicious in its negligent attitude.

Seems like they got too excited by having such an increduble exploit and got ahead of themselves? Either way, good way to create unnecessary grudges and resentment.
Twitter still tries to target ads to you. It's just that right now, major brands are not buying ads on the site.
You can write a bot in Python or any of the free versions of RPA software to make random searches and go to random sites to poison the data that they get.

Its not that easy, but poisoning the data can be done.
Do you even realize you can send mail from your mailbox?

I can walk to my mailbox and put the little metal flag up in a couple minutes. I can't be put on hold or have the conversation drag on for 40+ minutes, as some in the complaint stated. No need to make this hard.
turn off location services, your phone still contacts ls.apple.com

deep links, they go deeper than you think.

ibeacons provide very precise indoor location, think of all the behavioral data a store app can collect.

apple is not really your friend.

seriously, apple should let you

- know what is running

- know what network traffic happens

- control these thigns

- run your own programs

I would love an ios firewall program or non-neutered little snitch
There's not.

Tunnels probably only make sense in cities, not wide open rural spaces.
Whatever the criminal filings are, hopefully they get what they deserve.
The one advantage I can think of is no weather to deal with like snow/ice.
if there is a soft landing... the recession is penciled in for Q3 2024 currently based on yield curve inversions.
I can't fault you for that. For me, Obsidian feels like it's in an uncanny valley: it looks like both FOSS (free to download, use, whatever) and proprietary (you don't have the code), and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop ("now that we're out of beta, that'll be $300 per year"). That'll probably never happen, and they've been a pretty good group so far, but it could.

I'm going for a different approach. All my docs are stored as Markdown in iCloud, and I use iA Writer to edit them. It's a proprietary app, but one with an exception track record of "buy once, use forever". It's a native app, too, unlike a lot of the alternatives. And if iA Writer ever explodes, all my files are right there in glorious plaintext. I could do, and have done, the same with Obsidian, but I just like using Writer more.

The only database-backed app I've ever completely trusted is Drafts. Yes, my data is stored in its proprietary system. However, it exports the data regularly to a JSON backup file that's trivially easy to parse. It's also never, not once, ever, lost a single byte I've put in it. That little app's bulletproof.
In Bolivia, I was amused by the plastic bag they gave me for my meds that was advertising: "zero counterfait guaranteed".

At this moment I realized how far we went in wealthy countries, in my case Europe countries, in the regulation of drugs.
I’m not arguing with you here but it would be interesting to know what about tunnelling is fundamentally expensive.

Things I can think of: it is slow, so you burn through a lot of wages. To compare with road building the only major road I can think of, built in my lifetime, was the M40. It is 90 miles long and took 4 years to build but I don’t know what the cost was. The channel tunnel is much smaller than a freeway — two train tunnels and an escape tunnel in between. It is 30 miles long, took 6 years to build, for £9bn at the time.

Tunnelling also must require a lot of energy. What it probably doesn’t lean heavily into, in terms of cost, is either compulsory purchasing of the majority of the route or the political consultation and planning process. Those were both a huge deal when building a motorway through the Oxfordshire countryside.
I turn off broadcasts so I don’t have to listen. And if I record them I fast forward them.

I hate billboards. I feel like they’re too intrusive and wouldn’t mind seeing a ban.

Especially the ones that are back lit. Can’t believe advertisers are given the right to attempt to distract drivers the most.
You know, they use food prices to calculate inflation...
I don't think I'm setting that up, but maybe I'm not understanding. Because to me what Google is doing is a clear attempt at maintaining the status quo of an ad-funded internet while removing the ability for fine-grained 3rd party tracking.

So when people say this is a threat to the "free internet" I'm asking what that means - because right now the status quo has a lot of upsides, a few of which I listed. I want to hear what the alternatives are. What is it people are asking for?

What's the implementation of this that you think would be better?
It's true! In many parts of Mexico, including Mexico City, this is not the case at all. Even in Guadalajara, which is in the same state as PV, you can't buy this stuff without a prescription. But I was in PV and my partner had a headache so we wandered into a pharmacy in an upscale neighborhood to buy some ibuprofen and to our surprise the pharmacist was a hell of a saleswoman! We walked out with a variety of benzos and boner pills.
Yep. If the DOS version >= 7, it's probably running in virtual 86 mode under Windows. Windows 98SE was the last version capable of booting directly to DOS.

And then there are the DOS flavors besides MS-DOS such as PC-DOS and DR-DOS. And later, FreeDOS. :]

I consider DOS 6.22a to be DOS-"DOS", but 7.1 also works.

Back in the day, DESQview is how we ran multiple modem line BBSes on one machine.
Unless it's small enough that they just go with the other manufacturing tech where the display is on wafer and you don't have to deal with the pick and place mess. Which it almost certainly is.
I don't see how it's relevant. The counterfeit adderall being sold isn't pharmaceutical grade meth. People buying black market sealed bottles of adderall would probably want to know that it's likely not adderall.
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The problem here comes from Google being the ones who monopolise on the user data, leading them to be the only credible source of truth on the user interests. This is an outstanding move from them, business wise.

I agree that I prefer, privacy wise, to only deal with one company. But, this leaves them in a considerable advantage. It's ultimately, bad for consumers. And, from the beginning, bad for other businesses and market.
Short-sighted is generating radioactive garbage with a 24,000-year half-life for a couple GW of power.
I believe that's just the pilot (ie training) version with the full version coming a bit later after
Do they have to physically extend the airport boundaries to fit the third runway? I imagine real estate is not abundant around there.

Else, maybe if the new runway interferes with existing infrastructure and retrofits are needed, it could make sense too.
Which is basically the only one in the entire country.

Everything else is freight. All the old passenger rail was converted (or abandoned/removed) long ago.
> According to Axel Springer, Eyeo’s business model constituted: ... a violation of freedom of the press

Wah, cry me a river. Some corporation making hundreds of millions of dollars thinks it has a right to run malware on people's computers, just so the executives can line their pockets with more money. Maybe they should spend some of those millions and figure out a less stupid monetization strategy instead of trying to dream up a bunch of laws that suit them
You're talking smartphone displays? You certainly don't need anywhere close to 300ppi on a computer monitor to have crisp fonts.
reprocessing helps with this.
Isn't adderall basically prescription meth, anyway?
I am building a card game engine in typescript. A simple AI based on monte carlo tree search requires me to copy the gamestate a lot. And it's always a list of cards that i'm modeling so I really need to deepclone arrays.
Denying access to a site is hardly like beating one up for not reading newspaper ads. It's more like they'd refuse to give you another edition of the paper on your next visit, or insisted you pay for the paper instead.
Seems to be a mix of GPLv2 and LGPLv2 https://github.com/Alinto/sogo/blob/SOGo-5.9.1/UI/Common/Com... vs https://github.com/Alinto/sogo/blob/SOGo-5.9.1/UI/Contacts/C...
The smell here is in the library, is the commenter's point. The solution would be to search for a better written library.
It would be another bit for the fingerprinting, that's an important caveat.

The point is that web site owners should be able to easily implement ad/pay walls, and let the market decide whether users are OK with that. The current situation is that ad blocking is a luxury, afforded by people like us with a decent Internet connection for the constant updates, and understanding of technology, to enable ad blocking in the first place.
I'm not quite sure what you say is true.

Apple Notebooks have 224-254ppi, the external displays 218ppi.
The only higher ppi displays from Apple are on the iphone, and they are not special, most decent (android) phones from 5 years ago have 400ppi+. Funnily Apple was dragging their feet in this space back then.

Apple is more consistent, but it really isn't hard to get 4k laptop displays now.
> I'm as left as they come

I am pleased to introduce you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
> Johnson took excess deaths and COVID deaths by age and applied labor force participation rates by age. And he got 300,000 workers who died as a result of COVID. Add that to the long-haul workers, and we’ve lost 1.9 million workers — or 18% of currently unfilled jobs.

Note: most of those long-haulers have recovered, but I suspect that a great many of those didn’t recover back to their original job. That means during the time they were disabled, they had to be replaced, possibly at a higher wage.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/24/how-much-labor-force-...
>> I guess they don’t have much data on me

I would consider this a good thing.

My wife and I were talking the other night at a friends who have an Alexa in their kitchen. We were talking about taking a ski trip out West to Colorado or Utah.

We get the car to leave. She pops open her Facebook feed and wouldn't you know? She's getting ads for resorts in. . .wait for it. . . .Colorado and Utah along with the two places were thinking of going.

I was creeped TF out because this wasn't the first time its happened and the other two times, we weren't near a listening device like an Alexa and similar things have happened.

If they don't know your preferences, then you're doing something right.
I live in Texas. At least for electricity it’s a fairly free market of prices. I would be surprised to learn natty gas is being heavily subsidized here too.
Being a conspiratorial nutjob i think you shouldnt rule out that there is quite a lot of filtering happening to get you into the search results in the first place.

See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...

Since there is only 40 or so pages for any given result, you might be lucky to make it at all. From your IP that is.

Please just take this as a far out option for the spectrum of possible answers to your question.
Thank you indeed! While I have fond memories of working holiday pager support early in my career, especially before marriage and kids to cover for those with families, I’m very grateful for those able to cover for all of us now! Cheers to you all
Lmao that's only like the price of 2 of the new high NA EUV machines. I believe they're slated to be 350-400M€ ea.
Ah.. you need a binding function to wrap the state-derived content into a reactive UI element, see: https://vanjs.org/tutorial#state-derived-child. I made the change in your code to make it work: https://jsfiddle.net/rkfmpx06/1/
> Nazis didn't exists at that time

Don't Be a Sucker, released 1947 (produced 1943):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6-cEAJZlE#t=270

(IMO still apropos today)

Edit: for those who prefer german sources, see https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper...
Hasn't this always been possible? I remember being able to trivially spoof emails from say, bill@microsoft.com as far back as 1998.
It doesn't "corrupt" them; it converts them to JSON strings. It's in the name. Expecting `JSON.stringify` to throw in those situations would be like expecting `str` in Python to throw.
Surely there are always problems in the market, but this post seems too close a match to the Beeper situation in both timing and wording to be a coincidence, especially considering the legislative attention it has already attracted. Which other recent "claims that competition must be impeded to advance privacy or security" might have prompted this post?
I believe this originates from GNU argument syntax and is commonly implemented by software supporting GNU-style long options. Terminating after the first argument IIRC is what software implementing BSD style argument parsing usually does. OTOH though, I am sure there is software that implements hybrids of both approaches. I don't think any approach is particularly "weird" really, both of them make perfect sense in isolation.

edit: relevant GNU docs https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-...
While I agree they should have mentioned Desoxyn - which is even FDA-approved for treating the same condition, ADHD, as Adderall is - nothing makes it okay for a pharmacy in any country to make people think they’re buying one medication when they’re actually getting a different one.

Reactions to ADHD meds vary widely among people with ADHD. Just because Desoxyn and Adderall are closely related doesn’t mean that a person who has good results with one will also get those good results with the other, especially not necessarily using the same dosage and timing.

All of this assumes they’re selling legitimate pharmaceutical methamphetamine with as much official oversight as other prescription drugs in Mexico. If this is black market meth, it’s even worse due to the unpredictable quality, purity, fillers, and dosage that come with the black market.
Computer Modern was not designed for easy viewing on screens (think about the screens Knuth would have been using in 1977), it was designed for printing in books.
It can’t be likened to piracy because I am asking the website for a document, they’re giving it to me, suggesting I download other documents, and I am deciding not to.

I am not taking something they own by force on a ship.

I am not distributing their intellectual property to others without authorization.
In my defence, Ruby on Rails contains no actual rubies or any actual rails.
Why do you think police are the answer to mental health?
Now I'm wondering about a world where OpenAI can treat their compute not as "dedicate this time slice of an A100 to generating tokens for customer A's query" but rather "there is a custom pipeline at a gate level that exactly matches our model architecture, hardcoding weights at the gate level, and can treat parallel requests the same way a processor would pipeline instructions." I don't think any human could write the TensorFlow compiler for this, but theoretically a generative AI could learn how to, experimenting on its own compute hardware? I don't know that we've seen the last of FPGAs.
I'd recommend setting up some Shortcuts with the addresses that can be triggered from Siri. For example, "Siri, we're going to the office", "Siri, let's go swimming",

One nit with this is that I haven't been able to make it automatically transition into navigation.
How about Africa? Any projections?
Most large TV makers make smartphones too, so I doubt software expertise is the issue. Probably more about market forces. (Consumers don't generally differentiate TVs based on startup speed.)
Economics, I'm guessing. They got enough money floating around recently that they would've done it by now, if it made em more money.

Their pockets are flush from crypto and now AI.
To me, the worst part of being on call is the stress _after_ my shift ends. I understand that it's a necessary part of the job to fix issues that occur during my shift, so I don't really mind it, but it gives me long term issues. I feel anxious whenever I don't have my phone on me, or when I'm far enough into the wilderness to lose my cell signal. Late night when I don't expect to be getting messages from anyone, a random notification can sometimes give me an immediate stomach-drop panic response.

Unfortunately I feel like I lucked into this role and if I left I wouldn't be able to find anything anywhere near as good.