skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prescient article: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
As I recall, I never knew any of the people in the documentary, but definitely used to hang out with various people in the community who were members of a large Cambridge MA BBS.
Space seems to expand in the absence of anything, and mass and its agent gravity appear to counteract that natural expansion of distance. If this is in fact true, I don’t think it’s astronomically hard but impossible to directly manipulate space. Space isn’t actually a thing to be manipulated, it’s a description of the apparent distance between things of reference. The discussion of space warping around mass etc is a convenient metaphor for what we observe, the bowling ball on a blanket doesn’t mean there’s literally a blanket to be manipulated. It’s an effect we observe about relative distances being distorted in the metrics of distance and rate of information propagation. What medium these exist in, if any, is entirely unknown and is most likely non existent but is a description of observed effects, while space and time are simply descriptions of those effects.
It's sad that the largest ever penalty is still less money than the company made off the crime.
OP said:
> When the user uses iMessage I can be sure if it leaks - he was either hacked or shared the photo

I would call that a hack.
A p-value is the frequency you’d expect to see a sample with an effect this size or greater, given the null hypothesis. It’s inherently a frequentist approach to inference.

You can squish it into Bayes by considering it a uniform prior on the real number line that you never update, but you’re not really doing things “in the spirit” of Bayes, then.
If you have a government unwilling or unable to even enforce the laws against violence, they will be similarly unwilling or unable to enforce the laws against thoughtcrime, or will enforce them against the victims of the atrocity.

Or you've got a case of someone in country A filing suit over something happening in country A under the laws of country B. Now what is the company supposed to do if the laws in country A and country B conflict? Was following the laws in the country where they're operating (i.e. the country committing the atrocity) the outcome you wanted? What about leaving that country, so that people there have to use a service which is in that country?

"Everybody has free speech" doesn't solve every problem, but censorship doesn't solve any of those problems either, it just creates wicked new problems.
(2005)

Also available in the IA: https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary
Not completely different; they're both sequential access patterns and equivalent whenever the loop size exceeds cache size.
VBA != VB.NET
Because google is an advertising company, and makes money by spying on users.

Google being found to scan emails received in gmail and advertise on that basis is why amazon receipt/invoice emails no longer include details inline.

GMail is not a free product. You are paying google with incredible amounts of your "private" information.
BBS's were the first point of access for the internet for many - the more professional or BBS-as-a-service charging fees, one local one for example had something like 20 concurrent users possible (20 phone lines in) - were some of the first to get T1 lines following universities, etc.
General purpose QC isn't going to happen all that soon, and may always be faced with scaling issues.

But we will see QC in a very specific application before the decade is out.

It's kind of a perfect marriage between ML and QC. If you want stochastic outputs and aren't going to know what's going on at each step in the network anyways, the issues of error correction around measurement aren't nearly as crippling as they are for general purpose QC.

While initially the work will be converting from classical to optoelectronic hardware for matching current operations, such as MIT's work this year, once we've seen greater availability of optoelectronic hardware I suspect we'll see algorithms for ML developed that would only work in photonic networks and fully exploit the quantum properties therein.
What modern code are you referencing?
Yep, it's down for me, and they seem to be aware: https://medium.statuspage.io/

EDIT: Back up!
@tompark just followed you on twitter. My gmail address is in my HN profile.
It’s a place holder for iOS 18’s expansion. It’s 0.1 of the LLM in iOS. And the other prior implementation was so ducking bad that I’m not sure how you would observe such a regression.
Spotify / Apple Music

Netflix + Hulu / Apple TV+

Generic Earbuds / AirPods

Meta Quest / Apple Vision Pro

(The last one being a hopeful wish)
I always wonder how people manage. If you have a note for project X, concerning person Y, dealing with topic Z, and needs more work, in which folder do you put it?
I’m not wealthy by the standards discussed in the article but I’m a forever renter (a different kind than those in the article).

I like living in dense cities, I dislike large living spaces, and I dislike being responsible for anything or doing any maintenance. Renting a small cheap apartment is something that fits my lifestyle and lets me do quite well financially.
What justification is there for this, though? There is nothing specifically unique to iMessage that makes life, liberty, or property difficult to pursue.
> But the real issue boils down to human in/out group dynamics. Being excluded from group chats or having people get frustrated by the lone Android user in the group are powerful forms of peer pressure.

This reminds me of the Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" scene from Mad Men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k

There is an odd coincidence/overlap with friend groups and overall lifestyle/ideology and imessage vs android or blue vs green bubbles. I have like a few obscure friends who use android and they are all maga or counterculture weirdos. Meanwhile everyone else that I know (literally everyone, including a huge group chat for my gym weightlifting group, all close and extended family) uses an iPhone and iMessage.

Back to don draper: Android users cry about being excluded, but the rest of us don't even think about android users.

It's not Apple's responsibility or obligation to fix this.
From a business perspective I don’t think that would make sense.

From a user perspective I wish they would just open it up.
> Can Apple just acquire the Beeper Mini team to stop this move?

No... the code is already released.
Yeah, my commercial BBS was my first ISP for a time until I got broadband.
Renting is underrated, especially in the US I feel where people are constantly encouraged to buy a house.

https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/renting-is-not-a-waste...
I don't think anyone wants an iMessage specific messaging app. But if it works on Android like iMessage does on iPhone, I bet people would use it. On iPhone iMessage isn't a specific app, the single app just communicates via iMessage or SMS depending on the participants.

In my circle in the US I don't know anyone that uses a 3rd party messaging app on either platform because that really only works if everyone you want to talk to also uses that specific messaging app. Switching depending on who you're talking to is annoying, so (people I know) don't.
Something worth noting: unless I'm missing something, this isn't Beeper Mini (the Android app) but the iMessage-Matrix bridge Beeper created. However, this is still handy if you have a Mac or jailbroken iPhone (edit: for registration, seems like it's not required after the initial setup) as you can self-host it.
And that Apple /// that Apple released in 1980 was also garbage…
I support the idea that Apple should be allowed to keep it exclusive. I think it makes the experience of using their products worse, but that's their prerogative and the government shouldn't step in to intervene. Signal, WhatsApp, Discord, and others are all available to fill in the gap, so this isn't a monopoly case except insofar as a certain segment of the US population has an irrational reaction to blue bubbles.
What? None of those are cogent arguments.

> The value of maintaining current discrimination is high enough to motivate laws protecting racists from exposing themselves publicly.

A law that punishes racist speech doesn't protect racist people from exposing themselves. It protects their victims from dealing with that form of hate speech. You're basically arguing that making "hate speech" illegal does more harm than good, but you haven't offered proof or any logical argument why that is. I argue silencing hate speech (or attempting as much) does more good than harm because it limits the impact of such hate speech.

> Or; The value in maintain hatred within society is higher than the value of progressive discourse.

Same as the above.

> My point is that there is a few ways to interpret speech controls

Perhaps, but the ones you've provided don't really stand to scrutiny.
Going down the protocol route here - this would be more like Sony blocking game developers from allowing interoperability between Playstations and Xboxes. Crossplay is most definitely a thing - without requiring Xbox versions of games running on Sony hardware.
This is not fighting the compiler, this is writing code in a way which can be proved to be safe.

Some code can be safe but is hard to reason about. The compiler tells you that. The solution is, unsurprisingly but perhaps disappointingly, to stop writing code like that.
As a former android user, yes this is something I wanted badly.

It is much less convenient to be in a group chat with an android user.
> If you want your website to be available in a country

Well sure, if Brazil wants to build the Great Firewall of Brazil, they can do so.
Old paper (Oct/2023), but the weights are new (Dec/2023):

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
Brilliant. Cannot wait to see the v1.0 announcement here on HN
Don't worry, Apple's harvesting your data these days as well. More importantly though, end to end encryption means Beepers servers never see the videos of you breaking the law, but if you're truly paranoid, the closed nature of iMessage should scare you because we don't know that the NSA doesn't have decryption keys - iMessage in China is not run by Apple, which means the CCP has decryption keys for messages sent in China; who's to say theres not a similar arrangement with the US intelligence community. I'm not remotely Edward Snowden but if that's your worry, I wouldn't trust iMessage either.
A "recall" for a car means that a problem was identified that makes the car fail to be compliant with federal automobile safety regulations, and that the manufacturer has to mail a notification about the problem and how to fix it to all owners of the affected vehicles, and the fix must be free of charge.
https://archive.ph/RRnUx
I can’t tell if this is a joke about how many messaging apps Google has made or not…
> It's not Apple's fault google half assed messaging on android for a decade+.

It’s also clear that Apple was never interested in pushing for an industry solution to this problem either. These two companies are in the unique position to provide leadership in this category, and they haven’t.

In the earlier days of the web and in other areas of innovation, the companies at the forefront of their respective industries industry champion new standards to support their broader goals. This was a use case ripe for better standards, but all parties involved are more motivated by greed than interoperability/supporting the consumer.
Huh, I never thought of trying to use GPT for scad. Does that actually work?
Likely around 40 km, like the Baumgartner jump.
> This would of course be different if Apple prevented you from sending SMS messages via iMessage, or from installing third party messengers. But they don’t do either of these things.

Apple does, in fact, prevent you from installing a third-party messenger on iOS that uses the device's native SMS/MMS capabilities. Apple's own Messages app is the only app that is allowed by Apple to handle SMS/MMS on iOS.

The fact that Apple has made iMessage exclusive to Messages, paired with the Messages app's privileged position as the only SMS/MMS client Apple allows on iOS, gives the Messages app and iMessage an unfair advantage over competing messengers and messaging protocols.
Some more recent related threads with nice anecdotes and connections:

2022: Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31740247)

2021: Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140217)

2016: Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System https://spectrum.ieee.org/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784307)
Probably easier to apply across the board instead of on a per-role basis.
As a lone data point, I'm an Android user and I really don't know what iMessage is, why it exists, and why I should care at all.

I've never met anyone whose choice of instant text app is conditioned by the hardware they use.
Yes, that's likely to happen at least with popular footage where there is interest in harvesting more value. I don't see it as anything negative; we keep redoing Shakespeare in novel ways, but the core is still there.
SpaceX hasn't launched any production Starlink satellites as extra payload. They have all been full groups on dedicated launches.
This seems very cannibalistic of their own business. That means somebody running Google or Microsoft (or really any web ads) only has a 10% chance to start with of getting served to an actual human (if they're not trying to block each other constantly).

And on the other side, that means every customer or ad placer, has to try and filter all the bots so people with actual credit cards and money will see the Google, TEMU, or FB ads (or others).

In some ways, almost feels like Microsoft is griefing online search by burying it under massive robot crawls. Like an ad DDOS.
Google Messages (the current RCS client) is very good. It's far from the first good messaging app they've built. The 99 messaging apps meme is about Google just making another one for no reason. Kind of like "that's enough slices"
> All materials are inherently biodegradable, whether it takes a few weeks or a million years to break down into organic matter and mineralize.[48] Therefore, products that are classified as “biodegradable” but whose time and environmental constraints are not explicitly stated are misinforming consumers and lack transparency.[44] Normally, credible companies convey the specific biodegradable conditions of their products, highlighting that their products are in fact biodegradable under national or international standards. Additionally, companies that label plastics with oxo-biodegradable additives as entirely biodegradable contribute to misinformation. Similarly, some brands may claim that their plastics are biodegradable when, in fact, they are non-biodegradable bioplastics.

> Biodegradable plastics that have not fully degraded are disposed of in the oceans by waste management facilities with the assumption that the plastics will eventually break down in a short amount of time. However, the ocean is not optimal for biodegradation, as the process favors warm environments with an abundance of microorganisms and oxygen. Remaining microfibers that have not undergone biodegradation can cause harm to marine life.[62]

Will I need to pull up a dictionary in my next comment because you'll still pretend not to understand?
Why not? It’s their product on a field where there’s plenty of competition. They can do as they please.
When Beeper was alive I received like 20+ fake messages from "girls" from 3rd world countries to scam me. With blue bubbles. We can somewhat trust blue bubbles to be real phones and treat these messages that way so our interaction will change when these bubbles are open to anyone.
True-- but a regular job you may work 40-50 hours a week and have many other benefits (like health insurance, and so on). Most people making games (especially on their own) put in far more hours, zero benefits and a lot less money.

I have nothing but respect for people that do. I've dreamed of it. I could never pull the trigger though. I can't justify putting four to seven years in a game to make pocket change out of it.

Sure... the creative aspect is great. Having players enjoy it is great. But eating and keeping my house is pretty good too.
> iMessage works on wifi without a cell connection

How often are you in a situation where you do have WiFi but don't have a cellular connection? In my experience, the opposite is much more common--not having WiFi but having reliable cellular data.

In any case, WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, and open source solutions/protocols like Signal also work on WiFi without a cellular connection.

> green txts constantly break group messaging to the point where I refuse to add my friends partners who dont have iOS

Wow. I feel sorry, not for you, but for your friends who chose to be friends with someone so shallow.

> there are no abilities to admin group messaging with green txts (change the name, add/remove people, etc.)

Who cares? In more than two decades I have never once felt compelled to change the title of a group text, of all things. How often do you need to add and remove people from an existing group text anyways? Group texts, at least for me, have always been ephemeral--for example, a few messages exchanged to coordinate a date and time for dinner plans, and that's it. If I need to add someone, I'll just make a new group text or relay the information independently, it's not that hard.
My whole point was to help readers learn new stuff. Until just now I didn't google it because I thought it was random noise that isn't interesting to me, my assumption was that it was some random new front end js stuff. I won't google the competition of every post on hn to find out what it is about. Why are you/others supporting bad marketing/presentation?

Instead of "like strava" 20 times all over, at least once say "a running, cycling and hiking app like strava".

To me, this project just tells me to just go ahead and use strava, they are merely a fan clone.
Honestly? Because it’s Apple’s service to do with what they wish. I don’t view iMessage to be enough of a public good that Apple should be forced to make it public. There’s a lot of other apps like WhatsApp that provide open messaging and so the space is competitive enough.

I would argue that it would be more important for Facebook to open up its social network or Google to open up its ads than for Apple to open up its messaging platform.
I got an iPhone 15 Pro Max last month. It's great, I dig it. I'm a case-free dude and there are zero scratches on the screen or titanium, the industrial design is tight and amazing. There's finally USB-C, and the camera is great. This was an expensive phone, but it's a timeless design and unless something crazy happens, I strongly suspect it's actually going to take me into 2030.

But I have to tell you. Not a single friend has commented that I'm now on an iPhone. I asked my elderly mom - yes, I previously got her an iPhone before I did, I'm a good son - if I had obtained the magic blue bubbles. She was like "oh yes, I thought something had changed." I am not sexier, thinner or more popular since I suddenly appeared with blue bubbles on iMessage. My own (iPhone-toting) adult daughter didn't mention it. IMO, nobody outside of teenagers care.
"Natural" here doesn't mean naturally occurring. Rape is naturally occurring. Natural here means that you could do it without any interference from another person or to another person. You're born with the ability and need no abstract systems to support your doing so, you need no unwilling participation, all that's required is for people to leave you be. Anything that derives from just your existence and form as a human being that requires no coercion whatsoever is a natural right.

Coercion is naturally occurring. The aspiration is to understand an objective set of ethics that all people, when only considering power over themselves and not power over others, would agree to. There's a reason it was called the enlightenment, it was always about seeing how things should be, not how things are.
I was born in '83 as well but seemed to catch the tail end of it - definitely part of my formative years, with experiences like stumbling upon my first "sex chat bot" at age 11 or 12.

BBS's were also my introduction to MUDs [multi-user domain/dungeon games] as well, though it was only once we got dialup internet at home did I find a copy of CircleMUD to then implement ideas I had for my own MUD I called Fallen Shadows - and where a small community of voluntary contributors to create rooms and mobs formed over a fairly short period; someone even made an awesome ASCII art login page spelling out Fallen Shadows in gothic-like style.
Then a judge gets to decide whether it's enough to infringe the law or not, as is the case in all legal matters (except sometimes that is the role of a jury or arbiter, to be pedantic)

Context is key. IANAL nor a judge, but I think saying "<insert race> is primarily and disproportionately responsible for <insert societal ill>" is a valid statement (i.e. not quote-unquote racist) IF you are saying it in the context of an intellectual discussion, open to providing data to support it, explaining why your comment has a purpose other than just discrimination, etc. etc.
Welcome to the EU, where Apple and a bunch of others at the top are legally mandated to make their messaging interoperable.
In an episode of Flaked, a character says his pin is "one eleven one", and there's something about that being easier to remember than "one one one one".

I will say I think about "one eleven one" all the time, so maybe there's something to that (when I was a kid our house number was "eleven eleven")
This isn't even the first time Cummins has been hit with the largest settlement for emissions controls defeat devices![0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20151002043823/http://www2.epa.g...
VW did it

Renault probably did it

These guys probably did

I think there was a point where regulators said "diesel puts out lung damaging levels of pollutants killing X people a year. We shall either ban diesel engines ... or make manufacturers make diesel engines that don't pollute that badly"

So they set a safe level.

And no manufacturer has been able to achieve the technology to meet that level.

I know some manufacturers claim they can, but honestly that's like a cyclist claiming that they won the Tour De France without drugs. After so many cyclists have been caught (about half since 1990) it's really hard to take the drug free claim seriously - just as it's hard to take the "our diesel engine does it really honestly guv"
line numbers don't exist in assembly?