skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they didn't, because the green was first in 2007, when iPhone only supported SMS. It was 4 years later that iMessage launched. The conversation probably went like:

"Okay well, now that we're launching an alternative to SMS, how will we distinguish iMessage messages from regular SMS messages?"

"Hm, well, SMS messages are green, so what if we picked another color?"

"Yeah okay, blue? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

"Sounds good, mock it up and send it to the engineers"

edit: The reason for picking green originally was probably because all the "communication"-related apps had a green color scheme, including Messages. This persists today — the app icons for Phone, Messages, and FaceTime are all green.
> It's ultimately a kind of lossy statistical compression scheme at some level.

And on this subject, it seems worthwhile to note that compression has never freed anyone from copyright/piracy considerations before. If I record a movie with a cell phone at a worse quality, that doesn't change things. If a book is copied and stored in some gzipped format where I can only read a page at a time, or only read a random page at a time, I don't think that's suddenly fair-use.

Not saying these things are exactly the same as what LLMs do, but it's worth some thought, because how are we going to make consistent rules that apply in one case but not the other?
it's not going to eradicate them, but if you just want your patio clear for an evening thermocell (and the knock-off refills from aliexpress) work great.

removing standing water on your property is a good start, but mosquitoes are a lot more mobile than roaches, so you'll need to do a lot bigger area than a normal residential lot for it to be very effective.
People use “green bubbles” to just mean “no guaranteed delivery or delivery receipts, no read receipts, very low quality image and videos, bad support for reactions, threaded replies, and group chats”.

…the color isn’t the problem. It’s shorthand for the real underlying issues
I think Lockdown would help here since it doesn’t decode message attachments. So the original link in the chain (decoding a PDF) would be impossible.

As for detecting unauthorized apps, I would imagine that once you’ve taken over control of the OS kernel, it’s game over for such software-based restrictions. The Halting theorem guarantees such limitations to any software-based restriction. And as long as you can form a Turing complete mechanism from pieces of the computer, such software limitations will apply.
I don't know the answer but I did find their Beanie Babies exploit entertaining:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38227823
First, Parens was a part of "OSI" and their point was to make "free software" amenable to business. It's just a bit much on the nose to now see him annoyed at the results.

I don't know anything on "post-open", but some of the article sounds like he wants something like what ASCAP is to the music industry.

About redhat... the moment redhat went "enterprise" with RHEL is the point when they stopped being publicly friendly with their "enterprise" patches (remember when patches in the srpm became obfuscated... pepperidge farms remembers) and servers.
I don't see a problem as long as there's taxation.

Look at SpaceX. They paid a collective $0 to the individuals who discovered all the physics and engineering knowledge. Without that knowledge they're nothing. But still, aren't we all glad that SpaceX exists?

In exchange for all the knowledge that SpaceX is privatizing, we get to tax them. "You took from us, so we get to take it back with tax."

I think the more important consideration isn't fairness it's prosperity. I don't want to ruin the gravy train with IP and copyright law. Let them take everything, then tax the end output in order to correct the balance and make things right.
Previously discovered in June of 2023

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767041/tesla-hacker-elo...
singlefile extension ( I also use a save to PDF extension to save replica of the page for what are high value articles for me. Such as Fireshot and or GoFullPage . These just ones I use, there may be better "savetoPDF" extensions )
A human faces the same restriction, if it provides commercial services on the internet creating code that is a copy of copyrighted code.
Thanks for the heads up about QuickLogic. hdn't heard of them yet.
We Were Once Masters of the Air: It's High Time to Restore US Air Power
- Alexa, what's a New York Times?

- There's no such thing as New York Times.
Here's my serious answer that still works if you hate Apple.

Your question assumes two things: (1) That Apple intentionally leaves vulnerabilities in the stack, and (2) that Tim Apple is occasionally willing to share this candy with governments.

Having worked at Apple, I don't believe (1) can be true. Not only is it extremely unlikely that it could be kept a secret, but Apple's thing is "obsessive control", a mindset borne of organizational PTSD which originated with its near-death experience in the mid-to-late 90s. The Apple I know would not risk intentionally leaving back doors unlocked for enemies to find and leverage.

As for (2), the existence of a "Binder of Vulns" by nation-states would expose Apple to existential risk. It's possible that it could be kept secret within Apple's walls if it were never used, but once shared with a government it could not be contained. The splash damage of such a discovery could easily kill Apple.
His episode on sleep is also excellent.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953...
It's really a pity they explain all the mistakes that helped the malware be detected.
Fair, but finding new antibiotics then becomes trivial.
Ask HN: Why is my web server being attacked?
I run a small Web server. It's a vanity project, very low traffic - less than 50 pages served per day. Strictly HTML - no CGI, no PHP, nothing. For the past couple of weeks the server has been the target of a SYN Flood attack. Also very low volume - 100-150 SYN packets (with forged IP addresses) received per hour. I have all the usual mitigations in place and the attack is not affecting the server. However, I am curious why it's being attacked. I have not received any "ransom" email, the server does not host anything that is even mildly controversial and the forged IP addresses are always different and from all over the world so I'm not being used to flood some other server. Can anyone suggest a purpose for this attack?
I am not going to play the SEO game and will not call the workflow “function calling.”

Such restraint! The phrase "function calling" appears in the article only 15 times :)
Nothing in the article suggests it magically stopped at the border.
>"If Apple succeeds in either way, they will be able to draw out the litigation long enough for a full hardware redesign in the Apple Watch 10."

Can they still be sued for the damages caused even if they come up with total redesign?
espionage != stealing

the existence of a patent that another company copied is by definition stealing.
until further litigation occurs and changes this decision, it is a fact Apple stole this technology

why they can't ever show a little humility and pay up in royalties is just ridiculous. remember, they didn't even want to pay artists for the music they gave away when launching Apple Music until a Very Big Deal named Taylor Swift told them to GTFO.
so this blog is subsidizing criminals, yay
Copyright isn't what got in the way here. AI could have negotiated a license agreement with the rights holder. But they chose not to.
Already exists.

https://www.cdw.com/product/siig-4-port-roaming-km-switch-wi...
This statement ignores that fact that often, or too often, LLMs just regurgitate the training data. Direct reproduction is not a derivative work.
It feels like occasional people have to be reminded of consequences.

Otherwise polio, measles and the like are still as dangerous as they ever were and are ready to make their big return if vaccination rates drop too much. I'm certain even small pox is lurking somewhere out there.

It seems like, unfortunately, humanities book of learned lessons gets reprinted in pain and suffering once in a while.
Sex, Lies, and Optimizing Utility
It wasn’t one kid. It was an international group of at least three people (known so far), and likely more.

Yeah. If you keep your gold in a glass box, don’t be surprised when someone with a hammer steals it. But also, stealing things just because they aren’t locked up, and blaming the victim is no way to run a society.
If you watch a bunch of movies then go on to make your own movie based on influence from these movies, you are protected even if you have mentally compressed them into your own movie. At some point, you can learn, be influenced and be inspired from copyrighted material (not copyright infringement), and at some point you are just making a poor copy of the material (definitely copyright infringement). LLMs are probably still at the latter case than the former, but eventually AI will reach the former case.
> In the Desktop Linux ecosystem the added 'security' by Wayland is indeed marginal when every app can access the whole filesystem.

That's no longer the case with flatpak apps, which are gradually becoming more popular; some of them might still have access to the whole filesystem, but most of them are limited to sharing nothing or at most a couple of specific directories.
how is the naming convention a patent-scheme? I am unfamiliar with this idea
Just because they asked for forgiveness instead of asking first for permission, it's original sins will not be erased :-)

"Google Agrees to Pay Canadian Media for Using Their Content" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/world/americas/google-can...
No, Lockdown Mode doesn't disable iMessage.

"Most message attachments are blocked and some features are unavailable."

iMessage with blue bubbles still works in Lockdown Mode. I think GIFs don't display properly and certain other attachments, but I can share photos, audio clips and video so I otherwise don't really notice that Lockdown Mode is enabled.
There's a fundamental category error at play here: exploit chains like this one and the one behind FORCEDENTRY[1] cost millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars to discover and weaponize, even before operationalization.

The people finding and building these chains are doing so as part of nation-state intelligence operations; they go well beyond what any reasonable civilian threat model contains.

Put another way: if someone in a competent nation state's IC decides that you're worth $10+ million dollars to compromise, they are going to get you. This is true whether you have an Android, an iPhone, or a Tamagotchi. The only thing that sets Apple apart here is that they've historically beaten Google to the punch on mitigations for these kinds of exploits. But from a threat modeling perspective, this attack is not comparable to the kind that most people have to deal with. Treating it as indicative of an overall security differentiator will not help you make ordinary security decisions, because anybody who gets this kind of attention will be Mossad'ed upon[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORCEDENTRY

[2]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
I have a bunch of guns. They’re all fun to shoot.

But damn, if I need to choose one to use when it matters, it’s always going to be a Glock. They just always work, every time.
That reminds me of the plots of certain Seinfeld episodes where George or Kramer combine life functions that would normally be kept separate.
I was actually just talking about this yesterday!

That schedule I'd read about was the Überman schedule, where you sleep 20-30 minutes six times a day. Definitely a much more extreme form than most polyphasic sleep schedules. :)

I read a series of blog posts about it, probably around the same time as you did, and found them again [1] last night. I didn't actually read through it again, but if anyone's interested in reading more about someone's firsthand experience with it, could be a good classic read.

[1] https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Or bash. Or python.
Yes, I was going for algorithmic complexity instead of real-world speed since algorithmic complexity is better to demonstrate the contrast of prompt engineering.

I just ran some tests to engineer the prompt for CPU utilization: even GPT-4 does the standard Pythonic approach but does recognize "This solution is very efficient because it uses Python's built-in string slicing, which is implemented in C and is therefore very fast."
I think I have better things to do than parse vague innuendo like that.
GitHub Copilot supports that:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/configuring-github-copilo...

Given how cheap text search is compared with LLM inference, and that GitHub reuses the same infrastructure for its code search, I doubt it adds more than 1% to the total cost.
The Call, Episode 809 of This American Life touched me deeply. It's an hour of radio I'll never forget.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call
That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t theft of their content. The internet would be a very different place if creator compensation and low friction micropayments were some of the first principles. Instead we’re left with ads as the only viable monetization model and clickbait/misinformation as a side effect.
It's on the Internet. That's the only reason.
> With "cores to spare" in modern Moore's law scaling, I should be able to have several OSes seamlessly running at once, not the virtualbox stuff or other clunkiness, a much more seamless experience. There's a lot of hardware/CPU features to support it, but of course the OS vendors/distros have no prioritization to do something like that. It's also a fundamental failing of IoT.

No. The hardware features that allow running multiple OS's at once is what VirtualBox/QEMU/HyperV/Xen/etc. use, and those feature require a privileged OS to manage it.

The hardware does not support having multiple OS's manage the machine at once - even if they could be made to run, they'd step on each other and make hardware crash as they all try to configure it differently at the same time, and with them all in ring 0 they'd be able to arbitrarily compromise each other. Plus, you'd be annoyed that each of, say, 3 OS's could only use 1/3rd of all resources - 16 cores and 64 GB of RAM may seem like lot, but 5 cores and 21 GB of RAM does not.

It's a dumb idea. Just get a better OS, a better hypervisor, better "fastboot to other OS" features (say, 1-5 seconds "hibernate and resume other OS"), or another desktop.
>What incredible design did he invent

Cop love. Thug love.

The glock made the gun, an arguably rudimentary mechanical contraction, relatively speaking, sexy, high-tech/futuristic and TACTICAL COUTURE was made a thing - then you have 5.11 - and the ramp up with all sorts of other tacctical couture lifestyle brands (triple aught, etc) Now you have tactical couture coffee in Black Rifle (which ads a veneer of "giving back" to the tactically couture marketing siphon that occurs in all industries...(the marketing siphon is in all industries)

Recall when Robo Cop came out and Ford did the placement of the Ford Taurus as the cop car in RoboCop - it made it look 'futuristic, yet based in reality.

All of a sudden the ford Taurus entered the police wardrobe.

(Have you noticed that police talk about lack of funds, low pay, and have robocallers asking for donations, yet you've never seen a dirty, old police cruiser of any sort.

They rock brand new ford whatevers all the time.

For every explorer/expedition style made, like 30% of the yield of those lines go to LEO.

@zikduruqe

Yeah that was a part of my point.
Testing your defenses?
We changed a million things about our environment and a couple of those things turned out to be important.
There are different aspects of security here. iMessage is tied to a physical device, so if you want to spam people, you have to purchase and burn through iPhones.

Rate limiting phishing attacks is certainly a useful security feature, but it does nothing to protect against targeted attacks.
> Humans have different rights than computer software

Fortunately, the computer isn't the one being sued.

Instead it is the humans who use the computer. And those humans maintain their existing rights, even if they use a computer.
I don’t view LLMs as a fad. It’s like drummers and drum machines. Machines and drummers co-exist really well. I think drum machines, among other things, made drummers better.
That jumped out at me as well -- the parallels (and political alignments) are unmistakeable. We see the same today with the current plague.
I'd guess at most they have 5x more data, but it is probably nowhere near that, and the article says 100,000x more data is needed.
A true innovative disruptor: a plastic handle and curtain rod maker (?) tried to make weapons for the Austrian army and won. He greatly affected urban warfare in the 90s bringing cheap accurate weapons with easier triggers to the masses.
I'm upvoting you, because I think it is a legit question.

He didn't invent striker fired pistols, or the use of polymer construction, but it was the Glock that took it from an oddball design, to 80%+ marketshare. Before the Glock, and it was a totally different world; heavy steel double and single action hammer fired pistols. Glock turned that upside down. He was amazingly influential. Maybe not as an inventor, but as a designer/engineer.
> My impression of the whole debacle is that Masimo hired up a bunch of smart people, they invented this tech while being paid next-to-nothing by Masimo (as Masimo didn’t have the product development chops to actually bring anything to market)

Your impression that Masimo "doesn't have product development chops to bring anything to market" is ... odd, considering Masimo is a nearly 40 year old company which has devices in most of the hospitals I see as a paramedic bringing patients in, and $2B a year in revenue.

> Apple tried to acquire Masimo, their CEO tried to play hard to get

Masimo stated in court - and Apple never challenged it - that their discussions were around partnership and licensing and tech. I have no idea where your claim that Masimo is just hurt/offended that they weren't "acquired by Apple". I can't even imagine why Masimo would be an acquisition target for Apple - there's an entire world of difference between personal healthcare and the world of ICUs, ORs and ERs that Masimo mostly plays in.

Their "Root" devices are actually some of the nicer ones I've used in healthcare - https://www.masimo.com/products/continuous/root/

There's definitely an undercurrent in a lot of these threads to paint Apple as being attacked by a patent troll.
And to add to that - there's no harm in allowing the sale of these devices to continue, because if the court upholds the ruling then Apple could always be sued for damages during that time(and there is no risk that Apple would not be able to pay it).
There was SCGI too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Common_Gateway_Interfac...
(Disclaimer: This is not at all meant as a negative against Tutanota/ProtonMail/et all.)

```We have included a conclusion that Swiss Privacy laws are good, and very similar to German privacy laws.```

This is weird to me in that these are laws of man, and therefore ignorable or lopphole-able by other humans if they can. Usually, by sneaky buggers in the intelligence agencies. It is, after all, their job.

Rather, I would want the standard to be something akin `Our laws do not force weakening of efforts to establish and maintain privacy.` which is to mean no meddling in E2EE, forcing VPN providers to keep logs, etc.
The world you’re hoping for will put all AI tech only within the hands of the established top 10 media entities, who traditionally have never compensated fairly anyway.

Sorry but if that’s the alternative to some writers feeling slighted, I’ll choose for the writers to be sad and the tech to be free.
the model numbers are the last two digits of the patent number.

it's dumb and confusing but not a scheme in that sense
Wonder why the legend didn't include a string as it's how I seen experimental guns tested.
The difference here is that Adobe is selling a set of tools that can recreate copyrighted work from the ground up. The Mona Lisa being previously incorporated into their tools is not a foundational necessity for their paintbrush to brush digital paint.

The same is not true for AI, which require copyrighted work be contained therein, in order for the tool part to function.
a particular form of automatic pistol, for one.

his list of patents is pretty impressive.[0]

[0]: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/gaston-glock?page=2
I don’t share your optimism. The US was historically the land of opportunity, though often at the expense of imperialism, violent coupes, and endless wars. With the rise of non traditional/mainstream medias, younger generations see themselves economically imprisoned and can see through the cracks of an elite class that prioritizes its own financial interests above all else.

I hope I am wrong, but the establishment politicians see this danger. Tik Tok is a clear example - the anti Israel narrative, which was never tolerated in the mainstream press, is gaining more and more momentum. Congressional leaders, their financial backers, and Presidential candidates are all advocating some kind of ban or suppression of Tik Tok. And this is merely one example among so many divisive politics in the US.

I don’t think the younger generations will just roll over if you offer them cheap TVs, iPhones, or cheaper Big Macs. Something drastic has to happen.
I think he is referring to them as separate shortfalls. not a single unit.

EDIT - I was wrong.
What an interesting read! Fascinating to see how the theory was conceived, tested, and put into practice -- and all that in the backdrop of other approaches, even with the spectre of iodine as a poison!
Where on the doll did software eng. evangelism hurt you?
My thoughts about software engineering evangelism best practices

It is mostly about stuff like SOLID having 10s of interpretations and confusing principles that require years of xp to make sense (you realize that they're just poorly written)
> Pausing the ban during appeals seems generally reasonable. After all, the point of there being an appeal is that the case isn't actually settled yet, so leaving the status quo in place until it is seems less-harmful overall. Possibly with some kind of clawback requirement for if the appeal fails.

How many levels of appeal should this apply to?