skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that...doesn't work.

Sure, if Apple wanted to, they could implement some kind of layer over SMS, using "hidden" characters sent with each message, that would let it act as if it has features like typing notifications and reactions. I'm...not 100% sure whether they could do the same with E2EE between iPhones, but let's say for the sake of argument they could.

That still doesn't change the situation between iPhones and Android phones. In fact, it makes it worse, because SMSes to Android phones would have all this garbage in them—but the main point is that Apple can't add any of that stuff to SMS between iPhones and non-iPhones.

Apple does not control the featureset of SMS.
Sorry yes I should have been more clear and I think I am agreeing with you. I was saying that most people just come up with a thought and retroactively apply "logic" to it so they feel like they've reasoned themselves there. A select few people rigorously apply logic and then follow that to whatever conclusion it leads to. We call these people scientists but honestly in my experience even many scientists can fall into the first camp.
https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/wits-2024#event-overview for a text list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Hypnagogic hallucinations are common. They're most intense for me when I'm falling asleep in a very quiet room. You don't need a source of noise for this.
Garmin smartwatches are functional. Some of them include functionality that isn't even available in Apple watches. But in other areas they are deficient. It really depends on what you're looking for.
They incubated some positive stuff as well.
> That seems like a bold claim that there's no way to compete. I can see the argument that no one can make that better product because of Apple's locked APIs and internal carve outs

So you agree? Apple does limit the available APIs. Just because a bunch of companies can make charging cables does not prove isn’t being anticompetitive. Cases and cables are the part of the market Apple can’t control.
Advanced Functional Programming in Haskell – Graham Hutton
From wiki:

"On June 3, 2021, United Airlines announced they had signed an agreement to purchase 15 Overture aircraft with an additional 35 options, expecting to start passenger flights by 2029.[14][15] On August 16, 2022, American Airlines announced an agreement to purchase 20 Overture aircraft with an additional 40 options.[16]"

later on...

"On December 13, 2022, Boom announced that it would develop its own turbofan engine after "Big Three" engine manufacturers Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric, as well as CFM and Safran previously declined to develop a new engine due to high capital costs.[29][30][31][32] Named Symphony, (see § Engines below) the engine will be developed under partnership with three entities: Kratos subsidiary Florida Turbine Technologies for engine design; StandardAero for maintenance; and General Electric subsidiary GE Additive for consulting on printing components.[33]"

So not only do they think they are going to finish designing, prototyping, testing, certifying, and moving to production an entirely new aircraft, they also think they are going to design a brand new engine, that the big three didn't think made sense and also get it through all those efforts? All in the next 5 years?

If it doesn't come to anything, which seems likely, atleast it sounds like a fun way to spend lots of money.
In the late 90s early 00s I got the feeling there was alot of (and I myself self made some) random encounter pen pals. Like in "Hi whats up where are you from?". The real people to scammer ratio seemed way different back then.

But ye, if someone texts me on some chat service nowadays and it is a stranger I assume it is a scam.
Two things are true at once:

1. Apple products work very well with one another

2. Apple products don't work very well (or at all) with non-Apple products

I would propose that these are both necessary entailments of the same principle, whose articulation we owe to, of all people, Martin Heidegger, the early-twentieth-century German phenomenologist. In _The Question Concerning Technology_ he called this 'referral', and it's present in all forms of tech, and the degree of referral increases with the complexity of the tech. For example, a fountain pen 'refers' to an inkwell. The more efficiently the fountain pen fits the inkwell -- the less _waste_ there is in the design of the inkwell and the pen -- the _less likely_ it is that another pen can use the same inkwell. (This is my example, not Heidegger's; also, I'm not sure if he noticed that referral increases with complexity -- it's been a couple decades since I read the QCT.)

Designs that optimize for interchangeability and multi-part sourcing are _intrinsically wasteful_ -- for example, your Electron app runs slowly because it uses several elaborate engines (Blink, V8) that in turn rely on protocols that are also in some sense wasteful (they aren't binary; they aren't protobufs, etc.).

Now, wasteful doesn't mean _bad_, but I propose that in some high-complexity fields where the envelope is being aggressively pushed (e.g. creating new market categories, like 'biometric, account-interlinked, phone-finding, app-running smartwatch'[^1]) it may be a tradeoff that is rejected by the market.

Further thinking:

Suppose that complexity necessarily increases over time (the Complexity Ratchet -- a persuasive theory I tend to endorse.) If this implies that Referral is always increasing, and does this imply that we are moving asymptotically towards a point where the amount of 'waste' necessary for competition is simply incompatible with the requirements of what is being engineered? This would imply that there is a level of technological complexity after which we lose the substantial benefits of free markets, as competition becomes impossible. I need to think about this more.

[^1] Yes, I know Fitbit got to 'smartwatch' first, but I'd argue that the Apple Watch is a tremendous advance over Fitbit, which is why they are preferred.
Users, Tools, Platforms, and the Shifting Goals of Software
I spent some time working with the Garmin API. The watch I used delivered extremely accurate workout recordings to my Android phone.
Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
Plenty of people around the world have legitimate needs to travel via airplane. Think about the millions of immigrants in USA with family abroad. Tech to better connect the world is worth celebrating.
Also, VAT
Well…Suppose I wrote an optimizer which could—-perhaps as some kind of return-value optimization, determine that we didn’t even need to construct such an object, but we instead could just pass along the values to the caller?

If I never had to create the virtual table, would it be a violation of the spec if I didn’t do it?

We are so good at handling ambiguity that we don’t even notice its existence most of the time. But specs, especially specs which specify the semantics of an expression—are infinitely ambiguous as to how to that expression is actually calculated.

Ideally, the spec, for c++ or another language is deliberately made ambiguous, just because it leaves room for creative interpretations—-also known as “optimizations”.
The antitrust case against Apple
Except that anyone who has tried to build custom apps for Garmin, knows that the ecosystem is a mess. Monkey C, just isn't good. Their API's are unstable, data transfers from apps on the watch to a phone are problematic at best.

Sure apple could have likely brought the baseline functionality of Apple watch to Android, however apps would have likely been much much more complicated, and are a key part of apple watch.
Yeah, some incremental improvements on existing technology for sure. Definitely worth that credit.
And, of course, being a film school movie by George Lucas if I recall correctly.
I was with you until the last sentence. Your train trip that crosses two continental divides is still going to take you more than a day. Even a "spare no expense" rail project isn't going to make that cross-country trip palatable for most travelers.
Also baked into the Linux kernel.
The statement, from macintux, was "End to end encryption can only be guaranteed if you control both ends.".

The question, from tomrod, was "How does PGP solve this?"

Nothing to do with iMessage. I was answering a specific question on a tangent thread. If you want to argue with me about iMessage, go to one of the posts I've made about that on this article. This thread is about PGP.
Yet still based on GE J85 turbojet https://www.hermeus.com/chimera
The question always for the user is, do they want a crash or a ride? :)
One-step image-to-image with Stable Diffusion Turbo: sketch2image, day2night
Check out live sketch2image demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/gparmar/img2img-turbo-sketch
Enter a prompt and start drawing!
(works best on a tablet/ipad)
I was disappointed by the video. I was expecting more.
I'll admit that I didn't give much care about having a perfect and unique name. It's just a simple tool.
Yes. I scrolled and found it by chance: "Simply put, your brain is trying to figure out what it’s hearing, so it’s filling in the gaps of the noise you’re listening to with a common sound."

Cmd+f found no mention of AM radio in there, which is another possible explanation for hearing voices or music in those machines. If I were hearing that, I wouldn't appreciate this article telling me it's in my head.
ILS generally still requires manual visual approaches from the minimum altitude to the ground. Only ILS Cat III-C is a true autoland that can take the aircraft down all the way to the ground.

Even then, aircraft certification requirements even for Cat III-C capable aircraft requires that pilots be able to conduct a visual approach because the ILS system can fail.

An aircraft that has literally no recourse when ILS Cat III-C capability goes down (either on the aircraft side or the airfield side) does not seem like a good idea, especially because in this case large categories of emergencies are positively correlated with avionics failure.

For example an engine failure may cause power loss to avionics, so your fancy AR webcam feed is more likely to go down in that situation just when you need to make an emergency landing.

Not impossible to overcome of course - you certainly can ensure your avionics have its own isolated (and multiply redundant) power source so that it does stay up in the event of many kinds of emergencies, but personally I'd need to really see the homework on that before I'd feel safe flying in that kind of setup.
Noise is a valid complaint but where these planes will really shine is oceanic flights, USA to Japan, Australia, Singapore are 3 routes mostly over ocean or uninhabited areas that could use the reduced travel time.
Yep, Paris CDG has a small version of this (high speed trains only, but this allows for connections between planes and rail to be made) which is getting expanded with a link to the regional network of the region right to the north of the airport.
>People keep calling it "next next token predictors", but clearly there is something more going on and I would love for someone to give a simple explanation.

Next token prediction is the objective function.
The model is asked to predict the next word yes but it's also allowed to compute the answer and more importantly, the entire training process is supposed to be the model learning and figuring out what sort of computations aid the prediction of the corpus it's trained on.

If your corpus is language A followed by the translation in Language B then there's little choice but for the model to learn computations that translate as loss goes down.

Is your corpus is chess moves then again, it's going to have to learn how to compute chess games to reduce loss.

You can see this with toy models trained on toy problems. Example - a tiny transformer trained on addition examples - x + y = z learning an algorithm for addition.

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neura...

"Pick the right word" is not a trivial exercise for the vast majority of text data.

And again because people often make this mistake but a LLMs ultimate objective is NOT to produce "text that looks right" but "text that is right". Of course "right" as determined by the training corpus but basically anytime it picks a wrong word is opportunity for the model to learn and learn it does.
Re-read your comment. Trying to claim it’s anything but “Apple fanboys so dumb, hur hur” isn’t credible. That’s the entire post that you made. Parent read it correctly. You’re trolling.
Government literally forced Microsoft to make their products interoperable in a previous antitrust case from 2001. The defendant didn't attempt a 1st Amendment argument.
Can't speak for the ones in this article but they're doing similar in the pacific northwest and many of the dams where built to locally control flooding, but other newer dams further upstream ended up handling the flood prevention better over what were previously multiple dams so there's lots of old dams that have effectively sat unused & blocking fish & wildlife on the river while also providing no benefit.
The only problem Apple can't solve is compatibility.
Probably shouldn’t put the throttle to 100% on a brand new airplane.
I actually thought parent made a very valid point, not to throw stones at OP, this is good execution congratulations, this tech isn't that tough to build for a company like Zapier and you are right that it already offers a mature set of workflows.

We are at "spray and pray" phase of this AI/LLM bubble. Very good insight.
That's my point; this isn't the first time that Williams have been under-prepared at the start of the season, it just may be the first time it's visibly affected their race entry.
> I could see the US government getting involved for nationalism purposes if China starts

If only that inspired the US to build high-speed rail.
I have an air purifier next to my bed that creates a pretty loud white noise-like sound

Whenever I’m tired - which is practically every night these days (8 month old baby) - I end up hearing distant music from the air purifier

I find it rather soothing.
> build a f%@#$ train.

Until someone creates an incident on said train, and then suddenly you have to do the TSA dance at train stations too.
I’m not sure what Android has to do with consumers that limit themselves to the Apple ecosystem, based on the enforced belief that only Apple products work together. Of course you can switch to the Android ecosystem but how easy is it to do that and transfer everything over? You act like there aren’t huge limitations to what you’re suggesting a consumer should do.
Interesting -- we've definitely been building only on top of APIs. We've looked at automated form filling in the past, so it's something we're thinking about.
The lawsuit alleges Apple uses their control over iOS to push users away from Android compatible watches to Apple Watches. Specifically, by adding restrictions to third party watches that don't apply to Apple Watches.

The DOJ views this as a way to deter iPhone users from switching phones. To do so they would need to buy a new watch.

They reference an Apple VP who wrote Apple Watches, "may prevent iPhone customers from
switching.”
Every dam is different...but if a dam has a small reservoir capacity (perhaps partly due to lack of maintenance - so what looks like water behind the dam is mostly accumulated silt), a narrow range of control (the water level is not much different between "flood gates fully closed" and "flood gates fully open", local-only manual controls (vs. pushing a button at National Flood Control HQ), and other issues - then it's actually of little use for those.
any idea why postgis hasn't formally incorporated S2 cell functions? It seems like it'd be right up their alley.
Show HN: AI-backed App security for deterministic incident detection/analysis
After the acquisition of the last security startup, I got kinda sick of selling Zero Trust when what we can deliver is so far from that ideal of ‘least privilege’ security. So over the last couple years I wrote a new kind of Web/API security tool that detects breaches and other incidents deterministically so true positive alerts outweigh false positives by orders of magnitude.

Combined with AI analysis of the data it collects, it can act as an application-wide incident debugger for security teams. One Security Engineering Mgr. who saw it said:

“Caber can build the call graphs for a given user so that a security investigator can easily see the sequence of events leading up to the authorization failure. It is certainly worth exploring.”

I’ve been bootstrapping this effort but now that the demo is live, I’m looking forward to hearing what you all here think.

Note: Because it’s designed to install into a customer’s AWS application environment, automated deployment/removal is part of the demo. You’ll need to approve an IAM role for the product to demo it. That means I have to ask you to create an account so it can store that credential securely. I suggest creating a test account to run it. Compute costs should be no more than $2 for an hour.

If you’d like to see it in action, a demo video is at https://vimeo.com/923537694

Demo is at https://caber.com (click ‘Try Demo’ at the top of the page)

— Rob
https://github.com/caborabo
Flying faster is fundamentally less efficient and thus worse for the environment.
That tech exists already. Those immigrants don't need/can't afford supersonic travel.
And that's the most confortable way, there are even cheaper alternatives like the Keisei line.
Apple AirTag firmware accidental deployment due to 24
Dams are terrible for the environment(generally poison everything with methyl mercury), and in many cases aren't even that green, since they produce a lot of methane (dam water goes down in summer, that area growns plants, fills up in winter, plants then decompose in an anaerobic environment, producing methane). Depending on the size of the lakes this can be a very large area, ie: big hydro dams in Quebec/BC. There's been research to show one hydro dam produces more greenhouse gases than an equivalently sized coal plant in Brazil.
Pretty sure we have decent anti fungals now, how are you going to administer it to all the frogs though?
I used to live above a Japanese bar in the centre of Melbourne, Australia. It was a busy street in a busy part of town. (Robot, for the locals.)

Of course this place was sold, both to renters and buyers, as ‘hip’, it was ‘the inner-city lifestyle’, it was ‘everything on your doorstep’.

And yet the neighbours. My god what cretins. Noise! On a weekend! They couldn’t bear it.

I think it should be flat-out forbidden to complain about noise if the thing you’re complaining about existed when you arrived.
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You don't say? I know more than one bar that was shut down after someone moved in above it with the explicit warning that it is a bar.

Noise is killer, even if you don't think it is. A well rested adult will not have any problems stomaching a single noisy night. But if every night is noisy you are going to fall apart after a while. Dosis making poisons etc. On a related note, sexism is bad for a similar reason. It is not about one asshole making one comment, once. What makws it bad is getting those constantly and from all kind of directions.

I once lived next to a main road and when I moved after a few years, the first night in a silent room felt like someone had lifted a sack of bricks from my chest. And I play in a rock band, so not the noise averse type.
I don't think DOJ is arguing that. Their argument seems to be that Apple isn't supporting Android. Providing an api is different from actively supporting another platform. API would usually be agnostic.

Also, couldn't Apple make a first amendment argument?
Sigh, I miss that show.
Though initially resistant, they were incentivized to do so with the ipod which acted as a "gateway drug" for people to switch to macs.

it's hard to believe anyone buys an iphone to get access to the watch, but if your watch is easier to use than your phone the incentive could run the other way
I never called Apple consumers dumb. You should reread the comment, maybe go for a walk and chill out. You’re trolling by claiming there’s some sort of malicious intent. I’m sure Apple thanks you for your loyal downvotes and agitation at any criticism though.
What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?
Well that behavior is both stupid and contagious ;)
A bit sensational, but adaptation and mitigation practices are necessary.

- Greatly increased drinking water storage capacity.

- Significantly more storm drainage and storm surge protection.

- More organized mass evacuation plans and more robust shelters for stronger storms.

- Build new structures partially underground for wind and forest fire resistance.

- Don't rebuild in high risk areas.

- Insurance and government compensation should cover homes leaning into the ocean or built on unstable hillsides.

- CCS using carbonates and oceanic biomass, investing up to $20 trillion USD.

- Expanded use of greenhouses and indoor factory farming.

- Beyond net zero, get to net negative.

- Desalination expansion in areas with water scarcity, including long distance water transfer to drying areas such as Arizona.

Since the scientific models have been too conservative, it's prudent to plan for the possibilities of storms approaching the strength and size of a hypothetical hypercane.
Have you ever taken hallucinogens?
>Tetris effect

>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

>They may see colored images of pieces falling into place on an invisible layout at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes

Interesting, I work as an agronomist and get this if I’ve been scouting for some problem that requires special focus to find, like cutworms, for prolonged periods of time. I’ll get faint images of them when I close my eyes.

Not disturbing in the slightest, I just knew I’d been hard at it.
I don't know why you wouldn't ascribe the last decade of China's fist-tightening to Xi, unless you think that all autocrats must inevitably behave so.

Xi could have left the country quasi-free, but he didn't. If you're talking about China's slump, talking about Xi is unavoidable.
It's not too far-fetched, I think. Apple could have collaborated with Google and car OEMs to standardize an open interface for smartphone-car communication. Instead, we have two APIs that essentially do the same thing in every car OS.
You might be surprised. High speed rail isn't always about trips where you need a lot of luggage, and cargo bikes are popular in places with good bike infrastructure.

Of course, the number of places with actually "good" bike infrastructure isn't very high. There's the Netherlands...and that's about it. And even the Netherlands doesn't really have "great" bike infrastructure as a standard (though it does have it in some places).
I feel quite differently about this kind of startup. Multiple incumbents show that it's a large enough market to support additional players, and the incumbents often have restrictions on their behavior that a new company can avoid. Finding a new niche can lead to competing with the "big boys" with a fraction of their overhead.
> It was a pretty common urban planning concept for a large city to have one airport devoted mostly or entirely to domestic flights, and one mostly or entirely for international flights.

Which, like urban highways, really doesn't make a sense in most cases if one spends a few minutes thinking about it. And especially doesn't make sense for an airport whose main traffic is connecting international and domestic flights.

Urban planners in many places in the 1950-1990 time were... special. Blindly copying bullshit that didn't make sense originally and definitely didn't make sense in their city.