skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confusing several things.

About your query example, (F)HE never claimed to be secure against leaked information inherent to the query. This is more the resort of privacy, which is tackled by differential privacy researchers (and as such has nothing to do with FHE). Naturally you can put differential privacy on top of FHE but we're not there yet. The biggest problem here is that crypto is not magic: in your example, NO system can truthfully answer to the question without leaking the only male's grade, crypto or not. So maybe you'll restrict the system to run the query only when there are at least two male students. But then you're still leaking info to me if I'm the second student, and so on. Wanting crypto being able to do this kind of job is equivalent to wanting cars able to go fast anywhere anytime but that should never crash into a tree at more than 5 km/h: if you can go fast anywhere, you can go fast into a tree. Sad but true.

About the ability to subtract and compare, I don't understand what you are talking about, could you explain it?

About ECB, I mean, yeah, everyone in crypto knows ECB is insecure, this is stream cypher 101 and equivalent to "ROT13 is not secure, do not use it for crypto". But this has nothing to do with FHE.

Keeping track of time is a side-channel attack. Nothing to do with FHE in particular, it's common to all crypto. Most crypto libraries are secure against timing attacks, as it is one of the most obvious side-channel attack. FHE libraries will hopefully be too, just give them time. Also I think FHE is by nature more resilient to timing attacks as it must natively implement simultaneous computation of if/else branches, for instance.

Long story short, yeah, crypto is insanely hard to implement correctly. When your problem is well-defined (first difficulty), you must find the good tools (second difficulty), with the correct security parameters (3rd), and implement them correctly: no bugs (4th) and no side-channel attacks (5th). That's the reason why the first rule of crypto is "don't write your own crypto".
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> Google already offered 24/7 support for paying business users with a G Suite account, but this is the first time it actively offers live support for consumers.

About fucking time.

I know so many people who will never purchase another Google product because it's was literally impossible to get another human being on the other end of the line.
Or you might find yourself in another human body just like you found yourself in this one, having to live with the consequences of the past.
Again, this is like saying that BEAST isn't really about TLS, because you need a particular combination of client features to exploit it. The two attacks are almost exactly analogous in this respect. But PGP has a cheering section, and TLS doesn't.
I like to imagine that the people that get annoyed with poor iconography are the same people that use Vim and other esoteric software.

Instead of commenting on google's design, we could be commenting on software that isn't proprietary, closed source and anti-consumer, with access provided for free solely to enable data mining and maximise ad revenue.
There's also the intel optimization manuals.
Sometimes as I take out my trash I consider how much of the landfill I personally contribute to. I mentally picture the bag containing plastics (especially packaging from shipping) joining all my other bags, and it's a terrifying amount.
You probably meant “No [it’s not wrong for you to get uncomfortable], because...”
What about keyboard or touch users that don't exactly have a "hover" equivalent?
I think you make a good point, but there's a big difference between the amount of waste produced and the amount of waste that makes it into the natural environment, as opposed to a recycling center or dedicated landfill. Just because developed countries are producing more waste does not mean that they are contributing more waste to the bottom of the ocean. (I am not suggesting that we should not all aim to produce less waste and handle what waste we do produce better.)
I've been a "techie" as long as I can remember, and truly believe in the potential of tech to make the world a better place. I put no stock in the AI fear-mongering "summoning the demon" stuff, and harbor only modest concerns about the long-term danger of "technological unemployment."

But this... this is the thing that gets me questioning if human nature is just so broken that creating newer and better tech really is a net negative for the world. This kind of story is the one thing that makes me want to wash my hands of the whole lot of it, embrace anarcho-primitivism and go live in a shack in the woods in Montana or something.

Depressing doesn't even start to describe this stuff.
If every participant is online and all messages are public, then only a majority vote is necessary, as time itself becomes exclusive (only earlier votes matter). There's no need for PoW here.

For participants that join later both PoW and PoS are probabilistic, but PoS can be much better: if everyone has to vote the maximum possible classical security is 1-of-n, ie. one eternally honest party exists in all past blocks, so no attacker can obtain 100%, ever. This model can stall but it can't lie.

The 100% model is not practical and by itself requires everyone to be online, but for some m in m-of-n, it is. Another variable is how long do the honest assumption must hold: it's relatively easy to construct a scheme that makes honesty for eg. four months nearly certain.

Combined with the fact that money is inherently a social thing, it works. It's not an abstract consensus for people in bunkers, but people that want to interact. So if you return after a long time, it's enough to check in several places that accept a specific cryptocurrency what chain is wanted by them.
That's not exactly accurate. The government has gone after and shut down prediction markets before. They made an agreement with PredictIt not to, but PredictIt's $850 limit was apparently a big factor in that.

I hadn't heard of IEM before. Not sure what's up with that.
They certainly would've had better nutrition than most people - as I recall from reading about this quite fascinating topic some years ago, the men who joined the Templars were generally quite rich, mostly the sons of the nobility. (They were also required to donate all of their money and land upon joining, which is how the Order became so preposterously wealthy) I would imagine that the rich had much higher life expectancies than average, regardless of whether they joined the Order.
In my opinion, folks who say they're being "honest" about something are kind of begging the question. That said, I doubt he did it to save money, although I'm surprised he allowed a dealer plate frame on the car. I think he thought they looked ugly. It may even have been a bandwidth issue — he simply didn't want to decide _which_ license plate to get and it was easier to avoid the issue altogether.

He famously didn't own much furniture (at least when he was single) because he couldn't find any he liked, not because he was cheap.
It's worth realizing that this was at a time that the United States was working on a plan to place all nuclear research (weapons and otherwise) under the UN, and subject to UN agreements. The UK and the Russians opposed this, and the idea basically died. At the same time, the US shut down (for a year) both the lend-lease and the atomic research programs, feeling that they were no longer needed after the war. After the cold war got going, they restarted both. It was too late for the British. Atlee started work on a "independent nuclear policy" in 1947.

Lookup the Acheson-Lilienthal Report in 1946. It's a fascinating "road not taken".
Remember that the needed salary and the typical salary don't change at the same rate. Going from his place to mine, that equalizes things for roughly a 20% savings rate.

Somebody earning $200,000 in San Francisco who moved to Seattle would gain an extra $33,558 in disposable income, despite income dropping to $142,858. This is because costs drop to $176,414. To equalize the savings in dollars, the rate would need to be 59%. Is that person in San Francisco going to save 59% of their income? If not, they'd be better off in Seattle. Of course, Seattle itself is not cheap, and you can do much better.

And yes, there are other considerations, like being able to afford 3500-square-foot house on 5 acres of land and still get to work in under 20 minutes.

The cost of living has, baked into it, a sort of normal-for-the-area lifestyle. It is simply expected that less-urban people will have larger houses on larger lots.
Parent said simple, not passive. Non-passive RFID is still simple.
So maybe the plastic is there to force humans out of this planet quicker and spread life beound Earth...
Ah yes. The good, old Google we all know and love. Introducing yet another confusing name for an existing product.
Nice insight! I agree 100%. The more signatures, the less likely to sell it!

But more likely that they use it for something someday, at least...
Jails and prisons offer civilized society a way to deal with people who cannot or will not participate in it.

Meek Mill is exactly the sort of person who should be locked up - he's violated every probation and parole agreement he's signed. There's a simple way for the wealthy to get through probation and parole - keep your head down, live a normal life, and don't rock the boat. I'm not saying that everyone has to do that, but people who cannot keep their heads down against the threat of imprisonment aren't people who can function in society.
Zero? Websites don't ask to install when I visit them.
Im of the opinion thats the only optimization function worth using. I dont know of any others in the state Im in - I just graduated from a mediocre state school and cant pass interview loops, but everyone that has attempted to convince me otherwise hasnt, from what i can tell, experienced my long string of getting barely anything for my 10+ years of dilligence and work. Unlike my friends im not a crypto millionaire, an FB employee, etc.
Reminds me of this excellent short story called Manna[1]

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Drone with a pipe bomb strapped to it makes the most sense to me.

Sticking an m-16 on the top of a dogbot that can wiggle around at 3mph... not so much lol
I would also posit a large difference between gambling, and corporatized "we use teams of psychologists and best gamification we know" in conjunction with easy access to your money to deprive as many users as possible.

There are people who would and do gamble on anything. In the end, you can't stop them. You can only criminalize after the fact. But that's starkly very far away from bling-bling flashy casino, with weird 'ingame currency' to disconnect understanding of currency costs, and every game in the book to increase revenue.

And the commissioner report I linked to states only negatives on things like electronic gambling. They contribute nothing good, and many bad.
It hardly seems like the academic, probing, research oriented state sponsored kind though. It feels more like the half-baked but polished-seeming "Cloverfield 4" ad campaign kind.
Thanks! We certainly think so!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067129
"One could argue" many things.

We have more than the two choices you present. We could add more people to the task instead of using machines.

We can redefine what "enemy" means such that anyone who dies in a target area is an "enemy" - poof! no incidental collateral deaths.

We can allow, say, the objections of the crew of the AC-130 to override possibly illegal orders which result in targeting hospitals.

There are a great many things we can do; enough to suggest that what you propose as the goal to consider likely isn't an important US goal.
I know. A flexible ASIC is a GPU. Optimized hardware will always be more cost effective, but like I said elsewhere in the thread, algos that are hard(er) to optimize than even cryptonight are being worked on. People didn't notice monero had asics because no one was paying attention. Looking back on the hashrate graphs and price make it very clear.

Monero has since forked and removed the ASIC threat temporarily, and they will continue to fork to keep them at bay. Anti-ASIC is a cat and mouse game where the coin developers have the upperhand at all times. Do you really believe there's no conceivable algorithm that will reduce the cost-effective difference between general purpose and specialized hardware? The goal isn't to prevent someone from optimizing, it's to prevent the difference from being so large that no one else can compete. Monero managed to do that for years, and that was using an algo that claimed ASIC resistance solely on memory prices.
When on earth will Google give custom domains the full Google consumer experience? Like many people I did this before gsuite happened for my personal account and I'm happy to pay for this.
That doesn't seem very different from Tesla's situation with manufacturing and retail stores.
To some degree, both categories can also co-exist in the same person.

Some people are self-motivated when crunching numbers on spreadsheets because they find it satisfying but would need to be dragged kicking and screaming to provide phone support -- and vice-versa.

And there are probably some jobs that it's more common to be self-motivated for than others. Garbage collection? Data entry?
Ever wanted to review a client?
Relevant http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/
We must work to repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which essentially legalized US government propaganda published directly to the US people.
After having to change their name from Sky Drive to One Drive following a trademark dispute, I think maybe Microsoft might have something to say about Google calling their online storage solution "One" as well.

I mean come on, I know it's a very generic name, but it's nearly identical to one of their biggest competitors in this exact space.
This is the reason I think Amazon will end up winning the cloud computing race. Providing support is simply not in Googles DNA.
I have an Mac and a laptop that runs Linux. The biggest obstacle that remains to being able to switch over completely, for me, at least, is Adobe CS, esp. Indesign. I don't know of a good substitute for Indesign. For most of the other stuff I do, the Linux stuff is fine, or is actually the same (cross-platform). In the future, even that may change, since my work has changed enough that I don't need Indesign itself so much any more.
awesome stuff, how'd you make the illustrations (like Figure 6. )?
I’m 22. It’s less about the money and more about the fact that it’s lower tier.
>Not surprisingly, people are interested in seeing how that mould-breaking is going

Eh, I cant tell if this is organic, or paid shilling by Tesla Marketing.

They have been caught shilling reddit, so I wouldnt be surprised if they are paying for articles written by major news outlets.
>Some kind of special built inspection system that runs along rails or something seems like a better use case.

Drones are getting popular ,with laser scanners mounted on them, for older platforms.

But what really makes the most sense to me is just locally networked sensors stuck right on the equipment. Not IoT, L(an)oT.
Reminds me of one of my favorite colony buildings in Master of Orion 2:

"Core Waste Dumps take man-made toxic and polluting agents and stash them deep within the planet. Since they’re so far below surface water supplies and often destroyed by the intense pressures and temperatures at the fringe of the molten core, this completely eliminates all Pollution on the planet." https://masteroforion.gamepedia.com/Core_waste_dump
CadQuery is terrible naming... FluentCad or something would have made a lot more sense...
> The idea of one spinning even at 20 or 30 RPM was a scary demonstration of potential energy.

Grid FES rotate at above 10k RPM. Munich has a control & stabilisation FES whose flywheels max out at 45000 RPM. Though they're probably not 60 feet wide the 28 flywheels store up to 100kWh.
It's even worse. They already have something called Android One. I'm sure this won't cause any confusion.
I asked the author; he says that there would be too much serialization/deserialization overhead.

https://twitter.com/khinsen/status/996046318773657600
It wasn't arbitrary. The states that had pre-existing laws kept them. The original decision prevented states from passing new laws to enable gambling, but didn't strike down or repeal existing laws, thus those states essentially got grandfathered in.

Media reports like to spin it as "sports gambling is illegal except in XYZ states", to make it look like favoritism and the story inciteful, but really the only thing distinguishing those states is legacy code.
Wall Street Is Moving, and It’s Reshaping New York
Its not negative news, its news.

Plus, if they pay a company to write a negative article, its not 'really' negative.

It might look like a negative article, but the words are to convince you that it really isnt bad.
Except that forces you to hover over each one of them until you find what you're looking for, rather than simply writing out e.g. "Mark as SPAM" or "Mark as read"
Fly wheels are not new. I wonder why they haven't caught on (seeming like a pretty good way of stationary energy storage), but using one for an EV charger doesn't seem very innovative.
Yes, that's why Elon Musk stays on as CEO of Tesla but it becomes a subsidiary of Apple, Inc.
> it literally has $0 advertising budget.

Well, other than the $75MM it recorded in its last annual report for 2017 for advertising and marketing...
Unlicensed swarms in space
I don't think the option packages are a red flag. Most tech executives leave behind options or RSUs when they leave, because their employers keep giving more. The execs take that into account when they negotiate their compensation with their new employers.
Reading this thread, it looks like the reason management got pissed was because android users didn't log back in after the bug logged them out. So they fired people because of a bug that caused users who don't find enough value in the app login again to stop using the app that they weren't using already. Sounds like twitter has been dying a slow death for a long time.
Introducing Google One
Isn't this a word search maker? Crosswords have clues and empty boxes to fill in the answers.
This seems pretty simple to me. You can either use null, and force checks before any reference to a nullable value (of course, these checks are usually skipped). Or, you can not use null and use something like Option/Maybe to encode a missing value.

What this really comes down to is, do you prefer to have guarantees, or do you think that "less code"/"less useless checks" is better.

In my mind, the only way to write robust, maintainable code is to not use null and use Option/Maybe.
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That stuff _is_ ridiculous. I don't know if the human bladder is sized for that level of tea.

On the other hand, it looks like an infographic-style addition, added by the newspaper to make the article more interesting, rather than the contribution of the author.
Its 2018, it takes lots of money to have a good online PR. It doesnt happen organically...
This myopic view is the religion of capitalism.

There are plenty of capitalists who don't support this kind of degrading, dehumanizing shit. And for that matter, capitalism doesn't even require corporations at all. It would be more fair to say:

"This myopic view is a disease that infects some organizations in a capitalist economy".

The question is, how do we eradicate the disease without killing the host(s)?
Are they interested? Sure.

Does that interest translate to a normal rear end crash? Nope.
You can switch to text labels:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2473038?hl=en&authuse...
"The same people who for 2 years have been saying that social media advertising is so effective that it got trump elected are now saying it is ineffective."

So does that mean you think that social media advertising is effective as people claim and Russian use of it got Trump elected?

Regardless of whether your "same people" is a straw man, the opposite of a set of inconsistent claims tends to also be inconsistent, so I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.
The problem with emails is that you have to deal with a thousand different clients implementing things differently. There is no win there.
Maybe, but there is another charging standard that's starting to be rolled out that provides up to 350kW with a water-cooled cable. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/electrify-america-will-... That would take 17 minutes to charge even a 100kWh Tesla battery (if you could maintain that rate of charge the whole time, which battery packs generally can't).

Edit: fixed units
The point is that a large amount of waste produced by developed is dumped/exported to developing countries like China, India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. And a large amount of waste generated by these countries is done so in the production of goods meant for Western consumption.
Design for the sake of design...

Companies spend too much on designers.
Quick question:

Why would I use this or OpenSCAD instead of Fusion 360 or TinkerCAD?
Will keep it short -

Using same analogy - When you look at Toyota, what does the first thing come to your mind? I hope Cars. So, computer engineering is going to be a secondary endeavor there.

Internally, MS and Apple have a lot of units\departments, which have many computer engineers, which they treat them as cost centres
Does Thunderbird verify that the message is signed before displaying images from a whitelisted sender?
Years ago, my friends and I got drunk while celebrating my 20th birthday

As a joke, I emailed Gabe Newell and asked if he'd wish me a happy birthday

Much to my surprise, he actually replied! https://i.imgur.com/n0BvCPS.png

I can only imagine the amount of garbage he gets in his inbox every day. So to get that email back (on a Sunday for him, as well) was pretty heart warming
There's no reason to assume the reader there is the best possible reader.

It might even be intentionally rejecting weak signals.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer, I agree with you, and am glad you don't consider yourself a trend-follower. Stay critical, HN.
I am very interested in trying jiu jitsu, but am afraid of injuring my knee and not being able to run distance. I've read many accounts stating tearing a knee is inevitable when rolling as a beginner with beginners.
Is it reasonable to train jiu jitsu if distance running is your primary objective? Or is it just too risky?
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There should be a Hacker News "Challenge HN:" post, where you complain (point out) about some broken system and you challenge other people/developers/designers to do better.

Challenge HN: Improve Gmail Icons
"Think of your resume like a poem."

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I need a job,
You're hiring, right?
Chewing a Billion by Billion Matrix Crammed into Gigabytes of Memory
Unfortunately I can't recommend any particular book to learn economics alone. I don't learn best this way and I feel I got basically all of my knowledge through my coursework. I'd honestly recommend a course. Even an online one may be workable.
Yeah, that seems odd to me. I drive a Nissan, not a Toyota, but it will shut off if I hit the button before going into park, then beep like there's no tomorrow until it's in park.

Though it occurs to me that the old Dodge Caravan I drove before may have required being in park to turn off, though it used the key for ignition, so that made sense.
this. honestly a big part of any good marketing is starting with market research
I'm actually interested in hearing more about this if you're willing to share it.
That's my point. We're saying that Robinhood is a success as a company because an early investor would have had a nice exit? Thats our "success" barometer?

I'm going to call BS on that one.
Or "Leaded or unleaded?"