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Eager execution in TensorFlow doesn't work on all Python code or all Swift code. What I am essentially asking for is equivalent to sticking AD on the source code of say any part of SciPy and expecting it to work without hard coding workarounds.

Here's my deal. I wrote and maintain the differential equation solver library in Julia. This thing is a huge piece of code composed of almost 70 packages and took something like 5,000 commits and almost entirely pure-Julia. I will keep writing and maintaining this code as its own research project for many reasons. And, sometimes, I want to AD this code or stick it in a neural network.

It's a very non-standard application of this kind of code, so it wasn't built to do this from the start. But I am a greedy hacker. I don't want to have to re-write it onto some computational graph package (TensorFlow) or build interfaces. I want to just call some AD library function on any pure-Julia function in my package and have it output derivatives just like it was any numerical diff package. ForwardDiff.jl, ReverseDiff.jl, Flux.jl, etc. all have autodiffs that work on these routines. I find that magical. In fact, I was shocked that it can be faster than the standard way of calculating these derivatives via sensitivity analysis (we'll put a paper out on Arxiv in a few days about this). There's still a few hiccups that can be fixed up for non-ML applications, but these Julia differentiation tools have really impressed me.
Probably written this way because this is a release for the general public. I would imagine most people expect passwords to be "encrypted" and don't know what "hashed" means, and they correctly assumed technical people will keep reading for more info
I think the disconnect here is that advertising has a tacit endorsement of the site, everyone knows Volvo and General Foods is writing a check to the pornography host to display their ads.

Brands were so freaked out to have their dish detergent show up next to an ISIS video because whoever uploaded the video gets their check for $5 or whatever, and then they're literally supporting terrorism.
A wall and some sticky notes might be a good method.
If that's dangerous in Firefox, isn't it just as dangerous, if not more, for them to reference other non-firefox files? I can't see this being a proper security measure for anything.
It's different in every city, but in Baltimore they're probably in between the size of Portland, OR city blocks and New York City, NY city blocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lisZBL3_aW8
I see no lesson to be learned from the business perspective. If equifax can recover from their data loss, any company can.
I've been a user of NearlyFreeSpeech (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net) for several years, mostly for simple static sites, but in some cases for dynamic content. Totally satisfied with the results.
Sadly, security is still hard in a lot of cases, and most everyone (product / developer / customer) is fixated on features and performance. Security is only important when it fails (very much like availability) - and by then it is really hard to retrofit.
Perfection is the enemy of progress. I'm not a fan of censorship but you must work with what you have, work at the margins. Crying about it won't do a thing - especially from outside.
> Right, but isn't that also the case for people in cars? They get head injuries in car crashes that may have been prevented by wearing a helmet.

A car driver has insurance to some level--a bicyclist or scooter user probably doesn't.

The issue is that in the US, we don't have universal healthcare which would make this discussion moot.
I’ll admit it’s a bad unit of measurement given that Baltimore has weirdly shaped and non-standardized blocks. Looking at my Lime history, my rides seem to fall in the 0.5-2.5 mile range (0.8-4 km)
> What is political repression? Does America's Gitmo count? Our imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders? Our criminalization of sex work?

That is for everybody to answer on their own, in a way that is consistent with their ethical principles on other things.

> How is it that the source of all the righteous indignation happens to lie on the other side of the world?

Because the people who are doing these things for China live on this side of the world, and are mostly American citizens. So we judge them for what they do in China by American standards.

> So the Chinese people are being tested now to see if they have the mettle to demand a free society in the image of the USA?

It's not a test. The Chinese people (or their government) can demand whatever society they want. What they don't get to demand is American engineers helping them build a society that is build on foundations that are unethical by American standards. And what we get do demand is that American engineers are not complicit in this.

By your standards, it sounds like castigating IBM for helping German govt with Holocause was also "neoconservative" - after all, how dare we judge their society for what they do to some unfortunate people with broad popular support?
As an example, consider an army attacking a defending army. The defending side is as good as the weakest member, because you can presume the attacking side to be looking for the weakest part and attacking that. On the other hand, the attacking side is as good as the strongest member, and having a few weaker members is ok. It is generally harder to make sure you have uniformly good defense, than getting a few really good people to spend dedicated time attacking.

Of course, this model assumes that as soon as you have penetrated the perimeter, the rest becomes easy. This is the more traditional model. People are increasingly adopting a you-are-already-hacked approach, which makes it harder to move laterally once someone gets in. However, the general challenge still applies.
Data is binary: it has either been already leaked, or not yet.
Well. Technology is technology, how would the developer predict how their code is being used? Also the developer owns NO rights of their written code, the right to license it to the Saudis here is from Israel government.
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It doesn't ameliorate them, because it will be censored anyway. But when Google goes there and does the censorship, they are complicit in covering up that genocide. And yes, that makes a difference - ethics isn't about pure utilitarianism, at least not for most people.
> This is a disruptive technology that's going to see major adoption in every city across the entire planet.

Disruptive pioneer is not necessarily good investment even if the base idea is solid.

In the Dot-com bubble (1995-2000) many companies with good ideas eventually failed. There were several online book retailers, web search companies and online shopping sites, even online food delivery services. They were highly valued, but most of them went bankrupt. Amazon two Google survived (It took over decade for Amazon's stock valuation to recover).

We have now transportation boom. When the boom goes bust and regression hits, most run out of money and go bankrupt.
I really liked riding them until I realized how expensive they were. When you use them everyday, it adds up quick. Hundreds of dollars a month. I now bike everywhere instead and wonder why others don't.

I could see using them when traveling, where I wouldn't have my bike with me.
All of the other browsers have some other vector to push their browser. Safari, Edge and Chrome are all preinstalled on OSs and chrome is advertised on the biggest website in the world.

Even if firefox is slightly better than the rest it doesn't matter. Chrome only exists because IE was so bad people went out of their way not to use it.
A quick - and not 100% correct but it will do - way of looking at deep learning is to think of it as automated feature detection and weighing.
I'm not a practicing scientist, but I worked in a university lab in Canada once doing research alongside professors. The ones I spoke with generally tended to regard the journal system as a scam. However, they are bound to the prestige factor. Additionally, since almost all the time the fees are paid by the university and they have tenure, individuals felt little reason to try to change anything.
Being visually nearly indistinguishable from chrome hasn't really worked in its favor. (quick, which is which: http://9ol.es/double-browser.png). Probably north of 95% don't know about or understand licensing differences or differences in rendering engines or core architecture. Interfaces and obvious features with compelling narratives are what matter because that's how the user engages with the product.

Asking users to go out of their way to install and use something that looks and feels identical to what they already have for reasons most people don't know, understand, or deeply care about and do not get surfaced in any meaningful way is not a winning strategy. A case has to be made in the battle of perception and the decreasingly small visual differentiation hasn't helped build it.

Al Ries's laws of marketing and branding and Donald Norman's models of differentiation apply equally to all products regardless of the economic and institutional structure that builds them.
I didn't see any indication as to their methodology for how they're calculating these stats. It's probably been said a zillion times before, but if it's JavaScript-based you can safely assume that they are incorrect as it's likely there is a large intersection between people browsing with an ad-blocker, private browsing, or with content blocker and those people using Firefox.
I flip flop between Firefox and Chrome often. Lately I am on Firefox because I was trying to isolate a fatal crash I kept having on my brand new Macbook Pro (it would lock up completely, but cursor would still move and audio would still work and then it would inevitably shut itself off)

Since ditching Chrome the issue has not come up again ... but not sure if it's correlation or causation.

There are a few things I do not like about Firefox but the web inspect or is definitely miles ahead of Webkit.

Chrome is faster based on the butt-dyno: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=butt-dyno
I give Firefox a chance every few months, and even after all their work I still feel like it has occasional performance issues and I end up right back in Chrome.
Guns, cars and knives can kill people too. Also drugs and alcohol, how about banning people working on those stuff?
if there was a warning that said “all activity on this browser will be sent to google and sold to advertisers” chrome would still have 60% market share
When you owe a million dollars to someone, you have a problem.

When you owe a trillion dollars to someone, they have a problem.
I am working on very different approaches with very different applications, but yes the neural ODE (not a solver BTW) is a good example of this kind of application and the effectiveness of the approach. It's a fantastic paper if anyone hasn't read it.
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It's funny to see this just after in Nashville a Bird user ran a red light and got hit by a car. Now I know this user is not indicitive of all users, but it's enough to galvinize the people against them.

I say this as someone who loves them. I hope they stick around, but its only a matter of time someone in a party city like Nashville is drunk and ends up getting hit leading to a death.
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In the same timespan, firefox mobile has a share of 1.2%.

Market dominance has almost nothing to do with technical merits.
Mirroring Sci-Hub on IPFS can help solve the domain problem.
Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.
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> It's a valuable lesson in "don't keep data you don't need".

Unfortunately, though, most companies operate under the "keep data you might eventually need" principle.
Just my personal $0.02:

1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser. This is partly because other browsers keep overhauling their systems and deprecating old software which discourages extension developers, and mainly because (as an extension developer) why would you code for browser X when you can get more users on browser Y?

2. Anecdotal evidence, but every time an update of Firefox (and most notably Quantum) is released people laud how fast it is. On my 2015 Macbook running Mac OS Firefox has never been faster. Maybe there are things behind the scenes such as caching playing a role, but web pages load slower, scrolling feels sluggish, videos drop frames and freeze or get out of sync. It isn't an enjoyable experience compared to Chrome or Safari.
Does it matter?

Even if the measure is somewhat flawed it's hard to argue that drop isn't related to a drop in the underlying number of users.

Mozilla is awesome, but growing Firefox is an uphill struggle.
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The US has a lot of unused taxing authority, historically low inflation and low interest rates. Investors don't see this as a real possibility.
They really downplayed the effect of Apple removing the tumblr app from their app store. With the tumblr app is still gone from the Apple app store for 3 weeks now, it's very hard not to see this move as being directed by Apple.

I think it's disappointing that they chose to block all adult content rather than filter adult content in the iOS app. The world would be much better off without Apple dictating what we can put on our websites.
We [0] saw a similar drop happen after what appeared to be fairly aggressive adjustments made by Steam in early October. It improved throughout the first half of October but still ended up being between ~35-45% lower than what we'd have expected to see versus the curve we had been seeing prior to the changes.

I posted a comment here yesterday [1] about Steam's incentives, but it's worth posting again:

Sometimes I wonder what Steam actually optimizes for. If their algorithms always show the "best" games (ie ones that players spend hundreds++ hours playing), then I'd expect that to actually hurt Steam revenues, at least short term if not long-term as well. In theory they'd be better off marketing/optimizing to push games that 'satisfy' users (read: does not cause exodus) but that have low play-time/hours on average -- so that they can sell the player another different game that much sooner.

It's a strange set of incentives & it's hard to tell how aligned they really are (with either players or developers).

0 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/598330/SimAirport/

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583254
I'm not thinking of the card as the weak point, more the reader.

a rogue employee putting a false reader that relays to the real reader.

Back when I worked in retail we had an issue in our local area where a group impersonated our support department and came on site to install altered versions of our readers.

I'd imagine things like the readers in our public transport ticketing machines are a pretty easy target too to hide a nearby relay.

In Australia our NFC limits are pretty high at ~$100, readers are nearly everywhere and the readers are sometimes display-less plastic discs.

Even the local animal shelter has a tap to make a donation thing now.
It probably almost doesn't matter if they're wrong - if they see this decline in users, true or not, then so will people monitoring users to their websites, and they will be likely to stop testing their sites on Firefox.

Also it's a drop - do you think the number of people turning off JavaScript has gone up since Quantum? Why would that be? It's either that or less Firefox users.
Bird is actually rolling out reservations, although I think it's more intended for daily users (they say they'll drop a scooter off on your doorstep every morning and only you can unlock it).
Yep I took the defaults here then installed 1PasswordX and couldn’t open its settings. That’s a vital extension for me.
I've increasingly found that services are catching on to this and blocking the mailinator domains. Luckily there are a bunch more temporary email services; if mailinator is blocked I generally search google for "temporary email" and select the second or third one. Hasn't let me down yet.
Motherboard's methodolgy is highly dubious.

There are former Tumblr staff members on Twitter saying it will lose 50% of the userbase. Losing 50% of the userbase will unquestionably kill the site stone dead.
First, my point is not specific to any one crazy movement or community. QAnon is the most recent one, but anyone historically aware can point to a variety of similar examples.

Second, if you think QAnon is relegated to only those who visit 4chan, I have very bad news for you.
Considering that, it's interesting that Firefox still has more desktop market share than Edge and Safari.
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Scientists/Academics treat prestige as primary currency, and most would view lack of access to information just as a sign of not being in prestigious enough institution.

You are being naive if you think academia is filled with do-gooders it’s just a race but of another kind.

Unless there is a direct impact of doing something more openly e.g. accessible code base that thousands of researchers can use to publish and cite your work quickly or significant risk of getting scooped. There is very little to motivate any change.

Also if you think journals/review system is bad, just get a glimpse of “grant review” system by NSF/NIH or “tenure committees” etc. They make the worst stack ranking performance review etc. seem light hearted fun.
Quantum would make my work laptop (Macbook pro, 13 inch touchbar 2017) overheat constantly. It just always had performance issues and I troubleshooted every way I could. I never figured out what exactly was causing it. I tried to switch to Firefox for 2 solid months, but I just couldn't do it :(
Historically, that crown goes to Firefox. Its 2004 1.0 release was also publicized in the New York Times. Way before Chrome came out.
Sad news. Firefox is my favorite browser, and I like their Dev tools the best.

All the important stuff done in a browser should not be trusted to one that is closed source. (I know chromium is open source, but almost no one is using it).

A good balance of browsers is important, I've already seen "you must use chrome to view this site."
It's actual garbage on CPU tho, it's made to be GPU accelerated. There's many more physics engines that arent proprietary to certain hardware that run way better than physx
What was known as "applied math" through the 20th century was actually just one application of math: calculus / differential equations and linear algebra applied to physics (in turn applied to engineering, mechanical or electrical).

But then you have computer science, which is in many ways applied "pure" math. Although if you want to separate "applied" abstract algebra from "pure" abstract algebra, then the subject you'd want to talk about is simply called automata theory.

In fact, in the book Elements of Automata Theory Jacques Sakarovitch characterizes automata theory as the "linear algebra of computer science", in more ways than one:

I suggest that automata theory is the linear algebra of computer science. I mean this in two ways. Properly speaking, automata theory IS non-commutative linear algebra, or can be viewed as such: the theory of matrices with coefficients in suitable algebras. I am more interested, however, in the figurative sense: automata theory as a basic, fundamental subject, known and used by everyone, which has formed part of the intellectual landscape for so long that it is no longer noticed. And yet, there it is, structuring it, organizing it: and knowing it allows us to orient ourselves.

Note: if you look at my other comment in this thread, I suggested that exmadscientist was talking about Floyd's invariance principle, which, if you follow my cited source there, you can see explicitly formulated as an induction proof on transitions of a state machine.
Are there specific WebExtension APIs you care about that Chrome supports and Firefox doesn't?
From reading the details it looks like almost all user data (and every user's data) is compromised. Using the word ,,some'' should be illegal in this instance.
It shouldn't be too hard if someone wants to work on it. https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/issues/3
One could say [...] benefit?

Hardly. Awareness campaigns litter the history of pop culture, and are usually regarded as a nerdy loser's sexual advances toward a prom queen way out of his league.

But more to the point, people are helped by information, and not perversions thereof.

If it were helpful it would neither be called disinformation nor misinformation. It would just be accurate information, applied in a practical manner.
I feel a strong need to point out the bad faith Mozilla seem to have for Firefox users and their privacy, eg Pocket, Mr Robot, DRM & binary blobs, dark pattern configs, etc.

As much as I loved the browser in the past, nobody should consider running it today, without being informed of the implications. The ffprofile.com site is something I have been waiting for, but stuff like this should not be necessary and IMO Mozilla Corp. has won. Nobody celebrates a new version of FF anymore.

Also useful resources:
https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html
https://browserleaks.com/
https://www.howsmyssl.com/
> But riding them in the street pisses off drivers and is pretty dangerous, at least that's how it shakes out in Cincinnati.

The answer to this is better bicycle infrastructure, and I'm hopeful that scooter popularity helps accelerate this.
> That's possible, but with a range of only 15 miles and they're most likely only getting charged at night

I suspect that statement isn't true. I see multiple drops a day on my street.