skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google (and every other major tech company) already are doing exactly what Apple is. The only difference is that Apple is going to start doing the computing of hashes on the device for photos that are about to be uploaded, vs waiting for them to be uploaded to iCloud.

To me this signals that they are going to start allowing E2E encrypted photos on iCloud but they need to compute the hashes on device to comply with the law because they cant hash them once they are encrypted.
This is pure BS. "Everyone in China is using WeChat anyway."

Really? Chinese citizens don't use their iPhone cameras to store photos locally? They only use WeChat to take pictures and store them? Gee, you should tell Apple AND Tencent this! It would dramatically shift their product development path.

Where did Apple Messages come into play? What does that have to do with locally stored photos?

"This feature isn't even being launched in China" -- yup. Apple has definitely never launched a feature first in the US then rolled it out worldwide.

"But sorry to derail your narrative: China are the bad guys and all bad things are because of china."

Who said that? Seems more like you've got a bias to apologize for the regime than anyone else has a bias to impugn it.
This reminds me of Kumon Math when I was a kid. It used a very Japanese method to teach math, and definitely helped me out early on.
sorry to hear you were not oplymiadniks material :(
One of Heinlein's juvenile novels (Have Spacesuit, Will Travel?) describes TFA's concept of accelerating at 1g until the halfway mark, then doing a "skew flip maneuver" (I think that was the phrase Heinlein used) to decelerate at 1g. [0]

[0] https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2241027
Yes, shielding would be even more difficult at those speeds than ‘unlimited thrust’.
How are you going to research your intuition? What if mine differs from yours? In the absence of arguments we give in to arguments of emotion, which your are in this post.

Absolutely drive your own life in accordance with your own intuition. Without accurate and compelling research it's all you have. If you're a scientist though, intuition is the starting point of new research.
You mean like most major platforms do from time to time, even FOSS ones like Gnome?

With most things, if you want to completely avoid eventual, inevitable UI changes, you need to just never upgrade.
We use that gateway email address with our notification alert system at $WORK. Only problem is if our internet/ power goes down, no notifications will arrive to our devices either way (email or email-to-SMS).
Ask HN: Why do you think the market prefers monopolies/oligopolies over co-ops?
Is it all about advertising/marketing/sales? Is it that co-op members avoid future investment and drive research costs down. Is it because monopolies offer outsized returns to investors? where as co-ops only offer marginal cost incentives for consumers.

I consider wikipedia a co-op of sorts but google, facebook, cell phone companies, oil companies all seem to eventually become cartels of sorts.
Another relevant example of the English language referring to burning that doesn't involve oxidation is "flaming", as referenced in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

But who am I to throw water on your fire?

;)
I'm also not convinced about the superiority of any teaching system (especially now, after I've learned about and read some Ivan Illich), I was just trying to confirm OP's point that the education systems around this part of the world were indeed pushing harder when it came to some maths-related stuff earlier in a kid's "educational cycle", so to speak.

I'm also highly "skeptical of prolonged compulsory education of any quality" but, again, I think that maybe that will steer the discussion into OT territory.
"Also with women being systematically excluded from many opportunities in tech"

Do you have some sources for this?

"There are a million reasons why women prefer to work with women."

And the same is true for men wanting to work with men.

"this is hardly going to deprive some man of an opportunity."

If one is actually excluding men, then this by definition deprives them of that specific opportunity.
You are right, I was wrong.

But I was mainly arguing that the commute time shouldn't be counted against work time, it really isn't: you can listen to radio, or read if you are on public transport. Rather, I'd count the saved commute against my life (as in, not work) time.
No, this is a lie stupid people tell themselves. Sounds like you're one of them.
Predictably downvoted to oblivion. Absolutely spot on.
It's kind of like math; all math concepts are impossible until you figure out why they're actually easy.
Is there even a way to get iCloud or Google photos on the iPhone to only upload photos taken with the camera, to not spam one's photo account with chat garbage?

I was trying to figure out a way, but got side tracked on the issue, then my phone got stolen and I lost a bunch of family/baby pictures (thanks Google/apple).
Oh wow I knew "there is no antimemetics division" was an outgrowth of SCP, TIL that it's quite literally an SCP serial.

Also I'm already following way too many serials, that's inconvenient.
This is quite interesting, I didn't think of this type of approach. When I was at Instacart I could have seen this being really useful. I always had IC eng ask me "why does my work matter".
If there is a false positive, I don't want that fact to ever leave my phone, instead of residing on Google's servers forever, where it can be subpoenaed and misused.

Apple's approach here is far superior from a privacy standpoint.

>1. Only if you're uploading files are the files matched. 2. Only if the matches are very close are they considered matches. 3. Only if you have multiple very close matches is Apple able to decrypt the low-res versions of the images themselves. 4. Only if a human reviewer discovers any of the decrypted low-res images to be illegal content is any of your information shared with anyone else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28120598
Be careful with this. Laws about recording people can be strict. And you can expect to be stopped and questioned by the police when they notice your rig. At least, that’s what happened to me.
Nope. If scanning was implemented outside the device on the iCloud as everyone else, may be. But this is intrusion of privacy on a new "on device surveillance" level and Apple deserves hostile reaction.

No form of apologetic or "technical" explanation can remove this from reality now.
They are betting heavily on their "core" demographics to trust them automatically and without any form of critical thinking.

If this implementation has no effect on Apples bottom line. Things are over.
We will live in badly implemented version of the Minority Report.
That doesn’t seem to answer the question. He isn’t asking how AWS protects against a supply chain attack, he’s asking how this protects against AWS lying about how nitro enclave functions, and/or intentionally giving themselves a back door into it.
I think the K team recognized these issues and tried to address them - at least partially - with Q and it's readable function names and SQL-like extensions. But, AFAIK most Kdb programmers keep writing straight K instead. Don't know why either.
Netflix pays top of market for Silicon Valley _and_ readjusts your comp (100% cash based) every year to be top of market again.
opening new tabs for... zotero, google search reference manager, google search get all open tab urls.... waitaminute!
I am pretty sure even with a mask mandate, you are not going to get a snotty elementary school kid to wear a mask in a way that provides any protection to those around them.

So even a school mask mandate is entirely useless.
A; absolutely

B; It's actually a reference to the No Agenda show. https://noagendashow.net
> That sounds interesting. I'd like to test this hypothesis sometime ;)

That sounds great! Feel free to shoot me an email on shane@evervault.com if you'd like to get further into the weeds :)

Our main defence against invalid curves is compressed public key points. It's not often that security mitigations also give some other nice advantages (smaller public keys!), but for this scenario it made total sense.
If he didn't know already, A German would say "Was bedeute DACH?"
I think there's quite a bit of variety in people's alertness in reclined / supine postures. Personally I have trouble sleeping unless conditions are really good for it. This sucks, but I think related to this trait is that it takes quite a while for me to feel sleepy as a result of supine / reclined postures.
I'm currently using yarn 1.17. Is the npm workspaces support on par with yarn 1? If so I might switch back to that.
What I said applies to all topics. Including ones that you personally value.

As for whether math is useful or not... I'll just say I REALLY wish more of my coworkers knew their math. I work in a factory, and it's useful WAY more often than you may think.
I wish every search I did would search my existing bookmarks first and prioritize those.

Also maybe my Home Screen could alternate to opening random bookmarks in my “read later” folder.
I'd be very curious to see what a primary and secondary school math program that aggressively focused on the "what will I ever use this for?" question, for most people, not just future physicists and math majors, and tailored its curriculum to that with mostly applications-based problem sets, looked like. I suspect it'd provide a lot more value to ~99% of students while never providing more than a "here's what these other branches of math you probably won't need are for, so you know what to look up or when to go learn them, on the off chance you ever do need them" survey for much of what's covered from ~8th-12th grade now, but maybe I'm wrong. I also doubt it would discourage many future math majors.
The assumption that digital = doom-scrolling is illuminating. What we call "intuition" is often just a blinkered, haphazardly assembled pile of our recent experiences. This is precisely why data is considered real evidence in science and intuition isn't.
If you count Khan Academy and MIT's OCW, sure the Anglo-sphere has unparalleled resources. But a minor point of the article is how the way Americans are taught in conventional public school is just to do the basic work. Math is treated as a hurdle to clear rather than the lifelong mental sport.

But here's a point I would have liked examined further in the article: where does one find material or instruction that would give you a competitive structural thinking needed to grapple Olympiad or Putnam-level content beyond enrichment courses? In China, the best students are scouted early by teachers and prepared by the Chinese government through special camps and their own difficult examinations. I'd assume the same thing happened/happens in Russia. In the United States, by default (and probably by design), its difficult to know on what level a student can stand in regards to everyone else until the very end. At least in a public school.

Parents and students can use proxies like how early AP subjects are offered, USA today rankings, or the success of past alumni. But, unless you're in a well-endowed private schools, magnet/exam schools, or private enrichment program like AoPS (Art of Problem solving) or Talent Identification Programs (many of which are now shutting down) there are few ways to know how well the instruction one receives as a precocious and motivated high school compare to those of the best among the nation or the world.

One could argue if you have to wait until high school to understand where you stand, it's too late. But that's my point, many students may have resources and talent but the lack the expertise to deciding where to and how begin in those crucial first years. Few states have strong "gifted" programs and the one's that do aren't really any better than "normal" instruction in China or Japan.
I think the parent meant ‘not palatable’ instead of ‘not edible’, it’s an understandable mistake for someone who’s rarely, or never, experienced edible but not palatable food.
The document is not clear how did you achieve goal #1 ("must verifiably not be able to access or decrypt data"). There are lots of low-level details about Rust and padding attacks, but ultimately your security model is:

We keep the keys in AWS KMS and we use AWS policies settings to ensure that only executable generated by our Github Action job can access those keys.

This immediately shows how the Evervault (or a hacker impersonating Evervault employee) can access or decrypt user data:

Option 1: Go to AWS dashboard and change that KMS policy to be less restrictive. Then you can fetch the keys directly using awscli or download them from console.

Option 1a: if you are using some IaaS solution (terraform, cloudformation etc..) you can take over this, it may be easier.

Option 2: Commit a code into E3 repo that exfilatrates the keys and have that code deployed. Enclaves cannot connect to internet, so you'll have to be a bit creative -- perhaps encrypting a string "HELLO123" should produce a master key?

Option 3: If you cannot commit a code without someone noticing, go to Github settings and get all the environment/secrets from the repo. Then find an ssh key used to manage the self-hosted action runner which signs the images. Once you have those, you should be able to run the action steps locally on your repo.
Total momentum is conserved, but distributed: the individual momentum of the vehicle and the exhaust jet will be of equal magnitude and opposite direction (assuming a straight line), so if the rocket started in free space at rest (zero momentum), after it's run for a while the exhaust jet and vehicle will have equal and opposite momentum vectors.

Energy is a different thing, but related to specific impulse. In a perfectly efficient system (not what really happens), the decrease in stored energy within the fuel tanks would be equal to the increase in total kinetic energy (i.e. the sum of vehicle and exhaust kinetic energy).
Is it worth it to buy a 3DS or a Switch Lite? I'm thinking of having one, and buying the Switch is more of a future-proof gadget than N3DS. What are your thoughts about this?
Electric eel whose jolts trigger tweets using Python and a Raspberry Pi
I graduated high school in the USA in the past decade. I was never taught Calculus. I wasn't even very good at algebra.

Eventually I went on to get a math minor in college to go with my computer science degree, but I didn't even learn the first thing about Calculus until I was 21.

Math and Science education in the USA is really really abyssal until college, and then it's sink or swim.
How to spin a multi cloud application with CAST AI
I agree with this. As soon as the MapReduce paper came out, people were criticizing it for a lack of novelty, claiming that so-and-so has been using these same techniques for years. And of course those critics are still around saying the same things. But I think there's a reason we keep going back to these techniques, and I think it's because they repeatedly prove to be practical and effective.
I'm surprised that something like point compression can even be patented, considering that it's relatively straightforward mathematically (all of the difficulty seems to lie in the number theory to compute a solution, which I assume wasn't invented by whoever owned the patent)...
The Stonecutters do.
> No, but the person who sent that message could get in trouble.

Is there some reason to imagine the person sending the message couldn't do so with burner email accounts or by abusing open/vulnerable email servers?

Has Google suddenly prevented spam from landing in your spam folder without anyone noticing?

It's much simpler to send email than it is to take control of someone's device.
Check out BrainTool (https://braintool.org) it's a browser extension that allows you to trivially add pages to a custom hierarchal 'Topic tree' along with notes on why you're saving the page, and then to control opening and closing tabs by topic. Everything is saved to an org-mode syntax text file. So of your requirements it's persistent, local, tagged and entirely-offline-usable. Incremental search is in the works.

It works with tab groups on Chrome, Edge and Brave which adds another step toward keeping your browser organized.

It might fit your workflow and be what you need!
Jupyter does that.
This person is wrong and doesn't understand how brains produce and interact with language, but other people have already said that, so what is the straw that this person is grasping at?

There is a representational / symbolic divide in much of AI. Unfortunately some people think symbolic processes are somehow more "true" or "real" than representational processes. This leads them to say things like "A full understanding of an utterance or a question requires understanding the one and only one thought that a speaker is trying to convey." As if there were such a thing in a jello-like mass of briefly sparking cells.

But symbols are super useful, you're processing them now to understand my thoughts. They are so useful that you see them constantly in human innovations. Math, logic, art, literature ... everywhere! So what is a more useful way to understand the relationship between our gooey protoplasm and the beauty of say the pythagorean theorem? It's the same way to understand the relationship between analog and digital computation. The latter is built on the former.

Your digital (symbolic, supposedly pure) world is built on differences in ranges of voltages in physical circuits. (Or ranges of magnetic polarization, or ranges of light frequencies). We tame a continuously variable world by defining boundaries on continuous ranges and then pretend those are pure symbolic values.

This is the problem the author is wrestling with. They haven't differentiated the computational substrate from the computation. Can we build systems that "understand" using probabilistic function approximation? Sure! That's how we work. But the program running on that messy substrate isn't there yet and that's what's got the author in a tizzy.
> Edit: to clarify, I find it weird that this has been limited to Private Browsing, when most people don't even use it for anything but adult websites. The feature is good and should be available for regular browsing too.

It can be enabled for all windows, but it was not enabled at all when the feature was first rolled out in v83. Presumably they wanted to allow time for any bugs to be shaken out before imposing it by default in any circumstance. It seems plausible they could enable it in regular windows as well in the future.
Transport options available to me living in mid-sized European city:

- Tram

- Train

- Electric bicycle hire

- Electric moped hire

- Bicycle hire

- Foot

- Taxi

- Bus

- Own bicycle / ebike / electric scooter / moped

- Aeroplane

- Own car (if you can afford ~€40k to buy a parking space)

- Ferry

Transport options available in American suburbs:

- Own car

It seems to me that most Americans are already living under severe restrictions : )
To flesh out your argument, consider this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Makes sense — the practical answer is: it doesn't. This is the eternal debate with TEEs. At some point, a company/fab/service provider has to be trusted to be acting in good faith. HSMs have existed for a very long time, and compliance approaches like FIPS 140-2 have been (although painful) quite successful.

When compared with other TEE alternatives like Intel SGX and AMD SEV, we are extremely confident that AWS Nitro Enclaves is the best choice.
I'm from Russia, and in the US I attended GCPM - a "correspondence program" with math assignments sent to me by mail and later graded by a university professor. Was a great learning experience (the program had dedicated books and interesting math problems to explore).

https://www.egcpm.com/ - Gelfand Correspondence Program In Mathematics
“China are evil, and that is the reason These pure US companies do bad things”

Literally no one is saying this. You're getting incredibly sensitive over a regime that just thwarted investigation into a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people and making irrational arguments to defend it.

"hey would ban the entire App in question, not back door it. See Facebook/Twitter as a well known example."

Ban *which* app?? The iPhone is not an "app" LOL. It's a hardware device with both software and hardware privacy constraints antithetical to the Chinese government's desire for pervasive surveillance.

Apple is gradually shedding its hardcore privacy stance to retain its fastest growing market. It's not difficult to see if you take off your "ANYTHING BAD ABOUT CHINA IS RACIST!!" goggles.
TIL, that's super interesting, never guessed that it could be a SIM application!
I never realized that that's whats being done but now it's so obvious since everything we upload to GDrive/iCloud/Dropbox isn't encrypted without additional effort and reduced convenience.
I use Boxcryptor for Dropbox and it prevents them snooping on my files but if I started using that for pictures, I'd lose all convenience of being able to look at it in the Photos app, create shared albums, etc. It's a pity. I wish there was an encrypted photo service that let me share photos and create albums.
It's not even that I have anything to hide but I'm scared that one day, police will knock at my door because of a hash collision or a borked logfile or whatever. What else can I do other than me and my family becoming digital hermits?
Our Journey Building Porter
You probably don't have ptsd, and if you do have ptsd that's been diagnosed by a trained professional then it's likely you already have an exposure plan.

Or put another way, you treat being "triggered" by being exposed to the triggering mechanism.
Academic Tenure Is Patronage
The book is amazing, but Scott Alexander having such a prodigious writing pace (he also kept writing his blog posts, and working full-time as a psychiatrist) hurts the final rendering of the book. It definitely needs some editing made and changes in the plot pace (MINOR SPOILER: the plot goes slows at first, and suddenly fast in the middle...) but definitely one of the best things I've ever read.
>brushstrokes

is there original paintings in this collection? from the article it seems like a collection of photos, and maybe in some cases photos of paintings but not the paintings themselves.
Interesting! I haven't tried it yet, but perhaps foam wedges would be a cost effective approach? (typically used as yoga props)

For positioning the laptop, suspending it works pretty decently for laptops that have a large range of motion in the hinges - https://mgsloan.com/posts/suspending-laptops/
That wasn't my experience in doing a CS degree in the 1980s - we basically did the same maths as the engineers for two years and then diverged into more discrete maths in 3rd year of a 4 year course. And this isn't even counting the pure CS mathematical components such as lambda calculus etc.
I live in the mountains and you're absolutely correct that the digital world doesn't compare to the real world in many cases.

That being said, I have disconnected from technology for up to a year at a time and overall it's not better. Technology introduces a lot of convenience and can reduce the time we spend on a lot of mundane chores, clearing up more time to spend in the real world ultimately. In the end it's all about balance.
Also nice to seperate social media/shopping/banking/... I'm not 100% sure it completely prevents social media company X from knowing which items you searched for or bought from Y, but at least it should be a lot harder.
Show HN: UUIDs Readable Shakespearean sentences with no entropy loss
Also, he has written a lot of short story fiction like "The Study of Anglophysics," "it was you who made my blue eyes blue," etc...
This stance is very demoralising.