skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view math is not so much about you needing it. It's about developing abstract thinking, reasoning, logic.

It's in the same boat as sports. You will never need to run 100 yards with a ball in your hand, except for the sport itself. Yet we still do sports to train and stay in shape.
We can understand how and why neural networks work.

The issue is that obtaining this understanding requires a lot of effort.

OpenAI invested in trying to understand how a simple CNN works.

You can read their results here: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/

> In the original narrative of deep learning, each neuron builds progressively more abstract, meaningful features by composing features in the preceding layer. In recent years, there’s been some skepticism of this view, but what happens if you take it really seriously?

> InceptionV1 is a classic vision model with around 10,000 unique neurons — a large number, but still on a scale that a group effort could attack. What if you simply go through the model, neuron by neuron, trying to understand each one and the connections between them? The circuits collaboration aims to find out.
Every time I see one of these stories I wonder why the government has a seat at the table to decrease our rights. We currently have the right to encrypt backups. Why is the government lobbying to take that away from us? This is a right the government should be protecting for us, instead of stripping away.

An enforcement agency should never be advocating against the rights of the people.
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Yet pay is not based on COL. Google pays people in London less than they pay people working remotely in Montana.
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> The US system is as bifurcated as the various European nations mentioned in this thread. The elite families in the US do not send their kids to the same (frequently) underperforming schools as the middle class or poor, just as those types of families don't do that in Russia or Romania.

To illustrate the point: the only Presidential candidate from one of the two major parties, since and including the 2000 election, not to have attended a private prep school, was Hillary Clinton.
arrested for what? trying to recover his own thing?
A big difference is the removal of windowing: Flink lets you aggregate or join events only so long as they arrive in the same temporally-bound window. You're required to have a window, and it's core to the semantics of your workflow.

Flow's model doesn't use windows, and allows for long-distance (in time) joins and aggregations. There's no concept of "late" data in Flow: it just keeps on updating the desired aggregate.
Now that you mention it, it seems that there is indeed a phenomena worth exploring here.

I may have done many things in life that I perceive to be valuable for our family, but nothing earned me as many 'points' with Mrs. as did the act of just sucking it up and cleaning the entire garage one day.
> Given this state of things, have they picked the lesser of two evils to solve the thorny problem of CSAM detection? I think it’s fair to say yes, they did,

Can you describe the two options they had?
TST fan here, though it's like to try https://github.com/ranmaru22/firefox-vertical-tabs once my x86 is sorted
The other big push for APIs comes from mobile apps, which also tend to follow a model close to the web's single-page applications. Would be good to have a reliable setup to do this from iPhone and Android devices.
As technology getting better and better, it becoming more and more difficult to hide information. Imagine smaller and smaller device that can record more and more information and transmit it faster and faster.

Information wants to be free.

Its simply more pragmatic approach to embrace and adapt to transparency.

> the powerful would still have ways to achieve it, while the less powerful wouldn't

The imbalance of power come from information asymmetry. e.g The government has more information then the citizen thus they are more powerful but if we strive for transparency for both side then the playing field is leveled.

Sure you can do that by privacy for both side but then you are fighting against the progress of technology.
I agree wholeheartedly - that's why I found puzzling that the functionality has been limited to "porn-mode". Judging by the downvotes though, I should have stated it better.
"believe"?

99% chance this against the terms.
And there's also an added cost of engineers supporting all that hardware and the Hadoop components running on it.
We also keep electing scorpions.
Can you delineate the difference you see between justice and fairness here that you think is important?
Individual samples do not in any significant sense constitute events. The only thing that really pays them any attention is metering, and the result of that process is only displayed to the user periodically (i.e. something roughly equivalent to the screen refresh rate).

Even higher level objects, such as what are various called "clips" or "regions" or "events" frequently pay no role in any type of event notification system. In some designs, the boundaries of such objects may play a somewhat event-like fole.
How is this general and decontexualised number, with no definition of what is considered "sex abuse", relevant to the matter of scanning for pornographic images on iPhones?

You're trying to play to people's emotions by emphasizing the perceived gravity and prevalence of the problem of sex abuse in general, and then trying to use that emotional momentum to argue for something largely unrelated.
Can someone calculate at which point a 100 ton spacecraft accelerating at a constant 1gee (local) would have a total kinetic energy exceeding the mass energy of the entire (observable… as in, within our light cone) universe?
Yeah they just did that not long ago. I wrote a reply for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27945213
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Firefox Desktop at least lets you know if you've aready got a given URL open.

Chrome does not.

(My "Close tabs" post-it on my desk lamp is dated April 15. 2017.)
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Some crazies have done similar things here. Crime in Western Europe is getting really extreme.

In Holland it's now commonplace to steal money from ATMs by blowing up half the block (they call it a 'plofkraak'). https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=plofkraak&iax=images&ia=ima...

In Amsterdam passengers of a tram had to drop to the floor because some assassins wanted to kill someone and took the whole area under machine gun fire, didn't care about collateral damage.

In Belgium there was the "bende van Nijvel" that would rob supermarkets with machine guns and kill civilians on the motorways just to slow down pursuers. (This is a couple of decades ago though)

I wouldn't be surprised if someone steals a tank just to gain access to a nearby bank by ramming the walls or something, and then of course use another vehicle for escaping.
Yep, even larger cities may not have public infrastruture that matches the requirement of all. I’ve had all kinds of jobs in the same area. One job was perfect for bus, another had biking as the fastest option. Current job and geography means that I can drive 15 - 20min, bike 60min or bus for 90min.
I think both of you are making a lot of assumptions without providing any sources to back up your own anecdotal experiences. Also related, but HN could really use an optional country-flag next to each user's name so that we could at least see what country people are referring to respective their experiences which they state as "the way it is".

> Home temperature is fairly consistent over the day.

You must live in a mild climate where the outside temperature doesn't change much because everywhere I've lived in the world, you constantly turn on/off heating/fans/air-conditioning depending on the season and time of day.

> Commuting costs completely dominate in terms of energy costs.

Assuming usage of cars. Leave the US and generally public transportation is a thing used by most people. The trains/trams/buses still travel the same routes and times as before-pandemic times.

> The running the same computer hardware at home or the office

Why is that? My PCs at work each use ~150W and I never turn them off because Wake-On-Lan doesn't always work. I presume it's the same for most of my 700 co-workers who also WFH. That's a lot of KW and not to be scoffed at.

> Radio’s use minimal electricity ~25w

You are taking the minimal example of radio. I would guess that more than a negligible amount of people have something more substantial at home which uses more than 25w (including amp/speakers/wifi to connect to Alexa, etc), granted it's probably still not much and could even balance out with people who don't listen to radio while working? Who knows, IMO it's futile to even try to calculate this value globally.
It's been reported that this option is not presented to everyone. (I do however get the option to disable Safety Alerts for all AirTags though, which isn't really what I want). Next time I get it I'll try tapping again to see if anything got kicked into place with 14.7.1.
I'd feel a lot more 'respected' if they didn't keep forcing unwanted UI changes on me.
Never managed to get TST to run well on my machines. But no need to fret, found this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

It combines a vertical tab bar with grouping and containers and more.
Tim Cook isn't in charge. They're starting the process of complying with, acquiescing to, the multitudes of politicians in the West that are demanding a change in the super structure of online privacy and how it's treated.

Anyone here think Yahoo executives actually decided whether the company joined PRISM or not? Those executives also were not in charge. There is a bigger boss in DC, radically more powerful, and most everybody here knows what they're after. They're sick of waiting, they're going to attempt to make another big surveillence move during the relative calm of the Biden Admin (they couldn't do it effectively under Trump, there was too much chaos, the government wasn't functioning very well). What program is actually being put into place right now - that Apple is probably joining up to, as with PRISM - that we won't find out about for many years?

It's going to get a lot worse across the board over the coming decade.
Constantly dinking with the UI and constantly making broadly unpopular, if not harmful (re. cliqz and hiding it) changes against any and all criticism. Mozilla at some point decided they know better than their users what their users want.

...their market share stats show they were wrong.
Not sure about youtube, but for the right age kid, maybe late-elementary to early high school, there's a weekly "Joyful math jamboree" online. The web page for it is not updated very often, but the registration form still works.

There's also the Julia Robinson Math Festival that's supposed to be good but I don't have first-hand experience.

Ideally, a Math Circle would could be good for some kids if your area supports one.
Hi there, thanks for the question!

Our customers are mostly developers working at startups which process high volumes of sensitive data (things like payment details, healthcare data, credentials etc.). We abstract away all of the infrastructure that E3 runs on, so we don't have any requirements for where our customers our hosted. Our customers run on a very diverse range of stacks/clouds, so being cloud-agnostic was a key design requirement.

The core security assumption with Evervault is that your API key is reasonably well managed. API keys can be easily rotated in our dashboard, but having encrypted data and an Evervault API key could potentially lead to data leakage. Over time, we plan on adding some cool features around data leakage whereby we can proactively block data exfiltration/leakage. More on this soon!

A simple model for how security with Evervault works is: you store encrypted data, but not keys; Evervault stores keys, but no data. This creates a nice dual-responsibility model which far exceeds what most companies can do today.

Feel free to email directly if you have any other questions! I'm on shane@evervault.com
So Google is okay paying landlords for the offices but won't pay workers for use of home as office? Okay.

Sounds like the landlord deals could have something to do with tax avoidance?
I think one of the problems here is a reality and perception don't align:

- Apple has over a billion devices out there.

- Child abuse is a rare problem, but with over a billion devices, there will be enough of it for a lot of newsworthy stories.

- Child pornography takes just one abused child for an arbitrary number of viewers. Arguably, by the time you're limiting the number of viewers, most of the harm has been done.

On the whole, I'm not quite sure how the Apple plan will protect actual children from rape (except to somewhat reduce the secondary harm of distribution). I can clearly see how it will protect Apple from bad press, though -- people won't use iPhones to record that.

On the other hand, an investment in education, health care, reporting, and enforcement could significantly reduce the amount of child abuse, but with 7 billion people in the world, no expense would bring it to zero. So long as it's not zero, the potential for bad press is there. Indeed, usually if something happens a few times per year, it receives more bad press than if it happens a few times per day.

Apple has every incentive to be (1) seen as doing something (2) do things which protect its brand value. Apple has no incentive to invest in education, health care, reporting, and enforcement. Those seem like good things to do, but if anything, if a scandal comes up, those sorts of things are used to say "See, Apple new, and was trying to buy an out."

As a footnote, if we value all children equally, a lot of this is super-cheap. This is a good movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_into_Brothels

And the problem it portrays could probably be solved with the same finances as the salaries of a few Apple engineers, and a focused, targeted effort to identify child prostitutes, help their families with the economics which force those kids to become child prostitutes, and get those kids into schools instead.

I'm guessing the $100k raised from this film will do more to protect kids than this whole Apple initiative will do.
As a human, I certainly would ask what a wug is, or try to figure it out in context, or look up the definition. I think that's typical for most conversations.
Is there evidence that knowing how to do math is actually beneficial to most people?

I think it's easy to criticize when ignoring the possibility that much of what is taught in American schools is actually just useless and very little of it is retained after schooling ends.
Isn't this included in FF by default? At least I use it and don't see it in my extensions. Only thing I'm missing is automatic containers for certain domains (as it works with FB).
I can confirm that we happily worked nitty days for a very long time and the perks helped keep us happy and sane. After some number of years though, your personal well of energy starts to dry up and no amount of weird crap in a fridge is going to solve it. We were very productive until that point though.
The big gotcha for Vue2 was the performance when you wanted to display a list of like 10,000 things. I like to tinker with data and a lot of my day is spent on an sql prompt inside of emacs watching results sets of 1,000 rows or 50 columns just fly by so I can search them visually. Having to remember to "freeze" things for performance or create simpler "views" of the model I'm playing with is sometimes jarring.
I believe this is incorrect.

> At the same time, because of the First Amendment, child pornography offenses are not "strict liability" crimes like statutory rape: in order to convict a defendant, the government must prove that the defendant knew the material involved the actual abuse of a child

https://www.zmolaw.com/child-pornography-faqs#

I've found similar claims on the websites of a few law offices. For some reason, the official DoJ materials are pretty cagey on the topic.
Interesting hypothesis about airconditioning being the reason for staying indoors. I always assumed TV was the main cause.
I'm curious if in the later part of their development update, they will add cryptocurrencies in the browser that might help or benefit the participating user.
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My interpretation is that is why it’s so brilliant.

It’s incredibly simple for the end user conceptually but encapsulates optimizing processing across a distributed file system, fault tolerance, shuffling key value pairs, job stage planning, handling intermediates ect.

Hadoop a big data framework that reduces the level of competence required to write data pipelines because it was able to hide a massive amount of complexity behind the map reduce abstraction.

Id even argue that hive, snowflake, and other sql data warehouses have taken this idea further, where most sql primitives can be implemented as map reduce derivatives. With this next level of abstraction, dbas and non-engineers are witting map reduce computations.

I think my point is that abstractions like map reduce have had a democratizing effect on who can implement high scale data processing and their value is that they took something incredibly complex and made it simple.
As a Canadian living close to the US border, that section was relatable. Using both units (metric and imperial) depending on scale has always felt unique to my geography/age.
Between us, there is indeed room for improvements, but when we are discussing this topic with our fellow Americans, we must put things into perspective. Compared to them we are perfectly fine, as their meat production and consumption is an absolute shitshow!
I spend most of my day with her... Also, perhaps their software is (I know, hard to believe) buggy? Either way, not sure what to tell you, this is what I see: https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/1408946076531441664

I believe the reason this happens at the end of a walk is because it specifically fires off when you enter your own home (either geofence of detection of your home WiFi or something). So it's probably accumulating throughout the day, then we go out, come back, and it shows it.
Fascinating article which explains the seeming contradiction between China's crackdown on some of the most visible tech companies (Alibaba, Tencent) and it's new emphasis on tech growth.
If I'm thinking about this correctly, the potential energy in the fuel isn't changing the net kinetic energy of the total mass, it's just re-distributing it between the vehicle and the exhaust.
Aren't the firefox upgrades largely in-browser now? I haven't seen firefox even upgraded in the repos but two clicks in Firefox' menu got me the last version.
> My working theory is that the upper management's jobs are more boring, and harder to coast on, when they can't "count heads" and have the illusion of progress. It's really exposed good and bad managers this past 1.5 years.

A lot of upper management jobs consist solely of attending meetings for projects they are only vaguely aware of so that they can ask questions about irrelevant things, interrupting people who are trying to get work done to ask them how long the work they were doing before being interrupted will take to do (more time now that I've been interrupted again, thanks) and other needless tasks.
Commutes wouldn't bother me if I could consider them work time and get paid for them. Instead, they're uncovered overhead costs of work I have to pay daily because I'm driving. That's why the more WFH I get, the less lost time I have driving, fuel/car maintenance/value depreciation costs, less time preparing (I just do hygiene at home, no dressing up to present myself because pajamas are great). The savings have been adding up in both time and money.

Even if there was a great public transit option for my commute, I'd have to focus on aspects of work I could do because I get motion sickness pretty easily. Reading a laptop on a moving bus, train, or whatever is going to have me dizzy with a massive headache, then a lost hour recovering when I actually arrive. I do envy those who have the opportunity and capability to do this though.
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How does the customer prove that their data is secure? It seems like you can prove your own environment is secure (as long as you trust the TEE), but the customer is still trusting you to run in that environment, no?
This. I've been saying for a decade that if the city of Austin was really serious about doing something about its traffic problem and reducing CO2 emissions, they should incentivize local businesses via tax deductions and/or credits to promote remote work for those who can do it. It'd do a helluva lot more than building new roads and light-rail lines combined.
I certainly have complaints but I'm still a happy FF user. What I get for free, a powerful open modern web browser, is more than worth the price of admission.
Combine balloons with skyhooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk

Edit:

According to proprietary imtringued numbers the hydrogen for a balloon capable of lifting 1kg to 50km would be $800 if you do not reuse the hydrogen. The skyhook would accept vehicles at an altitude of 100km so no, keep balloons out of the space launch industry.
I love the idea of using k as a DSL (domain specific language) for working on time-series data. Something like it would also be great for working on n-dimensional arrays, but unfortunately k doesn't really support working with them in any elegant or efficient way.

Python and Numpy would benefit a lot from having something like k to express vector/matrix operations elegantly.
the genetic fallacy actually, to be pedantic
> It is worth noting that this change could potentially leave implementations vulnerable to Bleichenbacher’s attack on PKCS#1 v1.5 RSA padding. In our implementation, these concerns are not an issue as there we have no access to any of the decrypt responses or stack traces.

You don't need those things to exploit a padding oracle. A timing leak is sufficient.

Unless you're doing what s2n does to blind response times of any potential timing leaks, you're probably still vulnerable.

https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls#timing-blinding

You're probably not using s2n to talk to a Nitro enclave.
"it doesn't really matter, you don't lose anything here"

Except you do. It's harder to understand and less readable; and in a real life rather than made up example, addTwo is in some other module entirely and has side effects that are completely invisible (in most languages) when just looking at addThree, making debugging and understanding WTF is going on far harder.

You mention "pure functional context", and yet this whole thread exists under a post about OOP, which is all about state management; it's no good trying to create toy examples that are side effect free to try and dismiss the points being made. Yes, of course pure code is fairly trivial to slice and dice, and the cost of doing so tends to be low (not zero, but low), but that's not really what is being talked about.

Otherwise you're kind of "no true Scotsman"ing this; "if you find these problems with your code than the code was never modular in the first place" - yeah, that's the point. Splitting code doesn't by definition make it more modular.