skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what he older math-education in german schools is like, probably also more hard-core. After elementary school, germany has a three tracks Gymnasium, Realschule und Hauptschule. A Gymnasium prepares one for university and is still well regarded and its final tests, the Abitur, still carries a prestige. Looking back (I attended a Gymnasium), I think the quality of the education was quite high, especially in my english lessons and the social subjects. If the goal of the school was to produce good citizens capable of actively participating in a democracy and forming their own opinion, then it did it very well. Especially later, we had quite a few interesting, adult discussions with engaged teachers about various topics in history, society, art etc. So I think that the quality of my gymnasium was quite high and it really showed in subjects where capable teachers alone can make quite the difference.

But the gymnasiums should also prepare those capable for university, be more rigorous, and I think there's the problem. The division doesn't work anymore. Everybody wants their children to go to the gymnasium, because everybody has to study at the university. Even when they have no interest whatsoever in science and just want to work as a coder. Also, attending a Gymnasium can't be prestigious if everybody is doing it. I remember quite a few children struggling but getting pushed through by their parents because a Realschule is simply not an option. I was also struggling, but more because I just didn't care and there weren't really any consequences. I still passed each class. But a more rigorous math education would, I think, result in a lot of the children failing the gymnasium and a lot of angry parents who see the future of their children and their parental success in turmoil. So the Gymnasium really turned into a one-size-fits-all kind of education and I strongly suspect that especially in math (or physics) that leads to the lowest common denominator. So now I wonder what the math education was like when only few could attend the gymnasium, i suspect way more rigorous.

Is it similar in other countries?

By the way, it's totally different at the university level. The german university doesn't feel responsible for your personal success, you have to earn it. If you fail, you fail and the standard can be quite high. I also don't really see a lowering of standards in the "core" degrees, for the first big math exams I prepared myself by practicing with old ones going back into the 80s/90s. They were as difficult as the new ones. A lot of students failing out of the subjects they have chosen (can be as much as 2/3rds) just choose easier majors, for example a business-computer science combination because they have less math classes. A lot of the students that started studying with me ended up switching majors because of the more rigorous computer-science and math-classes (I think roughly 50%).
> If you (or your company) are paying cloud fees for hosting your services (including serverless), you are absolutely throwing money away, perhaps for a "good" reason ('we have a huge rails codebase'), if you ignore this information.

It’s worth pointing out that in some cases developer productivity can swamp server cost. It might be reasonable to pay the server bill necessary to develop in Ruby rather than C++, for example.

Obviously the relationship between performance and developer productivity isn’t strictly linear.
WhatsApp does by default save received images to your photo library (as opposed to e.g. iMessage). You can turn that off, though. And the permission to read from a user's photo library (to e.g. post images) includes the ability to write to it.
You make it sound derogatory, but counting the figurative beans is part of their job description, and someone has to do it. I've had the misfortune of working in places where no one is willing and able to count the beans, and I promise you that didn't go too well.
As with most everything, the difficulty in making an org run well seems to be in finding (and keeping) that fleeting balance between vision and bean counting.
FISA orders (PRISM) are not NSLs.

Neither FISA/702 orders or NSLs are warrants though, and they do not require probable cause.
You are agreeing current sail boats can go DDWFTTW which is directly downwind not a degree either way, faster than the wind, for a indefinite period of time? Tacking is not allowed, since that's not directly downwind.

This should also mean going directly upwind is practically possible, not a degree either way, directly upwind for a indefinite period of time with sails.

Do you have a link for this?

Here's a link to a working directly upwind rotary sail boat model - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1bR5hb8RCQ
Yeah 100kW for 5N ramps to ~15-20MW for each person lol
Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material
That may be true in principle, but irrelevant with respect to Apple's CSAM process. Unless the exact material is explicitly catalogued by NCMEC or another child safety organisation, there won't be a hash match.

This isn't a porn detector strapped to a child detector.
Read the book recently, was entertaining enough.
With currently I obviously meant the system that's going to be deployed in the next major update.

The rest of my points still stand.
Curiously enough, virtually everywhere with any significant human activity exists ... near ports, roads, rivers, or rail.

Roads or tracks can be quickly laid through wilderness if necessary (provided the natives are friendly).

If you're dealing with frozen terrain, ice roads can be used.

There are some exceptions to this. They are extreme outliers, both figuratively and geographically.
I don’t have any data either way, but it could technically be the case that the productivity gains from working in an open plan office offset the costs compared to allowing people to work from home, but that the same is not true when comparing an open office to a traditional one. I guess it depends on if you believe these companies work off good data or not.
890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found
Pretty insane that one needs to kowtow to illegal spies to be able to publish software.

Seems like a 1A battle they don't want to fight, because the actual retaliation for the 1A exercise would come in the form of regulation or antitrust that is unrelated to the publication of the objectionable software.

Sad state of affairs in the USA.
Of course NPR would share such nonsense
Thank you Microsoft® O̶p̶e̶n̶ClosedAI™.
> Apple will no just simply refuse to upload stuff that would be flagged in the cloud, it is flagging it already before upload on your device. And share the results with authorities.

None of this is true. A sibling comment describes the process:

>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
Theoretically the value you bring should always be higher than what you're paid, since it would be uneconomical to employ you otherwise. That said your second paragraph is absolutely right, there are plenty of failures. In a modern bigcorp I'd be willing to wager that value is created on a bell curve relative to a given salary level (so for example if you take a bunch of people making $60,000 in the same company, some produce no value or negative value, some produce moderate value, some produce extreme value). If I had to guess complexity actually allows the information asymmetries to flourish, so the market is probably extremely distorted and that's why you see the effect.
The intuition is not 100% accurate but it points you in the right direction for further inquiry. So in this case, maybe it’s not that the amount of screen time in general is causing the mental health issues but it’s constantly being tethered to social media on the phone.
I don't get how this works? Isn't the cost of maintenance a part of your rent? If it doesn't cover the costs then you end up with a rent increase?
I think the first time I saw this was a chain email in the late 90s.
The vendor lock-in is that you can’t replant the seeds next year, you have to buy new seeds from the vendor.

Frankly, I don’t know how common this is with corn, or are the farmers all buying hybrid seeds each year anyway.
Yes, and I mean the same system, based on the same statements from Apple.

Clientside scanning will happen even without iCloud. Apple expects and pressures all users to use iCloud, defaults it to on without interaction or consent, and does not test the non-iCloud paths very well. You can't even setup a homepod to be a simple wifi speaker without iCloud.
Intuition is prone to all sort of biases. It is a powerful tool, but a dangerous one. Tread carefully.

As time passes, I have less and less confidence in other's intuitions. Why should other people trust mine?

I do spend a great part of my time on "devices" yet I am happy, see a lot of people, and I don't let devices interrupt me when I'm with people most of the time. I usually do not wander mindlessly on the web. The connection between time spent on devices and mental health is far from obvious, there's a lot more to this.
At that point, it's better to let the employee go.
Mixed feelings about it. One one hand, this is brilliant, because the worst nightmare for oppressive government officials is to bring to light all their criminal activities and personal details.

On the other hand, it's a glimpse into the future and it's scary. Apparently, the Belarus government collected a centralized database of all citizens' communications. And it was hacked and leaked. I think it's reasonable to assume that any centralized database of extreme value will be hacked and leaked one day, and it's just a matter of time. Any backdoor demanded by government will at some point be exploited by a rogue actor.
Yeah this is a big of a survivorship bias thing. People only know about B2C focused VCS because they make themselves known.

I'd say the vast majority of VC money is "dark" money.

Investors who fund military technology don't spend a lot of time on PR.
That's actually the more specific criticism of Rawls: he argues behind the veil of ignorance people generally would promote the interests of the worst off above all else, and critics (including those who think the veil of ignorance is a great concept) disagree with this conclusion (which depends on an additional assumption we are extremely risk averse)
Correct me if I am wrong. But I think E2EE also makes storage cost much more expensive since no piece of Data are the same again.
For some applications a plasma window can be used.
Ten thousand iOS users doing something stupid or sloppy per day (noting they don’t have to be stupid or sloppy in general for that to happen) would not hit the monumentally unlikely criteria for me. Also this is not counting the false positives which is the premise of this thread.
I can see the benefits of structured output from CLI tools. It’s a bit rare to find but they do exist. I believe the closest I have found in the wild is a terminal instance connecting to some 1980s mainframe tech.

There are also some FOSS tools aimed at increasing the readability of CLI tools

https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss

Doesn’t offer tables (yet) but is about as good as it’s going to get.

For “easy mode” apps, isn’t this what GUI apps were made for? The old Java applets and apps using Swing/JavaFX or Qt are the ones that immediately come to mind.
smartphones & mobile internet, blockchain,
> The other big players have been moving in that direction

Not so, TikTok actively lets you download videos in a convenient format. I think that helped it grow too, since they embed a watermark and add a splash screen at the end. Certainly that's how I first found out about the platform. That said, this seems to be disabled in some regions (not sure if you can opt in).
That is somewhat unclear at the moment. They don't get to see the actual image in your library, they see a derived image that's part of the encrypted data uploaded by your phone as it analyses the images.

I don't believe any of the information they've released thus far, gives any actual detail about what that derived image actually is.

One might guess it's a significantly detail-reduced version of the original image, that they would compare against the detail-reduced image that is able to be generated from the matching hash in the CSAM database.
i like how the us military makes cost of living adjustments. you have your base pay determined my your rank which is not adjusted by where you live. in addition to that you get a housing stipend (BAH and BAS) that is adjusted by where you live. if i remember correctly the housing stipend is before tax.

google is essentially forcing a pay cut to your base salary in addition to the portion of your salary you use for housing.
That's a summary number of many kinds of reports, of which CSAM hash matches would be one part.

That summary number also includes accusations of child sex trafficking and online enticement. I wouldn't be surprised if reported allegations of trafficking and enticement were in excess of 99.9% of Facebook's reporting. But since they don't break it out, I can only guess.

Given that guesses aren't useful to anyone, it would be interesting if you know of any statistics from any of the major tech vendors, of the reporting frequency of just CSAM hash matches.
>Yes, software traditionally works shitty under bad network conditions

not everything is equally affected by bad network conditions, SPAs generally are very badly affected by bad network conditions, indeed what is a bad network condition for an SPA might be acceptable for a traditional static page.
That doesn't seem to be the same kind of detectors at all.

"21.4 million of these reports were from Electronic Service Providers that report instances of apparent child sexual abuse material that they become aware of on their systems."

So those 20M seems to be images that Facebook looked at and determined to be CP. Apple's system is about comparing hashes against already known CP.

For the record: I don't support Apple's system here, but it's not the same kind of detection at all. Let's try to not make up random facts.
So he cant be a collector? Because he is a pensioner?
https://archive.is/PaVem
Why not both?

Cut office costs and salary costs.

I don't see this as a signal that these companies necessarily want employees back into offices: If employees do prefer WFH then, as I mentioned, companies may be betting that they will accept a level of cut.
It would be nice to get feedback
This but building your own ala bullet journal.
TL;DR they're mostly self funded (through farming and resource extraction withing Afghanistan).

The near complete absence of cell phone videos of AGTM attacks from that war is a massive tip-off it clear that they don't have a nation state sugar daddy paying the bill (in contrast with groups in Syria).
I use Firefox and I have too many tabs open. Tab Stash helped a lot though, great extension. Firefox container Tabs puts a color border on tabs and also helps with work stuff.
This blog post from the CTO of VMware and Springsource, gives a pretty good summary of the entity-resolution field: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/12/14/entity-resolution/
Any of them as long as you encrypt before you upload.
Bookmarks are notes. The problem is there is no proper contexting anymore.
Everything is mixed up. Personal, work, development, everything scattered around in applications, files.

A good solution is to have multiple machines with something like synergy.

I'd still love a multi-user environment (multi-context actually), with separate file systems, application instances etc.
It’s why The Martian is one of my favorite movies (and book, of course). No evil, conniving, contrived antagonist designed to be hated. It’s just everyone working together against the most unforgiving antagonist of all: the universe itself.

I don’t want to watch movies or read books where people are just awful to other people, I can open the newspaper on any given day to find that.
I disagree. Studying algorithms and data structures is not at all like memorizing integral solution formulas. People who are good at these types of problems generally do the same steps:

1. What is the class of problem I am dealing with? (e.g., solution uses a stack, queue, heap, etc.)
2. What is the likely complexity of the solution?

Knowing, or at least having a guess, to these two questions greatly simplifies the approach. You do the exact same thing with solving integrals (e.g., is this an integration by parts question? is it a substitution question? etc.) and the same for physics, chemistry, etc. With algorithms, once you've done enough and have a very good mental model, you will start making translations between problems. That is, given problem A, you are able to map it to problem B which is easy to solve using some technique you know.
Fun fact: The Panther tank's engine was refurbished by the German Army maintenance some years back. And the guy used it for a while as a snow plower.

IMHO the amount of ammunition he had is more of a problem. That and the general amount of WW2 / Nazi memorabilia.
Which may contain the hashes of their photos, because they've been taken down in the past, which means they probably have been added to certain blacklists that may have been integrated into the blackbox of NCMEC's database.
JPL director to step down – SpaceNews
My father repeated a year, bounced back from it and became a teacher later in life.

But usually it did not happen that often. When it did happen, it usually meant someone will change schools to a less demanding one (if in high school). So for example you may leave a gymnasium and go to a school for mechanics.

In elementary school it did not happen except for serious disciplinary problems. People with mental problems were able to have special programmes that tailored to their needs, so this did not result in repeating a year.

Teachers did not really like the idea of having someone repeat a year, so if you had a decent attitude you could get a passing grade but you had to put in the effort. This "effort" part is what is in my opinion biggest different, Eastern Europe schooling required you to put in a lot of work, if you were talented you didn't need to use so much time, but if you weren't natural at math, you had to put in plenty of hours to get decent grades. Problems usually were not of the sort that can't be learned through "brute force".

I've done some teaching on the side and when I was teaching a guy in a "US" school for children of diplomats, difference was that their problems were usually much more freeform and required deeper understanding but once understood, used primitive math or physics methods. Our normal schooling was different, it used advanced math or physics but the problems were often times many variants of the same problem (which allowed for brute force learning). Honestly I think that it would be the best to have both, as many of my fellow students did not really understand the material we studied but they could brute force it.
I still have a hard time in mental arithmetics. During my school days, this is one of the things which had instilled the "math phobia" in me.
I never really took an interest in math, until I started doing competitive programming in college. I had to literally build a new understanding of division, multiplication, modulus, etc., it's difficult to explain. But I feel really ashamed in admitting that I still suck at math, probably because I just hated it during school days and no one was there to guide me. I don't really like blaming things on others, but I am not sure what else I could've done to learn math.
I'm not talking about "where language comes from." I'm talking about a mechanical understanding of how humans produce and understand language.

Chomsky's idea goes deeper than "just random sounds," given his theory of universal grammar.
It's legal to do e2e backups; Google does for android.

Apple knows which way the wind blows. If they piss off the USG spies, there are lots of "unrelated" ways to make them hurt, including but not limited to additional regulation or antitrust enforcement against their anticompetitive moneymaker App Store.

What this means is that if you are big enough, the 1A doesn't actually apply to you and you can't publish any legal software you like, because the FBI/IC/military will cause you to suffer even though you haven't broken the law.
Yes, but what if the biggest empire in the world, the USA, is the renegade state?
So Apple wants to use my electricity/computation instead of doing it on their own servers. Disregarding the privacy issues that’s pretty scummy IMHO.
There is a theory that they might want to e2e encrypt iCloud and this was a prerequisite. Maybe it's just wishful thinking though.
This is a good thing, it's not healthy to have all your wealth in one small region of a country.
China's Big Tech Crackdown
>Local authorities raided the property in 2015 after receiving a tip-off about the building's contents by colleagues in Berlin, who had earlier searched the home for stolen Nazi art.

And this kind of "information sharing" is exactly why nobody wants to talk to ANY government agency. You show the DCF rep that your home is fine and normal, they go away empty handed and then the next week the building inspector magically decides to measure the setback on your garden shed. This story is just the big boy equivalent of that fact pattern.
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Gross. I can't fathom how anyone would put up with that.
What if they need the money?
Covid-19 cases by vaccination status
Please don't use Whataboutism to derail this thread. This discussion is about handling Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on iPhones.
I this is sarcasm?
'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming
I see, you probably should lay off Twitter. JFYI, the "authoritative leader" is advertising [2] covid vaccination (if you meant Trump, as I suspect) and if you find out who does not get vaccinated, you will be surprised, I promise (also if you find out who are the "antivaxxers" i.e. the people against all and any vaccines, not just the covid, then another big surprise's incoming).

As for masking, I for one don't wear a mask because I read the studies [1], I have not heard the "authoritative leader" advertising them one way or another and certainly not because I think they are beneficial for me but I want to own the libs. Can't say for everyone but I suspect a lot of people are like me, not necessarily reading studies but do what they think benefits them.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903751/

2. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/politics/donald-trump-covid-1...
Not surprising seeing how he bought this tank disarmed and was trying to rearm it.

Given the strong gun laws in Germany, I think he's lucky to get away with a fine for illegally acquiring a tank, anti-aircraft cannon, mortar, torpedo as well as an assortment of guns.

There is the "Kriegswagfenkontrollgesetz" (law to control weapons of war) that deals with owning and trading these kind of things.

Source in German: https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/k...

Comment on rearming:
»Ich wollte den Panzer so herrichten, wie er aus dem Werk kam«, soll F. am 12. Juli 2015 gesagt haben. In einem Telefonat am 12. August 2015 soll ihn ein Gesprächspartner daran erinnert haben, wie er ihn mehrfach darauf hingewiesen habe, den Panzer zu demilitarisieren. »Aber Sie, Herr F., sagten: Einen Teufel werde ich tun«, zitiert der Staatsanwalt aus den Protokollen.

Source behind paywall: https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/k...