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> what you’re asking for is not possible without submitting the content in question to Apple

This unfortunately appears to be true, and part of me is impressed by [the idea of] the solution they've come up with. But, like I said in my first comment, it means in practice that I have an opaque and unaccountable surveillance program running on my personal physical hardware, which is undeniably an escalation. Whatever they claim it's doing is both completely unverifiable and probably complicated enough, and subject enough to change, that it's practically impossible to form a complete and persistently correct understanding of the attack surface it exposes—even if it were open-sourced and exhaustively documented, which it isn't and presumably never will be.

I am much more comfortable simply knowing that anything I upload to somebody else's servers is subject to snooping, and anything I keep on my hardware is not. That's how the other cloud storage providers do it, and I may not like it, but it's at least easy to account for when I'm thinking about my own data security and privacy. It's admirable that Apple tried to come up with something better, but (I'd argue) from certain important perspectives it's arguably worse.

Software is a chronic disease. Once you let it in, it never goes away, and changes beyond the scope of "fixes" seem to infallibly make it more intrusive and/or harmful. We are like frogs with many bodies, each being boiled in a different pot by a different chef. I have no interest in yet another unaccountable daemon inhabiting my private person.
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I went to school in America. When we learned the scientific method, formulating a hypothesis was the fourth or fifth step. I believe the first step we were taught was to make an observation.
I've already printed one exceptional prompt to canvas and mounted it on my wall. I'm a real artist!

(Also, making a bunch of postcards would be sick)
I don't recall the source rght now, but I once saw it calculated that recording every phone call in the US would cost the NSA about 20M$/yr in terms of datacenter storage. This means any government not absolutely destitute is able to afford to record all domestic phone calls.
It's to steer you to cheaper (for them) content, I imagine, with enough randomness to make it sticky and obscure the real goal.
I don't think that's true. No matter how much you emit, you can still end up with more money if you emit less.
pretty decent for an incompetent professor in my opinion
I'd also add - verify at least a day ahead that those on-call know they are on-call and those making such calls - know who to call. Nothing worse than getting a call and that's the first you find out that your on-call. Experienced that before.

One classic was for a some telco circuits running the DOH phone system about 9pm at night after I'd happily enjoyed a large helping of vodka. Which as I wasn't on-call or had any on-call responsibilities and worked on the Video Conferencing side - well, calls like that soon sober and wake you up with adrenaline. Lucky managed to assist and wasn't major or impacting and turned out the Telco providing the circuits had contacts mixed up and because I'd been diagnosing some circuit issues (turned out Q bearer needed replacing and video shows bit errors more than anything else like networking or voice and worked fine upon that Q bearer) the previous week that I got dragged into the mix. That was fun and was provider mixup.

The other classic - was working for a mobile company and had just flown from EU to Seattle and again after a few beers (seems to be a theme) to settle jetlag and about 11pm at night I get a call. Turns out I was on-call, which as I hadn't done on-call up to this point - was not the way I wanted to break that cherry.

So - making sure those on-call know when they are on-call and checking a day before to verify and those making the calls have the correct contact details is very much important as those two incidents highlight.
This seems to be misunderstanding what PAC learnable means. It's saying that for parameters epsilon and delta, you can get an algorithm for learning a hypothesis that, with probability 1 - delta, has an average error rate less than epsilon, given some number of training samples polynomial in 1/delta and 1/epsilon.

This has nothing to do with the mental model. The language model doesn't have to spit out probabilities. It can use a simple thresholding function and spit out certainties. They just might be wrong, but a human's "certain" mental models might be wrong, too.
Things I've learned from 25+ years of programming in C++ (and 5+ years of C before that):

1. not all software is about pushing and pulling to/from a database; if yours isn't, be sure you understand why that's the case.

2. "backends" (not "web backends", but the more general "where the mechanisms are") should know nothing about "frontends" (again, not web, but the more general "user interface of some kind"). This is really just MVC in its most basic sense. One good way I've found to think about this is to assume that there's always at least two UIs running simultaneously. Make sure this can work.

3. if your program has a user interface, everything the user can do without further interaction should be represented by a closure that can be invoked from anywhere (but always in the correct thread).

4. single-threaded GUI code seems like a limitation but in most projects, it's the right choice. By all means use helper threads when needed, but never allow them to use any API that's part of your GUI toolkit. Knowing that your GUI code is ALWAYS serialized is a huge conceptual assist when reasoning about behavior.

5. access to an excellent cross-thread message queueing system is likely to be a must if your software uses threads. This should include a way for one thread to cause arbitrary code execution in another thread.

6. direct memory access for the UI is nice from a programming perspective (that is: just directly call methods of backend objects), but can erode the wall of separation between the UIs and the backend.

7. lack of direct memory access for the UI(s) can significantly impede performance, but enforces a conceptual clarity that can be valuable.

8. when notifying the View(s) about changes in the Model(s), there's a tradeoff between fine-grained notifications ("frob.bar.baz.foo just changed") and high-level notifications ("something about frob just changed"). Finding the sweet spot between these two can be a challenge across the life of a long-lived piece of software.

9. lifetime management will never be trivial. Accept it, and move on to thinking about how it is going to work even if it is not trivial.

10. try to refer to as many things as possible indirectly. if something has a color, don't make it's state refer to the color, but the name or ID of the color. do not over-use this pattern when performance matters, but also do not over-estimate your ability to understand when performance matters.
> Programming is significantly easier... because of things like syntax checking and compiler/interpreter errors.

People[0][1] are using theorem provers to help teach students the general structure of a proof. And this is a bit of a tangent, but if you want to mess around with very simple proofs in first-order logic, the Open Logic Project[2] has an online proof editor and a textbook.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40753-021-001...

[1]: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/category/learning-lean/pag...

[2]: https://proofs.openlogicproject.org/
> When you escape earth orbit you have to exceed its orbital velocity around the sun.

This doesn't sound right. Orbital and escape velocities for the earth should depend only on the mass of the earth.
If your phone thinks there is a match, your picture will be sent unencrypted to be viewed by someone at apple. How is that privacy preserving? Apple built a mechanism to pull a photo from your phone, without telling you it did so(!!!!!), based on criteria you cannot even inspect. If anything, that's worse for privacy not better - they can say they care about your privacy and yet have a secret way of downloading and inspecting any picture on your super-duper-totally-secure-we-swear™ device. At least Facebook's approach is honest.
IMO, npm is a breeze compared to pip. With npm you know that `npm i && npm start` will start 95% of the projects cross-platform. It allows having different subdependencies versions in a way that just works. It encourages semver but at the same time you have lock file. Is highly customizable with rc files.

Perhaps I just don't have that much experience with pip, but it feels more like a tool to install packages, then you're on your own with some makefile or python scripts with no standard setup.
Using double quotes has been busted (at least for some searches) for literally years. This isn't, in general, a new phenomenon. You were lucky it worked for you as long as it did.

Double quotes don't work. Putting '&tbs=li:1' at the end of the search string to get "verbatim" results no longer works. Most of the "hacks" from this 2003 O'Reilly book don't work: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/google-hacks/0596004478...

It's all turned to shit.

What is going on here?

Read the other posts for some other ideas of what's happening.

My opinion is that Google doesn't need to care. The company's market cap, as of today, is $1831 Billion dollars. So Wall Street doesn't care either. Larry Page is hiding out in New Zealand, and he probably doesn't give a shit either. :-)
Yeah, ballasting is often forgotten when people talks about huge cargo airships.

Yes, it can drop a huge generator into the middle of nowhere for your construction project, but unless you do something it will then shoot up to the stratosphere due to all the extra lift.

Still, its solvable with either some rudimentary infrastructure (pump water aboard as you unload cargo) or by removing some of the lifting gas (much less of an issue with hydrogen).
Or tests. I prefer my tests DAMPer.
I think this is something that has not really been discussed much:

How useful is this feature? If the goal is to protect children, there must be good evidence that this does, in fact, protect children.
More a bag of tricks to get around issues you tend to run into when doing OOP.

Bridge comes to mind, I ran into that specific example myself trying to OO-design a GUI framework with different back ends.

With a pinch of common sense stuff like Facade etc.

Much of it only makes sense for static languages such as C++ and Java.

I'd say it gets way more credit than it deserves.

Stepanov on OOP is interesting (just search for object oriented):

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
Also, still considering whether I'd use it enough to justify the cost, but increasingly want the Precursor phone

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/
Hopefully it has Symbian instead of KaiOS (a chinese port of FirefoxOS) - Symbian is much faster than KaiOS.
> does anyone care?

I do care and I read this with interest just now. The idea that it took three hours to write a review of a month+ of work as part of "professional development" and that this person must bear that costs of that education, is a tip of the iceberg indicator to me as to the difficult work world we live in today. How is it that capital owners make money while sleeping, while craftsmen intellects spend a month+ without compensation to "get up to speed?" I am on the tail end of this after decades and it jumps out for me now, past the OOP part.

Second - I learned OOP approaches long ago, have written a lot of software and have used OOP in my own ways, much like this author. I appreciate the effort here! It is an interesting, technically somewhat shallow (no code in this essay) yet as noted, good balance of critical and open mindedness.

I do not understand OOP-hatred past "I hate the music my parents liked" and "Java is so tedious that it makes me hate all of the whole structure of it".

I used OOP code myself to separate parts in loosely coupled systems of several flavors; to make a systematic ordering of commands, to enable scripted or menu-driven command sets; and to wrap an interface around data for the convenience of other code. I feel that a strong point of OOP is to REDUCE the cognitive load for the human. Yet many snipes in articles about OOP specifically complain about the lengthy, spread-out, tedious nature of OOP code. Your mileage may vary ! Use it badly or use it well .. its not my doing.

The specific kind of software system described in the third book here, with messages passed without state between objects, is interesting, and reminds me to say now: I think there is vastly insufficient distinction made between software solutions, their design and implementation, in OOP criticism. What are you trying to solve? How much persisted data is there? or state, or interface to XYZ external system. This matters in design choices and I feel like OOP-critics often race to their favorite annoying thing rather than do the intellectual work of distinguishing for a reader, what the assumptions are and what the finished product requires..

Overall, this essay is worth reading, feels short to me despite obvious effort on the part of the author, and personally, I get a nagging feeling that people doing this kind of work should be less scammed by low-morals middlemen and more valued socially for the architects of software that they are.
> How much of that can be attributed to climate change denial?

Just as much because a hell of a lot further would include alternatives. We'd have or be on our way to a functioming market, which they'd just be entering into. Also, you can't deny the negative effecr of denial on global culture via education and media.

> It's unclear how that's due to cartels.

It seems like you're just in the mood to argue or something. I didn't say cartels caused the 1979 shock, I was using it to illustrate how much power the cartels had and have.
Records seems very nice! What I wonder is if people are going to use them, considering Java is a bit old at this point and lots of code already exists. Refactoring to use object would be a heavy cost. Maybe some new framework and ecosystems will appear based on new features of Java?
I think that about half of us read this as “New Coronavirus plant discovered…”.
My first thought was “Sure, why f!ing not…”
Ironically, exactly these sorts of "statistics can't..." arguments are sort of theoretically bankrupt.

Either the thing you want to do is impossible or else a learned model can do it at least almost as well as... idk what the alternative even is, something not learned?

Taking this to the extreme, on an example where I have first-hand experience: I would never recommend replacing your compiler passes with transformers. The latter will be buggier, at best marginally faster, and it will take several orders of magnitude more effort to get them to work well enough for production. ML isn't the right tool. But, I mean, you can do it. You shouldn't. But you can.

To be fair to the article, the title is "won't", not "can't". And that's easier to believe, at least for me. It's not that X is unattainable using ML; it's that some other approach will get there first.
We haven't spent 30 years trying to reduce emissions with renewables, we've spent 3 years doing pilot projects to drive down their costs.

And we are, today, at the point where we can deploy them. Around 2016-2018, we passed an economic inflection point for new energy deployments, and in 2023 we will have been through the five year periods over which utilities typically plan, and hopefully we will have sued enough of them to force use of accurate and up to date data in their economic planning models.

Only then will we actually start to try to use renewables to decrease emissions in any sort of full force.

And with the tiny trial balloons up until now, and via increased energy efficiency, we have been increasing GDP per CO2 for years, despite your refusal to believe the data.

These are basic facts. If your conclusions requires rejecting basic facts, then the conclusions are not sound.
I'm sick of this bullshit. I always push back against managers or leads who're trying to get in a feature that users won't like, or will find confusing. And I'm not the only one. Not every programmer works for the surveillance-industrial complex.
Thank you, I definitely will. I wasn’t aware it was an option.
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>Given the many users who keep having a @gmail.com address, their privacy is already invaded by Google

Sure, but the average Apple user is also using Googlestuff for search, or via mere browsing. Google has its hand in too much of the internet, they're unavoidable. He who swears fealty to Google need not interact with much Applestuff; the obverse is not true.

Google reads gmail to sell you shit; Apple reads your pictures to match against fuzzy hashes that are CSAM, we swear. And whatever other hashes a gag-order National Security Warrant might force them to include.
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So are array languages polish notation?

+/!100

feels like the opposite way you'd write it in some kind of RPN concatenative language

100 ! [ + ] /
The common denominator to all these attacks in multiple countries, those of allies (even happened in Washington DC) as well as those of adversaries, is that they are Government employees.

My belief is that these are workplace-injuries of some kind, and it's better for the Government to blame the problem on 'adversaries' rather than open itself up for millions of dollars in Workers' Compensation claims.
Should also be noted that much of the California natural landscape evolved for several centuries (if not millennia) under the influence of human-initiated burns by the native tribes.
To be equivalent, they'd have to get courts to issue warrants for hundreds of millions of US Apple product users, people who have no reason to suspect they've engaged in any wrong doing. I suspect the courts would take issues with that.

Besides, if they could get the warrants they could get access to all the data in any case (e.g. by getting access to the users backups to steal the users credentials and then accessing the icloud accounts).
The incidents occurred in foreign countries.

Washington DC is a foreign country now? I know it often seems so, but unfortunately it's not.
I don't think saying something is built "by and for open source maintainers" is implying it's a grassroots project. All it means is that it's designed with the intent of supporting the integration of patches from members of the public, which has very little to do with it being run by a corporation or unpaid individuals.
Well, I would have agreed with you a year or two ago. I have been experimenting with GPT-3, via OpenAI beta APIs. The generative (not extractive) summarization is impressive. Question answering functionality is also good.

Fast forward ten years when we have: 1. Much faster, with much more memory, custom neural processing hardware. 2. Advances in modeling techniques, similar to how Transformer models seemed revolutionary a few years ago.

Wait ten years.
I think that's the wrong way if looking at it. Of course any of these agencies already have access should they need it. In fact, if want them to, provided they are actually investigating a crime and have a warrant to search my device - then it would be a bit of a joke if they couldn't, wouldn't it. What I'm not ok with is automatic scanning of all content, especially not with similarity based hashes.

To put it in a different way - I'm 100% happy for police to enter and search my house if they show at my door with a warrant. But if I had to have cameras installed in every room of my house scanning my every action to make sure I'm not maybe committing a crime, that's not ok.
Wait… who has the bad haircuts? The UK or the rest?

Because as a rural-by-birth American who has travelled a bit, I’d say Berlin beats London or even urban USA in their awful haircut percentage by a wide margin. But nobody can top central Indiana, USA for sheer quantity of nasty-ass mullets with scraggly mustaches.
It's a former project by OP, who stopped work on it:
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I'm not sure that's true, a 20 year old is among their peers when trying to find a cofounder. I would expect it to be harder for a 55 year old to find a cofounder. I understand judging on not having a cofounder period, but age shouldn't come into it directly.

It's true an older person has more past, but if they were in a different line of work before there is only so much info that can be gained from it. It shouldn't be treated as a negative, at least not any more so than a fresh out of college kid is viewed.

At the end of the day it is quite literally age discrimination when you start making different judgements about the same measures (like presence of cofounder for example) just because of someone's age. To me that is clearly wrong. I don't have a problem with judging on factors that happen to relate to age (again like presence of cofounder), but however a particular person scores on that metric has to be taken at face value, not with reference to age.
There are many places across the globe where climate change has intensified the results of local bad management of the ecology.

The frustrating thing is that this allows finger pointing between the different causes. Putting it as percentages can be deceptive. Global Warming 100% needs to be dealt with and California's suppression-based approach to fire 100% needs to change.
That makes sense. I would hope that most people who it doesn't click with just wouldn't apply.

Maybe post on forums or reddit subs that are pertainate to women's wellness. That's the niche - not the technology side. So you should be able to find individuals on those pages who also have the technical skills. It's more like finding a needle in a haystack looking in the technology forums for any resources who are passionate about a non-technology specific niche.
This isn't children sewing soccer balls with their teeth type of principles. This is a machine controlled by code the end user doesn't get access to building another thing the user actually buys that has no closed code in it. Who cares how the thing was built using whatever software to control the things to build the product? That software affects the end user in no way other than to produce the thing. That's like in an entirely different universe than running code on your computing device where you should be able to decide who/what/when/where type of questions. Telling a manufacturing company to do something regarding their software in their processes is out of this world insane. It is their software after all, so your freedom to run stuff your way should also reciprocate to them doing what they will with theirs.
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