skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The voter fills in the identifier on a Scantron-style paper ballot.

The voter will mess this up a disturbing fraction of the time. It will be rejected. The voter will try again, possibly have it rejected again, give up, and go on Twitter to complain about the new system.

Also, I can go to vote, surreptitiously take two strips of paper, use one, pocket the other. I coerce my spouse into using that one, and pocket the one they took.

> It becomes difficult to coerce a voter because they can say any one of the published ballots is theirs.

Maybe for simple ballots. A question including e.g. a ranking of ten candidates has about 3.6 million possible configurations -- more if undervotes or other ties are permitted. The voter can be coerced to fill this out in a specific way to self-identify, and then vote in a prescribed way on another question.

edit: Of course, this vulnerability already exists: the voter could be given that same instruction. An observer of the ballot counting process can tell if the correct ballot was cast.
> No addiction is greater than national security.

I'm tired of "national security" being thrown around willy nilly. If the US government has proof that this is a security risk, they need to be public and transparent with their proof. Anything short of that and I'm not on board with "a ban".

That said, I agree that young kids and those who compulsively use social networks are fickle and are likely to move onto another network when the current one ceases to keep their attention.
I use the native password manager–iCloud Keychain. Sometimes I need to copy passwords out of Settings for the handful of circumstances that it doesn't work.
This could probably be solved by an accessory with a loose flap. Gravity would naturally ensure that the flap covers the camera when the display is vertical, but hangs over the edge to avoid getting sandwiched when the lid is closed. Not sure if the dimensions quite work out for this as Macbooks are very thin, but with some thoughtful design, I think this concept could work.
"Generally" could mean what you mentioned, or it could mean straight slavery - as the article said there is not good stats. Forced labor is prevalent in many industries, using the US definition of slavery: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/ListofGoods.pdf Your original claim was that decriminalizing drugs would prevent this sort of behavior. I think the linked report shows that is not necessarily true.
> Really Apple should take a stand and give all of them 30 days to fix their apps or get banned.

Thirty days later the show of brinkmanship ends up with a bunch of iPhone users unhappy that half of their favorite apps work.
Same for Twitter. You can disable the account and when you re-enable it 2FA is disabled.
Nice try, Apple
> will likely have to watch for hours to catch any incriminating footage

It's not just 'incriminating footage' that's the problem. There are perfectly legal sites I visit that I'd prefer didn't have a photo identifying me. Takes only seconds to snap such a picture if using an exploit like the safari one in April.
I'm curious why this matters? Is dropbox's current failings its inability to scale?
If my understanding is correct, yes, it's undecidable.

On practice nobody cares. It being undecidable just means you need an extra check at your compiler to verify the types are converging, and a new error for the problematic case.
Pulse width modulation -- what can't it do!
Oh absolutely, but if I were targeting Zuckerberg this would now be a camera he carries with him and almost always has an available network connection (If I were a billionaire I'd be switching devices near constantly to stave off attacks). You could be carrying around the bug for at least a year if not more.

Your average blackmailer would be better off with the separate camera route (and likely wouldn't be sophisticated enough otherwise) but a state-sponsored attack could probably pull it off.
Just wanted to give a shoutout and say Overleaf has been a great product for me and my team so far. Incredibly easy and clear collaboration. And if I need to go look at change history over the last six months, it’s there within 2 clicks.

Not to mention, the UI is easy and (shockingly in this day and age) gets out of my way so I can focus on the content.

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Im no AGI expert, but I am a big fan of Robert Miles who, coincidentally, made a kind of video rebuttal to this article ~3 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Oigy1i3W4
>I’m not really sure how this argument justifies anything.

My argument is not that europeans are in the right because they inflicted upon others what those others inflicted upon still others. My argument is that nobody has a clean record. If your position is that what happened to natives is wrong, then what the natives did to each other is also wrong.

>I’m not sure where you are getting this. At what point is an occupation over?

What I'm saying is you will be hard pressed to find a territory that has been continually occupied by one group since the arrival of humans. At some point each territory was probably wrested from some prior group via the usual means. Exceptions apply. Isolated islands come to mind.
There are still law firms that require all their attorneys to use WordPerfect.
iOS has this too, it's just that your company has to use it. And many don't…
> Then came "Google Drive" and nobody turned back to Dropbox after that.

I wish it were true, but neither Google nor Apple have the most basic, brain-dead feature: "Give me a link that I can give anyone, and they can download the thing without jumping through any hoops."

They both require people receiving a file to jump through the hoop of having accounts with them in order to do this most basic action. It's the reason I'm still regrettably paying Dropbox. Anything calling itself a cloud drive should have basic feature where you can send anyone a link and they can download the file with no other requirement than an internet-connected browser.
do randomly-selected sampling of paper buckets.

e.g. you transmit your digital results, on a per-machine level, at t+1 minute to the central precinct. at t+5 minutes the central precinct sends back a random request to have X% of the machines audited by hand. If there is a significant abnormality, we move to a larger recount and withhold electronic results. If things match up, we announce the full electronic results around t+1 hour.

Works for me?
locally no impact, globally supporting a system that burns enormous amounts of power (of which much is co2 producing).

would be a cool little project, and it falls to you to decide which side of the ethics of it you subscribe to.

I would love to have a little cryptocurrency miner, completely self sufficient, just doing its own thing until it dies. but I would also love a cryptocurrency that didn't have the same kind of environmental impact that bitcoin has. maybe another application? selling computing power?
I would write a comment, but this sums it up.

https://xkcd.com/2030/
Many people do the same things and forget to cover their webcam with a piece of plastic. What’s your point?
Parent comment was talking about Lena, the woman in the picture being discussed.
A majority of people don't have the luxury of choosing their employer.
Well, what got it declared fiction was "a broad search doesn't turn up good evidence that this has been done", rather than "experts agree this is obviously impossible". So the reaction to the piece did demonstrate something.
The led doesnt work that way. Stays on for 3s min
Oregonian here! My signature is on file with the state, and both an OCR system and a human look at my signature on the ballot to make sure it matches. Additionally, my ballot has a barcode on it and a security weave, so that a "counterfeit" ballot and envelope would have to have come from inside the ballot-production system; loss-prevention techniques can be used to track down any stolen envelopes. Finally, the attack would have to come from inside the postal system as well, because only post officers and voting officials touch my ballot. In my specific case, I can even drop my ballot directly at a ballot box and not have to post it.

If you have any evidence of widespread voting fraud in Oregon, please show it. Otherwise, no, we're not interested in your attempts to denigrate a convenient and reliable voting system; it reeks of antidemocratic sentiment and I don't see why we should tolerate it.
Roger Stone lied under oath and threatened a witness and was convicted on all counts by a jury, some of which had to endure public abuse from the President of the US for doing their duty as jurors. Today Stone said in regards to Trump and his case, “He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.” Trump commuted his sentence today after a judge refused to stay his order to arrive to prison in a few days. This is not what a nation of law looks like.
PWAs would be very off brand for iOS. It would allow all kinds of spammy low-quality apps to masquerade as iOS apps without any vetting from Apple.

Part of Apple's success is their extreme stubbornness. They decide something and make zero compromises. The consumer tech industry is forced to fall in line with whatever they want; they have final veto power over all new consumer tech basically.
Is one allowed to hear from the heart and then disagree, or is disagreement evidence that someone didn't try hard enough?
How does that work in the middle of a pandemic, where people shouldn't gather at a location like that?

How does it handle people who can't leave their home? Or people who are away on the voting day?
You inclined at all to explain where you see these two being comparable? I’m lost as to what it is you’re trying to say with this statement.
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My 13 year old son just started doing classical mechanics on ocw.mit.edu
No one can keep students out of open courseware.
signaling is a zero sum game, but there is always a shortage of students who have the interest and aptitude to learn.
What do you think of italki? I'm about to sign up my kid for Chinese through them. Lots of tutors look very good in their intro videos.
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I'm a pretty technical guy. Given enough time I'm confident that regardless of what technology stack/language you wrote the voting system in I could have reasonable confidence it was error-free enough and probably not deliberately backdoored.

Do I have that kind of time? No.

Am I going to give more than a cursory glance at open source voting software? No.

Am I going to catch 100% of accidental bugs? No way!

Even if I do, am I going to catch 100% of deliberate and obfuscated bugs? Hell no.

Even for me, a very technical person, purely electronic voting is fatally flawed in terms of trust.
As another commenter mentioned, this is all done modulo some large prime (or, apparently, in some cases, a carefully-chosen composite number with a large prime factor), so 2^y^x=B^x=R=A^y=2^x^y mod p. (Note that mathematicians use "mod" in a notation that is sometimes surprising to programmers. "x = y mod p" means that _both_ x and y are reduced mod p.) The security of this hinges on the difficulty of the "discrete logarithm problem" -- that is, given R = 2^a mod p, it is computationally intractable to find a = log_2(R) mod p (with appropriate parameter choices.)
Never do with tax breaks what you can do with tariffs.
A lot of CXOs are waiting for the Biden win and hoping for storm to pass so to speak.
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It should be implemented with the same robustness as if the user's life depended on it.

As an analogy, you wouldn't implement a car brake by running it through some firmware. Instead, you'd preferably make a direct physical connection between the pedal and the actual brake.
> With a buffer overflow, you can write your own code into a chunk of memory that ends up being run by the application.

This is usually no longer the case in modern applications. So attackers instead string together short snippets of code from the application itself and jump around between them to basically do what they want.
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Sriperembethur is a good location. It is close to Chennai port.
Just wait until some archaic new-world hominids are dug up, like neanderthals in europe. Wonder how natives would react to that...
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How do you know? And how do you know there is not a bug in the electrical design?
Probably because the product suite components integrate much more easily than a bunch of separate tools from different vendors. And there are fewer particulars to know if you stay in one ecosystem. Maybe there is even a unified administration console.
That's why people can vote early or can even request a mail-in ballot.

It's disturbing how people talk about voting as if there is disenfranchisement, without knowing the various times and ways they can vote.
I do love refactoring!

And the current state of computing on a global scale is so ad-hoc it might as well have been evolved, so it probably wouldn't even feel that different.
The inefficiency of in person paper voting is a feature.

It means that large scale fraud is extremely difficult due to the labor required. This is a good thing. Hundreds of thousands of dispersed voting locations means that to pull off a “hack” you’d need to hack thousands or perhaps 10s of thousands of locations all with their own details.

In a digital voting system, you’d need perhaps to find a flaw in 1 system. The centralized one.

I don’t want digital voting. I want anonymous, and inefficient in person voting where the issues are small and localized.
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> It doesn’t work like that. A lot of the networks’s and Netflix’s breakout shows were not planned to be great. That’s why they just greenlight a bunch of random pilots and see what sticks to the wall.

There's a great interview with Bryan Cranston, where he's talking about the origins of "Breaking Bad."

Basically AMC wanted to compete with HBO, but they didn't have HBO money. So they gave the creators a limited budget but a lot more creative freedom. AMC basically created an environment where creative people who had a passion project could get it off the ground if they were willing to work for less money.

In particular, Vince Gilligan had to go to the mat for Bryan Cranston, because AMC wanted Gilligan to cast someone else.
> Up to and including the point where both Mozilla and Safari are saying they won't implement certain functionality because of glaring holes in the design, and Chrome not only shipping the features, but making them GA.

I feel this is being dismissed by many people, but there's a lot of truth in this statement. Here's an example of this at play:

https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1220412711768666114

Chrome devrels and cheerleaders pile on Safari and Firefox all the time for not adhering to Chrome's agenda and frame it as "holding the web back." But the true thing that holds the web back is a browser monoculture.
Use "-w 0.0" switch to jpeg2png, gives slightly sharper results.

Also try with: https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/jpeg-quantsmooth with "-q6" (default setting without luma-aware chroma upsampling)

My guess is that quantsmooth won't handle squares in the background well, but will be better at the edges (without excessive blurring).

Update: I tested it, it's about 10% quality, jpeg-quantsmooth doesn't handle this quality. At 25% quality - result is fine, starting at 20% and less - not good.

Perhaps the synthesis of all three projects combined into one (taking best of each) could give a great result.

So then...

jpeg2png: overblurs and slow

knusperli: does only deblocking, not removes artifacts

jpegqs: fails to deblock low frequencies (less 25% quality)
The older UIs had those concepts, but it wasn't stuff like "how DNS operates". It was stuff like, "every app that works with documents has a File menu with New, Open, and Save in it". Or, say, "if you want to see all available actions for something that's represented by an icon, right-click for context menu". I taught my mom like that, and she was amazingly productive at learning new apps. She didn't always find the most efficient way to do something, but she always found a way to do whatever she needed to do.

Modern UI ditched all that. Just about the only consistent element is the hamburger menu, and how it looks once you open it varies drastically from app to app. In many cases, it's hard to even tell which elements are active and which aren't (because everything is flat!), and if they're active, what exactly they will do if you try to interact with them. When I got her an iPad - the very first one - she really struggled figuring it out, because not only all the existing concepts didn't apply, but there was no rhyme or reason to it in general.
> We are at a moment in time where public commitments to freedom if thought and speech ebb to a low.

> There are many culprits. I blame the transition of the public sphere from blogs to Twitter.

The difference between Twitter and the old blogosphere was that the latter was primarily communities that shared background assumptions and were mostly arguing in good faith. Twitter isn’t like that. If you have lots of followers many of them will be doing so to keep tabs on communities they’re not part of. Some of them will be hate follows. So an awful lot of the Twitter experience is of constant exposure to people who hate you and your ideas and wish you harm, who argue in bad faith, are dishonest or stupid, or whose background assumptions are so different from yours that their actions cannot be distinguished from malice.

Twitter is a cancer.
1. Can’t the state already know who voted for what right now? That seems like a nonissue.

2. Someone can also force you to give them your mail in ballot. How is this different?
I haven’t seen the product in a couple of years, but your team has always stood out as uniquely knowledgeable and deliberate with your approach. You are getting the data models right in a way that I don’t think others are. For anyone reading — I think these folks are worth a look. We have used many (MANY) of the solutions mentioned here and if Fulfil has been able to get it right - it should be great.
The Pinebook Pro uses a key combination, managed by the keyboard firmware. That's not quite as good as a hardware switch, but it shrinks the attack surface considerably.
Interesting to try this type of card generation on abstract syntax trees instead of straight text: https://github.com/rmmilewi/mtgcompiler
Perhaps it will not be as efficient , however we cannot control the power consumption of the transit on wired or satellite, satellite by its design is going to be solar though. I don’t think ISPs are look at carbon footprint for their equipment at the moment

I am side stepping the entire argument on cable laying v sat launch for setting up the infra . Likely satellites are have lesser carbon footprint than cable laying, but there are lot of variables .
Hardwired or not, it doesn't mean the LED can't be disabled by malware:

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569
"Bored mailman convicted for altering 8 ballot request forms" suggests that they are secure. Even if he wasn't caught, there should have been time for the ballots to be replaced.
Good points, though they're rather at odds. If you assume voters will mess up their ballots that frequently then the voter being coerced can just find a ballot that's close to what they were coerced to do and say they messed up the rest.

No way to prevent surreptitiously taking more than one strip of paper comes to mind. Someone should be observing the voters take the strips of paper to ensure only one is taken, but that doesn't prevent sleight of hand. But if there are mail-in ballots, you've already basically given up on voter coercion anyway.
Or even side channel stuff not related to the voting code itself, or bugs in whatever ui people look at aggregated results in.
What is the definition of indigenous?
Yup. When the problem is we refuse to price in the externalities, technological solutions are probably doomed, or at least nothing to be broad of.

First jack up punitive taxes, then let tech do it's job. Market economics works far better when demand comes before supply.
It actually seems to be the same map in both cases.
When I click on any territory in OP's map I'm redirected to the page you linked.
yes, UX is stuck in 90s way but not the best part of it.

I wonder what's the state of the codebase and if it could handle a significant UX redesign.
Privacy isn't binary. It's a spectrum. A light and sometimes remembering to close the camera cover is better than a light and no cover.
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But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?
Is what I see, what I imagine?
> > Well, it might be really, really, good for security if it got people to stop using Google, [emphasis added]
> I see Meg as greatly benefitting from a rising tide, not great leadership. Maybe her lieutenants have a different take but this is what I see from the outside.

I worked at HPE, when Whitman was CEO.

The impression I got, was that she's a bit of a wizard when it comes to finance.

For instance, the organization that I was a part of, we lost a pile of money. But despite that, HPE was able to sell the org off to SuSE.

IE, if Whitman wasn't a wizard, the entire venture may have been a 100% loss. But she was able to flip that organization to another buyer.
Depends where you live. You and GP are quite possibly speaking true of your respective locations but overlooking the rest of the world.

In some jurisdictions, you are correct: the state owns all land, and purchase agreements are subject to consent of the state. No bill of sale, no rights. I know that the province of BC in Canada is one such jurisdiction. Irony here being that much of indigenous land in nominal BC is unceded and was stolen without even the pretense of a treaty.

On the other hand, I previously lived in Washington state, US, where one could legally take possession of land after 7 years of use and maintenance (as long as it isn't state or federal land), and as I understand it, a hefty chunk of paperwork.
Yeah, I get that. But hand-writing a .desktop file and dropping it in the appropriate folder is not what I would consider "supported"
Speaking of which, if you want a browser that still provides (opt-in) a classic menu bar with all the usual categories you'd expect, check out Vivaldi. Made by the guys who did the original Opera (before it went down the drain), so of course everything is configurable, stuff like vertical tabs is there out of the box etc.
This is a bad-faith distraction from the topic at hand. The privacy work that Apple has done on the web is real and significant. We know because ad pricing for Safari users has dropped 60%, while for Chrome users it's increased. That means tracking is working on Chrome and not Safari.