skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Correctly faking the effects of monitor illumination is a non trivial challenge for well-chosen illumination patterns.

Surely not.

If you have a face in a specific orientation and lighting the whole point of deep fakes is that it generates “style transfer” of the incoming image, including lighting.

Doing it in real time is a computational restriction that makes it expensive, not difficult.

Are you really suggesting that the deepfake models can’t accurately reproduce structured light and shadow patterns?

I find that very surprising, and not what the paper says (“ We verified that the deep fakes created by Avatar- ify (github.com/alievk/avatarify-python) do not incorporate the environmental lighting and are therefore easily identifiable because in the presence of our active illu- mination, their temporal facial hue is flatlined with a nearly zero correlation.” <— they didn’t even test it except on a system that doesn’t do lighting transfer).

…so, this feels a lot more like “well, if you’re doing a crappy off the shelf meme using deepfakelive it’s pretty obvious” rather than “detect a convincing DF”.

The approach probably doesn’t scale against more sophisticated models or opponents with adequate resources.
And still, when I think 'low-quality and probably life-destroying yellow press', I do not think United States, I think United Kingdom. Fox News feels almost liberal compared to the likes of the Daily Mail or (shudder) the Express.
Range is lower for those though I thought.
But the gates is up?
Where did you see any indication that FSD was used?
ThinkPad too, so not the budget line. So... guess Lenovo don't sell to me anymore. Dell's latitude are similar but were Intel-only last time I looked.

Anyone know the obvious replacement offhand? Ryzen + runs Linux.

edit: article says 'default' a lot, are we talking flash new firmware to get something working or changing a setting like secure boot = off, as they're not really comparable.
These two if statements are repeated frequently. I bet they can be optimized but for the life of me, I can’t think of an improvement.

5550 if acc < -128 then acc = -128

5560 if acc > 127 then acc = 127

Anyone?
Thats ok, those industries haven't worked out well either. Tweaking car designs here and there is not innovation.
You'd need an excessively powerful transmitter to use an omnidirectional antenna. In the context of a satellite, where power efficiency is crucial, it makes much more sense to use a lower-power transmitter and a directional antenna / beamforming.
This caused me a small but concerning amount of anxiety that I'll probably meditate on as I fall asleep now that HN is back up.
"By default" means it's just a switch in the Bios to fix this issue? If yes, not a big deal, is it?
> At some point my then ex-wife (we've since reconciled)

Did you marry twice?
I'd add UK mains plugs[1] to that category. I've seen multiple people compare them to caltrops, and for good reason.

[1] Photo for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moulded_and_rewireable_BS...
... but many other horrible things might
A humorously-named method I like is LSD-SLAM: Large-Scale Direct Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.

It is fast, and it produces the richest point clouds I've seen, from even monocular video. The "Direct" comes from directly using pixels, not features such as SIFT/SURF.

I suppose it could be used in environments with not too many reflective or transparent objects.
No wonder you mention Plato, as he employs the exact same tortured logic to justify how his brand of authoritarianism is good, as the authoritarians of his choice will enact “good things”.

In all the examples, you’re drawing the line on the things “you like” when determining if authoritarian policy is good or bad, which indeed makes you a hypocrite.
Bugs Bunny is the source of a lot of weird misconceptions.

Example: people think rabbits mostly eat carrots because Bugs Bunny likes to snack on them while leaning on something and saying "What's up, Doc?". Except Bugs doing that was a reference to a movie where Clark Gable... ate carrots while leaning on a fence and calling people Doc.

And somehow a parody of a Clark Gable movie turned into most people believing that carrots are a staple of leporine diets.
Its like they live in a bubble and have no idea that many developers choose Thinkpads not only because of build quality/keyboard but also because those work well with Linux.

Framework[0] is looking more and more attractive as my next machine.

[0]: https://frame.work/
Your allegations of the "wrongs" he did:

- shouted at you in a meeting claiming that your opinions are invalid and that he didn't need to explain matters to you.

- being abrasive.

- blew up a PR review ("insane set of Github comments")

While I empathize with you and understand that such behavior shouldn't be normalized, it remains murky which of these are performance related. (What happened to the in-mem sql DB thing, what was his rationale for commenting in the PR review?)

Pardon me, but this reads like a one-sided take of the events that transpired.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that arguments happens and it's important to understand the rationale behind the friction rather than determining the eventual loser as the one being in the wrong; for the loser could be the one wronged.
Sounds like (not equal) the Sacklers and Purdue Farma: we are just the owners, we "know nothing" about what is being done there...
Adjusting your attitude to stop telling people to adjust their attitude might actually result in a much healthier atmosphere, not the woke madness we see now.
> * Moving your head more than 15deg away from the camera was enough to slip through.

Which can be solved by adding more cameras so there's no angle in which your face is not in full view.
but doesn't it solve problems he wrote about (Epic and vendor locking of data?)
> the firmware defaults to not trusting bootloaders or drivers signed with the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA key

So they don't trust software signed by Microsoft, but they trust an OS made by Microsoft?
Brussels effect.
Well, if the amount of green energy doesn't grow fast enough, then switching to EV uses the same dirty carbon based energy, but require more of it.
For now. And BIOS can be updated.
It's pleasantly easy to install PyPy yourself (from their binaries) (2021)
Everyone should buy one then immediately return it based on not booting Linux. Maybe putting a KPI into the red will get their attention.
Isn't your garden-variety GPON fiber also 32:1 oversubscribed, and cable internet even worse? It doesn't seem like a very useful metric.
Never been any issue with Lenovo before 2022.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870
The focus on money is THE cultural meme of the 21st century.

Do you ever hear of a basketball / baseball / football pro who turned down a multi-million deal? Or an actor for that matter. Nobody questions why they don't play because of their passion for their sport.

In practical terms, if you want to live where the career opportunities are, you need a sizeable income just to stay in place. They (the greedy capitalists) want you to work to live. Of course, the "leaders" don't manage because of their passion. They demand ever increasing salaries.
> however I'm sure at the time every decision that got him to where he is now made perfect sense,

Let's not forget that at a certain moment of time Theranos was valued at $9 billion (according to my web searches), and that was just before almost anyone and his brother was at the helm of a unicorn. At that exact moment I'm pretty sure he had felt he had taken almost all the correct decisions.
Decades plural? Maybe one at most.
That's also the whole point of the right to bear arms.
Man, this looks great!

A fortuitous thing for me as well, as I've been starting to look for a trainer like this just know?

Been playing the guitar for a long time for now and I know my basic theory... but give me a keyboard I takes me a while to figure out my scales, chords, progressions and so on. Now that I've some time to get back to music... and sitting in front of a DAW oftentimes a keyboard is what I got.

So it was an instabuy for me (via itch.io), thank you and I'll follow the github repo as well to keep me up to date.
I don't think that's true since about a year ago.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
It's very easy to do this sort of stuff on slack.
It may come with many secrets baked into the security processor already, like your Windows license, or you may have used your computer for some time, and stored some secrets with keys stored in the processor.

You'll lose these secrets and keys, forever. They may be private keys, decryption tokens and more.

You may not be able to regenerate them and get everything back.

Edit: Windows (license) keys are not in the TPM apparently, my bad, sorry. Keeping the above text for context correctness.
Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.
I don't see anything in the article that suggests that any of that was relevant to this crash. Is there any other information out at this time?
Still seems to be intel only
At least bugs in regular control systems can be identified and fixed, with high confidence that the problem has been resolved.

If the system is heavily based on machine learning, there may be no such code bugs or algorithmic mistakes to find, no easy way to show exactly what went wrong and why a fix will prevent it from happening again.
Trust doesn't come from carefully observing video, bank note security elements, or stitching on a handbag. Trust forms in the supply chains.
I'm using Asus Zephyrus G14. Seems like a solid machine and works on Linux pretty well. Perfectly, if you exchange the wifi card and patch acpi.
Actually, nuclear plants can be started and be shutdown quickly. Most countries don't do that because a large portion of the investment cost is in construction rather than fuels, so lifting the rods is just a cost center unless the grid is extremely over saturated.

> Well yeah but it's getting phased out on the long-term.

Who will take responsibility for the pollution of that. Saying that it will be phased out doesn't actually mean anything. Every technology and building will at some point in the future be phased out when the time is right, the investments has been repaid, and alternative technology can out compete the old. Current solar plants that is being built today will also be phased out on the long term.
How is multiple factions in 1 party meaningfully different from having multiple parties?
They have to know of the Linux fanbase they have. I'm willing to believe this was a rogue decision that will be reversed. Time will tell.

Framework laptops are looking more and more like the future for Linux users tho.
Yes, as of 2 weeks ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vhw3x3/zoom_can_now_...
But does the option in question enable third party certificates, or disable UEFI entirely?
According to https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/Enable_Secure... - it's a Microsoft requirement that it's disabled by default, so presumably Lenovo won't be the last to do this?
It seems like it's a lot more complicated than "LEO vs GEO" and they are very much worth comparing.

You have LEO stuff like Iridium that is targeted at pocket-sized terminals at very low bandwidth

You have GEO stuff like Sky Muster with large, fixed dishes, high latency and decent bandwidth

Then you have Starlink with large, fixed dishes, low latency and high bandwidth
While it's a bit tangential, why I feel like attacks on Linux as an end-user OS deployed to bare metal has increased lately?

Linux is way too big to attack on servers today, but why WSL + this shenanigans feel so aligned?

Please feel free to counter. I'm not trying to start a fight here.
To be fair I only recently switched from a T420 to a T480s and the build quality, especially the keyboard just feels a lot less great. Pretty sure they aren't MIL standard anymore either. Linux however still is no issue.

Not sure if Lenevo actually does care at all.
My last three notebooks have been Lenovo Thinkpads.

I am never buying a Lenovo product again.
I don't get the concrete failings of nim from the readme. Even though I have one of my own: They should have adopted a python-style import system and not a C-style omnibus import system. You don't always have a properly configures IDE by your side to resolve imports.
> Their regulatory and privacy stance is actively harmful at the moment.

What makes you say that? I like having privacy and don't see how the EU is being harmful to me with its stance on it.
That's what the IPCC is for, surely. Talk to them. Don't just give up.
Today, my daughter spilled orange juice on her Framework laptop. I was able to quickly disconnect the battery, unscrew everything and wipe all the juice. Laptop is working fine now, thanks to the Framework design.

A stark contrast with an HP laptop that died after the same daughter spilled sweet tea. There was no option for self-repair. It was possible to open the back lid and save the NVME, and that's pretty much it.

Framework > HP
Looks like they probably didn't lie but built the debug version by mistake.
lenovo also hides s3 support so it makes it impossible to install anything other than windows and sleep/wake reliably. Never buying lenovos again.
I'm not sure if I buy this argument; the legislature need not, and generally does not, work on the basis of previous precedent. There are two main responses to the idea that we ought not to do X because it's a slippery slope to Y in political theory: firstly, people disagree about how bad Y is (unless Y is made patently absurd); secondly, slippery slopes require justification.

It's evident that one can't simply allege the existence of any slippery slope - for example, the 'slippery slope' of legal gay marriage leading to adult-child and human-animal relationships. So there must be some work put in to justify the existence of a slope which is claimed to exist.

In particular as it relates to issues of free speech and 'facial recognition', I have seen no evidence presented to justify this slope as a rhetorical or political device.
Considering Framework seem to be in tune with general developer sentiment, I'm hoping they spot the interest in AMD/Ryzen platform and expand their product line. Hopefully it is just a supply chain problem that is eventually solved.
Sounds very similar to what happens when a human makes a mistake. How do we know that wasn't the case here?
Today it has been raining heavily, and the only reason I went to my co-working place is because I checked HN in the morning, and figured my internet was down at home because HN didn't work.
id go see a doctor, let them give you some diagnosis too, and yell back next time he raises his voice
According to the spec sheet, Lenovo officially supports Linux on this model, at least for some SKUs.

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad_Z13_Gen_1?tab=spec
I think both Firefox and Chrome support forms now, although I know that there are other interactive features that they don't support. But yeah, I can see the attacker convincing the victim to use Adobe regardless.
they test this stuff regularly at festival and sporting events. i met a guy walking around outside lands with a suitcase full of phones. he was working for verizon to ensure the mobile base stations were appropriately powered
Oh I'm fully aware of what they can do in their ability to dismiss, ignore, false flag and can be akin to kicking you in the nuts and feeling that their right to focus upon their hurty ears as you scream in pain, is very much a playbook used by so many in many walks of life. Hence looking at multiple avenues of release to curtail much of that.
My parents are on Sky Muster in Australia and it works fine for them, we call them a couple times a month and the latency isn't amazing but I've had worse calls with people on DSL.
Climate reality check – an alarming summary
Asterix & Obelix:"The sky is falling on our heads"

Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died"

PlanetEarth:"HN is down"

These all seem like the same thing, it just depends where you are in the erm "multiverse" !
HN: It's only okay when Google/Apple do it.
> unraveling mysteries of the commit messages that were written with this attitude https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19211#issuecomment-9859...

Curious to know what your vision of commit messages is. My commit messages look exactly like the excerpt in your linked issue: they describe what has been done.
If you intend to release data and want it out: https://www.theguardian.com/securedrop
Not grandstanding, given that you’re all strangers and this is a pseudonymous account.

In truth, I stopped working and gas prices are real high. That was the initial grounds for the car to sit idle. Then I got to thinking whether I should keep the thing or not — whether I actually need it. I happen to live in a place with extremely good public transport, so there’s that.

And the question was meant in good faith. With time on my hands, I’ve been scrutinizing my own life choices up to this point, and it’s honestly hard to discern what influenced them.

I’m genuinely curious about people’s motivations. I can surely understand the desire to relax on the water :)
> after the same daughter

I like your positioning of her being the recurring root cause :)
Real friends
>Poor people tend to handle last mile in person service jobs. That's not going anywhere.

Right. But what are they going to do when they return from work?

>Meta is selling it as something that feels real. They're not selling it as better phones.

Right now, they target early adopters. That doesn't say much about how VR will be used. Compared to mobile phones, this is the time when people had phones in their car to show off. There is no network effect yet where you have to be in VR because your friends are in VR. The VR iphone hasn't been invented yet.

However, the network effect will come soon. Whoever owns the VR space first has a huge moat. Nobody wants to be Google or MS trying to close the gap to Apple. Thus all the big players will very very aggressively push their hardware into the market once it has all the features for mass adoption.

>And you're claiming its going to comprise 100% of people's lives such that they never go outside anymore. Nonsense.

Then I made my point too strong. Some people will go outside, especially those who have access to nice 'outsides'. But if you don't have a garden, and you live in an area without a park, and you don't have money to spend time in a bar, what are you going to do if you have access to technology that gives you the illusion of a garden, a park and money to spend on luxury items?

Urban density will increase because that's what drives innovation. But that will make living condition for the masses worse. The way out is VR.
Ehh this is the same company that burns fuses on AMD CPUs to vendor lock them and stop resale/reuse: https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-cpu...

I doubt their anti-consumer behavior and security claims are some “rogue decision that will be reversed”.
Well, then let's just buy the good 'ol thinkpads and let lenovo go to hell. If they're good they reconsider that decision otherwise have to face the consequences.
Totally agree. But give every Japanese a weapon. And then wait a few decades.

Can you guarantee me that the culture will hold back gun violence?
> turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country.

Abe din't do anything like that. Japan was always ultra-right and racist, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Certainly he was a controversial figure but nothing justifies this kind of violence.
If your legislature does not listen to you (because you're "not the one in power") then that's a far more serious issue than facial recognition by any metric. If the government is abusing power, that's not the same thing as doing it with the support of the populace, as the 'slippery slope' argument supposes.

Devil's advocate: Why must facial recognition necessarily set us on the the slope to abuse of power? What precedent is there to suppose that?
Maybe a couple of weeks of turmoil but in the end people would adjust to it, like they always do.
>Yes, but not for the reasons you're implying.

Following the impersonal process leads to better outcomes in aggregate because it's less labor-intensive; and so doctors end up seeing more patients; and so more patients end up being seen.

If the personalized process performs better on medical outcomes. Then over time doctors should be pushed to include more personalized steps in their treatment plans. I actually think that in many cases, personalized steps are already included in treatment plans that contain many branching paths.

It's also quantitatively true that in some cases (I believe most cases, but I don't have a good data set in front of me), a well validated flowchart leads to much better diagnoses and healthcare outcomes.

A good example: When a standardized checklist for the diagnosis of a heart attack was first introduced, doctors were upset about it, claiming that it took away professional judgement from clinical assessments.

Over time though, the checklist proved itself to be much more effective at diagnosing heart attacks than the vast majority of doctors. And most people who were having a heart attack were diagnosed correctly.

Of course some people will still be misdiagnosed (and unfortunately the misdiagnosed ones often fall into minority groups). But the statistically validated processes are not aiming for perfect. They're aiming for better than a human can do, most of the time.

And research will improve the flowcharts over time.

It also means that we can begin to think about delegating routine assessments where outcomes are very well understood to nurses, leaving doctors free to think about more complicated cases.
The interview process involves an election. Followed by a yearly salary. Hired by every definition of the word.
Really? Even after they were caught bundling Windows spyware on three separate occasions? Even after they used the BIOS/EFI to forcibly reinstall said spyware? Even after Lenovo was caught using Uyghur forced labor?

Nobody's perfect, and IBM has plenty to answer for, but Lenovo's been doing shady shit for years.
Only recently, its irrelevant