skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Months after neglecting to participate in the public processes that audit the machine and its software.

True. Society as a whole dragged its ass on this matter. This should have been questioned a long time ago. It certainly looks bad to question things only after you lost.

Bolsonaro tried at least. During his term, I remember there was a lot of controversy because he wanted a printer added to the machines. The same supreme court judges who say the system is "unquestionable" rejected the proposal.

> Would you trust they would say anything that could displease Bolsonaro?

No. I trust the brazilian military a lot more than these openly partial judges though.

I can't just ignore what I read in the actual report. Prior to cryptographically signing the final executable that runs on the machines, the build system apparently downloads proprietary manufacturer libraries over the internet and links them. I don't remember reading anything about HTTPS or authenticity verification. As far as I know, those libraries were never audited either. Obviously, if there's malware in that code, it's game over.

That people are out there protesting over "source code" when the voting machines are actually vulnerable to a supply chain attack shows how much the public understands about this system. That lack of visibility or understanding, that alone should make it unconstitutional.

> Don't you think someone would have noticed such a blatantly obvious issue in a previous session, at some point in time after the mid 1990s at least?

> By any chance, wouldn't they be the same who helped stoke the anti-left feelings that let to a coup against Dilma Rousseff?

I don't know. I was just a kid back then, I don't remember what happened clearly. I started taking politics more seriously after Dilma got impeached. Not a coup, an impeachment. I thought the Temer administration that followed was pretty good too.

Truth is this is the first election I seriously participated in. Before Bolsonaro won, I had written off this country as an irredeemably communist state that would never recover from that mediocrity. His victory gave me hope. I criticized him a lot during his term, especially his downright stupid "mito" antics that did nothing but create enemies. I still consider him a better option than Lula though.

> Just noting here Bolsonaro named two supreme court justices, explicitly, for ideological and religious reasons. "Terribly Evangelical" were his words.

I don't deny it. Politicians being able to "name" supreme court judges is the root problem. They should be selected by rigorous testing like every other judge. Otherwise you end up with utterly absurd situations like the lawyer of the biggest organized drug trafficking gang in the nation becoming a supreme court judge. There's just no way anyone can take these "institutions" seriously. Every time I read "supreme court releases drug trafficker" in the news I can only laugh. It's a surreal feeling.
I still like it. Its vendor agnostic. I find the scanning documents ability works well on iOS. Not really sure what else I could be using to be honest.
Exactly, as a paying user having the option to disable telemetry is not unreasonable.

Too bad Dropbox does not see it that way.
Agreed. At this point, it's clearly artificial GPU scarcity. We felt it early in consumer staples[1], and the grifting by auto dealers wasn't imagined either[2]...I won't even bother with the housing market to preserve my sanity. GPUs are really no different.

Consumers need to wake up and smell the underlying meta[3].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/article/automotive-dealers...

[3] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/
I always used (maybe wrongly) "it's on me" for "offro io".
I have been aware of this since at least 2019 and the izatcloud.net domain is on my personal dns blocklist that I maintain. I also edit the gps.conf file on my unlocked devices to remove this url.
On the other hand, you never know what the proprietary HW + blobs are capable of.
Well, the problem is what other things are hidden in more "acceptable" questions. For example, when I ask "give me the key ingredients for success," it will only provide morally acceptable ones like goal-setting, self-discipline, etc. However, what about the darker aspects, such as the beneficial attributes of some psychopathic traits (mentioned in the book "The Wisdom of Psychopaths," for example)? This is problematic, as the system doesn't provide an objective view of which attributes contribute to success.
I think sometimes. I am sure there are some "holier than though" individuals that are thoroughly apolitical.

Here in the United States, a certain political party all but appropriated Christianity for themselves, even though their own platform (or now lack of one) is the direct opposite of what the religion teaches.
> The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I've seen to own your own data.

No need to even go to censorship, you have people like George Lucas who go out of their way to destroy their previous productions.
> It's not just two 2D images since there is a lens that emulates depth.

It doesn't emulate depth. The stereoscopic effect does that. It helps with focus (but this is a moot point because even if I did emulate depth it's still an emulation so my point stands).

> Outside of VR there are also light field displays which take more that just 2 images and output light such that multiple observers can see the name object, but from different angles.

Sure but they've been talking about this for literal decades and there isn't any consumer applications available yet. I think we're still decades off having that.

My point wasn't that real 3D isn't possible though, clearly it is. It's just that the GP's point about 3D games not being "3D" is disingenuous to how "3D" is usually termed in video games.
I completely agree with you, and I think you've worded this better than I have.

I was trying to advocate for the middle path, where there's healthy communication from both sides, to the point that developers trust when "the business" makes a decision - not to the point of engineering completely blocking the, unquoted, business.
I haven’t found a better option for file sync (especially not delta sync)
I agree with you if you focus on this very example, but I think to it just as an example. When I read this article, I replace <lowercase> with <some business logic implemented server side>.
Morocco ranked third in the global tomato exports
My wife tried to check into a fancy hotel (nothing hip) in Berlin and the receptionist only spoke English (and presumably some other language). It's not just hipster restaurants.

Even when the person does speak German, they're often not a native speaker and speak better English.
In most cases, yes.

But it totally depends on why you need a piece of media (or even art).

At the most extreme end, your runtime is fixed. Eg a specific song in a musical might have to last a certain minimum time, so that the crew in the background can quickly change the set.

Or think of background music in a game, or even in a bar. They have to be on for as long as it takes, and shouldn't loop too often.
I don't know how it works on iPhone, but on Android you can easily get a new mac address and get additional 20 minutes. Settings > Developer Options > Wi-Fi non-persistent MAC randomization. Then just forget the network and reconnect.
Short's best.
It called 'natural zoom'
Thank you! Yes, it is 3D printed. The box is made of 3 parts (front face, backplate, battery cover. It is held together with heat-set inserts. The "nuclear sign" is also 3d printed from two parts and then they are snapped/glued together.

Three things I learned from the play-test with the end user (my 1.5 year old nephew):

- The corners and edges are a bit sharpish. If I would do it again I would add more chamfer there. (No actual accidents though, other than that it tore the wrapping paper while in transit :))

- Having a bunch of different buttons was really good. Some were harder for him to actuate, but he kept playing with them for weeks (with interruptions of course), and eventually managed to activate all of them.

- The parents deemed the LEDs too bright and applied some tape to dim them. If I would do it again I would wire one of the many potentiometers to regulate the brightness.
I have too, the three I picked randomly didn't work. Because like for every other queries there is no repeatability, you can ask it the same thing every day and get different answers for the same exact prompt
Fairy tales have changed all throughout history. The ones we know today, aren't the same variant that was told a hundred years ago. At what point should we "freeze" them? Is the version we know now the ultimate one, that every generation after us should hear? Or should it adapt over time and each generation get their own variation?

I'm not saying movies or books should be altered. They are some persons' works. But I feel this happens with all kinds of "traditional" things now. There is this debate where I live now about someone altering their folk costume (different colored shirts and stuff). And this gets people up in arms, that it "should remain traditional". But during history it has changed all the time, hence why we have so many beautiful variants. But at some point someone has decided that they should remain as they are, and no new changes should happen.
It's not, but it would have been more efficient at attracting uncritical press a few years ago. But NTT moves at the speed of the former state telco monopoly it is and that's why this is happening only in 2023.
I don't do formal proofs, or use maths for proof. Most time the math is overkill. Yes I can show that indexing field [x,y] improves speed, but bench marks work here better than math.

I just think of the thing I want to build, and I break it into smaller and smaller bits.

I don't write code on paper.. just the "what do I want to happen".. super high level.
> After all, Gaben’s primary product is essentially a DRM platform (one of the first online DRM platforms for that matter!), evidently he believes he can’t compete with piracy on service quality alone.

Steam DRM is entirely optional and not required to put the game on Steam. DRM is game developer choice, steam is just giving a (shitty, easily breakable) option.

> Take Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3. You can buy a DRM free copy from GoG pretty easily… yet the torrents for it are still quite active from what I can see.

Well, some people won't start paying even if they have means. And some will not have enough money to ever say "okay I will actually buy game instead of putting it towards updating my rig". Question is really how many of those would be converted vs. just not play the game, especially now where there is plenty of F2P stuff, or insane value bundles or sales.
It's inconsistent. I haven't touched my Gtk settings on macOS, and here are the defaults: Ctrl-A in Gimp (Gtk2) selects all text; in Inkscape (Gtk3) it hops to the start of the line; I'm not sure which apps use Gtk4 so can't tell for this one.
autoGPT mTurk integration on the way? would be a great thing for human in the loop systems
In this context the name "Adrenalin" seems to fit.
It's about how much gets downloaded to your client machine
The comments carry on with the tone:

> Should be a great way to demonstrate how Blockchain can scale to millions of transactions per hour every morning when the trains arrive.

As an Australian I'm very not British but do share the love for upbeat backhanding.
Loongarch is at tier3 as well: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/loo...
My rule of thumb is that when 99% of the politicians agree on some specific matters that only have 40-50% approval among the general population. There is a problems.

Modern democracies are more subtle than USSR and such.

You don’t really need to fraud the election because you can just coordinate press campaign for weeks.

You don’t really need to submit politicians, you just need to mostly pick them from the same type of schools, companies or socio economic background.
I think they're fine and appropriate. As long as they keep the originals available I don't mind the alternative moralist edits. Just don't force them on me. I'm not interested in such edits.
> stateful UI

OP means that the screen has different modes that you traverse between, the car is still stateful.
No thanks. I’ve got a family to support for at least 18 more years, and I could be laid off at any second.

I need to make as much money as possible in the little time as possible, and the best way to do this is to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
> Do people still use Dropbox?

Yep but it's mostly because I have many things which integrate with it -- loads of IFTTT recipes, apps, and sites that automatically sync things for you. If iCloud had a public API that people could integrate with the same way, I'd probably drop Dropbox at some point.
So… heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, in memetic form?

I really hope that isn't actually possible.
Phosphor icons are also great: https://phosphoricons.com
> I don't agree with the logic that we cannot focus on two things at the same time

This times a million. I see it all the time on social media when it comes to news stories too, and it's as ridiculous there as it is here. People have different interests and skillsets, and they don't all need to focus on the same thing at the same time. The folks looking to explore Mars colonisation/space exploration and those working to slow down or prevent climate change are usually entirely different groups, who have studied what they're interested in for years. You can't just chuck them all at a single 'project' and refuse to allow anything else, in the same way we can't pause the rest of human civilisation because your pet issue isn't being sorted quickly enough, or have the entirety of a media organisation reassigned to a single story.
There is a bunch of Bosch induction models in the Series 4 that allow knob control from the oven.
I don't think anybody 'wants' to not know German in Berlin - it's just that they've decided it's not worth the effort at all or they are ok with their A2 level even though it's obviously not ideal. I know trilingual people in Berlin who just aren't going to learn German, a fourth language, beyond A2.

I (native English speaker) personally aspire to getting to B2 from my current A2 though.
Wouldn't get this with a FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
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It's not about the money. The fines are because Telegram won't reveal who's operating (neo-Nazi) accounts on their platform, with an added bit of political shenanigans to muddy the waters on top of it.
Indeed, as a paying user I would also want an option to disable them reading the files off my disk.

To bad they just start scanning everything in ~/Dropbox.
Er what? This is outright false.
I never had that problem with pirating music, nor I ever got any virus out of torrented video games even thru my dumb teenager years
I don't want to counterargument all of your points because they are totally paranoid and just feeds the disinformation that Bolsonaro and his followers spread throughout the election year.

You could use any number of arguments, you could say that the current government is actively pushing for censorship and state-wide surveillance, you could criticize the fact that the supreme court judge had the power to decide what was allowed and what wasn't during the election (which is a huge red flag and surprisingly Moraes only acted towards content that had little to no truth to it) and he's now pushing for TSE (Supreme Electoral Court) to have this permanent power to decide what is allowed and what isn't on the internet.

> Last year the brazilian armed forces released a report saying that the voting machine software's makefiles download unaudited proprietary libraries straight off the internet and links them against the final binary. I'm sure the HN community can appreciate the insanity of that. Brazilian journalists didn't.

The same Aremd Forces that was heavily politicized and most of them, if not all, were supporting Bolsonaro and all the stupid shit he spat out during the election year, the same armed forces that celebrated when that stupid Oswaldo Eustaquio said the voting machines had a huge security flaw in it and he couldn't even write proper code, which turned out to be a SIMULATION of the voting machine obtained from a repository on GitHub.

The voting machines are audited every election year, TSE invites the political parties to audit them and strongly recommends them to invite over technical people to find issues with them. They found a couple of issues in the last year which had no impact on the election and wouldn't have.

EDIT: as someone pointed out in another comment, the armed forces didn't participate in ANY of the public auditing sessions and were pushing for their own audit just so they could come up with something to feed the lie Bolsonaro was spreading that the voting machines aren't secure and shouldn't be used for elections.
> MJ and stable also make clear that their models don't understand language like humans do.

I believe the claim here is "and we would like them to".
> NHS and schooling are among the top problems in the UK right now. Add social care for the elderly and agriculture

but free trade / free movement just papered over the actual issue. You can temporarily use a form of economic imperialism to bring in people to run key services in your country for lower wages, but if won't solve the real issue and won't last forever, because it only 'works' between countries with relative unequal economies. It also does not compensate the donar country for the large issues it creates there.

Key workers are not being paid anywhere near enough to compensate for their importance to the country and to the economy, we are not valuing them no matter where they come from, and we are not training and recruiting enough people locally.
Until this changes, then people are not going to come here to work in the NHS, child care etc. Free movement or not.

This issue was coming sooner or later, in some sectors Brexit has highlighted it.

If you want more people to come work here, then support the strikes.

EDIT. in addition, good quality child care should be provided free by the state, it is a massive benefit to the economy and to society. That's another core issue that was never addressed while we were inside the EU, nor is it (yet) being addressed outside it.
Somewhat offtopic:

HN shows me the name of the submitter, bastienbeurier, in the colour #cd6e00. (Not sure what people call that colour in natural language, as i'm colour-blind.)

What's up with that? The account was created in 2013.
The thing is... IF is currently just a base model, it will need serious fine-tuning before it will produce aesthetically pleasing images (like MJ certainly does).

It's interesting to see what IF can do in terms of composition, text rendering etc, it's very promising if aesthetically pleasing images can be achieved via fine-tuning (the same happened with SD... current publicly fine-tuned models can achieve much higher levels of quality and cohesion than the base models, here's the prompt in an SD2.1 based model: https://imgur.com/a/ELGMSmV ).

Of course fine-tuning IF is likely more challenging, as both the two first stages and the 4x SD upscaler might need to be fine-tuned...
The earliest stone axe is 1.6 million years old.

Stone can chop wood.

Really nice furniture can also be defined as solid, old-growth wood furniture, designed and made to your own specifications, that will last for hundreds of years.
As a native English speaker this is somewhat comforting since it means I can get around easily, but my family is planning to move to the Netherlands this summer and one thing that strikes me is how hard it will be to learn Dutch when virtually everyone seems to speak excellent English. I was looking for a summer camp for my daughter and was a little dismayed to realize they were an English-only summer camp - to help Dutch kids learn English. Hopefully she'll become fluent anyway (she's only 5).
If it is actually cheap and open, documentation generally gets done if product lives long enough
You guys don't have capacitive gloves so you can use your phone while wearing them?
Is it important to you that your speech is tied to your physical identity?

Now that most communication takes place online, it seems the obvious solution is to say anything controversial via pseudonyms. As long as you don't get careless about protecting your true identity, that seems like something you can do just about anywhere.
While USA is concerned about "modern sensitivity", the BRICS are challenging the Dollar.

Maybe americans should actually "wake up".
No it isn‘t [0] and even if it were it‘s not about truth or falsehood but about right or wrong and in any case: „at all times“ cannot mean changing the past and artifacts of the past. The past already happened and cannot be changed and products of the past likewise already happened.

[0] Because the assumption that the current society is somehow in possession of the truth is mistaken and has been shown to be mistaken again and again. Furthermore such an ideology would be just the opposite of what it means to live in an open society.
Masks are a small volume though. Wouldn't you need to be breathing shallowly or otherwise have compromised lung capacity to make a noticeable difference?

Seems like blood-oxygen levels would be a better proxy for the effects than CO2 levels inside most masks.
I would rather donate to a public effort to archive books, films, music and articles. I don't want to hoard the data myself and maintain backups.

If The Internet Archive can do it for websites, we can find a similar solution for films, too.
I'm not a strong advocate of this, or of jail time in general for non-violent offenders, but as a thought experiment, suppose that Acme Auto release updates to their car's software which make the UI more laggy and less intuitive to navigate. After they do, there are a cluster of similar accidents - distracted driver hits a pedestrian when they should have stopped. These can be shown statistically to affect Acme models with the software updates significantly more than any other make of car, and more than Acmes which don't have the update. A class action lawsuit is started against Acme by both crash victims and drivers. In discovery, correspondence between software engineers is found. Engineer A writes to Product Manager B and says that they don't think the new build is safe, because they were forced to compromise latency performance, and button placement is now more surprising, having changed again. QA Engineer C chimes in and says that since the changes apply to features critical to driving such as de-misting, they won't be prepared to sign off on the change. PM B says that they have to go with the new version in order to meet internal targets on engagement with entertainment apps. They overrule A and C, as company rules allow them to do.

Do you think B should face any personal consequences within a public justice system? Or Acme is just liable for a big payout and then upper management decide who takes the blame?
Pinduoduo
The whole publication is a joke. It goes on and on about breathing "2.8–3.2% carbon dioxide" when mask dead space constitutes maybe 15-30% of human tidal volume. At rest.

And I'm pretty sure "2.8-3.2%" is a cherrypicked datapoint, other studies report lower concentrations.

Realistically, all of this is less of an issue than classroom CO2 exposure over a schoolday but nobody's acting outraged about that one for some reason.