skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems completely the opposite.

With paper ballots around the world there are already attacks at scale. Take the latest national election in the USA. Republicans claim that Democrats shipped in fake mail-in ballots or harvested them from old people, and said “trust us”. Democrats claim that Republicans closed polling stations and disenfranchised many voters at scale in districts that historically voted Democratic.

Witness all the rigged elections around the world, some strongmen getting 99% of the vote at scale. What good are the paper ballots in, say, Belarus if Lukashenko says he won? Is an average person going to be able to somehow know what happened in their own pollung station after they left, let alone across the entire country?

Having mutually distrusting parties have access to each other’s work is the very thing that enforces byzantine consensus but it can be checked and verified on-chain as each party signs off on the result, so anyone can check that 1) they looked at it and 2) they were satisfied. That’s far far better than hearing someone say “it went fine” about paper ballot recounts.

Furthermore, everyone being able to make sure their vote was counted by eg checking Merkle Proof is far more secure.

None of the above failure modes would be an issue if everyone who wanted to, could vote from their computer, scanned the QR code with their phone to verify their choice, and signed with their private cryptographic keys derived from their IDs.
How do they even make money? No ads, no subscriptions - what ‘market’?
Seems like you are talking about Telegram, not WhatsApp?
I use XMPP with OMEMO for my main encrypted messaging, and I don't get why Matrix got popular instead of XMPP (aside from a big marketing budget). Even a lighter server implementation takes up several times more resources than an XMPP server, plus the concerns about the enormous central instance.

XMPP FTW.
The fix is to add "on the server" to the sentence.

"This message cannot be saved because it no longer exists on the server.", and then it's all solved.
>> Being a monopoly and setting the rules no longer works.

Can you point to an actual monopoly? I would love for you to show me one. I will wait.

There are some duoplies. Not the same, they aren't even close.

One of the last great monopolies was AT&T ... we got unix out of that deal.

Xerox was close... Modern GUI's came from it.

Someone will say apple. They are more or less vertically integrated, as is YKK zippers (you know the ones that dont break or get jammed).

The world keeps moving on, companies rise and fall. GE, IBM, US Steel, 50 years ago they were the apples and MS's of their day. Now, no one cares about them.

You're right about the outcome, but wrong about the reason... same as it ever was.
Matrix, IRC, Discord, Telegram, SMS, etc. You’ve got plenty of options to get away from Meta. Privacy and E2E encryption are Signal’s killer features
Donations via in-app purchases. This is not hard to find out.
So there is no way to overcome this by installing an unapproved app (unverified, unsigned, etc.)?
I just gave up on smartphones altogether. It is much easier to make a laptop/desktop private instead and limit your private messaging and activities to it.
Thank you for the answer!

The limited range of compatibility of RAM components makes me wonder if the promise of upgradeability actually delivers
I'm wondering if you could get so used to it over time you would develop a 'ghost limb' syndrome, i.e. some discomfort/itching/confusion when the appendage is taken off.
Switzerland applies many many EU-regulations without having a say in it.

They also pay towards EU funds.

They are also part of Schengen.
The concept of a public benefit company seems really useful to society, it would be good if that could be strengthened in law and became more widespread. Since having a pure duty to maximise profit for shareholders is not that easy to reconcile with ethical behaviour.
I find VS Code unusable for this reason - typing is like communicating with an app in a parallel world.
Reminder that deepfake porn is just free speech. Someone expressing things that most people have in their heads, like fantasizing about some celebrity, shouldn’t be illegal. Claiming it’s real should be illegal - but that’s already covered by defamation law.
What are you afraid of? What can happen?

This is a serious question
GP here :)

When talking about speed I was rolling the time taken to write the query and get the query to run with the run time. The total speed depends upon both.

In another thread someone pointed out that being a good quant is also about having the best ideas in the first place.

This is just a general comment on the whole comments section in general that I leave here:

We have this weird situation where the general programming population looks at a small group of the most profitable programmers who are thinking about their domain problems in languages that are a mapping or mathematical symbols to a qwerty keyboard (in the old days there were APL keyboards). And the mainstream programmers say that is so weird that it must be wrong and must be a lie and so on.

Occam’s razor says that those profitable programmers wouldn’t be buying K if the same results at lower TCO or better results at a higher price?

In broader data engineering there has been tech like “I use scala!” that are used to gatekeep and recognise the in crowd. But that is in the faceless corporate end of enterprise data engineering where people are not measured in bottom lines.

Sorry for venting :)
I hope this passes.

I want to see the riots when EU cell phone consumers have to pay for text messages again.

Some men just want to watch the world burn...
It is not. At most you get 8 months of the year. The rest even if the weather is sunny you are looking at strong wind or unpredictable storms that pop up. We just had golf ball sized hail at the end of may.
Yeah, I hear you, my point was just that we know the constraints up front and it doesn't matter in this case. Sometimes it's convenient to not have to pass around the length and do one or more multiplies with every index.
Res ipsa loquitur
His office was not a multi-storey air-conditioned open plan aquarium where 30-something idiots commuting from the leafy counties of Kent want to discuss how they got pissed last night and who feel compelled to bond with software devs by showing them the latest "take a selfie and see it mapped onto a baboon arse" app. I would love to have the opportunity to go on walks with a mentor, but the only available ones are frustrated, scared managers who think of themselves as thought leaders or aloof top managers/founders who think of themselves as geniuses when they are a) well-connected public school crowd keeping the riffraff out of their lives, b) clever, but not genius operators happy to ride their teams to the ground to cover up lack of planning. The best I could get out of them is beers on a Thursday night. Thanks.
> Republicans claim that Democrats shipped in fake mail-in ballots or harvested them from old people, and said “trust us”. Democrats claim that Republicans closed polling stations

Claims won’t change with a tech fix.

The point is there still isn’t evidence of wide-scale disruption. Electronic-only voting changes that from a verifiable problem to an inherently-unverifiable one. You only know the code voted, not the person.

> What good are the paper ballots in, say, Belarus if Lukashenko says he won?

Crypto ballots wouldn’t change this. If anything, I expect crypto voting to soon feature in authoritarians’ elections.
I took at look at Magic earlier today and it didn't work at all for me, sorry to say. After the example prompt, I tried to learn about a table and it generated bad SQL (correct query to pull a row, but with limit 0). I asked it to show me the DDL and it generated invalid SQL. Then I tried to ask it to do some population statistics on the customer table and ended up confused about why there appears to be two windows in the cell, with the previously generated SQL on the left and the newly generated SQL on the right. The new SQL wouldn't run when I hit run cell, the error showed the originally generated SQL. I gave up and bounced.

I went back while writing this comment and realized it might be showing me a diff (better use of color would have helped, I have been trained by github). But I was at a loss for what to do with that. I just now figured out the Keep button exists and it accepted the diff and now it sort of makes sense, but the SQL still doesn't return any results.

My honest feedback is that there is way too much stuff I don't understand on the screen and it makes me confused and a little stressed. Ease me into it please, I'm dumb. There seems to be cells that are linked together and cells that aren't(? separated by purplish background) and I don't understand it. I am a jupyter user and I feel like this should be intuitive to me, but it isn't. I am not a designer, but I suspect the structural markings like cell boundaries are too faint compared to the content of the cells and/or the exterior of a cell having the same color as the interior is making it hard for me. I feel lost in a sea of white.

But the core issue is that, excluding the prompt I copy-pasted word for word which worked like a charm, I am 0 out of 4 on actually leveraging AI to solve the problems I asked of Magic. I like the concept of natural language BI (I worked on in the early days when Alexa came out) so I probably gave it more chances than I would have for a different product.

For me, it doesn't fit my criteria for good problems to solve with AI in 2024 - the conversational interface and binary right/wrong nature of querying/presenting data accurately make the cost of failure too high, which is a death sentence for AI products IMO (compare to proactive, non-blocking products like copilot or shades-of-wrong problems like image generation or conversations with imaginary characters). But text-to-SQL and data presentation make sense as AI capabilities in 2024 so I can see why that could be a good product to pursue. If it worked, I would definitely use it.
> users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos

I take it this should apply to any web comments and messaging platform, and therefore require that all websites and web services comply if they can be accessed within the EU?

I’m not sure how that’s even remotely doable.
So what if it is possible to generate photorealistic pictures? It’s still just art. An algorithm doesn’t change that.
There is an easier way - going with a selfhostable, federated solution. And at least XMPP is now commonly used with an encryption protocol that is based on Signal's.
That's doesn't make any sense for at least two reasons:

1. Maintainers don't thoroughly vet packages. You should know this from a certain recent event that was all over the news!

2. Projects that don't want to deal with the main apt repo just set up PPAs and tell you the commands to copy/paste to add their keys and the PPA.
It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology.

Laws can be ammended faster than implementations.
Pinyin is used as input to select characters, but the final text that's used to communicate is composed of characters.
Agreed.
But is 7 years of jail for a joke the right punishment?
We already have this - it's called Tor and I2P.
No web interface and constant need to link to other devices.
Is there a place that can do this for me?
Hahahahaha. Unless we have a major change in direction we aren’t getting crap.
Does the page 404 for anyone else? Is this a Europe thing?
It might be better to provide 2 3 words of context with each separated word. My handwriting is often bad, and I sometimes have to guess a word based on context.
Not if you are using a package manager.
Tell HN: Steamcommunity.com has lost their DNS-A record
Currently steamcommunity.com (the official site where Steam users download Workshop items and have forums) is not resolving A records with most DNS providers

Seen here: https://www.nslookup.io/domains/steamcommunity.com/dns-records/#cloudflare

When I did a dig on the A record it did not resolve with Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) but did resolve with 8.8.8.8, later not even that.

Seems like they have pushed a weekend update
I think I see. You mean those tiles, is that correct? https://imgur.com/a/YHSYjSe

The way I see it, is that for a rook, it is easy to know which path it can follow. You simply take it's current position and allow it to move to any neighbor tile sharing an edge, and then the opposite tile, and the opposite again, and so on.

For a pawn, it can also move to neighbor tile sharing an edge, but there are multiple ones, and only one is allowed. So how to you define which it is?

If we were to say, as I understand is what you suggest, that it will follow the same path as a rook, here is the problem that I see. If it was in one of those tiles you mention, we can't infer which path a rook would take from the pawn current position. We would instead need to know its starting position. And by just looking at the board in a given state, the pawn could come from 2 places ( see https://imgur.com/a/sExTqsP ). So that would require the player to always keep in mind which pawn comes from where. Which I think is really hard. Especially for games with no timer, as those could last days.

I'm much more in favor of a definition of forward which is comprehensible by just looking at the board, without having to think about the starting point. Which is why for now I've settled on using the direction of the tile edge. Even if there is a non-negligible cost of visual clutter.

Also, I'm quite keen on preserving the fact that all pawn can be promoted to a piece when reaching the opposite edge. As soon as you know that a pawn can't do that, they lose a lot of their threat potential.

But I don't want to close off this idea. It does make me think, and I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise. And it could very well end up as a variant inside this variant!
You can flush your cache to relax. It takes effort. Usually 2 days of different activities.

I schedule 2-3 days at home, just lazying in front of TV or playing games to flush job out of my brain before starting vacations, to prevent carrying job over to the vacation and spoiling it.
There are methods to bypass the Chinese Firewall though. the issue is getting people to use them.
> Imagine if SELECT field1, field2 FROM my_table was faster than SELECT field2, field1 FROM my_table.

possibly it might not be smart enough to reorder an index on (field1, field2), or it had some weird internal constraint on tuple ordering, or it was simply different enough to go down a different query plan sometimes, or maybe there’s something around the actual physical ordering on disk?

but yeah postgres and SQLite are modern marvels that we take for granted… myISAM was not a good time, or at least people tended to violate the correctness/visibility rules it promised (iirc) or something like that. The fact that you can just open up a stable, well-tested sql instance that runs against disk, or drop Postgres into most transactional use-cases, and generally not have to worry about unduly fighting the DB itself, is underappreciated.
> bitlocker

Windows is actually pushing for bitlocker by default now. I believe new Windows 11 installs either are already or will soon start defaulting to enabling bitlocker across the board.

> telemetry/training

It's really just timer triggered screenshots + OCR + an SLM (small language model) running on device on a TPU/NPU, GPU, or other ONNX compatible device.

I'm generally super uncharitable about Microsoft since a lot of their stuff is a nasty black box with unclear security assumptions however with Recall, it seems like people are really jumping to conclusions without really even looking into what all it is.

This is a largely "unsophisticated" product made by bolting a bunch of more or less preassembled components and the bulk of which is open source.

- Screenshot + OCR is almost certainly Microsoft Powertoys Text Extractor (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)

- The DB is sqlite but the system is probably just kernel-memory which is a local .NET application: https://github.com/microsoft/kernel-memory

- The SLM is Phi-3 which is open and designed primarily to run locally https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-phi-3-red...

- The actual underlying tech stack is DirectML (https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML) and ONNX (https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime).

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So the data is intended to be encrypted at rest along with the rest of the OS, it's all run locally (which isn't a handwaivy thing, the tech is all very much capable of running locally) and if you don't have hardware capable of running it, it shouldn't be enabled in the first place.

My confusion with all of this is why Recall didn't start out as a PowerToys feature. It sounds like the exact type of internal "look at this cool little toy I built" thing that generally makes it into PowerToys but I'm assuming some exec ran with the opportunity and said "this is awesome, let's ship it with the OS and make it a highliner feature for our AI push" which is how we got here.
> your family

Rather a large tacit assumption there.
That's not the point.

Crypto promised solving the issues of the fiat.

It just doesn't do that at all and need all of the mechanics of our proof of stake system while consuming a lot of energy for it's own proof of work.
Everybody uses a POSIX shell today. Unless you're a basement dweller using OpenSolaris or something, and probably even then

Then guess what, I'm not building software for you

From the article:

> Of course, the checks should be reasonable (and in practice, often are excessive). If your code assumes a C99 environment, you don’t need to check whether all C99 functions you use are available.

Which makes sense to me (including the check based approach).
Yeah, only pootin is allowed to wage war, all the rest should put their efforts into peace by surrendering to him.
Article adds that they walked to office at 10-11, walked home FROM office at 1-2 (so they spent at most 3 hours at the institute) and in effect this took up 30% of Einstein's workday.

If anything, it's subtle "do what you love" propaganda.
I think the reason is that you needed to save on places where to look for files and sort by function in LFS. The package manager converts a package view into a system view, it kind of "turns around file system layout by 90 degrees". Both views have their pros and cons.

It is annoying however, that configuration is not standardized across distros.
>Sofas made in the past 15 years or so are absolute garbage, constructed of sawdust compressed and bonded with cheap glue, simple brackets in place of proper joinery, substandard spring design, flimsy foam, and a lot of staples.

Interesting, I didn't know it's the case everywhere, not only in my country. Several beds/sofas we bought in the last 5-10 years had such poor quality they cracked in multiple places already and had to be fixed or replaced. Meanwhile a bed produced in 1970 changed 3 owners and still was in perfect condition when we replaced it (for the only reason of looking "oudated", which I regret now).
Worked well on my Pixel tablet running GrapheneOS and Fennec in landscape mode. Smooth and fast.
Rich messaging with images and videos is not universally available without signal or WhatsApp etc... And it's very easy (at least here in the UK) to end up sending an mms message which still costs an arm and a leg.
As stated in the title this is about distributing content.

You are free to produce this content in the comfort of your own home.
MrBeast surpassed 265M subscribers on YouTube
When you are fit you have a lower probability of events leading to trauma because you have better balance, reaction time, and strength when needed.

You can see this from the inverse too: as you age all of those factors (muscle strength, reaction time) diminish, as do other issues (osteoporosis) so falls become both more frequent and more serious.

Yes, you can be hit by a car at any age, and some fitness enthusiasts engage in activities that can lead to sudden injury (e.g. skiing). But in general, the OP is correct.
More importantly, the M2 was released two years ago, built on a fab process that entered volume production the year before that. Yields on that chip are as mature as they're going to get.
This would only affect sexually explicit parody / fair use.
yes, GP reached the same conclusion as you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40550176

I'm still unsure, as I describe in my reply there, an issue I see is that you can't know the path a pawn would take, unless you know where it comes from.

But since both of you reached the same solution, I'll keep thinking about it.
I can only hope… but won’t hold my breath.
Insofar as modern personal communications are concerned, availability is tyranny. Being unavailable is a psychological shield.
I had tried that with Duron 600 but couldn’t overclock it. I don’t remember what went wrong. Maybe the motherboard didn’t support it.
I stumbled on this yesterday, it seems to have a queue concept..
https://github.com/ParisNeo/ollama_proxy_server
Parody means imitation for comedic purposes.

There is nothing funny nor fair about creating deep fakes of women and distributing it to fellow students, colleagues etc.
He's not wrong. Consider just one aspect of the trial: the charges are about bookkeeping: mislabeling transactions. Therefore, it was essential to have Stormy Daniels testify about the sexual positions they used? The sex wasn't illegal. Paying her for an NDA wasn't illegal. Any competent judge would have disallowed this testimony.

Even if the verdict is correct, the conduct of the trial was entirely partisan.
> Late Capitalism: Check check fucking check.

I think the author would stop blaming capitalism after seeing the atrocious sofas of the late socialist Soviet Union, which wete not only worse than anything, but also the only choice.
How can you so casually equate mass tracking by Google and direct surveillance by family member? that's not even whataboutism, completely different situation

Google doesn't need to know who I am to track me, Google cannot lock me up in my room, Google cannot gaslight/manipulate/abuse me based on where I went today