JStanton617
Re:HyperAgents
on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:50AM (#47542658)
At long last we've created Wintermute from William Gibson's classic 1984 novel Don't Create Wintermute
Re:Somebody Please Get Me This Desktop Wind Tunnel for Christmas
on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:24AM (#42078054)
Definitely justifying this by helping my nephew with his Pinewood Derby car next year
Re:Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff
on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:06PM (#38209413)
I don't think that's correct. Their 2022 annual report shows them as profitable. https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two
Maybe took a major downturn in the past year, but I haven't seen any evidence of that
Re:Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a ...
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:55PM (#37574573)
India (among other countries) have passed so called "hostage-taking laws" that require large social media companies to have in-country employees that can be strong-armed from ways small to large (threats of being convicted of treason and executed).
This is a specific policy to allow them to enforce their censorship laws in other countries.
Re:Ask HN: Paychecks from a failed startup?
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:03PM (#35793342)
Payroll is one of the very few (only?) things that "pierces the corporate veil" - that is, the principals / board members are personally liable even in the event of corporate bankruptcy.
You could engage a labor lawyer, but if this was pre-series A and the founder was self-funding, there might not be any personal assets there either.
If you think the folding of the company is in good faith, you might just want to take the loss on this one.
Re:Fictional Brands Archive
on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:25AM (#35653380)
The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)
Re:Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?
on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:29AM (#35424173)
This exactly. For most small non-profs, basic IT upkeep - i.e. cleaning adware, patching vulns, getting backups set up and tested - is going to be so much useful than occasional airdropped code with no regular/timely maintenance plan
Re:Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum
on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:11PM (#34742507)
What an absolute incineration of time, effort and skill
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:34PM (#33959882)
The loss just on the lasers is 100x (i.e. delivered power is 1% of the input energy). Add in a combined cycle effeciency of only 50%, you're looking at needing a 200x improvement to have commercially relevant "net gain"
Re:F.lux, but for Your House
on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:11PM (#33510745)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527...
tl;dr - for the core phone/laptop F.lux use case, no, it isn't substantiated
Re:New iPad Pro with M2
on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:42PM (#33251152)
You need an MDM to manage it remotely. Something like Jamf Now is $2/device/month. Not sure how much the shipping costs, but might be break-even
Re:One-on-ones with executives
on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:49AM (#32825887)
I was taught basically this same method as the "Princess Bride" plan:
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya (who I am)
You killed my father (why I'm reaching out)
Prepare to die (my ask / expectation)
Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:03AM (#32765650)
This paper references consistently mischaracterizes AWS Lambda as a "Container as a Service" technology, when in fact it is exactly the sort of lightweight VM that they are describing - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...
Re:Formula One’s sharpest car designer is also its master of loopholes
on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:21AM (#31932025)
For those unfamiliar, the rumor is that Ferrari was somehow detecting the sample rate of the fuel flow sensor (which is a black-box provided by FIA and standard across all the cars), and increasing the flow rate only when the sensor "wasn't looking".
So doing a side-channel attack on the sensor, and designing a pump system to dynamically adjust the rate dozens of times a second. Hacking at its finest
Re:Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:33AM (#30348732)
EFS allows you to connect to the filesystem from multiple web front-end machines. Doing the same with EBS would require you to manage some sort of clustered filesystem, or run a separate storage tier server.
Re:Ask HN: Do any discussion boards that aren't Facebook/Reddit still ...
on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:15PM (#28394685)
Re:In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:32PM (#26480908)
OPNSense (the pfSense fork) is using the userland version. pfSense 2.5 is using this kernel code - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-5-0.ht...
"pfSense® Plus software version 21.02 and pfSense Community Edition (CE) software version 2.5.0 include a major OS version upgrade, a kernel WireGuard implementation..."
Re:In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:29PM (#26480859)
Yes. The code you're running is described as having "random sleeps added to “fix” race conditions, validation functions that just returned true, catastrophic cryptographic vulnerabilities, whole parts of the protocol unimplemented, kernel panics, security bypasses, overflows, random printf statements deep in crypto code, the most spectacular buffer overflows"
This is a kernel RCE just waiting to happen.
Re:Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:40PM (#18858136)
Or just some annoyed passengers with a roll of toilet paper? https://imgur.com/gallery/0b4wF3V
Re:EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @01:52PM (#18545389)
You mean this thing they just introduced yesterday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-predictive-scaling-for-...
Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:21AM (#18400119)
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Re:Lego Axle Sorter [video]
on Monday August 27, 2018 @01:23PM (#17852843)
Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue
on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:00AM (#17471011)
There are other ways, but why are they better? He says it out loud, other people can chime in and improve the idea, the Thai gov't sees it without him having to work his way up through a bureaucracy to find someone who can do something about it, etc.
This seems as good a way as any to do it to me.
Re:Intel FP security issue
on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:50PM (#17304799)
So Intel tried to shut *BSD out of the process again (like they did for the original Spectre/Meltdown) so they didn't feel they had to respect any embargo?
Re:Twitter Employee Who Deleted Trumps Account Being Hailed Hero
on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:30PM (#15621293)
https://twitter.com/en/tos:
"You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis."
and
"The Twitter Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content;"
Doesn't feel like something you should be conducting international diplomacy with...
Re:I've removed all ad network code from my blog
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:13AM (#13327191)
This is exactly what an ad network is
Re:The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:57PM (#12265516)
It does not work OK at all. Try being in any dense area such as an urban apartment building. There are 30 networks I can see on all 11 wifi channels. Its totally unusable.
Re:Angular 2 versus React
on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:15PM (#10838202)
React has a non-open license: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS, which basically says that an organization can no longer use React once it sues Facebook for any (unrelated) patent infringement.
This is an automatic no-way for React for any major company
Re:Men’s Locker Room Designers Take Pity on Naked Millennials
on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:15AM (#10731850)
Try $230
Re:There is no fold
on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:25PM (#8725881)
This is 100% ripped off from http://blog.chartbeat.com/2013/08/12/scroll-behavior-across-...