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by danielvf 2y ago
Note that Canon has been shipping cameras that intend to do this since 2002. However, clever people figured out to break it. [1] [1] https://www.usa.canon.com/support/canon-product-advisories/a...
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by danielvf 2y ago
Imagine you have a system that ignores taps a substantial percentage of the time (either because it required more precise finger placement, or because that's life). Also most successful taps complete quickly, with only some having 250m
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by danielvf 2y ago
This interview was exactly this thing. It filtered out Adam. :)
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by danielvf 2y ago
Job interview for a potential hire: Candidate had a decent resume with previous experience, had passed the initial non-tech interview, and seemed excited about the job. We talked about the job and how they would approach doing it. Came to
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by danielvf 2y ago
For those looking for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41128441
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by danielvf 2y ago
Two months ago someone a 2 million dollar bug bounty, and it was top on HN. [0] So, no this is a good bounty but still on the small size for a huge crypto project / company. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4071
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by danielvf 2y ago
Here's some context, and some fun drama. One month ago this same company found a bug with a 2 million dollar bug bounty. The bug would let them drain funds from a crypto exchange by sending funds to the exchange on the blockchain, but
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by danielvf 2y ago
This paper is most likely complete bunk. The data is very bad, and the conclusion doesn't even match the data. See previous comments when this was posted yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41111236 (data)
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by danielvf 2y ago
I agree with you - both the data and the conclusions drawn from that data are fairly out there. And there's only 16 adult faces used. If even one of these had a skewed name, that would be a bigger effect size than the entire experiment
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by danielvf 2y ago
I find the conclusion unlikely to have the effect size they describe and there are two similar explanations that fit the data better. Take the name "Maria" in the US. In the 1930's a girl with that name would have strong odds
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by danielvf 2y ago
The early USSR was at least two orders of magnitude worse than the czars, if you score either by yearly executions or by yearly sent to Siberia. And that's not evening counting the USSR's millions "resettled" in ethic op
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by danielvf 2y ago
A surprising law foundation in the US is that if you live somewhere long enough as if you were the owner, then it becomes yours. Sometimes known as "squatters rights". This feels a bit unfair at first. However, this "if you t
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by danielvf 2y ago
This "article" is SEO spam and appears to be written by an LLM. Don't waste your time.
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by danielvf 2y ago
I was somewhat surprised as well at the phrasing here, and had to look it up. During Assange's time in the Ecuadorian embassy, he fathered two children by a female lawyer hired to be on his defense team. [1] [1] https://en.w
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by danielvf 2y ago
Here's an explanation of how Certik attacked Kracken's deposits: https://x.com/danielvf/status/1803780167027871878 Certik did hard work to find the bug - testing many of exchanges over many blockchains.
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by danielvf 2y ago
There's an entirely legitimate question here behind this quip. I don't think there's a magical answer, but one approach I've found is to try to be a mini expert in a tiny, tiny slice of a bigger area (usually bridging ov
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by danielvf 2y ago
The project changed to a 1 million dollar bounty after usmannk's report on May 18th.. There's an unofficial project that tracks bounty programs, you can see the change here: https://github.com/infosec-us-team/
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by danielvf 2y ago
[I was wrong, see below]
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by danielvf 2y ago
The bounties in crypto are so big because the math is so clear on the cost vs benefits of the bounties. Paying two million to avoid losing a billion is not a bad deal. And there just aren't enough security people yet that market forces
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by danielvf 2y ago
You can see lots more here: https://immunefi.com/bug-bounty/
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by danielvf 2y ago
My understanding is that the overall move towards almonds is actually a move towards crops that are efficient in terms of dollars of income for a fixed amount of water. Wheat exports for $250 per ton of wheat. This month almonds export at $
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by danielvf 2y ago
You can see the UI for UK's divorce lawyers in this training document[1] pdf. It's not actually that bad, but the payment flow only shows case numbers, not names. ---- However, the headline for this article is a bit misleading. It
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by danielvf 3y ago
A fun article! I think a more probable understanding of the "Daniel" reference in Ezekiel is that it is same Daniel from the book of Daniel. Even if you assume that the prophecies in the book of Daniel were written retroactively 6
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by danielvf 3y ago
Some context on this article. This article is targeted at proving programs that run on blockchain based virtual machines. These VM's are deterministic to their core. This is quite different the envirnoments that than most programs run
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by danielvf 3y ago
Every Russian naval ship sunk by Ukraine in 2024 has been sunk in sight of land, at a small port or bay that they have been stationed at. It's not that Ukrainian USV are making pinpoint attacks in a vast ocean, rather they are driving
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by danielvf 3y ago
This has nothing on Alaska, where you can sign up to be called by the Highway Patrol when they find roadkill. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538648
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by danielvf 3y ago
In Alaska you can sign up to be put on a rotating list to be notified of, and collect, free meat from highway roadkill. Had a friend who had the biggest pickup truck in a small community. He would calls at all hour of the day and night to c
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Alaska Highway Patrol Roadkill Program(dps.alaska.gov)
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by danielvf 3y ago
Actually Darwin himself was writing about natural selection, human breeding, and races in 1871 [1] > With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civil
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by danielvf 3y ago
I don't know anything about mars, but I've messed with windmill math. This really doesn't make sense to me. A 150 mph wind in 1% atmosphere should be a way stronger a 1 mph wind on earth? You know the old formula, force = mas

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