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by qzw 5y ago
That’s a fine goal, but let’s not then call a system that has nowhere near the acuity, resolution, or dynamic range, and is not hooked up to a (trained) human brain, “Full Self Driving”.
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by qzw 5y ago
Yup, had an ICE car that was part of a recall for risk of fire when parked. The letter I received suggested not parking inside a garage until the repairs had been completed.
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by qzw 5y ago
The only service I can think of where I'd want them not to cancel my account is a domain registrar.
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by qzw 5y ago
Imagine if they could operate an Amazon (or MS) app store on an equal footing with Apple and Google themselves. And then they can pitch to app makers a 5-10% commission instead of 30%. I bet they'd get a lot of takers and maybe some po
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by qzw 5y ago
There are some players with fairly deep pockets on the other side as well. Nobody on the scale of Apple or Google, perhaps, but not mom-n-pop shops either. Plus if I were Microsoft or Amazon, I would be salivating at the chance to run an al
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by qzw 5y ago
My theory of why the App Store sucks so much is that every manager at Apple is aware of the risk that antitrust action could kill its profitability at some point, therefore nobody good wants to be at the wheel when this particular titanic g
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by qzw 5y ago
It was an attempt at humor, just like the tweets in the submission. I was trying to gently poke fun at the fact that some portion of hn will call anything a bit unexpected "clickbait".
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by qzw 5y ago
How about we allow clickbait only on Sundays. Then during the rest of the week we can tell all the submissions with questionable titles to “Save it for Clickbait Sunday.” Edit: Sigh, I guess I have to add a disclaimer that it's a joke.
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by qzw 5y ago
Potential twist: it’s operated by the FBI/Secret Service/IRS/NSA. Would be a great way to compile a list of “addresses of interest.”
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by qzw 5y ago
> Meanwhile, a "Coalition for App Fairness," with members such as Spotify, Epic Games, Match Group, Basecamp, ProtonMail, and Deezer, is on board with the Open App Markets Act. Apple and Google got too greedy. If they had just
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by qzw 5y ago
This is just about the least information-dense article I've read on the subject. Might as well call it "Couple local gals say they're having trouble finding financially comparable men." Oh, and it's from 2019. How d
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by qzw 5y ago
Modern day slavery is human trafficking, forced prison labor, re-education camps… you know, actual slavery. Having no social security net is a real problem, but let’s not be hyperbolic.
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by qzw 5y ago
The article specifically states that she's starting an initiative to advocate for legislative changes. I don't think you're giving her enough credit (or didn't get that far in the article).
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by qzw 5y ago
I had the same question, but given dgan's height, I think the squatting must be in place of a chair rather than actually on a chair.
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by qzw 5y ago
So Chrome has had 92 fails and around 70% of the browser market. Guess I’m not failing enough then. [edit] Yes, I missed the semver part of the tweet. This is why I’m not on twitter, and should stay out of these threads in the future.
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by qzw 5y ago
Decades of orchestrated efforts to turn political discourse into a culture war. Ever wonder why there are so many political “think tanks”? That’s what they’ve been working on.
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by qzw 5y ago
So are you saying that even if the bad actors found out how the secret sauce works, they would not be able to spoof a legit page? In other words, is the obscurity in the CV part purely for competitive reasons, or does it also serve a securi
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by qzw 5y ago
Noticed that too. Immediate red flag, especially considering the number of newly created "concepts and methods" mentioned in the abstract (7 by my count). If they're not grounded in previous research worth citing, that just s
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by qzw 5y ago
From the abstract: > Our results indicate that software engineers use the keyword unsafe in less than 30% of Rust libraries, but more than half cannot be entirely statically checked by the Rust compiler because of Unsafe Rust hidden som
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by qzw 5y ago
More likely the "consultants" will handle the decryption process, and the company's own engineers, who are probably already shell-shocked and under huge pressure, will be told to just be thankful that the experts have secret,
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by qzw 5y ago
That's going to be nearly impossible to enforce, because the first thing that will probably happen is that companies will stop reporting ransomware attacks. And these "consultants" could be based anywhere, as well as further
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by qzw 5y ago
There already are "security consultants" who will do the dirty work of paying the ransom and handing the victim the decryption key. Pretty hard to stop that sort of thing, no?
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by qzw 5y ago
It'll work great until one day the AI responds to a simple question by regurgitating every line of dialogue Samuel L. Jackson ever spoke.
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by qzw 5y ago
Yeah, this is strictly artistic kung fu, which is basically high-mortality ballet. There are also many "realistic" martial arts films, if that's your thing. I enjoy both styles, depending on mood.
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by qzw 5y ago
In the movie Hero [0], two kung fu masters fight a battle purely in their minds. And when the mental fight was over, they only execute one physical move to finish the battle. Think of this as the computer equivalent of that scene. [0] htt
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by qzw 5y ago
pushes up glasses I would watch the heck out of a Twitch stream of their debugging/brainstorming sessions. I always loved the movie Apollo 13 , especially the technical troubleshooting parts.
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by qzw 5y ago
An incredibly low probability multiplied by ~billion+ users means somebody is going to lose something valuable sooner or later. And then the odds of MS getting sued for “not even patching a well-known vulnerability” becomes 100%.
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by qzw 5y ago
Looking at the VirusTotal results in the Twitter thread, all but one of the rootkits were actually detected by Microsoft's own anti-virus engine. I think Microsoft should consider running the submissions for driver signing through thei
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by qzw 5y ago
What the FDA is doing is in effect allowing Biogen to run a large scale clinical trial while charging full price for the drug. This would normally be a terrible idea, but Alzheimer's is such a devastating and long lasting disease that
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by qzw 5y ago
For context, this is from November 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/06/biogen-suffers-setback-after... Patient advocacy groups were pushing for approval pretty strongly. From the article: >In a letter s

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