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by vivegi 4y ago
Wow! That brought back memories.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Would we say the equivalent thing about the ill-fated MCAS in the Boeing 737 MAX? How different is TSLA's behavior compared to what Boeing's position was when it didn't inform the pilots about how MCAS worked (and actively ca
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by vivegi 4y ago
It is a ridiculous ask by TSLA. Why should videos that highlight mortal dangers be taken down? Fix the software/hardware instead of waging this quixotic PR/legal battle. It fools no one. Wasn't TSLA/Musk the one that veh
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by vivegi 4y ago
I quit FB a couple of years ago when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out. I quit WhatsApp when they unilaterally changed their privacy policies to share within the Meta group of companies and migrated to Signal (most of my friends gro
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by vivegi 4y ago
Several decades ago while using Oracle and SQL*Plus, I used to generate the column list for queries from the data dictionary table (ALL_TAB_COLUMNS). Once I learnt that trick, I never typed the column list ever again. Eventually, I had a li
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by vivegi 4y ago
What would be the advantage of doing this in space as opposed to Terra Firma? Is wireless delivery of power even practical at the national / global scale?
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by vivegi 4y ago
Thank you! That worked.
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by vivegi 4y ago
You are right. The law mandates reasonable safeguards and one of them is encryption at rest/motion when deemed necessary by the covered entity (which is quite common in Healthcare). From the HHS site: https://www.hhs.gov&#x2
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by vivegi 4y ago
Conceptually, yes. You can encrypt at the database/filesystem level (where the OS/DB engine manages the encryption keys and enforces access control), at a table level/column level (where the db engine enforces access control)
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by vivegi 4y ago
Of course it does. Believe me. I have programmed by writing code in plain text editors (vi / notepad) and compiling them on the command line and using a line editor to fix issues. I have also used IDEs and have come to appreciate the p
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by vivegi 4y ago
In the healthcare industry in USA, Personal Identification Information (PII)/Personal Health Information (PHI) needs to be encrypted at rest and in transit and is mandated by law. So, they are required to encrypt PII/PHI data fiel
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by vivegi 4y ago
Just wait until they build an AI watermark identifier and remover (which is a problem subset) and then use its output to train/update their model. They probably already have specialized filtering models built to filter out censorable t
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by vivegi 4y ago
> What it would do is to create a market for open source data sets with liberal licenses. This is exactly right. Open Datasets is the way to go. I would also say that in the spirit of the Open Access movement for journals and publication
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by vivegi 4y ago
Another reason why cloud services must come with end-to-end encryption ON by default. What business does GOOG or any other big tech have with reading their customers' emails or analyzing their photos/videos etc., except for creati
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by vivegi 4y ago
The app store is an abomination. Don't even get me started on the app store ensures security and privacy of users . If that is the case, they would not be having apps that use in-app browsers that are a security and privacy sinkhole.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Setup an out-of-office autoresponder with a colleague who is covering your absence and your manager's contact info for any escalations (talk to them and let them know you beforehand). This has always worked for me. I setup a catchup me
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by vivegi 4y ago
In-app browsers are a huge mess and security/privacy nightmare. Browsers implement a security sandbox. In-app browsers break and circumvent this threat model in nasty ways. I hope this gets the same attention as cross-site scripting (X
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by vivegi 4y ago
Very cool application of DALL-E!
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by vivegi 4y ago
From India. Works fine for me. Pinging hackernews.com [18.67.161.90] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 18.67.161.90: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=248 Reply from 18.67.161.90: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=248 Reply from 18.67.161.90: by
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by vivegi 4y ago
The demo video was cool. I wish the www/internet existed when I was in high school and this tool would have been a killer app for writing student essays / reports.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Nikola Tesla had claimed that a resonance oscillator that he had built was capable of causing earthquakes. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s_oscillator Even though MythBusters team tried to replicate this in
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by vivegi 4y ago
Banks implement the UPI protocol (an API essentially) to talk to the NPCI infrastructure network. Your UPI VPA is linked to your bank account. Most banks in India are already on the NPCI/UPI network. Thirdparty apps can also implement
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by vivegi 4y ago
In India, we have UPI, a tokenized peer to peer payments network powered by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Banks participate on the NPCI payment network. I can assign a Virtual Payment Address (VPA) such as payxyz@mybank
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by vivegi 4y ago
In Hypertext you would say <a href="https://example.com/aresource">A resource</a> In essence the anchor text becomes the petname and is human readable while the href points to the URL of th
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by vivegi 4y ago
Just expanding on the call options, one can even take a neutral hedge position by buying PUTs and CALLs at the same strike price. So, in essence you are betting that the price won't stay at the same level and would either rise or fall.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Check if the underlying stream has multiple resolutions of the video stream encoded. For eg: HLS and MPEGDASH both have this feature so that you can watch the streams at an adaptive bitrate on devices with different resolutions/bandwid
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Ask HN: App Distribution Through the Ages
3 points by vivegi 4y ago|2 comments
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by vivegi 4y ago
That is not for web browsers to decide. If the creator of the website/page intends a wider multilingual audience, nothing stops them from providing translations of the same content into different languages. In this day and age when we
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by vivegi 4y ago
1. Why can't you use something like AWS Fargate and spin up the required number of VMs as needed to keep your running costs completely variable? 2. Similar to many other comments here, you should price your service based on value offer
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by vivegi 4y ago
Line-of-business apps and heavy data-entry tasks are the exception. Every enterprise is full of them. Navigating across fields/buttons using the keyboard without using the mouse is a huge productivity factor in those scenarios. A good

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