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chucklenorris··on Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
Well, people love podcasts so it promised to be a more informal podcast platform with user participation and no built in recording. It got hyped by artificial scarcity (the invitation system) and by celebrities dropping in (it's like a dinner party with Elon yay). It was never that good in the first place, just people from the outside feeling the fomo. And then the floodgates open and the scummy parts of society dropped in, mostly fuelled by the ephemeral aspect of the discussions: crypto scams, made up entrepreneurs with no product, hate speech of all shapes and color. It basically turned into 4chan. And then ofcourse the big names abandoned ship.
chucklenorris··on From lightweight to featherweight: MicroK8s memory optimisation (2021)
I remember trying k3s and microk8s on an old laptop with a dual core i3-2530m a few years ago. The beast was eating at least 20% cpu on a fresh install without any containers running. I gave up and used docker swarm instead. Now i'd probaby try nomad, seems much saner
chucklenorris··on Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube
Overblown? If you buy something and the seller sends you the wrong item you have the legal right to keep it. In a normal world if that seller steals back that item, he is guilty of theft. It doesn't matter if he "rectified" the issue.
chucklenorris··on Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ for the children
CRISPR right now is way too inacurate to be used in anything else but lab experiments and plants. A similar experiment with gene editing yielded apparent success in 3 out of 45 human embryos. Who knows what other abnormalities will be detected later in life.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/29/lab-tests-show-risks-of-...

chucklenorris··on Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (2020)
A few years ago I was onboarding at a pretty large antivirus company. My manager told me to "get a laptop from that pile over there, put some more ram in it, you're gonna need it. Oh, and here's a stick with linux. have fun :)" It was a pretty cool place, I learned a lot about reverse engineering. Too bad the pay was meh
chucklenorris··on Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube
Except when you buy a used car with already paid fsd by the previous owner.
chucklenorris··on Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon
Is this achievable in Cannabis? Could this potentially reduce the light necessary for growth or accelerate it? I know there are comercially available crispr kits, is this theoretically achievable in a home lab?
chucklenorris··on What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine
I believe that's true. My feeling is that Putin will not stop if he doesn't get an exit from this war, even though he probaby regrets his decision by now. He miscalculated badly, it was too late for a "special operation", Ukrainians were already armed by US and NATO and more arms are pouring in the country every day. Russian forces are now openly shooting appartment buildings, churches, hospitals and things will get even uglier as he gets more desperate. The Ukrainians are better equipped and have much more resolve so I don't see an end to this conflict. Do you think that Ukrainians will be able to find a compromise before it's too late? PS. i'm not saying that we should give in to a terrorist that holds the world hostage with his nukes, what i'm saying is that I see the end of civilisation and no way that we can avoid it.
chucklenorris··on Chinese drone manufacturer DJI has limited capability for the Ukrainian army
Sad to read this. Their OccuSync tech is really good and us/europe has nothing approaching its capabilities. Maybe someone will finally wake up and create a competitive fpv video system
chucklenorris··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
The reasons for Russia's hyperagression are simple and stated by Putin himself - he sees it as reacting to an existential threat. Right now US can't do a preemptive nuclear strike without retaliation. If military bases pop up in Ukraine the russians will have no chance to react. And US knows it and has been actively involved in Ukraine's affairs for a decade and now Ukrainians are paying the price. Putin will "watch the world burn" before it sees Ukr fall into US sfere of influence. And the worst part is that Putin can't win. Ukrainians are already against Russia the same as afghani people hate the US liberators. Putin's country and army will get increasingly depleted until there will be no other options left on the table. If this war takes more than six months we're going to see some beautiful mushroom clouds. P.S. I don't think the cockroaches are going to care who's to blame for the anihilation of our species.
chucklenorris··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
if that neighbor can end life on earth, cockroaches notwithstanding, then yes, please pass the popcorn
chucklenorris··on Ask HN: Should I give my employer all my medical records?
We need more context to judge the situation, but, i don't see any reason why they should have access to your medical records. A letter from your doctor should be sufficient. Get a lawyer asap, don't sign anything, you might be in for a sweet settlement if they decide to fire you.
chucklenorris··on Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet” (2021)
i'll just leave these here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wage-cage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_hrTsswfmg&t=124
chucklenorris··on Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
not really, the most advanced comercially available digital fpv video system can do at most 10km range (these systems are latency limited, sure there are 4g systems that can do more but you end up with hundreds of ms latency) also to maintain the high power draw these drones require you end up using lipo batteries that can give you at most 15 minutes of fight time, more typically somewere around 2-6 minutes. you can go with liion to get around 30 minutes but then you lose a lot of manouverability. this ofcourse assuming it was some sort of quadcopter. a plane can do more but is not as agile as the article suggests.
chucklenorris··on Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
It would have been visible with thermal cameras
chucklenorris··on OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]
not really, the brain can verify the correctness of the pattern matching, and use that to infer other possibly correct patterns. also this model can't really infer intentionality or discern between variants and weigh in pros and cons. that being said i think we're not far from agi, we just need a few more pieces
chucklenorris··on The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
This technology is a godsend for the government to catch wistleblowers before they're able to leak information. You wouldn't even hear about those poor souls.
chucklenorris··on The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
So, if there's code on the device that's computing these hashes then it can be extracted. Afterwards it should be possible to add changes to a inocent picture to make it produce a target hash. Getting a hash should pe possible too, just find a known pedo image and run the extracted algorithm. It's only a matter of time until someone makes this
chucklenorris··on Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018)
Ofcourse they won't fix this. Autocomplete saves form values which are usually full of juicy information like addresses, names, ssn's, payment info, etc. which are vacuumed up by the data monster. Same with passwords. Even though the passwords themselves are encrypted it's amazing metadata to know which sites you have accounts for.
chucklenorris··on Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
something that i don't fully understand - as a healthy person does wearing a mask has any effect? or the masks work only for reducing the chance of transmitting the virus if already infected?
chucklenorris··on Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
Heh, I'm curious if he used the mitigations for all the side channel flaws for the intel processors.
chucklenorris··on Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPXkUXXFoCw indeed they are agile
chucklenorris··on Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot
is there a way to use this technique for consistent hashing?
chucklenorris··on Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield
I quickly watched this and they seem to be running a jit with disk caching. Also they had League of Legends on the desktop so i'm guessing they support sse instructions.
chucklenorris··on Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
i really don't understand the ethically complex part. off the top of my head i can divide these kind of decisions into 3 categories: offensive security which in most cases is clear on which side you are on, bugs that can affect user's wellbeing for which there must be guidelines or someone is not doing their job (technical incompetence is besides the point, everybody makes mistakes but some risks can be quantified beforehand and mitigatios be put in place), and intended functionality like fingerprinting which most of the times are pushed top down from the product manager's side, again, pretty well clear cut where the responsibility lies. the point is most of the time the 'coders' decide on the how part and less on the what, which is where the real disasters come from.
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