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espes··on George Hotz against the institutions
I'm probably one of the people you've talked to. For all his flaws, and there are many, I would give a lot for any team I've been part of since to have someone even half as good as him.
espes··on Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy
You can self-host zoom: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363093-Deployin...
espes··on Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever
Comcast advertises very clearly that unlimited is an additional $50/m: https://dataplan.xfinity.com/unlimited/
espes··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
In the UK there are several 2-3 hour train routes that are routinely standing room only. It's not a big deal.
espes··on Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
You can choose to enable e2e on Messenger
espes··on Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
If you're worried about that Messenger supports end-to-end encryption, just hit the "Go to Secret Conversation" button.
espes··on How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use
What are you talking about? The United States is one of the only countries in the world where it's possible to walk into a store and walk out with an unlimited prepaid sim, and the only others have a much higher population density.
espes··on Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
> I personally do not believe that depth generated purely from deep learning can be used as input to photogrammetry anytime soon.

6d.ai uses depthnets in its mobile photogrammetry pipeline. demo: https://twitter.com/mattmiesnieks/status/1106722396889702406

espes··on XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
Intel chips don't support LPDDR4
espes··on Real name policies and ruling the world
> I've seen no statements from Facebook about how the data is used, how it is stored, and how long it is retained.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1723057061256937

espes··on Tesla Autopilot
self-driving minivans with human safety drivers
espes··on Google Earth Redesigned
Why do you think that? There's been way more bugs in V8 over the years than the NaCl core sandbox.
espes··on Google Earth Redesigned
It's ActiveX, but completely secure and open source. Sounds like a good idea.

Regardless, it's pretty much already been killed. Too bad it's taken 8 years for a web standard (WebAssembly) to match it.

espes··on Google Earth Redesigned
Because it uses PNaCl
espes··on Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars
Planes and trains still have human pilots because they're very cheap in comparison to operational costs.
espes··on Autopilot: an open source driving agent
It links agains the Adreno-GSL, part of the GPU driver, not the GNU Scientific library.
espes··on Autopilot: an open source driving agent
> but if you're going down the highway and the AI decides to suddenly swing the wheel far right as quickly as possible, no human being would have reaction time good enough to recover without crashing

"The EPS controller in the car limits the torque to a very small amount, so regardless of the message, the controller cannot jerk the wheel" [1]

[1] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/SAFETY.md

espes··on Autopilot: an open source driving agent
> It seems incredible that this is the source code for the $999 product originally destined to be available this year.

It's not

espes··on A TCP weakness in Linux systems allows network traffic hijack
demostration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ns5wla9DY

paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

espes··on Cars are getting weird
You are exactly describing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
espes··on Tell HN: Ffmpeg vulnerability allows attacker to get files from server or PC
Heh, this 'feature' was the intended solution of a CTF challenge 3 months ago: https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups-2015/tree/master/9447-ctf-...
espes··on Sqlmap – Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
First release was ~2006

It's a tragedy that it has been almost a decade and it's still just as effective -_-

espes··on Confession of a C0dez Kid (2001)
It's been on textfiles.com since 2001
espes··on Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
But it sounds like your model isn't a general graph? DAG and tree isomorphism is in P (and pretty straightforward), and so is tree edit distance...
espes··on Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
Why is general graph isomorphism needed for that?
espes··on Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications
Amusingly, this complete hack using the aesenc instruction claims 0.08 cycles per byte on haswell: https://github.com/gamozolabs/falkhash
espes··on We’re Bad at Interviewing Developers – Interview with Kerri Miller
> As a related note, the best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores.

That's pretty counter-intuitive. Can you give a source?

espes··on What Ever Happened to Google Books?
Shout out to the Internet Archive, a non-profit close to what the author describes. Unfortunately it turns out book scanning is expensive and rights-holders still don't like it.

https://archive.org/details/texts&tab=about

espes··on Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
Is there any incentive to host nodes?
espes··on Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
The actual graphics core has only elementary differences from the retail chips [1]. The differences were mainly in integration (merging in a northbridge, tweaks for UMA, ...)

1. https://github.com/espes/xqemu/blob/xbox/hw/xbox/nv2a.c#L708

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