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mkatxon Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program

Wait, the ones who are getting a great deal on labor costs are the ones complaining about the source of that great deal?

I'm not so sure..

mkatxon Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

So where do you sign up to be part of the "select external audiences access to Orion"?

mkatxon The origins of the steam engine (2023)

Ha! Same.. but I also just got done reading this..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41460276

mkatxon Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)

Not to argue any of your other points, except.. you could get a lot more than 3 tries with a rotating proxy or a botnet.

mkatxon Just use fucking paper, man

I get it, but had to move away from paper.. the simple fact that you cannot move stuff around without erasing stuff leads to disjointed notes.

For when I need to write by hand, I moved to a reMarkable digital tablet. For notes, I've been experimenting with obsidian/logseq, and it's been going good. For task management , I gotta recommend Super Productivity, it's just fantastic.

I just couldn't live the sticky note life anymore...

mkatxon I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

As I understood, kurzgesagt is produced by scientific consensus from a large number of scientists.

As a big fan, I'd be interested in hearing more about the controversy and misinformation.

mkatxon Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it

I love poker, and I'm solid on the math foundations, but I still suck..

Any book/other resource recommendations for brushing up on this stuff?

mkatxon Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago

You are mostly correct. But there are definitely common instances where hemp that is strain specific to be low in THC is sprayed with outside sourced thca. I have found this to be the case for most brands I see in texas, unfortunately. That and added synthetic terpenes imo bastardize the legal hemp industry as it is.

It's this exactly that turned me off, especially after a sales person misinformed me that their products where definitely not sprayed with anything, when the flower brand website itself told me otherwise.

mkatxon Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago

Just legalize it.. There's so much to say..

Yeah, you can buy thc-a hemp legally in most places, as it's federally legal, and few states restrict it specifically.

But.. just a couple notes to keep in mind:

This is indeed a grey area, even if it seems explicitly legal. Thc-a, through time, heat, oxygen, etc, WILL degrade into federal illegal THC. So if you buy a jar of thca hemp, the thca will turn into THC over time, and potentially rise above the legal limit of THC percentage.

This could mean, in the worse case scenario, that if they confiscate your legally purchased hemp, and test it, then they could charge you for illegal cannabis possession because it has more than the allowed thc, and therefore is not legal hemp.

Also, I've asked at hemp stores, and was told no.. But indeed, some growers spray thca liquid crystal and even non-cannabis derived terpenes on their bud. Pretty shady imo..

This market, although a legal victory, is actually a detriment to the industry and legalization as a whole, IMHO.

mkatxon I Want My Scrollbar Back

I agree with the post.. but I thought it was going to talk about how on my 4k monitor, or maybe any monitor, that the width of the scroll bar on most sites is hard to hover over, click on, and scroll with mouse movements.

It's really frustrating when I want to just skim a page quickly and my options are you use my scroll wheel, or fight to click right on the thin a* scroll bar..

mkatxon Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes

The patent system certainly needs reform, but I think more along the lines of what gets accepted as a patent. Discovering what I would describe as a 'natural law' should not be patentable (but I think happens everyday), and those ideas should not be kept from human progress, imho. There's a line between research paper and patent, that I believe is blurred for profit.

But a true invention, a novel use of those laws, should be patentable. Are you saying that if you discover a novel use of natural laws, a product that could be capitalized, your own unique idea, that you should not be able to capitalize on it? Maybe this would work in a trek economy, but not with capitalism.

If your worried about innovation, how innovative could we be if discoveries/inventions were squandered because there are no protections if you happen to even mention your idea to someone?

mkatxon The 'Dead Internet Theory'

I haven't dug into it, cause I don't really care.. but I imagine that fb/meta tracks more than clicks. If I were them, I'd have js on the page that tracks your scrolling, and pays attention to the posts you 'hover' over for longer.

I bet that's just one of the ways they track behavior on their platform. So if you slow down to check out the ladies, I bet more show up, even if you don't click.

mkatxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

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  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Node.js, Bootstrap, JQuery/Ajax, Dash/Plotly, MySQL, HTML5, CSS, REST APIs, Websockets, AWS, Kubernetes, LAMP/WAMP, Linux, API Security
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hardin/ OR request via email
  Email: nahatx att gmail.com

mkatxon 'The Manipulaters' improve phishing, still fail at opsec

Apparently, it isn't illegal to scam people in Jamaica, so there are lots of scammers from Jamaica.

mkatxon Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice

Just gotta ask, as I didn't see anyone else mention it, cause saffron gets me jacked!!

I've never had it in food, but the tea hits me like MDMA almost! I know I read that it is a precursor to MDMA, and that's maybe why I used that as an example. But it's a genuine antidote of mine.

I've read that saffron tea can be used like an ssri? Any experiences/antidotes? Just curious if anyone uses it like this or if anyone else has noticed these effects.

mkatxon Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries

I'm more worried about proprietary camera/DVR software allowing (easy) access to my video feeds wirelessly.

Not 100% fool proof, but my solution is wired cameras, and all on a UPS.

Plus a pack of giant dogs..

mkatxon Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs

Yeah, ecc. I do have a lot of data intensive services running. But my systems are mostly amd, and I'm pretty sure my amd CPUs can actually use ecc memory, so I'll probably upgrade some day.

mkatxon Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs

Yep, I built gaming PCs for years, and I have a few laying around.. Add some ram and they a great servers (without memory safety though).

mkatxon Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling

Shower accidents are a sub of home accidents, which is a sub of accidents. Accidents are, from recollection, in the top 5 causes of death.

Every time I wash my feet in the shower, and I mean this.. I stand on 1 foot, then the other soapy foot, and repeat to myself 'this is how I die'. Every time.

mkatxon FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

Makes sense, thanks!

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

Happily, I really appreciate your opinion, your part of the conversation.

I said "There are so many 'people' online", implying that there is a lot of propaganda being passed off as opinion. How much? How real? Well, I was giving my opinion on that.

I'm not saying that YOU are this propaganda, but challenging you to defend your point helps to fight, and weed out, the propaganda I'm talking about. Sounds like you might have read it?

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

"Whether a crypto is built with non-scammy intentions has little bearing on whether it is used as the vehicle for scams."

Many things can be used as a vehicle to scam to varying degrees, to say that cryptocurrency is inherently a scam in and of itself, is not accurate, as it certainly has non-scam use cases, just like non-cryptocurrencies.

I'm happy to debate, but I don't think either of us are wrong so far, as what you said and what I said are both not mutually exclusive. But if you are asserting that cryptocurrency is in and of itself a scam, I'm happy to have a healthy debate.

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

But seriously, there are 1000's of cryptocurencies, you can't logic the possibility that even one was built with 'non-scammy' intentions? Cause 1 is all it takes to refute that 'ceyotocurrencies are inherently a scam'.

I'm sure your being vacecious, but there are those that would comment that seriously.

mkatxon FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

Thanks for the follow up. Dunno if I missed it in the article, but I did not notice it specifying if the attack was via 0 day or not, that's why I speculated the possibility.

Where did you read that they are not 0 days?

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

Fo sho, yes.

Also, I like how you trim your front sail (cut if your jib), we should be friends.

Edit: autocorrect

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

You know, I'm trying to have honest, intelligent discussion, care to explain why I deserved a down vote?

If you disagree, comment!! Let's discuss!

I guess I apologize for the little joke at the end if that's the problem.. sorry everyone!

Also, sorry for my opinion! Darn, it does just happen to be contrary to some of y'all's, I'll be more careful!!

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

On another note, there is a lot of fud on cryptocurrency right now.. and let me say this.. there are farms of individuals, soon to be llm's, flooding the Internet with all this negativity on crypto in every conceivable public forum.

100%, this is politics now, when you see people online with a certain perspective, you tend to at least consider it. This is the psychology of influence on the net, everyone's brains are connected to this same network, and business and government know it. If they can even suggest that individuals give any credence to a random post online, they will make that post, and to their ends. So now, we have entire buildings of people filling the net with their 'opinions', in the name of influencing.

There are so many 'people' online that totally call cryptocurrency an inherit scam (which is pretty much impossible, inherently so, that the idea is itself a scam, and not just able to be used to scam.. cmon, the distinction is there), that I'm convinced that many of the anticrypto posts are simple persuasion,because either the riches want to buy in, or they are scared of what it can do (as far as replacing the status quo).

Now I'm sure I'm that crazy internet crypto dude all of a sudden, but listen closely, cause we will all see in the next decade or two, and neither you nor me know the future. Remember me either way. :)

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

No one buys stocks for the hell of it, it is 100% a financial instrument used to profit by the buyer and the seller. If you couldn't sell to someone for a higher price, no one would buy them. If that's your bar, then cryptocurrencies are as legit as stocks as far as a financial tool is concerned. Stocks may arguably have more utility, but for the buyers/sellers, they aren't much more that a speculation instrument.

If someone will take Pokemon cards for a pizza, or a house, whatever, then it has some utility. If someone collects pokemon cards, and has enough for a house, they might (probably) need to exchange them for some real currency to complete that transaction. But pokemon cards are not inherently a scam.. just because the price can go up and down.. they are probably considered a collectable.

Now cryptocurrencies are not collectibles, and they are not currencies, but they have attributes of both I'd propose. They are entirely speculatory in nature, but can sometimes be used as a currency. So, in some ways, I argue, they should be treated like pokemon cards, in other ways, regarding regulation, they might need to be considered a currency to be able to regulate the industry in such a way that protects investors, just like private transactions (selling collectibles) and financial investing (trading stocks/etc) have regulations.

Although this is nuanced, and cryptocurrency is not currency or a collectible entirely, it is not inherently a 'greaters fools game' any more than trading stocks or Pokemon cards.

It's just another thing that needs to be regulated, and if people didn't use it for something, it would just go away, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

mkatxon The End of My Childhood

Inherently so, it is not.

But nice try to lower your buy in price.. ;)

mkatxon FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

Ok.. I appreciate how the FBI assisted in cleaning our routers/ip's.

But is this story possibly alluding to the fact that the FBI did NOT disclose the potential 0 days used in these attacks in accordance with responsibile disclosures, and instead is likely retaining these zero days for their own use?