Hacker News: KateLawson

New comment by KateLawson in "78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code"

KateLawson — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:07:54 +0000

MNIST is what the Post Office solved in the late 1990s. It's basically the "hello world" of visual recognition these days.

https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1999/02/postal-service-...

New comment by KateLawson in "Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard"

KateLawson — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:59:34 +0000

It's important to point out that these programs have two different objectives.

The Mullvad client is designed to connect to a closed-source service, which is run by someone else. It supports a bunch of different plugins, including openvpn and WireGuard. So probably it could adopt rosenpass, at least with its WG plugin.

WireGuard is designed for minimal protocol variability, high assurance implementations, and ultra small code size. It's used by VPN services, but also by end-users creating their own tunnels.

New comment by KateLawson in "Tales of the M1 GPU"

KateLawson — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:45:10 +0000

The slowness was due to a hardware bug in the 6522 VIA chip. The shift register (FIFO) would lock up randomly. Since this couldn't be fixed before the floppy drive needed to be shipped, they had the 6502 CPU bit-bang the IEC protocol, which was slower. The hardware design for the 154x floppy drive was fine, and some clever software tricks allow stock hardware to stream data back to the C64 and decode the GCR at the full media rate.

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index....

New comment by KateLawson in "NFS: The Early Years"

KateLawson — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:34:08 +0000

Sun did have a firewall by the early 90's. It had application-level proxies, and you'd have to configure applications to bounce through it if you wanted to get to the Internet. In many ways, this was more secure than today's default for firewalls where you can make any outbound connection you want but only the inbound connections are filtered.

Note that I'm not arguing that Sun was a leader in security, but they did make some efforts that other companies didn't.

What's inside Google's new Go app for iOS and Android

KateLawson — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:25:39 +0000

Article URL: https://sourcedna.com/blog/20150712/golang-on-ios.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878689

Points: 74

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New comment by KateLawson in "Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING""

KateLawson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:02:22 +0000

Though there is no organized conspiracy, this is actually not far from the truth, especially in some areas of content protection. Companies that don't have the in-house technical expertise (music labels), working from an unprotected distribution system (audio CD) are at a particular disadvantage.

At the other end of the spectrum, you have satellite TV. In this area, a lot of money invested and full control of the playback platform have resulted in some strong systems. But still, it took a long time and a lot of cracks of intermediate systems for this industry to become the success story it is today.

Disclaimer: I worked for a company involved in the above.