Hacker News: Varcht

New comment by Varcht in "Verily: We’re developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing"

Varcht — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:19:41 +0000

I was initially impressed that Google was stepping up to get this up for the good of the country. I'm not the best estimator (a good manager will double what I tell them) but I think a lot of us here could have something testable by Monday, surely I thought Google could have...

Google Confirms Play Store Security Threat: Here’s the Fix

Varcht — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 15:05:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/10/google-confirms-play-store-security-threat-heres-the-fixbut-does-it-make-you-safer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21498177

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Varcht in "Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon"

Varcht — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:18:28 +0000

https://dnyuz.com/2019/08/20/now-bigger-than-ebay-shopify-se...

New comment by Varcht in "China’s assault on Cathay Pacific"

Varcht — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:28:52 +0000

No argument on that. I just don't quite believe that the "west created it", I guess it's possible that it was willful and meant to prove the communist utopian ideal...

New comment by Varcht in "China’s assault on Cathay Pacific"

Varcht — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:28:05 +0000

I think there was some hope that capitalism would bring about democracy. It hasn't quite worked out (yet?).

New comment by Varcht in "China’s assault on Cathay Pacific"

Varcht — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:24:22 +0000

This type of argument always kind of bothers me as well, be nice to state it as "helped create" or something but then there is a lot to say for the old saying "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem".

New comment by Varcht in "Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time"

Varcht — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:04:33 +0000

This should be called what it was originally "spooky action at a distance". Calling it teleportation is marketing.

Infinite number of quantum particles gives clues to behavior at large scale

Varcht — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:57:09 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-infinite-quantum-particles-clues-big-picture.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19646633

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by Varcht in "Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio"

Varcht — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:19:51 +0000

I am not an attorney but this guy is https://attorney-myers.com/2013/11/surveillance_cameras_reas...

New comment by Varcht in "Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio"

Varcht — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:01:47 +0000

In the US there is the concept of "Expectation of Privacy" [0] so it depends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy

Spotify’s new ad metrics show what listeners do after they click

Varcht — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:13:14 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/spotifys-new-ad-metrics-show-what-listeners-do-after-they-click/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19608165

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Varcht in "Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists to ICE"

Varcht — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 20:46:24 +0000

Counting by those apprehended is a pretty poor metric. Correlation, blah, blah, blah

New comment by Varcht in "UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust"

Varcht — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 20:36:56 +0000

I've been on sabbatical for a while but a while back it was pretty much C, C or C.

New comment by Varcht in "Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook"

Varcht — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:32:24 +0000

Why do you think this is an attempt at humor? I would say this is what is often referred to as a thought exercise.

New comment by Varcht in "Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook"

Varcht — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:12:38 +0000

I think it got a valid thought across. It works as a sort of shorthand. Would have been 3x longer in essay form.

Researchers measure quantum power increase in quantum boost engine for first

Varcht — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-quantum-power-boost.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483675

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Varcht in "U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Inverts for First Time Since 2007"

Varcht — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:08:42 +0000

What would it cost to make this happen?

Y Combinator bets on the booming podcast industry

Varcht — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:55:47 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/y-combinator-bets-on-the-booming-podcast-industry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19426185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Varcht in "Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group"

Varcht — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:11:00 +0000

Anyways, Beto will always be a wizard in my book.

New comment by Varcht in "Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group"

Varcht — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:33:42 +0000

To be fair, we had not and have not stipulated what we mean when we say "floppy". Maybe you were a rich kid but a lot of us were still on some pretty low density stuff into the late 80's. Embarrassingly, I was still on cassette for most of the decade.