Hacker News: WrtCdEvrydy

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen"

WrtCdEvrydy — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:45:39 +0000

You can't hack a dumb power switch (or what I assume is a giant breaker)

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "The Free Movie"

WrtCdEvrydy — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:59:00 +0000

Empty frames are just seizure generators.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app"

WrtCdEvrydy — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:29:20 +0000

You mean Instagram Threads, a subset of Instagram, purchased by Meta which was formerly know as "The Social Network That Shall Not Be Named"?

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:01:28 +0000

WebRTX by Nvidia?

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Gitlab.com is down"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:05:29 +0000

Jesus, this is worse than AWS... had to scroll a while to see the one service was broken.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "AI for AWS Documentation"

WrtCdEvrydy — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:02:21 +0000

> Inexperienced folks won’t know better.

I've seen answers like this in Stack Overflow before. Technically correct, but basically broken in every other way: cybersecurity's future is gonna be interesting.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming"

WrtCdEvrydy — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:50:32 +0000

Why not? It's the same code across all the cars... it's as if you had a clone factory making clones of driver you.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:23:57 +0000

I had a meme joke about how AI would come to be by making people mine for crypto but now we're seeing LLMs take the fore-front of AI and causing us to reach for more and more parameters.

It reminds me of when the YOLOv3 model came out and every single upgrade just gave us more and more features and capabilities (the v8 has auto segmentation).

AMD dropped the ball on this, just like Intel when Ryzen dropped, I just don't see a way for them to bring it around.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:17:28 +0000

Most problems I tackle by breaking them down to the smallest possible problem and then re-build from there.

Failing fast at a smaller problem is a lot easier (which is what my last set of difficult problems ended up failing at) ... turns out applying a LUT to a camera stream on Android is a harder problem than expected if you want good performance.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:01:08 +0000

Crypto content on HN... this is either gonna go really great or the opposite of that.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "The Open Buddhist University"

WrtCdEvrydy — Mon, 22 May 2023 23:35:09 +0000

But it has broken tests in the similarity tests.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "San Francisco office values fall"

WrtCdEvrydy — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:41:03 +0000

Miami has some of this... ground floor is shops and then it's residential beyond.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50"

WrtCdEvrydy — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:10:13 +0000

WeWork proved the Theory of the Bigger Fool in the stock market.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50"

WrtCdEvrydy — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:02:58 +0000

> Is success making lot of money for yourself.

It's all about getting the larger personal high score. Building a viable business is secondary.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 19 May 2023 23:02:55 +0000

>I spend 4 - 5 hours a day in meetings and am still expected to deliver actual code.

The problem is that meetings are considered work and there's no output from those other than long term planning that can't be measured day to day.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Logitech Partners with iFixit for Self-Repairs"

WrtCdEvrydy — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:01:13 +0000

> I wonder if it's illegal to knowingly buy products that will break down within a year

Nah, just luck of the draw.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams"

WrtCdEvrydy — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:58:25 +0000

This has been possible with CamOnRoad for years (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camonroada...). I used an old iPhone 5S for demoing this app to some friends... just attach it and keep it powered using USB.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet"

WrtCdEvrydy — Mon, 15 May 2023 22:00:49 +0000

Probably. It seems it was designed to run with the crypto after one month. Trezor's security on the physical realm is pretty good, but this is just a good attack.

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands"

WrtCdEvrydy — Mon, 15 May 2023 20:00:27 +0000

I bet you that second screen will be hacked by just removing like two wires :D

New comment by WrtCdEvrydy in "FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16B bill for SVB clean-up"

WrtCdEvrydy — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:35:15 +0000

I mean, that's what FDIC is... it's basically backing a bank's funds using the US tax payers at the end.