Hacker News: banjomet

New comment by banjomet in "The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching"

banjomet — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:45:16 +0000

What do you mean by that?

New comment by banjomet in "Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup"

banjomet — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:43:30 +0000

Thanks for the story recommendation!

New comment by banjomet in "Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube"

banjomet — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:44:55 +0000

"We never thought it would happen, but in 2024, the year of our lord, it did. It seems that governments are requiring full access to iPhones and using features in ways we didn't think possible. People are now using infrared broadcasting, attached to weapons, government vehicles and buildings, to prevent taking photos near protests and riots. This is the first time it's happened that we know of, and we are scared of the precedent. Over 4,150 people died in a protest in the [redacted African country] at the hands of newly 'elected' military regime, and we have no digital evidence of it, except for the older analog cameras that some people still possessed."

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-patent-disables-camera...

New comment by banjomet in "TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem"

banjomet — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:03:10 +0000

What window manager do you use?

New comment by banjomet in "He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man"

banjomet — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:58:15 +0000

"The software, which was created by Clearview Al, was criticized for its heavy reliance on billions of social media photos to identify criminal suspects."

So how exactly did they get access to all photos? It must have been trained on public networks like instagram, not facebook, right?!? If it was FB that would be interesting.

New comment by banjomet in "What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)"

banjomet — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:58:53 +0000

What do you call it when you mistake "I know OF x" for "I understand X". I used to do it all the time; I think that because I have heard of something, I somehow know how it works or how to use it. For me, it's kind of like going "Oh, I've seen that meme before!" and somehow going meme++ in your head, so of course I am 'more familiar with it', but I am doing that for advanced topics I have no demonstrated practice in. I am much better now at realizing my incompetence, but I wish it could be studied in more detail, instead of people just looking at someone who is demonstrating confident incompetence and going "Dunning-Kruger?" "Dunning-Kruger!".

New comment by banjomet in "Comic Mono"

banjomet — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:35:19 +0000

I think OpenBSD uses it on purpose in their slides so people won't take them seriously. Just a theory.

New comment by banjomet in "Hotwire: HTML over the Wire"

banjomet — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:29:23 +0000

How does Hotwire compare to Phoenix LiveView?

New comment by banjomet in "Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit"

banjomet — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 01:27:33 +0000

The great firewall was originally built by Cisco, but I don't think anybody remembers that.

New comment by banjomet in "Why Tesla stock is vastly overpriced"

banjomet — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:00:16 +0000

The only way to justify the valuation of Tesla is to assume that they do something that doesn't depend on individual customer sales, because those aren't ramping up at the right rate. I think they are about to launch an autonomous taxi service.

Here is a good example of Elon Musk talking about how robotaxis are going to push up the price[0]. So far nobody has talked about Tesla operating their own robotaxi service.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/08/elon-musk-self-driving-robot...

New comment by banjomet in "Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles"

banjomet — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:36:17 +0000

Can we talk about the AI? Why is the AI so bad? From driving, to police not being able to chase you in cars, to spawning randomly.

Does the game use Lua or a scripting language for the AI? If not, I think that would easily explain the problems, as it seems like so much behavior of the NPCs was never iterated on.

New comment by banjomet in "In a first, Air Force uses AI on military jet"

banjomet — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:17:05 +0000

I had never heard of µZero before this, just AlphaGo.

New comment by banjomet in "To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language"

banjomet — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:40:28 +0000

It was interesting to read. There aren't many google results for 'multiple demand network' that I could easily parse, but I did happen to find this paper on it in primates[0] (also happens to be from MIT) when I was trying to find an image that showed what parts of it are activated. I found this slide from a lecture very interesting[1].

[0]: http://web.mit.edu/9.s915/www/classes/duncan.pdf [1]: https://i.imgur.com/xdYzbev.png

New comment by banjomet in "Sponsoring Open Source Developers"

banjomet — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:57:54 +0000

I think it is crazy that a brazillian bank owns Cognitect, the creator of Clojure, and Plataformatec, the creator of Elixir. I had never heard of them or new about them being acquired by the same company until a few weeks ago. It must be a really interesting bank to work at :)!