Hacker News: dapids

New comment by dapids in "Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage"

dapids — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:32:29 +0000

You can. Contact Hasselblad Aerial Division.

New comment by dapids in "Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage"

dapids — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:28:44 +0000

The author also seems blind to the fact aerial photography has been a well established concept for well over 80 years at this point. These companies are not optimizing their optical systems to spy on people, but rather provide a good focus at long focal ranges in hardened systems, has nothing to do with police or their motives, its a general product feature.

New comment by dapids in "The AT Protocol"

dapids — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:30:17 +0000

It's still there.

New comment by dapids in "XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works"

dapids — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:31:00 +0000

This is not some general blanket approach you can take to talking about internal implementations. You are either right, or wrong. There is no middle ground or "I think". If you've signed an NDA around these internal implementations I would wager that NDA came with a clause to not discuss it without consulting Meta, even after your departure.

New comment by dapids in "Hertz is still having rental car customers wrongfully arrested, lawsuit claims"

dapids — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:21:32 +0000

Law enforcement should punish Hertz for using an emergency service (in a consistently poor manner) for a "clerical" error they caused. But they won't.

New comment by dapids in "Ask HN: Books on designing disk-optimized data structures?"

dapids — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:52:45 +0000

I think most commenters are completely gleaning over the contrived systems which are embedded systems.

Sure, on higher performance systems you will be dealing with bigger demons such as cache and TLB performance depending on data size. But many embedded systems are performance limited for cost and power reasons. There is nothing here cloud will solve, nor anything else than more expensive NAND flashes, which require more power, and money. Hence why designing algorithms for critical data throughput are not as simple as using cloud or a filesystem.

New comment by dapids in "Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring"

dapids — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:17:17 +0000

Cheap HPs are not elitebooks for one, and two an inspiron is not an XPS. I've used both elitebook and XPS with zero issues.

New comment by dapids in "Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage"

dapids — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 06:42:10 +0000

I think you missed the sarcasm in my post. I was not at all serious and completely subscribe to everything you just mentioned

New comment by dapids in "Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage"

dapids — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 05:15:54 +0000

You think moving to rust will reduce the memory footprint?? Interesting viewpoint...

New comment by dapids in "Heap Overflows on iOS ARM64"

dapids — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:26:25 +0000

So you can sign an NDA and away all your findings on their product as they gatekeep the bounty? I don't think so.

New comment by dapids in "Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to Unlock Cellphones"

dapids — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 03:46:37 +0000

You do realize on a zero dollar contract the phone is being upfront subsidized by the corporation contracting them out? This is flat out fraud, no matter how you look at it.

New comment by dapids in "FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers"

dapids — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:39:52 +0000

As someone who lives in Vancouver, its quite a different story, and most of those I know, really don't understand where these stats come from. There is not a week that goes by I have someone knocking on the door of our family home asking to buy it. There are four owners left on our street that are the original owners, the rest are vacation homes for Chinese, and completely vacant. This is far from exaggerated.

https://www.fortunebuilders.com/one-third-of-vancouvers-real...

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/prop...

New comment by dapids in "Introduction to Apple Silicon"

dapids — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:26:52 +0000

100% this

New comment by dapids in "A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter"

dapids — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:18:37 +0000

So, if you don't know the reality, why pretend or even give a shadow of a doubt of good faith? You've lost me man. They can do more to be transparent, but they don't. This is not a technological blocker, its a deliberate decision. Don't act like they can't show the reality of moderation, they simply choose not to. We already established in this scenario they chose to do nothing after manual review by a human. What more evidence of failure do you need. It's not working, period.

New comment by dapids in "FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers"

dapids — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:15:53 +0000

He didn't say who. He said for they/them, the company.

New comment by dapids in "FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers"

dapids — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:11:30 +0000

a small overall percentage? More than one third of Vancouver Canada's real-estate is foreign owned.

New comment by dapids in "A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter"

dapids — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 17:07:21 +0000

What are you arguing here? That twitter is good at moderation because we simply can't see it behind the scenes?

I can think of hundred different ways this could have affected someone negatively, especially if they weren't able to speak with support in native language.

So c'mon, there is no excuse for this ban to take place, and then continue to be banned after the first appeal, statistics or not.

New comment by dapids in "Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car"

dapids — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:08:46 +0000

I've seen this quite a bit from dealerships that purchase rental vehicles from suppliers after they've become out of date, or the rental company wants to offload them. The rental company won't bother removing the tracking/remote start bundle, and the dealer will happily sell it none the wiser, or worse, as a added feature.

New comment by dapids in "PyPI: Python packets steal AWS keys from users"

dapids — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:29:29 +0000

That's exactly was vscode does for me.

New comment by dapids in "I think the GNOME designers are incompetent"

dapids — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 16:17:52 +0000

It'd be different if they actually accepted them regularly. In this instance I agree with OP.