Hacker News: echoangle

New comment by echoangle in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

echoangle — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:33:21 +0000

They are liable to the consumer but they can get their money back from their supplier in turn. As long as you only sell stuff sold to you by someone reputable you can get money from, it should be mostly fine.

New comment by echoangle in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

echoangle — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:51:14 +0000

Yeah, and people sewed clothes per hand for hundreds of years until someone automated it with a machine.

You need to save labor somewhere to free it up for other jobs that give you technological progress. If everyone would still be occupied plowing fields with oxen, we wouldn’t have cars and computers now.

New comment by echoangle in "Bag of Decisions Reranker"

echoangle — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:18:47 +0000

Shouldn't you multiply instead of summing the scores?

Would you show a result with 3 really high scores and one which is really low?

New comment by echoangle in ""Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot"

echoangle — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:39:54 +0000

Although a fixed robotic arm in a factory could also be considered a robot, I think.

New comment by echoangle in ""Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot"

echoangle — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:34:18 +0000

Then my Desktop PC is a Robot too... It needs to be versatile in it's actual physical function, not how the individual components can also be used.

New comment by echoangle in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

echoangle — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:56:34 +0000

How are you generating the frames? Is there a chance you’re looking trough the frames at regular intervals and have to actually “render” the video (I don’t know the proper term for this)? Did you try just extracting the keyframes where an actual full image is stored in the video file instead?

New comment by echoangle in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

echoangle — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:30:49 +0000

Could they label that as investing in such a report? Sounds misleading. Investing to me means paying for something you then own afterwards, paying for AI sounds like a normal expense.

New comment by echoangle in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

echoangle — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:38:20 +0000

Presumably on average over a year.

1.2kw is power, not energy (which would be kWh).

New comment by echoangle in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

echoangle — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:16:11 +0000

This discussion doesn’t make sense without looking at the actual French law. Just saying that the scans shouldn’t count as a document because it would lead to weird edge cases doesn’t mean the law shouldn’t be applied as written. You can’t just not apply active laws because you don’t like the outcome in a state where people are suppose to trust the law.

New comment by echoangle in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

echoangle — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:02:49 +0000

Are you saying the scans are public domain? I thought it was about the picture or sculpture itself.

I don’t think every work done by a state controlled entity is automatically public domain, right?

New comment by echoangle in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

echoangle — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:41:32 +0000

Can you walk through the process for the proposed example?

The problem in most suites is checking if a specific act in real life meets some definition of a crime and not figuring out the wording of the law, right?

You kill someone without a reasonable excuse -> You get punished x years for murder

wouldn't really make murder trials easier because you would still have to formalize what you put into the proof.

New comment by echoangle in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

echoangle — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:34:06 +0000

Yeah, it would probably be legal to take a picture in the museum and make merchandise, but the museum isn't going to actively help you by giving you a scan.

New comment by echoangle in "Writing code by hand is over, forever"

echoangle — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:17:51 +0000

The plot labeled “Incoming bug reports over the same period.” is funny. Where does the red line come from, except arbitrarily setting 20 and 15 bug reports and plotting that? There’s no discernible connection to the actual data.

New comment by echoangle in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

echoangle — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:42:06 +0000

Maybe it’s about the precedent and the government didn’t want to have to publish raw data on everything they have so they made sure to win this one?

Sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory but it’s the first thing I could come up with…

New comment by echoangle in "STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)"

echoangle — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:02:34 +0000

The Embraer ERJ family is currently at 0 deaths over the whole lifetime if you exclude the Wagner crash, which probably wasn’t really a fault of the airplane.

New comment by echoangle in "Apple Pass Designer"

echoangle — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:31:29 +0000

This subthread was about if the app should even show QR codes at maximum brightness because the scanner could maybe also scan the code at the normal brightness. And the counterpoint was that you can’t selectively increase the QR code brightness to the HDR level manually, because you would be capped at the normal maximum brightness.

New comment by echoangle in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

echoangle — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:48:52 +0000

Do you have a source for that? I couldn’t find anything on that on google and I can’t really believe it.

New comment by echoangle in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

echoangle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:04:16 +0000

Do you maybe want to explain it, because I don’t see it. Borders that limit travel weren’t invented around WWI.

New comment by echoangle in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

echoangle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:29:14 +0000

That’s a pretty weird claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport

The history section has an example of a passport in the Old Testament and a lot of other examples where people needed travel documents and were limited in their travels way before the First World War.

New comment by echoangle in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

echoangle — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:05:28 +0000

Wouldn’t it actually be much more efficient to just destroy all the food infrastructure and just have everyone die from hunger instead of destroying all the houses?