Hacker News: gabriel34

What is a PDB file? 9 years later original dev Jan Gray sets the record straight

gabriel34 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:53:39 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3899573/what-is-a-pdb-file

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363009

Points: 2

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Microsoft Fabric

gabriel34 — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052425

Points: 3

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New comment by gabriel34 in "Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?"

gabriel34 — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:59:28 +0000

Hcaptcha does pretty well in privacy for general purpose sites

New comment by gabriel34 in "Brazilian vote counting (real time)"

gabriel34 — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:18:01 +0000

Security audits and supervisors from all parties in all steps for starters.

The voting machine prints a total for that machine at the same time that the votes are transferred to the central counting, this process is public, the supervisor from each party get a copy of the total, and one copy is publicly affixed at the voting place, so parallel aggregating from the partial counts is possible (and has been done by sampling).

Internal counting on the voting machine is somewhat validated by picking random voting machines out of the voting places and conducting a parallel voting, publicly broadcasted, on which known amount of votes for each candidate are input and the result from the machine is compared to the expected. Only thing missing that I can think of is actually doing this parallel voting on the same time and place the voting was expected to take place.

New comment by gabriel34 in "Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used"

gabriel34 — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 15:12:06 +0000

It is worth noting that some “nations with fewer scientific resources” provide their students and researchers broad access to scientific papers through their public universities and research institutions. That part of the article seems to be affirming the autor’s prejudice without a shred of confirmation

New comment by gabriel34 in "Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave"

gabriel34 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:40:56 +0000

Could you share the metrics on which you as a BR are evaluated? Employee retention? Time to hire?

New comment by gabriel34 in "Ivermectin is effective for Covid-19: real-time meta analysis of 45 studies"

gabriel34 — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:34:18 +0000

The same site sugests hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a viable terapeutic option (hcqmeta.com). For all I know the scientific consensus is that HCQ is not useful for treating COVID-19. This seems like pseudoscience stemming from cherry picked data/papers with its weakness hidden behind complexity and the large amount of references.

n.b. I have not delved deeply into the claims or the sources

An async function walks into a loop

gabriel34 — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:13:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ovl.design/text/an-async-function-walks-into-a-loop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285307

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People

gabriel34 — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:55:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/02/17/the-seven-habits-of-highly-depolarizing-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26055405

Points: 8

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New comment by gabriel34 in "The Irony in the GameStop Story"

gabriel34 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:52:39 +0000

This is a distributed movement, some people have been holding the stock for over an year+, others bought into it on the past few weeks. There are people who bought it as a meme stock, when it was relatively stable, as the devaluation from the market transition towards digital media had already mostly been factored into the price. Steam is not a new thing, after all. The fundamentals at the time supported the price, in hindsight it was about the lowest price the share has ever been at[1]. The CEO change precipitated other people to buy into the fad. This combined with the short overexposure counterbalanced the speculative attack from the hedge funds.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/advanced-c... select log scale, period=max

New comment by gabriel34 in "The Irony in the GameStop Story"

gabriel34 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:30:30 +0000

The irony of manipulating markets against market manipulators is delicious. This will also punish over exposed players who are probably reviewing their short positions as this unfolds.

The Irony in the GameStop Story

gabriel34 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:46:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-irony-in-the-gamestop-gme-story-2021-01-25

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957142

Points: 59

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New comment by gabriel34 in "Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds"

gabriel34 — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:15:44 +0000

This may, in fact, backfire in a couple of ways:

1. It may reduce societal pressure to isolate by making it seem only a minority of people are actually doing it (much like the broken windows theory)

2. It fuels distrust in media outlets. Deservingly so, even if machiavellianly this choice seems to serve the greater good.

WhatsApp – Setting the record straight (2014)

gabriel34 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921395

Points: 2

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New comment by gabriel34 in "MasterCard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU due to Brexit"

gabriel34 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:21:45 +0000

Those fees are in a contract between the merchant and the acquirer, which is fully under EU law, therefore, if the fee cap is on all transactions, it should apply to everyone, wherever they are. I don't understand how does the location of the buyer affects the processing fees, unless either it is a more complicated issue involving all merchant, acquiring bank and issuing bank, or EU law explicitly caps transaction fees between EU citizens and EU companies, leaving out all international sales.

New comment by gabriel34 in "RF Shielding Tips and Tricks"

gabriel34 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:23:07 +0000

my isp has a built in public (captive portal) wifi network that I can't turn off. They use it to provide wifi hotspots all over the country. rf shielding is a non destructive mod I can do to block the rogue wifi

New comment by gabriel34 in "Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative"

gabriel34 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:13:10 +0000

Correlation will hold between unique hashes and unique visitors to access increase in unique visitors for your campaign. Even the percentage of these accesses that are returning is likely constant. All you would be giving up is the ability to measure variation in the returning percentage across several days (even so you could probably modify the code to change the salt every x days without losing much of the privacy benefits)

There will always be value to be extracted from the invasion of your users' privacy, but you also hit diminishing returns over this increasingly invasive probing. Plausible is aiming for "good enough" whilst respecting people's privacy, and that is a good compromise IMHO.

There is a trade-off. You will never get 100% of the information without all the tracking, but there is information that represents more bang for the privacy buck.

Would you not have a acceptable error increase in your decisions with a bit less information and a lot less privacy invasion?

EDIT> I think more control to the user is better, so instead of canvas fingerprinting, shady cross-site tracking and all, I would rather have a uuid that my browser informed, but that I controlled, so I could be anonymous when I want to and be tracked when I don't care, or when I genuinely agrees it adds value.

A Pastebin scraper, steganography, and a persistent Linux backdoor

gabriel34 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:35:47 +0000

Article URL: https://redcanary.com/blog/a-pastebin-scraper-steganography-and-a-persistent-linux-backdoor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934377

Points: 2

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Everyone wins when patents are pooled

gabriel34 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01441-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926589

Points: 2

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New comment by gabriel34 in "The Big Data of Big Hair (2019)"

gabriel34 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:32:03 +0000

Very cool! Nice dataset selection. Could you possibly use this as a classifier to determine the year of a given photo?

One small quibble: this is more of a Computer Vision work, not Big Data. Great writeup nonetheless