Hacker News: ibeff

New comment by ibeff in "GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources"

ibeff — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:20:05 +0000

That's not helpful without context and substance.

New comment by ibeff in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

ibeff — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:18:59 +0000

> China will have the robot-operated factories, not the US. What do you anticipate the US will do to obtain goods from those Chinese factories?

Why not let the market take care of it? It's cheaper to buy things from China then make them yourself. When that changes, production will naturally move to the next best place. I don't see the issue.

New comment by ibeff in "Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software"

ibeff — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:08:25 +0000

No reasonable person interprets the original comment as someone not knowing about the existence of a LAN, hence snark.

New comment by ibeff in "Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software"

ibeff — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:21:02 +0000

> I'm kinda surprised you've managed to be on HN for 5 years and never come across the concept of a "LAN" or "VPN" before

Unnecessary snark.

New comment by ibeff in "Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market"

ibeff — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:05:29 +0000

the berlin hackerspace scene would not allow police at their events

New comment by ibeff in "GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite"

ibeff — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:59:47 +0000

Do you have a source that iOS Lockdown Mode protects against Cellebrite? Because Cellebrite boasts they can extract data from latest iOS versions and does not even mention Lockdown Mode as an obstacle in their documentation: https://stacker.news/items/617666

Meanwhile, Cellebrite is unabe to extract data from newer Pixel phones with GrapheneOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

New comment by ibeff in "Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)"

ibeff — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:17:02 +0000

I can't tell if you're intentionally misrepresenting what I said. I said we can tell with certainty "how likely or unlikely" something is, i.e. we can precisely calculate the probability.

New comment by ibeff in "Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)"

ibeff — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:29:04 +0000

Right but we have the tools to rule that out. That's what the field of statistics deals with. It tells you with mathematical certainty how likely or unlikely the correlation you're observing is to be random.

New comment by ibeff in "Perplexity Deep Research"

ibeff — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:21:34 +0000

That's what I did. It came up with smart-sounding but infeasible recommendations because it took all sources it found online at face value without considering who authored them for what reason. And it lacked a massive amount of background knowledge to evaluate the claims made in the sources. It took outlandish, utopian demands by some activists in my field and sold them to me as things that might plausibly be implemented in the near future.

Real research needs several more levels of depth of contextual knowledge than the model is currently doing for any prompt. There is so much background information that people working in my field know. The model would have to first spend a ton of time taking in everything there is to know about the field and several related fields and then correlate the sources it found for the specific prompt with all of that.

At the current stage, this is not deep research but research that is remarkably shallow.

New comment by ibeff in "Perplexity Deep Research"

ibeff — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:15:36 +0000

I'm getting about 1 minute responses, did you turn on the Deep Research option below the prompt?

New comment by ibeff in "Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review"

ibeff — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:46:44 +0000

That's what the author deals with in the first part of the article on observational studies. Randomized studies don't have that problem.

New comment by ibeff in "I've acquired a new superpower"

ibeff — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:41:39 +0000

There's dozens of us!

New comment by ibeff in "Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers"

ibeff — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:19:52 +0000

If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?

New comment by ibeff in "European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware"

ibeff — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:42 +0000

Let's hope the photosensor processing software on the receiving end doesn't have any bugs that could be exploited.

New comment by ibeff in "Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?"

ibeff — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:12:06 +0000

It's not a diagram or mock-up, it's a direct representation of the real thing for computer simulations, similar to CAD. The dimensions and shape of the components are accurate. And the author is calling it a logo because the picture is used to represent and advertise the software.

New comment by ibeff in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

ibeff — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:28:18 +0000

I wish JUST ONE PERSON in the comments would read the gosh darn article.

New comment by ibeff in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

ibeff — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:28:23 +0000

"Let me throw shade on this open source project that does incredibly ambitious thing X and that tons of people are devoting lots of time to, by suggesting they should instead do this other esoteric thing Y that 99% of users don't care about but that I, the entitled power user, think they should be doing instead."

New comment by ibeff in "Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks"

ibeff — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:00:14 +0000

lol

New comment by ibeff in "C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading"

ibeff — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:57:09 +0000

The structure and tone of this text reeks of LLM.

New comment by ibeff in "Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy"

ibeff — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:06:49 +0000

Banks don't care if it's "cheaper than" some other form of power generation, they care that profitability is safe over a very long time span. If power prices crash 5 or 10 years from now because of renewables overcapacity (which is already happening regionally on sunny days with solar), profitability is gone.