Hacker News: jhiesey

New comment by jhiesey in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"

jhiesey — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:57:37 +0000

Agreed. Virtualized 3d acceleration in particular still has quite a bit of "secret sauce" left in it.

New comment by jhiesey in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

jhiesey — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:37:06 +0000

In parts San Francisco you'll see a couple waymo/cruise cars drive by in any 5 minute interval

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

jhiesey — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:32:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36557974

Points: 100

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New comment by jhiesey in "SkillzTruth - Proof of concept demonstrating how to cheat on Skillz apps"

jhiesey — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:29:31 +0000

If this is truly meant as a PoC to raise awareness, shouldn't there be a writeup of how it works and/or source code? I'm not interested in running some random binary that claims to hack a game, but a technical description of the vuln would be interesting.

New comment by jhiesey in "Sentry.io outage"

jhiesey — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:19:28 +0000

The domain sentry.io resolves (for me at least) to a Google Cloud ip address in the us-central1 region, which is having an outage as well: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/4Qvmd4q81VnA9RirCM...

New comment by jhiesey in "Ask HN: What are the most valuable companies with the lowest headcounts?"

jhiesey — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:11:11 +0000

It's the Erlang runtime/virtual machine, like the JVM is for Java, Scala, etc.

New comment by jhiesey in "USPS Awards Contract to Modernize Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet"

jhiesey — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:28:10 +0000

Current US mail trucks are right hand drive so the driver can deliver to curbside mailboxes without getting out.

New comment by jhiesey in "Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months"

jhiesey — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:15:50 +0000

Probably an isolation transformer. A search for “cable tv isolation transformer” gives lots of results.

New comment by jhiesey in "Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor"

jhiesey — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 05:29:33 +0000

I bet you could get a lot better color if you used the screen itself to generate the bayer pattern on film rather than printing it with a printer.

Get some large format color negative film and thin cyan, magenta, and yellow filters. Put a cyan filter on the LCD, followed by the film on top. In a darkroom, light up the "red" pixels and to expose that part of the film. Repeat with the magenta filter and "green" pixels, and finally the yellow filter and "blue" pixels. Develop the film and reattach to the LCD.

This is kind of how the shadow mask was made in color CRT monitors. A photographic process was used to put the red, green, and blue phosphor dots on the screen by shining light through the shadow mask from the same angles the electron guns would later illuminate the phosphors. This ensures that the red, green, and blue phosphor dot pattern lines up (fairly) accurately with the shadow mask.

New comment by jhiesey in "Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop"

jhiesey — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:51:38 +0000

Yes this issue is still there unfortunately.

New comment by jhiesey in "Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality"

jhiesey — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:06:49 +0000

Free electron lasers generate X-rays using a single pass through the lasing medium, which is essential because you can't make good mirrors at those wavelengths either.

New comment by jhiesey in "Einstein Refrigerator"

jhiesey — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:20:01 +0000

As a fuel. And yes, it's the same principle.

New comment by jhiesey in "قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic"

jhiesey — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:08:15 +0000

I would guess it comes from calling the universal quantifier ”for all” in logic

New comment by jhiesey in "TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public"

jhiesey — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:27:22 +0000

Isn't that referring to publishing earnings on the company's own website or social media they control, not on independent publishers like TechCrunch?

New comment by jhiesey in "There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year"

jhiesey — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:39:26 +0000

Lightning is a major natural cause.

New comment by jhiesey in "New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident"

jhiesey — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:25:28 +0000

Why throw away your computers? Why not remove/disconnect the batteries (if portable) and just store them somewhere in case you eventually no longer suspect a hardware hack, as in this case?

New comment by jhiesey in "Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from major tech companies"

jhiesey — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:05:55 +0000

I think that's the broader problem that the article is trying to get at. Pornography is just an example that makes it clearer to people that they should care about it.

New comment by jhiesey in "Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera"

jhiesey — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:05:23 +0000

WebRTC typically does use UDP. But it certainly isn't as flexible as what you can do with a native app.

New comment by jhiesey in "Missouri disaster: Duck boat’s designer had no engineering training"

jhiesey — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 03:27:10 +0000

It's the same story with Action Park:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park#Factors_contributi...

New comment by jhiesey in "The Pyramid of Software Developer Job Satisfaction"

jhiesey — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:37:28 +0000

Is the site down? I get an infinite redirect loop.