Hacker News: mahart

New comment by mahart in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

mahart — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:11:47 +0000

Having casually read into a few recent incidents the vector has often been outside of software. A lot of mis-configurations or simply attacking the human in the chain. And nation states have basically unbounded resources for everything from bribes, insiders, and even standing up entire companies.

New comment by mahart in "SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father"

mahart — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:51:17 +0000

On his staff page he's described as a "leading scholar in the field of tax law". Maybe he was the one that got FTX on QuickBooks after having been paid for 11 months there.

New comment by mahart in "FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions"

mahart — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:43:05 +0000

It is an alleged massive fraud going on a public relations tour pre-trial, which not every defendant gets. I guess we'll see if NYT allows him to sail through it sympathetically.

New comment by mahart in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

mahart — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:56:15 +0000

I have found videos that were marked disliked by me that I never intended to dislike. Pretty sure it was all from trying to scroll on mobile and a click accidentally getting registered.

New comment by mahart in "“I will slaughter you”"

mahart — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:57:56 +0000

The sentence: 'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids'

Suggests he doesn't even comprehend that curl amounts to 'instructions to copy data'

New comment by mahart in "“I will slaughter you”"

mahart — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:49:41 +0000

I disagree with the idea that sharing a singular name of someone you had a conversion with is doxxing. Especially one voluntarily sent without a prior agreement that the email conversation would remain private.

New comment by mahart in "After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract"

mahart — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:35:46 +0000

>As developers we are no longer seeing our actions as “politically neutral” and are starting to understand the power we yield collectively to make positive change to our industry.

The only thing it changes in the industry is who gets a contract.

New comment by mahart in "Google allows G Suite administrators to monitor and audit user emails"

mahart — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:59:29 +0000

Also legal action can require the admin to have access to obtain this stuff. Also thanks to FOIA, there are government orgs that are required to comply with public requests for copies of emails.

New comment by mahart in "Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly"

mahart — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:44:56 +0000

The explanation would be the desire to sell GIS products in a particular region.

New comment by mahart in "Li Wenliang"

mahart — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:04:13 +0000

As big of a challenge as this is, the party has more control now than it ever had before. Control from technology but also control from social structure and how they teach people to think.

New comment by mahart in "Are Passenger Jet Engines Hitting Their Technical Limits?"

mahart — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:14:54 +0000

Biotech is still in its infancy and mastering DNA would open up a new frontier where humans can edit the genetic code to what makes a human. Assuming it isn't universally banned.

The only truly depressing future to me is if interstellar travel really is as hard as it seems to us now. There kind of needs to be a physics/propulsion discovery on the order of magnitude of electricity or the journey can only be feasibly made by the immortal AI robot race that replaces us.

New comment by mahart in "How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing"

mahart — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:09:38 +0000

They (generally) don't think like that because they are taught an extreme sense of nationalism/collectivism.

Anyone with enough money to emigrate has a much stronger incentive to stay and play along with the system.

New comment by mahart in "Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest"

mahart — Mon, 27 May 2019 23:26:59 +0000

And Sherpa laborers hauling heavy oxygen tanks up ahead.

New comment by mahart in "Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China"

mahart — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:09:12 +0000

Not to anyone who matters because they will never know.

New comment by mahart in "Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing"

mahart — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:31:12 +0000

People are more willing to pay to have their own views and beliefs confirmed to themselves over factual reporting.

New comment by mahart in "Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee"

mahart — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:31:16 +0000

They are used to treating women like children who never grow up. There is always a guardian in charge of them. It is crazy to read they've set up a website to send notifications and disable family members from travel.

They only just allowed women to vote/run for office a few years ago, and women to drive last year. This is a great produced piece by nytimes as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ8WPHj6Nhw

New comment by mahart in "A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]"

mahart — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 03:30:33 +0000

I've watched a bunch of his videos a while back and he said he had a day job in the tech industry. But basically he's said he wanted a tesla without paying $$$ so he bought some salvage vehicles and did it as a hobby.

But with his channel starting to take off he might have transitioned to a youtube career. At this point he's probably funding a lot of it via youtube income.

New comment by mahart in "Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power"

mahart — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:47:26 +0000

Just my personal anecdote but a vast majority of the Chinese students I've known do not want to stay after their degree. A couple have rattled off the statistics on the huge advantage they have in the job market back home with a degree from the US.

Not that I'm arguing against immigration reform, though. Just playing devil's advocate.

New comment by mahart in "Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack"

mahart — Thu, 24 May 2018 21:07:11 +0000

He instructed other people to delete tweets/messages after learning someone died to cover up what happened. That seems like obstruction and conspiracy to me.

I think it is a stretch to call tweeting a wrong address "wire fraud" though.

New comment by mahart in "Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane"

mahart — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:22:43 +0000

It is just a result of poor planning, technically they are two separate accounts. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/...

They did add an option so you can change your personal account's email address so you don't have to deal with account namespace issues.