Hacker News: twinge

New comment by twinge in "Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent"

twinge — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:02:43 +0000

Aereo, Napster, Grokster, Grooveshark, Megaupload, and TVEyes: they all thought the same thing. Where are they now?

New comment by twinge in "Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC"

twinge — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:21:30 +0000

It seems contrary to their docs[0]:

> Recall won’t save any content from your private browsing activity when you’re using Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, or other Chromium-based browsers.

Without a system-level incognito mode feature I could see apps allowing users to denote their windows as DRM content to avoid Recall.

0: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...

New comment by twinge in "Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed"

twinge — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:53:09 +0000

"Why valves are a spacecraft engineer’s worst nightmare" is a great read about all the problems of valves[0]. There's also an interesting interview of the author worth a listen[1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/why-valves-are-a-spacecraf...

[1] https://offnom.com/episodes/149

New comment by twinge in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

twinge — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:46:24 +0000

The media also doesn't define what it means to be a "doomer". Would an accelerationist with a p(doom) = 20% be a "doomer"?

New comment by twinge in "Telnet BBS Guide"

twinge — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 04:11:43 +0000

https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...

New comment by twinge in "Ex-FBI employee jailed for mishandling classified material"

twinge — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:19:38 +0000

That's not what executive privilege means. Executive privilege is the right to shield documents from disclosure to Congress.

Moreover, taking certain documents, specifically those relating to nuclear secrets, is unrelated to the Presidential Records Act, and must be declassified following the Atomic Energy Act.

New comment by twinge in "The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies"

twinge — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:00:14 +0000

This could be labeled "sousveillance", watchful vigilance from underneath:

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

New comment by twinge in "Show HN: 1Kb Webspace"

twinge — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:25:34 +0000

Storing data in the metadata reminds me of the $5000 compression challenge: https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

New comment by twinge in "Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”"

twinge — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:45:41 +0000

Many years ago I worked at a startup where the CEO was a former CS professor. While at the university, he worked with a somewhat legendary guy who ran the CS school's IT infra. Somehow wires got crossed in recruiting while sourcing the candidate, and another guy with _the exact same name_ who _also worked at the university in IT_ but for a different school got hired after what must've been a perfunctory interview.

The startup had a lot of other problems, that one was the most awkward. It folded not very long afterwards.

New comment by twinge in "Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website"

twinge — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:08:16 +0000

Useful for dramatic effect:

https://inception.davepedu.com/

New comment by twinge in "Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?"

twinge — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:50:27 +0000

Related anecdote: the 2008 flash crash of United Airlines stock [0]. A six-year-old article about United Airlines' 2002 bankruptcy was republished from the Chicago Tribune in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (apparently without the date), then got picked up Google News, then by an investment firm, then ultimately by Bloomberg, leading to a flash crash from $12 to $3.

0: https://www.wired.com/2008/09/six-year-old-st/

New comment by twinge in "Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond"

twinge — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:14:41 +0000

Alphabet owns Verily Life Sciences[1] and backs Calico[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)

New comment by twinge in "Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (2013)"

twinge — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:27:07 +0000

Next comes the space telescopes that are based on the KH-11 spy satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...

New comment by twinge in "Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public"

twinge — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:23:21 +0000

A system for alerting based on time-series data, with its own rule language. The language (along with many others) required authors have demonstrated they can adhere to the style guide by going through a process to obtain readability.

https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/

New comment by twinge in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

twinge — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:00:44 +0000

   We'll continue supporting sideloading and linking to PCs

I see this as a tacit approval of the thriving network of pirate games, something like the Adobe Photoshop model of proliferating and becoming the de facto platform.

New comment by twinge in "Hertz orders 100k Teslas"

twinge — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:41:37 +0000

You charge at the hotel.

https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging

New comment by twinge in "Vintage Byte Magazine Library"

twinge — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:22:44 +0000

The predictions for the future of computing, December 1996, had some truly prescient gems. And a few misses.

> We may experience a gradual drift into a surveillance society ...

> The merging of cellular phones, portable computers, and highspeed networked servers offers many exciting possibilities.

> The Internet will be as ubiquitous in our lives as cable television is today.

https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199612_Byte_Magazine_Vol_2... - page 86 in the magazine, page 90 in the PDF

New comment by twinge in "NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings"

twinge — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:58:41 +0000

Yes, however, vaccinated people are much less likely to catch the virus.

New comment by twinge in "We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001%"

twinge — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:55:44 +0000

Only 55% of Americans own stock: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

New comment by twinge in "It's your device, you should be able to repair it"

twinge — Sat, 01 May 2021 02:42:09 +0000

Bear in mind matter isn't the only component. Energy is another huge input to the system. E.g. blockchain and its derivatives use tiny amounts of matter to use enormous amounts of energy.

We can and must develop more environmentally responsible sources of matter and energy. Trying to change human behavior with our current regulatory controls have been demonstrably inadequate. There are sources of matter and energy that do not run out, I believe them to be in space.