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nolite commented on Ask HN: Who doesn’t want to go back to the office? · Posted by u/ob1gman

havelhovel · 4 years ago

Things I have avoided over the past year: wearing uncomfortable clothes, being unable to use a restroom because it’s occupied, sweating from the heater, shivering from the AC, being held hostage by coworkers who talk at me about their personal lives and grievances, unpleasant noises, unpleasant smells, being asked trivial questions, the drama of coworkers who can’t behave professionally, ugly decor, uncomfortable seating, traffic, car troubles, parking woes, and unhealthy lunches. I realize these are small problems in the grand scheme of things, but we’ve proven we don’t need to deal with them, so I just won’t from here on out.

nolite · 4 years ago

each is small individually, but together they add up to alot

nolite commented on Launch HN: StartPack (YC S20) - Helping Global SMBs Access US Banking & Payments · Posted by u/arjawn

nolite · 4 years ago

I love this. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Do you handle formation in low-tax jurisdictions as well? (Wyoming, Nevada)

nolite commented on Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage vice.com/en/article/qjpyq... · Posted by u/elsewhen

nolite · 4 years ago

From Fight Club:

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

nolite commented on Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution' reuters.com/article/healt... · Posted by u/mpsq

2ion · 4 years ago

It's not a medically reasonable response that solicits snarky remarks, it's the complete retardation of the official covid response so far, and even reasonable decisions just are landing on a pile of steaming crap now.

- billions per week of half assed lockdown vs a few billion more for high quality timeley vaccine delivieries of the good stuff --- of course they chose the lockdown

- open schools as if nothing happens vs using UV-based air filtering machines and so on as a minimum level of precaution --- of course they choose to open schools with classrooms some of which even don't have windows that can be opened properly

- governing party members of parliament scamming the public out of money by selling overly expensive, low quality masks

- minister of health busy sueing newspapers for disclosing prices on his million dollar real estate purchases vs minister of health actually being busy 24/7 with fighting the crisis

the list goes "on and on and on", these are just the most popular ones right now. It's just a dumpster fire at this point and the positives will not be recognized divorced from said pile of crap.

nolite · 4 years ago

Is this Germany or elsewhere? Sounds as bad as France

nolite commented on A Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

tppiotrowski · 5 years ago

Vinokur said in an interview that Terra Quantum’s team made the discovery after figuring out how to invert what’s called a “hash function,”

Can someone comment if “invert” really means invert or if it means an instant way of brute forcing all possible/probable inputs.

Isn’t there an infinite number of inputs that produce the same hash, thus inverting a hash function would produce infinite results?

Edit: forgot hashing usually truncates the payload to the 4096 characters/etc so I guess the inputs are finite.

nolite · 5 years ago

It means creating an algorithm which suggests a highly probable input that provides a given output.

Check out Grover's Algorithm

nolite commented on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? · Posted by u/as89

davehcker · 5 years ago

Right now (re-starting almost the fourth time), my goal is to get consistent 1. images 2. co2, ec, ph, temperature, humidity, light intensity/quality readings. Anyone putting in money (besides me) hesitated until now because they couldn't see what was in my head. So I'm remaking the setup with data-collection in mind first. It's almost shameful to confess that it is an 8 bed farm only :/ And this will be the setup for next 2 months. Once you've a 1200 plant bed (which is only 10 metre^2 with four layers), I think you will be able to demonstrate the efficiencies with the available data. ps: You can get a harvest every 19 days, roughly.

Computer vision is a big chunk here, and me being no expert, I'm trying to have the hardware setup right so I'd have to do little on the software side of data processing.

If you're doing on your own, and don't want to spend a lot, I'd just say that almost everything can be done with off the shelf boards and sensors.

nolite · 5 years ago

How mature is this field? I get the impression that all the existing companies doing this have cracked a secret. Can a hacker-type really make significant headway in this space still? (I'm really really interested in this)

nolite commented on Tell HN: My entire company's Gsuite access has been banned · Posted by u/ameyv

voidfunc · 5 years ago

The annual Google bit my hand thread.

I just cannot recommend anyone seriously use GSuite or GCP until Google starts treating customers better.

nolite · 5 years ago

What would you suggest instead? (serious question)

nolite commented on ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Smart Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom vice.com/en/article/m7apn... · Posted by u/bryan0

nolite · 5 years ago

Needed more penetration testing

nolite commented on Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair reasonstobecheerful.world... · Posted by u/janvdberg

fridek · 5 years ago

I can't describe how much I hope something comes out of it. Not because I have some illusion of this tackling corporate greed, or helping the environment - devices will likely become more expensive and bulkier as a result, supply chain of replacement parts is generating heaps of waste too.

I simply am surrounded by tens and hundreds of sort-of-broken devices that don't force me to replace yet, but are not fixable either. The laptop overheats, phone compass never works properly, one port in the TV is dead, there is no light in the fridge (but it still works). The list goes on. I just want a world where stuff lasting a lifetime exists.

nolite · 5 years ago

I just had my 4000€ MacBook Pro (2017) die, 5 months out of warranty, because of a blown capacitor. (probably a $0.20 part tops)

They have to change the whole motherboard, lose all my data. Price of a new machine...

grumble, grumble

nolite commented on Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform eng.uber.com/real-time-pu... · Posted by u/0xedb

rightbyte · 5 years ago

So much effort to do UDP over HTTP ...

No wonder they need 1000s of SWEs.

nolite · 5 years ago

You saw their network reliability requirement right?