amatus | 6 years ago | on: Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip
I'd love the see the details of how they remove heat from that monster chip.
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amatus | 6 years ago | on: GNUnet 0.11.5
Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better:
Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users can adjust their level of anonymity for publishing, downloading, and searching.
DNS is replaced by "GNS", it covers the "decentralized" and "secure" points in Zooko's triangle, it a pet name system.
VPN is replaced by GNUnet VPN, which is just VPN over GNUnet so it can take advantage of the p2p network.
TCP/UDP/SPDY/QUIC is replaced by "cadet", takes advantage of the p2p network.
There's also a DHT.
And there's lots of other stuff that's in-progress.
amatus | 6 years ago | on: West Midlands cyclist with helmet cam helped to prosecute 325 drivers in a year
If you want more solid evidence of unsafe driving, you could mount an ultrasonic distance sensor to your bike: http://codaxus.com/c3ft/c3ft-v3/
amatus | 6 years ago | on: New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe
Do you mean the Drake equation? The relevant factor would be n_e "the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets"
amatus | 6 years ago | on: Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrödinger’s cat (and finally save it)
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545
amatus | 6 years ago | on: Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545
amatus | 6 years ago | on: Physics breakthrough should solve quantum computing's dead cat problem
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545
amatus | 7 years ago | on: Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
Top of the HSBC building.
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of
IDA Pro
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
The number of physical qubits is 2d^2-1 in case anyone was wondering.
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Inside one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mines
I love how they published a picture of the keys[1].
[1] https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/bitmain_127.jpg
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Autopilot
Are we heading toward a future where it's illegal to drive your car on the road if you have modified its software?
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
The website is one of the things we need help with. If you want something more detailed than the About GNUnet paragraph there's the key concepts[2] and user handbook[1].
[1] https://gnunet.org/user-handbook [2] https://gnunet.org/concepts
amatus | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
I'm working on GNUnet[1]. It needs a lot of help.
amatus | 9 years ago | on: Heating houses with high performance servers
I'd like to see that stand up to mom vacuuming right next to the unit.
amatus | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: An app for your older relatives, helping them find the right cables
You're missing a cable I had to buy recently for my father-in-law: Laptop to monitor: mini display port to DVI (specifically DVI without analog pins or it wouldn't fit into the plug on the monitor).
amatus | 9 years ago | on: On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science
Could you encode all untyped lambda calculus expressions by just numbering them and writing the number as the string of bits?
Maybe this enumeration is the "external collaborator" in this case, but it's a very simple one.
amatus | 9 years ago | on: Xeon – Node.js tool for creating modular, reusable shell scripts
How does this compare to shlib.import?
amatus | 10 years ago | on: Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles
The article mentions the bacteria works at "a steady 86 degrees Fahrenheit." It may work slower or not at all at Pacific Ocean temperatures.
amatus | 10 years ago | on: Cisco ASA Software IKEv1 and IKEv2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Here's Exodus's write-up on the vulnerability and exploit: https://blog.exodusintel.com/2016/01/26/firewall-hacking/
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