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by aduffy 2y ago
YOLO is a pretty simple and flexible architecture. Like most of these models, you can label some data and just freeze the intermediate layers and just retrain the final predictor head. Checkout as well darknet, which runs at really high fps
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by aduffy 2y ago
Sadly not, the pay scales can’t be changed without congressional approval.
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De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins(nature.com)
4 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
All of the best systems programmers I know grew up in former Soviet bloc countries.
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by aduffy 2y ago
I’m skeptical of the value in doing this. There are a mountain of tools like NullAway, ErrorProne, Immutables that make it so much easier to write safe code in Java. New developments in the language like first-class record types improve the
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by aduffy 2y ago
So in the case from the README, where you're trying to curate a sample of your data, the only thing that you're reading is the metadata, UNTIL you run `export_files` and that actually copies the binary data to your local machine?
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by aduffy 2y ago
Are you suggesting that a newspaper making an endorsement is "malicious election interference", or that there was "malicious election interference" involved in them deciding not to publish the endorsement?
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by aduffy 2y ago
Ostensibly, the LA Times owner's daughter claims that the decision not to endorse is tied to the Biden-Harris administrations stance on Gaza. Not sure whether to take that at face value or just a cop-out. https://www.nytimes
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by aduffy 2y ago
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, I think there's a valid argument that traditional media is struggling to hold the attention of modern readers, and trust in news organizations is at all-time lows. On the other hand, t
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"Bush hid the facts" bug(en.wikipedia.org)
39 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
This post brought to you by smart money
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by aduffy 2y ago
So the maintainers that got the boot were working for sanctioned Russian organizations (or at least, could not prove that their particular employers were not under the broad OFAC sanctions regime). Totally reasonable for the Kernel maintain
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by aduffy 2y ago
This has existed for a long time, it's called "RPA" or Robotic Process Automation. The biggest incumbent in this space is UiPath, but there are a host of startups and large companies alike that are tackling it. Most of the th
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by aduffy 2y ago
Geolocation does not use GPS, it uses IP addresses.
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by aduffy 2y ago
The lawsuit was bound to happen, the alternative being to accept the narrative without fighting back. The Chinese National Security Laws allow the CCP to compel Chinese citizens and corporations anywhere they may be to perform work on behal
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by aduffy 2y ago
- Brand new burner account - upset about “AI slop” (the image is clearly not AI) - mentions tech buzzwords that annoy you - claiming the article is not as rigorous as an academic paper Perhaps I’m just old school. But I miss the HN where th
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by aduffy 2y ago
I’m much happier with the TSA having those scans than airlines and services like CLEAR. At least there are rules the government is held to about how the data is stored and privacy/deletion requirements.
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by aduffy 2y ago
I love Starlink, and it is a great way for many people who live outside of where it is profitable to run broadband to have a high-speed Internet connection. What is concerning is how much direct control Elon wields over the service. I would
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by aduffy 2y ago
Those new service sector jobs: get paid to respond to HN comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
This is the most Tyler Cowen-coded response I could imagine, and I mean this in the best way possible.
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by aduffy 2y ago
Dropbox comes to mind.
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by aduffy 2y ago
Buried under the memes/vibes there is an actual reason this is important for data tools. The previous generation of analytics/"Big Data" projects (think Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elastic) were all built in the JVM. They were
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by aduffy 2y ago
Will and I actually work on Vortex :wave: Perhaps we should clean up the wording in the intro, but yes there is in fact a file format! We actually built the toolkit first, before building the file format. The interesting thing here is that
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by aduffy 2y ago
Yea so the thing you do for this is called "compaction", where you effectively merge the original + edits/deletes into a new immutable file. You then change your table metadata pointer to point at the new compacted file, and
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by aduffy 2y ago
React is arguably quite stable?
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by aduffy 2y ago
You're unlikely to find this with any analytic file format (including Vortex). The main reason is that OLAP systems generally assume an immutable distributed object/block layer (S3, HDFS, ABFS, etc.). It's then generally up t
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by aduffy 2y ago
We have a TableProvider for use with Datafusion, checkout this crate and its examples: https://github.com/spiraldb/vortex/tree/develop/vortex-dataf...
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You Shouldn't Forget to Optimize the Data Layout(cedardb.com)
1 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
open access link: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p1162-ferragina.pdf
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by aduffy 2y ago
These patent trolls are greedy, extractive, and contribute nothing to society while wasting vast public and private legal resources. Fuck. Them. Excellent work to the entire litigation team at Cloudflare.

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