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by antpls 7y ago
Do you have any source showing global apps usage to support your claims? Just by guessing, I would say whatsapp/FB/instagram/Snapchat/youtube are the most browsed apps. All those apps use Neural Networks in the backgroun
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> The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. I stopped to look at Single Thread performance long time ago when compa
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I applause ProtonMail services and initiatives, it can only be good for us. However why did they develop anything specific? SMTP / IMAP already support secure connection (i believe). Or it could be encapsulated in a secure lower transp
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My theory is : no matter the lockdown, the virus will always be there (it will come back) and people who would die from it will die from it anyway, but due to the lockdown they just won't die all at same time. If they won't die fr
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But would a 10% worse flu worth a global recession due to global lockdown ?
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> We need to minimize all deaths, not just deaths from the virus The recent events lead me to believe that it is not what countries are doing. Even WHO posted a figure in 2019 of 8 millions of deaths per year from Tabacco. The covid19 wi
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> Never believe someone who's never built a nuclear plant on what their design will cost. > More and more I think it's really public communication/PR/education that matters most for nuclear. I'm almost 30 year
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True, and there are plenty of alternatives : improving medicine, improving vaccines, improving viri and molecules detection, early isolation of ederly, improving healthcare, ... None of those axes requires to give up our privacy. People pus
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You must admit : even if you have some answers to those concerns, it's a lot of "doable", "should be possible", "seems solvable", etc. If a solution generates that much sceptisism, that many questions and
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Is there a particular challenge about flying a drone on Mars? Why not an already existing consumer drone?
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> 4) it helps stop others from becoming infected and possibly dying. how is that not a good thing? The virus will always be here, we cannot hide forever, we must find a way to cure it or reduce its biological effect. Once covid19 goes aw
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Again, this solution _cannot_ work and it is a _threat_ to a permanent loss of privacy. This is like the government and the adtech companies sleeping in the same bed, without any other power opposition in the balance. 1) The "solution&
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It could only work if everyone wear a phone. And then what's next? Forcing everyone by law to always wear a phone at all time? I would rather see new phone sensors that scan the air, the breath and the body for diseases than a new trac
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1) Covid19 was largely dangerous for old people cumulatting other comorbidities, mostly retired people. 2) Old people don't move that much and don't meet that many other people. It leads me to believe that the proposed loss of pri
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Another way to run WASM in Kubernetes would be to use Lucet (from Fastly) inside a Firecracker microvm, managed by Kubernetes with something like Weave Ignite
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Is there a flag to force it on most images, even the ones without the loading attribute?
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More likely, they have a few bugs here and there in the deployment tools that require human supervision and intervention, and they don't have the resources right now to fix them and to make it more reliable. There is no need for flexib
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Agreed, this is the most clickbait title of the week. From my understanding, the author is someone from outside Google who doesn't know anything about Google bets more than what is publicly available, and the author is biased toward th
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The biggest limitation I find about prolog is that the model is limited to the vocabulary and knowledge of the author. If the author only speaks English, the prolog program only works in English. If the author doesn't know anything abo
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> While saying that "chloroquine phosphate is a good prophylactic for covid-19" to someone who would believe it certainly should be punishable (as attempted murder perhaps! and regardless of whether the speaker is a licensed ph
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That's only the current state of the art however. The goal is transfer learning, meaning that when the AI learns something somewhere, it will improve its knowledge on other taks too. A better analogy would be a baby and an adult. The a
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To everyone : stop to criticize other people's work about "elegance", both on internet and in real life. This is not NYC nor Paris Fashion Week. Criticisms about the estheticism of an algorithm do not make sense. We have obje
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I'm not a lawyer, I live in Europe. I remember having read somewhere that it is related to clear consentement principles (in the same spirit that the cookie laws and GDPR). At least in Europe, I believe you must be presented to a ToS a
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From the article : "Columbia Cruise Services says Resolute remained in the area until it was clear its services were not required to help in the rescue of the 44 crew members. It then continued on, as planned, to the Port of Willemstad
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Are you basically asked to rewrite your own Zoom app or are there ITA certified videoconferencing softwares ? (Any names?)
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Isn't limiting availability also covered by laws ? Why should we pay the same price for limited service ? (Unless that's covered by their ToS?)
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Aleph was posted a few weeks ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457530 "Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators (alephdata.org)"
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> I run a few 10TiB ES clusters For information, what does "10TiB" refer to in this context? Is it the size of what ES takes in RAM, or the size of ES' index, or is it the total size of the corpus that ES must index? Or co
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And once there is a GC, it will be a good target for script languages on the OS, as wasm compilers are optimized for fast starting.
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I would guess a better manufacturing process and smaller components lead to better energy efficiency and less heat dissipation.

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