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by bscphil 4y ago
> Businesses choose to send this data to the ad platforms for their own benefits - better targeting, measurement, and ML optimization of their ad campaigns. I think the post you're replying to is concerned about the moral rights of
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The scary thing is that once you have this data, finding HN matches for individual targeted users on other sites becomes trivial, even if those sites are harder to scrape. I bet most people here have an anonymous Reddit account, for example
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> Many people do a lot of things they think are productive but see no improvement in outcomes. i.e. reading articles Or to put a different spin on this, some people spend so much time producing things that they never pick up a book.
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> For me, the contrast between text and the background is just a little too low (especially if I’m working in a bright space), and you can see that it also varies between different token types. Strange. For the dark scheme, it fixes the
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No, I'm comparing America's car culture to a rat infestation; something that causes serious problems and is a problem in its own right. This has nothing to do with the moral standing of individuals drivers...
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> Purely from a safety standpoint, outright prohibiting bicycle traffic on motorized roads would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people (while improving the convenience for everyone else). T
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> Try this at a bar in rural (red) Ohio I don't think anyone should be asking bars in Ohio, or anywhere, about this. No more than I would ask a bar in Ohio what they think of climate change. Or a group of theologians in the 16th cen
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I think you've really nailed it. It's very hard to take her views seriously if you've done the slightest bit of reading on this topic at all. The fact that it's receiving so much attention here is embarrassing, and in my
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Ah thanks, I realize I misread it. It's "smoothly increasing and decreasing", meaning it drops off on either side.
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I think starting with HSL (as opposed to e.g. Oklab) is a mistake. (EDIT: the following claim was a mistake on my part.) Note this from the results: > The resulting palette has evenly-spaced hues, only small variations in chroma, and smo
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If that's the case then it doesn't solve the problem of wanting to take a different friend, unless there are plenty of tickets available.
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"I will sell you this ticket on the marketplace for $facevalue if you will paypal me $500 - $facevalue"
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> solar.lowtechmagazine.com Off topic: I love this site, but it kills me how they could delete half a dozen CSS rules and HTML elements and make it actually readable. I use the following CSS: #bat_data { background: rgba(255, 235,
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Most likely Rostov refers to Rostov-on-Don [1], at 47°14′N 39°42′E. Assuming a spherical earth, Michurinsk is ~630 km further north. The figure given in the article is probably rounded. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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I don't think it quite says that. Exact quote: > We assume the failure cases are related to two reasons. On one hand, the GOD training set and testing set have no overlapping classes. That is to say, the model could learn the geomet
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> They're using ML to map the response from a test stimulus to some interpolated response from 50 training samples, arbitrarily assigning new sample images to these points in space and then passing it off as mind reading. Could you
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This is a massive difference from any other project like this with wide device support, assuming it works correctly: > Bootloader relocking is restored and has been tested working on 23 devices and is available for 26 more. Verified bo
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Semi-related, there's this browser extension that somehow manages to mangle HTML into SVG with pretty good accuracy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/svg-screensho... I do stuff like this (
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Copyright 2016. Huh. Did anything ever happen to this?
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Yes, also some discussions here previously. Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25525726 An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space https://new
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> Another approach I thought initially was to treat colors as 3d points and check the distance between them. Granted, it doesn't matter much at all because they're just looking for the closest color, but it might be nice to do
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> As for package management in R you can use either Renv or conda. Been coding R for a decade and have always pinned down packages and you could do so well before tooling made it simple as pie. Right, I get that - but OP was claiming tha
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> Zach de la Rocha made a banger with Run The Jewels last year though, none of that silly politics either. You got me, I didn't realize this was satire until this line.
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> acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management I'm puzzled by this and wonder if you can provide some examples. The scientists I know tend to have incredibly disorganized R code, with
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Ah yes, the embarrassingly slow decoder that just happens to be on the Pareto frontier for decompression speed: http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
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Oh, another bug - if you have XHR connections blocked with a tool like uMatrix, the site will assume that the time-to-failed-connection is actually the successful round-trip time, so I was getting very low numbers in Firefox. (The test in t
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I see ping times consistently around 10ms on my WiFi connection. However, it sometimes briefly spikes upward (while remaining green). Based on the behavior of the line, I think this might be happening when the bit of JavaScript drawing the
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> You say "lots" of distro's haven't. Which ones? Surprisingly enough, Arch Linux, a rolling release distro, still hasn't. It's a real mixed bag.
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> But if you play hundreds to thousands of iterated games of video game football where you control the ball on every play, you’re bound to run into the scenario and be detached enough to know what to do. Back in the day, the AI for oppon
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IMO this misses the most important thing needed in a great markup language. It should be readable, as a complete document, in its existing text form without any transformation. The ideal syntax would be so good that you would rarely want to

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