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by fnoof 2y ago
How does this compare to the “official” Jupyter desktop app: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-desktop
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by fnoof 3y ago
The scanner uses some neural nets and an IR camera to see if everything around the iris checks out. So you can’t (easily at least) scan some disembodied eyes, or your dog’s eyes.
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by fnoof 3y ago
The orb does a round of “liveness” checks before the retina imaging to ensure someone’s not trying to scan their dog / detached eyeball.
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by fnoof 3y ago
Theodore Gray, cofounder of wolfram research, was responsible for notebooks I believe. > I wrote the Notebook user interface for Mathematica and led the user interface group for over 20 years. https://home.theodoregray.com&#x2
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by fnoof 4y ago
It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.
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by fnoof 5y ago
With proof of stake, a complete chain history is not strictly required by validating nodes. You don’t want everyone to delete it, but it’s not required for consensus.
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by fnoof 5y ago
I believe they’re treated as byte sequences: https://go.dev/ref/spec#String_types
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by fnoof 5y ago
I’d imagine they would, kind of like the levels of arbitrators and courts today. The article said the neighbours first vote that work is done. Most of the time that could work. But it also mentions the neighbours could collude to steal the
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by fnoof 5y ago
HN is basically the “Dad internet”. They’ll instinctively shoot down all your ideas, but their accumulated experience is helpful once in a real discussion.
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by fnoof 5y ago
The example in the article had a way to enforce contract breaking - the person had to put up collateral until the work was done. There’s problems with that particular mechanism, but in general if contracts can automatically decrease someone
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by fnoof 5y ago
I think with any weird new technology, fundamentally no knows if it’s going to work. People who can’t see or imagine use cases become sceptics. But others who piece together enough observations to tell themselves stories of why it will work
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by fnoof 5y ago
I suspect that blockchains won’t need to reference external data to be useful. If the data on chain becomes valuable enough, an ecosystem of open source, auditable programs operating on it seems powerful to me. And yeah tx fees are faceme
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by fnoof 5y ago
I think professional software devs won’t get much value from copilot. OpenAI’s demo from a few months back showed it as a sort of bridge to convert natural language instructions into APIs calls. Eg converting “make all the headings bold” to
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by fnoof 5y ago
Most of the comments here are opinions on what other people should do to stop climate change. For those that have read up on it, What are the highest impact things the average hacker news reader can do over the next few years?
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by fnoof 5y ago
The flickering is concerning. Kind of suggests their NN hasn’t learned basic object persistence yet.
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by fnoof 5y ago
An iPhone 12 weighs 164g [1], so, through the magic of the metric system, it needs to displace a minimum of 164ml of water to float. The iPhone has an external volume of 14.67cm * 7.15cm * 0.74cm = 77.62cm^3 = 77.62ml. So it would need to b
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by fnoof 6y ago
It exploded mid air just after landing burn started. In this video you can hear engines start then an immediate explosion https://mobile.twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/137689513012... Possible the burn started l
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by fnoof 6y ago
> - The passphrase for the Trust Wallet is saved as a screenshot on his iPhone. Could the photos have been uploaded to iCloud and compromised from there? Or accessed from another device?
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by fnoof 6y ago
Keep the python brand and fix these things in a new backwards incompatible python release. Call it Python 4. I’m sure it’ll only take a couple of years for everyone to migrate
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by fnoof 6y ago
I feel semver combines two separate ideas into the meaning of v1: By labeling as v1 you're: - communicating the package is stable and will be maintained - communication that breaking changes will now increment the major version (saying
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by fnoof 6y ago
A consequence of the complexity is that some devs stay below v2 forever because it’s easier. Backwards incompatible changes pile up in v0.x’s. It’s then really difficult for consumers to install two versions of the same package, which can h
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by fnoof 6y ago
I think I lucked out with a strong stomach, though I do perform better on days I eat after exercise.
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by fnoof 6y ago
Just to counter all the early-bird routines here: Wake up 1130, muesli, start work 1200. Lunch late afternoon depending on hunger, about 30 mins. Work until 2000 or 2100 then get some food High intensity excerise for 30 mins, shower. Then d
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by fnoof 7y ago
FYI, the basic features mentioned are available in plain macOS. Remap caps lock to control in system preferences. Then ctrl-p: up, ctrl-n: down, ctrl-b: left, ctrl-f: right ctrl-d for forwards delete, also ctrl-a/e for home/end, c
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by fnoof 7y ago
It could definitely help a lot of unbanked people. But that seems to be a nice benefit rather than the core mission.
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by fnoof 7y ago
From the white paper: > "Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people." They do this by issuing coins in exchange for fiat money, which is held by the reser
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by fnoof 7y ago
It’s targeted at countries that don’t have such wide adoption of credit/debit cards.
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by fnoof 7y ago
There's a very similar project called Interledger. It uses the same mechanism of credit payments over multiple hops. But denominates each hop in a particular (possibly different) asset to help settling the credit between peers.