hwers

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by hwers 5y ago
Only tangentially relevant nitpick: shouldn't that first graph have a sigmoid shape since it represents chance of dying as a function of age. At age 130 is should top out at 100% but it shouldn't increase exponentially.
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by hwers 5y ago
Makes me a bit uncomfortable that it just uses my machine to start the DDoS:ing without asking first.
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Google removes search results because it goes against scientific consensus(twitter.com)
6 points by hwers 5y ago|1 comments
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by hwers 5y ago
Are you a bot?
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by hwers 5y ago
Can't wait until we get fast enough computers to simulate this interactively. Biology education would be so much more accessible for everyone.
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by hwers 5y ago
I wish we would stop using the "what's there to hide" argument. Let's just give people a right for default privacy without questioning what they want to use it for.
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Real time flight map over Ukraine/Europe/Russia(flight-radar.eu)
1 points by hwers 5y ago|0 comments
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by hwers 5y ago
I can't really tell what's going on here. Is the EU and America supposed to be helping out but it's all promises without real counter attacks? Is this just the calm before the storm as russia places their troops in the right
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by hwers 5y ago
The laplacian of a matrix also has cool applications in computer graphics, if anyone is curious (about further connections). Think of the mesh of an object as a graph and compute the lapacian. (You get natural unsupervised segmentations of
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by hwers 5y ago
Is it allowed to express concern about china gaining incentive influence through investments like this on HN?
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by hwers 5y ago
Can't believe it's almost as long since this game was released as the time we waited for it.
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by hwers 5y ago
Surely the three letter agencies you're referring to already has access to your passport and/or drivers license photo/selfie anyway.
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by hwers 5y ago
We really don't talk often enough in the open about how the mental health crisis might be _caused_ by something like manipulative news (and not just social media).
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by hwers 5y ago
A developer with an incredible track record and decades of experience.
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by hwers 5y ago
"Blocking scripts for each individual website" probably isn't too bad of a burden though. There's enough people who are annoyed by this and few enough sites that you actually visit (how often do you actually visit a bran
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by hwers 5y ago
Blocking all GCP and AWS hosted sites is about as effective as turning off all javascript. It reduces the usable set of sites on the web to basically worthlessness.
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by hwers 5y ago
Did you have any trouble getting a job with the sentence on your resume? Just curious
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by hwers 5y ago
This is a reason we shouldn't feel ashamed about developing a habit of skimming. In many cases it's simply a proper adaption to an incredibly low signal to noise ratio in most articles you're exposed to on the internet.
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by hwers 5y ago
On a society level there should certainly be room for every type of voice. Governments shouldn't moderate forums. But there's definitely value in small communal focused bubbles like this as well, that isn't manipulated into d
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by hwers 5y ago
I'm always curious how many visitors you have to get to reach $500 per month numbers from ads. I understand the author probably can't reveal exact numbers here but if anyone knows rough but real life numbers I'd be curious to
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Ask HN: Are universities closing down open access to lectures and course notes?
24 points by hwers 5y ago|4 comments
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by hwers 5y ago
This generalizes interestingly to any tooling that makes things easier. You may feel more efficient with better tooling but it's an arms race and once everyone has access to it you're all competing equally again (and it's bac
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by hwers 5y ago
He also pretty much screws up the whole system by announcing it like this. There's no way I'd feel anything but manipulation coming my way if I was his friend and a message from this guy popped up in my notifications.
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by hwers 5y ago
I hadn't really seen examples of apple astroturfers personally, but now I'm practically convinced it's the case.
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by hwers 5y ago
Very interesting that your original comment was flagged...
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by hwers 5y ago
Tech innovation is stagnating and what excites people who are making money right now is mostly zero sum theft from one population to another.
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by hwers 5y ago
> Almost all social networks are garbage and make the world awful and are very bad at their stated goal while being very good at their actual goal, which is creepy, invasive marketing. I don't think that's much of a contrarian
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by hwers 5y ago
The HN comments section is far less knowledgeable than generally perceived. (I realized this after seeing comments made on some topics I think I've reached domain expertise on and realizing there's a lot of confident opinions thro
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by hwers 5y ago
Long terms we're almost certainly going to replace NNs with more robust first principles ideas for the things they solve, but short term you can't really argue that they're not solving things in computer vision that weren&#x2
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by hwers 5y ago
I feel like at least being allowed to state that things are as bad as they are (outside anonymous forums like this) would be a great step towards getting closer to solving things. Right now we're still in a state where we have to keep

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