lynndotpy

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   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   Scientist and programmer here, and my experiences are the opposite. I value keeping things "boringly simple", but I desperately wish there was any kind of engineering discipline. First is the reproducibility issue. I think I'
2. 692.▲
   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   This was true for me until the latest iOS release, but then it got worse for me. The inline predictions were especially problematic, but they added a toggle in the settings for it. I think this puts me in the market for a keyboard like th
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   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   > Just that Emacs was written almost a half century ago, and is still thriving despite being written in a language (LISP) that is basically obsolete. Yes, this is true. I still stand by my point that the longevity of a language has impli
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   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   I don't get the point you're making. Yes, the popularity of technologies is impacted by the popularity of related technologies. My argument is that Rust is certainly going to remain relevant for the next 20 years or so. When this
5. 695.▲
   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   I like knowing something is written in Rust because (1) the staying power of a language has implications for the staying power of the project (how many Ada projects do you see nowadays?) (2) I write Rust so I'm more likely to contribut
6. 696.▲
   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   Are there any debanding methods that add a point to the color channels? E.g. A delta of +(1, 1, 1) in RGB space would have six intermediary (but not perceptually evenly spaced) values, e.g. (1,0,0), (0,0,1), (0,1,0), (1,0,1), (0,1,1), and (
7. 697.▲
   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   Exactly; one of the most valuable things federation brings to the table is the ability to choose which servers to federate with and which not to. I don't want Meta moderating individual users on sites they don't own.
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   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   I can't speak to any production systems, but the ideal is to use a "sensor fusion" approach which can safely degrade or alert the driver when a sensor is lost. Lidar, cameras, wireless communication with other vehicles and in
9. 699.▲
   by lynndotpy 3y ago

   This is common knowledge among AV researchers too (who generally wouldn't be considered part of the automotive industry). Tesla's self driving was always neat, but it made a joke of itself by announcing "fully self driving&qu
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    Almost universally, we prepare conference papers as LaTeX files made to export to PDFs which fit within the conferences template. It's nontrivial to export this to HTML in all cases, and even then, nobody is asking for HTML from us eve
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    Hi all, I'm a longtime "arbitration is evil and you should opt out" proponent. To make things easier for my friends and family, I would regularly pre-write emails or prepare letters for them to opt out of arbitration. I start
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    Template to opt out of 23andMe's arbitration clause and class action waiver(github.com)

    1 points by lynndotpy 3y ago|1 comments
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    You have to specifically opt out of the arbitration clause and class action waiver.
14. 704.▲
    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    One of the very first things in the article is a TLDR section that points you to the conclusion. > In conclusion, the issue isn't software-related. Python outperforms C/Rust due to an AMD CPU bug.
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    US citizen here in New England, I've had people flip me off twice, throw stuff at me twice (both times empty chewing tobacco containers), and yell at me many times over the past three years of regular walking. Harassment from drivers i
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    > Who wakes up in the morning excited to go implement 1984 style attestation? The problem with 1984 isn't just the power Big Brother wields, but the malevolence with which it is inflicted. Would it be the same story if Big Brother w
17. 707.▲
    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    The terms now also have a class-action waiver clause
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    I honestly didn't know this. I wiped the drive again (just to be safe) and was able to get a full refund
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    I had one of these SanDisk SSDs and I lost terabytes of data within days of using it. Because of WesternDigital and SanDisk, I had an irreparable loss of art, notes, and photos spanning years of my life. (Yes, I know, keep three backups, et
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    For one thing, they will need to opt out of arbitration, every time it changes. I've managed to convince an entire DnD server I'm on to stop using Discord and Zoom because of their recent ToS changes, so it's not unreasonable
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    I'm part of this statistic too, in a different way. Android worked perfectly for me, but the OS was increasingly dumbed down and Androids consistently threw out features I loved. (Headphone jack, expandable storage, full rectangular sc
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    This is misleading. Brave had added items such as cryptocoin affiliate "cards" on the new tab page even for users who have had every cryptocoin aspect disabled. Further, there is no way to pre-emptively disable the cryptocoin elem
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    Arbitration to settle youth Snapchat privacy dispute, court rules (2022)(madisonrecord.com)

    1 points by lynndotpy 3y ago|1 comments
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    The original title is "Arbitration, not class action, is route to settling youth’s Snapchat privacy dispute, Seventh Circuit rules". The original title is too long for Hacker News, so I hope this version of the title is appropriat
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    I agree entirely, outputs are great and I consider it best practice to provide notebooks with outputs provided. As a concrete example, this one-liner of Python code is much more interesting to those who don't recognize it when it&#x2
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    > HN has a lot of hate for these animations but I don't think I've ever seen anyone bitching about them elsewhere. Because MacOS (and iOS) are the only major OSes that don't let you disable them.
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    If I remember correctly, Apple's Voxel Net (~2018 neural network, used for doing machine learning on sparse lidar point-cloud data) uses a simple "spatial hash" for this purpose, using the coordinate of the voxel as a key.
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    by lynndotpy 3y ago

    This marks the highly anticipated release of a new piece of consumer software for one of the most widely-adopted FreeBSD-based operating system.
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    by lynndotpy 4y ago

    I didn't downvote you, but I'd imagine you're being downvoted for arguing in favor of that laptop being economical. At the risk of sounding like a dead meme, "a laptop going strong for over 9 years" is already the d
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    by lynndotpy 4y ago

    Kind of. Speaking very generally, it's not just the number of weights ("parameters") but how you use them. The architecture of the neural network is where the most interesting new work is taking place. Stable Diffusion, which