Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
ovi256
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
30 ms
·
301.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
>Why not? Every technology that the west built was quickly adopted by the rest of the world. What kind of inane/ahistorical statement is that ? Those countries pay high costs for their energy because their alternative energy sources
302.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
The best part of economic freedom is that one is free to start a manufacturer delivering a cheaper whatever one is complaining is too expensive!
303.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
Making them a common carrier would solve almost all issues, except complaints from some groups that some other groups are allowed to use Twitter to spread their own political speech.
304.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
A chainsaw, compressor or pen are examples of mechanisation, not automation. They replace part of the human effort needed for a job, making the remaining human effort even more valuable. Automation fully replaces human work for a given job.
305.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
Methane is a fossil fuel, so no way burning it is carbon neutral.
306.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
So ? What fraction of the accounts calling for further lockdown are bots ?
307.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
>make himself look cleverer than he is Which is a pity because he's clever enough already. His blog post about existential threats was good enough, if long winded.
308.
▲
by
ovi256
6y ago
>poison the atmosphere every day with a car So you won't mind electric cars then, which fix that problem ?
309.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
>rotten and antisocial business model What's rotten and antisocial about providing cheap, reliable transportation ?
310.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis concluding with, if we can't allow untrained minds unlimited access to internet media without them breaking, we'll have to either limit access to internet mass media or limit what that media b
311.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Kubernetes is an open-source project inspired by Borg, not a proprietary product like the examples given by GP.
312.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
>we in the future see politicans limiting number of aircrafts / year I get that this is a limitation you agree with, but if you agree with the idea of politicians limiting things people want (flights and travel are things people wan
313.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
The composability of Unix tools still amazes me! Great job.
314.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
It's worth taking a look at livegrep (Try it here: https://livegrep.com/search/linux ) as an alternative to your git provider's code search. Quoting patio11: "I intend to boot up a livegrep instance on th
315.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
>As a layperson it feels to me like research in the "megadose on vitamins to prevent illness" area is kind of tainted by the legacy of Linus Pauling You're completely right, biochemists and medical chemists know fully well
316.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Yeah, but a MIDI controller has fixed button, knob and display positions. We need a new form MIDI controller with movable button and knob and LED placement. Then one could make a physical MIDI controller for any MI software instrument by pl
317.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Refresh then stop quickly before the js is loaded.
318.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
That may very well be because the datasets are not large enough to densely cover the underlying data distribution - which is what these current deep learning models need. Francois Chollet talked about it on Twitter and in some of his papers
319.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Niland is an unincorporated area, so there's no city, and he probably never asked the county for a permit. Without a complaint, the county department won't investigate, they have too much to do. And what asshole goes to make a com
320.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Deep learning can be used for many interesting things, like computer vision applications. Even visual odometry and SLAM, necessary for AR, can be solved through DL. I, for one, can't wait to have something in a raspberry Pi form and p
321.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
If you're a hacker interested in SQL and OLAP, you might enjoy Greenspun's (he of of Greenspun's tenth rule fame) writings on these subjects: https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/data-warehousing.html https
322.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
They've only shown it works in limited conditions, in vitro. Even with the urgency of an ongoing epidemic, there's a lot of work to turn this into a supplyable treatment.
323.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Well, that would be 18 months after the VP that championed the acquisition has been promoted and moved on.
324.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Exactly, sudoku can be solved with classical CV through OpenCV, see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR66rMS_ZfA He's using a CNN for digit recognition.
325.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Imagine how much worse other popular programming languages' tooling is, given Golang is constantly praised as having great tooling. When integrating into a new dev team, half the work is grokking their local tooling choices. In an ecos
326.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
Re "CA DMV's autonomous vehicle accident reports for 2019.[1] Cruise has a lot of them." Cruise has just put up a post dismissing the disengagement metric. It seems to me they're on a PR campaign to keep funding coming.
327.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
That's only true in some limited cases. Section 4.1 of the paper he linked discusses extensively the limitations of linear model interpretability. Here's an example: "With respect to algorithmic transparency, [the claim that
328.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
>Won't some candidates simply be too complex and unstable to reliably produce using existing mammalian or baculovirus platforms? You can add that to the objecting function that your model training function is optimizing, ensuring mo
329.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
>Aren't lives more valuable? Surprisingly, not always. Ask your actuary or an economist. On a more individual scale, many of us are not spending their every waking moment doing their utmost to save lives - did you have a lunchbreak
330.
▲
by
ovi256
7y ago
And Congress ruled that tomato pizza sauce is a vegetable for nutritional purposes. Don't you feel well legislated ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/did-congr...
More ›