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by super256 4y ago
> That being said, is the Lena picture still being frequently used? Because I don't recall seeing it that often lately anymore It's not part of the SIPI image db since 2017/2018; hence it is getting less frequently used. P
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by super256 4y ago
> What are the reasons for not distributing anymore the other ones? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19182497
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by super256 4y ago
Erotica =/= Porn
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by super256 4y ago
This is very confusing, I don’t even know what vaults are. Can someone ELI5?
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by super256 4y ago
Currency manipulation? Do you mean when their central bank is buying dollar assets?
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by super256 4y ago
Thank you, this is really interesting :)
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by super256 4y ago
Looked good at the first sight, but at the second: the list only has 7 pages of very recent history. It looks like the oldest item in the list is 3 days old. These are “irrelevant” release announcements that had no time to make history yet.
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Ask HN: Is there a curated list of *notable HN submissions/comments?
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by super256 4y ago
> Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope? My favorite hoster for years has been Vultr.com Other alternatives would be UpCloud and DigitalOcean, I
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by super256 4y ago
> In engineering environments, logic is king. You need to be able to tell an engineer that their rocket designs will not fly and put ego's aside. In software(!) engineering opinions are important though.
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by super256 4y ago
I would actually prefer VW to not add tracking capabilities to the car in the first place.
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ProofNet: Autoformalizing and Formally Proving Undergraduate-Level Mathematics(arxiv.org)
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by super256 4y ago
> Why would I spend $200 on some software one time when it will become obsolete within a couple years? Or maybe I only use it a few times. I spent 80€ on Strongbox, and I think it was a similar amount for canarymail lifetime. Strongbox i
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by super256 4y ago
A bit OT, but I fell in love with Japanese android flip phones this week. Look at this wonderful Kyocera: https://imgur.com/a/qiZUHkm // https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/kyocer
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by super256 4y ago
> And no, there is no slippery slope here. Many European countries have well-designed, robust hate speech bans that have worked well for decades to protect freedom against those who would destroy it. The country where I live only banned
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by super256 4y ago
> I almost agree. But there seems to be speech that should be forbidden, like threats of physical violence. I would not ban that either. However, if you decide to make a serious threat, which takes a significant amount of energy , like
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by super256 4y ago
Complex SQL requires knowledge about relational algebra (Cartesian products, set theory, domain relational calculus yada yada) and understanding of how RDBMS and their query planners work. At least, if performance is important to you. I don
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by super256 4y ago
I never typed in the full http link of a dependency by hand. Does anyone do that?
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by super256 4y ago
I posted this because I found it interesting (and especially how HN would react to it), and not because I necessarily agree with it. Especially because I have a 100% disconnect from Australia except that I find Kangaroos funny. I only have
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Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits, not wages(theguardian.com)
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by super256 4y ago
> TikTok is suggesting it could read people’s emotions I assume that isn’t too hard for a company which has a big and well labeled dataset? I’m pretty confident that Spotify knows exactly when I’m sad, because at those times I like to li
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by super256 4y ago
> tutorial and "news" videos spoken by "AI" voices on youtube That is already happening without AL. Just copypaste from Stackoverflow + TTS. https://youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar?feature=shares
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by super256 4y ago
> we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open. We already can? Just take a look at the make
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Types of Highway Interchanges(en.wikipedia.org)
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The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective(arxiv.org)
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by super256 4y ago
Related discussion with 66 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707055
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by super256 4y ago
I enjoyed "Papers, please", FEZ and Pokémon SS (via Retroarch) on iOS/iPadOS. But I wouldn't game any action games on iOS either. The point where I have to use a game pad is where I'd just go to an actual PC or cons
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by super256 4y ago
Regarding that Mozilla and Google now work on their own browser engines for iOS I get the feeling that Kagi should drop Orion and maybe work on their own mail thingy or something else. But what do I know?
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I think it’s important to mention Palantir in this context.
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> It's worse. 2FA is optional and SMS code is the first (and default) auth method. This will be changed on Saturday. Got the following message about API changes last week: https://telegra.ph/Telegram-API-Changes-02-

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