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by vosper 3y ago
It’s abandoned
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by vosper 3y ago
> It's not a new market, it has existed for more than 10 years, and it is a micro-niche market. So were smartphones before the iPhone. Sure, some people had a Blackberry. But now _everyone_ has a smartphone.
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by vosper 3y ago
> Go players have DECREASED their ELO after playing AlphaGo (or just quit the game altogether) Can you explain this for someone unfamiliar with the game?
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by vosper 3y ago
I think that falls under >> Pump the revenue however possible
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by vosper 3y ago
> Elon and Andrej Karpathy argued that since humans can drive using just vision, that’s how we should do it in self driving cars I thought their argument was a little more like “since roads are designed for human vision, we should take a
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by vosper 3y ago
Scuttlebutt (aka mac rumour articles) mostly now say end of this year or sometime next year for M3.
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by vosper 3y ago
> No. Making a single copy for your own use is still a copyright violation. In some jurisdictions, perhaps, but not in all of them. There isn't one set of universal copyright law in the world. Eg in New Zealand you are allowed to ma
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by vosper 3y ago
Thanks! I haven't heard of LayoutLM but something that can understand structure from a few examples could be just what I need.
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by vosper 3y ago
Possibly like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315782
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by vosper 3y ago
If you want to OCR specific text you can use Textsniper on Mac and draw a box on whatever part of the screen you want to capture. I'm guessing under the hood it's just using Apple's OCR tech, which does work very well (at lea
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by vosper 3y ago
Yeah crowd-sourcing updates is the way I'd like to go. I'm hoping people will submit photos of menus, because lots of bakeries, cafés etc don't have much of an online presence or keep their menus up-to-date. Trying to solve t
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by vosper 3y ago
I want to build an application that scans restaurant and café menus (PDFs, photos, webpages) to identify which items are vegetarian or vegan. Would this work for that? If not, I would love to hear peoples ideas and suggestions.
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by vosper 3y ago
> Sane drivers don't do it just randomly in perfectly safe situations You can't always assume that you will be able to tell when a situation has turned from safe to unsafe. You just can't exactly see what the driver in fro
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by vosper 3y ago
Thanks!
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by vosper 3y ago
I'm confused by this link - it seems like a bit of a mish-mash of notes (to be fair, it is their wiki). Are they archiving Reddit, or not? It seems like mostly they were linking to Pushshift, and now that entry is struck through.
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by vosper 3y ago
A weird thing about SO is that you can accumulate privileges for doing nothing. I once answered a question about Python which has accumulated thousands of votes/points over the years, and now I have been granted all these editing right
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by vosper 3y ago
> You've clearly never heard of building inspection drones. Maybe they haven't (also, you're being kind of aggressive here - why?) but I think most likely the people building these weapons have. Just because the article do
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by vosper 3y ago
Fox News isn’t a newspaper
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by vosper 3y ago
Having used both in production, I agree with the above. It's not going to make or break your business or project. I will also add that their are giant companies relying on both databases with great success. Facebook still runs on MySQL
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by vosper 3y ago
> We've been using similar architecture at Yahoo for many years now. At all of Yahoo? I imagined such a big company would have a variety of front-end frameworks and patterns.
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by vosper 3y ago
Rocket Lab's success has basically nothing to do with Jacinda Ardern?
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by vosper 3y ago
> OpenAI faces the existential risk, not Google. Yes, but the quickest way for anyone to get themselves to state-of-the-art is to buy OpenAI. Their existential risk is whether they continue to be (semi)independent, not whether they shutd
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by vosper 3y ago
Have you tried asking ChatGPT? That’s where all my technical questions start these days. In the past few days it’s helped me with a bunch of k8s stuff (“explain this coredns log message”, “give me the kubectl command to show all events sort
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by vosper 3y ago
Why bother doing it that way? Just to entertain people who works like to observe the commit history as the language evolves?
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by vosper 3y ago
My understanding is the XTDB is either a fork of Datomic, or was inspired by it? I suppose it's timely, given the top story on HN right now is "Datomic is Free" [0] Is there anyone who's familiar with both and would like
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by vosper 3y ago
"very important" isn't a label in the results table. Here's the results, for the lazy. It uses a scale from 1-5 where (1) is labelled "Not important at all" and (5) is labelled "Extremely important".
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by vosper 4y ago
Working fine in New Zealand
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by vosper 4y ago
If NPR moves anywhere it's more likely to be something like post.news than Mastodon. I predict they'll be back on Twitter within a few weeks. Twitter's gravity is still too intense to escape, especially for media orgs and jou
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by vosper 4y ago
> 1. Lock in -> A database change is hard to do even for extremely focused tech companies. For companies whose core business is not technology, it might not even make sense to bother. Just to back this up - it took Amazon years to com
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by vosper 4y ago
Does it? If I pour some water through a funnel I get the same amount out the other end.

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