simontheowl

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by simontheowl 3mo ago
Honestly, I don't know why this is such a big deal for people. There is no right for anonymous free speech, just free speech. The idea that you should be able to do everything anonymously is certainly nothing that I've seen in the
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by simontheowl 7mo ago
Does this model include things like how slippery the road is, or head wind/ cross wind. Or is it only visual / depth model?
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by simontheowl 2y ago
Very cool - definitely an important missing feature in SQlite.
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by simontheowl 3y ago
Synology NAS - works great, scalable.
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by simontheowl 3y ago
This whole blog is just a regurgitation of surface-level wikipedia knowledge. All of these issues are very well known in the industry. Asking to solve all of them, perfectly, at once, is clear indication of someone who's never done pro
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by simontheowl 3y ago
Gigapixel AI works fantastic ( https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai ) and has a perpetual license.
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by simontheowl 3y ago
A lot of these large companies spend millions of dollars recruiting participants from various demographics to test prototypes and fine-tune technologies like this. It's a tremendous effort.
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by simontheowl 3y ago
100$ /month is nothing for someone who makes a living doing this. And tbh, the value-add is arguably a lot more than that.
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by simontheowl 3y ago
I had similar thoughts for a while. What helped me was instead of aiming to make all of the time outside work productive (3-4 hours) just aim for under an hour. For me, 40 min of producitivity per day outside of work makes me feel accomplis
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Ask HN: What in your opinion makes or breaks a corporate mentorship program?
2 points by simontheowl 3y ago|2 comments
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by simontheowl 3y ago
What's interesting is that the trend in "Average Weighted Accuracy" seems to increase linearly in the past three years whereas the number of model parameters and required compute is growing exponentially. So accuracy is prett
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by simontheowl 4y ago
By that logic, the lego sets we buy for our kids should also be the cost of plastic ;)
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by simontheowl 4y ago
Same is unfortunately true for a lot of Eastern European music. There are thousands of great soviet recordings of various classical and folk pieces that have never been digitized. And the current atmosphere over there is not honed in on pre
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Ask HN: Has anyone read a child development book that they particularly liked?
2 points by simontheowl 4y ago|2 comments
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by simontheowl 4y ago
A large reason why these are aimed for scientific missions is because the single photon detectors utilized for receiving these transmissions are still incredibly expensive. They are basically liquid-helium cooled arrays of nanowires (SNSPDs
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by simontheowl 4y ago
For most companies, you can tell them what your expected salary range is during the first round of phone screens or meetings - no need to wait till the end. The HR represenative should be able to tell you right there and then whether they a
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Lumafield startup offers affordable 3D X-Ray imaging to engineers(prnewswire.com)
3 points by simontheowl 4y ago|0 comments
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by simontheowl 4y ago
For those of you who already have a favorite pair of nice earbuds, I suggest checking out ADV ( https://www.adv-sound.com/pages/ciem ). They are able to manufacture a custom-fit sleeve for a lot of existing earbuds and a
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60% of Russian missiles fail in the field(reuters.com)
8 points by simontheowl 4y ago|9 comments
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Novartis receives FDA approval for novel radioligand therapy drug(reuters.com)
1 points by simontheowl 4y ago|0 comments
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Russia to punish ‘fake news’ about Ukraine war with 15 years’ jail(thetimes.co.uk)
303 points by simontheowl 5y ago|270 comments
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by simontheowl 6y ago
I think another thing that is often overlooked is that a project like this requires a ton of very diverse hardware in the form of hundreds or maybe thousands of sensors, valves, PLCs etc. A rocket launch site reminds me a lot of an industri
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by simontheowl 8y ago
Here's a great report from the National Academy on progress in quantum computing https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25196/quantum-computing-progress...