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by zuzun 3y ago
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.
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by zuzun 3y ago
Flies easily fly through the window if it's substantially brighter than the room.
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by zuzun 3y ago
The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.
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by zuzun 3y ago
It's already happening. For example, ECMWF provides experimental forecasts by their own deep learning model, plus models from Deepmind, NVIDIA, and Huawai.
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by zuzun 3y ago
They perform several model runs with slightly different configurations and then compare the predictions to a reference period, currently 1991-2020. When they say "above average", most model runs fell in the upper tercile of the re
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by zuzun 3y ago
If anyone is interested in these seasonal forecasts, all major meteorological institutes upload theirs to https://www.wmolc.org , with new predictions coming out every month.
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by zuzun 3y ago
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. I finished it yesterday. It's a collection of articles the author wrote for The New Yorker around the middle of the last century. The stories are portraits of weird, eccentric people and peculiar
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by zuzun 3y ago
If I understand it correctly, you are only attending preceding tokens in your paper. Can the constant bias matrix be made symmetric for unmasked tasks?
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by zuzun 4y ago
They still publish all their data free of charge and are required to do so by law. For weather forecast, they dump all parameters of their recent model runs. So I guess I'm saying that you can already build such a system yourself quite
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by zuzun 4y ago
The expensive stuff still bears the trademark of the brand, the lead designer, or the collection. It's more subtle, but ultimately the reason why people buy it. And some brands really just sell the logo at a high price, like Hermes or
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by zuzun 4y ago
It's necessary to keep them sortable at byte level.
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by zuzun 4y ago
JPEG doesn't support transparency.
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by zuzun 4y ago
My rule of thumb is that once I start writing imperative LaTeX with loops and stuff, I'm almost always on the wrong path. Now, I might be missing some important corner cases, but by skimming through the blog post, I feel like the autho
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by zuzun 4y ago
> dynamic snapping This release adds alignment and distribution snapping, it's mentioned in the full release notes: https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inksc...
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by zuzun 4y ago
Oof. Editorial illustrators are about to get automated.
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by zuzun 5y ago
Unlike nuclear power plants.
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by zuzun 5y ago
So basically modern Google without ads.
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by zuzun 5y ago
So cash not only grants people freedom and anonymity, it also creates local jobs instead of moving money as arbitrary transaction fees into the pockets of a credit card duopoly? Sounds terrible.
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by zuzun 5y ago
Also a Goosebumps book where the kids discover someone living in their school like this.
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by zuzun 5y ago
Memory safety is optional in Rust. It might not be obvious at the moment, because Rust is written by enthusiasts who enjoy fighting with the compiler until their code compiles, but once developers will be forced to use it on their jobs with
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by zuzun 5y ago
The GDPR is a sensible legislation and no amount of FUD can change that. If you can't explain what you are doing with personal data, you shouldn't be allowed to handle it. You are also confusing legislation with rulings. GDPR says
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by zuzun 5y ago
The easiest fix would be to have reasonable privacy laws in the US.
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by zuzun 5y ago
The problem is that the designers of small icons already work with pixel-snapping and for complex graphics, dumb quantization will look and compress no worse. If you want to work on path optimization, improve Inkscape's path simplifica
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by zuzun 5y ago
I must admit, I didn't consider that many US companies are incorporated in Delaware and otherwise hide their whereabouts. I checked the certificates of my bank and my tax authority and both provide sufficient information, which makes
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by zuzun 5y ago
I don't see what's fundamentally wrong with EV certificates, as long as the certificate authorities do the proper verification. The certificates contain more than just the business name, so I think the criticism should be directed
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by zuzun 5y ago
That's how it's done in Germany since the beginning of the year. Paying a price or providing personal data gives the consumer the same rights now.
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by zuzun 5y ago
Scraping protection. Advanced anti-bot measures. Defending them in CF thread is usually popular on HN, I'm shocked I'm losing my karma here.
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by zuzun 5y ago
HN and Algolia should block his script with captchas.
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by zuzun 5y ago
It's per claimant. That would be a $15bn Equifax settlement.
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by zuzun 5y ago
You can get the web fonts below 20 KB each if you subset them. You can also check if they are present on the system with `local()` before `url()` in the font-face declaration. You could also give the Apple system fonts a higher priority tha

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