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gfd

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    I don't mind revealing my alts since none of them seem to link back to my main. But the top 4 results were all correct for me: https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=gfd&threshold=20…

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    Comment #36236543

    Airgradient's kit has CO2!

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    Comment #36230498

    Can someone summarize how it achieves "provable correctness"?

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    Comment #36230253

    It's weird how much worse google is at code generation when AlphaCode was already so much stronger than gpt4 today at code generation a year ago: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/comp…

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    Comment #36051655

    i used opencv.js a few years ago and it was fast enough to process videos frame by frame for stuff way more complicated than just floodfill. See https://docs.opencv.org/4.7.0/d5/d1…

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    Comment #35712704

    nsfw if you have hn as referrer. copy and paste instead

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    Comment #35599361

    For skin, retinoids seem to work well. You can order one called Differin w/o prescription

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    Comment #35552560

    >But I don't think they'll end up being the engineer that builds Google's competition to ChatGPT OpenAI has a lot of strong competition programmers. Search IOI or ICPC in their tea…

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    Comment #35430901

    Monitor arms freed up a ton of desk space. Wireless noise cancelling headphones helped with concentration. UPS saved me a couple times from losing work during power outages.

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    Comment #35327527

    Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675015 https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671

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    Comment #35298240

    Topcoder will also be having their final TCO this year: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/113201 Google Code Jam and TCO were the two biggest onsite competitive programming event t…

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    Comment #35293888

    Google's business model is entirely based off the fact that search is great for signaling intent, and that is great for selling ads. A personalized AI assistant goes WAY beyond tha…

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    Comment #35274962

    Sounds like a pretty tough job due to the lack of pattern. Either you have to follow a template or you run the risk of randomly tiling something that can't actually be extended fur…

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    Comment #35200918

    According to https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/2550/what-are-the-... median rating is 1148 (252,989 Players). So it's beating half of humanity at a mind sport and it wasn't…

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    Comment #35199414

    I used to believe that the world is lazily loaded. That means the first moment I see something (e.g., a world map) is the point where all the past history to consistently explain t…

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    Comment #34964265

    As someone who don't understand linear separability (at least in the way you're using it), can you explain?

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    Comment #34960180

    I remember my old android phone would pick up IR as a purpleish color: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d8d68a82c1ec4b4975b8e... I wonder if it's possible to make it bright e…

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    Comment #34884993

    A good chunk of them were from small blogs or mom and pop shops. They don't always have one click unsubscribe, especially the ones in other languages (I think requiring unsubscribe…

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    Comment #34871968

    awful thing about these kinds of attacks is that your inbox never really recovers. these unsuspecting services/blogs will keep sending you emails forever thinking you actually want…

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    Comment #34869926

    At that budget, you can just get an air purifier with built in monitoring. Though usually those only detect particulate matter since air purifiers don't really help with CO2, etc.

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    Comment #34869327

    Does anyone feel like the style of searching they learned from that era are actively being punished nowadays? I used to get pretty good results just by just listing out keywords wi…

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    Comment #34839493

    Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/10gtbrm/la...

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    Comment #34811023

    If you're familiar with vtubers (streamers who use anime style avatars), there are actually now AI vtubers. Interaction with chat is indeed pretty funny. Here's a clip of human vtu…

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    Comment #34777182

    A message "optimizer". I do this by hand a lot right now where I would draft a message with what I really want to say in plain english, then I have to go back and rewrite the whole…