angry_cactus
Re:Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System
on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:23PM (#34154029)
Everything else aside, iPhones are more protected on an OPSEC level.
Re:Why Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships
on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:08PM (#33198841)
Maybe "these species may not be around forever"
In win for planetary defense, NASA mission successfully nudges asteroid orbit
Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator
Sound reveals giant blue whales dance with the wind to find food
Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India
on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:40PM (#33100339)
The article said
> But Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it would take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China, where roughly 98% of the company’s iPhones have been made.
98% of the iPhones that have been made already, not 98% of iPhones currently being made. So the percentage is probably somewhat lower as of present.
New request for comments on improving NPM security with Sigstore is now open
Microsoft Azure selected as cloud partner for Unity to power 3D experiences
Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:54PM (#26189482)
I just comment out the old code while working on the new version. Surprised this isn't the obvious answer.
Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:26AM (#23065127)
Opposite direction? Same direction as the poster above, just in different language.
Re:A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
on Sunday April 19, 2020 @11:11PM (#22920815)
Yeah that was a bit silly, even saying something as basic as PowerPoint or Excel would have been better.
Re:Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema
on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:23AM (#22887296)
Not sure of the exact motivation, but Swift uses exclamation mark to unwrap optionals.
Re:The Epic Online Orchestra
on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:52PM (#22799392)
This is amazing! What is the license for the exported samples?
Re:Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password man...
on Saturday March 28, 2020 @09:39PM (#22715672)
Bitwarden gets recommended so much on Hacker News that it feels kind of like astroturfing.
That being said, I use Bitwarden and it's great.
Re:The Rise of SQL-Based Data Modeling
on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:14AM (#22191380)
Google Trends confirms, even MongoDB is only a fraction of SQL.
Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:03AM (#22191327)
And because of the "separate sites" approach to mobile web development. Good for some media-focused applications, but usually the separate mobile site has an oversimplified interface that can't be zoomed in or out.
Re:Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (2017)
on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:46AM (#22152289)
> People with engineering mindsets were in urban (non-farm) areas.
Many early engineers of the Industrial Revolution were farmers though, such as Jethro Tull.
Re:The Periodic Table of Videos
on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:11AM (#21871234)
Periodic Table of Videos is a classic. Most high quality and informative videos in the first decade of YouTube probably.
Re:Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction
on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:07AM (#21871220)
Arguably the neural net is the leakiest of all abstractions. Inputting enough data, preventing overfitting. Not having a human readable implementation because of the computer figured it out with brute force. Those are all complex details leaking out of the abstraction. Machine learning has its uses in processing large amounts of data, but it is the opposite of a designed algorithm with self-contained abstractions.
Re:Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction
on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:58AM (#21871183)
Because of the confidence in a very random and particular statement.
Re:History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save...
on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:36AM (#21543271)
Surprised the article doesn't mention Isaac Asimov's Foundation in which psychohistorians try to predict the future with mathematics, similar to Turchin's idea.
Re:Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature
on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:56PM (#20891394)
Seemingly random studies in biology can have unexpected benefits. Studying gecko toes led to the invention of a super-adhesive. https://geckskin.umass.edu/
Gamasutra – How an injured dev learned to make games without using his hands
Re:This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed...
on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @01:47AM (#18799281)
Local maximum instead of global maximum. In order to become more fit, it would have to temporarily decrease its fitness and thus is stuck in a dead end. More mutation or larger population size in that specific simulation might solve the issue.