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Re:Ask HN: Best open source Copilot alternative in VSCode? on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:17AM (#39239304)
Which of these are OS?
Re:Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare? on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:27AM (#38497008)
$20 to stop a big tech company allowing attacking you from their network they are responsible for?
Re:My ranking of the best numbers from 0-100 on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:15AM (#37982166)
Many good ones, agreed – but shouldn't be 6 on 66? Or 66 on 6? And of course 42 much more in front – it's 101010, dude!
Re:“Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:38AM (#37494907)
…and this time they are for real !!!!11!!1!!!1!eleven
Learn programming
Yeah, I really waited for a machine which steals my job by providing great code like:

   for p in bn.parents:
     if p not in bn.parents:
       take_over_the_world()
…
Just a further note: "AI" is a completely misleading name. No one (sane) in the "AI" business thinks of it as being intelligent. It's just automated statistics (it IS probabilistic) which can find patterns in data. So an An A' pattern won't fit. Also it usually has much less than a single hundred layers.
Yes, like said. Also I did not see your first draft of writing before. First which comes to my mind when seeing it: It seems you are not referencing any existing work of scientists, which will be a large caveat for many, because that is like science works – enhance what others have done, prove your starting or side points of your arguments by citing what others found, do not do everything from scratch. Don't write about what you think something is like (e.g. NN), but prove it is like that by citing the right sources, which you have read.
Not strictly for review, but for serious publishing: https://arxiv.org
This is just some template helper, nothing with AI techniques…
AI is just statistics. It is neither intelligent, nor does it know anything. Especially not what your program wants to do, or in what kind input is needed.

If you got it somehow trained on 30,000 calculator GUIs it still might get a working calculator GUI out, but that would be much more effort than just doing it normally. And it could never generalize it to other programs, especially not to new ones, where no training base exists.

At an overall C19 prevalence of ~33% in the UK, it is not surprising, that 10-20% of children who there are among the hepatitis cases tested positive for SARS-Cov-2. Wondering why they take this into account at all for their explanation tries, for the UK. Still the Israeli cases might point stronger in that direction with 11/12 cases showing C19 has been there.

Checking might so still be a good idea.

Re:Ask HN: Recommended Books on Physics? on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:34AM (#31292380)
Physics for Scientists and Engineers Paul A. Tipler; Gene Mosca

https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/product/Physics...

That article is wrong. It cites sources as wannabe proof for things (e.g. UK would deliver heavy weapons), that do not talk about that. Just a FUD article probably spawned by putin's pigs, to tear Ukraine friends apart.
Do you know this OS named Linux? Respective the easy copy & paste of the X window system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection#Clipboard) and Wayland (https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection)?

Or du you know the secret feature 'source code viweing' of browsers?

Besides that – where is the use case of your extension?

Re:Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:31AM (#29976559)
Results depend heavily on which speech files you use. You can even guess which it was, looking at the errors it makes.
Re:Ask HN: How should I find a wife? on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:08AM (#29976402)
4) most marriages occur with people who know each other from workplace
Re:Ask HN: German HN or Techmeme? on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:45AM (#29850431)
Nicht dass ich wüsste, tut mir leid… heise.de und golem.de sind vielleicht als technikorientierte Seiten interessant. Heise betreibt auch die deutsche Version von Technology Review, und Telepolis; eine Plattform die mehr in Richtung Nachrichten zur Gesellschaftsentwicklung geht (sollte aber kritisch gelesen werden, da zum Teil ein paar 'ungewöhnliche' Ansichten vertreten werden).
The existing tool is called `grep`.
No idea how these fakers get away with this all the time – must be something quasi-religious or so, at their fanbase.
If you want to judge the situation, you have to take relative numbers, related to vaccination state. Then you will see, that a much higher percentage of unvaccinated people get Covid-19 and Omicron, and the vaccinated people are much safer.
The Twitter account this links to does not use real numbers – it is pure fake.

* the daily cases report¹ of the RKI shows strictly raising cases of Omicron, but as of today (03.01.2022) a maximum of 19.9 (per 100k inhabitants, total cases in the last reported week: 274, that is 10% of all Covid-19 cases) – the linked Twitter message shows a completely wrong number "41"

* the weekly report² of the RKI does not mention general Omicron rates of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated at all, neither does any of the from there linked resources. (The in the Twitter message marked text shows some numbers, but these are only a partial excerpt of all cases over all time, where for many cases – 35% – no status info exists at all. They can not be used for calculating what the author proposes.)

* even if you could use that excerpt; the numbers in the graphic the author created, do not even add up to be valid among each other (e.g. "fully (2 or 3 dose)" is smaller than "2 dose"), and do not even reflect the proportion of the wanna-be source (the marked text), which e.g. would show there would be less re-infected state than unvaccinated – again: still the marked text is no usable source at all.

So this is pure fake news from the liar @holmenkollin…

Also the other counterfeited graphs, by another liar @10p8atriot, shown further below in the post, do really suck in 'counterfeiting quality', e.g. more than halving the unvaccinated cases, and adding some 1-vaccinations from April to June which do not at all exist in the data, which can be easily checked at the given source: https://data.gov.il/dataset/covid-19/resource/9b623a64-f7df-... whereof the real graph looks like this: https://ibb.co/f2SjmwP

No idea how these fakers get away with this all the time – must be something quasi-religious or so, at their fanbase.

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[1] daily cases report of the RKI: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

[2] weekly report of the RKI, 30.12.2021: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

For what else is the reply function, if not for asking deeper, when (parts of) answers do not seem to be really reasonable?
At least for EU people this will be better starting from 2022: Where you can make an online contract, online cancellation must be at least as easy as buying the things, with just a simple click on a button.
By the way: It's 2021, and especially then people should be able to use web pages, and to place an icon on their HomeScreen, and should not fall for the hype of collecting apps, with (nearly) no sense at all ;-)
I personally can not judge many things, like the performance, that's why I am asking in so (too) much detail for anything. Do you have a link to the IKEA case by the hand, maybe? Was it more an 'we want everything to move all the time, so phones are too slow' problem, probably including 'we load ways too much unnecessary stuff' on their web page, or what drove them moving back?

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