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Re:These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump on Friday February 09, 2024 @06:55PM (#39321976)
15 SEER relates to cooling efficiency, what is its HSPF rating?
Re:Threads, an Instagram App on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:09AM (#36582451)
just need a "follow who you followed on twitter" feature
Re:Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:02PM (#28919647)
While I agree the partition syntax may not be super straightforward, adding a new operator for another way to sort, sum, and abs etc. seems like chaos
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:04AM (#28070063)
There have been numerous studies showing that 2 doses elicits higher antibody responses than natural immunity alone, here's an example of one:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01325-6

Re:Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioNTech for d... on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:52PM (#27751132)
I don't quite understand the "censorship" argument. Of course governments and public health officials are going to push the most effective tools we have to save as many lives as possible.

What is censorship in this case? Not spreading debunked or poorly-supported claims?

True censorship would've been something like keeping hush the rare blood-clotting incidents with J&J. But there are so many studies across so many countries that are freely available to read and be informed by.

Even the claims of twitter/other social media censoring don't hold water for me. Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary proof imo

Re:Tensorflow 2.0 on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:10PM (#21120144)
https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/#!topic/dev...

Ah I guess it's on the way but not fully there yet

Re:Tensorflow 2.0 on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:30PM (#21119387)
Core ML 3 adds a ton of new operations, including control flow support.

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/whats-new-in-core-ml-3-d108d352e5...

Re:Tensorflow 2.0 on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:24PM (#21119338)
They're (slowly) making this better. Starting with 1.15, there is only one tensorflow pip package, no tensorflow/tensorflow-gpu hell any longer.
Re:Tensorflow 2.0 on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:23PM (#21119331)
> This is also the last major release of multi-backend Keras. Going forward, we recommend that users consider switching their Keras code to tf.keras in TensorFlow 2.0

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/2.3.0

Re:Why Medium Sucks on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:53AM (#20115726)
I would love to see Medium profiles untethered from the actual medium site itself.

I love that you can post on your "personal" page, another publisher and not need to make a new account.

Are there any solutions out there that let you keep a consistent profile across multiple blogs?

Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:48AM (#18351524)
What many of the comments seem to be missing is that you don't need to enable javascript on all google sites, only the sign-in page. With that in mind, I don't think there needs to be as much concern as we're seeing here.
Re:PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:58PM (#18196575)
I might not be understanding correctly, but it doesn't seem like you're being paid for the content you're hosting on PeerTube.

The model feels different than a webserver where you are either hosting your own content (and paying for that) or charging others to host their content on your server. Or am I misunderstanding?

Re:PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:42PM (#18196450)
Seems like a great idea, but not much activity (from what I can see). How is this model sustainable? Do I have any incentive to setup a PeerTube server?
Re:Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:32PM (#18196354)
2FA security aside, it really is remarkable how Jared was able to talk the hacker down. We seem to really undervalue those sorts of social skills. Jared's one conversation could have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars (for himself and others).
Re:iOS 12 Core ML Benchmarks on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:21PM (#18088206)
It's my understanding that the neural engine API wasn't actually exposed to Core ML until the iPhone XS. The GPU is the important factor for performance of those models
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it? on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:40PM (#17499715)
Syncing smaller databases between devices seems to be the best use case of CouchDB.

However, Couch is extremely difficult to manage at scale, especially when managing indexes on top of documents. The index generation was extremely slow and wasn't able to take advantage of beefier hardware at all. Deploying updates to indexes had to be done extremely carefully as it will rebuild the entire index and lock reads from that index in the meantime.

Iterating through GB of documents takes a wildly long amount of time, especially if other operations such as indexing updates are happening.

Furthermore it had scary failure modes. There were many times that a couch instance would die with documents cached in memory but not yet written to disk, even though couch had returned a successful document write. We found that documents we thought existed were lost forever during this blip.

Re:Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:18PM (#17093274)
You know there's a problem when any prominent crypto figure has to put "not giving away free Eth" in their twitter name to help combat the spam.

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