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Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:08AM (#49429674)
Sign a petition rising this issue: https://www.change.org/p/stop-destroying-eu-micro-businesses... (75k signatures already)
Re:How to prevent Lyme disease this summer on Saturday April 27, 2024 @02:02AM (#40177660)
Taking antibiotics after every random bite is overkill. Antibiotics overuse is a serious issue for your body and for the general antibiotics resistance as well.

When the tick is attached less than 24 hours it won't transmit Lyme disease according to the CDC. I check myself every evening after outdoor activities, remove 10-20 ticks every year and knock-knock never had Lyme disease yet.

I wasn't aware of the permethrin effectiveness though. Thanks for letting us know.

Re:Understanding Deep Learning on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:44AM (#38433601)
I can highly recommend the author. His last book "Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference" is very readable, approaches the matter from unorthodox viewpoints + includes lot of excellent figures supporting the text. I'm buying this on paper!
Re:Collection of open source computer vision algorithms on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:57AM (#34801551)
The code is mostly licensed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. The project is probably financed by SenseTime, but it's not clearly stated anywhere.
You could use the front TrueDepth sensor that is behind FaceID unlocking. You will get quite detailed RGB + depth data. It could possibly capture even the subtle movements of upper chest.

see Steffen Urban, Thomas Lindemeier, David Dobbelstein, Matthias Haenel, "On the Issues of TrueDepth Sensor Data for Computer Vision Tasks Across Different iPad Generations" and Andreas Breitbarth, Timothy Schardt, Cosima Kind, Julia Brinkmann, Paul-Gerald Dittrich, Gunther Notni, "Measurement accuracy and dependence on external influences of the iPhone X TrueDepth sensor".

Re:TV backlight compensation (2020) on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:14AM (#33105793)
Otsu's method finds a single threshold value in an adaptive way. This can't solve a scanned document thresholding problem.

btw: The iOS Notes app has quite a capable document scanning tool. It's cleverly hidden though.

AI and ML: Simon J.D. Prince; Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference. Thorough book with unorthodox explanations and great figures. The book is very pleasant to read. I'm eagerly awaiting new book on Deep Learning from the same author.
I've tried BentoML recently and it worked for me far better than torchserve workflows. There are some early version flaws (documentation, changing API), but the community is very responsive on Github and on BentoML Slack.

btw: BentoML stands on its own legs and definitely doesn't need HN spam accounts to propagate it.

Re:Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked? on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:15PM (#29706850)
I wonder how secure is the Firefox solution vs LastPass and others.
Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:06AM (#24967728)
I would say that this applies to most of the companies with hundreds of millions of users. The account flagging needs to be automated and there is still some fraction of false positives. The appeal process is not easy because the false positive users are intermixed with bad actors. The human time dealing with the appeals is limited due to the sheer numbers of users.

For me the solution is to use a paid service or a free service at smaller business where employee/user ratio is better.

Re:Civilization VI UI, but made in Webflow (a no-code tool) on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:36AM (#24294699)
I fear that this is going to be encountered more and more often:

Message Box: Before you dig in, note that while sites built in Webflow work in all modern browsers, we don’t actively support use of the Designer in Mozilla Firefox. For the best experience, use the Designer in Chrome or Safari. If you’d like to see us support this browser, let us know about any bugs you run into. Happy designing!