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Re:How the Heck does Shazam work? on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:29AM (#47872530)
Ayyy I used DTW to track bots on a certain social media site. They tend to act in herds so DTW helps smooth out delayed, repeat actions.
Re:Banned in California on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:55PM (#47159831)
When you read a paragraph you have to read all the sentences in that paragraph.
So how did they get the Greenland shark eyeballs to dissect for the research paper?
Re:Days since last GitHub incident on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:33PM (#46234382)
How can we add AI to this perfectly functional product?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:12PM (#45878116)
I also enjoyed this, great work!
Re:DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS on Monday October 13, 2025 @11:10PM (#45575856)
"A spokesperson for Comcast responded, 'Currently our network is not experiencing impacts and we are able to handle the traffic.'"

In other words, attacks coming from our own IP's are not our problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It may sound obvious to folks who already use a debugger, but in my experience a decent chunk of people don't use them because they just don't know about them.

Spread the good word!

Re:I miss using em dashes on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:09PM (#45098401)
well thats embarrsing
Re:Android 16 Is Here on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:08PM (#44240919)
I love the detailed security features. Exactly what I want in my OS.
As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.
Re:Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022) on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:33PM (#40852737)
oh god I've never hated a game so quickly
Jesus, you manage stress by doing chores?
Re:U.S. students will take the SAT online on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:27PM (#39623615)
oh shit that is a good idea
Right, but what I think they're trying to do is to confirm that the larger, more comprehensive study also applies to Dartmouth. But the fact that they didn't also run the test against other metrics might suggest they didn't want to publish that data publicly.

Or if you're more cynical, they failed to produce those results.

I believe they do look at other things (EDIT: or at least the study this paper was based on did):

"Using detailed admissions data from IvyPlus institutions, Chetty, Deming, and Friedman (2023) show that SAT and ACT scores also predict career success, including high levels of earnings and attendance at elite graduate schools, holding family income constant."

Fraction of the cost, way more interpretable.

Still, I suppose we gotta keep an eye on this kind of work in case there's a tipping point.

Re:Problems on the Galaxy Store on Friday December 08, 2023 @01:27PM (#38572385)
I agree, one of Spotify's big early successes was embracing a Freemium model before other apps did. Really helped establish a userbase.