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Re:Apple Acquires Pixelmator on Saturday November 02, 2024 @06:40AM (#42025446)
Airplane mode leaves WiFi on.
Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) on Saturday October 19, 2024 @10:46AM (#41888058)
For others that, like me, do not know… a Mersenne prime is when the n is prime and the resulting M is also prime in the following equation.

M = 2ⁿ - 1

I’m interested in the structure it created - is that it in the hero image? The article needs to highlight it more! There should be at least a paragraph with a figure of this 75% structure petal looking thing that an Arabian horse could crush.
The article says the video is interpolated with AI. Why can’t we strap a GoPro on there and get some high quality 4K video footage?
> “I don’t want to oversimplify it, but how are you going to fly one [spaceship]? You got to have somebody in it. That seems to be pretty simple,” Burchett said.

“Simple” is not the word I’d use to describe this conclusion.

Re:Zero Point Leet Seconds on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:12AM (#33493450)
Should be .2833333 1337 seconds
Re:A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:47PM (#32205018)
Sucks when there are false positives but I am glad there are efforts to reduce the likelihood a human has to watch and flag a video that could be “revenge porn”. Plenty of threads on the lasting affects of exposure to this type of content on moderators. (for example here’s a HN thread on a Facebook content moderator’s resignation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819883)

Seems like additional signals should play into a confidence score though: how new is your account, what content is your account viewing, etc.

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