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bart__··on DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio
Interesting event, annoyingly bad written AI article
bart__··on Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
I had similar ideas in the past but never made anything. I wanted to have a host mode where it is hosted on a Chromecast. I believe Chromecast can run custom JS so it should be possible. Maybe even rendering on a phone and streaming to the Chromecast. That would make it even more low friction, so nobody needs to get a tablet or laptop out and hook it up to the screen. Would you be interested in adding that? If you'd want I can maybe even help out with implementing it. Maybe somebody mentioned this before but I couldn't find it.
bart__··on Maybe the default settings are too high
The best solution I could think of on the spot was this: First write down every license place until it fills up. Then for each time a car drives by, give it a 1/2 chance to write it down. Moving down the list regardless of the outcome. Then once the bottom is reached, do it again but with 1/3 a chance. Over and over again, decreasing the chance each time.

I checked for which situations it is valid, and it surprisingly was when there are many more cars than the list size. But it is not valid when there are just a few more cars than the list size.

bart__··on Maybe the default settings are too high
Nice statistical problem! I only thought of a solution that is valid for many cars and few worksheet spots. Were you able to fully solve it on the spot?
bart__··on A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com
Certificate Transparency, all CA's log their issued certificates to central log servers, managed by Cloudflare, google etc. If this is not done, the certificate will not be seen as trusted by Browsers. It was designed to have a publicly auditable source of issued certificates, exactly so we can notice rogue google.com certs.
bart__··on Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif...

As the other commenter already pointed out, Firefox does not require this. Safari and Chrome do. This indeed is not directly applicable to this situation, since XMPP don't involve browsers. But for websites, the parents attack scenario is not applicable.

bart__··on Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
Browsers will check if a certificate is in the transparency log, and alert the user if it isn't if I am not mistaken.
bart__··on Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?
Probably the coolest answer in this thread! Did Antarctica have any other option for internet, next to the previous gen satellites?
bart__··on Beginner's Guide to Llama Models
4090 only has 24 GB and will only be able to fine tune (and merge, which is more memory intensive) the 7B model. The RTX6000 with 48 GB is able to fine tune the 13B model. The 70B model presumably needs multiple GPUs, like 4 RTX6000. For people starting out, you can also use a free GPU from Google colab to fine tune a 7B model. Finetuning 70B gets more expensive and I would suggest trying smaller models first with a high quality dataset.

It is mostly linear I think.

bart__··on Beginner's Guide to Llama Models
~20 GB vram for the 7B model and 48 GB for the 13B model. It depends on the context size as well. I'd recommend renting a 4090 from a cloud provider like runpod/vast ai to get started, using a PEFT tutorial.
bart__··on Multi-camera real-time object detection with WebRTC and YOLO
It is also 99% sure some sort of post is a human.
bart__··on LibrePCB 0.1.7
Totally contra to this project, but relevant for your point. I found EasyEDA, developed by the people from JLCPCB, to be very easy to use for hobbiest boards. Their integration with their SMT assembly service was also pretty neat for my usecase
bart__··on Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, KOReader is an open source reader application for ereaders, kindles & others, and has the ability to reflow PDF's. While not perfect, it can work good enough to read well formatted PDF's.
bart__··on Could cancer cells’ iron addiction be their Achilles heel?
I'm no expert, but I know cancer cells promote adding blood pathways towards them, so it might be that they have an "uneven share" of the nutrients transported to them, and thus die out later than the healthy tissue.
bart__··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
as a Dutch person currently following driving lessons, I was thaught this technique a few weeks ago
bart__··on Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios
Wow that really is ingenious! Wonder what other ways, maybe with high pitched audio, are possible.
bart__··on Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
I always wondered why /r/thenetherlands was so left and (very?) progressive and I never saw any comments giving counter weight. But now I know the mods are so quick to shadowban I am not sure I should even bother with the subreddit anymore, it's mostly bullshit anyway.
bart__··on Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]
On your second point: The paper shows, when comparing recovered to recovered with single dose, that there are about half as many re-infections. And yes we're talking about 0.3% vs 0.15% reinfection (that's why there is not enough power for significance), but halving the chances may still be important. I'm opposed to compulsory vaccination either way though.
bart__··on 150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend
Maybe it is normal? (in the U.S.). Wouldn't that be more insane?
bart__··on Brave Search beta
What am I supposed to see? All engines give the same or very similar results for me
bart__··on SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
Thank you, seems to support OP's statement. Given that COVID antibody tests also show cross-reactivity with SARS it seems likely to me he is in fact correct.
bart__··on SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
To be fair humans are almost identical to chimpanzees biologically in many ways. As long as the spike proteins tertiary structure has not changed to much from SARS to COVID, op could be correct. Emphasis on could.
bart__··on SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
Do you have a source for your claim? Can't find anything about SARS, covid transimmunity.
bart__··on SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
I did not know that, honestly quite surprised! One thing to keep in consideration is that there is a very big evolutionary pressure for covid to get a mutation that bypasses the vaccine antibodies and still infect others, given that there are so many active infections still out there. I now have good hope though!
bart__··on SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
It is possible the spike proteins mutate too much and we need a booster
bart__··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
What is the reason you don't want a vaccine? I'm honestly just curious
bart__··on Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
I just added all public trackers
bart__··on Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
There is a torrent you can download, I used jackett to find it
bart__··on Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool
I don't my ISP would care if I show them a graph that my service is bad.
bart__··on Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White
I guess that's true, but I must say that in my direct vicinity there is a lot of anti-US sentiment, especially on their politics and culture "indoctrination" of other west countries. I'm a student in the NL
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