skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Healthcare providers will be using our platform to gain access to next-gen diagnostic algorithms"

And what is the nature of these "next-gen diagnostic algorithms"? Are they the research results of medical experts published to medical journals using limited data sets on limited populations that promise to magically cure each and every malady of any patient population, or rather, is a more realistic example of a "next-gen diagnostic algorithm" something not useless, but less grandiose, such as algorithm that tries to address the likelihood of a narrow problem like sepsis occurring in the ICU?

When there are competing algorithms/research papers around the same topic, how do you decide which algorithm is best? And how "actionable" is the algorithm's prediction?

All this reminds me a little of IBM Watson marketing and MD Anderson Cancer Center, where the hype machine generated high expectations, and the results did not match the hype.

"IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close": https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/

"MD Anderson Cancer Center’s IBM Watson project fails, and so did the journalism related to it": https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/02/md-anderson-cancer-...

Google's DeepMind Health also seems worth mentioning in this context: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/alphabet-...

Still, DeepMind said a commercial product using AI is a ways off. Streams, the only product DeepMind has actually deployed, uses no AI. While DeepMind originally set out to use machine learning to improve an existing NHS algorithm to detect AKI, it said it never carried out that research. When DeepMind visited the Royal Free, it found the existing algorithm— which wasn’t half bad— was the least of the problem. Of far more concern were antiquated technology and Byzantine workflows that meant it took too long for doctors and nurses to act on blood test results. The real problems in medicine “are much more gritty and practical,” Suleyman said.

P.S. The buzzwords in the article include, among others: blockchain, artificial intelligence, token sale, revolutionize, deep learning algorithms... Maybe the only missing buzzword term is "quantum computing"?

And the St. Francis quote? A decent quote, yet if you have ever read any works on Francis such as the Little Flowers, it does not sound quite like him, and googling on the origin confirms doubts about the quote source.
Other native languages are able to do the same since ever.
I loved dried pawpaw as a kid (growing up in Aus) but never had it fresh. Is it good?
Trump will be gone in 3 years, 7 at the longest.

Two paths...

It is highly likely the next administration will be more forward thinking and science minded then the dark ages thinking of the current one. When that happens and they clamp down on this again with much less of a time window it will leave the industry that cheered Trump on dead. Oh well.

It is likely that California can keep this in court forever so no matter what the “rules” are nationally with 12 of the most populous states siding withCA it will not matter.
Be upfront with your price.

Price is a data point a customer needs to make the decision.

Give them all data points you can.
CGI predates serverless by quite a bit. It’s basically a standard interface for a web server to let any arbitrary executable handle a HTTP request.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
Seems unlikely, IMO. I tried Tcl/Tk and wanted to like it, but it's all over the place. Half the docs you find are outdated, and figuring out how certain pieces connect together is a bit like walking through a maze.

Worse yet, a lot of the tools aren't open source or freely available, even for tinkering. I'll happily pay for a license if I end up using it for business, but I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars up front just to play around with a niche language.

There's lots of great languages out there which include completely free and open source tools. Maybe I'm spoiled.
Grew up in one of these. It was hell to keep the damn thing running, half the time it was out of service and we used a similar service elevator.

The elevator men would sometimes let kids run the thing, a bit scary but a ton of fun. There's no automation, you had to eyeball the stopping point. If you went too far, it hit some sort of emergency brake.

Good times.
Before a baby is born, it's not yet a person making up the country, just as an citizenship applicant isn't yet either. The latter is easier to evaluate for "goodness", but I don't think that's the reason people tolerate all babies to readily. It's probably because the baby's parents are citizens and feel like having a citizen baby is their right. What if an immigrant's citizen spouse felt like having their partner be a citizen was a right too? I guess those people are too much of a minority to affect immigration laws. So yea, it's to serve the existing citizens but still arbitrary.
That's a totally different pawpaw! The fruit that Australians call pawpaw, Americans call papaya. Edited original post to avoid confusion
And AM4 ("zen" architecture, not threadripper) is a _very_ similar looking and feeling ZIF socket - total pin count might be different, I'm not sure.
From the FAQ:

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

The mods have commented extensively on this as well. Here's a Tell HN where 'dang explains:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

And more comments, if you're interested:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20paywall&sort=byD...
This is not really a useful response.

The trivial counterexample is that all modern crypto techniques rely on keeping a key, or part of a key, secret. That's security through obscurity, and you've just stated bluntly that obscurity never works under any circumstances, right?

What you want to do instead is talk about tradeoffs. Talk about how much information you need to keep secret in exchange for a given window of effectiveness, and state a preference for systems which provide longer windows of effectiveness while requiring less information (such as only a key, or part of a key, instead of a key and an algorithm) to be kept secret.

Also, take care with your argument about "pre-modern crypto techniques". Some of them remained effective for centuries after being invented, which is a far cry from your "cannot be argued that they worked", and not necessarily a favorable comparison with many modern techniques, which are lucky if they make it a couple decades before being broken.

(also, of course, all cryptographic systems eventually get broken, which is why every so often we switch to new algorithms, longer keys, etc., and you seem to be arguing that any system which eventually gets broken is a system which never worked, and that's also wrong)
His Leo distance was correct, but his geo distance is in the wrong unit of measurement.
There are literally 2 much bigger recalls happening right now.

Airbags! Multiple companies have recalled a specific airbag module that catches on fire. 1+ million cars

Ford recalled 1.3 million cars last week, the steering wheel can fall off. That "internal manufacturing expertise" in action.
Many of of the great composers of yore wrote for operas, ballets, theater, and such which is the equivalent to movies today so I think that's an apt comparison.

That said much of the experimentation in classical music has been worked on and refined and yielded music which worked well later. For instance Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring sounded weird to the audience of the time, but we've come to accept it and many of its devices have been used to good effect (for instance by John Williams). One reason I think is audience have grown to accept and understand these sounds. Another reason I believe is the context. I think often we hear these together with a movie and it fits emotionally, but when we hear the music in isolation in a concert hall it we don't get it.

So, I think classical (and jazz and music in general) has always been weird and people have tried to push the boundaries and generally it's brought good results over time even though we may find it difficult to appreciate it right away or without the right context.
All the info is in the tagline, and when you visit the story through their site the tagline is presented before you need to click. Maybe the title should change for content aggregators, though I don't see including the name dramatically changing someone's interest in the topic.
Excellent comment! Graphics card naming schemes are the worst of the lot. Without being an enthusiast and keeping up with benchmark reporting it's impossible to tell say, if an AMD RX560 is faster than an RX480. I mean 560 is a bigger number which means it's faster, right?
I remember a history teacher claiming that in the area of sculpture, the likes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo) haven't been surpassed. He could easily have been full of it, though.
> folklore and b.s.

Sigh.

Maybe using whole words instead of abbreviations will keep up literacy and respect for centuries of artisanal masterpieces, `strads` my arse.
https://cushionapp.com

Everything about their product and design is great, but they also have an informative landing page.

(Also, props to the Seinfeld references)
Yep, users can sign up by email too.
Exactly.

Also, even if they were manufactured in the US, China is literally the best country to reverse-engineer electronics and produce knockoffs ;).

That said, AFAIK those satellites aren't meant to be dumb routers/repeaters - so China might just politically/economically pressure US to tell SpaceX to pretty-please don't service connections to/from China.
It depends on whether you see Tesla as a software company or a car company. Car companies seem to launch and deliver new models of cars profitably and on schedule with regularity.
I think that's fair. Either way people don't need to be so unnecessarily harsh. It was pretty clear OP didn't intend anything particularly harmful. It was probably just naivety or a lack of self-awareness...but people are talking in here about it as if it were pure evil.
Reddit was lisp, then python, then python, then React (and some other stuff).
Thinkpads are great, I just wish they'd update the design to make it look less 2006ish. Also a bigger trackpad with responsiveness that can compete with the macs. It's been so many years, I don't know why other manufacturers trackpads haven't caught up with Apple's trackpads. Even the XPS one is Meh. I think the surface book comes closest.
Meh.

Your short list, like all of them, ignores the 1000 contemporaries of Beethoven who churned out trash.
It's not that simple. Some businesses would lose a fortune if they started pricing this way.

Particularly if you sell to enterprises. Many companies will make more money by sizing them up and giving them an optimal custom price.
Before people go to jail, you must make it a crime. Is it?
I'm not sure that it is cheaper, but I am sure there is a cheaper way to shoot something down than to keep it up. Idon't know if the tech and economics are correct, but the physics says it should be.

Moving something to the same altitude as Leo requires much less energy than moving something to Leo. Rockets don't fire straight up because the need their momentum to be at an angle. In addition, the payload of a communication satellite is more expensive than the payload required to throw it either disable the satellite or put it into a declining orbit.

Maybe Elon's rockets are just so cheap he can make it up in margin, but we are really talking about we aren't talking about marginal amount of difficulty difference, but an entire order of magnitude.
Nah mate, same thing.

The Google image search you linked to is the pawpaw or papaya, it goes under both name.

See here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya
If you want less boilerplate and type safety, consider Undux - https://github.com/bcherny/undux
I’m with you on the prediction, but I disagree with your last point. My impression of Kotlin (as an avid swift user) is it is a modern, well-designed Java, but it’s still Java. What Swift does differently is what really sells me on it in the first place: copy on write and deterministic (for the most part) ARC.
Yes I read his original article and he should have bought a assembled and shipped gaming machine.

Kinda like complaining it's difficult to build a fast car with zero domain knowledge and looking up a few websites. Either put in the time to learn or just go buy a performance package Mustang GT/Camaro/Challenger/etc.
You’re speaking rather matter-of-factly about the effectiveness of pair programming. Were there studies done that you’re referencing, or is this based on your own experience?
Obama at least had the decency to take his corporate pay, i.e. 1/4 million dollar speech engagements, after he left the presidency. Hillary Clinton made over $10 million dollars in 2014 for just giving speeches.

But really, there is not one single overriding reason that she lost the election, but a different combination of reasons in all the millions that voted for Trump/against Clinton.
> Aircraft would work, but again not cheap.

s/Aircraft/Drone/. Now it's cheap.
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I travel internationally all the time as well, and my experience is that US immigration and customs treat people like suspects whereas their counterparts in Japan, and other countries I frequently visit, treat people like welcome guests.
Have you ever practiced it? What’d you dislike so much? I’ve had great experience with it, and less than stellar ones too. It isn’t easy but it can be quite fun.
Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active?
Hi, I really want to use elm. But when I look at: https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-ui I see that it was last updated at May 2017 . And I really don't want to use a project which is not actively maintained. What is your impression if you use it?
Side question: why don't we actually encourage and fund research into developing solid, reliable, and standardized tests for carcinogenicity? Everybody with at least some above basic knowledge of molec bio realizes that things like the Ames test are like complete jokes... so we don't even f know which of the substances around us actually cause cancer in humans :|

Yeah, this is the kind of research that would never advance anyone career, bring anyone glory, or bring science closer to a "cure" for cancer. And yeah, once you'd want to start actually employing a reliable test in the wild, you'd probably severely reduce your changes of a successful career (and maybe even of continued personal survival), because you'll soon step on some pretty huge toes.

But really, improving tests and sensors should be a top priority of bio-medical research... It might slow down some industries, but hopefully not that much. "Moonshot" projects like "curing" cancer or diabetes are "fun", but we're building a world where we're surrounded by stuff of which we have no idea what's safe or what not.

My personal current worry is actually with the cornucopia of chemicals with neurodegenerative effect that could be all around us, but this reminded me of the fact that we're also basically in the "dark ages" when it comes to determining carcinogenicity in a practical way (hint: it's not about what you can do as part of a funded research project in a few years, it's about having a portable test kit that any average Joe could use to test the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds and mixtures of them that are all around us, and then in the tones of likely mostly wrong data resulting from it "fish" for maybe actually relevantly dangerous stuff, and then do real research to confirm those ...but then again modern medical research is allergic to "fishing data for patterns" too, so maybe this would need some reframing).
I kind of assume bandwidth is a function of satellite count. So a network with 1000 satellites will be faster than a network with 3.

User per satellite would also he important.
> We're currently working through that to understand how and where we stand to adapt our offering to be within the limits of the law.

Trying to claim it's an 'art collectible' (as you say in another comment), doesn't sound like being 'within the limits of the law' - it sounds squarely like trying to find loopholes in the law.
Hey all, avaer is streaming hacking on the Magic Leap SDK, live now: https://www.twitch.tv/avaer (Streams pretty much daily.)

You can see past coding sessions here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeboI7dMETmnUro91AxJZA

I was skeptical of Magic Leap too, but their SDK is very real. Maybe seeing it in action might dispel some of the concerns.
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I am making the argument that

1) the investing he does is not something you can do (it involves a lot more than just buying/selling shares, and without enough money you can't do it). So what does it matter if he's good at it ? What he does today and what he preaches are very different.

2) When it made the real difference to his wealth he did very, very different things than he is advising others today. He got very, very, very lucky when it mattered.

The real lesson from Buffett's career is. First, work VERY hard to get to a few hundred thousand dollars, then spend a ridiculous proportion (~33%) of it to buy 3 businesses. Work very hard to make them successful. Threaten, steal, ... as necessary (this is what a hostile takeover is of course). Very, very, very hard. And he failed on one of these businesses.

Three, use this success, as all billionaires did, Bill Gross, John Bogle, Kyle Bass, George Soros and indeed Warren Buffett, to convince your friends and family (doesn't work if you weren't born rich of course) to let you manage, say $100 million or so. Now play the hostile active investor game again, and again, and again. Buy yourself into management, and force management to put short-term stock price above all else BUT you can't "betray" your investment strategy (Buffett does that by holding back in his "central" investments, like KO). (I believe "central" is what he calls them)

Now look up, and find that all those billionaires had VERY different investment strategies and you will see that it's not the investments, nor the investment strategies, but rather the fees and assets under management, that mattered. I mean investments can boost them, or slow them down, so they matter.

The investment messages:

Warren Buffett : value investing (cfr. Benjamin Graham) (Note: value investing has been shown to not match market performance, at this point for decades, but of course Buffett is already a billionaire activist investor. HE of course makes his money insuring large projects, a game only open to people with the deepest of pockets, (almost entirely) not through value investing)

Bill Gross: governments will keep cheating the public on interest rates (he defended making a bet on secular stagnation and keep adding to that bet for 25 years ... and he was right) (Again, he's changed his mind, but he's already a billionnaire)

George Soros: essentially same bet as Bill Gross. More sordid, in that he did not just wait for governments to screw up the economy but in several cases sabotaged government economic policies for profit.

Kyle Bass: Also more or less the same bet as Bill Gross, but focused on the central bet that the US housing policy was going to crash in the 2008 crisis. He's famous for being too quick on the draw, and it's cost him. He's been right very often though.

John Bogle: essentially bet that there is no signal in the market, except in obvious cases (ie. that even the very weak efficient market hypothesis is wrong and that the market moves as a whole, and you should invest with him). Never mind that if Bogle is correct then a rebalancing strategy should make much more profit than Bogle's products.
I should know better since I work for Google, but you're getting results localized for Australia which are all "papaya." I get results localized for the US which are all this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba

The funny thing is that I've actually used this example at work as a rare case of an Australia/US localization issue, but totally forgot about HNs global audience when I made this post.
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I do. That wasn’t my point, however.
Can you expand the last one? The first three are server-side, while the last is front end. Are they using node on the back end?
Car companies and software companies have completely different capital requirements and cash-flow constraints.
Tesla is not a small software startup. They are a 40-60 billion industrial manufacturing company that is burning through its already-dwindled cash reserves while struggling with manufacturing bottlenecks. Coincidentally, said manufacturing is Tesla's sole method of generating revenue. They already have massive amounts of outstanding debt. Even before Moody's downgrade, it was not going to be easy to finance.

In general, comparing a massive company's notable operational issues to "software project delivered late" is nonsensical. If your software company's sole source of revenue is selling packaged units of your software and your company is continuously showing that it's unable to deliver those units of software in time, creating massive cash shortages - then yes, the market cap of your software company is going to suffer.
Not really. Modern spring steel is far better and Roman concrete is unique because of materials, we know its composition.
Nothing to see here. Stuff like this happens all the time, would not even be on HN if it did not have the world Tesla in it.
I always hoped ISS resupply and mars transport would work as reoccurring revenue.

This is probably a great use if he has extra rockets and launch pad time, but it seems a bit of a side project compared to manned space travel.
Added. Thanks.
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> But if you go towards the top of the market, there is a profound difference in quality.

Define "quality".

Wine taste, like most food, is both very subjective and very personalized.

I dislike most wines. Price doesn't matter. However, there are specific wines that I like very very much--if you put a right-bank wine in front of me, I'm probably going to like it--price also doesn't seem to matter unless it's very cheap.

What I would suggest to the original poster is that if you don't like a lot of wines, find a high-end wine tasting and go--the goal is simply to try to decrease your probability of encountering an actually bad wine. Try the different wines, and try to isolate which ones you like more and which ones you like less even if you dislike them all. Then you can go talk to the sommelier/buyer and give him some parameters in which to help you search.

Otherwise, "Find me a wine I like" is much like "My computer is broken. Fix it."--if you don't give someone any information to work with, they can't do anything to help you.