skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the primary importance of machine vision for this kind of cancer screening was that it doesn't give so many false negatives due to fatigue? IIRC there was a study that went back over cancer patients' screening tests and found that most of them had failed to identify visible, diagnosable tumors well before their disease was actually identified.
That's why the grandparent mentioned feedback. Even if a disparity "aligns with reality", if the algorithm is used in a way that reinforces the disparity, then it's discriminatory. When designing algorithms as parts of systems, we need to be careful to not ossify statistics we're ostensibly just reflecting.
Old news. Pleiotropy is an example for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiotropy

What is a bigger problem: Even an average idiot must now realize, that GM food may be riskier than you think.
I think, instead of repeating that you think it is harmful, it would sure help to hear your thoughts on the why the law is bad.
Aren't you just replicating the same mistake he's describing as being made over and over again? Where people express a reasonable desire but don't think through the issues before deciding it's worth pursuing?

In tech we have this habit of going from, "Wouldn't it be cool if X..." to "Let's build X right now!" I think that's a fine instinct if it hasn't been tried and it's something that runs on the author's machines. Something will be learned.

But when we're talking real money and real work from a lot of people, I think it's worth stopping and asking some questions. Yes, sure, X would be cool. But are there perhaps subtle reasons why X has not happened yet? As with jetpacks and 3D video, sometimes cool things are impractical or don't pay off as much as you'd first think.
Have you tried setting the screen scaling back to the default, or using Firefox Nightly? I believe we recently resolved a bug around that, though I could be mis-remembering.
That might be pretty interesting for ownership of the big sporting estates in the Highlands.
Facebook will allow the monetization of social network groups
How to find refactoring opportunities
> Trying to do the same with a data-driven model is a hard sell

Ex-physicst here. JumpCrisscross is absolutely right. It's a hard sell and it should be. Saying "I want a better machine but I don't know what I'm looking for" is only worse than "I want to put objects together but I don't know what machine I'm building."

The space of what's concievably possible is too large to explore if you're not guided by an hypothesis, even if you didn't have money constraints. It's not a human problem, reality is just complex.
Testing out a new future for Consumer Reports
Oswald – the conversational platform
www.oswald.ai
It's also a philosophy which unveils the very structure the marketing gimmicks are built upon.

You can't make it postmodernisms fault that our philosophical inquire made us realize what the postmodernists realized. It might be horror in your eyes but then reality is horror and it's our job to build useful structures on top of that knowing they might not last forever.

It's not like postmodernism can be disregarded just because it doesn't lead you to some "Truth", philosophical inquiry leads us wherever it leads us. That's the point of philosophy, not giving you comfort in truth but in inquiry
I engourage to try out old school text based browsers.
w3m with youtube-dl & media player. Text, images and video.
That goes a long way.
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My only gripe using Firefox on Linux is that my 1Password doesn't interface with it as well (or at all). Though I guess that's an issue with 1Password than with Mozilla.
Oswald, powering your conversational apps
In the UK a group of people could trade as a partnership - which I believe doesn't exist as a separate legal entity.
You keep claiming the Snooper's Charter was unpopular and went through anyway, but sadly you are wrong:

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/01/18/more-surveillance-pleas...

Overall, the UK population has consistently supported stronger surveillance powers for a long time and by a clear margin. For better or worse, we tend to trust our authorities here. And to be fair, most of the time, our authorities do seem to use their powers responsibly, so to some extent that trust has been earned.

One problem with this is that whenever surveillance issues have been discussed in the media and these polls have been carried out, they invariably talk about giving powers to the most serious policing and national security organisations using the powers to defend against the most serious of crimes and security problems. However, the reality is often that the laws allow for much more than that, with many more people getting powers and access to surveillance data, with much less control and oversight than the public might expect, to deal with minor issues where intrusive surveillance is wildly disproportionate, but most people who aren't heavily into tech or civil liberties don't realise any of this at all.
I found that autogeneration rarely worked well unless the client and the server were using the same tooling.

The monstrous flexibility of xml and soap meant that in practice every soap server interface I had to consume had some quirk or incompatibility with the client I was trying to use.

The worst offender was security extensions.
I have extensively used Pages (macOS) for my past posters. Here's an example [0]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/xubgkxbdgpe0i3r/icwsm_poster_a1.pd...
How is a language which doesn't have a type checker a synonym for clean code?
> [...]

> Sorry for the inconvenience ... Note that you will no longer be able to connect to the flight you selected [AF1234], please follow the link to reschedule with [Air France] https://brokenconnection/?nogo=UA4321&connection=AF1234

> [...]
Microsoft is using AI to cut the cloud’s electric bill
The appropriate analogy would be that all legislation is proposed by the House of Lords, and then mostly rubber-stamped by the democratically elected House of Commons (many of whom would like to make it into the HoL one day).
Meet works now? I knew about hangouts, but Meet was still not working last I checked. That would be fantastic if that was the case.

EDIT: So it does! The last reason I was keeping Chrome as my default (so Meet calendar invite links would work) is gone.
I love json but despise the fact it doesn't support comments
Except if the others countries are flooding yours with cheap goods to destroy your industry and economy.

Like I've said, the french version put at least some criticism on this neoclassical point-of-view of the perfect market: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avantage_comparatif#Objections...
My anthropology professor in college had the following advice: write a first version. Then cut down the first and last paragraph since they were only there to help you.
"Launch all the nukes"
> “Sun’s family background was not distinguished enough to prevent security organs from investigating the situation,” the newspaper haplessly insisted.

At least in the west, there is a pretense and expectation that the laws apply equally to all.
Join a nearby Toastmasters club. It'll give you tons of practice in speaking, and you'll quickly see how it affects your speech, not just in speaking contexts, but in any context where you have to speak to, communicate with, or lead people.
Also active ingredient in a lot of sun screen.
UK ban of free plastic bags has been a resounding success if you go on the lack of bags littering streets and countryside. Surprisingly perhaps the UK media seems in favour of the straws and stirrers changes (possibly excluding the Daily Mail). Industry has lobbied against both.

It seems equally clear that in the absence of bans and heavy regulation no effort will be made to reduce use so I'd be in favour of everything that pushes back against the growth of single use plastics.
Because a garbage tutorial isn't necessarily incorrect. The solution in the tutorial might be slow, inefficient, un-optimized, hacky, etc., but if it works when people have been slamming their head on the desk for hours, people will use it. It's a matter of which tutorial captured the audience first.
It's not that we can't bear to look at ourselves in a mirror. It's that objective reality, truth and all of that do exist, good art is better than bad art in ways that aren't purely relative, and so on. Postmodernism loses you more than you gain.
It's simpler than that. I'm hosting websites on Hostgator, my income is that Patreon I mention in the video, and though I have a little knowledge on webmastering it's not much compared to what I make content for. I don't know how, and I'm seeing high prices for getting HTTPSed up, though I have a mental note that using Cloudflare might be a way to do it. That said, a service like that seems like it would cost a bunch of money too. I think I can't afford to use HTTPS, and I think this may be a feature not a bug to some people out there controlling things.

I could well be wrong. I'm hoping for the reasons you mention that some benevolent hacker people work out how to bring this to people for free and make it simple to do.
May be there is a term for it, but it is a classic example how demand suddenly disappear when the price has dropped because everyone thinks / knew it is going to drop further. For Example, they know the 1080Ti were going for $400, but due to crypto it shoot up to $1000, now even at $500, they may as well wait a little more, and new graphics Turing or Ampere are coming soon anyway.
Practice your message in different media - everything from tweets through short blog posts and longer articles. Better still, iterate between those and speaking (platform speaking and regular conversation). Through the experimentation and repetition, sharper messages emerge and you find out what resonates with people.
How to Write a Container Storage Interface (CSI) Plugin
"On Writing Well"by William Zinsser is not a bad start. One of the takeaways from the book is, that much like everything else, writing is a skill that you have to practice in order to get better at it. Do not try to create your own style, first learn how to write only what is essential, without embellishments.
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Facebook's false-news flagging: good intentions, bad UX
In an individual contributor where the risk and responsibility falls on you it may be expedient to go by instinct and gut feel. But the moment the there is a team the most important ability to get things done is consensus.

This can also be ego and attention seeking behavior masquerading as trying to 'get things done'. It seems to be driven more by the need to stand out than accomplish anything and puts everyone in peril for individual glory.

Casual references to 10X have no credibility without performance metrics. 10xers will have to earn the trust of the team and will automatically have it with a track record like Linux Torvalds on Linux or Ussain Bolt on 100m or its just hubris and posturing that will damage team productivity.
This whole thread makes the point by itself. It shows how it pretty much requires at least a small conversation to understand what the term "serverless" means. This implies it is not self-explanatory at all, hence confusing and misleading.
Most people don't:

- Consider their audience

- Make use of structure

- Repeatedly edit what they have written before hitting send

The first and third items are things you can just decide to do: think of your audience, and spend time to read and adjust the content and format until it's great.

For the second item, consider this book: https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Think...
I'll add that I enjoy using Common Lisp and Scheme REPL environments. I also really like Squeak as an interactive programming environment. Neither has replaced the old school Unix shell as my preferred command invocation environment, at least in my professional life.
A Week Inside WeLive, the Utopian Apartment That Wants to Disrupt City Living
What is the name of that Putin advisor? I was listening to a podcast that mentioned it and wanted to research, but alas I was in the car and driving and couldn't take note.
> Groups of people get exposed to something a little bit, someone smugly tells them that the emperor has no clothes, and it quickly becomes more enjoyable for them to use that tiny bit of smugness to dismiss rich and useful lines of thought.

Sure, you can see it on HN. But I expect more from experts in their own domain. Perhaps that's why I'm disappointed.

> At a certain point, there isn't much to say to people who have developed an allergy to certain kinds of terms, analysis, and lines of thought.

I do disagree with this. In that scenario, people are following the herd like sheep; it's not a result of strong beliefs. Among sheep, one leader can change the direction of things, at least to an extent.
The problem with jammers is that if you don't shield the building where you're using them, you're going to interfere with the outside which is a potential public safety risk (it's illegal for a reason).

Of course, if you bother shielding the building, you don't even need jammers, because there's no signal going through anyway.
Smashing the stack for fun and profit
Introducing the Single Element Pattern
MPs Say Lack of Cryptocurrency Regulations May Affect U.K
Well then. I was not aware that we had done that much with our nuclear testing. Obviously then we did probably cause an increase in cancer.

On the bright side it looks like we’re almost back to baseline.
Philosophical realizations are only destructive if you don't actually manage to look them in the eye.

You seem to be confusing what the purpose of philosophy is. It's not to establish truth but rather to inquire about truth.

Postmodernism shows us how fragile any truth proposition is and that's a useful way to think about things (especially when you are trying to break someone elses argument down)

I am no fan of the current usage of postmodernism in gender and identity politics but postmodernism as a philosophical perspective isn't going anywhere in fact eve Jordan Peterson one of the most popular critics of postmodernism uses it to make many of his arguments (i.e. to deconstruct the gender and identity politics)

You can't escape postmodernist realization.
That is true! And it's also true that some environments require full code reviews of everything that isn't already certified.

Hypothetically speaking, I don't know how you get around the fact that Ruby has way more code in it than any of the gems you'll want to pull in, but ignoring that, what's easier... getting a new gem certified, or writing just the parts you need and putting them through the normal review process?

The answer is not going to be the same each time you ask it.
> That's an interesting point. How does it compare in terms of simplicity to the other BSDs (FreeBSD and Dragonfly) or something like Arch Linux?

I'm not familiar with FreeBSD and DragonFly, but I have used NetBSD in the past and a bit of Arch Linux. The system management is way more consistent in OpenBSD, things generally work and are more reliable. The package management system is a pleasure to work with, and when you want to remove unused packages or dependencies of previously installed packages, it's simple and consistent. It actually works. When you are configuring something, most of the time there is one single way to do it, and it's well documented. And the simplicity can't really be compared to Arch Linux. Fire up a vm and install OpenBSD to it, just for the experience. It's mostly just accepting the defaults, extremely simple.
An interesting idea, but it's not clear that this will be less confusing or that application authors will make better at avoiding config languages gotchas than config language designers such as yourself (and existing app specific config languages suggest otherwise).

I think a reason this won't necessarily fix the problem with unmet expectations is that identical constructs in different but analogous yaml files would be likely to end up with very different semantics and users effectively have to remember which particular idiosyncratic YAML dialect choices various apps make. Say

version: 1.3

means the string "1.3" in app a), the float 1.3 in app b) and a version number in app c) one. Furthermore let's assume that app c) required a version number, whereas a) and b) required strings.

Another, more subtle problem, is that such a scheme would make it more likely that applications would end up parsing raw string representations themselves (with ensuing subtle differences even for things which are nominally meant to be identical, say dates or numbers and possibly security problems as well).
Race is just a very vague method of generalising large groups of humans, once that is shown to be decreasingly useful as we learn more accurate methods. As a result even the definition is vague.

These days race has mostly been reduced to vague groups of appearance; for medical/genetic groups we usually have better indicators. It is still useful as a vague appearance descriptor. We shouldn't claim that a visual description is racism, it is just a handy tool.
This, and the security problems of executable code as configuration, are why the OpenBSD people mandate that /etc/rc.conf is not general-purpose shell script, and why the systemd people mandate that /etc/os-release is similarly not. People want to be able to parse configuration files like this with something other than fully-fledged shell language interpreters; and they want these things to not be vectors for command injections.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/433245/5132
The IT Crowd's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZTvMYQSl_w
If you want to sit down and talk about how much your app is really valued at, would be more than happy to help (have experience in valuations)
My first thought -- diabetes affects kidney function. The question is whether the same is found in type I diabetics.
Agree that there are very important genetic components to disease (it's what I study), but the article points out that the "races" we use now are pretty arbitrary and do a bad job categorizing people's generic makeup. For example, there is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined, yet we in the United States basically just would think of their race as "African," and this is not a very helpful description.
A consensus doesn't mean everyone agrees that the solution is perfect. It just means that everyone will support the selected solution/path.
There is a high possibility that you'd be surprised how many dark corners you visited a year before. Depending on the subject you may deal with quite small surface area on the daily bases while preparing the tutorial you had to dig much deeper.
I really wanted to go back to Firefox, but there was a lot in there I didn't like or ask for. For example, why I get Pocket integration out of the box? This could have been a plug-in.
It would be nice to see the sensitivity and specificity of the technique and for humans. False positives and false negatives are not equal in medicine, so we should report in such a way that people can evaluate them.

In this type of cancer, a lower specificity is an acceptable trade off for a very high sensitivity.
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Just saying they exist doesn't make them exist. Good art vs. bad art isn't an argument against postmodernism.

Whenever I meet people who claim there is an objective truth I always ask them to give any examples. So far I have not met anyone who can come up with an objective claim that isn't merely basing that on a frame of reference which can be deconstructed or shown to be based on a set of apriori assumptions itself.
So the optimal strategy for NVidia is to shred those redundant silicon dies? At some point new Vega will put a pressure on them to release consumer Volta/Turing/Ampere/whatever-they-name-it and at $1000 there is not much hope for getting rid of Pascals via standard sales channels.
Voting and Governance in Security Tokens
I wonder if this has anything to do with ETH not being able to be mined on 3GB cards any more. I may be mistaken, but I recall several months back people with 3GB 1060s no longer being able to mine ETH because of the size of the DAG.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C6d8VK...
At least we got rid of segregation before the 1950s. Nobody is claiming that Britain is perfect, but to make out the US has some sort of moral high ground on race is ludicrous. Britain's record is a thousand times better, there.
Moving from CarrierWave to ActiveStorage in a Rails App
Regarding the multiple garbage trucks, there is at least the possibility of the truck having multiple separate containers to store different types of garbage.
64Kb memory module in 74-Series logic and quite beautiful breadboard wiring
Instagram launches IGTV app for creators, 1-hour video uploads
I think it might be this guy? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hi...
People forget that the proverb says it's easier, not better, to ask forgiveness.
The COMPAS analysis they refer to is exactly one of those cases where there is no bias whatsoever and they're trying to force the algorithm to conform to PC instead of reality.

What the ProPublica analysis showed was that a black person and a white person with the same risk score have the same probability of recidivism. There is no racial bias.

Black people have higher rates of recidivism, which means that they will also have a higher rate of false positives. This is mathematically unavoidable. I recommend creating a toy example in excel and playing around with some numbers to get an intuition for it.

Also check out this analysis: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying....
Don't be too quick to dismiss a workplace because of something like that. Teams that are hiring often have very little control over the initial process (e.g.: the site where jobs are posted), but may be doing amazing things and be great to work with.
Amazon Fire TV Cube review: a smarter streaming box
The power of a company like Google can be great when harnessed appropriately. When Chrome was the new kid on the block, they had every incentive to be compatible, faster, better, more flexible, etc. Now that they are the leader, their incentives are very different. I'm very concerned about the rapid move away from straightforward text-based protocols to opaque binary protocols. Yes the performance is better, but the protocol itself is far less flexible, harder to troubleshoot, and harder to build on. The whole reason HTTP took off was because it was simple, human-readable, and easy to implement, and built on TCP which was well understood and simple. It was a liberating change from the rigid, corporate, non-standard binary protocols coming from the Microsofts and IBMs and Oracles of the world. There are plenty of ways HTTP/1.1 could have been improved for better performance without sacrificing its fundamental openness. But HTTP/2 and QUIC are taking us back into the realm of non-standard and more rigid and opaque binary protocols. Performance on poorly designed sites that load tens of megabytes of crap from hundreds of URLs on each page load is the hook Google is using to push us back into what I consider a dark age of network communication. But it doesn't have to be this way.
The first two sentences of the Bitcoin whitepaper:

> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required...
Why Microsoft Thinks Underwater Data Centers May Cost Less
> It also spreads the cpu utilization and memory usage across the commands that you use in the pipeline.

For example with Clojure you can use pmap and pcall to achieve that.