skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say your criticism is way off base. I've developed and fielded ML-based medical devices and this looks like a reasonable study that suggests they have a system worthy of further testing. There's nothing wrong with using an ROC curve here and they document the experience of the doctors, so they weren't hiding that and around 60 or so doctors had greater than 5 years experience. Also, studies like this generally don't use only biopsy-proven negatives, since that would bias the negatives towards those that were suspicious enough to biopsy. Without knowing more details than what the paper provides, I cannot say the results are valid, but I also don't see any terrible errors after a quick scan. The main weakness is probably the fact that the test set came from the same image archive used for development. As a result, there can be all sorts of biases the CNN is using to inflate its performance unbeknownst to the developers. The best way to eliminate that concern is to use a test set gathered through a different data collection effort using different clinics, but that is expensive and time consuming and not something I would do initially. This looks like a good first step and I would encourage the developers to carry it further.

EDIT: I'll add that the ratio of positives to negatives in the training set is irrelevant and in no way invalidates the study. As far as testing goes, there is always a balance you must strike in a reader study involving doctors. Ideally, you would have the exact ratio a doctor would encounter in practice, but for a screening study, that is typically impractical as you would need a huge number of cases and doctor time is expensive. A ratio of 1 positive to 4 negatives is entirely reasonable, although the doctors (particularly the less experienced ones) will almost certainly have an elevated sensitivity and reduced specificity since they will know it is an enriched set, but this is reasonable for ROC comparison purposes as it mostly just selects a different point on the doctor's personal ROC curve. Note that some studies even tell the doctors beforehand what percentage of cases are positive.
"For millennia the majority of the human population has believed that the mind is more than a biological machine, that it extends in some inexplicable way beyond the individual body both in space (ESP) and in time (continued consciousness after death). The scientific evidence for the former can be denied only by those with closed minds;..."

I'm not one to dispute that transhumanism is an unspectacular idea, but....

Ok, fine. I have a closed mind. If you can consistently do something clear and visibile that cannot otherwise be done, I'll take you seriously. Until then, I won't. Sorry. Pick me some Powerball numbers or something. Tell me where the hell my old copies of The Fantasy Trip stuff is hiding. Fling Randi James into an ocean. Something.
I guess I could have been more clear-

I don't believe these anecdotes reflect reality, and I don't think they really bring anything of substance to the conversation. It's borderline alarmist at best.
Big time congrats on dropping the weight, and it's great to hear how it seems to be "noticeably" changing the way people perceive you.

It's a very difficult thing to do, and ever since my younger son started battling (and winning) his weight issues, I have become much more sensitive to how unfairly some people treat overweight people.
Newest hot coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour because it is a parking spot
BTW: What's your take on random read speed? I think with SSDs now and maybe NVRAM in the future we can address physical storage more fine granular than with HDDs and for instance with http://sirix.io data is only clustered during writes (batched and synced to the flash drive) and it versions variable length in-memory and physical pages such that not every record has to be copied and written again. For instance to reconstruct a page we have to read from random places (maybe in parallel) to reconstruct a page in-memory. Thus Sirix relies on fast random read speed and on find granular access to the physical stored records.
I wonder if stock buybacks is part of it.
"I want to go to hell, where all the interesting people are."
In my opinion, you try to make a distinction where is none. What is the difference between showing off and helping others in the context of technical questions on blogs/forums? Yes, you help others by providing solutions/advice for dificult problems. And you get satisfaction from the fact that you succeded where others stumbled and you let everybody know it by posting it online. You prove your value to a group of people, which gives you a feeling of inclusion -> important motivator.

In general, there is no such thing as altruism. You always get something out of helping others that keeps you going. Nobody is truly selfless. Altuists are the species which died out long time ago.
I believe when I read this, the pollutant was sulfer. So it's not CO2.
My cynical asshole take is that because most of this advice is so reductive that it's useless, and they were probably embarrassed to attach a name to such a low-value clickbait post - I feel very stupid to have clicked it.

For example...
> Find the biographies of people whose job you’d like to have and figure out how they got it. You can effectively reverse engineer their career path.

If you're famous enough to warrant a biography(and I'm assuming an actual biography, not just a wiki article) then odds are pretty good you came from a very privileged background. Not sure how you can reverse-engineer being born into that.
Change1: Enable logging of middleware traffic on 0.01% of requests for better profiling.

Reviewer: Does this have privacy implications?

Change1: No, Service X marks all PII before this point. Code X drops everything marked in this way.

Two years later.

Change N: Modify request structure for more optimal blah blah blah.

Now suddenly the changed request structure causes a regression in the PII detection which causes some logging of PII.

This shit is way more complex than "just stop people when they ask to log passwords".
Language Shapes the Brain
I've never configured Spring DI via XML and I've been a Spring dev for at least 2 years. It's always been via Java annotations and config classes.
I have to wonder how much of the innovation here will couple advancements in catalytic conversion with accepted inefficiencies in "storing" renewable energy by sourcing from the atmosphere.

Because that's essentially what these initiatives are doing. They're seeking to artificially tighten the carbon cycle so that we can maintain the status quo indefinitely.
So, you're aiming for an exit as per Metaweb/Freebase?
True, very hard problem. But combinatorial opinion free form comments phase space >> than phase space of canonical knowledge thus number of patterns of things that can go wrong for them much larger. Still keeping our shields up and not discounting this issue.
Gasoline is a reasonably dense and easy to transport energy transfer material, given that we already have a vast network of devices that can use it, and a refining and distribution network.

There's no information from the article to indicate if this is actually commercially feasible though, other than nanotubes will solve everything.
> "Find easy ways you can come across better"
> ... for people trying to have a big social impact, there might be no more cost-effective self-improvement investment than enrolling in Toastmasters and buying a gym membership...

I think you are right that we should be open and accepting. It just turns out that it is easier to do that towards people who are well spoken and have a good physical presence. I feel that people who speak poorly and don't take good care of themselves are kind of playing on hard mode when it comes to influencing others. Like you mention, this is likely embedded in our evolutionary psychology and is hard to change.
There is nothing wrong with being "just a job", it most likely always was, the rest was just in your head.

It's better for the company to help the delusional embrace the "it's just a job" mentality ASAP so that they and the rest of us might be spared the weekly public hissy fit.
Seen as guilty by who?

We know the police do, as they admit as much. They explicitly say they have a policy of believing the victim at which point they sign up to the prosecution rather than investigating both sides. This is not in dispute - they openly admit it, usually as a reassurance to "victims".

By the courts? Well if you look at the carriage of a trial, the fact the accuser gets to give evidence over a TV, advice to juries about "myths" (but never the myth that women never lie about rape), tight controls over what evidence the defense can even raise or how they can test the evidence against them (but not the prosecution)...the system is stacked against the accused in a way that is miles away from a fair trial. Simply allowing a trial without evidence could be said to be guilty until proven innocent.

The jury? Well that varies, but given the proportion of not guilty verdicts, thankfully not most of the time. Juries aren't perfect, but the reason we have them is to protect the accused from people like you.

If you had an ounce of self awareness you might put yourself in Mark Pearson's shoes and ask, if that was you, would you still be shilling for the CPS?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-falsely-...
What you're missing is that Tether is not truly bankrupt yet. Yes, sane accounting would say their liabilities exceed their assets, but only because 26% of their assets are a high risk loan to Bitfinex. They still have assets > USDT supply. What makes the liabilities exceed the assets is the credit risk associated with the loan.

You can't undisputedly say Bitfinex won't be able to pay the loan. Maybe the frozen assets are real and will be unfrozen soon. Nobody knows. They aren't bankrupt yet, but in a very risky position of becoming so.

Another possibility is that you misread the article title, which seems kind of misleading. It says that only 74% of Tether is backed by cash or cash-equivalents. The loan to Bitfinex is neither, so it should be the remaining 26% (26% of $2.8B is $745M).

That being said, I agree with you on the Wiley Coyote point. Tether should be completely disreputable, not only because of it's risky situation, but because the whole move was completely shady. Silently changing the wording of the website, after assuring everyone that they had it 100% backed... I don't see how anyone can trust it anymore.
Fun fact: contextvars are implemented as HAMTs, the same immutable maps as found in Clojure.
Because there are a dozen or more important issues that regularly make the headlines here around smartphones (security, performance, longevity, privacy, reception, size, repairability, development, etc.) and there's only 2 remaining major smartphone platforms. (Even if you count each Android manufacturer separately, i.e., you stop caring about anything related to software, there's still not enough.) The response to one company doing something undesirable cannot be "just switch to the other one", because that only works once, and then you still have 10 other factors to deal with.

Didn't someone here say that in the EU, they only consider a market to have competition if there are at least 4 major competitors?

To make matters worse, not only are the two players colluding with each other, in many cases, but they're lobbying the very governments who set the rules by which they're allowed to play. I don't see how one can say that we don't need consumer groups' lobbyists, given how many corporate lobbyists there are.

People used to joke about how Apple's one-button mouse was insufficient. Today I've got only one bit of control over which smartphone platform I wish to use and support, and there's way more than one manner in which each of these is sub-optimal for my needs, or society's.
Yet another Black Mirror episode proven prophetic.

If I remember correctly, season 1, episode 3 "The Entire History of You" depicted a world where most people had eye and ear implants that recorded everything they saw and heard. When one of the characters who did not have the implant called the police to ask for help as she watched her boyfriend being beaten up, the cop requested to to be given access to her implant. When she said she did not have one, they simply hanged up on her.

And now, less than 8 years later, here we are.
That’s listed in the linked text:

> in some countries, such as Japan, online pseudonyms are the norm in all circumstances
Larry Ray and the Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence
Anyone who agrees with the OP should give Zuul-ci.org a look.

I run Zuul in production with GitHub and AWS, and it's been really useful for us. It scales to the moon, parallelizes everything, and having all job/pipeline configuration in git means you can test things like CI job changes before they're committed.

Cross-repo pre-merge dependency management means I can build whole speculative futures in PR's before it lands and breaks the build.

Funny story, the Zuul build status badge is just a static image, because Zuul does not allow code to merge if it fails tests: https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/user/badges.html

Full disclosure: I worked on a defunct zuul based service for a little while, and still am a core developer with lots of code in Zuul. A few presentations I've given are here:

http://fewbar.com/the-build-is-never-broken/
http://fewbar.com/zuul-ci-crossing-streams/
Opening a desktop tower is vastly different from opening a tightly-packed complex piece of equipment like the iPhone. Even if you do nothing else besides open and close it, you still may have compromised the water resistance of the device, or gotten dust in there.

You can do whatever you want with your hardware, but the question is whether Apple should be on the hook for providing repair service afterwards.
Looks awesome, I installed it on Mac, but I can't find the app or install location. How do I actually run this thing?
These are not really an issue in vfx production and other things Python is used for.
Career advice I wish I'd been given when I was young

1. Don't organize your life and career plans around listicles

2. Your life and your career are different things

3. Your career is just a job

4. The goal of a job for 99% of people in the wage-earning workforce is to sell your time now at a higher price than you will buy it back for later, minus the cost of existing

4. You are not your job

5. You can always generate money, but you can't generate time (you can only buy it back with money, and only so much). Spend your time on what will matter to you most when you die

6. You will die

There is too much exaltation of work in our culture. Work provides no meaning to most people, and never will.* I'm very happy for those who have the right personality and are lucky enough to have found the right position where they really feel like they are getting a lot of personal satisfaction out of their job. But most people would be better off IMHO if they treated their job like a job and didn't try to turn it into the answer to the meaning of life.

*That doesn't mean that doing your job _well_ and taking professional pride in your work can't be highly satisfying. But too often I see people working long hours or wasting their time worrying about work without realizing that it's time they will never get back--at least not before it's too late
Because if there is a "run on the bank", someone will end up short. Either the first people out will get 100% of their money and last 26% will get zero, or everyone will get 74% of their money.

This very fact will actually cause a run on the bank in any sort of crisis. You don't need to actually believe that tether is a complete sham and has no money to decide to withdraw. You just need to worry that 74% of people might get worried. Because if they all withdraw, you will get none of your money.

The point of FDIC insurance (aka lender of last resort) is that when you hear that Wells Fargo is in trouble you don't worry about your checking account going to zero. This used to happen quite a bit as late as during the great depression in the early 1930s. Being 100% backed by liquid assets was supposed to serve that function, it's not a nice to have, it's the whole point.
Not a bad list.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190212160020.h...

There is a lot of work. I'm not an expert, but it seems like our early attempts are orders of magnitude off in terms of efficiency, but there have been some breakthroughs using nano-tech to create custom structures that are much more efficient, but i'm sure it needs a lot more research and money to become commercially viable.
I am honestly surprised that HN's reaction to "Apple should provide tools and training to third-party shops" is to be downvoted. I have yet to see a single person explain why an end user should be opening up their own iPhone and mucking about with it and then expecting Apple to provide warranty repairs afterwards.
Insurance Companies Monitoring Phones to See How Much You Use It When Driving
There is/was the Deletionpedia:

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
SpaceX’s Unnerving Silence on an Explosive Incident
I've still never seen a single pair in person, despite living in a major city some of the year (London).

I don't think they've really taken off in Europe.
Parking is scarce in SF. I hope they don’t complain when a car runs them over.
Unfortunately, the people don't get a say in this. At all. We vote on politicians, not policies.
But they are allowed to bring personal items on board. The error here was clerical. In fact some of the covers were listed under the personal items section.

So was that wrong? They opted to take those instead of other personal items.
FB revenue is more than 90% from mobile. Only nerds use desktop nowadays.
What do they have a monopoly on? The claim that Google, or any FAANG company is a monopoly is absurd. A monopoly is the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. Google definitionally doesn’t have that, because competitors exist.
As an analyst who's read through various biographies and the resumes of people in high power positions, you've generally already lost out if you can't list on yours (subtly or not so subtly): "have rich, educated, well connected parents, and use those connections to land your first few jobs or investments".

I suppose there's some marginal value in learning that you should talk the talk and walk the walk to better fit into that culture (and that will open up some opportunities for you), but merit is not how 90%+ of the world works...
Nah. Larry doesn't get a pass on this one. I was there at the time, and this (unlike, say, Cloud) clearly was one of "his" projects, something he pushed relentlessly and cared about a lot. That's why G+ was where you went if you wanted a quick and easy promo: you could launch a total embarrassing turd and just because Larry liked G+ that turd would be promotion worthy nevertheless.

Seeing the FB revenue figures today I can see why he cared, but I think he undermined the long term prospects of the company with this shit quite a bit, and distracted it from more valuable pursuits as well. That's all on him, not on Gundotra.
I interned with TSE in 2016 and had a blast. It is nice seeing one of their projects get open sourced.
They're very different products.

Now v1 was essentially serverless Docker: you define a Dockerfile that runs a web server on a port (along with anything else you can cram into that container), push that Dockerfile up to Now v1 and they would build the container and run it in a scale-to-zero configuration: with no traffic, the container wouldn't run at all. When a request came in it would start up and start serving - then it would shut down again a few minutes after the last incoming request.

It was very similar to Google's new Cloud Run product - but better, because you didn't even have to build the Dockerfile yourself - they would build and run it for you.

The biggest catch with v1 was the cold-start time: depending on the size of your image it could take quite a while to serve that first hit. Their efforts to optimize this apparently didn't work out well enough for them.

Now v2 is an entirely different product. It doesn't use Docker at all - instead it compiles your code to run on AWS Lambda. This means it's MUCH less flexible: with Now v1 you could run anything that could be defined in a Dockerfile - Now v2 instead requires you to stick to the list of languages supported by their "builders" - https://zeit.co/docs/v2/deployments/builders/overview - initially available for Node.js, Python PHP and Go but more have emerged over time.

Now v2 also has the ability to run a single app built in multiple languages - it compiles each language to a separate Lambda. This is a neat technical trick but it's not something most people are actually keen on using in my opinion.

My biggest problem with v2 is that you have to write software that specifically targets it. With v1 I could take any web application that can run in a Dockerfile and deploy it instantly with no changes. v2 requires me to write code that directly targets the Now v2 system (hence why the initial lack of "now dev" was so painful).

My second biggest problem with v2 is that the AWS Lambda build of Python 3 doesn't currently ship with the sqlite3 module, which is key to many of my projects.

From my perspective, Now v1 was genuinely my dream hosting environment. Now v2 is an interesting project, and it's great if your project is one that fits the AWS Lambda model well, but it's no-where near as appropriate for my projects as v1 was.
If ones believes success comes from privilege, one will never be successful.
"(yet)", but then it's still a dynamic language (no typing, not dynamic as in hip). The reason for python is mainly:

- it's easy to learn
- we've go numpy

If I were to pick a language to build significant infrastructure with, I wouldn't choose python.
Blender is more artist-oriented and maybe not the best suited for industrial design. But FreeCAD seems quite powerful and could be a good solution for you
Ironically, tether is pretty much immune from bank runs... because it's impossible to withdraw money at all.
I do hope they make some sort of official commitment to using parts of these funds to fund maintenance and development of the open source projects they are depending on, especially the smaller ones that need funding. They should earmark an official percentage, which could be subject to change in the future, but at least make it known.

Like 5% to Riot, 5% to Mastodon, 5% to K9.

Could also give to the GNOME Foundation, Linux Foundation, and OpenVPN, but I think those are pretty sustainable already.

I'd easily pay $10 a month for this if they make it clear they're going to give back to the open source projects included.
Tree-sitter syntax tree playground – incremental parsers compiled to Wasm
>1) State that their goal is to make their devices last longer.

Either a lie or they don't know what the word 'goal' means after shipping their devices with high failure rate keyboards?