skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI for Diabetic Eye Disease in Australia and Asia
Interesting company that came out of Australian CSIRO (their Australian national research organisation) which does AI for eyes. Their DR software reportedly has sensitivity of >97% and specificity of 92% which is pretty decent. They are approved for use in Singapore and Australia, getting their CE and FDA pretty soon too according to their website. Could be one to look out for.
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Probably will want to scramble multiple times, each one randomly with realistic looking sentences (better yet - just take about 100 preprogrammed sentences and permute a subset of them), and making sure there is a random spread to the total number of edits for each post
Hey Ricardo, this is the author of the article. Not sure how carefully you read it. The editorial accompanying the JAMA paper, plus letters to the editor and analyses in other journals all criticized the original paper as not showing evidence of "brain damage." Leading physicists likewise say it's impossible for microwaves or ultrasound to cause brain damage. Plus, even if they had suffered actual concussions, most should have recovered in a matter of weeks at most. But while everything about the case is inconsistent with a physical attack, it's entirely consistent with functional or psychogenic disorders. You gotta check out the videos online of people with functional movement disorders to see how bizarre and powerful these things are. It's not like a kid whining at 8 am on a school morning, "I feel sick! I wanna stay home!" This shit is real and, as another person commented below, there are many cases in which fuel is added to the fire by well-meaning doctors and alarming press reports. The real "what ifs" come from the State Department insisting it was an "attack" based on zero evidence and despite at least six visits to Cuba by the FBI. Not that politics would ever enter into U.S.-Cuba relations.
"Conclusions: Our in vitro and in vivo studies show that coffee stimulates intestinal smooth muscle and inhibits gut microbiota in a caffeine-independent manner." That's astonishing — and unexpected, at least to this anesthesiologist.
Thanks! The compensation figures we collect are 'Total Compensation' and so we expect users to include that as part of the reported figure. Many companies factor refreshers into the total compensation they allocate to employees.

This relates to the first point in some ways. The vested value is actually what we care about. Part of the reason why tech salaries have skyrocketed in recent years is due to this. For employer B to attract someone employee at A, they have to match the employees current vesting value (otherwise it wouldn't make sense for employee to switch). The stock market has rallied (with ups and downs) for several years not and has driven the compensation up as a result.
I thought the federal government was able to from the whole San Bernardino shooting suspect's phone?
Thanks, that sounds right!
Bingo. Otherwise urgency has nil cost.
Yeah, even the name brand SD cards blow up for me after about 6 months. I've switched over to the Samsung "FIT" USB sticks that fit flush with the port, and boot off that. And leave the SDXC slot free for importing images from the camera.

So far, my experience has been SD cards faceplant by going read-only. They will mount rw, but a single write will cause a long hang, followed by a bunch of sd driver errors, and then it goes read only. It is still readable but will accept no writes, including blkdiscard (which gets translated into whatever the sd card equivalent for TRIM is).
>>> print len("Dear Uber, I need a ride from 26th and 6th Street, Brooklyn to 999 Broadway. I am on the south side of the road. It's 6:99PM UTC, I have 55% battery, my public key is b82c9238e847b. I like Jazz. My phone is a Pixel 3, I am using app version 4.22.4, but you probably already knew that. I am running out of things to add, so here is some personally identifiable information... and we still have plenty of bytes left")

Edit: formatting
It's not a recursive scam, but some of them are still situations where they convince people to buy in before they understand the demand, and then in order to recoup their costs they now have to resort to obnoxious techniques like inviting their entire Facebook contacts list to their virtual party. I think the term "scam" is removing the resellers from responsibility for their own situation, so "sham" is a better term. Others aren't scams at all, but simply business that usually involve obnoxious techniques like inviting your entire Facebook contacts list to your virtual party.
> And you can't have a distro out there without GNOME

cough cough Slackware cough cough Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu cough cough Tiny Core Linux cough cough the literal dozens if not hundreds of distros that ship with a desktop environment that's not GNOME or MATE or Cinnamon or some other derivation thereof cough cough cough
Unfortunately, the Unix terminal is a gigantic pile of hacks accumulated since the late 1960s. It's a miracle the software stack manages to stay upright at all; adding features and getting the entire ecosystem to support them would be tough. Introducing the concept of an external resource that has to be fetched doesn't seem impossible to me, but there are a lot of issues that would have to be thought through.

Anyway, one nice thing about TrueType/OpenType fonts is that the vector representation is extremely well compressed. SVG or similar would be an efficiency loss. In this light, fonts are actually a fairly decent and practical way to represent vector symbols that will be cached and reused. Maybe a minimal practical solution might be to add an ANSI extension that requests an appropriate font for a particular area of the screen, perhaps with a URL from which a specific webfont can be fetched.
from my anecdotal experience, it seems like the brand of car that assholes drive is determined mainly by the median income of the locale. in poor areas, assholes drive shitty old hondas. in rich areas, they drive bmws and mercedes. in california, you are quite right; they drive priuses.
I've been thinking of setting up a NAS like this for a while. Am I missing something, though, or does a setup like this need 5 or 6 power adapters to work (one for the Rock64, one each for the USB enclosure, and possibly one for the USB hub)?

Not a deal killer, for sure, but it becomes a mess of cables quickly.
IANAL but I thought there was no way to lose those rights, regardless of what contract you sign or web form you click on. That's why they're called rights.
> 1. It's not clear that AP Stat disadvantages students versus AP Calc.

This is what stuck out to me.

Isn't AP Calculus the obvious choice if you have to choose between AP Stats and AP Calculus?

1. Calculus is really, really useful. Maybe AP Stats is also useful, but singling out Calculus as an example of useless signalling sets off really loud alarm bells.

2. If you want a STEM/Engineering degree, at least one Calculus course is required. More importantly, often a long sequence of 2-4 courses (Calculus I, II, III and ODEs) are required. Because of that long list of sequentially dependent required courses, getting one or two calculus courses out of the way in high school is enormously useful (like, "graduate a semester earlier for each course" useful). AP Stats is not at the head of this sort of long sequential course dependency.

3. The AP Stats course has a major disadvantage: lots of colleges/majors that require a stats course don't accept AP Stats as credit because they require a calculus-based statistics course.
You'll no doubt soon be scolded for mentioning that quote, but it will continue to be relevant for as long as Zuckerberg's actions continue display that mentality. We'll soon have somebody telling us he said that years ago and people change, but the only thing that changed with Zuck is he became a bit more diplomatic and guarded with his language. Actions speak louder than words and Zuckerberg's actions speak clearly.

He's the same old dirt bag he ever was. Here are some fresh stories to back that up:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/21/facebook-...

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/14/18096008/facebook-zuckerberg-...
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A special relationship that's meant little since Suez, except during the Thatcher-Reagan years as they got on so well personally. Every PM since has tried to talk it up, whilst knowing their place full well. See Blair, the faithful poodle.

The rose-tinted mourning of the loss of empire and former superpower status (see this week's universally negative reviews of Rees-Mogg's jingoistic "history" book) amongst some in Britain is a good part of why many have such a negative view of Europe. Many don't feel part of it, but merely next to it, looking down. It's this that the Daily Heil keep talking up. A mindset which is really hard to understand, but it seems like they think that exiting will put us back as global superpower, trading with the world, and... err.

This from a Britain that sells off everything significant and worthy of pride we've ever done, or simply ruins it, and only just remains a blue-water navy. I'm not quite sure how this magic is ever meant to happen. :)

Staying a part of Europe makes far more sense to me, but after Brexit it will be really hard for those euroskeptics to continue to believe we count for much. The reality of our being a post-imperial insignificant little island might start to sink in, especially if the city decides to bugger off. Ironically, in the long run, we might end up better for that.
There's nothing wrong with future generations holding millennials responsible for their actions as well. It doesn't negate the argument and is a fairly weak position to take
This is so true and so maddening. I'm trying to learn this stuff, and there are so many things that just aren't documented, or documented in random obscure/dumb places. Does Apple really not care at all?
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Some companies doing it are listed on their Partners page, such as Ubimax or Picavi: https://www.google.com/glass/partners/
I believe the display is focused at a distance of about 8 feet so you shouldn't have an issue.
Nobody is starting a business with a new truck and a shop and an impound lot. They are starting with a 2001 F350 rollback with 400k on it and making a buck hauling anything and anything they can. They are parking it in their own driveway and doing roadside calls at 1am and moving machinery on the side. Then they eventually build that into the kind of business you've described.

Starting off in blue collar trades is very much a "fake it 'til you make it" deal.
I've had various iPhones and Androids over the years, most recently iPhone 6s+, 7+ and XR. I just yesterday bought a Oneplus 6T and am very happy with it.
I've had the Xr for a few months now and it's been my least favorite iPhone. For me, it's a little heavy compared to even the older pluses. And the display isn't all that much chop for a premium phone. I'm glad it's a work phone, because I don't think I would ever have forked out over $1200 AUD for it.
As much as I appreciate the privacy angle of the Apple ecosystem, it turns out that I've really missed just being able to install what I want on my phone. It's been liberating being able to customize what I want to not what Apple allows you to.
Also, with Oneplus phones, you really do get 'flagship' quality phones without having to fork out the money.
While I respect your opinion I don't agree.

First of all PRISM was not purely "a system for handling paperwork for lawful intercepts", see [0].

Second your assertion assumes that somehow all requests within these programs abided by "lawful purpose", which we also know is not true. Whether FISA rubber stamps were lawful is subjective and your opinion but not fact. Your answer purports a black and white perspective on the past which I simply don't find appropriately represents all the shades of grey presented by all of the legal angles during this time.

[0] https://dzone.com/articles/nsa-prism-%E2%80%93-mother-all-bi...
2019, when a headphone jack is a bonus.
> Doesn't that mean that the whole justice system in US is broken?

Plea bargains. That is all.
From the article:
"Schools of standard C produce graduates who are more ready for college. Schools of standard B produce graduates who appear more college ready."
I just left a job teaching community college in Iowa, who is now boasting the nation's highest high school graduation rate. Having taught community college in a different state, I can honestly say that many, if not most, community college students I saw were just not ready for college. Doesn't matter what the graduation rate, or even GPA was. They were just not ready for the responsibility. Far too many could not even be bothered to read directions.
How does Facebook make money selling data, specifically as it's different than selling ads? I thought their revenue stream was 100% ad-driven.
I insist that my local trap car only vend organic, ethically- and locally-sourced fair trade heroine. And an extra dollar from every purchase goes to the Ronald McDonald House.
I looked at the price of a Tesla the other day and thought it was too expensive.

doesn’t really say much, I could be in a bad financial position, Tesla could be expensive or I have a different preference to spending my money or I don’t love the environment enough ;)
Agreed. Also, there's a big difference in building a doghouse, tent, home and skyscraper or bridge. Not all of them require the same rigor and planing. Beyond this, a lot of organizations don't allow for pushback from development to cover for clearing technical debt.

None of this accounts for the fact that over half the software industry has less than 5 years of experience and less than 25% has over 10. People with less than 5-10 years of experience can be brilliant, but there are things you learn with experience. First and foremost is the ability to push back and say, "No, it can't reasonably be done in X timeframe." Actually using scrum process to break things down in to chunks that can be swallowed. Not allowing mid-level developers to use "enterprise patterns" everywhere, especially when they increase complexity and fail to provide real value to the project.

Preplanning and the level it takes will depend on the scope of the project and the use case. A heart monitor or guidance system isn't the same as an eCommerce or entertainment website. Engineering discipline isn't required for the latter, but is for the former examples.
Zola: Fast static site generator with everything built-in Rust
Sounds like our kids could be great friends.
Where are people supposed to get their drugs then?
If you consider peace of mind, backup in the event of fire, not having to maintain hard drives after failure, energy cost (and Apple running iCloud on renewables)... the $10/month iCloud account (2 TB) account is quite cost competitive with doing it myself...
I agree. I’m sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but it’s bizarre how fashionable it is to advocate vaguely for “social justice” while directly financing gang and cartel violence. Sure, you can blame the government for making it inconvenient to get affordable, conflict-free drugs, but what does that say about your commitment to social justice if you’re willing to bankroll violence because it’s a more convenient way to indulge your leisure activity?
I just tried and confirmed Gmail requires a recover phone number or email for standard set up. And Gmail gives you an option to recover with SMS =\
I think “Idiot with a car loan”. As Dave Ramsey says, the auto loan is the scourge of the middle class.
This article goes into just how much you can make as an influencer:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/28/18116875/influencer...

From the article:

> What do influencers charge per post?

> It depends on the influencer, and their follower numbers. A micro-influencer, which is someone that has 10,000 to 50,000 followers, is actually pretty valuable. They used to only pick up a couple hundred bucks, but today, they get a minimum of a few thousands dollars a post.

> Influencers with up to 1 million followers can get $10,000 [per post], depending on the platform, and 1 million followers and up, you’re getting into territory where they can charge $100,000. Some can even get $250,000 for a post! Especially if the content is on Youtube and the influencer is in the gaming industry.

> How much do typical influencers make annually?

> People with smaller followings [who are known as nanoinfluencers] can make between $30,000 and $60,000 a year. The micro-influencers can make anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000. Celeb influencers make way, way more.
People see the royal family as both a living link to their past and a unifying force for the nation that is above mere politics.

Add to this the fact that the Japanese royal line is by far the oldest in the world and that the Emperor is also the head of the Shinto religion.
> Obviously there are downsides to putting images in your source. After you do that, your code is no longer ascii, and it won't be something you can edit with vi, emacs, or any non-Racket IDE.

Emacs handles images.
idk what it's like where you live, but in my city the overwhelming majority of murders are linked to the illicit narcotics trade. maybe they would think of some other illegal shit to kill each other over if drugs were legalized, but I find it hard to believe that the violence wouldn't subside a bit if their main revenue stream were cut off.

also, it seems questionable to extrapolate the outcome of legalization in the US based on data from mexico.
Do you really need to buy a Ford car in 2019 ?

I mean if nobody has any jobs, why would anybody buy a Ford car ?
They did get into his phone
> Because cooking has turned into something social somehow ...

This comment boggles the mind. I would wager that probably for thousands of years, cooking has been a communal (if perhaps gendered, good riddance) affair, and only with the advent of the unemployed housewife of the 50s suddenly the kitchen is seen as this private affair.

But i guess i'm the wrong person to be commenting, because generally i'm no fan of all this extreme individualism :)
Is clojure welcome in these communities? It’s my first lisp, but after 3 years of using it, it’s become quite dear to my heart. I’ve been learning about roguelikes while diving into a pixi.js interop.
> sysvinit was at least a thousand times easier than bsd init scripts

¿Qué?

I guess we'll have to beg to differ here, but I prefer OpenBSD's (for example) init system over sysvinit or systemd any day. rc.subr is a godsend for eradicating all the boilerplate that "justified" switching to systemd. Enabling/disabling a daemon is as easy as adding a line to /etc/rc.conf.local (or just running "rcctl enable mydaemond", which does that for me). No fiddling with symlinking scripts to runlevel-specific folders (or, in fact, dealing with runlevels at all; if I need single-user mode, that's what bsd.rd is for).

One of these days I'd love to start ripping out the initscripts on my Slackware machines and replace them with something closer to OpenBSD (or hell, I wonder if I can just port OpenBSD's init to Linux?).
>China, is somewhat predictable in their actions

Yeah, wow, it must be completely impossible for someone without decades of US residency or decades of intense interest in the US to understand the US government!

I like to flatter myself that after 58 years of living in the US, I have recently started to be able to predict most of the major decisions of the US government. (Youtube videos of speeches and interviews by Peter Zeihan and George Friedman helped me in my understanding. Most of the senior editors and reporters at, e.g., the New York Times and the Washington Post, although passionately interested in the US government, have only a shallow understanding of it IMO.)
Isn't that what they've done? The 6800K had been slightly faster than the 2700X, now it's significantly slower. The 8700K had been significantly faster than the 2700X, now it's slightly slower (and yet more expensive). The same for the 7980XE and the 2990WX.
I remember when I used to actively develop Mac apps, about a decade ago, Apple actually released an XCode version where they spent a bunch of time during the WWDC dev tools keynote going over the improved integrated documentation system.

I am surprised to hear that Apple docs have gotten so bad. They used to be really good, with detailed, well written documents that not only described how to do things, but why they should be done that way.
OK, so I wasn't too far off in my (not-yet-Rust-programmer) interpretation of "duck typing is good (or at least more flexible)"?
This stuff imo should be a assigned based on application business value and the standard that it is built. If an app isn’t resilient, no after hours or priority response. If it’s a tier-0 or human life is impacted, it’s always critical. If it’s business critical and running on FoxPro, cap the response level.

Allow someone with juice to escalate on request to reduce the urge to escalate easily.

You also need to not suck. If a severity 4 means abandon all hope, than you suck, and severity level is just a proxy for squeaky.
Did Nintendo Copy Mario's Music? (Not Exactly.)
I'm tired of even $400-500 every 2 years, for seemingly the same thing over and over. I'm going to do battery replacements as long as the device survives. (I'm 2 battery replacements into my Nexus 6P).
Cartels do not only sell drugs, they are systems of diversified private security corporations and paramilitary groups which have emerged out of the previous iterations of violence and loss of governmental order which was a symptom of national narcotrafficking disputes in the previous decade. Basically a large portion of the Mexican Government effectively is infiltrated by cartels which also function with public support, hence the mudering of journalists and politicians...cant have people speak out and show that cartels are bad now can we?

If you had a time machine and could boycott drugs in the 1980s then it would have had an impact...now not as much.
> Introducing the concept of an external resource that has to be fetched doesn't seem impossible to me, but there are a lot of issues that would have to be thought through.

I agree that an external resource is a lot of hurdles. What I had in mind while writing the reply was a stripped-down version of TrueType, with only a single `glyf` table allowed (probably with a minimal version of the `head` table as well). Judging from how icon fonts are used today, this might even be possible without a persistent font state.
I'm really interested to know how companies can measure ROI on influencers, the spend > conversion flow just doesn't make sense to me.
Are my Math-Research-Programming skills worth nothing?
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> /etc/rc.local was first declared obsolete in the BSD world and replaced by a system of drop-in files in a directory back in 1995.

OpenBSD still documents it as an implicitly-recommended way to start programs (though if it's possible to start it via e.g. rc.(local.)conf, then that's obviously preferable).
I'm talking about the cryptographically verified part.
Either you are using a package manager to manage versions, roll back, lock versions,etc.

Or you use docker.

Not entirely sure if a standalone script with no versioning is the best way to do this in day and age.
Its only unrealistic because so much tooling was built to avoid sending multiple files. JS tools for bundling every js file in to one, sprite sheets, using multiple domain names to get more concurrent connections. With HTTP2 we could dump so much of this.
Is an employer allowed to use code to discriminate against female employees? No, that's outrageous. Apple and Google should take the high road.
Doubtless many of the industry's well-to-do patrons do offset this somewhat by boycotting plastic straws, single use coffee cups and the like.