skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Because we do not have the body of knowledge that tells us how to predict an anomaly is not worth pursuing. It would require a lot of major, expensive, long-term studies involving non- negligible chemical exposures in$ asymptomatic people in order to get a good idea of what the “healthy” anomaly looks like.

$ many of these MRIs require contrast material.

(2) Malpractice for a missed cancer in most states has an enormous lookback period and an automatic “doctor loses.” It doesn’t matter if the doc made a statistically appropriate call. So docs follow-up on anything but the most unambiguously benign lesions.
It's really interesting to see Carmack post this opinion (especially as it is two years old). I trust his insight and way of doing things, so it's fascinating to see even a glimpse of how he operates in a larger company where clearly their objectives and opinions won't always match his own.

I wonder in general if he's still bullish on Oculus (perhaps he is with VR in general though).
Well, yes. Ever since the old SGI 3D file browser [1], a true 3D interface approach has been terrible. Tilt Brush is probably the best success so far.[2] Even that, though, isn't very good for artistic work. It's just finger-painting in 3D.

Without force feedback, human positioning in 3D space is terrible. Maybe if we get usable VR gloves with force feedback, so you can grab a knob or lever and feel the movement, stops, and detents, it could be workable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckqNdrdbgk
> I never got why they didn't make it easy to flip up the camera part as a way to physically indicate it wasn't in use

Perhaps this might help?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
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This is data from a hospital. In the U.S. at least, a lot of MRI scans are done in outpatient centers, scheduled well in advance, and so utilization can be much higher. This would certainly be true of prophylactic scans.
It's barely working for Spotify and Netflix is testing ads.

Music and movies are highly repeatable and have production costs that users recognize and value. News and general content is not valued the same so nobody wants to pay for it. The severe dropoff in any paywalled site shows the effect of charging for news.
I’ve only been sending emails to offshore vendors about the things we have to do. I’m not sure if I’m truly managing a team of developers. The offshore vendor will write the specs, do everything from specifications to development to documentations.

All I was really doing was reviewing the work and then approve/reject their work.

Honestly, I’m not exactly sure I want to be more of a managerial role or developer. I do however fear that I may lose my technical knowledge in my current job since I only have to send emails to offshore vendors. My current job does make me realise the “freedom” I get from a managerial role that I will probably not get from a developer role though. I did consider transiting to a managerial role when I’m closer to my 40s or 50s if a managerial role is really so much less demanding than a developer role. But again, I’m not sure if my current job is a true reflection of what a managerial role is because it just feels insanely easy and comfortable.
First thing is to bother your politician. I wrote a rather disturbing email to my MP, for which I got an acknowledgement that she would go and look at the IPCC reports. A few relevant facts like >100 million barrels of oil consumed daily, human emission of CO2 in gigatons, and the possibility that we're already past tipping point. It was polite but really not a nice thing to read.

I do phone up product suppliers and ask them why they've overdone the packaging but if it's only me they will ignore me. I've bothered BP over their environmental damage in Africa, and much more. I'll continue to do more but in the end I despair because 90% of people don't care.

Were it not for health problems I'd be out in central london getting arrested with the other 1,000 or so arrests in the past few weeks.

So there's answers. But I've been talking about this, and doing stuff about it, for ~20 years and no-one gave a shit. Now it may be too late. So do as you please.
I think the pointless trap is often the patient. I worry less than some but more than many, and while I usually defer to my doctor's advice to leave most of life's little lumps and bumps be, it's a challenge for me to accept the unknown. I imagine that many patients will demand answers once they know that any anomaly exists, no matter how likely the benign explanation is.
> The scraping effort comes two years after Instagram admitted a security bug in its developer API allowed hackers to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of six million Instagram accounts. The hackers later sold the data for bitcoin.

Obtaining data through a security bug is very much different from scraping it from public sources, and not really something you can blame on the people the data is about, as your initial comment did. So lets wait and see if the question where the data comes from gets answered clearly before blaming people for being stupid.
The amount of effort that the word's governments are putting into curbing carbon emissions right now rounds to 0. Once we're actually trying on any meaningful scale, then it's worth having debates about whether our politics and policies are all correctly calibrated.

Right now we're still at a stage of getting people to wake the fuck up.
I'm a big fan of systemd.

Comprehensive, well organized, reliable, powerful.

It makes a consistent service from what was an evolutionary hotchpotch of stuff.

Whatever it is that the haters hate, I don't get.
If you'd like to write a PC-emulator in Javascript I can only tell you good-look. It can be done, it has been done for example <https://www.pcjs.org/>, but it will require the kind of low-level PC hardware knowledge which takes a while to come together.

Yes you'll need interrupts, but you'll need a hell of a lot more than that! If you're interested in learning about emulation then start with chip-8, or a similar simple system. Once you've done that you'll become much more aware of all the parts you're not aware of.

But seriously this is a lot of work, rewarding work, commercially useful work, but a throwaway comment "Lets do this in javascript with <canvas>" is a significantly understated commen suggests to me you don't understand the scope of what you're proposing - not that this should stop you, it would be rewarding. It's just a fine line between pondering "What if ..?" and being insulting to Terry.
I think that my comment, and the one you're directly replying to, are both describing win-win situations.
There’s always the next World Cup for that.
I’m assuming you meant “yes we see 3d surfaces in 2d” to be consistent with the parent comment? Also, I’m impressed that dolphins have that ability. How does projecting them to each other work biologically? Do they somehow encode what they see as sound (less lossily than humans do)?
Dijkstra’s A Disciple of Programming is a relatively gentle introduction to this programming style using examples.
Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics is a much more rigorous formal treatment of the same subject, but arguably a harder read.
Interestingly, I used the original for a week. The hands free camera was the only thing that I found useful about it, by the end.

This of course, might be partially attributable to the limited processing power of it.

However, if all people need is a screen in the periphery, smart watches and similar wearable tech is probably cheaper and easier.
Why? If the single payer purchased the cheapest drug from one of these manufacturers, you'd still have the same problem.
You can still use LineageOS with GApps to maintain stronger control over permissions.
I 100% agree it's all trade-offs. I think cost is important, but in that scenario it's going to cost them a lot more in time to split out and maintain several services. Devops was only one example. Their development speed will also likely slow down by a good margin as they now have to worry about inter-service communication and all that comes with it (keeping schemas aligned, making sure the services can actually talk to one another, etc.).

I think services are a useful tool but for most problems you can get incredibly far with a monolith. I think a solid approach is to identify where there's a bottleneck in your monolith and extract that instead of splitting the application up for the sake of having separate services.
Carrying a battery to a car / truck / tractor way out in the middle of nowhere ( US has those places ) would be extremely difficult. Regardless of their availability.

Bio diesel is renewable... batteries are not.
I find it odd how Americans try to convince themselves there are a lot of ways to be high class. A doctor might have slightly better standing than a plumber but ask yourself this, who would be served first in a restaurant, the doctor, the plumber, or the millionaire who just drove in on a Ferrari with a model on each arm?
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> None of this is anything remotely like GDPR-compliant, so far as I can make out.

A while ago android got slammed in (I think France) for hiding a privacy related option behind a single button. If that's the cutoff they'll probably be found to be in violation.

It won't come quickly of course, google got fined in 2018 for things they did in 2008/2009 ish? But at least people are documenting and reporting them. We can hope that in 10 years they'll get fined out of business.
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10-20 scans per day is a full days work in MRI for an 8-9 hour day. I’m an MR radiographer.
I don't think I understand what you mean.

I've known plenty of people who imagine they're being taken advantage of, but aren't working with their employer on it, and don't know the lay of the land.

I'm not convinced many people really know their value in the market / what their employer really thinks / is doing, but you'd have to know those things to really know if you're being taken advantage of.
The "It's hard to take risks if you don't have a safety net" thread that's been active today has plenty of evidence for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958301).

My argument is the flip side of (and generalization of) the usual claim that poor people are discouraged to try anything entrepeneurial.

Another competing claim could be that rich people are honestly less competent than poor people. I could easily argue against that one; IQ and conscientiousness are highly positively correlated with income, based on numerous sociological studies. People who dispute this fact have an agenda.
There's still some attempt being made, for example with json-ld[1].

Ultimately any kind of microdata has the same problems that OpenGraph or ye olde meta keywords etc. tags did, GOOG and Co. need to parse the human-readable content to confirm any extra data for bots is not a trick. Which tends to encourage them to just ignore it, at best it's a slightly more structured version of what they're scraping from the page, at worst it's a lie.

1: https://json-ld.org/
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The only notable improvement is switching to Android. (Which I kind of assumed they were built on originally.)

I can't fault Google for trying to salvage something from the epic fail of v1, but that product video still has the faint whiff of cluelessness about human factors that brought us glassholes in the first place.

Case in point: I'm not sure I buy the video clip of the doctor speaking to the "Actor portraying patient" with glass on displaying medical history. I don't know if the medical benefits of having my doctor seeing 3 lines of medical history ("tremors, arthritis, hearing aid") outweigh the weirdness factor of having to speak to a guy about sensitive medical issues with a freaky-looking wifi-enabled video recording device strapped to his face.

Also noted that the only black person in the video is an actor playing the role of a patient, as opposed to a professional playing him or herself like everyone else. I'm sure Google's intentions for more diversity are positive, but this particular implementation feels a bit hasty. It couldn't have been that hard to find a black professional in order to complete the diversity checkbox.

[edit: removed sarcasm about diversity, added context]
Listen to stuff from Dan Munro. Honest words, no BS.

You can start here: https://highexistence.com/dan-munro-honesty-podcast/
You’re very much correct, although I think the reality of the threat of wide scale contamination is often overstated.

To use Chernobyl as an example, since that’s the worst case of an airborne release from a nuclear plant that I know of, the absolute worst case in the case of a steam explosion breaching the other reactors’ containment was contamination of a significant portion of Europe.
Modern reactors are designed so that such things are almost impossible, even without competent operators.

The worst case for climate change is a mass extinction event. So while I agree with you that the worst case of nuclear is non negligible, the probabilities and scale of such events push me towards the opinion that nuclear energy is an extremely good option for limiting our use of fossil fuels in the near future.
You can't talk about the past and just forget all the context. The scale in people, services, and speed of connectivity make a massive difference. It's an entirely different world.

Also classifieds were a major source of revenue for many publications and it was destroyed by listing sites like Craigslist. Nobody talks about it but that was the first big blow to the old model.
Bosch was founded in 1897. Here Japanese cars made it big in the eighties. Korean cars in the last ten years. A local factory has produced Saab (now defunct), Porsche and now Mercedes cars, spanning about five decades? Maybe some consolidation but also I think there's a high amount of constant flux.
hemp... aka weed grows like a weed.

https://phys.org/news/2010-10-hemp-viable-biodiesel.html
OP edited their comment after I replied - fair points.
Well, eventually it seems Glass will become a full augmented reality system which basically relies on cameras to map the world
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Oh my goodness, if there was ever a reason to donate monthly to PBS, it’s for the old episodes of the Woodwright’s shop on their “PBS Passport” service.

That show, apart from being educational, is gentle and warm in the same was that the late great Bob Ross makes people feel from his show. It’s salve for the soul.
Do lawyers get something equivalent to RSUs? I know many software folks whose salaries might be <150K but after adding the value of the stocks they receive they go beyond 150K usually.
Is there an alternative init implementation that is compatible with systemd unit files?
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Leveling society's playing field is a far different scale of responsibility than a civil engineering designing a safe bridge or a doctor looking out for their patient. Societal level problems need societal level organizations to solve, such as governments.

We should be voting for policies that strengthen the nation as a whole. A VC giving up a few % point in return in exchange for betting on poorer people is not going to change anything, other than that VC losing investors. We want to fix families? Well let's guarantee parents have time home with their children, let's guarantee they have sick leave and parental leave and vacation leave to spend with their families. Let's provide more transit and infrastructure and education to communities that need it.

It will require a transfer of wealth.
Hi Geoff.
I'm not a kook (yeah, I am a kook) but I distinctly remember an Atari Lynx racing game with a Marlboro billboard in it. I remember thinking "wow, video games are going mainstream!" when 13-year-old me saw that, and how this was The Future. Advertising hasn't kept up with me, and I'm 44 years old. That's why I say it's not my problem.
Well if you are not including external costs, you can get a MRI machine at around $100k to $500 depending on your needs[0].

[0]:https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/IN-16CT-Hospital-Medi...
> Ironically, if we did go full nuclear, the oceans probably wouldn't have risen

Unlikely. I think the consensus is that the globe was already warming, humanity may have just sped it up.
No, that's not explicit. That's a few instances of "like launchd". Where M. Poettering actually is explicit about inspiration, xe writes the words:

> we took a lot of inspiration from Upstart's code-base

... which they actually did and continued to do, from observation. There were significant discussions amongst the systemd people involving the way that things worked with Upstart, including (for just three examples out of the many over the years) having to work like Upstart with respect to putting the X server on the first KVT, Upstart's handling of SIGPWR to process #1, and eliminating /dev/initctl because it was not really utilized in Upstart.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772915

* https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-Ju...

* https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-Se...

In comparison, there was almost zero similar consideration of launchd. The idea that launchd inspired systemd is a myth, not borne out by what M. Poettering explicitly wrote was the inspiration nor borne out by the evidence of what the systemd people did down the years.
>But breaking the law is not the way to improve it.

Breaking the law is exactly what Uber and Lyft did and now that they're on the other side they're whining about it.
Why a case against is not my favorite pattern.
A quote from George Foreman about longshoremen. What is real wealth?:

Mr. Foreman, who stared down financial collapse as an adult despite a troubled, impoverished childhood, said he knew real wealth when he saw it. “If you’re confident, you’re wealthy,” he says. “I’ve seen guys who work on a ship channel and they get to a certain point and they’re confident. You can look in their faces, they’re longshoremen, and they have this confidence about them...I’ve seen a lot of guys with millions and they don’t have any confidence,” he says. “So they’re not wealthy.”
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That is a pretty bad argument. Not everything that makes the most money is good and should be supported. There are other things to consider.
Right now, Germany, with Nord Stream 2, is acting in a way that threatens the security of Poland (EU's sixth largest country). If Germans, the supposed leaders of Europe do it, I can't see anyone else rising above their particular interests.
It's really frustrating to read about a sw product and not understand what it does. idk if I'm dumb, or it's a generation gap. Is this oya thing so complex it cannot be described in a way a fellow developer could understand?
I think I enjoy the freedom and that little amount of work that I only need a few hours a day to complete. It’s pretty easy most of the time. This is essentially what I love most about my current job.

I don’t think my company is going to be happy to know that I’m actually moonlighting at lunch time. I haven’t told any one at my company about my recent freelance gig teaching students programming during my lunch break.

I suspect I’m having all that freedom because it seems like nobody actually realise that my work can be done so easily.
> I think it is important to balance passion with your personal and social commitments. I hope you are doing that.

If I'm not, then that's the fault of my own behavior and isn't related to whether or not my employer is taking advantage of me. If my employer actively prevents me from being able to live a healthy life, that's a different matter entirely -- but I wouldn't be working there for long.
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Creative professionals rely on physical keyboards and buttons on the mouse for actions and only use spatial input for things that are spatially relevant (pan, placement, zoom, rotation, selecting surfaces, edges, vertices, etc).

That used to be true. Autodesk put a lot of effort into interfaces for engineering in 3D. In Inventor, you only need the keyboard to enter numbers or names. They managed to do it all with the mouse. Try Fusion 360 to see this; there's a free demo.
If anything that seems like it would make things worse - someone else, completely disconnected from your care, making decisions about what manufacturer should provide your drugs.

Government sourcing is riddled with plenty of cases of corruption and wrongdoing. Generally the worst case is that they overpay for something. With medicine, the worst case is that someone dies. I’ll pass.
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It does not, and it should not.
>> His identity is hardly a deep secret

Well, who is he then?
It's taken 30 years for someone to find a way to own the community around it. AOL sort of did this with their own DALnet software (AOL chatrooms).

Amusingly, I couldn't see why slack stopped doing IRC, essentially that's what it was. The one and only thing that let IRC down was the message limitation. Some clients didn't make it very clear when those messages were not sent.
One thing I've seen a lot in C code is a goto to a single exit point out of a function for common cleanup code
Most VCs I've met do have some kind of value system other than making money that permeates their investment decisions, it's just usually one that is easier to align or at least doesn't run contrary to their business interests, like making large systems more efficient or spreading access to goods and services traditionally restricted to the rich by driving down costs.

Socioeconomic mobility is really much easier to pull on with policy and the education system.

Some people do work on trying to democratize entrepreneurship though, like YC with startup school, or Stripe with Atlas.

They do it by spreading information and reducing barriers, not by giving money to higher risk people though, since that's easier to align with their place in the system.
Why does everyone assume the workers are screwing Uber/Lyft?

Uber/Lyft make more money this way. The passengers are getting screwed.