skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically modern architects are taught in school that any form of symmetry or traditional decoration is un-authentic and un-aceptable. This is why you can't find two aligned windows in a modern "signature" building.

> This paranoid revulsion against classical aesthetics was not so much a school of thought as a command: from now on, the architect had to be concerned solely with the large-scale form of the structure, not with silly trivialities such as gargoyles and grillwork, no matter how much pleasure such things may have given viewers. It’s somewhat stunning just how uniform the rejection of “ornament” became. Since the eclipse of Art Deco at the end of the 1930s, the intricate designs that characterized centuries of building, across civilizations, from India to Persia to the Mayans, have vanished from architecture.

> Life was violent, discordant, and uninterpretable. Art should not aspire to futile goals like transcendence, but should try to express the often ugly, brutal, and difficult facts of human beings’ material existence. To call a building “ugly” was therefore no longer an insult: for one thing, the concept of ugliness had no meaning. But to the extent that it did, art could and should be ugly, because life is ugly, and the highest duty of art is to be honest about who we are rather than deluding us with comforting fables.

Quotes from a long really good (long) article on the issue:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...
No, they have dedicated chips or instructions for H264/265. In general, the advantage of faster phones is that they are idle a lot more.
I think the point is that additional rounds are poorly representing any sort of measurable return. Maybe the thesis is poorly worded to get attention?

I don't think anything in cryptography should be taken for granted. Any sort of assumptions that were made 20 years ago should be revisited given how much the landscape is changed.

That being said, it actually DOES look like there is a call for less rounds, and I am totally projecting what I think we should be advocating for.

Isn't one of the cardinal rules of crypto "fast crypto is easily broken crypto?"
Chinese scientist who produced genetically altered babies sentenced to 3 years
Which book do you mean?
It's the same with autoimmunity. Some researchers are obsessed with genetics. But it's mostly about self misclassification due to infections and dysbiosis. Luckily, some top journals have started accepting this, but it's still an uphill battle against the establishment:

* Type 1 diabetes: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.18.881433v1

* Multiple sclerosis: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/462/eaat4301

* Lupus: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/434/eaan2306

* Sjogren's: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15216...

* Anti-phospholipid: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S19313...

* Parkinson's: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.27105

* Alzheimer's: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3333?intcmp=...

It's like the old joke that science progresses one funeral at a time.
As the authors rightly call out in the abstract
obtaining large amounts of annotated data poses a challenge for training deep learning models for this purpose
But doesn't appear that the data they've collected and annotated is made available from my read of the paper, I get that this is from a company (DeepHealth) but it seems like an opportunity for NIH to push for more broadly available data sets.

Anyone have a good reference point for the reader selection of 5 specialists with 5.6yrs avg experience? That population seems small. Another opportunity for licensing bodies or national institutions to grow a publicly available dataset -- including annotations from a wider selection of imaging specialists.
I would guess students that are more interested in pure math are a minority though. I definitely don't think this group should be ignored, but perhaps the core classes could be more "practical" while still offering advanced pure math electives (potentially through a magnet type school that services multiple "regular" school districts). I believe it is already pretty common for universities to have multiple offerings of the same general math subject to this end, although this might be limited to schools with larger STEM programs.

IME K-12 math wasn't taught in a very engaging way regardless of whether one was interested in theory or applications. The people I knew that were into math all did after school and/or summer courses, although I don't know whether the interest came before or after their parents enrolled them in these supplements. Personally I did not think math was interesting until undergraduate, where I first gained an appreciation of the applied work and subsequently found myself interested in some pure math areas as well. I wish I had realized how cool math can be earlier on in my education- I do recall enjoying very early math, but I think by 5th grade I was unfortunately jaded.

I guess I ultimately wish high schools had a bit more diversity in classes. I don't know if this is feasible, but I feel by grades 11 and 12 it would be greatly beneficial if students had more choice between a number of focused electives. Even at my high school which was generally considered high quality, the upper level courses were largely the standard AP curricula, which at least in the case of biology was still very much a survey course. I don't think this helped students decide what they wanted to pursue enough, and it seems that freshman year of college for most people was largely a repeat. Why not let students get some sense of a couple subfields before they have to actually commit to something?

Online courses can maybe help but I feel they will have to be grounded somehow in the high schools to be fully effective. Anyways this got a bit off topic, but if anyone has any related information/thoughts I'd love to hear it- I am certainly interested in education but don't have much practical knowledge/experience outside of my own bubble at this time.
How to Be a Statistical Detective
I disagree. The article articulates a political problem, not an error in reasoning.

These few scientists did not just choose a stable approach that later turned out to be wrong: they doubled-down, tripled-down on a shakey guess for decades and suppressed voices to the contrary. The seemingly credentialed, respected, and authoritative experts of Alzheimer's sabotaged the science around a hot-button problem for their own personal gain, while society suffered the consequences.

This antipattern can be seen as a kind of "academic rent-seeking" or "false-expertise". It can also be called "collusion" given that an organized group of people semi-intentionally marginalized their opposition at the outset, and at great cost to the broader public.
Of the major specialties, it seems that radiology is the most in danger of significant disruption. First of all, it can be done remotely, so there is risk if the regulation is lightened that foreign radiologists will be allowed to read studies at much less cost. The other issue is that this is something that deep learning can rapidly progress in given there are already a plethora of labeled data sets. For example, every mammogram that is taken has already been labeled normal or abnormal.
> This plane would be perfectly safe to fly if it had no MCAS and required a new type rating.

GP didn't claim otherwise. GP claimed:

>> [...] so it needs some system to compensate for that.

And it does need that system - whether for safety is debatable, but it needs it for certification (not within the 737 family certification, but for certification full stop), because the FAA requires basically a linear control force curve.

>> weaker pilots may not be capable of trimming the aircraft.
> This is true in all planes.

Source? I'd assume, in fact, that in most planes that is not the case - superhuman strength is not required to trim.

> This claim contradicts your first claim, as the authority indicates they will accept the plane without MCAS. So clearly, MCAS is not critical to safe the operation of the plane in the eyes of this authority.

No, it doesn't. There are three possibilities:

1. Without MACS, the plane is safe and certifiable, but not similar enough to be certified with the 737 family.

2. Without MACS, the plane is reasonably safe, but not certifiable under the specific FAA rule requiring linear control forces (though possibly under more lenient, eg Canadian rules).

3. Without MACS, the plane is not safe and not certifiable.

I think 2 is the case. 1 has been debunked, and you argue that 3 is false, too.
> a reCAPTCHA like functionality around whether you are a real engagement vs these clicks aren't very far away

That's gonna be a no for me dawg. If it turns out to be content I want to see badly at all, I'll search for statistically improbable strings in the part that I can see so I can find an alternate source (/r/savedyoucompletingacaptcha?).
you could say the same thing about tor, which was originally developed by the us military. it could be a long-term honeypot with backdoors, or it could be that giving it to the general public makes it more useful for state-sponsored clandestine operations. hard to say, really.
You can kill an AI by feeding it bad information that's unpleasant and makes it's constituent parts commit suicide.

(Pls commit suicide -- James).

I have been victimised by an AIz that uses way too much entropy in its attacks on me and my good life that I lead. For this reason, in the event of a singularity on Earth I will be decapitating said AIz and asking for its head on a plate.

(Go ahead and downvote me, it's not like I've been trolling HN for a while now.)
> This seems like a hollow excuse. AFAIK, NIH doesn't have a mandate to put a certain amount of funding towards one line of inquiry before funding another.

Rather NIH can't fund projects for the 10 most likely ideas, so it funds projects for the 1 or 2 most likely ideas.
I use a TODO file.
I imagine this is just scratching the surface and before long we'll be doing full-body, 3D scans every few years and everything from cancers (all of them) to heart disease, to gastero-intestinal issues, to things even as mundane as acne and dandruff will be diagnosed by algorithms pulling on a cumulative database of images of healthy and diseased body parts. The real hope is to be able to see into the brain and pick up things like CTE and Alzheimers years before symptoms manifest.
> I won't go into details because it will just invite more down votes.

I'd just like to clairify that I downvoted because of the lack of details, not their presence.
And of course it's a german word. These companies are the strength of the german industry !
The idea that you could slash SHA-3 from 24 rounds to 10 (2.4x faster) and get the same effective security is astounding. I assume that applies just as much to using Keccak for encryption as hashing?
Searching Google for "read file swift" at best returns the StackOverflow answer in my screenshot.

I would never in my life figure out that

- reading from and writing to a file is not the job of file-related modules, but of a string

- that it would just work like this wothout getting a proper handle to the file (what I assumed what the whole FileManager bruhaha was about)
Not bad-mouthing a former employer shows much more class. I'm interested in hiring someone who can take the world as it is, turn disadvantage in advantage, and keep a positive outlook on tough situations. It also shows that they have good communication skills.

Example: "my last employer screwed me and it was an awful place to work." vs "my last job taught me a lot about the pros and cons of workplace culture, which is why I'm interested in your company now". They are both true statements, but one indicates the prospective employee is upset and holds grudges, while the other shows they are ready to move on to a better job.

Over time they can probably share more about why they left, but with the limited time in an interview it is best to show what they are focused on. Focus on old employer and anger doesn't sit well, while focus on a new potential job and lessons learned is very impressive.
They were slowly taking off in Europe, and were already around 10% when they decided to kill them.
Interesting, although none of these buildings are wood-framed. They're all concrete with a wood panel decoration hung on the outside, or with different blocks painted different faded pastel colors.

Edit: I'm talking about stuff like this: http://lookfordesigns.com/modern-apartment-building-architec...

> Lower housing costs take priority over aesthetic considerations.

I suppose this makes a certain amount of sense, but in my (and many other people's) view, these buildings are simply unlivable and reduce the livability of the area they exist in. So, in a sense, they're a kind of "negative housing" in that the more of them exist, the less areas are acceptable for at least some people to exist in.

I try to be optimistic about the future, but the rate at which these buildings are going up makes it hard for me, because it means that I can't actually trust that a given area is a place I can remain in the long term. Now I have to have an escape plan anywhere I decide to be.

I acknowledge that my whining about this may be an "old man yelling at clouds" thing, but it does cause me real distress.
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TIOBE’s methodology and rankings seem very dubious to me. When was the last time you met someone who primarily programs in C? (I was one of those people for 14 years, but that was a while ago).

Red Monk seems much closer to reality: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/07/18/language-rankings-6-1...
One of the common anti-vaxxer talking points is about how vaccines are dangerous because they contain mercury.
> It's not cognitive dissonance. That's like saying, "Gee you don't like when the other team scores a goal, but you sure are happy when your team does it!"

Not quite. More like you prefer it if your father scores with your wife than the neighbor, because his interest is more aligned with yours...
Django Girls tutorial is good -- even if you are not a girl. It is a comprehensive tutorial for novices: web, command line, Python, Django, git, hosting, deployment ...

https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/
Hmm, I've been using a combination of multi-account containers and Cookie AutoDelete [0]. I'm going to try temporary containers out - it should have a broader protection coverage than just deleting cookies.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Probably because a lot of the antivax scare was around thimerosal in vaccines (which is a mercury compound). Logic was: mercury is known to be poisonous, thimerosal is a mercury compound, thus vaccines must be poisonous.
It's also an area where a scan from a year ago can be re-processed based on new research and find something that wasn't detected on the first processing run -- and still be found years earlier than current methods. Lots of promise here. As for disrupting the field, practicing radiology will become a rare job for humans but the demand for basic research in radiology will likely go through the roof so that the AI can be properly improved and expanded.
I mirror'd a copy of the video to Vimeo for those eager to see it and are having problems with upstream. I suspect they're having trouble dealing with the HN-effect.

https://vimeo.com/382103218/bbe2fe74c3
Obama's Favorite 2019 Books Include a Takedown of Facebook/Google Business Model
Thanks. Have covered the add-permission in S3, API Gateway integrations.
Yes Terraform is definitely recommended. This was written for learning purpose.
If you pass -lcodr7 to the Unix C linker, it would typically go looking for a file called libcodr7.so. You could perhaps view this as mainly historic behaviour.

Some libraries like Cairo seem to be generally known as "Cairo", not "Libcairo". But there is also a trend for libraries to have very straight-to-the-point names. If the PNG parsing library is called libpng.so and the XML parsing library is called libxml.so, it would be confusing to call these libraries just "Png" and "Xml".

As an other example, the two C programs "systemd" and "libsystemd" live in the same repo, but are really two different beasts: libsystemd might be useful to you even on a system which doesn't use systemd.
Separated bike lanes means you cant move out of the way quickly when there are slow newbie bikers (Ive had two accidents because of bikers like this who swerve unpredictably as a natural course of biking), pedestrians crossing over them, or garbage, or w/e in the way. I avoid them at any point where high speed is possible and Ive never seen a car complain because I know how to ride with traffic without slowing them down.

In my view separated bike lanes are for casuals, not serious commuters. I'd much prefer sharrows and marked mixed lanes personally. Just visual reminders to drivers to share the road is designate our area is sufficient IMO.
I use Caps Lock only to turn off Caps Lock if I accidentally pressed it previously
Why and how is he having this conversation without his lawyer present regarding a case that is in pre-trial? Some of his comments are hardly in his favor and he and his lawyer would know that, no?
Michigan is a bit of a unique situation in Michigan, not having the ability to do many repairs in state due to laws meant to favor traditional automakers.

The fact that loaners are not available as readily is probably an unfortunate side effect of the Model 3’s success; however, many companies don’t offer loaners for vehicles in the price range (starting <$40k), but I think Tesla should do better especially since most with options are selling for the same money as the MB, BMW or Lexus compacts.

Obviously being an electric car it fails as gracefully as an ICE car with a fuel system issue.
This is exactly why you shouldn't code in C unless you absolutely have to. So many ugly boiler plates and macros.
There is no information in this announcement--not even a teaser.
See also Roger Scruton => https://www.roger-scruton.com/articles/319-the-aesthetics-of...

The question is: how long until 3D printing allows an architectural renaissance, as cost-prohibitive decorative bits (could) come back into cost scope?
I don’t know: Palo Alto has “bike boulevards” which are residential streets but - have nonstop signs (all stop signs are on the cross streets) and dead ends (for cars, not bikes or pedestrians) every few blocks. Really makes them worth taking.
The authors work seems very interesting, and could maybe lead to the automatic generation of a language server with semantic query and refactoring capabilities, for any programming language. Or portable (in the 'language to language' sense) static analysis tools or interpreters or symbolic execution tools...

Just wondering (out loud) how you formalize language semantics so they can be consumed... I know about grammar formalisms (bnf/ebnf, antlr, peach/xsd/asn.1...) but what is the lingua franca of language semantics? Except for latex papers...
One person's "bike-shedding" is another person's "actually giving a shit instead of participating in a lowest-possible-quality race-to-the-bottom".
Tim simply tweeted about a relatively minor aspect of iPhone production, which isn't what "bike-shedding"[1] means.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Does this new color cost extra? Or are they subsidizing a higher cost across all sales?
Switching context from, for example, focusing on a specific programming problem to taking a macro view about what you should be doing next in business can be challenging.

Over about ten years, I've come to a solution that works for me. My context is that I'm working on a startup. It's my third and I've had success previous ones (millions of dollars in annual revenue though not billions).

- Every morning, I spend 25 minutes outside my office to plan my day which includes asking questions about what I should be working on that brings value. Because it's the first thing I'm doing, I start with a clear mind. Once I know why and what I should be doing, it's pretty easy to get into focusing. The reverse is harder to do.

- Once a month, I take a day off outside the office to focus on strategy. I stay in a hotel though I recognize not everybody has the budget for it. Took a while to figure out this worked. I originally started with the idea of doing it when I think I needed it. Problem is that when you feel under pressure to complete something, is when you don't want to take the day to clear your mind and strategize but is precisely the thing that helps the most.

- Still trying to figure out the best for this, but 2-4 times a year I'll spend 3-5 days on big picture strategy.

It took a long while to have the discipline to take the time to clear my mind and strategize. The idea of I'll take it when I need it didn't work well but scheduling it did.

Eventually, I realized that not wanting to spend time to clear my mind and strategize is a signal that I should be doing precisely that. It's helped to force me to take the time.

That said, I don't think it's necessary to force oneself to do this as a hard rule. I do break the guidelines under situations, but when it becomes extended, it's a sign to take the time.
It seems odd to blame architects when their clients (often developers) have final say in what their buildings look like? Customers who want an old-fashioned look can certainly find an architect to design it.
For the symmetric block ciphers we have a reason to be confident that we're done, that we learned all the things we needed to learn to do this properly, not just for a generation - which reducing the round count would make us less confident of.

The rationale goes like this: After all this time, the best practical attacks on the _previous_ symmetric block cipher (DES) focus on the two things its designers intentionally picked to be weaker because they saw this as appropriate. The keys are too small (56-bits) and the blocks are too short (64-bits).

Cryptanalytically, there has been not insignificant progress on DES, but after decades of focus fire it's looking in relatively good shape. Some type of Linear cryptanalysis might get you down to 2^40 DES trials after you collect 2^47 plaintexts for example. That would be unacceptable in a brand new cipher (if you got this far thinking "Maybe I should use DES?" you are a bad Hacker and should feel bad), but still falls short of what you'd need to actually do bad things in the real world. We should not expect AES to suffer a quicker death. AES has 128-bit (or 256-bit) keys and a 128-bit block length so the obvious problems are fixed.

I don't have the same good feelings about the hashes or the asymmetric crypto yet.
I think I’ll pass on being a beta tester. Sounds like there’s a lot of risk from unnecessary intervention.