skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got me thinking... How long till AWS DeepPhysician? They don't seem to have a clear cut on the limit of the scope of their services. Joke apart, what would be the implications and responsibilities of big tech entering the medical field?
What are the numbers though? Having unnecessary procedures done because of false positives from a screening test can absolutely kill people, but so can wearing a seatbelt. People drown and burn up all the time because they couldn't get out of a wrecked vehicle.

There is presently some set of screening tests with varying levels of sensitivity and specificity, and they aren't all appropriate for mass screening. However, if millions of people started regularly getting non-ionizing imaging done through MRI or ultrasound or infrared or whatever, we would learn a shitload about predicting maladies and likely save quite a few more people than we kill in the process.
Augmenting Template Languages to Create React-Like Components
Just wondering, what country is this?
Blocked in U.S., Huawei Touts ‘Shared Values’ to Compete in Europe
China benefits from conflict with America. It foments exactly this kind of reactionary nationalism.

The US during the Cold War could rally around large national programs (e.g. space race) and wars (e.g. Vietnam) because there was a foreign enemy. That enemy could be foreign actor (Russia) or an idea (communism) or a person (Saddam, for example.)

The spirit of "do your part" is deeply appealing to our core desire to form tribe. The strongest sense of Us comes from a Them.
Euclid used his geometry to solve problems... its practical utility is what made it last for so long.
The only feedback I have been given (if I get any response after asking) has been "we were looking for someone more senior". And an instance where I was asked to "implement a JSON parser" in 20 minutes where the interviewers feedback was "solution was not complete enough". I'm not sure if I don't sound like I know what I'm talking about or if my algo experience is lackluster? I've also been careful to not focus too much explaining my exit from FAANG.
I was wondering whether it would be a benefit for them to be knocked by the American govt in some places. I guessed for sure in the ME but I'm a bit surprised about India, I would have figured they would be more on the US side. Or is it that they just benefited from increased name recognition rather than name recognition tied to being harried by the US
If the trading isn't happening on the ledger, then there is no way to really know what transactions are genuine. The volume shown by these exchanges is just numbers on a display: it could be anything, unless these exchanges actually answer to someone, why should we trust their numbers?
Agreed, I was an EE at Purdue but still familiar with Xinu from CS clubs. Didn't expect to see it on HN, but a fun throwback!
How to Create a Genesis Block for a New Blockchain with Node.js
You had me until that last part.

Why is React superior to Razor Templates (or for that matter, Razor pages) for server side templating?

I support the assertion that it’s a good paradigm for creating consumable SSR templates I just don’t see anything that empirically cuts it above Razor other than if you know JSX/JavaScript it’s obviously more natural but I’m assuming that’s taken for account here
It Sure Was a Big Year for the 'Call-Out Culture' Wikipedia Page
Sanctions work best as a threat in theory, rather than a actual threat. They do work, just look at Iran. It has to be a United front though
A Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines
Ask HN: How much energy does auto playing all videos consume daily?
Ignoring my personal relationships because I put too much time and focus on reaching the goals for my side business. I did reach the goals I set out to do in the beginning of 2019, it gave me hope to move forward with this project and potentially work on it full time. But I often canceled weekend plans with my boyfriend, ignored things he wanted to do, because frankly the idea of being able to build my own brand is an idea I'm so excited for and I just can't wait to prove that I can reach my goal.

I learn that relationships, just like businesses or work, the more commitment you put in, the more result will show. Also, it's important to balance work and life and make expectations clear.
The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
> I feel like I've picked the wrong career or that something is wrong with me - I sincerely appreciate any help or advice any of you are generous enough to offer.

The problem here is that the barrier to becoming a 'developer' these days is being lowered every week due to the millions of other 'developers' attending bootcamps or graduating from university just like yourself. CS is still a lucrative career option, its just that hiring managers can't deal with the same abundance of devs to choose from and will select those from their internal professional network or recommended by their own colleagues. This applies to everyone entering the field.

It's even harder for juniors and more difficult if you have little to no experience, thus resorting into doing the coding interview lottery (Which is deliberately rigged to waste your time). I don't see why someone like you with open-source contributions and with some experience still end up in this interviewing game. Perhaps with the background you have, you could create your own startup with some former colleagues to join, or obtain multiple referrals from current employees before applying. Both have varying degrees of risk and possibly have a 50:50 chance of going either way.

But if I saw a junior developer that created a profitable startup or side-project with several employees, it tells me that they're clever enough to apply their skills into practice, very quick to learn and they get lots of experience for free. That is a standout junior which I would bet on to easily train to become senior.
So does US also similarly benefit from having this conflict with China? Seems like people don't really care about it as much as they do about the opposing party.
1. Hit leetcode hard

2. Increase your applications. You should be applying all day, at least get hundreds of apps.

3. Improve your resume, have a friend look at it. Consider leaving off your 8mos stint. May be making you look like a poor performer. Instead you could describe the time since then as spent on your side projects.

4. Reach out to your personal connections about potential roles. These are most valuable especially since you had some bad luck that doesn't make your resume look so great. If you don't have good connections, you should look to improve that at your next job, but try tech meetups in your area. Read one of those networking for programmers books.

Lastly, be confident. You may not have a ton of experience in one technology, but I'm sure you're a fast learner. Experience as a junior is a bit overrated. Stop going into interviews with the hope they'll give something to you, and start going in with the question of what they can provide for you.
What exact behavior of Google are we talking about here? I'm pretty sure they do mine emails for their own ad targeting. On the other hand, I'm equally sure they handle the information securely and don't pass it on to anyone else.
IMHO if we look at the global scale, we might as well optimize tons other software or operating systems before. Or we could force-enforce SPF and DMARC and kill a lot of e-mail spam and save power like that. Reducing cryptosystems' safety margins doesn't just seem optimal to me.
Really? My impression was that the political environment was very unstable right now. I am aware that it's not an incredibly dangerous place, I've had a few friends visit and I've met some govt or pseudo govt people from there when I worked for the Estonian gov because they liked our e-gov initiatives and it seemed very interesting.

Ghosn becoming the President would be quite a twist, I wouldn't have been shocked if that happened before but now that he's been charged with crimes abroad that seems like an odd choice to elect someone who may be wanted abroad for crimes and who may have to deal with leaders of those nations for trade deals, aid, etc.
Direct from Wikipedia:

As an alpha emitter, plutonium-239 is not particularly dangerous as an external radiation source, but if it is ingested or breathed in as dust it is very dangerous and carcinogenic. It has been estimated that a pound (454 grams) of plutonium inhaled as plutonium oxide dust could give cancer to two million people. However, ingested plutonium is by far less dangerous as only a tiny fraction is absorbed in gastrointestinal tract. 800 mg would be unlikely to cause a major health risk as far as radiation is concerned. As a heavy metal, plutonium is also toxic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Precautions
Radiologists get second opinions all the time. I've seen radiology projects where the radiologists gave a different reading almost 40% of the time. (example of this: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2018171557).

In some cases they also spend a lot of time annotating and measuring small areas of the images and having a model generate suggestions for them would save a ton of time.
Looks like this is it?

https://github.com/Programmable-Air/PCB/tree/master/componen...
About 8 years ago, I was put in charge of a small internal project (a custom test harness). The project itself went very well - it’s still adding value and being used. However, I made some significant leadership mistakes (which I don’t want to go into detail on here).

So I appreciate that there’s a lot at stake, that my natural abilities can’t and won’t suffice, and that I’m starting with a sizeable deficit. Autism is a developmental disorder—perhaps even a disability—but I believe that with the right help, enough hard work and determination, an attitude of wanting to serve others, and enough natural ability in another area of strength that could stand-in where I’m naturally weak, I could learn enough to lead — perhaps even enough to do so successfully as a project leader.

Ideally (and impossibly, I know), I’d love to have a very patient coach to spend months or years with me explaining things. But next-best would be information dense resources on leadership written for high-functioning people with autism/asperger’s. I’m hoping something like that exists.
The 2010s – A Strong Decade for High-Growth Tech IPOs
I am satisfied with the Protonmail, easy to use, secure, good.
Compared to sources like Reuters, Apnews, or PA Media I don't see how CNN could be anything but at least slightly left (American left).
Ask HN: Tips on making a fake window that displays a live feed of the outside
I have a dark wall in my apartment with no windows and I would like to simulate some. I would like to install a camera outside that transmits a live feed of the outside to a screen inside to make it seem like a window. Any tips on:

- the camera being uncommonly positioned straight outwards to capture what a window would see

- Camera/lens/wide-angle/etc

- which screens/monitors look and feel most like reality through a window

- any other general tips

Thanks!
http://archive.md/Fcuc5
What? This is literally just Apple Notes for code snippets. What’s the confusion?
> joke about is China really any worse than the U.S.

Most people of my generation didn’t see that much of the cold war but still understood what was done during that time on both side, and that from very early in their life.

A lot of people are not joking when they say they don’t trust the US, and tend to pay more attention to the control the US has on the tech and media sectors, even if the US is a long time ally.
I'd leave the FAANG stint out, but I was working full time during those months I was employed and didn't really have much time on the side to work on side-projects. Wouldn't it be worse to have a year long work gap without too much completed code on Github from that time to back it up?

I've been waiting to get things going full-speed again in January since December is a bum hiring month.
The Crickets of Red Lake Falls
Is it imposter syndrome? Or just being unwilling to come to terms with the fact that other people will inevitably be better than you?
“science is like the Catholic Church, a lot of nice sentiments but full of people”

That’s a great quote. Pretty much any activity that humans are involved in are at risk for this type of behavior. Egos get involved and objectivity goes out the window.
Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?
I saw a note[0] about using a script to activate Redshift in Linux and wondered what other cool, useful, or otherwise interesting scripts you might be using.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916949
This has positively nothing to do with what he said.
And successful control of the vehicle depends on the vehicle's specific characteristics and the physical ability and awareness of the driver. The point being: it has killed people.
I looked into this a while ago, and found out that streaming (server), data transfer, and receiving (client) all together consume just a fraction of the electricity that the screen displaying the video consumes. Most of the electricity is consumed by the screen.

One caveat: Some companies might run very elaborate prediction and machine learning algorithms every time they show a web page, to recognize and classify the user and to predict and decide what content to show to the user to maximize click probabilities. I don't know how to estimate how much these can consume electricity.
It's fast. It's static. CDN as mentioned. Nothing impressive here though. This wheel has been done.
Android 10 and Chrome here, site works great.
Fair point, I changed the wording. Thanks.
> The point this paper is trying to make is that we should be using safety margins based on knowledge rather than perpetuating the numerology that's been in-place to-date.

Exactly. The point is that a fair A/B speed comparison between competing ciphers should be normalizing both A and B to equivalent security margins. Instead, its been up to each individual cipher designer as to how many extra rounds should be used.

That said, I think the paper's point would be clearer if they had written down a complete table of "equivalent margin rounds" holding each of the standards constant. Ie, how many rounds does ChaCha need to have equivalent margin to AES-128 at its specified number of rounds?
If that's true, then I'd say much of the blame lies with how it's transliterated. Like why couldn't they use your spelling or similar to convey an approximation to the Lebanese pronunciation?
My highschool chemistry class required us to memorize that stuff, but they also let us use graphing calculators on every test... Memorizing it still pays off because it saves time, but I think a load of students didn't bother and just 'cheated.'

(I'm not really convinced this is truly a form of cheating since if you look up the answer frequently enough you'll end up memorizing it by accident anyway. You can only look up Pb so many times before you start to remember it means lead.)
> I'm pretty sure they do mine emails for their own ad targeting.

They do not. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en

"We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."
In practice google does not really work with SPAs. This is why internet research can be dangerous.
That's fake history. Deep crack was 1993 and RC4 was shown insecure in the Usenet thread that revealed it.
Pharma companies aren’t pillage insurance, Its the exact opposite. The pharmacy benefits managers are negotiating higher list prices because they take home rebates as a cut of list prices. And the insurance companies don’t care because the pharmacy benefits managers forward part of the rebates to them, and as long as the actual net costs are low they benefit more from higher list prices. Also for many instances the same companies own both insurer, pharmacy benefit manager and the pharmacy.

This all plays along nicely because they point the fingers at the companies producing the actual drugs as the bad guys because “prices are rising” yet for many drugs the pharmacy benefits manger and insurer take 2/3 of the entire cost! While the companies actually doing research, production, marketing and distribution take 1/3 to cover everything. And while they get blamed for the list price increases, their yearly net take-home on the drugs is steadily falling.
http://archive.md/NrnL8

(Doesn't have the 'after' images though.)
very groovy thanks for those data points.

edit: so I think ive settled on a good rule of thumb:
movie: ~3GB
song: ~3MB
page of text: ~3KB
Only country that fits the description of Chinese dominated but not Chinese is Singapore.
Thanks! It's difficult to get the product to be right for so many varying types of use cases and communities, but hopefully we'll get a lot of traction either way.
And you are willing to gamble the lives of yourself and your loved ones on the assumption that the intruders' only intentions are theft? Why? To protect the intruders' physical wellbeing?
I personally think the whole thing was bad science. The graph with arbitrary "data" just adds to the overall effect.

The only result I think that would be valid from this, is that when asked about remembering logos, people are not mind readers. They do remember logos quite accurately for the most part, but what they remember is not necessarily the specific one the questioner remembers.

I think both the links (Lego and Puma) I posted demonstrate this, while interesting enough, was pretty much a fluff article with very little scientific merit. Unless you were studying bias - then there's a whole lot of stuff worth studying in it.
> What are the numbers though?

I couldn't say, but I wage the medical science community / industry is cognizant of the phenomena and, not being an expert in the field myself, I trust them to handle the matter reasonably. In the specific case of breast cancer, I've heard that the cost of false positives is high enough to be a major consideration in recommended breast cancer screening schedules.
Noam Chomsky on the Climate Crisis
You certainly can, I just have not tried it. It comes with a strap and everything. User “maiden” has an awesome setup that makes it both flashable and wearable for testing, have a look [1].

[1]: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8129&pid=52537#p...
Yes, using Feedly for many years now.
The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
Are military veterans a protected class for employment purposes?

How does one steal technology that no other company posses?
Are you aware of any studies in this regard? I can't find anything conclusive, just handwavy assertions like this[0]:

If the NNS for a screening test is 5,000, those who advocate screening must make the ethical argument that the large benefits to 1 individual justify the sum of the harms to which 4,999 people are exposed. Whether this holds up to moral scrutiny depends on the nature of the harms.

The problem that I think the medical community misses is that the unwashed masses are generally completely unable to access procedures that aren't recommended by a doctor. So in the above assertion, that someone 'advocating for screening' must take on the ethical burden of harms coming from that screening, in my estimation, is complete and utter bullshit. What I would prefer to see is that screening comes with patient education so they understand the potential risks and inaccuracies and then let 'er rip. If something goes south, it's on them.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223933/
No! No. We, Chinese people, are good guys.

There is a select amount of cognitive dissonance required to support domestic implants in our hardware then call out the Americans when they do the exact same thing

:)
Around me in DC in roads with congested bike lanes the “serious” commuters tend to just ride with traffic. I think this works ok? The bike lane on 15th actually has two parallel lanes and you can overtake slower riders when there’s no oncoming traffic.

(Also I challenge the idea that relatively slow cyclists who nonetheless bike to work every day are somehow less serious)
Love them both. One is extremely organic and the other is a sort of macro greeble feel.
Sure you can. Apple does not run its image classification on your images using its cloud servers. You can test this by stepping inside a microwave or other cage and seeing that image classification and search still works on the iPhone.

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On the other hand, what Apple does with your photos that you allow to be exfiltrated through iCloud... that's your own stupid fault.
Not to mention that literally the first sentence in the paper observes that DES has never been broken through cryptanalytic attack.
Portland Trail Blazers vs. Phoenix Suns
livestreaming sports
https://v.ht/SkyTV-Sportshd-LiveStream-1Ep
Chinese nationalism is deeply engrained in their belief system. It's also taught from early ages as well.
Url changed from https://simpleflying.com/wizz-air-air-europa-near-collison-s..., which points to this.
> There's at least one major battery breakthrough claim each month.

I figure with the PV breakthroughs, we should soon have 200% efficient solar cells matched with 200% efficient batteries. :)

On the other hand, I think it's wonderful that solar and batteries might be getting the right kind of attention after regan era setbacks.
This is a bit of a stretch. Proportional pneumatic actuators are highly nonlinear. Their behavior varies dramatically with temperature, pressure, and a host of other factors. Just having feedback and a linear control law is generally not sufficient for, say, robotics applications. People are working on nonlinear adaptive control laws but they are still very much in the research domain.

Source: I do research in alternative robotics actuation and controls.
Energy Company Buys Covers of Newspapers Ahead of Climate Conference
Almost nothing is known about who Euclid was. Might not have even been a single person.
i really like whatif.

whif less so, that just doesn't seem to smell right.
I’ve never worked at a startup. I know very few people who have been involved in the startup world. I have exclusively used C and C++ in my professional work (with a tiny bit of python for scripting).

Yet I haven’t know anybody who primarily or even occasionally used C in their work for over a decade. I know they exist but the majority of C programmers moved on to C++ a long time ago.

There are areas like kernel and driver development where C is still in widespread use but these jobs represent a tiny fraction of developers.

Any language popularity metric that ranks C as the second most popular language is massively flawed.
How to (Hypothetically) Hack Your School's Surveillance System
Seems like a tough comparison to make given the security of a cryptosystem is a lot better defined than that of a program, even in a constrained case like 'RCE in a C program'.
> Yes a list exists now of privacy-minded individuals' IP addresses, but I can't imagine what you would do with that.

"We are having a sale on Firewalls and RFID blocker wallets!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21879444 was the previous discussion, but this one already seems better, so we can leave it up for now.

We'll change the title to that of the paper, which is less sensational.