skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don’t make sweeping, generalizing opinions on the implications of the work. It’s a subjective problem to solve, so if are not a radiologist who has first-hand experience with this issue, stop.

Here are the results from the paper:

The radiologists ranked our adversarial approach as better than the standard and dithering approaches with an aver-
age rank of 2.83 out of a possible 3. This result is statisti- cally significantly better than either alternative with p-values 1.09 × 10−11 and 2.18 × 10−11 respectively, and the adver- sarial approach was ranked as the best or tied for best in 85.8% of 120 total evaluations (95% CI: 0.78-0.91). The dithering approach is also statistically significantly better than the standard approach.
We also asked radiologists if banding was present (in any form) in the reconstructions in each case. This evaluation is highly subjective, as “banding” is hard to define in a pre- cise enough way to ensure consistency between evaluators. Considering each radiologist’s evaluation independently, on average banding is still reported to be present in 72.5% (95% CI: 0.62-0.82) of cases even with the adversarial learn- ing penalty. The radiologists were not consistent in their rankings; the overall percentages reported by the six radiol- ogists were 20%, 75%, 75%, 80%, 85%, and 100% for the adversarial reconstructions. In contrast, for the baseline and dithered reconstructions, only one radiologist reported less than 100% presence of banding for each method (80% and 85% presence respectively, from different radiologists).
We believe these numbers could be improved if more tuning went into the model; however, it’s also possible that features of the sub-sampled reconstructions generally may be con- fused with banding, and so any method using sub-sampling might be considered by radiologists as having banding. Sub- sampled reconstructions generally have cleaner regional boundaries and lower noise levels than the corresponding ground-truth.
> They have obstacles to overcome, and then there is just the glaring fact that they had so much momentum with Win32.

Do you feel the same about the macOS Carbon-Cocoa transition? Nobody misses Carbon anymore, and Win32 is as old as the classic Mac Toolbox.

Eventually they have to shed the old API.
Let's start with how it's very difficult to properly de-identify medical data: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/patient-data-be-truly-de...
From the article:

> Does not work if the OS uses the IOMMU/VT-d. This is the default on macOS (unless disabled in recovery mode). Windows 10 with Virtualization based security features enabled does not work fully - this is however not the default setting in Windows 10 or Linux.

For PCI (shared bus) the device could just spoof packets, but for PCIe, there are dedicated lanes for each device. I wonder if a physical MITM device is practical.
Hacking Is the New Cold War
The price doesn’t include externalities like pollution.
> They might be able to limit/reduce the trade. It's seems a bit extreme to outright ban though...

In China, banning == limiting.

_Part_ of the reason there are so many "extreme" laws from western perspective.
It's all public: https://stackexchange.com/performance

Here's a series of blog posts with a lot more detail by one of their devs: https://nickcraver.com/blog/archive/

They're very optimized and can serve all of their traffic on a single webserver, redis instance and SQL server.
> Now kill UWP[0] and bring some actual improvements to the base Win32 C API that any application written in any programming language and available from any source (direct downloads form author pages, repositories like GitHub, eshops such as Steam, etc) can use.

People said the same thing about Carbon on macOS—"why do I have to use this new Cocoa thing?"—but now nobody misses it. The Win32 API needs to go away (at least as the main way to develop apps) sooner or later. (It already is gone to a major extent: when was the last time a new Win32 app, written in Win32 with C++, made the news?)
Here's what cloud gives you that is very costly to implement internally, cost accountability. Analysts running the same queries over and over would peg internal hardware all the time. When we went to the cloud, we made a budget for each division, problem solved. Same with DS. Give them a blank check, they'll spend it, manage to a budget, they'll do it.
> If clothes worked that way that market would suck, too.

Yup! Food too[1].

On the other hand, the idea that healthcare HAS to work like that is definitely debatable.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/imagine-if-we-paid-for-food-like-we...
> Any suggestions on how to go about this?

No audio domain specific related experience, so there may be something better for this, but, failing that, for format exploration at least, I'd think numpy/scipy+jupyter would be great for interactively mucking around with the bits/bytes e.g.

np.where(x > ((max(x) - min(x)) / 2))

(roughly, am a bit rusty at the moment)

basically gives you a boolean array containing approximate zero crossings in an array, and so on.

similarly, you could subslice on range boundaries to ignore imagined 'marker' bits, index this through an ASCII table & display results, etc.

if you're not up with numpy array syntax / dtypes it takes a bit of getting used to, but well worth the effort IMHO in terms of the overall data exploration skills gained
The point I was trying to make has nothing to do with image quality.

The issue was, radiologist had to deal with a choice of different post-processing of this data. The processing they said they liked best (somewhat consistently) was not the processing that they performed best on, empirically (somewhat consistently).

This is related to the issue of evaluating the value of ML post processing, we could see a similar effect there. After all one school of thought was that preference was in some sense driving by familiarity rather than what they were actually able to discriminate.

FWIW IQ evaluation in MRI is a somewhat problematic thing anyway, but acceleration certainly tends to make it worse in some ways. It's not obvious how effective various mitigation approaches are.
lol, so much so, I create games in javascript so I only need a static server.
In the case of the Uber crash in Tempe, the car did kick the decision over to a human operator. However, it did so 1.3 seconds before impact. This wasn't enough time for the human to assess the situation and decide what to do.
It's effectively dead based on usage. Just about every modern project uses Kubernetes for container orchestration while Swarm (and others like Cattle, DC/OS, etc) have decreased in popularity.
Covid-19 Vaccine Shipped, and Drug Trials Start
They sure do, or at least have operated on public roads:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
Nothing to see here. Our mayor is just an idiot.
That seems like a weirdly specific comment. The majority of the electorate rejects the idea of a socialist as president. That sentiment isn't specific to "folks like Bloomberg".
I don't know man. My pixel 2 is the best phone I've ever had.
That's incorrect; Postmates, for one, uses Phantom Auto (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/09/23/postmate...), and they definitely operate on public roads.
well, it is BI. that's what they do.
That’s revenue. They don’t disclose profit because it isn’t profitable. No amount of revenue is good or impressive if you can’t figure out how to spend less than you make.
The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
The features are available everywhere to everybody but are not enabled by default. The only difference for US users is that they're enabled by default.
> I truly hate that line of logic.

What you're missing is that the denial indicates it's a topic of consideration.
No, there are many parameters with 14 bit resolution. Precisely how many depends on exactly how you interpret the MIDI specification.On the order of 64, plus or minus depending.

Sure, USB interfaces might be problematic but it's very dependent on the precise hardware. My MOTU Ultralite AVB is basically unusable because of jitter; my MidiSport 2x2 (also USB) is extremely usable and has extremely low jitter. So you cannot make blanket statements about it being caused by using USB for MIDI.
There have been confirmed coronavirus cases in SF, as a number of sick patients are/were being treated at hospitals in the city (I know, because my alma mater, UCSF, sent out a big press release about it). They probably mean nobody has been reported to be infected while in SF. That's probably also not true.
I think food is definitely related to your sleep cycle.

I tried a bunch of things, but eating at the right time helps.

If I eat too close to bedtime, I think my sleep is initially ok (food makes you sleepy), but it's possible it disturbs my sleep or I get acid reflux or something.

If I eat too far from bedtime, I wake up I suspect because my blood sugar is low -- and of course the body produces adrenaline when that happens.
Apparently the reason one would keep using selenium over headless chrome (perhaps using a wrapper like puppeteer [1]) is that selenium works over many different browsers, not just chrome.

"WebDriver can be used with all major browsers. Automate real user interactions in Firefox, Safari, Edge, Chrome, Internet Explorer and more!" [2]

1: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

2: https://www.selenium.dev/projects/
Autopilot (plane) in cruise is much different than using it in the terminal environment.

My perception in sense of safety and workload reduction is about the same for aviation vs automative.

I’m a instrument rated pilot that mostly flys for fun on the weekend.

The big danger is folks disconnect from their duty to actively monitor the systems.

I would never play an iPhone game with either system.
I'm curious how this "state of emergency" declaration works when everyone is doing it. AFAIK a lot of "state of emergency" declarations are about fund allocations from central sources (state, federal) and that works fine when it's used for exceptional cases/natural disasters but I doubt this will scale well when the entire country enters a state of emergency. I guess we shall see.
C++ Lambda Expressions
But if the original complaint is the implied threat of violence from said homeless addict, especially aimed at those kids in school, you can see why I find that a bit heartless.

Besides, the school system needs more than just money, just like the "homeless problem". I don't feel comfortable passing judgement on one class of people vs another solely because of the circumstances they were born into.
That's just half the story, though. They share the revenue with you which you can either keep for yourself or, manually or automatically, tip the sites you visit in the form of a cryptocurrency token.
A lot of people here are rightly concerned about the dangers of falsely marking something as an artifact, but let me present additional data that will hopefully sway you a little bit...

If you need an MRI or a CT of an area adjacent to orthopedic implants, you are currently 100% SOL because distortion or reflection artifacts from the metal completely destroy the imagery across a medically significant distance. There are computational filtering techniques for reducing these artifacts, but, respectfully, they are still really terrible, and close to the implants you can't see shit. All advancements in this area short of inventing new imaging physics will most likely be purely computational corrections. Consider that.
Iger's been CEO for 15 years and is on an amazing winning streak for Disney over the past few years. A Coronavirus-driven revenue miss would only be a one or two-quarter blip and it would impact the whole industry equally. No way that has anything to do with this.

Iger was clearly setting up a graceful exit in 22 months after a legendary career. Sadly, I suspect that it's a serious life-threatening illness or other unexpected personal crisis. The way it's been announced though it might be something like a serious illness with a spouse or immediate family member.
A somehow related quote from Paul Halmos (https://youtu.be/LwMcz1Yh8tc?t=1506): "I would choose depth over breath of knowledge every time. I think if you know something very well and keep try to know it better, then you will expand to other subjects, and the deeper down you go the broader the near by becomes."
They should have given Solo a year from The Last Jedi, especially after there were such vocal complaints about it.

Instead they stuck to their May release date. A lot of people feel that hurt Solo’s box office a lot.
Maybe Beltran realized he had to resort to cheating after this Game 7 NL championship series embarrassment

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNe6cMsdsI
From the article:

> Lyft rolled out a multimillion-dollar investment to become a completely carbon-neutral transportation service through the purchase of carbon offsets

If this is true, Lyft has already priced in the climate externality, and there's really nothing to complain about there.
The cloud provider market seems too competitive for them to be getting huge markups; if there was a 50% margin on storage, why wouldn't Microsoft or whomever just knock 20% off and undercut all of their competitors thereby making them the obvious choice?
You're arguing something that I never said, though. I agree with you: private individuals should not be expected to fix systemic issues on their own. But the government and the institutions and so on that we create sure should.
You could also look at adding a service worker to your website so it works offline in the browser. People are less used to that though.
Can you link to the press release in question? Thanks!
Solari boards: The disappearing sound of airports
Are you a lawyer? I mean I have all kinds of legal opinions but it's not really my expertise so I don't know how grounded they are in reality. I'm not even sure whether the gdpr specifies penalties for using the wrong data processor for an account provided the same controls are obeyed. I.e. if Google uses the same protections for UK residents as they had under GDPR, I'm not certain that there would be any penalties for accidentally misclassifying some users. Actually it would surprise me if there were.

What does the GDPR say google should use in preference to the last known mailing address?
What till you find out about the Google / Ascension partnership.

I trust seasoned talent being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in partnership with equally well paid healthcare professionals over PhD students scraping by on grant dollars, keeping their code and datasets in a private GitHub repo that will never see the light of day except for a citation in research papers of other scholars.

Not trying to be mean, but if Facebook is trying to fix their moral compass with dollars, go for it.
We need a better alternative to Web(& Electron) apps
Firefly Semantics Slice Observable Naming Guidelines
Interesting possibility but I don’t think so. Obviously I can’t say what he’s thinking, but I doubt he’d believe it would help his legacy to abandon his role in the middle of market difficulties after the worst 3-day stretch in recent memory.
Sure, my point was just tangential to clarify on the availability of the en-ca locale for Firefox. I don't even know that DoH is based on the installed browser's locale in the first place. (I'd guess that it isn't, as I'd expect many non-US users use the en-us locale.)
I agree that not all ads are "abuse", but some either are or are borderlining it, depending on your definition.

If you're genuinely interested in the advertising industry's development the last 100 years or have a few hours to spare, check out the 4-part documentary "The Century of the Self" by the BBC made in the early-2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
The bulk of the customers generating the $40 billion per year for AWS do not care enough about bandwidth (transfer) costs for it to change the market completely. While it may be in the top ten as a consideration on cost, it's nowhere near the top.

All Google would do by slashing transfer pricing is lure a lot of low value customers - and worse - to their shores and harm their service in the process.

It's a benefit to the cloud majors to keep transfer costs artificially high, which is why none of them have pulled the trigger on that competitive angle. It helps keep various types of low value + high abuse risk customers out and of course the transfer pricing is a profit center. Google isn't eager / desperate to saturate its services with terrible customers any more than the other large providers.
Indeed, the Smithsonian is completely unique under US law[1].

https://www.si.edu/ogc/legalhistory
Very happy to engage in an ethical debate on this one.

This line about 'swapping ads with their own' has been an attempt to imply in the reader's mind that Brave was / is nefariously replacing actual ads with their own, which is not true.

The truth is Brave blocks all ads by default, and nothing more.

Do you believe it's ethical for a user agent to block ads, or that it's unethical and a form of theft?

I'm with gorhill of uBlock on this [1]:

That said, it's important to note that using a blocker is NOT theft.
Don't fall for this creepy idea.
The ultimate logical consequence of blocking = theft is the criminalisation of the inalienable right to privacy.

Separate to this, Brave has a rewards system users can choose to enable which can show OS-level notifications of advertiser content in a privacy-respecting way.

The ethics around this are clear:

* if a user wishes to opt-out of an insecure, fraudulent and privacy-harming ad-tech ecosystem for content on the open web that is their right

* if that same user wants to opt-in to a privacy-respecting alternative ad model which operates in a very different way, that's also their right

Attempting to claim the combination of these optional user choices is 'ad swapping' in a nefarious, unethical sense is simply dishonest.

A more accurate phrase considering the individual user choices involved might be 'model swapping'.

As a user I deliberately choose to swap the current ad-tech model with a new, innovative model. That model may have to evolve, but from a technical and human perspective appears to be much better than the current status quo.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#philosophy
Great idea for startups! Finding a catchy name, where the domain name is also actually available... especially when several people are involved... is super time consuming.

Good luck. I think it will do well if you socialise it in the startup community.
> Categorizing ads as "user abuse" is hyperbolic

Push advertising is deliberate mind pollution. You are pushing information onto people that they are not seeking and doing it in highly manipulative ways. It's fine to market your services or products in places that people go to to seek out that information; it's not fine to push it on them.

> and I doubt any significan fraction of users feel they're being abused when they see a banner ad for potato chips.

Victims (I use the term loosely) of the obesity epidemic may disagree. How dominant would junk foods like potato chips be in our diet today without the extensive advertising campaigns over the last 70+ years?

With regards to your second paragraph on user tracking, the fact that you use the word 'hysteria' to discount concerns indicates to me that it's not even worth engaging with you there.
Yep, I think people who say they think it is boring really don't understand what these sports are about.

Two examples are golf and cricket. Both take days so the action clearly isn't important. If you go live, it is about the day out, having some beers with your mates, relaxing (tbf, golf has managed this far better than cricket which has had to move to shorter formats). Watching at home, it is the same thing. Relaxing, having a good time with your mates, whatever.

It is true, nothing is going to compare to seeing an "action sport" live: boxing, a huge soccer game...very little in life compares. But I think there is room for other stuff too: stats, stories, experiences, etc. (tbh, I think action sports are going to struggle against Esports too). I am a big soccer fan but rarely watch games, I just follow the story and the stats (and bet on games). Viewership has gone through the roof because the stories are just so compelling (and yes, the money too nowadays).

I hope that sport doesn't become "all action, all the time" though. Again, nothing compares to action but you can't watch that every day.
They literally give you a 50% discount on that prison time by default and the rest you are released on probation, miss appointment or any crime and straight in front of a judge and can easily end up serving the rest of the sentence.

Sadly this whole automated 50% discount upon your sentence has made many people despair at the whole system and often see headlines of some heinous crime and how they are out after a few years.

Of course this whole process was from what I can tell a accounting way to cope with prisoner numbers and with that, curtail building more jails.

But many sentences are a joke already in the public eye, without the addition of some automatic 50% discount.

Today, they are trying to end that 50% discount for certain types of criminals - terrorist types being one and in the UK, been two well news instances this year of criminals of that category being out early and committing violence that in the first instance, led to deaths.

I will also add that many career criminals know the legal and law system better than those that enforce it and with that, know how to game the system and how to play it. With that personally I have no faith in our police at all, though that is based upon experience of drug dealers moving into the flats below and the police being beyond useless, even with hard evidence and literally passing on details of those who informed upon them onto the criminals - be that having a word, passing on statements, lapping up their lies.

One case, they called round to raid the place and knocked on the door whilst the gang was there, they were made to wait 5 minutes whilst the gang flushed the heroin and crack cocaine down the toilet - took 3 flushes to get rid of it. Then they let them in, surprisingly they found nothing.

I literally had to take the law into my own hands in the end and built a contact microphone and wired up the walls and recorded their activity and literally blackmailed them to bugger off, I then got evidence against the corrupt police and had a wee chat and they are now no longer with the police.

I tried all the legal avenues and did all the right things and got utterly and totally shafted/ignored and frankly after 50 years, utterly lost faith in the police in the UK these days. Which still saddens me and brings a tear to my eyes. I won't even touch upon the health impact of noisy neibours and the associated antics of drug dealing but let's just say, PTSD comes from many forms.
Dental insurance can be a scam, it also can be worth it depending on what the premium is. Some time ago I was offered insurance through work that covered two teeth cleanings in a year for slightly less than the cost of paying for the cleanings out of pocket. Since I always get my teeth cleaned twice a year I was happy to take that insurance. Nowadays my employer provides me with dental without premiums.

Other than those two times I didn't find buying dental insurance worth it and paid out of pocket.
This is politically very difficult to do though. It will be seen as being soft on crime. A system focused on rehabilitation requires the public to not be as bloodthirsty as they are in the US. They need to given former felons a chance after they've carried out their punishment.
Teams also win all to time while a low score and lose if they allow 50pts.
Not the press release, but here's UCSF's Coronavirus info page where they state that there were two patients from a different California county with confirmed Coronavirus who were treated and released at UCSF Parnassus (the main campus on the hill near Cole Valley):

https://www.ucsf.edu/coronavirus#cases