skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was published in Feburary 2014.

I'm not intentionally trying to sound hyperbolic. Are you? They are literally classified as invasive procedures. It is by definition unnecessary. There are going to be false-positives in these screenings and these false-positives can be harmful. Early detection + cancer = good. Early detection + no cancer = bad. So we must balance these two. I agree detecting cancer early is a good thing, but that's not what I was saying.

What's the deal, do you think there's no false positives, do you think over detection has no harms?

If you want something more recent, here's one published February 2020:

"...A further contributor is overdiagnosis, or the diagnosis of cancer in people who would never have experienced symptoms or harm had the cancer remained undetected and untreated. Overdiagnosis of certain screen‐detected cancers is common including 20–50% of prostate cancer and 11–19% of breast cancer diagnoses.

Cancer can also be overdiagnosed outside screening programs. Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer is attributable to incidental detection during investigations of unrelated problems; overdiagnosis of renal cancer and melanoma is less well investigated.

Overdiagnosis is important because of the associated iatrogenic harms and costs. Harms include the psychosocial impact of unnecessary cancer diagnoses, such as the increased suicide risk for men after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Cancer treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, and chemotherapy can cause physical harm, but the risks are considered acceptable if diagnosis is appropriate. When someone is unnecessarily diagnosed with cancer, however, they can only be harmed by treatment, not helped."

...

"Overdiagnosis of breast cancers is largely attributable to the national screening program, that of prostate cancers and melanoma to opportunistic but extensive screening in Australia. Renal cancer overdiagnosis appears to be largely linked with cancers detected as incidental findings during abdominal imaging for an unrelated reason (incidentalomas). Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer is related to both incidentalomas and to excessive investigation of thyroid function test abnormalities"

https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/212_04/mja250455....
What about all the apps that need the "Google Play Services" libraries?
A P2P file sharing application based on Publius technology. Allows anonymous uploads, splits and encrypts files redundantly across servers. The hosts don't know what they're holding. Privacy enhancing and censorship-resistant.

See:
https://cs.nyu.edu/~waldman/publius/
WWDC 2020: Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs and Virtualization
I’m pretty sure mixer had a ton of features twitch didn’t have at one point but I could be wrong. I just remember watching kabby in the height of the pubg craze and he had a ton of cool stuff no one on twitch had.
> I'd say the bikeshedding peaked at the AirPods segment.

Algorithmically translating spatial audio to correspond with head position is fundamental to AR. It's also cool that it will improve watching movies in the meantime, but you're missing the point if that's all you saw.
> changing opinions of sound engineers over the last decade

Don't sound engineers oppose the loudness war? My understanding is that they'd far rather be doing work they could be proud of, but they get orders to ramp up the volume.

You're right that it absolutely isn't a myth.
I wonder[1]. Not disagreeing, and I'm not a systems programmer, so I can image that there are aspects of things to make something truly secure[1] that you have to chase down all these rabbit holes.

I look at OpenBSD and see how long it takes them to do something fairly "simple", and use that as a guideline for security development integration timeframes. Of course, OpenBSD isn't backed by a trillion dollar company either.

Oddly, I fall into the Mac + Linux camp. I love using MacOS (yes, even Catalina works for me), but I love that doing development/server stuff on Linux is so clean. What both do for me is minimize the brain clutter (and that's one reason I can't grok the idea of doing server development in Xcode).

[0] - I don't think you're being naive. Also, being a fan of guys like Krebs on Security makes me realize that doing this right is not so much hard as it is painstaking.

[1] - no, I definitely don't think iOS is totally secure, but I think it's harder to screw up as a user than competitors.
I dont see how this helps Apple to compete with AMD or Nvidia GPUe. It's much easier for Apple to just use AMD GPUs for their Pro devices. Macs market is just too small to create custom high-end GPUs.

Apple might have huge leverage on mobile with iPhone because Android graphics drivers are horrible mess, but on Windows GPU drivers are decent and building custom driver stack sounds like too much.
> "Simply having 4 big cores on an A12 would push it into 10w actively cooled territory as well"

The A12X/A12Z already has 4 big cores (and 4 little cores, and 7-8 GPU cores). I imagine the A14X will follow this pattern, but the cores will be 2 generations newer, with 2 generations of performance-per-watt improvements.
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Still a current-gen console grade GPU in a form factor like the iPad is pretty impressive. But then again maybe it wouldn't be able to sustain console-like performance due to thermal constraints
The streamer known as Destiny and Giant Bomb sort of do this. They stream on Twitch but they accept monetization through alternative means. Destiny is actually exclusive to Twitch, he just hosts his streams on his own website and accepts subscriptions and donations there in addition to Twitch, all of his chat is on his own website though. Giant Bomb is not monetized through Twitch, it's monetized through CBS Interactive and hosted on their own site, but the stream is a Twitch stream. So they're not on multiple platforms, but they've not tied themselves to Twitch's monetization.
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A cycling pal of mine is an in-house lawyer at a big oil company here in Houston. They were told a couple weeks ago that there were no plans to go back to the office until at LEAST 2021. All the work is being done just fine.
Microsoft starts rolling out consumer features for Teams apps on iOS and Android
Not all crime is equal, and to present crime as purely a dollar value is a bit disingenuous. Wage theft is important, and isn't pursued nearly enough, but it isn't on the same level as violent crime, which happens primarily in disadvantaged communities.

Completely agree on proactive policing. End the drug war and it would cease to be necessary.
> google maps can no longer remember where your home and work are (cause that can’t happen on device for some reason)

This is such a user-hostile product choice. Google will happily let me favourite a place but refuse to create work and home labels.
> I have invested quite a bit into the Mac/Apple ecosystem. A big part of that reason was the longevity of the hardware, along with good resale values.

Well, given that demand for x86 probably won't go away in 3-5 years and that Apple generally makes it impossible to downgrade OSX on new machines, dropping x86 support might actually increase the resale value of existing hardware.
While this was instructive, tying together curl and xpath is not really the sort of thing I'd be worried about when picking Prolog for something like this. Any language looks good when all the heavy lifting is done by other libraries.

How would I run this across multiple cores? Handle exponential backoff for retries? Measure the response time for each submission? Store the result in a database?
If https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Category.as... is accurate, the bay area was the top recipient of H1B recipients in 2019.
Source: https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1275145243478892544

"Facebook offered an insane offer at almost double for the original Mixer contracts of Ninja and Shroud but Loaded/Ninja/Shroud said no and forced Mixer to buy them out. Ninja made ~$30M from Mixer, and Shroud made ~$10M"

Yes, I know it is a tweet, but slasher is widely thought of as the leading game journalist, when it comes to gaming "leaks" and the like.
Hmm... MacBook plus an early look for $500. That would be a great deal!
Fiction is a really powerful tool that can be used to warn us of societal dangers while sparing us actually needing to live through them.

It is fiction, so it isn't a history book and there are plenty of assumptions on how things will work. However, in good fiction, those assumptions are plausible and highlight a future that may happen.

Dismissing fiction is just like having a stock manager that dismisses quarterly reports since they don't definitively tell you how the company will be doing - they just tell you how it has been doing. Prediction and imagination are not flawless tools, but they are helpful to plan for the future. (Which is amusing to say in the light of the book being discussed)
For a 30m contract, the streamers are not going to be swindled by the fine print.
The contracts will have had break clauses if MS doesn't support Mixer enough or it discontinues Mixer. Prolly also have minimum revenue numbers for the streamers too.
Streamers don't want to be locked to a service which makes them irrelevant.
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I've noticed no talent differences. I've worked with men and women who were great devs, and I've worked with men and women who weren't.
The one I use is Introduction to Mechatronics by Carryer Ohline and Kenny

It covers a lot. On the mechanical side it only covers actuators and control systems.
> there is no data to suggest this would ever be a probable outcome

The data behind 911 Good Samaritan laws[1] that protect people from being arrested when they call in overdoses would like to have a word with you.

[1] https://www.shatterproof.org/advocacy/state-by-state-informa...
Is being original the key criteria for being important?
Aren't workplaces with a more or less even mix just more pleasant places to work? People seem to act more normal than when it's (almost) only men or (almost) only women.
> For serious scientific studies, anecdotal data is not useful.

This is still wrong; anecdotal data is what motivates studies in the first place.

What anecdotal data isn't is a conclusion.
Where do you get this idea? Single-threaded performance has improved substantially in the past several generations of Intel processors. Single-threaded performance and clock speeds have not been correlated outside of same generation for a while now - like over a decade.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

There's are 2.8GHz processors at the top of that benchmark with a 3100 score and one near the bottom with a 539 score, as well as everywhere in between.
The people who share your sentiment are a tiny minority, like IE users.
All the tech offices I have worked in or visited for Meetup groups are long shared benches. How much linear space you get depends on how fast the team is hiring, whether there are interns right now, etc.
> A conviction in the US is effectively a death sentence, as in your life is over

Tell that to Bill Ayers.
Yeah, I can understand that.

But in my opinion they could simply have used the same format they used in the past, with Jony Ive talking on a white background, or simply switch to an off-screen voice.

No need for the awkward gallery...
Oh brother. People aren't work-producing robots, developers included. Different types of people bring different types of experiences, opinions, and viewpoints. So you'll make better products if you have a more diverse group of people making them. On a personal level, wouldn't you like to work with a more diverse group of people as well?
Something of a myth: the idea goes that due to the loss of dynamic range in audio that somehow the quality of the audio recording is diminished; but that's not necessarily true.
Apparently Ninja and Shroud were paid in full: $30M and $10M respectively. https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1275145243478892544
I swear they're just trying to see how far they can go with these names until people are unable to say them with a straight face
I've recently switched jobs. At my previous role, the 15 inch retina 2016 MBP I was using never had issues on Catalina.

At this new role, the 2019 13inch retina MBP I was given seems to have one or two kernel panics a week on Catalina.

Also, I haven't noticed this other issue lately, but for a couple of months my laptop screen would flicker/distort and times for a moment or two; have not noticed that issue since setting up a home office with external monitor for obvious, current reasons.
>Women I know who wrote software kept finding new roles where they'd be in management instead and then they moan that they liked writing code and miss it.

I hear this a lot from men, too. We have a general problem in the industry of being bad at making senior engineering a rewarding career track.
AMD is fabless, they just didn't have any money for spinning up several different chips for different markets. They even had a single chip from desktop to high end servers (with all the tradeoffs that entails).
Hey HN, I wanted to share this very related, but completely unaffiliated and independent initiative I’ve been a part of: https://datadividends.org . To quote the website, we’re “an ad-hoc team of scholars and practitioners (without any political affiliation) that formed to answer the questions: What are data dividends? Why should we have them? How should they work? “

Very coincidentally, we just presented on the topic of data dividends at the RadicalxChange conference two days ago (https://www.radicalxchange.org/2020-conference/, VODs still processing) and launched a website with a summary of our report yesterday. Was very surprised (and excited) to see this very similarly named project launch today!

While we’re very much interested in tackling the same core problem, I think the group agrees with many of the concerns raised in this thread (paychecks will be small, administrative challenges, etc.). We’re also very concerned about the potential for “privacy as a luxury good” and the fact that a data dividend could exacerbate existing inequalities.

Our main philosophical difference is that we argue that this discussion should be framed around the idea that the data fueling profitable intelligent technologies is “our data”, not “my data”. As such, our ideas for “disbursing the dividend” are focused on promoting collective benefit, e.g. through programs well-known to reduce inequality, support for "data unions", and new infrastructure to support the sharing of data (and ideally, increase innovation, competition, etc.).

Overall, I think increased discussion around this topic is really great!
It's a struggle to see this as a sincere comment. Was it that hard to tap in the text box and hit reply?

Lots of legit gripes about iOS, but C'mon.
Arrest data includes both.
It kind of feels like Apple makes the MacBook Pro only so there is a platform for people to make apps for thier main market - phones (and iPads?). So why not make the hardware almost the same I guess
I am interested in seeing real world performance. I agree that there isn't a lot that Apple needs to do here; the most curious bit will be how much they're able to automate behind the scenes with Rosetta to help out the development community. For most of my workload I am sure that it'll be completely transparent. The only bits that'll likely be less performance will be testing in virtual machines for x86, but it isn't like I care too much about that performance. I'd take the 3+ hours on battery.
Why do SO MANY pretend-libertarian tech bros pretending to be libertarians and liberty-loving freedom fans think that free speech applies to private property?

And why have they let themselves be tricked into spewing the Section-230 nonsense that conservative hate-mongers are using to threaten online service providers?

Section 230 protection is irrelevant to service providers policing their site. It is very relevant to service providers who are being told by conservative hate-mongering politicians “hey we’ll strip your protections unless you allow our hateful content even though the protections are unrelated to our content and comments”.

You’re carrying water for malicious actors who don’t care about you.

By your own logic, not mine (I think it’s bullshit) YOURS if you downvote this comment to the point that it is hidden or automodded then you are infringing on my “FREEZE PEECH RAIGHTS” because you are “removing” constitutionally-protected freeze peach from the public sphere.
What counts as "changing the meaning of a word" and what counts as higher, more complex, and more abstract understanding of (originally) lay concepts? For example, if the common conception is that "math" means something like arithmetic, and mathematicians point out that it has a much broader, abstract, complex, and encompassing definition within their field of study, are the mathematicians engaging in Orwellien redefinition of language?

The academic feeling among people who study these topics (socioloists, anthropologists, philosophers) is much closer to what GP defined as racism than the definition you (probably) had in mind.
Wait, are you telling me that is ok that a capable machine (much more capable than a 2014 Mac Mini, anyway) expires by date?

I have more recent Apple hardware (Mac Mini 2018, TB Macbook Pro) and I can tell you this: this Mac Mini is my favorite device, fast, user-upgradable, never had a single problem. It's a pity I have to replace it just because it's expired. By date.
So, make those folks who are good enough to work and pay taxes in the US into citizens?

No longer a problem, unless the problem was really that they're not "american" enough all along?
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Apple is already running USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 with it's IPAD, so that's not a stretch.

The DTK has two USB-C ports (10 Gbps) and two USB-A Ports (5 Gbps) - so, they definitely have a USB story.
Most of my web browsing experience these days involves moving the dancing monkeys out of my way so I can read the content. Nobody comes to your site to see the ads or take your survey or sign up for your email list. Nobody comes to your site hoping to have to click again and again to read the content. Nobody comes to your site hoping to have you explain to them what a cookie is for the 10,000th time and then be forced to click "OK!" before they can read your content. Nobody comes to your site hoping to have their browser fingerprinted so you can track them around the web and sell their personal information.

With very few exceptions you are using Javascript not to enhance your users' experience but to make war on them, and if that applies to you I wish you would leave technology and take up farming.
I think pursuing an idea or project with wreckless abandon can be a beautiful thing. The risk of getting injured in the attempt to push limits is the cost of doing business.
Creating inclusive naming conventions in technology
Site to discover livestreams and virtual events across all platforms
With the huge increase in live virtual events during quarantine I figured it'd be useful to organize them all in one place. Youtube, Instagram, Twitch and Facebook are full everyday with livestreams hosted by DJs, dance teachers, art teachers, etc. However, discovering that they exist and promoting them is tougher than it should be.

My brother and I had some time on our hands for a side project to help people quickly find live events they're interested in. Check it out and discover what's going on live right now. Or if you're hosting an event, submit it to the site. We also promote on ig: @sthactv

Any feedback is also greatly appreciated as we just started a few weeks ago.

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I'd expect that the high end Mac Pro is the last model to drop.
Unless you're aiming to imply that me and my friend group and greater gaming community are the exception and in fact the majority of young people use facebook, in which case....lol.

Have you done a statistically relevant survey of what the “majority of young people do”?

As a reference, if you go to r/cscareerquestions you would swear that no other company exists for graduating software engineers but the big 5 tech companies and if you don’t spend every minute “learning LeetCode to work for a FAANG” your life is over and you might as well kill yourself.
Sounds like you wanted to run office, not windows, which was exactly my point.
I'll bite.

> Current A12z chips are highly performant; Apple is
> roughly one chip cycle ahead on perfomance/watt from
> any other manufacturer.

We haven't been able to compare them. Micro-benchmarks do not count because mobile versions of Apple chips haven't been designed for desktop requirements. People love comparing CPU cores with micro-benchmarks, but the hardest thing for a modern desktop/server chip is to feed data to many cores while maintaining cache coherence.

> So, I’m predicting an MBP 13 - 16 range with an
> extra three hours of battery life+, and 20-30% faster.

Before agreeing with your estimates, I want to play with a true 8-core Apple CPU with a large multi-level cache first. Building the Linux kernel with -J16 will be a fun exercise. Look, AMD is not stupid, and they're on the same node Apple will be using, and they're not 30% faster than even a 5y.o. Skylake.

> Apple has to pay Intel and AMD profit margins for
> their mac systems. They are going to be able to put
> this margin back into a combination of profit and
> tech budget as they choose.

I wonder how their conversations with TSMC go. With Intel, at least they had AMD to use as a bargaining chip. With TSMC there's no alternative.

> One interesting question I think is outstanding -
> from parsing the video carefully, it seems to me
> that devs are going to want ARM linux virtualized
> vs AMD64.

That's the big one. The world's software is built for and runs in data centers, not laptops. Our machines are increasingly becoming nothing but thin clients, remote displays that happen to run Javascript. CPUs do not matter. And I suspect that's the real reason they're switching.

But from the developers perspective, it's incredibly convenient to use the same platform (OS + instruction set) as the machine they're targeting, even for interpreted languages. Linus Torvalds wrote a well-articulated email about this a while ago, IIRC he was commenting on POWER, but I think his points are valid. At my company, devs keep struggling with Docker on a Mac. Add to that the ARM pain, and I wonder how many will finally get a Thinkpad. Developers will switch to ARM when majority of AWS instance types goes ARM.

P.S. I love how "old-tech" HN is, but for the love of god, give us a decent way to "reply with quote".
To add to that, the interactions they showed during the demo appear to be by finger, not mouse. They are treating it as iPad first, bubbling into laptops/desktops.

Apple took off with the .com boom and became a staple of every startup. But since the iPhone they've shifted to being a consumer focused company, and I don't see any reason why they would dedicate too much resources to improving their products for developers/designers.

It's pretty sad because they are still the best option. But people are not happy with them, and it's been getting worse over time. I really think Microsoft has an opportunity to cater to power users and release a really beautiful OS. But not Windows - would have to be something new
A tiny thread from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940661
This idea was supposed to be my master's thesis project. However I found something different and never did the original idea but's it's always been in my mind.

Big kudos to the author for this nice project ! I hope it gives further ideas to people playing it