skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skin lesions are still not peanuts. There are 0 FDA approved machine-learning diagnostics or other management technologies in dermatology. There is no widespread clinical use of CNNs for skin lesion diagnosis even at top-tier university hospitals. With more reliable studies, hopefully this will change. But in terms of eating the nuts after having proverbially cracked the shell with a couple of somewhat promising papers, we are 0% there yet in the clinic and there seems to be good reason for that.

The cited 2017 Stanford study was a landmark in principle but (1) was not making an exceedingly relevant comparison and also (2) would need out of sample validation from other image sources for people to use it. Regarding (1), ideally one would compare CNN evaluation to a real-world clinical evaluation (evaluation of texture and extremely 'hi-res' magnified exam +/- polarized light), rather than to dermatologists also looking at a grainy 299x299 pixel image. But the preferred study would be difficult or impossible to coordinate, so at least regarding (2) having high out-of-sample performance would need to be proven, such as on sample from an entirely different institution or group of institutions, and that step has been a great stumbling block in many trained-networks in medicine. I don't know what the status for their network is.

The other curious issue is representation. Even if the model performs well on 100,000 images from mostly-Caucasian patients, would I trust it if my skin were brown or black or had background dyspigmentation from a chronic skin disorder? Eek, not sure. A CNN training on patients from Japan should not be expected to work for skin lesions from randomly chosen people in South Africa or Sweden. This is a most obvious case for needing actively inclusive representation in neural network training. One way or another massive number of heterogeneously acquired images are needed from a huge range of people. For underrepresented skin types or for lesions in underrepresented contexts (overlapping with a scar or in a tattoo or on scrotal or perianal skin) many clinicians and astute patients would be happier if there was a Bayesian network with a prediction confidence interval rather than having to deal with whatever pops out of the softmax.

The fields where there is more success at least in terms of getting technologies approved for use (but also probably in terms of more active research) are here, and many relate to radiology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-020-00324-0/tables/2
I am surprised that the link you posted works…
> Which formal logic do you suggest to replace it?

Your question assumes that there's any "logic" to it all and that we should "replace" a "logic" by other "logic". That's a very strong assumption.
For the latter, the ALG needs to check that the connection starts with a SIP packet and disable any further processing if does not.
I think you’re talking about the Naval Defence Act 1889, which stipulates the Royal Navy to maintain the number of battleships to be at least equal to the sum of next largest TWO navies.[0]

Anyway, back to the point of spending just less than what your (main?) opponent do. Another big problem is that back in Cold War days, it is rather hard to work out your opponent’s exact military capability. US use this to their advantage by starting up Strategic Defence Initiative (aka Star Wars Programme) to bluff the Soviets to spend more of their crippling economic capability to their military, ultimately accelerated their collapse.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Defence_Act_1889
It's only dishonest in that the words in the manual are static and not changing, while our moods, attitudes, and maturity are. What you write down even during the calmest and most level-headed of times is not true 100% of the time and in every single situation -- people are more complicated than that.

I think the general idea behind the idea in the article is good (be more direct in what you're looking for in an interaction or what you're not wanting in an interaction); I immigrated from the US to another country, and the number of senseless social rules and bureaucracy that are common in the US have an immense emotional toll that I don't think is appreciated well enough and address properly as an issue. The article's intention, as I understand it, is to remove a lot of these rulesets that basically benefit absolutely no one except for management that doesn't want to deal with the emotional side of employee wellbeing (or any wellbeing really, but that's another subject)

Where the article gets it wrong I think is formalizing it into a manual, as it gives the wrong impression to me, and it's even offensive to my sensibilities. I'm not a kitchen appliance you read the manual for and once you press these buttons you get the desired feature enabled; I'm a human being, like everyone else, and have complex thoughts and feelings, and my reaction and decisions will change. What worked one day some time back is not necessarily how I'm going to feel every single day for the rest of my life.

If we're going to keep the manual analogy, sure, let's do it, but let's extend the analogy a bit:

- Humans get frequent updates: firmware, bug fixes, hot fixes, security patches, and rollups

- Each one comes with a readme and a changeset doc

- Not everyone is allowed access to the same level of details as others for each update

If you want to keep current with me, I'll gladly share my "manual" with you, but don't be surprised if a feature you relied on in an older version is deprecated or even removed in a newer version.

Humans change -- we don't have a manual, just a current status. There is some level of predictability, but everyone has the potential to change.
If the new weapon systems are about as good as the old ones then what’s the point of building them? Presumably there is a significant threshold for spending 100’s of billions of dollars on a significantly improved nuclear stockpile.

Justifying it to the American taxpayer is meaningless when it’s hidden from them. But, justifying it to Congress was just a question of pork spending which is really what the excessive nuclear stockpile was. It’s no accident that all 3 major branches of the military had Nukes, though currently that’s down to Air Force and Navy.
Bitcoin is the first successful project which achieved digital scarcity. Scarcity is one of the most important features in assigning value to a particular object. Bitcoin's scarcity is not only proven, but also completely transparent and trackable. Its scarcity does not rely on any centralized organization, it is completely based on mathematics and cryptography.

It may not have been apparent how ground-breaking or important digital scarcity was at the time. Most of the time when we think of money, we think about how we use it in our everyday lives. We buy coffees, we pay for an Uber. But underneath all that, there is a deeper meaning to money. Why do we value money? It really just boils down to scarcity, liquidity, demand.

Money has all 3. However, the scarcity factor of traditional money is flawed. It relies on centralized parties, for which money is not actually scarce. They can and do alter the supply at any time. It's a tradeoff we make because fiat is so liquid / demanded / transactable.

Bitcoin is less transactable than fiat money in most regards, but it makes up for it in the transparency of its scarcity. If you were going to lock your wealth up for 25 years, would you put it in USD or BTC? More and more people would say BTC. I can tell you how many BTC will exist in the year 2050. I would have no way to do the same for any fiat currency.

The main risk to BTC is some sort of technological breakthrough which greatly improves upon the concept of cryptocurrency. It's not that cryptocurrency will suddenly disappear or lose its value. Cryptocurrency is here to stay. We have witnessed the birth of a new asset class.
It's a nice story, but it's about as likely as brie causing fewer realized CHD deaths. There's no way you could deconvolute either from their diet; the red wine meme is probably just upper middle class people telling each other their vices are healthy.

The "French paradox" isn't the only one indicating the statistics are horse shit on saturated fat: consider the Israeli paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_paradox
He mentioned an interesting thing just in passing

> But it also allows lots of other things with high saturated and low unsaturated fat. Red meat (but not chicken or pork; most chickens and pigs are fed high-PUFA feed that gives them high-PUFA meat)

That the healthiness of meat depends on what the animals in turn ate. This seems an understudied thing. How are today's animals different from the ones great grandpa ate?
Just stopping by to say this is an excellent idea with beautiful execution. If there is a product with ‘geek humor’ I’ll buy right away!
Note that copyleft requires IP to exist, otherwise you can't ask people to give you the sources of their improved version of your copylefted code. The world without IP laws might not look like the FLOSS dream world where everything is free, but more like a world where source code is treated like a major trade secret, where the engineers can't even access code they wrote themselves outside of specially designated rooms. Something that Google has, giving most proper engineer employees access to petabytes of source code would be unthinkable.

If no IP laws existed, you wouldn't be able to build many software businesses. Yes, people would still want folks to build custom software for them, manage computers, etc, and you could still charge hourly rates, because it'd still be work. But overall the demand for software engineers would be lower I think, which would mean less money for them.
I was going to say, it’s hard to sell wet concrete on a short window. Min back order window for concrete is 24 hours and the construction crew plans the pours ahead so they are not waiting around for black market concrete. It actually costs a lot more to idle the crew than the price difference of black market
fyi, paint is just an iframe containing https://jspaint.app/
This is a standard agile exercise called “Rules of Engagement”. Should be run with any forming team. I’m always surprised that this knowledge isn’t more commonplace.
> the low-caste Indians who converted to Islam to get out of the caste system, lol

I know you're saying this in a bit of an off the cuff manner, but there is a lot more to the history of Bangladesh than you were letting on, and even in a joking manner it kinda contributes to this idea that Islam was this great emancipatory force in Bangladesh, which is...a bit reductionist. The idea that Bengal is historically a nation of low-caste Indians is 100% not the case. Bengal's distinct identity goes back to the Vedic period of 1500BC - 500BC.

Its historic wealth predates Mughal era Bengal when Islam was introduced, and relates back to its historically rich breadbasket/river delta land and strategic placement as a thalossocracy very well placed along the maritime section of the Silk Road. Secondly, caste has always been somewhat complicated, and has a long history of systematically resistance in the Dharmic tradition in Bengal. That pertains to the historical development of Buddhism in the Maurya and Pala empires. To say it was "low-caste Indians" who converted to Islam to get out of the caste system that created the identity of "Bangladeshi" rather than competing ideological traditions (pro-Brahminical Old Vedic religion vs anti-Brahminical Buddhism) is really white-washing things. Islam's interaction with greater South Asian religion and philosophy was a lot more syncretic than that. By the time it had gotten there, there were already existing religios traditions that had begun to explore an idea of a religion without caste against religion through caste.
The Future of RLSL
From what I’ve seen, if you are using Time Machine, then the TM backup has to run before the space from deleted files can be freed.
Don't take this the wrong way, but did you read your own source? It literally proves my point.

>"We still think we're going to see, over the course of a 12-month period … and then subsequent years, in the order of 30 per cent increase [in] suicide rates," he said.

30% of 3,048 is 914. 5 years of that is 4,572 additional suicides. I got the 5 years data point from the Australian Medical Association. [1]

[1] https://ama.com.au/media/joint-statement-covid-19-impact-lik...
How about web log ;)
Why Social Media Make Us Vulnerable to Manipulation (RecSys 2020)
Imagine a planet

In the UK there was a recent series on “The Planets” by Brian Cox - one of the things I learnt was how a large has giant had migrated over time from the outer solar system to the inner and back out to the outer. That type of event have caused a slingshot to accelerate a planet like Venus into a highly elliptical orbit, one which might be further accelerated by other planets to a point where it reached escape velocity - especially if combined with large collisions.

This would happen in the same way the voyagers gained speed as it flew past the gas giants in the 80s.

It’s unlikely, but there are a lot of solar systems and a lot of planets.

Predicting the location of a given rogue planet would be like predicting the position if a tractor in a given field in Nebraska. However once you see the tractor is there you can start to predict how it got there.
The opposite, actually. "filter" is just a verb you can look up in a dictionary and roughly understand its meaning. "Where" is grammatical and hard to grasp without a holistic understanding of English grammar. Linguistic Moravec paradox, if you will.

Now, explaining Ruby's collect/detect/inject/select/reject, that's a whole different matter...
Yes, I got that point and you're missing mine: employer databases are seldom treated as confidential.

- You can ring the employer up and receptionists will readily hand this information over

- Many companies host AD off site

- Business cards

It trivial to find the names of people who work in a team because it's leaked everywhere and for everything.

I guess maybe, just maybe, if you happened to work in a sensitive industry (eg secret services) then there might be a claim here, but no such organisation would host that kind of development content off site in the first place. So it's a moot argument.

The reason Tara publish their GDPR statement is very clearly regarding customer data. Arguing about names and email addresses of customer facing project managers massively misses the point of what GDPR exists for.
Really nice. Is the source code available?
This has some pretty understandable explanation on functional programming that I've noticed most people explain poorly. Great article. Thanks for the share!
Yeah, you can only use it when you got internet
I like it!

For those interested, I'm working on a D3 book on how to create unique visualisations with D3 https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/visualisation-with-d3/
You may be finished with California, but California is not finished with you.

It would appear (based on the unlimited amount of ideas about what the government ought to do, that we read about in comments) that most folks like to pay as much tax as possible, but it seems many would prefer the State government to run out of other people's money first.
Can you not add these instructions? At least when you use FPGA IP, it can be done. But you would have to update the toolchain etc to support these new instructions.
> getting rid of it

No you aren't. There's no "getting rid of it". Spanish Flu (!) is still with us. It just kinda fizzled out after just about everyone got it over the course of 2+ years, but the virus still endemic, over a hundred years later.
Texas Republicans seek to toss 127k drive-thru votes cast in Harris County
Yea it’s on GitHub here: https://github.com/ShizukuIchi/winXP/
Sean Carrol's Mindscape podcast does a pretty good job explaining things to where an average Hacker News reader would understand things. Highest recommendation. He had someone on recently talking about this paradox, the CFT-ADST correspondance and holographic theory and it was reasonably understandable.
NY to SF by Train in Four Hours
Stackoverflow: Lesser Known but Useful Datastructures
Why is it we always keep going in circles, when .Net was seemingly, finally on the right path they changed again and it seems to be going in the old .Net direction.
That is a very long stretch. I've never heard of hammerskins and I spend way too much time in the "bad" parts of the internet.
Single-Celled Organism Appears to Make Decisions (2019)
Yeah. There should be an entire course dedicated to adapting StackOverflow solutions to your problem. Learning from existing solutions and comparing them with what you're trying to do is half of programming.
Definitely not Swedish. While the design might be, the pulse coding was different than nearly anywhere else. In Sweden zero was first, usually it's last. https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon#/media/Fil%3ADialog_...

In some country I have seen reverse coding, i.e. increasing number dialled gave decreasing number of pulses. Maybe Norway???

Big endian vs. little endian is not something new that came with digital computers :)

Edit: Only Oslo (different from the rest of Norway) and New Zealand had the inverted coding.
You do realise that most IPv6 implementations randomise the /64 "host" part of the address, right?

IPv4 NAT does not provide any additional privacy over IPv6.

You can jump up and down and claim the contrary, but it's just not the case.

Meanwhile, Facebook, Google, and the like are scraping petabytes of information about every Internet-connected person on the planet and selling it to the highest bidder. These organisations are not slowed down in the slightest by IPv4 or IPv6.

This is your argument in a nutshell: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pregnant-pause-2/
Sidenote: for those who think it's strange to use the word 'bodies' instead of 'people' (includes me): apparently this originates out of something called Critical Race Theory. An explanation of the term can be found here: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-bodies/.
Donald Trump Leads with African Youth – Scores Significantly over Xi Jinping
I think that's a great Result.
My main grievance with solutions like Electron the app doesn’t adapt to the platform.

Personally, I don’t see much benefits of Electron or non native apps when they don’t mix well with the OS UI interaction model. In the end you need to implement a lots of parts twice for Windows and macOS due to the differences interaction models.

In the case just share the business logic, and write UI separately, works perfectly fine. I have written apps that run on the web, natively on Android, macOS, iOS, and Windows were the only change is the UI layer and data storage (e.g. iCloud on Mac etc)
Are you shitting me? You're asking me ... on one hand to "trust the science," to the point humans change our use of power, transportation: basically upend industrial civilization, but you're also telling me this "science" isn't capable of producing models accurate enough for geoengineering? You do realize CO2 mitigation is only one form of geoengineering, right? If they can't suggest another one, why should anyone listen to them regarding CO2?

You can't have it both ways. Either "the science" predicts something or it doesn't. Which one is it?
Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter
I guessed that, but still can’t figure out what makes ℂℍℙℚ special. Looking again, I notice ℕ is taller, too, but not bolder. ℂℍℕℙℚℝℤ is much more “I can see why a font would have these, but not others”. That solves the issue enough for me.

(And, by the way, iOS doesn’t have Geneva, but it has a version of Verdana)
> Yes, lockdown most likely has some death toll. But the specific points you're making are very dubious and also very recognisable as the effect of consuming specific kinds of media.

I find that an unnecessary slight. Since that topic is very taboo, you won't be able to read about it in mainstream media sources, but only in opposition sources and professional journals. Attacking it on those grounds is weak.

It would be extremely surprising if a multi-month lockdown didn't have a death toll, "most likely" makes it sound like that's probable but remains to be seen. I don't think that's a reasonable position given all we know about the cost of policies, mental health and economic depression.

The argument shouldn't be "lockdown is painless" (because it obviously isn't), it has to be "no lockdown is more painful". We won't be able to tell whether it's true for quite some time, but there's a good argument for erring on the side of caution.
Unless the camera is angled in such a way that a ball kicked up in the air obscures a player’s head.
I miss Winamp so much.
Thinking about environmental issues abstractly aka energy vs chemicals doesn’t give you a basis for comparison. You need to dig into the details. In a green world you’re comparing X square feet of solar panels + Batteries with building RAM and environmentally building more RAM is less damaging.
> I considered filing a complaint with the police department, but I'm skeptical anything would have come of it.

Your instincts are correct, it is a waste of time. If the matter is serious enough, hire a lawyer and get a judgement against the officer or department. For everything else, let it go.

I had my car stolen a while ago. The police found it abandoned midweek, and had it towed to an impound lot. Then they waited until 4:45pm on Friday to tell me. The impound lot was an hour away, so I had to wait until Monday to get my car back. I also had to pay the tow lot for towing and storage of my stolen car for all the extra days.
I can't wait until it can be used as a primary phone!
Have decent speedups been gotten by previous CPUs by the addition of conditional moves? IIRC for some the SPECcpu impact was negligible, amd many RISCs don't have it. RISC is about quantifying this kind of thing and skipping marginal additions after all.
Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills expecting their first child together
Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
Same as you. Except for the use of human vocal chords to form human language.
Unfortunately, I can't find a reference at the moment, but there are two American mathematicians who perform card tricks in class and one of these tricks uses a de Bruijn sorted deck to allow to cut the deck many times and still be able to do the magic afterwards.
Mostly agree, though to nitpick on a particular POV:

> multiple internet feeds .. assigned IPv6 block ... paying through the teeth to the ISPs for the privilege.

People like having their own network blocks, but typical route-my-subnet-here arrangement require all core routers to store the path to it. IMO assignments of globally re-routable addresses should be actively discouraged and you shouldn't get one unless you're an ISP. Not defending current payment arrangements.

Roaming should be done at or close to the endpoints - imagine if all internet routers had to keep and synchronize ~12G entries, usually in special CAM memory (currently at ~800K) - that does not scale, at all.
This is not growth hacking, it’s faking and tricking people to force entry to another worthless website crated by “neomakers”.
Yeah there are indeed people that care, thinly scattered around the world. I found soms nice communities, like the Jupiter broadcasting and Ubuntu podcast communities. This is where I vent my enthusiasm nowadays, and I get much better responses :)
Gitako – Octotree Alternative
Sometimes it's not about preferences but about what's most widely supported. For example, my Octatrack only supports wav/aiff files so that's what I'm stuck with.