skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done the opposite. I used Safari for more than a half decade, then jumped to Firefox when I decided to switch to weird operating system. But then Firefox dropped support for my weird OS a year ago (I can't blame them), and I was forced to switch to Chromium.

I quickly became delighted at just how speedy everything was. It's not as if I'd never opened Chrome before, but the difference was much more noticeable after using it as my primary browser for a few days. Even on my weird platform where Chromium can't use graphics acceleration, the browser is just stupid fast at getting web pages on screen.

I'm not, well, particularly happy about this. I think that browser diversity is super important, and I do still use Firefox on Windows and Safari on modern Apple platforms. But Chromium really does seem to provide the better experience.
It is actually sometimes necessary to do some calibration and system tests, I don't know the details but it's basically because Apple wants to screw over third-party repair shops.
> Am I missing something?

There's a lot of possibilities at play:

- government entities usually are restricted in paying the salary needed to hire actual experts, meaning they either get bullshitters or have to go for expensive consultants like Palantir, Accidenture and the likes

- alternatively (but with the same end result) government HR lacks the expertise to properly evaluate experts, the home education market does not produce the required experts

- digital illiterates in upper management don't want to hire a team of actual experts for what they deem a one-off job - Europe has strong worker protection laws, remember that - without even thinking a step further

- a lack of trust in the organization - an outside impartial agency given full authority for any access they want by top leadership will face way less resistance from individual data silo leaders, compared to an in-house team

- the obviously shady/illegal (and for the record, I'm not accusing anyone of anything here either, just throwing possibilities around) like kickbacks, campaign donations and other forms of "government influencing"

- the extremely shady stuff - secret services cooperating behind closed doors to get data they would normally being forbidden from accessing by law, by using Palantir as some sort of proxy
There’s certainly systemic discrimination and exploitation done to the food supply of the poor (e.g. food deserts).

Being too fat/lazy to “rise up from the couch” is an ignorant stereotype.
Smart people are pretty quickly able to identify gaps in a process (and there are always gaps). Jaded people realize that nobody really cares what you do, good or bad; all that matters is hitting the metrics. And cynical people feel entitled because of what they've been through ("I gave my life to this company, and they don't appreciate it...").

The higher you are in management, the more you have of all of those traits. Theft and fraud are so pervasive and most managers get away with it for years. Even if they are caught, at worst, they are merely fired.

The more Machiavellian-types rope in low-level employees. So while it might seem like a "gang" of 20-somethings at an electronics store made off with a shipment. The reality is, an upper-level manager provided the cover for them to do so, and knew how to leave just enough evidence that it was an inside job, but not enough for the police to bother. For example, the badge used to access the storage area might belong to a little old lady who is honest to a fault and would be readily identified by security cameras. And if anyone questions why the store greeter has such privileged access, then it was just an honest mistake.
90% reliable doctor in Switzerland > 10% reliable AI > 0% reliable no doctor in Africa
Yes, I think so. I believe it is Cat and Rio Tinto have some form of arrangement at one of RT's mines in Aus. The dump trucks are driverless and run from RT's HQ elsewhere.

Cutting out intermediataries is what cloud computing is all about. I don't really see this as any different.
UN: Cost of food rises at fastest pace in over a decade
I type only slightly.slower than I think, so really no keyboard interface would be worth my while.
Newer kindle formats require all sorts of work, and constantly change. I also need to keep a window vm around, it is as annoying as the kindle app.

Thanks for the mention though, and I know calibre is quite convenient for some.
Can confirm as well - I am about to move from the center of a downtown metro into a small town 45min away from the nearest big city, and I was concerned about internet -- turns out my house has gigabit fiber for cheaper than I can find in most big cities (60/mo)
The ux for the things I _actually do_ is way better on a linux machine.
Cross-platform GUIs always, inevitably, suck. Yes, Qt too. Electron apps just feel like they don't belong on your OS. They try hard to reimplement all the behaviors you'd get for free if you used the OS's native GUI toolkit, but they do it shittily and it shows. It's extremely hard to make a cross-platform app that feels like a native one. I haven't seen a single one yet.

> a rich open-source ecosystem (~1.3 million packages on npm)

And people using those packages without ever understanding what's inside, resulting in unneeded abstraction layers and enormous bloat.
Alex Jones, is that you?

The degree of censorship in play right now is breathtaking. I've spoken to some youtube content creators and they are wary of multiple keywords. One mishap either deserved or not can nuke your channel. Without much explanation. Or recourse to resolve it in any useful way.

Domain registration is just one element. Next you'll need web servers, email etc. Hiding details as seen by WHOIS is an obvious protection that isn’t rare anymore.
I feel like low-code apps like this have hit commodity level.

A bit of history - in the late 90s, you could (and we did) build a multi-million dollar product doing basic content management for plain old web pages. That heydey lasted a couple years before Wordpress and other such tools came around and basic CMS was more of a solved problem than a unique product.

The same has occurred over the years in multiple niches - a tool that would have been a terrific SaaS at one point gets built out, normalized, and well understood... to the point that it is no longer a unique value prop to just build a tool that solves problem X. You need to build the tool AND have some unique perspective and value prop that escalates it above all the others.

Low-code CRUD builders with DB integration and some basic workflow, reporting, and security now have hit that mark. There have always been big players in this market (Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, etc.) It is good to see smaller players coming into their own in recent years, and this specific one is open source, which is a nice differentiator between it and many others.
The intrinsic uniqueness of human physiology and the differing assessments made by health practitioners make this area of medicine quite challenging.

This is compounded by the fact that different device manufacturers in the field of radiology each has their own proprietary technology that delivers different medical imaging analysis.

While there has been a lot of headway performed in terms of data interchange, the race by the multitude of players in this area of medicine is staggering that one will always try to proclaim as more revolutionary and innovative.
When I sent my Apple laptop in for a battery replacement, their suggestion was to backup and wipe the drive.
How much would there be to read on the internet without ads?

I don't like ads but its the only business model that seems to be viable online, other than instituting outright paywalls. Or perhaps we should just burn it all down...
The Development of the Musical Idea: A Synthesis of Music
Why no LoC included, it seems most useful metric. Also bugs filed/fixed would be helpful too.

Thank you for your effort!
The effect is real, it doesn’t seem to be a graphing error or change in definition.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4396194-why-m1-money-supply...

From your own link we can see-

“In late February and early March of 2020, the Fed cut its policy interest rate dramatically to help ease credit conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. The resulting acceleration in the supply of M1 can be understood largely as banks accommodating an increase in people's demand for money.”

This is “real” money that banks needed access to for their customers in unprecedented amounts. The problem is that it was created out of nothing.
This is exactly how it's done. People are willing to pay for modifications and consulting. The only danger here is turning into Oracle where little effort is put towards usability in order to protect your consulting revenue stream. Just build great tools and libraries and people will come to you for help.
I had a similar experience with a battery replacement. I declined to share the password, and the owner claims he was able to run the battery diagnostics without the password.
It depends on the context. If you write for a living, then one relevant metric is how quickly you type with no errors (although perhaps a better metric would be how quickly you get error-free work product out, including revisions).

If you're talking about who can send text messages to another person faster, then the "typos included" metric makes more sense.
Not to be confused with the also very SQL-like Q language[1] from Kx Systems/Arthur Whitney.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...
It's not a diss. It is a compliment.
"There's not enough good data to train it on properly"

Bingo: You're in _very_ data poor environment, compared to something like predicting a consumer's preferences in videos or identifying and segmenting a bicycle. The external data is also very qualitative and hard to encode into meaningful features.
@brnt It's great to see someone else from radiotherapy on HN. I'd love to chat if you're down. Shoot me an email.
No separation between tabs and they keep hiding useful context menu items [0].

[0] As an example:

1) close tabs to the right/left and - are now hidden under menus

2) show image on current page was removed - only allowed to show image on a new tab (which the mouse middle button already used to do)
Never did I consider that puns could be turned against me as well.
Looks cool, but is there any reason sentences on the website don't begin with capital letters? It is a youth thing?
“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

― P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins
Couple of points: The 21st Century Cures Act has recently expanded rules for information portability, which will make it much easier to get access to your data in the future. The challenge here has nothing to do with radiologists hoarding your data. The lack of interoperability typically stems from limitations of electronic health information systems. Most radiologists would love to be able to look at your scans from multiple previous hospitals where you were imaged previously, but technical barriers currently make that difficult.
Soviet Union would have lost the war if Stalin and his henchmen didn't stop terrorizing the people. Only when Stalin strategically decided to give more freedom, Soviet people started to mobilize and defend their homeland. Before it was no difference between the two evils. The rest is history.
Of course after the war, NKVD and the rest were given free reign again.
Just to clarify, the article states that the victim is 21, and that the offence occurred in 2016.

Does this mean that she was a minor at the time, and if so was the sharing of these images as similar crime to distributing child pornography?
Hi CJ,

Mind if I send you an email as well?
>At the Apple Store, they also asked for the password, but when I said no way, the support person was just "ok, no problem".

Can we take a moment to realize how crazy this is? I'm glad they didn't fight you, but the fact that they didn't means that they know in an instant that _they never needed the password in the first place to do what you asked them to_. This means that them asking for the password is them asking you for the private key to your entire personal life for no other reason than "most people will give it to them".
This is not the answer. While it could be useful for legal action, it is not something that would help any regular user.

The only way to help is to make it clear that no password shall ever be given to anyone.
Apologies to those who've heard it before, but whenever BCI comes up I feel obliged to point out that, when you connect a computer to a brain, the brain is the more sophisticated information processor.

Use hypnosis.

You can have effective fast communication to the machine without any fancy technology (and certainly without surgery!) The subjective experience is "think to type". I expect that these days you can use a camera and ML to "read thoughts" directly from facial muscles, no need for GVR or IMUs on the fingers.
It's about learning to not automatically do that to others.
I can appreciate your confusion and apologize for my lack of clarity. Note that my comment was on the interplay of the three domains, not the technology domain in a vacuum.
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I agree, great article. We all get to have our own opinions, and the way I vote with my wallet is to have a couple of Linux laptops that I can mess around with and then I also own all the Apple devices and I am happy to live within the garden. I am considering writing a iOS and iPad app (in the knowledge graph, AI, knowledge representation space) and if I do, I will abide by Apple’s rules.
>Well, there were even Jewish collaborators, in fact, quite plenty of them.

Yet they themselves were eventually murdered by the germans..
Python's hypothesis did coverage guided property-based testing for a bit.

They turned it off (not sure if they turned it on again): the problem is that property based tests of the kind implemented with hypothesis are mainly supposed to be run as part of your CI/CD test suit. So they should be fast.

Coverage guided fuzzing like AFL does usually takes longer than people are prepared to wait for in their build/test server.
Valet mode! Excellent.
If you like SQL interfaces then please also checkout Steampipe (https://steampipe.io).

Use SQL to instantly query cloud resources like AWS, GitHub, Yahoo Finance, etc (no CSV yet). It's written in Go and uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers (similar to SQLite virtual tables).

Disclaimer: It's open source. I'm a lead on the project.
You gotta give it a minute! This isn’t like Facebook shipping their latest startup clone where they just slap something together in 10 weeks and call it a day. This will be a multi decade process.
Fujitsu not being US corporation didnt get so lucky. Their 2005 annual report listed HDD litigation-related expenses at 10,220 mil yen = ~$100mil

Mmmm Fujitsu, the sweet sweet smell of conifer forest. The flux they used on those drives smelled amazing!

I worked at European Fujitsu distributor in late nineties. Absolutely the best non IBM(1) hard drives you could buy at the time. Cheap, fast, dead silent, super reliable. Then this happened:

https://www.theregister.com/2002/11/05/fujitsu_admits_4_9_mi...

https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/fujitsu-hard-disk-recovery/

“blame was laid on the supplier of epoxy mould compound used in the manufacture of Cirrus’ Himalaya 2.0 and Numbur chips”

Symptoms were drive not being detected, reporting as garbage corrupted strings, not spinning up or even clicking. The irony is they are 100% perfect mechanically. Btw I read somewhere swapping pcbs without making sure they have same firmware rev on board might result in service area corruption requiring actual specialist knowledge to recover (or running premade script in PC3000).

(1) and we all know how IBM Deskstars turned out ;-( Amazing and fast drives, until the sad conclusion.
My average typing speed is 80-110, but I can max out at 121. This is for standard english words, not the crazy blocks of letters and special characters used for competition, which IMO isn't practical for the average user.

I actually spend a few minutes every few weeks taking typing tests etc, as it's a valuable skill to me.

I figure if the average typing speed is somewhere between 50-80 WPM, if I can type 50% faster, in theory, I'm responding to emails and commenting in general 50% faster.

It's just a nicer experience using a computer if you can type fast. Sometimes it's easier to command-backspace and retype an entire line/word than it is to move the cursor and correct the error. It's also just plain nice to have only your thoughts to worry about when typing and not have the cognitive overhead of trying to keep track of where all the letters on the keyboard are.

All in all, I would recommend improving your typing speed if you spend any type of meaningful time on a computer.

A fun 1-minute test that is somewhat practical here: 10fastfingers.com
They actually did mention M1 in the post

> For some CPUs, calling functions that are further away from your generated code can cause CPU-internal optimizations (such as branch prediction logic) to fail. The fix for this is to copy the builtin functions into the same memory region as the generated code. This change is especially impactful for the new Apple M1 chip.
I think this is the kind of problem that might be solved by tokenomics. Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) seems like a good step forward.
Hi! This is the perfect use case and one that we keep hearing over and over again from friends/ family/ colleagues/ acquaintances. Really looking forward to helping you out! :)
Is your service available at this time? The website suggests that it is, but based on your post here it sounds like you are pre-beta?

Congrats on the launch, I can see the value in this.
Looks useful and well done, but the choice of name is unfortunate since it clashes hard with the Q language and the q-sql functions it implements (and also given some Q users would definitely find this interesting)
Have you tried `about:debugging`? Pretty sure both chrome and firefox support a remote debugging protocol. I only know about it because there is a way to hook up VSCode so all the debugging stats end up in the editor instead of the browser.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debuggi...
[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firefox-...
My Lenovo laptop has removable NVMe drives that are accessible with a philips-head screwdriver.
> good code is not always in a businesses best interests.

You nailed it exactly. High quality engineering requires costly business practices that most companies don’t need, so the tradeoff is easy to decide. This is why organizations that do high quality engineering are well funded and are very restrictive about what kinds of programming features are allowed. NASA published a famous essay about how to write safety critical code that disallows use of dynamic memory allocation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
I’m not really sure how I feel and I’m very curious what the reaction of others on HN will be.

For those that supported Basecamp and Coinbases’s “no politics” policy, would you also support “no politics” in open source software?

I guess it’s different since this is a single developer doing it for free, so they can do whatever they want. If someone objects, they can branch it.
It could mean that they just won't do as much testing if they don't know the password, which means there's a greater risk you'll get your computer back and discover there's still something wrong with it.

Which might also be a perfectly reasonable tradeoff, but there's nothing inherently nefarious about it. And people can make different choices depending on the amount of private information on their laptop.
> Mr Cook's memo to staff said that he missed "the hum of activity" of in-person working, and that he knew "I'm not alone".
Well, it's essentially a coincidence mixed in with a bit of superstition.

K - M has no semantics, its more like something you'd find in a teen magazine. "K - M" means as much, "Prince" or "Jesus Christ" or any of a number of words.

The type of association underlying word vectors is just expecting to co-occur.

So there are many cases we can enumerate where our expectation that Q occurs is modulated by M occurring. So if M hasn't occurred in some text, we expect Q rather than K.

(Equally, in biblical literature, we might expect JC to occur; and in disney films, "prince").

And many of these famous examples are just tricks. Very nearly all of the industry sells this technology based on a few cases which happen to turn out "as a lay audience would expect", and neglect to include the many many cases where they do not.

And to be clear, we should not expect "K - M" to be "Q" in anything other than a basically statistical sense, relative to some texts. "King - Man" isn't a semantic operation.
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I've done a project in this AI domain a decade ago: look at different scans and then decide if a pixel is cancer tissue or not. Project succeeded and I'm pretty sure some radiologist is enjoying his 4h work week.
Of course ,as long as all Swiss German speakers continue to learn Standard German in school and use it for writing, their dialect will not drift too far away.
Also, a person from Northern Germany might find some dialects in the Netherlands easier to understand than Austro-Bavarian or Swiss German.
If memory serves right, AFL might have some support for something like shrinking?

Of all the property based testing libraries, hypothesis has some great ideas on shrinking. (By comparison, Haskell's QuickCheck is actually pretty bad at shrinking.)
It's not a bad idea tbh.

Currently nurse practitioners (think: nursing degree then two years of online college) are winning the right to run their own independent medical practices all over the place. You can get a Xanax prescription after your first 15min zoom call in much of the US right now.

The political consensus is that doctors are overeducated and overpriced so I think an AI replacement could still win licensing even if it doesn't match their accuracy.
FDA Approves Aducanumab: first Alzheimer's treatment
> look into various kinds of tree based ML models like random forests or boosted trees...

Those are the expert systems that have fallen out of favour over a decade ago, so thanks, but no thanks.

> many ML models today are either full on white boxes or are directly interpretable in various ways

Sources please, and remember to use relevant sources only, i.e. interpretation of medical image analysis like here [1].

Notably activation maps told researchers precisely nothing about what the neural net was actually basing its conclusions on:

> For other predictions, such as SBP and BMI,
the attention masks were non-specific, such as uniform ‘attention’
or highlighting the circular border of the image, suggesting that
the signals for those predictions may be distributed more diffusely
throughout the image.

So much for "fully white boxes" and "direct interpretability"...

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...