skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title should read "Peak of Inflated Expectations Reached".

I've worked on many health AI/ML projects. The last decade has produced tremendously powerful prototypes which lay clear paths forward for productization.

Sure, assay software that no one cares enough about hasn't been updated, but you better believe the medical apparatus as a whole will welcome any tool that increases throughput and increases margins.

Automating radiology or facilitating radiology does just that. Sure radiologists might not like it, but radiologist do not operate health systems, MBAs do.

For some perspective, medical devices take 3-7 years for approval. Most are not game-changing technologies. The ImageNet moment came in 2012. How can we reasonably expect to have functioning automated radiology only a decade from when we realized deep nets could classify cats and dogs?
I’d love to have actors and go-like channels for Swift concurrency.

Also, my biggest complaint about swift is that it’s statement oriented instead of expression oriented. This is a subtle but extremely important concept, and it’s so hard to go back to using statement oriented languages after experiencing Rust and Scala.
FoundationDB is Apache 2.0
https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/LICENSE

It is CP per https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/cap-theorem.html
Worth a mention, but it's not comparable in terms of feature set and execution time, sadly. I'd love someone to come along and make a MATLAB (Modern Fortran) knockoff that kills MATLAB.
What finally gave it away? The video being hosted on comedycentral.com?
Yeah, green means kick whoever isn't using Apple out of the group chat. Apple basically promotes bullying of kids who don't have an iPhone.
Frontal Attack: Leaking Control-Flow in SGX via the CPU Front End
I have mostly programmed in Python and used np.array for nearly that entire time.

Do other languages handle multi dimensional arrays the same way that Python/numpy does? As elegantly? (or better?)
The conversation over gcc-rs online has always seemed weird to me. These are open source projects that aren't really competing for the same resources, people are free to work on what they find interesting and everyone should support their freedom to do so.

That said I think if you had money involved it would be better spent creating LLVM backends than porting yet another language to gcc. I'm not sure "this is time consuming to bootstrap from gcc 4" is a compelling enough argument, at least nowhere near compelling as "this programming language cannot target these processor families because the backend doesn't exist and no one has the time to write one."
> I don't have any particular concern

we don't have even the slightest idea of where it could go right now. look 30 years ago and DNA wasn't a thing that people were worried about and now it's catching sloppy criminals. the technology opens up new, unexpected opportunities
This is an incredibly well-written article and helps track and rationalize some of the trends I've been seeing as well around backends as a service that enable developers to easily spin up modern web applications

Thanks so much for writing it!
If I'm advancing an argument you disagree with, I encourage you to explain why you disagree. Ad hominem is lazy and doesn't typically get much traction in this forum.

My comment history on this account is mostly opinions that disagree with Silicon Valley corporate-woke hegemony precisely because these are opinions that can "get you in trouble,", which is why I have this anonymous account to discuss these topics.

I comment on plenty of other thing but I'm not going to risk angering those people who will gleefully try to destroy your career for having the wrong opinions on these topics.
> zpool history

TIL this exists. Neat!
if you miss the old nautilus, just install caja, the MATE fork of it from before they mucked it up. That's the nice thing about open source.
>From where do you derive the authority

I would say from the social contract of acknowledging that, as a part of a society, I have at least some duty to that society in exchange for what that society provides (whether that is just a functional judiciary, a stable economy, rule of law, infrastructure, collective defense etc). Its not me who has authority in a representative democracy but the people from whom the government derives power. So it’s not really if I think that’s the right metric but rather if society does. To a certain extent, they have already voted on this with the creation of a public school system. And it’s not to say there is a single “supreme value” to optimize for because society is too complex to have a single cost function and dangerous to pretend there is (which I worry your ‘paper clip’ comment alludes to), but we can still acknowledge there is an acceptable base level for specific metrics.

I think the libertarian ideal is seductive because if there’s never an authority, you never have to be wrong. In the words of a philosopher, “ Perhaps this is why believing in absolute freedom is so tempting — if we follow that path, we are always “right,” which is easy.”[1] It’s an easy, but overly simplistic, framework. I tend to find the focus is disproportionately on what the government owes us without acknowledging that in exchange we have an obligation to society.

I can understand why someone advocates for ultimate freedom because of that seductiveness but I can’t really understand how they can also claim it will create a meritocracy unless you reduce yourself to a myopic view. I can reduce my worldview all the way down to the single room from which I’m typing and proclaim I’m the most meritorious person, but that position gets harder to defend as I acknowledge I am part of a larger society.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/special-series/mike-schur...
Pulling some random books off my shelf that I think fit with this author’s idea of a “good” opener:

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

> The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose.

Slaughterhouse-five

> All this happened, more or less.

The House of God

> Except for her sunglasses, Berry is naked.

Everything is Illuminated:

> It was March 18, 1971, when Trachim B’s double-axle wagon either did or did not pin him against the bottom of the Brod River.
Reading this part really made my head shake. Attacking a former intern like that, why would anyone want to intern there after this?
This makes a lot of sense. People have wondered how our cognition would be affected by living in zero gravity.

And our language reflects these cognitive biases; how we would express the experience of "getting high" in zero gravity?
> Though Lively was a project at YC Research in 2016/2017 and replit is a YC 18 company I think.

You're right about Replit going to YC after Lively, but Replit actually started much earlier (2009ish)
I don't think there is a solution as yet, but phones nowadays already have full disk encryption, i.e. the bits stored on the "disk" are garbled, and they have to be read through the decryption layer that transforms the gabled bytes to my_butt.jpg (And well, it also encrypts that image the IM app wants to save, before writing it to disk). The decryption layer gets initialized with a key during the boot process of the phone (after you've entered your password and unlocked the key) and remains active until the phone is shut down.

One way of using the above would be to allow "logout" of the main user and login of an e.g. repair user, on logout the decryption key would be erased from memory, and this way the repair user has no access to my_butt.jpg . Actually Android already has the concept of multiple users, and each user has their own data storage, so the can open their own Facebook or Tinder and have the phone be loading their personal profile. Not sure about things stored on disk, though, and AFAIK if a user can be root then s/he can read all the files on the mounted encrypted disk.

So, the repair user would not have access to my_butt.jpg, but maybe they need access to an installed app? I guess 1 solution would be to have apps installed on a separate partition to data. Android has a system partition (I'm not familiar with iOS), so if the repair user just needs internal apps, that should be accessible from the system partition.
I shouldn't have had to scroll so far to read this
Who are we and who are them?
It’s almost entirely within the employer’s power to make it worthwhile for key employees to not leave for their competitors.
I'm with you on this, reading the article I can't help but think the author is being intentionally naive about the situation and feelings on both sides. If anything, to me this reads like viral marketing to get the project off the ground.

The author builds a clone of a product for a former company, shares the project with the CEO, and expects them to be happy with it? And "out of nowhere" they are suddenly displeased with the project and (rightfully IMO) feel like some of it was copied from their business. What universe does this person live in? It's a fair point that several other competitors copy the UI and I'm not suggesting this is illegal or disallowed, just that there's a huge lack of common sense to think a former company would be happy to see a project like this.

The author is digging a further hole by making all this public, it's not a good look IMO. I'm all for competition but there's a severe lack of tact here.
Coverage isn't directly relevant to whether a mutation is deleterious or not. Coverage is about getting accurate reads in the face of short-read sequencing. Modern sequencing will chop up DNA into 200-nucleotide-long fragments and then align those fragments against the reference genome. Because of the variation between individuals, sequencing errors, and the fact that there are only 4 nucleotides, one sequencing read may not be enough to unambiguously determine which DNA is present at what position in the genome. Coverage at a particular genomic coordinate or locus is the number of reads which have been aligned to that position.

Depending on the circumstances, clinical use of genomes requires 100x-500x coverage. Depending on your purposes, you may accept less sequencing depth/coverage. If I was just a hobbyist wanting some idea about my genome, 30x would be sufficient for me.
Hindi Health Point
Hindi Health Point is a Hindi health care website. It was founded by Dr jith tho. Hindi Health Point covers all aspects of physical and mental health openly and purposefully. Our writers at Hindi Health Point work hard to give all the information by doing research and prepare the content according to their readers' interest and their desire. We highlight the complexities of health information and make it easier to understand.
Honestly this current state of affairs seems like a much better alternatives. I'll take any reversibility vs no reversibility. I only wish there was more reversibility. In terms of vulnerability to hacking (which you alluded to in your 2FA discussion), traditional finance is way more robust and loses less money as fraction of total volume.
Back in they day, I’d overdraw my checking account by $980 with a $20 overdraft fee. Then I’d bring it up to $0 after a month and overdraw it again. It was cheaper than putting $980 on a credit card, not that I had that much in available credit. I was broke in the 00’s.
Mostly for just demonstrating how it combines with other tools in my workflow over pipes :D
The startup sells a dream of immense future profit.
Altium has spreadsheets full of sales, income, and expenditure which pretty much indicate what the future profit will be.
Not intentionally, although it has an appropriate Latin meaning: "either give, or (else)".
Options to hacking university is as follows:

A. Skip college entirely and focus on getting credentials in a trade or vocational program -- you will earn a lot more money as an electrician or plumber than with a humanities degree or even most engineering degrees.

B. Attend university in a foreign nation -- much, much cheaper and you'll get a far better education, but those universities are much faster paced than U.S. universities -- e.g. expect to graduate with the U.S. equivalent of a masters after 3 years of focused work, and don't expect to take any classes outside your major, or even to be able to change majors. You normally have to apply to a specific program and then graduate in that program. They will not have a big sports program, either.

C. Attend community college for 2 years and then transfer to your local state school on scholarship for 2 years. If you cannot get a scholarship at your local state school after attending community college, choose option A

The above wont work for everyone, but can work for a lot of people.
My great uncle died at Bergen-Belsen - he was a doctor in Vienna, and he had been harbouring a Jewish family. His young sister - my grandmother - sold him out for a promotion in the hitlerjugend.

From what I gather, he managed to get quite a few people out of there on medical grounds - but not himself.

She never spoke of him. I only found out from the posthumous memoir of her surviving brother, who was a conscientious objector who got sent to Stalingrad. Not an easy read, but one that made me acutely aware of just how quickly things can go incredibly bad.
https://www.hindihealthpoint.com
Very open minded. The GP post describes it.
Reading your comment prompted me to search 'where does "space" begin' and I learned of the Kármán Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
This was a great read and did help me solidify my thinking on the issue. Thanks for adding...

... and sorry HN for polluting the database with ascii when a single upvote would have done fine!
I broke the screen on my phone. I would rather not have to reset it if not required. (It isn't critical, I have fairly easy backups and restores, but would still prefer not to go through that).

My threat model is low risk enough that I trust the full-disk encryption of my phone. So it makes sense for me to send my phone in with all of the data to avoid the reinstall.
To clarify, this is FaceTime only (not iMessage) and can only be initiated by Apple users, not by Android or Windows users.

I see this as handy when dealing with someone less technical with an iOS device that doesn't know how to install other apps (parents/grandparents).
It worked exceptionally well in the US though. You are a weird teenager if you have “green texts” - anecdata of course.
This is a honest question, so, what is so good about FaceTime? I have not used an iPhone since version 3GS, so it has been a while, but I understand it is just something similar to whatsapp video calls, google meet, or even zoom?
Fiat finances all wars. Without money printers, people push back against the true levels of taxation involved in modern Geo-politics.

US peeps like to mock other currencies that fall to inflation, and how the despotic governments were printing their way out of debts, but refuse to acknowledge money printing is used in much the same way here. We only get away with it as we're currently the top dog.

Governmental military industrial complexes spend way more resources than Bitcoin. Bitcoin's energy expenditure is required to keep government's from killing it because of the risk it poses to their fiat based control. Bitcoin's energy expenditure is about reducing democide and drawing down military industrial complexes for a peaceful cooperative future.
If a client insists there was trade secrete theft, a good attorney would do their very best to argue this case and seek legal remedies. Most attorneys, being non-technical, would have to rely on experts to outline exactly what/how a trade secrete theft occurred.
> Writing complex software without bugs is impossible. There are so many unexpected edge cases you will never think of them all no matter how large or small the team is.

Yes and: Whenever you add new features you will create new edge cases for existing code.

So even if you could evaluate all edge cases of existing code you would have to do that on your existing code base for all changes going forward.
"First of all, I am not going to defend soviet concentration camps, USSR has had it's own share of sins. But comparison of Third Reich and USSR is an anti-communist propaganda cliché. For obvious reasons: no jew could become a member of national-socialist party, but anyone could become a communist. So, no matter how disgusting the stalinism was, it cannot be compared to nazism."

Wait, your whole argument for why Stalinism can not be compared to Naziism was that jews could become members of the communist party?
By the time the threat is out, the PR damage is already impeding (see: this thread). And spending a few thousand dollar is simply not going to hurt a large corporation as much as it hurts an individual. By the way, this is similar for time: A large corporation sends a mail to the legal department and the case is taken care of. You need to find a lawyer, find the money, collect the evidence ...
reminded me of this great piece of writing advice from Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder:

" I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it."
That is so shady that is aught be to illegal. If they go these lengths what else are they doing that is actually not legal?
It is amazing to me that FAMAG companies let Zoom into the video call market. A half competent cross platform implementation would have left no room for Zoom.

My parents use Zoom now, and my distant non tech literate cousin in a developing country used Zoom to broadcast a funeral from abroad during COVID to all the extended family members around the world.
Snowflake is the biggest deployment of fdb in the world after iCloud.
I use cryptomator on my phone, but you're right, it's not user-friendly at all. I have to remember to delete files after I download them from cryptomator.
No doubt. My point was to provide an approximate bounds based on my experience in doing this for one-off legal matters.
Humans are capable of believing in whatever they want. People will emphacize likelihood of a plane crash if they are dreading going somewhere and discount it if there is a vacation in paradise on the other end.
Android already has a boot menu. It would be useful even for consumers to have an option "Self-Test" added to that list. I think the only real concern would be the storage space required if the test suite was large.
I imagine software was a big deal too. It's important not to forget the magnitude of the advantage that iTunes delivered for Apple. I think there's a sound argument to be made that, without iTunes, that iOS devices would have never achieved the same success.

iTunes provided a platform to get a critical mass of users accustom to buying $0.89-$20 digital downloads. Which made the transition of iTunes into an "app store" a minor one for users. They are there to buy music, but maybe in the future, they might find some apps for their iPhone useful.

Once Apple had a critical mass of developers building non-trivial apps for the iPhone. It was a (kind of) baby step to supporting tablets.

Lots of people tried to invent the tablet. I think they failed because of a lack of software, rather than poor hardware.
Xcode cloud is “one more thing” worthy
Yeah and I liked it - good tongue-in-cheek satire that exaggerated a lot of things that have some basis in truth. It was ultimately a fictional show though and life in silicon valley is a lot more boring than that the vast majority of the time.

Even in that show nobody was on meth iirc.
I've just been in an MDT meeting that was meant to have a radiologist in it, but due to annual leave we didn't have anyone. I think people in tech don't have much of an idea of what radiologists do - the conclusion from a scan depends very much on the clinical context. In an MDT setting there is significant discussion about the relevance and importance of particular findings.
there are a few rhetorical tricks here. what am i denying exactly? the genocide? yes i am. it's not a genocide. there isn't a planned extermination of uyghurs going on. there have been planned exterminations of armenians from anatolia and jews from europe.

on the other hand: am i denying the existence of fishy "re-education camps" targeting one ethnic group and one only, where they are brought in under very opaque circumstances? no, i am not denying that.

if you want a very long read with some context behind some of those claims, here's one: https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang

there are a bunch of things there, a full timeline of the "conflict", a couple of articles debunking both poor google maps journalism and a few poorly-made BBC & vice docs on the matter.

there's also the fact that some of the "punishments" against the uyghurs are forcing children to go to school, to mandarin-speaking public ones even, which is the same policy most countries in the world adopt (a recent request in france to partially allow schooling in catalan in the region of perpignan has been rejected). there are some claims that state-funded xinjiang schools are even bilingual but i haven't dug enough on it.

i won't comment on the wuhan issue because i don't really know enough about it, but as someone who is born in an island with plenty of US bases i laugh at everyone claiming china is "flexing their muscles" with their navy.

to be clear: nobody approaching any of those bases gets allowed in, just like in the "xinjiang camps". does this excuse china? no, it doesn't, but we should probably be fair in our judgment.
Broom Bridge
A lot of Apple's previous attempts at "web apps" have been pretty half-arsed. Including Apple Music currently. Let's see if this is any different.

I'm currently using Signal on Windows/Android/iOS and apart from two annoyances it is fine.

- No gif support on Windows (Android/iOS only)

- Cannot add a second phone but can add a tablet. As soon as it detects a SIM card slot (with or without SIM in it) it only allows you to set it up as the primary device, rather than a secondary like a tablet.
>Which makes the reaction weird.

Consider that funders and investors like the parent reply will say "huh, that's so easy it isn't worth that much money" and it won't be that weird.
> phones nowadays already have full disk encryption

Full disk encryption is basically useless if the device is turned on/logged in.
XCode Cloud is Apple's babystep to compete with AWS
It's a nobrainer that the cloud runs on M1 chips. It would make no sense at all to run XCode Cloud on Intel chips.

The contract with AWS is a multi billion contract which ends in 1 - 2 years. Before that, Apple ran on GCP and Azure. They've gathered enough experience to compete. Although I don't think it'll be a public thing anytime soon, it's a big chunk of potential revenue.
I saw a jokey-serious "transition timeline" photo set where it started with elaborate, carefully done outfits that would put Natalie Wynn's best to shame, then ended with something like "passed out drunk at 3am in a pile of unwashed bras"

You wouldn't know I'm nonbinary from looking at me because I look like any dude walking around with clothes plucked out of the closet at random. Presentation is just not a huge part of the identity to me, even though the stereotype is that presentation is everything.