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You know all those climate models are back tested with the historical data too right?

Climate modeling is a tricky thing because the system is so complex and we are continually surprised by interactions and effects we didn't expect.

However, climate science is about far more than just models. The models are actually the least compelling part.
> I've honestly never been at a job interview where people gave a crap about my open source contributions. They're typically much more interested in hearing war stories from the closed source projects I've worked on.

Counterpoint - I have. Many times.

I created some Perl libraries (most notable <a href="https://metacpan.org/dist/DateTime">DateTime</a> and <a href="https://metacpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch">Log-Dispatch</a>) that were used by a huge percentage of companies using Perl for applications (as opposed to simple scripts or sysadmin). This often came up in interviews, and I'm sure it helped me get more and better offers.

Nowadays, as fewer companies are using Perl for applications, it's probably less helpful, but it doesn't hurt.
Show HN: Low rated but popular Chrome extensions
I scraped over 147.000 products and apps from marketplaces like Shopify, Wordpress, Android & Chrome extensions, and I created 8 Airtables for each of them.

I also separated those that have low rating but many installs so that I (and others) can have some inspirations on future side projects or businesses.

This is one of those tables, if you think it's a decent idea please help me on Producthunt where I launched (with an upvote or feedback in the comments).
Link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/inspiration-database-1

Thank you and have a nice day, I hope you find this useful!
> Some busybody must have flagged it

It's a new acount which only posted this link - likely just some automated link spam detection. If you to to the comment's page (click the timestamp) there should be an option to vouch for it.
That's what they claims, but not what they do.

This is the amendment you asked for: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/16/china
I don't think having or taking nude photos qualifies as a kink in the modern era. Also what this is really another example of is victim blaming.
I want to agree with you, but with caveats; HIPAA systems need to be certified to be secure to a certain degree and are specifically meant to handle sensitive PII data. While Apple could eat the cost of accreditation, it would be a significant burden to require your average IT/PC repair shop to do so. It would also mean opening yourself up to significant liability every time you work on someone's computer, so there would probably have to be some kind of malpractice insurance. I think there's probably a middle ground in there somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
I think this article points out the fact that the creation of a technology in the lab, and its effective operational deployment are two different problems, both difficult, requiring different skills and resources.

An imperfect-but-instructive analogy would be between vaccine development and vaccine delivery. Once a vaccine has been developed and shown to be safe and effective, the hard work is just beginning. In the case of COVID, billions of doses must be produced, and then delivered to people, the delivery requires not just shipping of the doses, but matching the doses with an equal number (billions) of syringes, hypodermic needles, cotton swabs, band-aids, alcohol swabs, etc. People have to be recruited to deliver the doses, systems must be created to manage the demand and the queues, etc. The operational problem of delivering the vaccine to the world is arguably harder than its creation and testing.

Likewise, the successful operational rollout of an AI-mediated automated or semi-automated decisioning problem is a complex problem requiring a totally different skillset than that of ML researchers in the lab. Computer systems and human procedures have to be created to manage the automation of the decision; decision results must be tracked and errors fed back to the lab to update models. Radiologists (including new radiologists) will of course be needed to understand the errors and provide correct labels, etc. Trust and mindshare in the medical community has to be built up. These things are not easy.
The alternative is building a web app that requires the browser anyway. The compiled language route is going to require a tremendous amount of work to accomplish what you get for free (save for extra client resource useage) developing for electron.

You can build or port a web app to electron using mature and productive tools (html/css/boostrap/typescript/angular...god forbid React). What's more to say.

The compiled language ecosphere requires each their own set of tools for each platform. Beside electron the next best cross platform framework (xamarin forms) uses proprietryish UI document description (XAML) requiring the developer to work through another huge learning curve.
Why make a cynical assumption at all? Francis R. Willett, Donald T. Avansino, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, and Krishna V. Shenoy are real people. You could, you know, just ask them.
It's more than just load, it's all the little hangs. Especially with devtools open. Also unlike Chrome, one tab can crash every window, which can happen to me daily.

Edit: I suppose that's what you meant by "responsive"
These systems are basically banned from working as actual replacements for radiologists, so it's no surprise they aren't yet. We have repeatedly proved the superiority of expert systems (in the 90s) and AI and select medical tasks. However, there is a legal monopoly (in the US) that requires most medical tasks to be performed by expensive doctors.

If people were able to use these tools directly, we could see dramatically better results because we would be giving people decent healthcare at basically zero cost. Cost is by far the biggest problem in healthcare today. Low cost would change behavior in a large number of medical tasks, and early detection of cancer is the most obvious. If you could get a mediocre readout for free, you would probably do so more often. Cancer in particular is almost entirely an early detection problem.

Using AI to assist radiologists is probably never going to be a huge thing. Just like AI assisted truck driving is never going to be huge (because it doesn't solve the core problem).
> and said Apple would "blacklist" me from any future repair.

This sounds highly illegal. Also, why would Apple care? I can see how repair shops could want that, but I don’t get the thought process that would lead to this becoming Apple’s policy. I would not trust these people anymore either.
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But aren't we already over-diagnosing some cancers? Spotting more tiny tumors in unrelated images might do more harm (through procedures/treatment) than ignoring them. I'm not sure if we're really better off detecting every anomaly in someone's body.
> and tell the boats to turn around and exit territorial waters.

This feels like a way to get into a game of "you can't be everywhere at once".
Wow, that never occurred to me, that’s a win-win situation for everyone involved! The maintainer gets recognition and payment for his work, the company learns and has its questions answered. I’ll keep that in mind in my future projects, thanks.
> dark mode seems a bit buggy

Please let us know any bugs you encounter. A lot of dialogs and etc still do not support dark mode due to manual changes needed for each of them, unfortunately.
Flagged. Person looking to promo their own new (2 white US male CEO) business venture and launched his own VC-esque(4 white US in twitter cover image) bullshit wants attention.
Let's be real here. You wouldn't pay someone abroad $3/hr if:

* there were actual tariffs imposed when you imported the results of her labor, reflecting the very different costs of living in two nations

* the nation where she works had the same environmental and labor regulations as where you live.

* there were barriers to you directly or indirectly investing capital in the nation where she lives, and/or significant taxes on the profit you make from doing so.

* the nation where she lives had a strong union/pro-labor culture that gave workers the power to collectively negotiate with employers.

* the nation where she lives had a legal system that would reliably hold employers and investors responsible for their decisions.

Now, you might still choose to pay for overseas labor even if all these things were true, but you likely wouldn't be paying $3/hr anymore. As it stands, "cheap overseas labor" is about much more than that.
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Great point. I also like that you look at both CNN and Fox. The one thing I would add to it is to look at additional sources. Ie for health information, look at journals, cdc ect. For economic issues, look at the BLS ect. Oftentimes the truth lies there and CNN and Fox just have shallow interpretations of it.
>Sure, you can fork Chromium in theory, but making changes that are incompatible with Google's vision is going to be a problem for you.

Isn't Brave doing just that? They have created a whole new business model on top of Chromium that is incompatible with Google's vision. I'm not convinced that it's a better model, but that's beside the point. Brave has also said that they won't be supporting FLoC.

But if you mean Google's vision for the rendering and JavaScript engines then I agree with you. Only Google can really steer the core technology into any particular direction.
Indeed, my initial question was rhetorical.
It sounds like lack of trust. Throwing more money at the problem won't secure trust. You'd probably have to go the hard route, which is having some honest conversations with people.
That’s how I read it at first. I was like: wow, this crow stories are getting out of hand
Well, oftentimes people don't -want- to know or believe the truth, too. We've seen ample evidence of that recently, with one noted politician even flat out telling his followers a couple years ago that "what you are seeing and reading is not what is happening".
I had a friend of a friend that, in the old days where you used to have to get your photo films developed at a shop, used to keep a copy of anything featuring nudity. I think he had a stack about 2" thick.
For a system to be rigged, it implies that the same people stay at the top.

Look at the most valuable companies today, and look 30 years ago.

There are numerous studies that show that income volatility at the top and at the bottom are very pronounced in US vs Europe and other developed countries.

More importantly, about 50% of people in the US will be in the top 10% of income, at least 1 year of their lives.

This goes against the tenet that the system is "rigged" or at least, it far less rigged here than in the rest of the world.
Not sure how modern AI is going to help here.

> they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing, and are constrained by whatever manufacturers managed to get the FDA to approve (...)

If you take this layer of proprietary magic nobody understands, and add DNNs to mix, you'll get... two layers of proprietary magic which nobody understands (and possibly owned by two different parties).
> As I understand it, the main obstacle to cheap e-ink screens is actually licensing.

Based on?
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> But comparing speeds isn't really necessary or even relevant.

This isn't a comparison between this and typing on a keyboard.

It's a comparison to the prior state of the art in this technology.
Hey - of course we can. I'll email you ASAP
This hasn't been my experience at all. Plumber-developers are generally terrible at architecting systems, whereas confident low-level/algorithms programmers tend to also be very good at designing architectures.

Personally, I think it's because development is more fractal than people give it credit for, but I think it's also that plumber-developers tend to be intellectually lazy, which is why they specialised in code-plumbing.
There do not seem to be system colors defined for dark mode. Explorer does it via uxtheme but does not seem to expose the colors themselves. Plus it ends up being un-configurable.
And it worked only on Windows
That may be true, but I think that is what makes my idea work well.

- For "content" sections the discussion is entirely removed. Each browser can do whatever it wants so there is no need to argue in the standard.

- For "clean" sections nothing! Every element has no margin:0 padding:0 display:block size:1em color:inherit... This leaves no surprises and developers can do whatever they want.

Of course the third section "legacy" is what we have today and largely shouldn't be changed from the mostly-uniform thing that browsers do today.
He seems quite happy to strike deals with drugs gangs, according to documented police evidence [1].

And five of his associates are known to be corrupt [2].

Pretty impressive for someone who claims/claimed to be anti-corruption [3].

On a global political scale, I think it's pretty accurate to describe him as an errant dictator [4].

I strongly suspect he is open to bribery if he believes it furthers his position, despite his claims to be anti-corruption.

[1] https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/el-salvador-nayib-buk...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/18/five-of-salvadoran-...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-16/nayib-...

[4] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/07/salv-m07.html
Would you mind pointing to the example of a system with less or no magic?
awesome. I'll ping you later
It wasn't a crime. It was a civil action. There was no verdict because Apple paid.

Apple should implement a "send for service" option that configures the device so that service can be done without exposing the customer's information.

All Apple customers for iPhones have an Apple ID. When the phone is in service mode, all the data is backed up to iCloud (irrespective of whether the customer has paid for it) and the phone wiped. The fact that an iPhone doesn't include at least as much iCloud storage as it has local storage for backup is ridiculous.

After repair, the data is loaded back into the device before being returned to the customer.
What cynical assumption? It is well known visual cortex can't do too many things at the same time. The famous gorilla experiment shows this. And if you need to imagine anything graphical it most likely involves visual cortex.
For market segments where FLOSS can't penetrate, consolidation and oligopolies seem unavoidable. The costumers behave mostly favoring a winner-takes-all approach that eventually kills any competition.

It took years until arduino-like tools got good enough to eat the mcu proprietary tools lunch. We're still a few years away until symbiflow does the same for fpga. But for markets where FLOSS can't penetrate, I don't see much hope.
Talented business consultant Nathan Fielder covered this topic not long ago. I believe he was the first one to spot this gap in the market for an asexual computer repair service.

He actually shares his findings with us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9I04Oa-hU

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
> Data is better in a table rather than a text document though.

I feel like I'm missing something here. What situations are you ending up in where it's a problem that "data" is mixed up together with text?

There's already multiple ways to express tables (or more correctly data structures) with text. You could write a Markdown table, as CSV, or a JSON object, or any of the other innumerable ways there are of structuring data "in text". I feel like any of these would be easier to use than mixing plaintext with some kind of table view.
> Everything is now a bloated Electron app where all the features have been deleted

Good cross-platform UI is hard, and web technology is seen as an "easy" way out because you can hire plenty of resources and yes -- it does seem silly to reinvent the wheel when HTML/CSS have implemented something already. Electron is basically the Java Applets/AWT/Swing of our time, because it lets teams prioritize features and delivery speed over great, performant, UX. And to be fair, for simple use cases, it's works well. But when you're at the level of MS Teams, I absolutely agree -- that app could be far better tuned. It actually runs much better inside a browser or in the native iOS app, which is a giant middle finger to Microsoft's platform ambitions -- it's like they're not even incentivizing people to take advantage of Windows.

Deleting or not including features is a separate "thing" though, I feel. Gnome had it with Nautilus, for instance -- it's definitely not solely an Electron thing. It's the "designer knows best" mentality that fails to strike a good balance between simplicity and customizability, and not taking the time to understand what users want.

Interestingly, Zoom (ignoring their various other issues) is a company that seems to do this well. They have a reasonably good UX to start with, but they don't shy away from offering more options and features if you so want. And they try to offer a decent native experience on Windows and iOS [I haven't tried them on macOS], as well as web, although of course the pure web experience could be far better. I think there's a lesson there for Microsoft, which got a good chunk of their lunch eaten by Zoom twice over (Skype and Teams, at least in video-conferencing -- Teams is of course quite successful in team collaboration) and also for browser-based Google Meet: ignoring good UX in favour of a lowest-common-denominator interface just creates space for competitors.
they're not ignoring it, plenty of countries have been recognising it. the issue is that much of the available information isn't exactly reliable, a lot of the research comes from one single person (an ultra-christian extremist), and plenty of the people who have been detained are leaving from the front door, unlike the armenians in 1895-1925 and the jews in 1943-1945. mosques are still open and there are plenty of videos of 2021 eid al fitr in xinjiang.

not saying "there is nothing going on there" and "those incarcerations are complete lies" but the whole thing is fishy, especially considering that there are political motives behind screaming bloody murder – for comparison, there is literally zero western pressure on israel on the occupation issue, and the EU is blatantly ignoring the insane conditions migrants are subjected to on the other side of the EU barriers.
Many gadgets don't even work with themselves. Lets say you configure some IoT thing using its app. How do you export that config for later, perhaps onto multiple other similar devices? Often times you can't.
Dark mode was fun to implement. A combination of some undocumented interfaces for the title bar and an entirely previously undocumented approach for customization of the menu bar. The rest is the usual subclassing of standard windows controls.
Well, Apple's devices do have that. As the article mentions, the problem is that they tell you to disable that very protection before sending in your device.
I let my dog work on his own problems. More seriously, those feathered devils will remember it and you’ll going to be next when it comes to harassment.
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Roundabouts are great when people know how to use them to their full effect. They are beginning to become more common in the US but no one knows how to use them. People will treat it like a four way intersection until it is completely empty. Drives me nuts.
Do they really have the engineering capacity to support a fork for years after divergence?

Also, I am personally not really okay with their shady crypto practice where content creators didn’t get their share made before their joining. Any reason to prefer it over Firefox?
I will say compared to Sleeping Beauty; it's at least watchable. SB was a triumph of the art department over any common sense. "Let's make a high modernist technicolor crazy angular art piece… about Sleeping Beauty." I can see how they talked themselves into it, but Walt should have talked them back out of it. That art style is fine for a short but can't hold a feature and conflicts with the goal of making a movie for children with resonant themes for adults.
But isn't this just what ML should be good at - taking a huge number of data points and finding the patterns? Or are you saying it's not an issue of ML working poorly but rather one of there not being a good enough data set to train it on properly?
AI and data science dev here, in the trenches.

My rule of thumb is that the overlap between jobs AI can replace and RPA can replace seems to be almost 100% of AI capabilities.

The successful AI projects I've encountered usually either build something totally new or augment the existing workforce.

It can be hard for us technologists to appreciate, but the inefficiencies of technology, policy, and people configurations can't always be resolved by technology alone.
you've been active on here since 2011. how do you not know the rules by now? put a 2018 in the title. this should be obvious.
Serial fiction has always been a thing. Most novels 150 years ago were written for magazines. Only in the past century did the write a novel as a complete book really take off. Even then though, authors often wrote trilogies where you wrote a third at a time. (publishers like this because people hooked on the first book at the library or discount store would buy the second and third at full price when it came out). Now in the web world a lot of great authors have figured out that patron and doing a chapter a week (or some schedule) is the most profitable way to write.
Don't forget Softimage XSI... losing that one still hurts.
> there should be something between "service access" and "full unrestricted access to a customer's PII and app state."

iOS has this in the form of apps that require Face ID to access them. Some fall back to your PIN if Face ID doesn't work but others do not, presumably a choice on the app developers behalf.
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Exactly. Examples always trumps some convoluted explanation.

Good docs are like: "this library make you do things like this, this or this, as easy as [show code snippet 1, 2, 3]".

Also a big list of examples should be way easier to just dump into the docs than writing some absurdist essay about the tech, ie. it's even easier for the maintainers.

I vaguely remember the PHP website doing this with their functions on their website with user comments with examples - another example is Mozillas MDN.

Honestly now thinking about it, "user added examples" should be its own category on sites like Github. Seriously why isn't this a thing?

Dozens of "Here's how i used this library to do this" would be amazing.
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You’re ignoring the goofing off side of things, people can nominally work 80 hour weeks indefinitely. However, hours in the office isn’t the equivalent to time working.

Breaks are obvious on an assembly line, less so in other jobs. Zoning out while physically in a meeting isn’t getting stuff done.
Ha. I had actually thought about mentioning that this situation seemed to be very different 20 years ago, but decided I had already done enough blathering.

But, anyway, yeah - I think that this was different 20 years ago, back when open source hadn't quite completely disrupted the software industry and companies didn't yet understand the economics of open source.