skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this will help you get over the ribbon. I turn it on in LibreOffice. But tools that are stable and predictable are extremely important to user empowerment and the ribbon dates to about the same timeas artists who care nothing about user empowerment became an important part of software design, and outsted usability engineers, for whom the experience of experts was also one of the matters to consider.

To me the ribbon was almost peak UI. It's tainted because it was introduced around the same time that designers started winning the "user friendly" vs "looks pretty" battle, but the ribbon is definitely from the "user friendly" side. They provide large targets, they have icons and text to help remember them better, the button size varies according to relative likelihood, some menu is always open instead of closing as soon as you start doing something. The ribbon was a genuine attempt at giving all users access to a powerful piece of software: a tool to upgrade the mental model of users instead of reaching for the lowest common denominator.

The biggest limitation of them seems to be that they don't help teach people the shortcut keys. To me that's not important because I'm never going to use them, but others like them, and by hiding them they've gone from seeming like a utility for experienced users to being a secret for hackers that could be removed at any time.

But they seem like a genuine improvement in contrast to the old system of either text-or-icons, absence of meaningful hierarchy, menus that are hard to study because as soon as you interact with them they disappear, or the new system of gratuitously hidden options, secret buttons, and apps which prioritise branding and a sense of eternal instability and change over predictability and approachability.
Same here. Looks like domain registration expired. Today's going to be a fun day for devs...
We used AI to analyze seismic data in the DARPA nuclear test monitoring system in the 1980s. I don’t think that it was considered to have anything but a fully automated system. That said, we had a large budget, and great teams of geophysicists and computer scientists, and 38 data collection stations around the world. In my experience, throwing money and resources at difficult problems usually gets those problems solved.
I actually don't know any engineers that use apple. A lot of graphic artists and designers for sure.
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whoa whoa. no system is perfect. just because this happened does not make it the SOP.
Few years back I contracted for an AI startup, long story short we ran a simple test of one anotator radiologist with 15years of experience to another(similar amount of experience) over 50 or so CT scans. They agreed on about 60% of the time lol and I mean easily spot table size “things” that were annotated as potentially malignant nodules or “not at all because they were “scars”.

That’s when I knew we did not wtf we were doing.
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Are you really equivocating being on a planet with high latency and low bandwidth download and essentially zero upload to being inside with your family/pets/Slack/email/iDevice? You are again totally missing the point that you were not isolated from other people for a year.
I can't second this enough, and it's the other side of that whole "put your code on Github and use it as a resume". If I'm looking to hire someone, and I look at their Github repository and it's full of nasty, unprofessional responses to PRs and such, it's a pretty safe bet I don't need that attitude on my team.
> all police shootings were in cases of violent criminals attacking officers

I have seen at least three video's where the victim was shot without provoking police. I understand your angle but think you should re-consider "All" as that is certainly not true. Examples are good but the data are there to make a statistical argument.

> anything to do with racism.

Interesting. Would you take it further and say the history of racism (and slavery, etc) in America has no effect on today's black person in the US? Just trying to understand where the common ground may be.
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Interesting! What I noticed when approaching the problem was that there is quite little information on scaling up. I also don't think there are good out-of-the-box solutions covering a wide range of use cases. Dedup (basically cross-product) and linkage (highly dependent on the relative sizes of your search set and backing data) have very different optimizations when your data is large
I had a similar moment where I almost gave up on Read the Docs, going as far as writing a similar post but never publishing it. I wrote about that experience here: https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2018/feb/7/the-post-i-neve...
I got bit by the Samsung Spinpoint F4EG data loss bug on two 1.5TB drives.

https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
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I’m pretty sure that was the reference
i agree, if it's a hardware issue there's no reason to require a login. If the repair is finished and the tech can get to the login/pin screen then the job is done.

If it's a software issue then maybe they do legitimately need a password but i would never hand one over without very careful consideration. And, strange hands on the keyboard of my laptop or phone would be watched very very closely at all times.

I good app would be one that disables the network stack, bluetooth, and cell modem with a separate secure pin.
Only while they are learning. Have you noticed when you type on the phone your fingers are flying more or less without you having to actually search for the letter?

I have wondered about this and I think what is happening you actually learn the qwerty layout on your phone and the fingers already know more or less where to go and what you do visually is to just aim where your finger needs to go (ie find the center of the button) and the rest (like reading the letter) is most likely redundant.

I don't know how to or have time to test this, though.
But this is how it is, today, I know people who stock shelves at target part time and then do a little Uber before doing a maid service. It’s not like they want this, it’s the only option to scrounge enough money together. And this isn’t a coastal city, it’s just somewhere in the Midwest. It is indeed the employers who benefit.
Did you read the comment? They have healthcare and said there's $500-$1000 leftover each month, which is a healthy amount for retirement investment. More than enough to max out a Roth IRA. That's on top of social security too.
Great point! The electrode arrays used in these studies are implanted in the participants' motor cortex in an area called the "hand knob". Neurons here are highly modulated during motor output, not only for the hand, but also for the rest of the body. This area is close to the output though, and abstract higher-level features like the "idea of an A" isn't likely to be decodable from neurons there. Future research is looking at exactly this, but will likely require recording in a different area.

For context, I did my PhD in the lab that did the work in this article.
This has definitely always been true.

I have never been interested in “breaking news” because it is usually pretty impossible to give it context. Reading the news from a few days or even weeks past helps make clear what matters amd what does not.
Agreed but some questions are also a lot easier and a lot more common. In x-ray, looking for a bone fracture is a single task that requires no information about patient and can be done by an algorithm.
It ain't that ridiculous. Poor people can't afford high quality raw ingredients and so more rely on highly processed, high-calorie foods (especially HFCS) that leave them obese.
No matter what you do, web development would still feel like you're scripting a word processor because that's exactly what it is. Web was never intended to be an application platform, and so it makes a terrible application platform. No amount of band-aid is going to change this.

Unpopular opinion: JS should be slow to discourage abuse. Browsers should not be embracing SPAs.
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funny -- when i had to service my old macbook, the repair shop asked for a guest account since they didn't want access to my stuff.
I did a hunt; I didn't find one. But I found an article about that kind of disk drive; it's 14", not 24", apparently.

So I submitted the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423640
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It's not that simple. There are features of these high end tractors such as automation and satellite guidance that allow you to change the scale of your operation. In a sense, you have to make a choice about what kind of business you're going to be at the same time as you're choosing your equipment.
It bothers me that it repeatedly says 'de-escalation tool' when it's really for subduing a target. From the perspective of the target the situation is anything but de-escalated.
The No-Code Manifesto
ML should be good at drawing basic conclusions. End users are misunderstanding the boundary between basic and advanced.

Or, to put it another way, everyone agrees there's a difference in value and quality of output between an analyst with 1 year & 10 years of experience, right? So why are we treating ML like it should be able to solve both sorts of problems equally easily?

I have faith it will get there. But it's not there yet, in a general purpose way.
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You just can't. They're soldered onto the motherboard.
I switched to Firefox from Chrome a few years ago (maybe 2017/2018). It required a tiny bit of willpower since making even minor changes to frequently used tools causes friction. I've experienced few issues since. About once a month I'll run into a website that doesn't work in Firefox. Mostly experimental things on HN. My doctor's virtual visit web software was Chrome only, but the audio didn't work in Chrome either. I used the Android App. Dish network's internet DVR streaming requires Chrome, but I don't watch a lot of TV and the quality is terrible. Otherwise I never think about it.

At the time Firefox Android was a bit slow and would crash weekly or more, but I stuck with it for uBlock and Sync. After the Android app rewrite its been working well. I like having the navigation bar on the bottom (can Chrome do that yet?). The password autofill integration API took a while to get integrated since that happened during the app rewrite. At least with Bitwarden it's still a bit buggy when it decides to show the autofill prompt, but that seems to happen in other apps and in Chrome. It's annoying that most Google apps will ignore your system preferences and open things in Chrome where I don't have any sign-in cookies etc. Still like the Google search/assistant experience and haven't found an alternative so I live with it.

Overall, a very mild sacrifice for the open web. Very easy slacktivism.
w.r.t your last sentence, maybe you could seek a truthful answer from a colleague with caring responsibilities (elderly/disabled relatives and/or kids), to the Q "Do my long hours and extra productivity stress you out by making you feel bad in comparison and would you rather I didn't?" . Its not great if others feel under pressure to do what you do too. OTOH, not great either if your own enthusiasm were to be suppressed by other people's inability to do the same. Making it work for both camps may be a delicate thing for management to handle, IMHO
> 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.

Alas, while you might want to believe the American Dream is alive and well, it's very much on life support. For example, the World Economic Forum ranked the US 27th in social mobility:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...
Does anyone know the collective time and energy put into deep learning models versus the social benefit? I recognize that this is near impossible to calculate and the benefits will hopefully be for many years to come.

It does feel like the hype around deep learning has been large though and significant progress has been not as sticky as hoped.
Mark had no communication for some extended period at the start of the novel. And it wasn't even voluntary isolation (like you might have here on Earth assuming you're not in prison or stuck on a remote island) where he opts not to use the communication tools. He flat out didn't have access to it and was absolutely isolated in a way that 99.99999% of modern humans have not experienced.
> a consistent user interface is easier to use than an inconsistent one

I have never seen a Microsoft product with a consistent UI, though…
Wow. What an incredibly offensive comment. I love how HN understands the right to repair when it comes to their gadgets, but when it comes to tractors it's probably because the farmers are uneducated hicks. Please tell me more how they don't understand AG science enough, but you have such a strong grasp on it.

JD tractors were and are reliable and top tier in quality, that's why they are popular and that's why people stick to the brand. I've built Kioti tractors when I was teenager. They'd do the job if you had to use it, but it's no JD in terms of quality.

Farmers just want the quality they've always had with JD but the ability to fix simple stuff like they used to without it costing them an arm and a leg.

The stereotypes you listed off don't sound like anyone I've ever experienced. They sound like caricatures you painted in your head with your lack of understanding.
After the WD / Hitachi merger, there was an anti-trust case and WD was forced to sell some assets to Toshiba.

Toshiba took on a huge portion of Hitachi's former business, and seems to have a solid business. Backblaze doesn't buy Toshiba because the sticker is in the wrong location (and Toshiba doesn't want to move the sticker), but otherwise... their Toshiba tests look pretty good.
A few years ago a friend of a friend was victim of the exact same thing, also involving Apple. Unfortunately it only led to the technicians to be fired, I wish it had gotten press coverage and they faced criminal charges.

In the occasion, they didn't upload it anywhere, but she discovered because in the moment she was picking up her device back somehow (don't know the details) she saw one of her half-naked pictures in the technician computer.
I have found E-prime really helpful to me as a tool to ingrain the habit of thinking of things and people in terms of what they do, rather than what they are or how we label them.
Keyboard wpm is about double; ~37-44wpm is P50. Still not super fast though.
I was thinking more of Assange's options for not being confined for the rest of his life. Honestly I think the odds are low of the UK government releasing him/declining the extradition, and less than even of the US government dropping the charges. He has already been practically imprisoned for years, plus actual imprisonment recently. Leveraging the threat of a Supreme Court fight against a face-saving US govt. approved light sentence might be a valid strategy at this point.
Shouldn't the technician be charged with sexual abuse, and face jail time?
Well, often you get way more than you pay for, and it would be stupid not to acknowledge that. For example almost all Linux users never pay for nor support Kernel development in any way or form. And I think the people who do the development and create the value for the rest of us mostly are ok with that.

That doesn't negate the fact that when you rely on open source software for your business and need more than just read access to the repo it would be polite to wise up on the maintainership status of the project and ask if you can contribute back in any form.
I am in the UK and this is the first I have heard of this and I consider myself well informed.

I am actually not necessarily against this in principal but its been really badly communicated (lack of it) so a delay seems reasonable to me.
>Many companies/etc keep promising to "revolutionize"

I think the technology is already here, but society does not allow technology to fail at a similar rate as a human. Also the second question, who is to blame when it fails? Doctors have malpractice insurance. A radiologist has to sign every report(and get paid). When a tesla auto-pilot has an accident, it hits the news. This is while humanity is having thousands of accidents a day.

Mammography is the most difficult radiography to interpret. Cant we start with the regular chest xrays? how about bone fractures and trauma x-rays? Those are easier, and i am sure the cost of such xray will be very low.

So I think the problem is with politics and legal.

Do u know that 80% of doctors visits are for simple complaints like headache, back pain or prescription refill? Do u really think AI cant solve this?

It is all about the money baby
Probably not,

which is why he hasn't placed himself in the position of "arbiter of what's right and wrong on phones", the way Apple has with their App Store.
Socialism != totalitarianism yet you keep saying this.

China is socialist under their own definition of socialism. Yet they have heard the siren song and have been steadily marching closer to a state-aided crony capitalist system that resembles Russia's current system, but much better managed.
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But how many have commercially available/succesful products?
How much do you know about what is going on in North Korea? The little you do know is probably due to it being politically expedient for the US to trot them out as the evil empire.
If you’re a fan of Conrad’s, and of audiobooks, I certainly hope you’ve listened to Kenneth Brannagh’s reading of Heart of Darkenss. It is excellent.
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I have once seen an AI tool to determine what needed to be reported.

I found this remarkable, as there were clear (yet complex) rules on what needed to be reported, otherwise even the regulator wouldn't know what it was supposed to check.
Appreciate your feedback. With the latest release, we're in a much better position to release quicker, and communicate better.

We're still in beta, and yet to launch to Hackernews, PH, etc, so looking forward to that over the next few months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
I believe Apple customers would have a hard time adhering to this policy these days.
Very different sort of seismic data, FWIW.

You're referring to seismology and deciding whether something is a blast or a standard double-couple earthquake. That's fairly straightfoward, as it's mostly a matter of getting enough data from different angles. Lots of data processing and ambiguity, but in the end, you're inverting for a relatively simple mathematical model (the focal mechanism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_mechanism

I'm referring to reflection seismic, where you're fundamentally interpreting an image after all of the processing to make the image (i.e. basically making a mathematic lens) has already been done.
> What's the better measure of typing speed

Full words correct with no typos.

If you want to measure this, you're interested in the combination of reading speed and muscle memory while typing. If you're making typos, your muscle memory is not good. Using a spell checker to automatically fix those words... Well, the number is not comparable, then.
GitSense seems very useful. Constructive feedback about the UI: replace the (straggler?) serif font with the sans serif font you're using elsewhere on the page
My typing class in high school only accepted perfect speed tests. No errors at all. Given how many typos I see in even business correspondence, I wonder if 'editing read through' has gone the way of the manual typewriter :-P
And maybe look for things that are not expected...

My dad went to take a shoulder x-ray in preparation for a small bit of surgery. In the corner of the image the radiologist noticed something that didn't look right. He took more pictures, this time of the lungs, and quickly escalated the case.

My dad had fought cancer, and it turned out the cancer had spread to his lungs. He had gone to regular checks every six months for several years at that point, but the original cancer was in a different part of his body.

For a year prior he'd been short of breath, and they'd given him asthma medication... until he went to get that shoulder x-ray.
Same! I switched back to Firefox a few years ago when I discovered that logging into Gmail on Chromium (not Chrome!) crossed a hard boundary by also signing me into the browser account sync. I tested a few times to confirm before switching and I've never looked back.
> The Soviets suffered a horrific toll in WWII. 25 million dead is an unimaginable number.

It is.

In the town in the Russian Far East where I spent my last few years in Russia, one old timer was telling me how extreme food confiscations were.

There were people basically solo living in sticks, hunting, fishing, gathering, doing crafts etc. One such guy probably only catches, and dries few fishes a week, and lives off that. He lives in really unpassable wilderness, weeks of travel to get to his place.

Nevertheless, NKVD had few men teams to regularly reach, try in a show trial them for "connivance," do simulated executions, and confiscate their few fishes which rot from improper storage by the time they come back to the city.

At some point, there were nearly equal amount of men drafted into NKVD, and other political police, than the men on front lines. At every moment of the war, communists were equally scared of their own people, as they were of Germans, if not more.

Communists fought the war betting fully on assumption that they had more soldiers than Hitler had bullets. And it was Stalin's fright, and surprise of a lifetimes when Germans somehow popped up within 10km of Moscow. He was hours away from taking a plane away from Moscow. He wasn't afraid of Germans as much as the prospect of meeting his end Gaddafi style.
Given the millions paid out for essentially the malpractice of these technicians, is it possible in another scenario that a 'victim' and technicians collude to repeat the same outcome, and split the court winnings?

The technicians remain nameless, and suffer no reputational damage, just losing their jobs.

Put another way - how is Apple actually responsible for the activities of these individual technicians?
I think it should be a standard to have hardware come with a full suite of tests that can be accessed by anyone, without any kind of login. Otherwise, repair shops will keep asking for full access.

In my case, many years ago, I got asked by a phone repair shop to backup the phone and wipe it before handing it over unlocked. My understanding was, they had no good way of doing proper diagnosis and after-repair testing without full access to the system.
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I thought the camera was distorted as hell until I realized that no, the 747SP is just... super stumpy hahaha.

That is -insane- low for a craft like that.
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Your argument does not hold for GNU/Linux repositories. There are plenty of good targets there.