skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not going to make a judgement on the morality, but this is not surprising.

Awards for loss of life are actually codified in case law as being vastly smaller awards than the award for loss of limbs, senses, etc.

It is somewhat logical since the primary injured (the dead) can't be made whole. Contrast this to someone injured but not dead - they will have to live with the injury for the rest of their life. Case in point - this girl.

This is why disability policies are more expensive for higher income individuals. Presumably, the injured and his/her family depends on that income to live, and the income loss must be made whole.
Lvh.me Down Uh Up?
I thought about this a lot. What if we just share a lot of tools with our neighbors. It will prevent waste and free up space in your house. However, for me, it's more convenient to have my own tools. I have the freedom to mow the lawn whenever I want. Also on that sunny afternoon when all the other neighbors also want to mow their lawn. And I want a tool that's in the right condition. When I have time to do a job around the house, my tools should work. Not broken, dirty or missing a part. And I don't want a difficult conversation with my neighbor about it. Sharing and borrowing tools with my neighbors directly is fine for me. Co-owning or continuously renting together is not my cup-of-tea.
One more reason for users to have the right to repair
It's silly that it's hidden, because 18 WPM for a quadriplegic still seems extremely impressive to me, given that it's just working from brain electrodes and not some muscle the person can control. Yes, the headline is silly, because by hiding it it ended up causing the snark about 18 WPM being slow.

I'm surprised, though, that the most efficient way to do this is still to have the person imagine physically drawing the letters by hand. I know motor neurons are probably our most reliable output, but I would still think that, with all the advances in training from noisy data in the past decade, that training what the thought of "A", "B" etc look like in the head would be doable.

Or even what the thought of hearing or saying "A", "B" etc looks like. The auditory cortex is activated when we imagine sounds. Or, if they wanted to stick to motor neurons, could they have the person imagine saying the letters with their mouth?

I'm sure they've thought about this stuff and it's harder than it seems, of course. But I would just predict that brain-computer interfaces 20 years from now won't involve imagining using your hand to write letters.
It's too bad the ieee.org site itself no longer has words on it. It's just a javascript application spinner gif.
Montana med school clash revives for-profit vs. nonprofit flap
OMG, ditto! I grabbed 2 of those enclosures for home use without HDs in them. Didn't realize they had come from Archive.org.
Holding Border Patrol Accountable: Bressi on Recording His 300+ Checkpoint Stops
Absolute security never existed, doesn't exist today and will never exist in the future.
man these talking points of "everyone can just make different choices and eventually be successful" along with "anyone critiquing excess is just jealous/whining" are getting really old.

Stop oversimplifying everyones lives and complex societal issues down to "personal responsibility" and hand-waving away valid criticisms. Inequality exists, it's not easy to get out of poverty, and unsustainable lifestyles have consequences.
Provided you don't circumvent strict typing, no, Haskell does not have typing bugs. Or rather, it has so few that you can functionally behave as if the type checking is flawless. One of the main benefits of strict typing is that confidence - 95% coverage is helpful, but it's just helpful. 100% coverage allows you to program completely differently.

It's also static - does Mypy throw that error when that program is statically analysed, or at runtime?
Campaign launches to try to force Palantir out of Britain’s NHS
Radiologists are not even trying. They treat their methods like FDA-approved medical devices. Even basic image segmentation to help with 3D structure recognition is off-limits. The benefits of neural networks in diagnostic radiology will not occur in one shot, and I don’t think it will happen at all in the United States until people start sending their data elsewhere. But good luck getting it. I just got my CT scan from a total mis-diagnosis that resulted in an unnecessary surgery. It came on a CD that won’t read in the only drive I have access to. And even that is just images. It’s not possible to get the actual data. This is not a failure of DNN. This is active AMA hostility toward technology, and not just in radiology. Just watch, people are going to start going elsewhere for medical care. They will do everything they can to get insurance requirements, subsidies, and laws against it, but they will lose. They are a dishonest Luddite cartel, and they’re hurting people.
the problem is having too many people and too few interesting and creative jobs. Everything will become writing in the end; there won't be enough people to pay people to be creative, and increasingly winner takes all will be the norm. At best you hope there is a UBI where people will just be on welfare for the rest of their lives until birth rates stagnate enough to where population matches the opportunities.

But there simply aren't enough interesting, paying jobs being created, and increasingly we have too many people for boring jobs.
https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-... is a sad example where Cory only points out Apple nefariously undermining the guarantees, as opposed to shear technical failure not intended to appease anyone.
These authors make $100k/year self-publishing
Wtf - many ML models today are either full on white boxes or are directly interpretable in various ways (e.g. LIME algorithm). Even neural networks have good interpretability tools (e.g. captum).

ML is not the black box nightmare that I see it described as on here. You can figure out feature contributions and can quite easily (and accurately) verify it's reasoning. If you really need these kind of models, look into various kinds of tree based ML models like random forests or boosted trees...
The only one I can immediately recall:

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" - Stephen King's The Gunslinger
Have you ever heard about Alexa?
If you remember his name, you could contact him and tell him that you changed your mind on the subject.
Problem is that over engineered stuff like the global hawk actually have an higher pr hour cost then a converted business jet which is what most countries use.
Lightspeed buys Ecwid for $500M; NuOrder for $425M
It wouldn't surprise me if the programming, repairing, and regular maintenance of automated burger flippers cost more than a fleet of humans (that are versatile enough to also be able to take orders and clean tables.)

It's a very common mistake to reach for automation because it makes things locally more efficient but forget all the things it makes less flexible and thus less efficient.
To get a glimpse at the incomprehensible inhumanity of these camps, read this interview with an SS officer who worked at the Treblinka death camp:

https://religiondocbox.com/73089029-Judaism/Transcript-of-th...
2FA on itself is good, but should not be an excuse for corporate to own my cell phone.

They want to send messages with codes to my phone? I'll live with it. But then they want me to buy a phone with more recent android version. Then they want to enforce biometrics and encryption on my phone. Then they want to remotely erase my phone?

No. If central IT wants that kind of access, they should buy me a phone.
Social isolation was great. No distractions
I enjoy Fusion 360 actually. I think it isn't that bad.
You can even install uBlock original on it.
The problem with stuff like stars or even lists of "who uses this" is that they need to be refreshed every so often. Just because someone used your project ten years ago, doesn't mean they're using it today. Maybe a list with a "latest update" date and gently asking and reminding people to update it each year if they're still using the project would help...

As for cloning, I don't clone projects I use every day. Maybe I cloned them once a year ago. Maybe I'm using a package from somewhere and not interacting with your repo at all.

The cross-referencing sounds like a useful metric though, at least for open source use, but many projects are more useful in non-open-source environments (eg how many open source projects are using something like http://riemann.io/ ?)
> If you read the book you would know it's not really about working 4hrs/wk but rather about freeing yourself up to pursue work you find fulfilling. I think many more people could do that if they knew it was an option

Our world, our economy, our technology, our agriculture, our transportation is FILLED with jobs that very few people would ever find "fulfilling".

I prefer a vision of a future/world in which everyone is able to lead fulfilling lives regardless of the work they do. A world in which the value of all work is acknowledged, and in which we recognize that it's not sensible for us to push people towards the idea that their fulfillment will come from the work they do.

Eusebi Güell built a small company "village" outside of Barcelona dedicated to the idea that even the cleaning staff should be able to go home after work and listen to opera, admire great art, read great books, enjoy good food amidst a vibrant and engaging social life. It wasn't perfect (and he went bankrupt), but it (like the English Garden Movement that inspired him) were steps in a better direction than "everyone should do what they love".

Let's stop pretending that everyone (or even most people, perhaps) can do "fulfilling" work, and focus on how to make it possible for people have fulfilling lives.
Oops. Edited to be clearer.
The real question is why we tolerate Javascript at all. It's a security nightmare and isn't really designed to run fast. In 20 years, people will have shifted to a less horrible alternative.
The social stars aspect of GitHub is what makes it toxic. I would support more visibility for open, not centralized initiatives like humans.txt and contribute.json (https://www.contributejson.org/).
I call this the "eat your vegetables" strategy of browser promotion.

Yes, browser engine hegemony is not a good thing. No, Firefox is not the solution.

Mozilla has proven repeatedly that they are not up to the task of competing with Chrome. The market has steadily moved away from them ever since shortly after Chrome was released. They've not once, in the last 13 years, done anything to make a dent in that loss of market share.

Firefox is now 19 years old. It has always ran on "webdevs just need to be better about testing in Firefox". When the only alternative was IE 6 and 7, that worked. But it's now been longer that that strategy has not worked than the period of time that it did work.

I don't have a solution, but without massive upheaval within Mozilla, "just use Firefox" is also not a viable solution. People aren't going to "eat their vegetables". You need to come up with a more compelling, longer term strategy than backing a perennial loser.

You're free to try to convince me that Mozilla has the capacity for change. That somehow, they are going to completely change their management corps and corporate culture enough to be able to get out of their quagmire. Extraordinary claims are going to require extraordinary evidence.
While this comment is a good start, we should remember that for some scores, SOTA is only loosely correlated with improvements in downstream performance. This is true in things like summarization with ROUGE scores (which suck and everyone hates them)
> our (I'm generalizing about the broad HN demographic) quite privileged lifestyles do have a concomitant cost for somebody who needs to service our day-to-day needs and wants.

This has nothing to do with the 4HWW though. The average software engineer working full time and spending most of their paycheck has just as much dependence on the labor of others to satisfy their needs.

I feel like normal people working normal jobs tend to not get called out for the simple fact that they are normal. It's a median bias.
> What’s the breakdown of the applicant pool?

> That’s a great question; my guess is they will never provide that detail.
>
> If someone has it, would love to see that data as well.

If the assertion is that YC is sexist/racist, shouldn't those numbers be known before making that assertion? If that's not the assertion, then what's the point of the tweet?

EDIT: I hate that this was flagged - was interested in seeing how this played out. For the bold claims such as this, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Superintendent.app – Load multiple CSV files and write SQL
It is a good point but I think one part is a bit backward in an ironic way. One reason AI hasn't replaced radiologists is because radiologists are typically very good physicians, and specifically do not look at images in isolation but review the record, talk with the physicians, sometimes the patients too, etc. So its actually backwards (in some cases) -- AI struggles because it looks at the image in isolation, while the radiologist is looking at the patient more holistically.
Raffic Deaths in 2020 Soared to Highest in 13 Years
Automatic interpretation has been a thing for decades and the promise of replacing a geoscientist completely is always just over the horizon. Even with DL. The new tools are better yes, but honestly I wouldn’t invest in this space. Conventional interpretation is dead in the US. All the geos got laid off.

I’m going to call bullshit. No artificially generated well log is going to ever be better than a physically measured log.
I wonder how many more years of compute could be saved if they invested in graalJS
> Why would those hackers not work on their own projects with that time? There is nothing wrong with people doing what they want with their own free time.

Sometimes, one’s personal projects align with projects relevant to one’s work. Many projects at my work have been so interesting that I continue to think about and work on them in my spare time. Furthermore, the closer one’s personal projects are to their work projects, the more successful they will be at their job. This is what creates an implicit culture of overwork: if Hacker Helen’s personal projects align with her work, causing her to get promoted faster than Hacker Harry, he may also start devoting more of his personal project time to work-related things, in order to maintain job parity with Helen. This will percolate across employees, to the point that Non-hacker Nick, who never touches a computer outside of work, will be seen as underperforming.
I don't think it's Luddites holding AI back as some comments have suggested. In the medical field, indemnity is the name of the game. An expert will always have to sign off on whatever the AI suggests.
Given that he was around during https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_animators%27_strike — probably not very much.
A long series of events, 3 years. Initially there was a backlog. Not enough trains to Poland. He went through several camps, work assignments. He never got shipped to Poland. Eventually he was freed by his brother, with the help of the Czech partisans using forged/backdated baptismal records. The Slovak subsidiary of the third reich was church oriented. Most survival stories that I know of personally involved the church, one way or another. The brother who worked tirelessly to save him had been the one on the list. He had a baby on the way, born the following morning. My grandfather volunteered to take his place, while the couple hid. The daughter became a teacher. He survived the rest of the war as a partisan. I don't know the whole story. He rarely spoke of it.

Many/most of the Lubaks (local SS) were from the area, and he'd gone to school with some of them. That's part of the story, but I don't know exactly how it fits in.
> and chromium based.

That may seem like a plus from a user's perspective when websites were only tested with / optimized for Chrome. From the perspective of someone who's concerned about Google's power as a monopoly, alternative browsers being Chromium-based is just part of the problem. 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. So Google is still going to be in control as long as they ship the browser that dominates all others. Brave don't have the resources to maintain an engine by themselves anyway. Besides Mozilla, only Apple and Microsoft could do it, and Microsoft already gave up.
They just phased it out to focus on the browser version iirc
I should have made clear that it was with wine, but the process was so seamless It shouldn't really matter.
Reminds me of a phenomenon I see again and again in small business: owners struggling to keep up with demand and sacrificing their sanity in the process.

The correct answer there is to raise prices.

Another thing that happens a lot is that lower prices bring in worse customers who are more demanding and less respectful of your time.
I'm curious what country you live in. Certainly here in the United States we never tried anything like UBI. The few things we did do continue to be successful, although the Republican party at state levels is trying to sabotage them as much as they can.
Senate Poised to Pass Huge Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China
The future is clearly cross platform where you meet the customer where they are...mobile, desktop, web. Maybe the application morphs a bit by including or excluding features for various platforms but there is no way to proclaim that there is one platform you can focus on to the exclusion of others in a general sense.

If I'm writing serious business software the web and desktop are king and quickly becoming synonymous given technologies like xamarin forms, ionic, and electron. I'm building an app in ionic using html/css/JavaScript (angular) that is primarily for desktop (electron) but will deploy to mobile and web, allowing me to meet people where and how they want to work.
The only rationale behind segregating blacks from whites was racism. This joker is trying to say it's the same for segregating trans women and biological women, but it's obviously not. For example, maybe (and this might blow the woke people's minds) trans women aren't exactly the same as biological women in sports? So segregation makes sense to protect the majority of women. There's plenty of other scenarios where allowing people to arbitrarily move between genders might have negative externalities on members of a gender. Those are concerns (not even getting into the debate of whether they're legitimate concerns or not), that have nothing to do with an irrational fear or hatred of trans people. But the woke would just love to frame the debate that way: you only possible way you can disagree is if you're the same as a racist. And to that, I say fuck off.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-ter...
May I ask what was the mistake?
I have but one upvote to give, but as someone who worked as an interpreter and then moved onto the software side this is the problem that 99% of people don’t get.

You can train a DL model to pick every horizon, but you can’t train to pick the horizon of interest. Same with faults. Let’s not even get started with poorly imaged areas.
Same. I'm often surprised as to how far programmers will go to disparage the quality of docs, as opposed to just reading them. Like I get that there are factors affecting their accessibility, e.g. internationalization, but it is your literal job to read this information.

Meanwhile, for reverse engineers, it's a dream come true to be granted any information whatsoever on the product they're reverse engineering. For some reason, programmers want to operate in the context?
I helped build a cloud product that parsed BAM and VCF files (Google Cloud Genomics). When we first started I looked around for various open source BAM parsers so we didn't have to write our own. I showed the parsers to my engineer, who came back a day later with 10 files that caused the parsers to crash (common problem: if you put a negative length in a field that's supposed to be positive, it will reverse index into a string).

We contacted all the BAM parser developers (academic) and they all said they had no interest in identifying and fixing bugs in their parsers. We wrote an industrial strength BAM parser in Go.

I think a year or two later one of the major sequencing centers got hozed by a malicious BAM file and that was when all the open source BAM developers got security religion.
I have somewhat similar experiences. FF is the worst of the browsers I use in terms of feel (I don’t want to say it’s slower necessarily because I don’t actually time things, and I assume if a browser is smarter about what it loads first and how, it could feel better even if it’s technically slower), while Safari and Chromium based browsers a feel much more responsive. Generally I’m using Brave but also have to use Chrome for work.
And that's a bullshit definition - because everyone reads it as "a job that is bullshit", not "a job that the worker believes is not 100% necessary".

The whole thing is wordplay. I don't respect the methodology, and it's one of the reasons I don't trust his conclusions.
I'm a little skeptical, but I'm also not in any kind of informed position.

Here's my logic. Their definition of bust-outers are:

- 90 days delinquent

- >70% utilization at close

- Bad check / payment

- incommunicado

- multiple such accounts

This seems to be a set of characteristics that would be met by any person suffering from a combination of a) bad credit choices / general irresponsibility b) sudden financial hardship (maybe just from increasing cc payments).

Experian has potentially attributed to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

Selection bias, but I've known many people like this in the past, and calling them "fraudsters" is being far too generous. They purchase with rose-colored glasses and full bellied optimism, expand their borrowing when things seem to be working out, then walk away from the account when it doesn't pan out the way they wanted. There's a settlement, repossession, or bankruptcy, then a few years of good behavior, and with some non-zero chance, they regress.

There are probably organized rings, but I'd wager the majority of clients satisfying the above criteria are just hard-learners stuck in a generous system that doesn't dissuade them.
England invented rock cakes (see: Harry Potter) and ginger nuts ('the original biscuits in the 1840s were "as hard as a nut"').

Although the USA can fight back with a slow HFCS poisoning :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_cake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_snap
I have no idea how anti-trust laws in the united states are supposed to work. Like why is Disney allowed to buy every studio? Why is Amazon allowed to buy like anything? Facebook also being allowed to buy Instagram and WhatsApp is crazy.
Privacy violations are one of the floats in the Parade Of Horribles that Apple el al. offer when attempting to defend their repair monopoly. Guess that argument is out the window.