skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words, I don't think it's even possible to codify what the data the ML algorithms should be trained on -- they're culturally specific down to the level of an individual town in some sense; and require looking at huge populations at others.

This is inciteful. ML is by definition generalizing, and should only be used where it's ok to generalize. There is an implicit assumption in use cases like medical diagnosis that there is a latent representation of the condition that had a much lower dimensionality than the data and that the model is trained in such a way that there are no shortcuts to generalization that miss out on any information that may be important. The second condition is the hardest to meet I believe, because even if a model could take in lots of outside factors, it probably doesn't need to to do really well in training and validation, so it doesn't. The result is models that generalize, as you say, to the population instead of the individual, and end up throwing away vital context to the personal case.

I also believe this is an important consideration for many other ML applications. For example those models that predict recidivism rates. I'm sure its possible to build an accurate one, but almost certainly these models stereotypes in the way I mention above, and do not actually take the individual case into account, making them unfair to use on actual people.
I hear this sort of argument a lot in different fields. Usually it's because the IT guy doesn't really understand the business they are trying to automate or where the true pinch points or time savings are.
One sentence begins with "i", despite "I" being capitalized in the middle of the prior sentence. It seems to be a deliberate stylistic choice, for whatever reason.
Because none of the developers had ever been users, had any experience drafting.

AutoCAD was basically a UI for a pen plotter.

One notable exception was Duff Kurland. He liked hanging out with us users and would chat us up. He'd get our bugs fixed. We loved him.

Generic CADD was pretty good, much loved. So Autodesk had to kill it, natch.

Only Bentley's MicroStation was more user hostile.

Later, an intern at Bentley created an amazing auto snapping & aligning input tool. Especially for isometric drawings. I don't know came of it.

User interface researchers like Suresh Bhanavi did some really good work. He was hired by Army Corp of Engineers to determine why CAD work had poor quality and ROI (often negative), compared to just using drafting boards. He tried to advocate his findings. The CAD vendors weren't interested.

I doubt Autodesk or Bentley ever addressed their distain for users.

Gods, writing this now, I'm angrily remembering helping coworkers fix their SolidWorks and 3DS Max problems.

A few startups were more user and domain focused. ArchiCADD and Rhino come to mind.

Source: Was a CAD jockey in the 80s/90s. My "chaotic mutant user interface" critique (allegedly) got wide circulation within Autodesk. Briefly served on Bentley's steering committee; waste of time.

PS: Just looked at Autodesk's current product list. Wow. They're the Computer Associates / SoftBank of design software.
Awesome. It's a big task, and I wish you all the best. Not sure I can help with investors though.
Reminds me of an SMBC comic on "Quantum Hypocrisy": https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gedankendouche
Exactly, and at the moment in time you don't care about "right to repair" - you need to get back up and running now. Which has led me to believe "right to repair" is a ruse, but for what?
I don’t think it would be surprising in many places that alt-lifestyle folks would find more discrimination in traditional work areas and have specific interests in gig props.

But I’d agree there are probably domains where the interests don’t really intersect.
the list of projects has been moved due to 'volume'. can be found at https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus
No, it won't. They could simply put in a different BIOS chip, which records you password the next time you enter it. Or a malicious RAM chip that injects a virus at runtime and extract your data that way. Or a bugged keyboard that transmits your key presses, combined with a full copy of your disk ...

Sure, it's a bit more sophisticated than Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. But if you're running a computer repair shop, it is quite likely that you have a good amount of technical knowledge. If someone has hardware access, you can usually see your device as compromised - especially if they have a lot of time and are expected to open up the device.
I believe that the problem is psychological.

Many years ago, back in the 1990s, wavelet based algorithms were able to outperform humans on detecting tumors. The thing is that the algorithms were better on the easy parts of the mammogram, and worse on the hard parts. So researchers thought that humans plus software should do better still, because the humans would focus on the hard parts that they did better and the software would catch the rest.

Unfortunately according to a talk that I was at, it didn't work that way. It turns out that radiologists already spend most of their time on the hard parts. So they quickly dismissed the mistakes of theirs that they found as careless errors, and focused on the mistakes of the algorithm in the hard part as evidence that the algorithm didn't work well. And the result was that the radiologists were so resistant to working with the software that it never got deployed.

For the same psychological reason I expect radiologists to never voluntarily adopt AI. And they will resist until we reach a point that the decision is taken out of their hands because hospitals face malpractice suits for not having used superior AI.
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> That analogy doesn't really work here, because then anyone who's walking past could steal the valuables in your car.

I said locked car but whatever. Better analogy would be you get your car cleaned, and leave cash on the seat.

> Trusting a third party is not "careless or "reckless" behavior

I disagree but maybe it's a result of being taught to be "street smart" or "common sense" as it's sometimes called. I don't jog with headphones, I don't assume someone is going to turn when driving, I don't cross crosswalks without making sure traffic is stopping, and I don't assume a technician is going to be 100% honest when working on my stuff.

Sure "it's not my fault" if I get hit by a car, or robbed but blindly trusting every "professional" you encounter is nuts.
What was your solution to writing out your parsed Lua AST?
In the US at least, you can order glasses online as long as you know the prescription. It's contacts that require a 'valid' prescription which only lasts a year and they will only let you buy a 'years' worth of contacts at a time.
I'll get in touch, thanks!
I don't deny that Sudetenland also happened due to another major power racing to get in bed with Hitler.

The key phrase in the article:

> Hitler announced it was his last territorial claim in Europe.

Of course it were Lebrun, and Chamberlain who were soiling their pants just few years later when they understood their own folly.
To balance that, do you have any comments on the arrogance and incentive problems in deep learning? :-P
Why did you take it down? And why did you apologize?

I think the threat to sue was posturing, the same way that legal charges are always trumped up to get you to accept a plea.

If you had let them see it through, and they intended to sue you, you could have churned up a horror-inducing PR nightmare of a shitstorm for them.

If someone is really as petty to light cash on fire suing a young person with no assets over baseless claims, let them do it.

Litigation is expensive, you could have qualified for a public defender while they burned company assets, or just have represented yourself.

I say this as someone who isn't a stranger to the courts and judicial system.
The actual story states that something unique in the customer's storage was causing an error on Apple's side, yielding downtime.

I'm not remotely blaming the customer, but what a nothing-burger this submission is: Apple didn't "shut down" his iCloud account, they met an edge in their implementation that they had to remediate. Obviously customer support should be better and convey more information, but I picture a bunch of engineers frantically trying to deal with something they didn't plan for (cue replies claiming that the perfect programmers of HN would never have such an edge, how is it possible, etc) and things getting lost in translation.

I do find the story interesting in that he immediately filed a complaint with the BBB. That seems...risky. It's unfortunate that big corps can do this, but I wouldn't want to be perceived as a "problem" customer doing things like that when big Corps control your online existence.
Not just farmers and tractors eh?

Perhaps we should push beyond merely protecting the right to repair, but figuring out how to incentivize standardization and open protocols.
The uniform distribution is the wrong distribution for this. A normal distribution is better, but also wrong- the normal distribution significantly under-predicts extreme events relative to the stock market.

Can you try it with the Laplace distribution? It's a bell curve like the normal distribution, but has fat tails. Extreme events aren't common, but much more common than with a normal distribution.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.10325.pdf
I agree. Hence the scale of the bombings in WW2. But the camp operated multiple years. Maybe there was a price to pay but in the long run, maybe it would have been worth taking a chance. We will never now, it’s a maybe game.
How do you unintentionally open someone's FB app and then unintentionally go to submit a post, and then unintentionally open the photo gallery and unintentionally attach a select few nude pics before unintentionally confirming the selection and unintentionally submitting the post? Perhaps more than once?

I don't recall FB having a mechanism to automatically sync your camera roll to your FB feed.

Or do you mean to suppose they thought they were on there own FB account and expected to send the pics to themselves?
I use Darktable. It is not as ergonomic as Lightroom but since it has enough actual functionality I gladly take it over having to deal with all that subscription insanity in general and dealing with Adobe in particular.

I just do not use software that has no perpetual licenses except when required by client and client pays for it.
(not to pile on)

Right to repair also covers independent/third party service. People may not want to repair the hardware themselves, but they may want to take it to a cheaper/closer third party to repair it. The local JD service may be in the next county, but there may be a local mechanic that could repair the tractor, but cannot due to restrictions, licensing, etc.

Of course you may not want the local guy to try because they may not be competent enough, but people think that should be the owner's decision, not the manufacturer's.
A fancy funded company like Replit getting scared by an intern's weekend project is entertaining. If your moat is so low it can be replicated in a few days, I think this open source project is the least of their worries.
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The premise of being sued should be enough to scare most people, whether they are right or wrong. As such it's not surprising.
"What happened? The inert AI revolution in radiology is yet another example of how AI has overpromised and under delivered. . . ."

Isn't this how all of the previous AI Winters started?
I used replit few times but now i'll remove my account there. srsly what a bullshit they try to do with taking down open source projects cause they feel threaten, pathetic.
> From Wikipedia: "The language of the concluding endorsement... was made intentionally ambiguous in hopes of winning over the votes of dissenting delegates" - the exact opposite of your claim.

You are pretending that the endorsement actually had anything to do with the text of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. I assume the endorsement you are plucking a reference to is, "Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present". You didn't mention it, so your statement isn't clear.

Thanks for your time, but I have no interest in discussing side arguments further and further from my point about politics being simple, where anyone can be involved.
Apple under pressure to close loopholes in new privacy rules
Food stamp payments might be more than you think. For example, for a household of two people in California, the minimum payment is $430/month [0]. That's not going to be putting fancy food on the table, but its more than beans and rice (or soda and chips).

[0] https://www.getcalfresh.org
I remove any media from my computers when I send to a repair shop. If any media fails, it should be destroyed. If you ever sells storage media, dd if=/dev/zero it; also consider that it may not be enough with some wear leveling SSD's.

A few years ago, someone bought an used harddisk and got some private information of Brazil's then first lady Marcela Temer[0] and tried to blackmail her. He was later caught and imprisoned, but not everybody has the same luck.

[0] http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2016/10/hd-comprado-h...
Oxford nanopore isn't that great for resequencing a human genome. Human DNA is too big and the minIon or flongle is too small and error prone. MinIons are best used for long reads for niche experiments like assembly or for field work, in my experience.

It is much cheaper, easier, and more accurate to use a service like Nebula Genomics. 300 dollars for an exome is an incredible deal. When looking for deleterious mutations, it is actually really important to have a highly accurate methodology, otherwise you may find errors you think are true deleterious mutations.
It is strange indeed. Investing money is good because it makes the UBI go further because there are more products to buy but if rich people are investing and not buying products then where is the money for the UBI supposed to come from in the first place? If the bottom population survives off UBI and they buy products wouldn't 80% of the money just accumulate in the bank account of the company owner until the tax revenue is no longer able to pay for the UBI?
Are there any open source competitors to Replit that are seeking patrons? I have been encouraged by the rapid fire Show HNs of open source first startups [1], and this space seems ripe for such open tooling.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
Remembers me to make more backups. Time to do that tonight.
If I’m reading those emails correctly, Amjad the CEO directly emailed you occasionally. It is pretty stunning that as the CEO of the company, he would stoop to what I interpret as pretty unprofessional communication and petty threats.

I also am failing to connect the dots about why Replit would even feel threatened - if you were as helpful of an intern as described, you’d think they would recognize that you had good intentions only when creating Riju - very odd behavior from Replit all around.
That's really shitty. I wonder what the founders of Replit have to say about this? They're active on HN so I hope they can address this publicly...

EDIT: I mean the screenshots are irrefutable evidence of how bad this has escalated - it started as a normal convo and went downwards like the CEO was out to get some blood for no reason ... now I guess you're gonna get a lawyer threat letter to take down the whole blogpost because you've revealed private conversations without both parties' consent?
I am wondering (knowing nothing about this) if there is an issue with the approach to acquire data that it putting AI in a difficult position. This is akin to trying to train and AI to walk in the footsteps of a geophysicist, rather than making new footsteps for the AI. I guess I would extend this to radiology too since it seems to be the same issue.

Let me give an example:

People often mention that truck drivers are safe from automation because lots of last mile work is awkward and non-standard, requiring humans to navigate the bizarre atypical situations the truck encounter. Training an AI to handle all this is far harder than getting it to drive on a highway.

What is often left out though is the idea that the infrastructure can/will change to accommodate the short comings of AI. This could look like warehouses having a "conductor" on staff who commandeers trucks for the tricky last bit of getting on the dock. Or perhaps preset radar and laser path guidance for the tight spots. I'd imagine most large volume shippers would build entire new warehouses just to accommodate automated trucks.

A long time ago people noted that horses offered much more versatility than cars since roads were rocky and muddy. How do you make a car than can traverse the terrain a horse does? You don't, you pave all the roads.
The context here is a one-man internet company that hires someone on Upwork to help him or her with some administrative task. That doesn't fit any definition of "exploitation".

You could say that the entire global capitalist system is exploitative in nature, or something like that, but an individual entrepreneur posting on Upwork is not "exploiting" anyone.
If you can remove the participants who "want to be right" and keep the participants "who want to solve the problem" you might be able to have a more productive discussion of difficult issues. The "assume good intensions" mantra also would seem to help as a starting point.

This is also somewhat the root of representative government. Not many have the time or talent to really deeply understand these difficult issues and this is why we elect folks to do this for us. Imagine how much chaos would exist in a government where it is a true democracy and everyone's 2" deep opinion counts.
There are a lot of successful government projects, especially those not involving the big consultancies
It takes one group of great radiologists who have a bit of altruistic/capitalistic/venture side, doesn't it?
100% agree. If this threatened them, it means they are not doing well.
Can you name a poor philosopher?

If anything, the barriers appear to me to be greater.
A tool for my meeting-filled to automate repetitive tasks on a daily basis.
Why shouldn't there be "service access" that is essentially only an OS with service tools. No access to storage, but would store diagnostic tools. It shouldn't even be very big these days...
What seems most likely to me is that the tech or techs intentionally viewed the pics, but while doing so unintentionally uploaded to Facebook.
I do not remember Darktable ever crashing on me (well I am not professional and maybe not using all the features heavily). Also I use it less than a year, maybe older versions were less stable. I use it on Windows which can be a factor as well.
> dd if=/dev/zero it

or `shred` it. Probably takes longer but more secure.
Is it such a big thing really? My relatively average sized European city has multiple places making semiconductors.
There is a theory that the Nazis were just a sub group of a much older and secret group. This group empowered Hitler to become a major distraction while they took control of the worlds economy, shipping and communications in the background. This theory supposed that nazis were completely invented purposely as a group of villains performing evil that no one can ignore. The theory also suggests that the jews were chosen because it was known that it would evoke the largest response from the Christian nations
A couple of thoughts:

- This is a very interesting piece of news cognitively. It is very odd to have a "pre-existing" relationship with somebody, completely separate from space, before they take such a launch. I've had greater admiration for astronauts, but I've only ever known them as astronauts. It is a different experience to suddenly be talking about someone who has a fully-fleshed backstory as an astronaut.

- Talk about eating your own dog food, Amazon style! I really haven't given much thought to BlueOrigin due to SpaceX, but with Bezos literally putting his skin in the game the conversation is now entirely different.
Defense is a lot more expensive than offense in civil court. Complicated cases like these can be dragged for years and they'd have to pay for it. Intellectual property laws are very in the favor of whomever has the money to throw lawyers around.
Even if it gets worse, surely the effort to de-google Chromium must be lower than maintaining an entire browser engine, right?
Unless I was sure the EFF or similar organization was ready to take me on pro bono, I'd do a lot to avoid the Corporate Nuisance Lawsuit Cannon. A fun evening project isn't worth years in court and hundreds of thousands spent on legal fees--and Replit knows this.

Hopefully by publicizing what happened, he might get an offer for legal defense if necessary, then reinstate the project.
There's no free ride, ML is data centric, you got to get close and personal with the data and its quality. That means 90% of our time is spent on data prep and evaluations.

Getting to know the weak points of your dataset takes a lot of effort and custom tool building. Speaking from experience.
Yeah, not sure about this one chief. I don't know the legal aspects here, but I think it makes sense to not create an open-source project that competes with your previous employer and then correspond with them letting them know you did it...
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Imagine giving so much of your life, passion, and energy away for free, then feeling guilty that you couldn't give even more. I'm glad Pedro decided to step back to focus on his health. That is not an easy decision to make. As he starts to return, I hope he will consider letting others take up part of the work and shoulder some of the burden. This kind of open source vampirism isn't healthy.
Kind of a shitty thing to do by that company. So much for embracing open source. And probably they don't have a real business case to begin with if they're threatened by a former intern's open source project. Likely scared they'll lose their funding once the investors see how weak they are.
Don’t do it.

If you do, get PRK not lasik.

Don’t do it. Your vision and ability to stare at a computer is the only thing standing between you and being homeless. It’s not worth it.

And it only lasts about 10 years then you need glasses anyway.
Making a Discord bot that talks to Notion
sell the homes to clueless people before the news hits msm.

"nothing to worry about rising sea levels, they are building the wall"
How does that exactly address the core issue of the post which is OSS maintainers are simply burning out due to a lack of support.. ?
Historically, you didn't need an account to use Repl.it. It used to be one of the best sites to go to for this kind of thing.

After they added the account requirement and seeing this blog post, I think I'll have to change my opinion about them.
European fines typically start low, but keep growing if compliance is not established.

Basically, this is threatening but not hurting. Yet
The Mitchells vs the Machines has interesting stylized outlining around faces and clothing, not completely unlike Archer, but a much more complex watercolor variant.
I wrote a Twitter Bot using OpenFaaS to avoid missing out on CfP deadlines
It has expired and he doesn't plan to renew: https://twitter.com/levicook/status/1401935968328847364?s=21
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The race of the owner of a business should not be used as a selling point for any race. I would tend to avoid a business that does so.
I didn't write this blog post, but helped Carlos with some editing. It was great chatting to him about how he planned it out and got it up and running in a short period of time.

What bots and automation do you run, and where do you host yours?