skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's isolation and absolute isolation. Most people haven't gone full hermit and cut themselves off from the outside world. Between phones (calling, texting), chat apps (discord, slack), video chat (zoom, FaceTime, Google whateveritscalledthisweek) few people today experiences absolute isolation in the way the character does in the book (for a very extended period).

Physical isolation is one thing, and may be intolerable to many, but social isolation is another. Not even having another person to speak to, let alone text with, for weeks/months at a time is very different than what most people experienced through the various shutdowns and social distancing efforts.
> The labor force participation rate will keep falling as America transitions to a post-scarcity economy.

America isn't in any danger of transitioning to poat-scarcity anything anytime soon, and I mean that with “soon” on a geological time scale.

Also, “post-scarcity” and “economy” are mutually exclusive; “economy” is the mechanism by which scarce resources are distributed. If you don’t have scarcity, you don’t have (or have any reason for) an economy.
I am impressed that your weapon scale goes all the way to biscuit! I guess a stale one could serve as a projectile
As I said above, it seems fairly clear if you go to the original article that there is a real problem with the existing systems adapting poorly to different setups - they are trained on one system/hospital and then don't generalise well.
I really respect the intensity of training all medical practitioners have and the responsibility society puts on them. However i think there is an urgent need of reforming medical systems to leverage all the new trends in a responsible manner. Augmenting the capabilities of Doctors is one way, but better frictionless anonymised data sharing can also be very useful. However the only thing that prevents a success of new approach other than incumbents is that it is difficult to determine winners & losers of new approaches and it is likely that larger players have better chances of being more successful instead of many smaller players.
The original article referred to by the blog post is here from last week-- https://qz.com/2016153/ai-promised-to-revolutionize-radiolog... .

The conclusion is that AI will revolutionize radiology. It's just that nobody knows when. And it's not like there's some socioeconomic or whatever barrier preventing AI from being used (as an aside, there are barriers of course)-- it's simply that AI isn't good enough yet.

It's not a surprise to anyone who relies on radiologists and has reviewed the current AI state of the art. Yes, with machine X on patients meeting criteria Y, you can rule out specific disease Z. But the algorithms don't generalize very well. It's like declaring you'll have self-driving cars in 5 years because you can drive one straight on a highway in sunny Arizona that only occasionally causes fatal crashes.
I'm now looking at that bar of icons. It fills about half of my horizontal width, so there is plenty of place for more. The first 20 are the usual suspects. The last 10 I don't care about, half of them has to do with macros.

Hunting for them is no problem, after a few hours your muscle memory takes over. In fact, now I look at it, I like how this small amount of color provides a bit of recognizability and identity to the application as a whole.

All of this is tiny compared with just about any other application. Vertical pixel size is small. Horizontal size has plenty left over for more icons. You might have a point when talking about ms office around 2000, but not notepad++
“The Altium board appreciates the interest expressed by Autodesk ... however, it considers that the proposal significantly undervalues Altium’s prospects and therefore rejects the proposal at the current price,” the company said in a statement to the ASX.

Unfortunately, this should probably be viewed as a negotiation on price. They certainly don't have the door closed.
Sick, miserable people make terrible revolutionaries. Desperate and hungry people have nothing to lose. Poor people in the US are miserable, but not miserable enough to be desperate.
Obviously they do, here's one popular example from the national teachers union: https://sharemylesson.com/about-us

And of course teachers within any school will generally share whatever they can.
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Finding code in multiple places....

Semi-related... I TA'ed a Comp Sci class a long time ago (back when they had to submit their code as print-outs). I read through the print-outs and noticed that the "look" of one of them seemed oddly familiar (blocks, line lengths, indenting etc). I went back through the others and found another one that was almost exactly the same.

Took it to the Prof and we agreed the ones that copied got 0 on the project, and the ones who allowed the copying got 50% of their mark. Honestly, they got off quite easy.
> It advocates techniques like only answering e-mail once per day or less.

Global productivity would probably sky rocket if everyone took up this practice.

Frequent email checking and responding kills far more productivity than it generates.
Jessica's dream book of collectivistic Utopia, that she was expecting under the "4-hour work" metaphor... I doubt it would sell very well and for good reason.

Her appeals to woke tropes make no sense, especially considering she goes by the title of "influencer"* - there's no colonialism in creating jobs, much less so in places with next to no digital economy. It's based on an abstract disregard to the fact that merely removing job opportunities will hardly leave anyone better off. There's also no colonialism in spending dollars where they get you further. It's just zero-sum guilt and envy porn.

*edit: it's "unfluencer" - disregard that bit
Breaking News: trusted authority can’t be trusted.
This reminds me of the Prodigy web browser in the 90s. The image toggle in the chrome was my favorite thing.
>In that sense there’s not much open air separating Tim Ferris and Timothy Leary.

I think this is accurate but only in that sense. Leary and his friends, like Robert Anton Wilson, had a strong sense of social justice and saw a world in which everyone benefited, and were very much concerned with scaling their ideas so that everyone worked less and enjoyed the benefits of a wealthier world.

They would be disappointed in a world where people are working longer hours for less pay while productivity and profits increase dramatically.
Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will cast shadow over Russia and Canada
In this case, driving a car is part of his job, so indeed it would be like having an industrial accident - your employer is going to cover you for a work accident
You're making a lot of unfounded assumptions here. Nobody in the world expected that China would be in this position 50 years ago. Very few people expected the US to be in the current situation either: a country saddled with debt, with periodic economic crisis, with a shortage of workers, making life very hard for immigrants, with an increasingly unstable political system and unable to solve racial problems that span already more than 200 years. Nowadays every serious analyst of the economic landscape sees that the future seems brighter for China than for the US. Unless the US is able to do a very serious overhaul of its current path, which it doesn't seem able or capable or doing. My opinion is that the US will become a worse Europe: with more money to spend but with a population immersed in third world problems.
Are ignored research papers a source of startup ideas?

Should entrepeneurs build products based on this research, to sell or get aquired by incumbents?
I used to type "semi-competitively" (aka just spending a lot of time on typeracer.com) and could get around 170 WPM if I put enough effort into it. (At least when I was younger. Probably slower now.)

18 WPM would make me feel like a snail. However, I feel fairly confident that within 1 - 3 decades some kind of BCI will let any user surpass the equivalent of 200 - 300 WPM after a bit of training. And hopefully even with a device that sits on your head rather than in your brain.

So I'm just kind of looking at this like ML research circa 1990. We're hardly even in the infancy stage yet.
The Spanish original is "había de recordar", and "was to remember" is a good translation.
It's meaning is different from just "remembered", as it implies a causality. It wasn't a random remembrance that just happened, it was some memory that was brought by the proximity of death.
There are many parallels with seismic interpretation here. Many companies/etc keep promising to "revolutionize" interpretation and remove the need for the "tedious" work of a geologist/geophysicist. This is very appealing to management for a wide variety of reasons, so it gets a lot of funding.

What folks miss is that an interpreter _isn't_ just drawing lines / picking reflectors. That's less than 1% of the time spent, if you're doing it right.

Instead, the interpreter's role is to incorporate all of the information from _outside_ the image. E.g. "sure we see this here, but it can't be X because we see Y in this other area", or "there must be a fault in this unimaged area because we see a fold 10 km away".

By definition, you're in a data poor environment. The features you're interested in are almost never what's clearly imaged -- instead, you're predicting what's in that unimaged, "mushy" area over there through fundamental laws of physics like conservation of mass and understanding of the larger regional context. Those are deeply difficult to incorporate in machine learning in practice.

Put a different way, the role is not to come up with a reasonable realization from an image or detect feature X in an image. It's to outline the entire space of physically valid solutions and, most importantly, reject the non-physically valid solutions.
How a Supreme Court Justice in the 1800s made history through dissent
Empty list: HTTP status code 200 vs. 204 vs. 404
According to that article, total car ownership in 2003 was equal to one year of sales of motorized bikes.
firefox-bin is a binary on Gentoo. Regular firefox is not. You're not pushed toward the binary package at all.
Or just keep sensitive things in an encrypted container. Pretty easy to set up an encrypted sparsebundle on a mac for all your naughty photo needs!
but the article is right in saying that AI advocates said no need for any new radiologists.

I know this in the field of vehicle damages, AI is good but not good enough to take over... and that has been the case for a long while yet every now and then a new company / product comes saying that the future is AI and no need for human effort.
Before those people were being exploited by the West, many of them were just barely surviving.
English tutors became Brazil's newest TikTok influencers
> Yes, in some cases - many cases, even - you just want a result to an answer to a specific, common question from an imaging study

And these questions are already outsourced to India.
Not sure what scale you're talking about, but Kubota doesn't really compete with Deere on larger tractors. I don't see any tracked options from Kubota and their tractors don't really go much over 200 horsepower.

Deere and Kubota only really compete at the smaller/utility side of things.

Also the reason people get locked into Deere isn't just the tractors, but the vertical integration. Can you run your John Deere NT or DB series planter with Greenstar 2 on a Kubota? Possibly, but you've got to buy the hardware from Deere and you'd have to add auto steer, etc. (FWIW Kubota doesn't even sell planters)
> I would not purchase a product with an underlying subscription.

Not even your phone?
Why should medical "beta testing" happen in a third-world country? Is there some reason the higher risk of an experimental procedure is more acceptable there than (say) Boston or Dallas?
This came up in Ozark too (good series) someone busts an employee stealing something and isn’t sure what to do, gets the advice “Fire her. It’s not the first time she stole from you. It’s the first time you caught her.”
Utill we know the complete story, it's still privileged. People who have family to support them in case of a failure or connections. Most people can't do that. Most rich people are themselves as struggling while exploiting others.
Every seagate drive I’ve ever bought failed. After the 3rd failure on an external drive used for a multi-media PC I switched to WD. Still have 10+ year old WD drives that still work.
I wouldn't call it "copious amounts of data directly" you still gotta train yourself to use it, and the interface itself should train itself to recognize it.

It might be enough to make people walk again though.
I know that I'm replying to a throwaway account on a buried topic, and not that many people will read either of our comments, but for those that do just know that the above is misleading at best. At the very least a quick google search will show you that there are a fair amount of articles written about Stockholm's snow clearing policies after 2016:

2017: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/05/sweden-gende...
2018: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/why-sweden-clears-wal...
2019: http://info.gritit.com/blog/what-is-gender-balanced-snow-cle...
2020: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/02/03/how-other-cities...

Not quite as many as in 2016, but mostly because a particular subset of the internet went into a frenzy about the news of Stockholm dealing with an unusually large volume of snow.
Daniel Helldén, Stockholm's vice-mayor of transportation said:
"We had more snow in two days than we had had for a 100 years. So the problem hadn't anything to do with gender-equal snow clearing."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gender-analysis-budget-snow...

In the end the change in policy resulted in less injuries and deaths, as most of these were happening to pedestrians in the first place (who happened to be mostly women, versus mostly men driving). Other cities in Sweden went on to take this approach and other countries, like Canada in the last link, are interested in taking this approach too. It turned out they did not stop "this due to how bad the consequences were" and it turned out not to be, "simply put, ideological insanity" but an interesting way to approach what appears to be common sense from a different point of view and seeing if there are ways that we can improve things (something, something... tech disruption... something, something...)

Stockholm's snow clearing policies are the subject of the first chapter of Caroline Criado Perez's book, Invisible Women, which has dozens of such examples. It's an interesting read, and I'd recommend it.
Definitely not, sorry if it sounded like that...
"You are seeing this advert because we detected that you thought about the Budwesier 'Wassup!' advert that aired 22 years ago and it increased dopamine uptake by 3.7%"
Ah, yes, more surveillance is surely the answer.
Money supply isn’t a thing which varies randomly, impacting the economy but not impacted by it. The money supply hasn’t shot up as some random event which will remain static if money velocity reverts to trend, it shot up specifically as a policy response to low velocity, and increasing velocity is one of the signals which will cause 8t to be reeled back in.
Has AI revolutionized anything other than driving up user engagement/addiction on shitty websites?
This is needed.

IOU works well on small scales. It has often worked locally or within small communities[1]. LETS[2], babysitting vouchers, friends who value and track favours and keep the scales balanced.

Make the FOSS infrastructure as easily deployable as wordpress.

IOUs with a PGP signed chain of trust is brilliant and it could be a killer app for PGP adoption.

Who of us doesn't owe Stallman and Torvalds at least a favour ? But never got their key-signed ?

Widespread PGP adoption means lots of people would have their own crypto so privacy and trust could be run over any insecure transport medium.

Maybe there could be a FIDOnet type central glue and exchange protocols so money could travel further than local.

Local non-currency ledgers on a eco-friendly blockchain.

Money is human glue. It represents creativity and potential energy.

It is democratic to have lots of types of small monies so no-one has to be excluded. Small things often work well. National monies fail for a lot of people and cryptos current success model is to be worth something - and so are stuck being tied to national monies so the excluded are still excluded.

Make it easy to make an altcoin, so anyone can and the goal can be stimulating a local economy rather than being tied back into the main one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Exchange_System
[2] https://www.lowimpact.org/lets-origins-michael-linton-letsys...
OP meant that ironically...
> If that's your kink, then Polaroid cameras and camcorders exist.

That sounds a bit like the Onion sketch "Google allows you to opt-out of tracking by moving to remote mountain village" [1].

This case proves that the criminal justice system works to protect your personal images, we just need a better way to be notified when it happens (the kind of action you would expect Apple to take if they cared, instead of "we continued to strengthen our vendor protocols")

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY
I don't think it's a coincidence that we've seen a rise in holocaust denial, nazi sympathisers, etc. as this population has left us.

It's a sad thought really, no number of history books will ever have the same effect as talking to your grandpa about his experiences on the beaches at Normandy, or marching in to liberate a concentration camp. I fear we're on the brink of forgetting a lot of lessons.
Isn't facial bloating a common side effect to zero-g training? I wouldn't be surprised if he's been spending time flying parabolas.

It's fun, he's got the resources, and there's a relative goal on the near-term.
somehow, when we look at human life as the preciousest thing, the act deleting communities and cultures altogether stings our souls on another level.
I have no idea why I got upvoted and you got downvoted, these are the exact same phenomena (a local maxima that's hard to get out of), just at different income levels due to different sources of unemployment benefits.
If large organizations can't keep secrets, then what are the names of the ten most important CIA personnel operating in Canada right now?
Excellent point - and people forget the side benefits of those “free” projects are raking millions into the company.
The metric of radiology jobs as a sign of the lack of AI revolution in the field seems poor to me. Sadly, much of our medical infrastructure (and the jobs it creates) only have a very tenuous relationship to the actual care and the quality that it delivers. Rather, most of the infrastructure tries to optimize for the billing and the legislation that surrounds it.

One of the ways to immediately see this is for us, a technical crowd, to puzzle on why it seems that Moore's law doesn't seem to affect medical technology... AT ALL. Some of the same procedures using the same machines from decades ago today cost A LOT more than they used to, for instance.

This isn't to say that this AI revolution in radiology hasn't been underwhelming; I just think that using this job metric is a poor indicator of the technology's capability.
Fusion 360, IMHO, is a slick and capable CAD tool. It absolutely does require a muscular machine but once you get used it and the space mouse, it's very intuitive and pleasing.

There's a learning curve, of course, for any CAD system. It takes WEEKS of regular usage to get reasonably fluent and even then you'll get snagged with a "how do I?" problem regularly. The hardest part is unlearning bad habits. There's easy ways and hard ways to do things. Sometimes the hard way is initially more intuitive, but ends up costing effort and time.

It's helpful, I think, to watch pros use it and see what they do. That's another good feature. It has a decent user community and there's lots of help available.
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Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket
> Dushman has said he was unaware Auschwitz existed during the war, only learning about the atrocities carried out there in the years after.

It's always jarring to me, with my modern/simplistic/naive perspective of these major historical events, to consider that the people who lived during and/or participated in these events didn't understand full extent of what they were seeing or what was happening. It totally makes sense, academically...fog of war, slow/spotty spread of information, determining what's propaganda and what's not.

But still, there's something mind-blowing to me about a soldier mowing down the fence at Auschwitz with a tank, but not knowing what the place was.
Successful businesses in these construction fields were started a generation or more ago and handed down to family members.

Even electricians and the like have a very difficult time getting beyond self-employed with an assistant and maybe a partner who helps part-time with billing and scheduling. That leap to getting a second employee who can work independently in the field is a big one. Why is that person working for you rather than themselves? A good portion of the time, the answer to that question is that they are related to the owner in some way.
It's just a slightly broken sentence. It should've read:

> It raises the negotiating power of labor, which negates some of the advantages of capital that lead to growing wealth inequality.
The point is that you are trying to claim that they wanted to keep politics accessible to all but somehow despite their best efforts a political class emerged.

Yet they didn't provide for direct democracy, enfranchised only part of the population, took the highest political offices for themselves, ect. Look at the first 5 presidents, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. These were not some common guys off the street. These were the political elites of Colonial England and then early America.
Meaning the action needs to be enticing, even if they are not considering it.
That's the way it is used today - for instance in mammography there is Computer aided detection (CAD):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1665219/

That's been in use for some time. But like many parts of radiology it really only can be a second look tool that as you mentioned proposes alternatives or suggests things. The false positive rate for CAD is substantially higher than for humans because of the human ability to see symmetry and patterns in very diverse tissue sets like one sees in screening mammography.

And the nature of screening tests like mammography means that actually percentages like "89%" isn't really good enough. You have to be more specific and sensitive than that to have a successful program, and I'm not sure that ML will ever be able to get there...there's a lot of experience and human intuition involved at some point that would be hard to replicate...and I know that because people have been trying to do that for decades.
> If a car smashed into me and I couldn't code, my company wouldn't pay me either?

Mine would (not a company, a university). For the first two weeks, I'd use accrued Sick Time then switch to their Short-Term Disability that would cover 100% of my pay (for some positions with fewer years of service it would be 75%). Short-Term Disability coverage lasts for six months, beyond that my employer doesn't pay any salary replacement but I pay a few dollars a month for long-term disability insurance that would.

I think the federal Family and Medical Leave Act only guarantees I can return to my job for 12 weeks but Massachusetts increases that to 20 weeks. By policy, my employer won't dismiss someone on Short-Term Disability (26 weeks) and may not beyond that either.