skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched job recently, very nice compensation package. Whole shabang.
3 weeks vacation.

Being relatively senior, I asked to receive less money, and more vacation.

It was a very, very hard negotiation to go to 4 week of PTO while reducing my yearly salary by the equivalent of 40H*MyRate.

What's bug me the more in this context is how insane people think I am to ask for more free time.
I don't count my hours outside of vacation. I do what I'm supposed to do and I enjoy it.

But once in while. Once or twice a year, I want to be away from any type of technology and fuck off in the woods.

It should not be that hard.

Plus, preventing me to do that will just hast my departure from the company that apparently can't suffer a employee being gone 1 more week?
Nobody is irreplaceable, and if someone is, that person is not doing it's job and should be replaced.

Edit : to your question about having less than 5 week / year. I think my quality of life has vastly decrease, that my mental health as well, and that I missed a lot of bonding with my wife and children.
As a result, I will gladly go back to a french level of financial compensation to get those benefit back.
> The myth of "unwilling collaborators," and "forced to work for Germans under a gunpoint" was invented after the war by political forces who got in bed with 3rd reich, and then wanted to save their skin from pitchforks when they lost.

Not to mention Ordinary Men [0], the dynamic that makes your average citizens with no ideological indoctrination become the murderers of tens of thousands of Jews, to the point they'd shoot at small children with a clear conscience. They'd even have the option not to directly take part in the murders, but still do.

Again, these were average, ordinary people. No strong party affiliation, SS membership or anything.

The fact that Christopher Browning's book was a revelation when it came out shows how little we've learned from WWII. We might have put the lid on undisguised antisemitism, but we have merely channeled its otherising roots elsewhere. Otherwise, we wouldn't find it so easy to turn a blind eye to the settler colonialism happening right now in Palestine.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...
I can see people learning English as a second language struggling, but I don’t think anybody raised with English would take semimonthly to mean every two months. Maybe this is because of how we learn about the prefix, with semicircles (half circles).
GDS (also British Government) is at least one proven tech that came from Government to large acclaim.

But there is also: GCHQ and NSA which are definitely government funded and are some of the most sophisticated digital terror (by their own definition) organisations.
> Goodwill never prosecutes employees because they don't want to tarnish their image.

Well there's a fun fact for any management type who's interested in a new job and some on-the-side income.
Interesting - I didn't realize it was a translated work. I would have inferred causality with "remembered" due to the sentence structure.

My comment was intended to decry the loss of my more literate and verbose pre-corporate self.
Note that there are different ways in which data can be bad (i) image resolution not good enough, too many artifacts and noise (ii) its woefully incomplete, doctors collect and use information from other channels that aren't even in the image, regular conversations, sizing up the patient, if the doctor knows the patient for a long time then a sense of what is not normal for the patient given his/her history etc., etc.

Some of the issues that have been discussed in the thread can be incorporated in to a Bayesian prior for the patient, but there is still this incompleteness issue to deal with.
> They either need to pay more to secure labor or fail.

Yes. Those are the options. The .001% is really cleaning house while smaller businesses are dying. And no way Amazon is going to absorb the cost, so all of this will just end wiping out the earnings and savings of most people while nobody's purchasing power increases.
The idea is that many of the tinpot dictators in these countries use socialism, communism, it's iconography and it's cultural ideas to win power and then they end up either 1. Doing nothing and being just as corrupt as others with a different name, 2. Going full on authoritarian and subduing all resistance, leading to tyranny and horror or 3. Trying to pull an Allende and genuinely supporting left-wing policies without the usual corruption or military authoritarianism. Unfortunately, the people in the third camp always end up being beaded by the sword of Damocles...
> The vanguard of medicine is "patient centered" and tries to feed back statistics to help in decisions like "what pill do I prescribe this patient for high blood pressure?" -- the kind of 'reasoning with uncertainty' that an A.I. can do better than you.

I think this illustrates why AI in medicine is a hard problem. I'm not actually sure this is a clear cut AI/Statistics problem.

Mainly because "what pill do I prescribe this patient for high blood pressure?" has lots of hidden questions.

AI solves "what pill will statistically leads to a higher survival rate", but that is not the only consideration.

Often doctors have to balance side effects and other treatments.

What is easier for the patent: A lifestyle change to reduce blood pressure? or Enduring the side effects of the pill?

This type of question is quite difficult for our AI's to answer at the moment

Most drugs have side effects that are hard to objectively measure the impact of.
I worked in a small research company that had a method (segmentation + CNNs, etc) a few years back. We had some exciting stuff also on masking effects, but as soon as we got into SaMD and the main revenue stream (grants) dried up, engineering closed down.
What part are you saying is a lie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
A lot, I dare say even most, of the new equipment is leased to the first generation customers. They will run them for a year, two tops, and then it will go out on the used market for the 'regular' farmers to buy. You won't find much concern about ownership agreements when they are renting the equipment.
Some defects will prevent you from erasing the phone before giving it to a repair center.
This is great advice and it's what I've done with my open source projects as well. The point of open source is that it's just that: it's open and free. People can try demanding things from you, but you don't work for them. So they can fork it and make changes or get lost.

I think there's something about seeing a line item on a UI that really breaks people's brains. This is why sometimes having a conversation on Slack can feel different than Zoom or even in person; there's a sort of permanence on these mediums that don't exist in person to person interactions. I think it's similar with GitHub issues. Seeing an issue and getting a notification for it can make repo owners feel inclined to answer.

Just don't answer. You don't owe anyone anything.
It's totally an option if you're in a country effectively ruled by soulless transnational corporations who rank "making lots of money" several orders of magnitude more important than "any kind of ethical concern".

It's probably totally an option if you want to work for one of those corporations, too.
They can do this from a guest account.

Full disk encryption will protect your data.
The QZ article is narrowly correct but widely misleading. It almost willfully ignores the momentum and direction.

In reality, radiologists will not be summarily replaced one day. They will get more and more productive as tools extend their reach. This can occur even as the number of radiologists increases.

Here's a recent example where Hinton was right in concept: recent AI work for lung cancer detection made radiologists perform better in an FDA 510k clearance.

20 readers reviewed all of 232 cases using both a second-reader as well as a concurrent first reader workflows. Following the read according to both workflows, five expert radiologists reviewed all consolidated marks. The reference standard was based on reader majority (three out of five) followed by expert adjudication, as needed. As a result of the study’s truthing process, 143 cases were identified as including at least one true nodule and 89 with no true nodules. All endpoints of the analyses were satisfactorily met. These analyses demonstrated that all readers showed a significant improvement for the detection of pulmonary nodules (solid, part-solid and ground glass) with both reading workflows.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf20/K203258.pdf

(I am proud to have worked with others on versions of the above, but do not speak for them or the approval, etc)

The AI revolution in medicine is here. That is not in dispute by most clinicians in training now, nor, from all signs, by the FDA. Not everyone is making use of it yet, and not all of it is perfect (as with radiologists - just try to get a clean training set). But the idea that machine learning/ai is overpromising is like criticizing Steve Jobs in 2008 for overpromising the iphone by saying it hasn't totally changed your life yet. Ok.
Jeff Bezos will fly to the edge of space with his brother next month
I think privacy is relevant in any thread related to browser choice right now; relevance is always going to be partially subjective
Tried teams on Linux. Its terrible, my machine runs solidly, hardly ever restart it. I open teams, 80% of the time it will start up then the machine starts running slow, teams ui goes unresponsive and then whole machine locks up and i need to power off at the powee button. Only ever happens if I open teams.
Awesome! Excited to see the progress!
It's really like Groundhog Day, for those who are to young, we had Java-Apps (terrible slow in the early days), then massive web-apps and now electron, in the mean time every professional application stayed at TUI's (banks/insurance/booking-systems), it's the same with os-installers...do i really need a flutter based installer? No it's bullshit, just give me a well structured text installer, no gui needed for that job. Why is the Terminal still a thing when browsers are so much better at everything ;)
I tried the link in a Firefox private tab on my mobile where I'm not logged into Instagram. You can view the video but it does try and convince you to log in as well.
This applies well for things like a java package where the itchy generally have the skills to scratch. I think of these things as having numerous benefits, namely saves your company/team time; most of the time, in this case I think boo-hoo if the person working tirelessly for no compensation stops doing that... Pay them or do it yourself. (I am currently doing-it-myself with an abandoned java package my team relies on.)

However, this logic fails for situations where the itchy often aren't capable of scratching. For example, a wordpress plugin. In this case, I think it's a grey area. Maybe users should have to pay since they can't write it themselves. But that attitude would still fail for situations where a library is widely used and security patches would be for the "greater good".
Not necessarily. The international Red Cross was famously invited to tour Auschwitz[1] where they were given a carefully staged show of how well their prisoners were being treated. Plus prisoners would have been in danger.

[1]https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/theresiens...
Have you looked into Nebula Genomics? They will do 30X coverage WGS for $299, and will give you the underlying data so you can analyze it on your own (in addition to their analyses).

Link: https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
> 1. Food 2. Shelter 3. Clothes 4. Transportation 5. Employment / Income 6. Healthcare

If you're facing risk or serious insecurity to any one of these, consider that health issues (especially those insurance matters for) often (a) produce costs that are higher to nigh-unbounded (b) may well present as issues that are upstream of all of these things ("Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call/job/meal when you are unable to speak/work/keep food down?"). #1-5 may be more foundational in some kind of pyramid of needs than mild health concerns, but serious health care concerns are equal-to-more foundational. Also, #1-5 are also more easily provided by friends and family or community charity on an episodic basis.

> Honestly; it didn’t seem to impact them, as much as I suspected, but I didn’t see their internal finances.

A merely low credit score has substantial financial impacts and will cut you off from some possibilities outright. A bankruptcy will close more doors. It's less an "option" than a salvage operation.

> There’s a reason our system is so expensive and it’s regulation and litigation from that regulation

Specific regulations sometimes do introduce compliance costs, and like code, can often be reviewed for optimization. But criticizing "regulation" in abstract is like criticizing code in abstract. And litigation is how legal accountability happens.

Additionally, more heavily "regulated" systems than ours control expenses better, so it seems unlikely that's necessarily the source, and there's other explanations available in incentive analysis.

> Why do they limit the number of doctors graduating medical schools?

Ask the AMA. I expect part of it is incentives, though... how many more doctors do you think could be reasonably graduated?

> I recommend asking the hospital for charge codes

I've actually asked hospitals for charge masters before, even ahead of time. Answers ranged from "I'm not sure what that is" to "we don't do that." That was pre-ACA, so perhaps things have changed, but if so, it's thanks to regulation.
I was recently shocked to discover that sindresorhus, one of the most prolific oss devs of all time (I think), only has around $14k/yr of app revenue. It sounded like he was saying that it was a majority of his income, so I pressed him how he could possibly live on it. He said he had GitHub sponsorships and open collective donations, and then mentioned he was living in a country with low expenses.

I ended up feeling... amazed, really. I was going to say sad, but if the most prolific oss dev can’t make more than an entry level salary from 2008 on community support alone, it’s not sad — it’s simply how it is.

People need to think of open source as something they do for themselves. I put stuff out for people to use. You don’t like it, you can use something else. I try to give as much help as I can, but only because it makes me happy to do that.

The recipe for burn out is, you’re not putting yourself first. You should! Most people do open source the way a jazz pianist does a jam session on the weekends, but it sounds like your typical jazzist (jazzer?) ends up happier than most of us. It’s worth taking a hard look at why.

Don’t do it to yourself. Life’s worth more. I understand why they left a lengthy apology here, saying “I let the community down” and such, but it’s just not true. Everyone who makes their code available for others isn t a letdown — you’re a hero to 12yo me, who would’ve given anything to get a glimpse of any closed-source gamedev engine. That’s what OSS is all about: letting people build on your work, not working yourself to death for other people.
it's often not particularly crucial for timeseries data, though, and the performance tradeoffs of syncing every insert to disk are significant.
How long until an inner monologue cannot hide from the "authorities"?

Also, Macross Plus, spoiler, for the subconscious throwing up images in a high stress environment; https://youtube.com/watch?t=2077&v=Fgg6p9gSeR0
That's not the point the previous comment made, I think. It's not that you could not trust asexual people to be calmer in this regard, but someone willing to sniff and publish your private data is probably not going to be afraid to lie to you when you ask whether they are asexual.
I've been wary about submitting my DNA to a company so this is very intriguing. Is there enough data and/or a community and open software to support things like ancestry and disease profiles locally?
I'm not sure what you are trying to say - hopefully not that there weren't any unwilling collaborators?

Read the biography of Stanislaw Lem for instance, who grew up in Lwów(current Ukraine, back then Poland) - Nazis frequently recruited local population to both kill and then bury anyone they wanted to get rid of, under a) promise of reward b) threat of being killed themselves. But you don't need to trust the biography of one man and his experiences - we also know this because Nazis kept extensive video and photo evidence of those executions, which they would show back in the 3rd Reich as "evidence" of the barbarism of the local people in places they were occupying ("look at those stupid Poles/Ukrainians/Jews, killing each other for a scrap of food!").

"Well, there were even Jewish collaborators, in fact, quite plenty of them."

Again, because some of them were given a choice of either joining the ghetto kommando unit, or being shot there and then, along with their families. It didn't matter at all in the end of course, because they all got executed in the end anyway. Can you say with with 100% confidence that you wouldn't make the same choice in the same situation? And I do mean 100% confidence?

Polish nobelist, Wiesława Szymborska, said something about these choices people faced in WW2 that I will always remember - "we only know ourselves as much as we have been tested - and I pray that my moment of trial never comes".

I think she's absolutely right - it's easy to judge what people have done from the comfort of our homes in 2021. But I do hope that I am never put in front of the same choice. I hope I will never be tested in the same way those people were.

And I will clarify here - of course there were willing collaborators too. 100%. But your comment reads as if that wasn't the case and the "myth" of unwilling collaborators was purely made up. I see no reason to believe such a thing.
These are 3D characters from Pixar's most recent film: https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/10/...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has some very clever animation choices.

*The Mitchell’s vs The Machines” does seem to have a sort of blended 2D/3D thing going on as well.
Is the concern with running JS on the client side regarding security?
At Appsmith we run user code inside a worker to avoid malicious code from accessing many browser apis. We also plan to add the ability to run the JS code on the server and have it run via web hooks for automation use cases. I wrote how we do it at Appsmith a few months back:

https://blog.appsmith.com/evaluating-js-in-the-browser-for-a...
Agreed. "It was a dark and stormy night.", full stop, would be a perfectly cromulent opening sentence in its own right. It's punchy, fairly evocative, and it has excellent meter.
> It’s all about the influences

This is key. Everything else is an excuse.

My Mum is in her 70s and until she lost feeling in one of her hands (chemotherapy 23-ish years ago) she was an exceedingly fast touch typist. Even without feeling in her hands, she could still type at ~40 WPM, possibly higher depending on what she was typing. Arthritis means she now mostly uses a tablet.

But looking at other people in that age range, I can think of literally zero from church who even know how to touch type. It's probably the difference between someone who had to do secretarial work and someone who did not.

I do think your first statement is absolutely on the mark. e.g., "I'm old, and I don't understand it, so I won't try."

The old adage is still true: Whether you think you can or you can't you're probably right.
The tone of your comment changed dramatically in this reply. You didn't have to say hick, you implied it with your uneducated rant. You simply don't understand why they want a John Deere, and it's not because they are uneducated.

Also, maybe never try to shove people into categories, especially only 3 categories. Especially one category being "uneducated". You reached all that from a topic about repairing tractors and their choice of brand. Think about that.

Your "anecdote" doesn't match my experience and it lines up with an outsider perspective with a dash of elitism. You said you don't know anything about AG science, so how could you judge others knowledge of it?
WD is temporarily dead to me after their shenanigans of selling Red drives that are SMR, which in my opinion is flat-out fraudulent. When WD pledges to stop selling SMR drives to NAS customers, I'll reconsider using them again.

A Seagate may (or may not! see Backblaze stats) die sooner than a WD drive, but at least it's fit for purpose until then.
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I'd love to hear more about your use cases if you have the time:

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Don't forget the traffic nightmare.
> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all?

I think pg actually has another article (can't find it now) where he discusses hacking identity to ingrain positive behaviors. For example making "I'm a 3 workouts/week person" part of your identity. If that's you, skipping a day in the gym is a serious blow to your identity and self-image. It worked for me.
Would you say this is similar to challenges in other fields such as law?
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I agree with the removal of "simply" in most cases, as well as useless flourishes like "painfully simple", but I think the example includes a case that isn't meant to be a rhetorical assertion of simplicity:

> really just another way to render a view

This is using "just" in the sense of asserting similarity, not simplicity. And in the context of the sentence, it's being set up as the basis for an argument: "(because) X is just Y, therefore we should..." The original document is kind of repetitive and "bloggy", with a lot of reiteration of the same ideas in a way that feels like it's meant to fill in space between code examples. But I don't think this technique of just removing particular words makes it any clearer or better.
> Not to mention that many folks (including a lot of HN -- see: the recent thread on the ACLU) seem to be fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation.

If this is true, why not give some links to a few HN comments, if not a lot, to add a lil evidence to what seems, on the face of it, a truly ridiculous claim.
Online critics claimed an Oakland pizzeria wasn't Black-owned. They were wrong
> “As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?”

> Has Paul never actually read HN or any JS discussion online? Or any forum, really?

Yeah, this is one of those things that I cannot imagine anyone having sufficient experience with religious discussions online to make the initial observation also having so little experience with discussing literally anything else online to suggest that it was somehow unique to religion.

I mean, there's a reason Godwin's Law is scoped to online discussions generally, not any particular subject matter.
I had one that came in in a Macintosh G4 tower, and it died suddenly with a lot of photos that I wanted to save. I put the drive in the freezer in a plastic bag for about an hour and was able to boot the OS long enough to burn a DVD with the files that I wished to save.

I'm much better about backing data up regularly now.