skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current state of affairs and roadmap for effective carbon accounting in AI
On codification:

I actually disagree with this, but only slightly.

Imagine if instead of face to face, doctor transactions were via text. The questioning of the doctor can be monitored and patterns in decision trees observed could be codified, and weighed against the healthcare outcome (however defined).

What is missing, however, is the Counterfactual Reasoning. The "why" matters. The machine cannot reduce the doctor's choice of decision trees from all possible combinations, only that which it observes the doctor perform.

Tail-cases like rare genetic disorders would often be missed.
If only there were two layers of proprietary magic ;)
Command-Line Photogrammetry with AliceVision (Tutorial/Guide)
When I was in Russia last time in 2016 (and was robbed for third time in my life btw,) it was then when I stated a chat with a youngster in a case about WW2, and my jaw dropped when he said the same.

Pupils in Russian secondary schools are now told this > never happened, and it was all American propaganda lies: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Bundesar...
It's kinda funny that Apple denounced 3rd party repairs with "because they could misuse your data" while (proper) 3rd parity repair shops normally don't ask for you password and in turn can't access the phones data after it had been shut down once.

I'm more irritated that a Apple repair shop asked for login information then that a repair person with login information abused them (which sadly isn't surprising).
I believe they can boot up from an external device, or over network, and run the tests. There's absolutely no reason to give them your password.

I went through a battery replacement (out of warranty, but still covered by Apple), and I was never asked for the password. But maybe they didn't even bother to run tests, since it was literally pushing the keyboard up ever so slightly, the touch pad wouldn't click anymore (haptic feedback very weak) and the bottom plate was bulging out. It was pretty obvious what is up. The nice thing tho, I ended up with a new battery, new keyboard, new touchpad and new bottom plate. I guess every (most?) cloud has a silver lining? :)
If you’re building a CRUD app and using database transactions religiously, you can punt on a lot of these questions
Amazing -- thanks so much :D
none at all; this task was just literally a "hit the button".
Nothing, they provide the software for the data engineers and data scientists to use. It seems that the vast majority of people that have heard of Palantir totally misunderstand what the company actually sells (a software platform) and what they do not sell (data).
You probably don't want to be arsed fiddling with it, but the Windows ODBC driver supports access to CSV files via SQL queries.
Google 2020 :

- revenue 182B

- earnings 40B

The fine is 0.5% of their earnings or 0.12% of their revenue. Basically nothing.

They should start fining in the order of B not M
pretty much all of the times I was needed were scheduled, so there was rarely surprises.
Look up Disney Research and Disney Imagineering R&D. Check out their SIGGRAPH papers. I used to work for them (not representing them here), you'd be surprised at the scale+level of R&D activity.
Haha yes, I think this is the problem; it's part of the tradeoff between open and closed source, IMO.
With an OLED laptop panel, I actually appreciate #000 black. A lot of these dark themes look kinda bad on my screen, especially when they try to tint the grey like the blue GitHub adds. That said, I'll give it to Twitter for implementing dark and black as separate categories since we don't have @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and (display-technology: oled)
Convert to homes
Navigating the maze – deep dive into OpenStreetMap Carto style road rendering
I'm not big on installing new apps, so I just tried a bunch of searches, including DropBox, and every single one was the very first search result. Am I just not searching for the right thing to see this in action? Are search results personalized on the appstore like they are on Google?
Wider applications for the 'unboil an egg' machine
I'm not a teacher, but I heard good things about replit https://replit.com/teams-for-education
> Socialism != totalitarianism yet you keep saying this.

When did I say that? I never did. China is Socialist AND Totalitarian.

> China is socialist under their own definition of socialism

"Socialism:

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

And PLEASE read this before replying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...
>subjective determinations based on a small input and declaring that anybody with another opinion is lying

this is the primary tactic of BLM movement, proclaim a few martyrs for the cause and generalize it to "systemic" phenomenon (and call anyone who disagrees, or brings up facts a "racist"), just like a proper conspiracy theory.

The theory could have a seed of legibility if at least these few martyrs so loudly protested for were actually killed because of their race and not because of obvious bad choices they made, like shooting at cops. But that's not the case, if you dig just a bit deeper beyond biased news and manipulated videos omitting context and engineered for outrage. These are fake martyrs and systemically fake movement.

If you think there is systemic racism in the US, where is the systemic evidence.
They NetBoot in order to run diagnostics. They don’t need your password.
MITx Multivariable Calculus, 18.02x is open for registration
I remember how one person spent just a little time and uncovered one scam after another. It wasn’t even necessary to dig deep in every case (e.g. sometimes it was just “look at top grossing charts”). That is why almost any excuse Apple gives is just not good enough: clearly if Apple had even one person working on this full-time, they should have caught this. Who cares about fancy analysis tools or machine learning until they can catch the big, obvious stuff?

We also know from trial documents that they decided ~500ish people was enough to review the millions of apps and app revisions in existence. I don’t even have to do the math and I know that is nowhere near sufficient. Apple clearly is either clueless about this, or does not care, and either one of those is a huge problem. It also means that almost everything they claim about the security of the App Store itself is not true (rather, a substantial portion of the security comes from the OS and device, not necessarily the review).
Is that why Eli Lilly, Roche, and Biogen’s stock pop?
That's precisely my point. There aren't enough people who are capable of being brain surgeons. The majority of us cannot become one. We're just not good enough.

That was always the failure of the 'socially necessary labour time' idea. It assumes complete fungibility amongst people, and that isn't the case.
Why is vector calculus important to programmers? It may not be to
some, but for others it definitely is. For games? Some fluency with
vectors in three dimensions goes a long ways. ∇ Multivariable calculus
opens doors to upper level engineering, statistics, physics, finance,
machine learning theory, it's all over the place.

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

For people who didn't have a great experience with their own
university studies and for current students who may have had a less
than stellar introduction over a covid semester, this is a great
opportunity to really learn it. If you have single variable
differential and integral calculus under your belt, my suggestion is
to sign up for this class and give it 100%. The course is free to
audit, but if you can afford it then give them your money! They'll be
incentivized to make more of these excellent courses and besides, they
deserve it.

This is an important time for online learning. The hype over MOOCs has
died down and the dedicated remaining educators are still at it,
learning from our participation. It's not perfect yet, but even today
some of the courses are way better than their brick and mortar
counterparts. I think this will be true for 18.02x.
Jeff Bezos and His Brother Mark Will Join Blue Origin's First Human Space Flight
So suggest a solution that won't inflame anything?

"Dealing" with China is going to get a lot hotter. Period.
I'd like to learn Node.js, I never got around to learning it.
The doctor diagnosing a patient isn't solving a puzzle of the kind posed here.

They are doing, as the previous comment said, interpretation. In practice, much of their thinking is profoundly rational and bayesian.

Human (and animal) thinking isn't primarily cognitive, ie., explicit reasoning. It is the application of learned concepts to sensory-motor systems in the right manner.

We don't look to dr's to formulate a crossword puzzle when a patient arrives; we look to them to be overly attentive to yellow skin when the patient's family has a history of alcoholism.
I have not seen handling of support calls without exploitation. It's integral to handling support calls, but somehow market forces turn it into exploitation. The worst I have seen was Dell, which produced sub-par products in order to sell an outsourced support service for net profit.
They want the business. You could choose to use their credit line, or one of the other lenders.

An individual lender will [more likely] tolerate the credit limit. Their reaction changes when they can see all the other lenders lines are being used too.

Think of it like giving a girl (or anyone you like) a valentine’s day gift, and then seeing them walk down the hall with a ton of valentine’s gifts. You and some others will consider retracting their benefactorship if you could and more would consider not giving any more.
> Why no LoC included

LoC invokes PTSD for many developers and I honestly want to do it right, which will take a bit effort and thinking on my part. For example, when providing LoC, I want to be able to break it down into useful information like (isolated code, used here and there) and so forth.

I want LoC to help us understand the significance of going from one revision to another, so that LoC can be used to help us drive actionable insights.

Edit: Just realized I never addressed your other points which is I do want to index and provide insights into everything in the software development lifecycle, it's just that I'm bound by resource constraints right now.
This is from 2018, the thread makes it seem like they "fixed" the problem
FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug
This is Part 1 - Part 2 is now available at http://blog.imagico.de/navigating-the-maze-part-2/
Automated tests don't catch everything.
IMO it would be nice to say outright that this uses sqlite under the hood instead of saying it supports "sqlite's syntax" and so on.

It can be very useful, but this is a wrapper that constructs a sqlite db from CSV/TSV (similar to sqlite's '.import') and then runs SQL on it, right?
I always suspected this type of crap went on and here it is in black and white.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27409978
Will there ever be a point where the NASA director will request a lower budget because private companies have enough funding already?
Yep. I didn't talk to anyone for months. Was on solo backpacking trip. It was great.

Also the initial point was about total isolation, he was not totally isolated, he had better bandwidth and latency than 1800s mail.
I don't blame the practicing radiologist, but I also don't buy this is purely a technical issue. The hospital is quite literally incentivized to have you repeat tests. I highly doubt they care to make data accessibility/portability a priority. Hopefully these new rules will force their hand.
Would you like a list of stories they decided not to run?
Apple has been making their devices much harder to open as time has passed. My 2011 MacBook didn't have any kind of a lever mechanism but after taking out about ten Philips 00 screws, the lid lifts clean open.

And now my 2019 work MacBook requires taking out non-standard pentalobe screws, then using a suction cup to pry the lid open slightly in order to cram a wedge tool in-between to pop it open and then you need to slide it out in order to actually get it out.
> You'll still need to use Chrome from time to time.

No? Unless you're a web dev and need to test under chrome, maybe. I have chrome on none of my personal devices.
GitHub does show a dependency list in the sidebar for some projects.
> Some doctors have said they won’t prescribe the drug if it does reach the market, because of the mixed data package supporting the company’s application.

> Supporters, including advocacy groups and family members of those living with the disease desperate for a new treatment, have acknowledged the data isn’t perfect. However, they contend it could help some patients with Alzheimer’s, a progressive and debilitating disease.

Not a shining endorsement of the drug’s efficacy, however I do hope it helps.
This was my experience with a ThinkPad last year. They could not do on-site (in home) service due to the [redacted] lockdown so I had to do mail-in. They even emailed a PDF with instructions on how to remove the drive.

Sadly this is not possible with a modern MacBook. When I have had to send a MacBook to Apple (or a service partner) for repair I was instructed to wipe the machine (along with ensuring I log out of iCloud to disable Activation Lock and disable Find My). While it is good to ensure my personal data is not compromised it isn't user friendly at all to have to wipe my whole machine for a battery replacement :(
Looking at the comments I see there are more and more such projects, that's great! Declarative interfaces rule!

Anyways, I too felt a void to be filled with tools like these, so I (and a couple of other folks) developed OctoSQL[0], check it out if you like this. It lets you query json, csv, and various databases using SQL, and also let's you join between them.

It differs from most of the other tools in that it also supports streaming data sources using temporal SQL extensions. (Inspired by the great paper, One SQL To Rule Them All[1])

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12133
Maybe some kind of OCD? Same thing with the README and description on Github
I've left the field for greener pastures ;) Looked at your website, interesting, but curious how you deal with all the legacy software. Java was considered quite recent at one of the places I worked, they were rolling Delphi in 2019 and were not planning to switch!
Open Source is a community, not a brand
I work with computer graphics (in game development) and I love how much I notice about the technical details when watching movies.

With Disney and Pixar it's often delight at how well made something is. With Hollywood productions it's often cringe at some cheap CG and obvious artifacts. Even then, I often enjoy being able to spot it.
Unexpected output in lotto GitHub repo
Frozen in Siberian Permafrost for 24,000 Years, Microscopic Animal Comes to Life
Hooray, we can refit some of them and rebuild our own decimated sealift capability, and sell the rest for scrap only.

Or start using a bunch of them to sink for reef seeding.
It's funny, because while I was digesting this essay I found myself comparing the hierarchy in a perennial favorite, The Gervais Principle[0] and I was thinking that "Stage 3" seems to correspond to "Clueless" pretty well; "Stage 4" to "Losers"; and therefore "Stage 5" to "Sociopaths"*. The key to that last stage in both seems to be that you have, for lack of a better word, transcended the rules. You understand that they are mostly situational and, if not subjective, at least not pre-existing. And you therefore start to understand how to work with them as material, rather than just within them.

*: The choice of naming there is a bit tongue-in-cheek. But not totally off the mark.

[0]:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/05/16/the-gervais-principle-...
This Week in Rust 393
Also remember that's one of the excuses that Apple uses for being against right to repair.

I'm just glad they have an excellent example here of how it's fundamentally BS
We're Monday morning quarterbacking, but I wonder if destroying the railroad lines into the camps would've been effective. Less chance for a missed bomb to kill camp prisoners, lots of opportunity to hit the tracks.

I think the same trains or tracks that carried prisoners carried the (paltry) food for the camps, so I guess it's a trolley problem still.
Most, not all, people want more. And some people want more only as long as others are not abused or taken advantage of to get it. Others want more regardless of the circumstances.
I've got several family members who work for the NHS, in back office roles.

At many hospitals employees have to bring in their own milk and coffee; and that they are not permitted a second screen, even if they pay for it themselves.

I can't imagine it's easy to recruit an internal team of data engineers with such austere working conditions.
Yes. The "secret" is to use hypnosis to "program" your unconscious mind to emit signals corresponding to your conscious "stream of thought". The result is a subjective experience of thinking words and they appear on the screen. Someone else in this thread speculated about e.g. controlling an extra pair of (artificial) arms to play the piano with four hands. That sort of thing should be straightforward too.

In re: the technology to take the signals and transduce them to e.g. a byte-stream without surgery. First was Galvanic Skin Response, then when IMUs (Inertial Measurement Units) were miniaturized enough you could use those instead of GVR, nowadays (as I mentioned in a sib comment) you can use a camera and ML to recognize e.g. muscle twitches in the face or whole body.

(I have no idea why people are not more interested in this angle, even BCI enthusiasts seem to have a blindspot here and just go on about surgery and implants. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can explain further. FWIW, I don't bother to do this myself because I can already type as fast as I need to. In fact, I was a hunt-and-peck typist for years! I'm not proud, just explaining why I don't bother to explore hypnotic low-tech BCI.)
> patients have real access to do what they please with their own data... contribute it to a database...

Misconception #2 is that there's some "data moat" or whatever.
Thinks have slightly changed since then.

"Keep Your Drive" is now a non-free (but not that expensive) "service upgrade". Disks are still removable on most models and it's not hard, but you still have to open the bottom of the laptop. (For ThinkPads, through ultra thin models like the X1 or "unusual" models like the ThinkPad Yoga might be more problematic.)

EDIT: Through it also depends on you service/guarantee contract. If you normally have a service contract where a technician will come to you but for some reasons that currently don't work you probably can keep your drive anyway etc. Also KYD extends to some other cases.
Robotic extra thumb:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277955-this-robotic-ex...

But they use toes to control the thumb instead of BMI.
Wage theft is endemic as well, probably as much as all other property theft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
That, and "it suites my needs" makes me reluctant to just install and run this software without carefully examining the source code first, and maybe building/running from source myself.
Seriously unless it's OS filesstem corrupted, Apple has no need to decrypt the user storage. If they can't do that, it just mean their design of the computer is horrible.

I get that people need fancy thin phone, but storage and battery shall be removable.

The only workaround as of now is not to own a phone which I exercise. I can't trust any of them.
It was that one extra dalmatian that really put them over the mark.
> How would this be distinguished from people simply having the desire to orgasm which unintentionally causes reproduction?

That's reverse causality. Evolutionary fitness is a strong driver of human behavior. There's plenty of incidental behaviour, but in terms of baby making it's clear cut.

> so there need not be any biological imperative to stop at one mate.

It's more efficient when you consider humans have a long maturation time. Reproductive success is also greater when grandparents are involved with child rearing, implying that a strong family unit leads to better outcomes. Promiscuity is definitely favorable if the rearing duties can be foisted onto someone else, though paternity tests and prophylactics have changed the landscape somewhat.

There's a lot more to it, and much of what I've learnt is from an old Stanford lecture series by Robert Sapolsky called human behavioural biology. Worth a watch if you're interested
SpaceX has a 100% success rate for their manned flights.
If anyone engaged in "slickly reckless behavior" it was the technicians snooping around in nude photos of a 16 year old. Not the 16 year old herself. She was a kid. She probably wasn't even aware of the potential risk. I know a lot of adults who aren't.
What a misleading article. Someone sent out a letter and requested signatures.
People getting offended just because someone said something is easy and simple. Problems of the 21's century...
i created an issue because i wanted to make a joke. But the guy took it seriously, very creative developer.
Ask HN: What have been the hardest work-related aspects of async/remote work?
I'm increasingly finding "being on the same page" and communicating "what needs to be done, why, and sometimes how" harder and harder when we're all in various time zones and increasingly working asynchronously.

Sometimes I think it's a tool problem - documenting and sharing thoughts is still not easy. Other times, I wonder if this is just a people issue and better tools can't/won't make it easier.

What has your experience been in this past year? What has been frustrating? What has got the best of you? What do you wish for?
This is a wonderful game! If you don't have access to a country house library, then there is a card-based version:

https://oxfordgames.co.uk/shop/ex-libris/
This is true. However, there are very few roles which use ALL of these tools. They are almost completely different applications that just share a base rendering window; they lie in completely separate domains. With that in mind, yes, FreeCAD doesn't have those features, but they exist in other open source applications.

I think what you are really comparing at this point is FreeCAD, the application, to Autodesk, the brand.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm the sole founder behind GitSense and to be honest, there are too many stragglers and things I should have done better. It's just that my time is pulled in so many different directions, with the business side of things occupying most of it right now.

Thanks for commenting and yeah I do want to ensure everything is sans serif. I think I get a pass though, since I do have the beta label on the tool :-)
He held no grudges by the time I knew him, certainly not against unborn generations. He visited in Berlin in the 70s, as a tourist, spoke german, had german friends and felt sorry for those who (like him) had their communities destroyed after the war. We were brought up to believe the remembering does matter, fwiw.

I have a lot of respect for Germany's honest portrayal and study of its past. It is a rarity, perhaps singular.
sure thing, message me on twitter if that's easier. My email is cc@buildfaast.com
As always, a feast of new things to learn about.

I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall for that session. Hours of work, arcane enchantments invoked, test gear used, I expect the obligatory blood was shed on some cabinet corner or something ... and then its an "oh its just that" problem. That's when people teach others their favorite cursewords.
Found a comment on SO claiming domain was sold [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51583321/it-is-safe-to-u...]. Switched to vcap.me for now.