skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparisons are pretty tricky to do right, especially with systems that have been trained with the assumption that they are operating as "a second check". For what it's worth, that language was popularized by the first such system approved to market by FDA, in the mid-late 90s. It had, amongst other things, a NN stage.

Even at that time, such systems were better than some radiologists at most tasks, and most radiologists at some tasks - but breadth was the problem, as was generalization over a lot of different set ups.

I think this is more a data problem than an algorithmic one. With something as narrow as screening mammo CAD (very different than diagnostic), it's quite plausible that it could become a more effective "1st pass" tool than humans on average, but to get there would involve unprecedented data sharing and access (that 1st system was trained on a few thousand 2d sets, nothing like enough to capture sample variability)
diesel engine mechanic by trade here, and ive followed this topic with interest for about five years now. Its similar to large over-the-road trucks in that its ultimately manufacturers catering to large fleets instead of owner/operators.

most farms in America are corporate monoliths. "farmers" here want mttf, mtbf, metrics, and a projection of how many cam chains, PTO knuckles, lockout converters, etc... they will need to buy in 30 years of depreciable service for a machine. They want to be able to carve the machine they own down to the last cent...the only way to do that is to turn your IH or Komatsu into a rolling cloud. even the windshield wipers get a sensor.

smaller farms with actual farmers that wear hats and overalls already balk at a million dollar sticker shock from a harvester, and if you ever go to a farm and take a look around, most tractors there are nearly sixty years old. the priority is farming, not investor return. The tractor needs to perform its stated function first before anything else matters. service interval warnings and degraded performance alerts here are a failure condition the farmer works around. they arent incentivized to stop what theyre doing at 4:15 AM and call up the local JD dealer 143 miles away for an appointment. there isnt a second tractor.

If legislation isnt passed, ultimately youll end up with what commecial trucks got in response to sensor overkill: Gliders. gliders are 60 year old truck drivetrains and engines that get a new cab and body parts, and get recertified for the road. they belch smog and roar like a freight train at idle, but all thats grandfathered into EPA legislation. New manufacturers get to crank out fleet machines at high prices, and owner/operators get their old reliable filling the parking lot with NOx and waxy sulfur haze at 4 am. they become a market that manufacturers refuse to tap, because it cannot be fully exploited to the disadvantage of the operator.
works for me, it auto-reloads the page for some reason tho
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Apple presenting a story about itself and its goods, but there are more counter-narratives than ever before. Apple is being investigated for antitrust violations by governments worldwide due to its Epic case and by the very developers is addressing today.
ai promised to revolutionize ________ but so far its failing
> SCM and liberal use of code reformatting tools usually don't mix well

Care to elaborate about that?

It seems to me like the resulting code will be very consistent, and only change when I either improve the transpiler, or when Prettier issue an update to their formatting. But that's unlikely, and anyway I can just use a fixed version.
Part of it may also be that people don't want to know. Take the ongoing Uyghur genocide right now, but most are ignoring it. Why isn't it an emergency and headline news every day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
You'll still need to use Chrome from time to time. You can even change the user agent of Chrome to Firefox to make sites see Firefox anyway.
As a simple counter example you can't tune Front Radar calibration for AEB (Automatic Emergency Breaking).

A manufacturer can obviously do it. However, if that was allowed in the field, you would likely have whiplash injuries at best or fatalities at worse.

My point is some things are 'open' in some popular vehicles for which people have reverse engineered stuff.

But there is no liability interest from manufacturers in having this sort of thing in user space.
I mean, Elon made the same claims about Starship Earth to Earth, Mars colonization, plus other outrageous claims about the hyperloop and the boring company and Tesla autopilot (in 2014 he said that in 5 years you'll be able to go to sleep behind the wheel). At what point does the genious marketing end and defrauding investors with false promises begin?
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It’s not a dog but still my favorite 404 is

https://media4.giphy.com/media/6uGhT1O4sxpi8/200.gif
Agreed. The Apple Stores in the US are good with repairs but once you have to send it to a repair center you might have issues.
I most live on Macs. But for big spreadsheets, my Microsoft Excel 2010 on a modern Windows PC is blazing fast to open, load, operate and calculate. Sub-400ms and 8.4MB RAM to launch.

Sadly, support ended October of 2020, so it's time to find something else before too long. It is not going to be contemporary Office.
Or you maintain your own version. My projects got booted of GitHub when I did; I don't maintain a site anymore; but there's several forked versions of them floating out there somewhere, presumably because someone's still using them.
I left radiotherapy for this reason: they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing, and are constrained by whatever manufacturers managed to get the FDA to approve, which is 20 year old tech at best. Not that radiotherapists/logists know how to deal with modern tech... A small hint: our software repo was migrated TO svn in 2014.

When people do 'AI' in radiology, they mean making little with scripts in Tensorflow. Sure, it's a beginning, but I've seen entire institutes being unable to get to grips and move past that stage. You wouldn't be able to tell from their slides, of course.
From 'Immortality' by Milan Kundera:

"In our world...it is difficult for the individual to reinforce the individuality of the self...There are two methods for cultivating the uniqueness of the self: ...addition ...and subtraction.
....
Let me put it another way: a mere love for showers can become an attribute of the self only on condition that we let the world know we are ready to fight for it."
(Part 3 > Addition and subtraction - Pages 111, 113; Faber & Faber edition, 1991)

If you find Kundera's words make sense, then while PG may be logically correct, the impulse to add to identity is rooted in our own pride. It will not be easily beat: 'the sin of pride' (nowadays called egotism) is a strong, persistent force, that we have always struggled to hold in check, but has followed Man as closely as a shadow - which it may be said to be. It could even be seen as a shadow in the sense used in a 'Wizard of Earthsea', where the shadow is a threat, with its own intent.
There is a third option: most people work a menial, part-time job (not "part-time", but 20 hours a week, tops) that is paid a decent full-time wage, which supports their aspirational contribution to society - their "creative" or "professional" work. I know, qué horror that a world-class engineer, architect, or artist would not be able to devote themselves fully to their craft. However, the truth is that most of us are not world-class, and get maybe 4 hours of good, intensive professional work done a day - work, as you know, that can be done in no small proportion from a home office, no "second commute" required. Even among the best of the best, it is acknowledged that only a few are able to nose -> grindstone ad nauseum (and often to just that - see the recent, untimely passing of infamously workaholic manga artist Kentaro Miura).

So, you do your client meetings, work on your highly-technical project, and after lunch, head to your retail sales job, or food service, or customer support, which you work for ~4 hours. This engenders humility and community engagement, while also flooding those spaces with workers so that no one employee has to put in a 12-hour shift (increasing the quality of their work and decreasing the risk of injury). And everyone gets paid enough to live on.

I understand that this dashes the paradigm of expertise or other specialized quality (like social connections...) deciding one's level of income, but it has always confused me that we pay LESS money to do the things people DON'T want to do. Most professionals and academics don't enter their fields for the high pay; aside from the necessity of meeting material needs (including student loan payments), it seems that the primary drivers of entrance into and achievement in such careers are intellectual interest and social prestige. Perhaps our attitude to compensation should reflect these truths. It means giving up the privileges and structures we've heretofore considered indelible, certainly, but it solves a lot of the problems mentioned above.
This needs a (2018)
The biggest reason humans want AI to succeed however is so that they can stop spending their time serving other humans in repetitive, mundane, and boring work.

Wealth distribution is a problem that can be solved better or worse with or without AI. Better with AI looks like things along the lines of low working hours with good pay, UBI, or so on, things we simply can't afford without automating the work. Worse without AI looks like things like slavery, something we don't even have incentive to resort to if we do automate the work.

Let's not confuse our current political issues with how we distribute wealth with issues with AI. They're issues with our institutions, some of those issues are exacerbated by better technology, but they can and should be solved.
That's an interesting case and I think those jobs are likely to be legitimately bullshit.
The verb comes from shucking (taking the husk off) corn.
The PDF explains that the type of bust-out they're describing here is someone that quietly accumulates a lot of unused credit and then maxes it out rapidly right before walking away.
There's a practical aspect of this too. Say you pay 4 drivers $17 an hour and to get the 5th you'd have to pay $19 an hour. The problem is that it's tough to pay 4 drivers $17 and one $19. They'll talk and eventually the other 4 drivers will demand $19 as well. That's why you see a lot of interview and signing bonuses but less wage increases.
Is the engine really the thing you're worried about though?

I'm more concerned with things like Manifest V3, which Brave certainly has the engineering capacity to fork around, and plans to.
Actually the movie failed to portray Mark as the unwavering optimist he is in the books. And besides some impressive visuals, the movie is rather dull, while the book is very entertaining.
I do agree that tertiary sources are what they are (upsides and downsides)

I was mostly responding to "but that still far from having any use of Wikipedia as a product" ; which I think might be overstating your case just a little.
I have always sat on the fence on this issue. If someone wants to work outside of the 9-5, it seems only right to reward them for their extra time commitment. But when their extra work makes me seem like a slacker then that becomes an issue. So I guess my opinion is that as long as they are seen as doing extra and anyone doing 9-5 is doing the expected, all is well. Maybe it comes down to having a good manager?
Then Apple should stop trying to sell it.
My extended family owns an old country house with loads of fiction books, a fair bit of it genre fiction from the 50s and 60s.

We have a great game that we play when we go up there with friends, a bit like the Dictionary game/Balderdash. Everyone peruses the shelves a picks out a promising book. Then, one round at a time, someone gives the title of their book, reads the back, and maybe reads a few choice paragraphs from the middle or end, giving everyone a sense of the book.

Then everyone writes down an opening line on a slip of paper. The book-holder writes down the real first line. The slips are shuffled and the book-holder reads each of them, preferably dramatically. Everyone votes on the real one.

Writing first sentences is such a delightful exercise. And of course with genre fiction everyone has the license to go completely over the top. With the right group of people it's utterly hilarious, and it's amazing how frequently someone writes a sentence that seems better than the original.

(A random one I recall: a pot-boiled detective noir novel, involving a murder victim named Sunday: "If Sunday had known on Monday that on Tuesday she'd be dead, she would have made several different choices.")
The domain lvh.me is supposed to resolve to IP address localhost. Instead it points to a parked domain page. I'd say the domain owner let the domain expire.
They can - but robots are expensive, and so probably they can't afford it yet.
Entrepreneurship is not easy. Not by a long shot. If a founder-CEO is putting in crazy hours to get the company off the ground then they should be compensated.

The denigration happens when this labor doesn't just generate more money than other laborers, but way more money through a means that is entirely decoupled from labor. Gates has seen his wealth increase through Microsoft ownership more after he left the company than during his time actually working there.
Sam Harris had a recent podcast where he talks about how he was recently at a dinner with a bunch of big tech CEO's and leaders. He asked them why they are all capitulating to woke twitter nonsense, and how if they just ignored it then it would die out.

They pretty much told him that ignoring it was impossible, and they couldn't even entertain the idea.

So there is your answer. That kind of rhetoric has a lot of power right now.

The thrust behind this was that companies need to go back to being apolitical, and it's workers need to leave their politics and ideologies at the door.
Are there any study precisely correlating IQ with writing speed?
I would be happy with it being a 2nd opinion clinic. Not replacing radiologists, but "hey doc, have you considered X, Y, and Z that make the model think it is actually A instead of B?"
I've honestly never been at a job interview where people gave a crap about my open source contributions. They're typically much more interested in hearing war stories from the closed source projects I've worked on.

The thing about open source projects is, they tend to be slightly generic things like "file format," "widget library," or "machine learning algorithm" that most companies see as the kind of thing they can typically get for free from open source. (They're not wrong there - the fact that we're talking about my open source contributions here makes it almost tautological.) They also tend to involve the sorts of generic programming skills that, by virtue of being stuff that we all know at least somewhat well, aren't all that valuable. Supply and demand works with job skills, too.

By contrast, my commercial work tends to involve a lot of specialized knowledge that's quite uncommon, and also tends to produce the kinds of software that people are quite happy to pay a lot of money for.
There's also libraries that are simple enough that they just work fine without constant updates. I have numerous libraries that I use that haven't had commits pushed for 2+ years. This is the other aspect: burnout is so rampant because it feels like it never stops and you can come up for air.
How can a subjective observation of the behavior of a system with the scale and number of inputs of a modern society with hundred of millions of citizens be a lie or a fact? Only a minority of the details can be reasonably considered definitely false or true, and there are of course many, many details.
And where exactly does Apple sell it?
In most companies the cost for full time workers is higher per hour, since often you need to pay for additional leave, pension, rights etc
You didn't actually respond to the comment. Both stemming from Marxism doesn't somehow make them magically the same, as you seem to be implying.

Again, China's 'socialism' is very different nearly all variations found in Western Democracies.
UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp
I think I've seen several similar projects to this one. It always make me wonder how are these different from sqlite virtual tables (https://www.sqlite.org/csv.html)? And why would I want to use this over sqlite? Perhaps some API in python? But then again I could just run sqlite script and dump results into temp csv and read them back in any other lang of my choice.
> Does this change destroy the meaning of the sentence?

Edited that for you.
I don't know, the NSA has been capable of that level of mass surveillance for a long time before Amazon was.
There is a working group. See https://www.tug.org/twg/accessibility/. One of the reasons to have a TeX Users Group is to allow there to be a way to organize, and provide some money for, such things.

(I should say that my personal involvment goes no further attending presentations at the annual conference.)
The big irony about the 4 hour work week is that if it were true one person can 10 of these jobs, thereby obsoleting 9 other people because it is more efficient. That person then proceeds to pretend that the other 9 are lazy and not doing their part demanding that everyone should work at least as hard even though all 10 people could get away with working 4 hours a week.

Therefore a 4 hour week is impossible even in an utopia.
Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)
I'm talking about the concept of beauty. Yes animals and various natural things are "beautiful", but what does that mean without humans to define/identify/catalogue/etc that beauty. Animals don't appreciate beauty for beauty, they see something that we call beautiful and say to themselves "wow those colors are bright I want to have sex with that" – that's it.

The universe doesn't care about us. The universe doesn't care about the things you think are "beautiful". Tomorrow a planet-busting asteroid could collide with the earth and destroy every last bit of life on it (except maybe Tardigrades). The only thing that could possibly ameliorate that is humanity continuing to expand and grow, being a space-faring species, etc. That way some life (and therefore beauty) could be saved when we take those things with us into the stars.

Unless and until we find other intelligent species that are better stewards than us, we're all the universe has got, no matter how shit we are at the job.
> I'm happy to say however that I never had this problem going to the Apple Store in Berlin

I visited the store in Augsburg once (although... is that an official dealership?) and they wanted to keep my work MBP for two weeks while repairing it.

As it was a new one (butterfly keyboard broken) you could not remove the HDD/SSD, I think. Took it back with me again, keyboard stayed unrepaired for as long as I worked with that company.
IMO a part of the problem here is that you have a misunderstanding on the part of deep learning people. They look at radiology, and they say "these people are just interpreting these pictures, we can train a deep learning model to do that better".

Maybe there's a bit of arrogance too, this idea that deep learning can surpass human performance in every field with enough data. That may be the case, but not if you fundamentally misunderstood the problem that needs to be solved, and the data you need to solve radiology, for instance, isn't all in the image.

Somewhat related: another area where DL seems to fail is anything that requires causal reasoning. The progress in robotics, for instance, hasn't been all that great. People will use DL for perception, but so far, using deep reinforcement learning for control only makes sense for really simple problems such as balancing your robot. When it comes to actually controlling what the robot is going to do next at a high level, people still write rules as programming code.

In terms of radiology and causal reasoning, you could imagine that if you added extra information that allows the model to deduce "this can't be a cancerous tumor because we've performed this other test", you would want your software to make that diagnosis reliably. You can't have it misdiagnose when the tumor is on the right side of the ribcage 30% of the time because there wasn't enough training data where that other test was performed. Strange failure modes like that are unacceptable.
Had another great quote from a professor: every introductory course is fundamentally a language course.
Given that Russia has mostly an oil based economy roughly the size of Italy, the levers they are moving are quite a bit smaller than their American counterparts.

Bezos or Koch or Hamm or DeVoss can't move their American levers as far, but the overall output is quite substantial compared to what Abramovich can achieve with his.
A lot of great points here. I'm in the position of having a 4-hour workweek, as I run an online business that generates a pretty good income with very little work due to everything being automated. I don't employ anyone else or outsource anything for the most part (except occasionally farming off entire projects to other people if I don't want them).

A lot of the argument seems to be that you are using other employees working 40-80 hour weeks for the things you enjoy in your daily life. But I think the main point of Tim's book is that most processes can be automated or at least optimised. Consider the examples of "Someone’s gotta run" in the article: it's certainly possible for coffee shops, trash collection, food production and Amazon delivery to be mostly automated. Amazon has already automated most parts of their operation except for the flights and drivers delivering the parcels, but even that could be automated one day.
>Amarok

It was so good that it was the first project i gave some money, then they killed the database connection...i was pretty angry at them, never used it since then.
This is because it's just a sale of intellectual property (or physical property) from one company to the other - the U.S. prides itself on the individual liberty to do so, and because corporations are legal persons they're also allowed to do that. That's why, if the government or someone else thinks a certain sale is anticompetitive, you have to make a case that they shouldn't be allowed to exercise that liberty.
Yes, I read it. And I recognized the pattern of "good behavior then quick regression" that I'd seen in old friends. One person was doing fine, then bought a car and, when it had trouble, stopped paying knowing full well they'd repossess it. At the same time they max'd credit cards and were stealing money from me.

It's not a rebuttal, just saying that "fraud" implies some prior intent, when it is potentially more of an addict-like behavior in most cases. Either way, stopping the accounts is in creditor's best interest as the end result is the same.
Why graphic novels could be an antidote to 'doom scrolling'
>You'll still need to use Chrome from time to time

Really? I've only used Firefox for over 5 years now, on Mac, Linux and Android. I don't need extensions to change my user agent either.