skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a bet with a radiologist that AI will be as good or better than radiologists at reading images in a fairly near future.

The reason I think this (as a non-specialist) is this: when I upload a random photo to Google or Facebook, those systems recognize the faces of people in those pictures without any prompt. This seems like a much more constrained problem (given a pretty specific set of images of chest cavities, state the probability of a cancerous tumor.)

I am guessing that there's nothing inherent in this problem that is much more difficult than other image recognition problems. I suspect that this outcome is because we have fairly new technology competing against highly specialized humans doing a very specific task and doing it well.

I suspect that will happen is that the technology will relatively quickly catch up to humans and do equally well, after which point it's just a speed of response and economics question, where the technology wins over the person.
Reservations were novel early on, but now I just don’t think they make any sense.
> What is clear is that “breakthrough” cases are not the rare events the term implies. As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older. “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,”
So there's some arguing over terminology, and then the main technical point seems to be that you can reverse-engineer a training dataset from the "virtual machine" built by training a neural network.

The decompilation process doesn't just use the neural network though, if I understand correctly it also uses logs from the final training epoch that include error and weight update data. Does this somehow smuggle the training dataset back into the VM? To me, if you're making a statement about the nature of existing ML systems, the statement "reconstruct the source dataset from the cryptic matrices that constitute the software executed by them" would imply that this is possible from trained networks alone.
>Does low-key shilling and banner ads really make that much money.

I genuinely believe Reddit's real value proposition is manipulating the content shown to the masses. As a propaganda tool, it's incredibly powerful to saturate people's feeds with consistent and coordinated messaging.

At any given time, the feed of r/all and r/popular has several agenda-posts and submissions designed to be derisive and derisive. The nature of the subreddits themselves can also be co-opted, as r/facepalm, r/insanepeoplefacebook, and r/publicfreakout are basically used to mock conservative pundits and politicians. "Niche" criticism subreddits - made specifically to mock the other side - also pop up from time to time, like r/HermanCainAward and r/LeopardsAteMyFace. There are, of course, constantly submissions from obviously leftist subreddits like r/LateStageCapitalism, r/PoliticalHumor, and r/AntiWork. But screenshots of tweets posted there inevitably end up on both r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/BlackPeopleTwitter.

That being said, I think r/pics has the most subtle manipulation. If Donald Trump was in the headlines for doing something bad, you would see pleasant photographs of Obama with tens of thousands of up votes. Something about Antifa in the news? Plenty of d-day and patriotic Nazi fighting images. Right now there is protest art against the Texas abortion decision. Lots of things on r/pics are harmless, of course. But you will also see odd things where the post has 50k point score, with a 50% approval score, and the comments are all overwhelmingly negative. I recently saw this on a post comparing Taliban forces in technical trucks with a bunch of rednecks in Toyotas with Trump flags. Make of that what you will.

I could go on and on, but if you wanted to persuade people on a near subconscious level, Reddit is nearly the perfect avenue to do so.
Good ideas. Several months ago we had bad fires in the mountains of Central Arizona where my wife and I live. I bought a HEPA filter, the complete kit with enclosure, electronic controls, etc. With an extra filter, I spent about $80 and I feel it was money well spent.

Making your own for less money is even better.
nah Dude. Just you.
Ask HN: Is rapidapi.com links blocked in HN?
I recently posted a link to an API I published in rapidapi.com but it's shown only when I am logged in. If I open in incognito mode it's not getting listed.
That’s typical. I’m learning French as a second language at one of the formal institutes and whenever I go on French social media, I have absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about because grammar and spelling go out the window, and the slang and shortcuts start.
Do most states have statewide zoning? Or did you mean to say “not created at the state level”?
This is normal for smaller countries. eg. Most 80s and 90s kids raised in the coastal/western part of Albania know Italian. The reason is simply TV.
Albania had just one government channel during the communist times, and after communism fell we had maybe 3 good ones, and a bunch of locally small ones.

Italian TV was the only way to see some good tv, and since Albania is next to Italy, pretty much all the kids of that generation know italian, this is especially since Italians dub/voice over the Hollywood movies shown.

After 2000s, English started becoming mainstream, and local TVs did start becoming much better, and they do show movies in English (with subtitles), and don't generally dub them.

So, know English is slowly overtaking Italian as a foreign language, with German becoming a popular third foreign language.
I actually run a medium-sized sub - our traffic stats show about 50/50 old vs new, and this is the sort of sub that caters to a tech savvy, older userbase - the sort of people I’d imagine would be the core demo for old Reddit. I suspect way more people are using new Reddit than you think, especially on the more general use subs.

Or put another way: the people running Reddit aren’t trying to lose money, and they have more detailed traffic stats than we do. I think things like RPAN are silly, but there always seem to be lots of people active on it.

Edit: apparently site-wide two years ago 60% of traffic was exclusively new Reddit, 30% was old Reddit, and 10% was a mix.
If I understand correctly the reason for that claim is they know in advance how many bits they will need to essentially guarantee a good sample, so instead of needing to perform the operation first to find out where the next operation can start they can just chunk it out and do it in parallel.
> The most likely path forward, and the one that Globalstar proclaims themselves, is licensing this spectrum for use on a terrestrial basis.

Maybe it will be used for connecting iPhones to wearable devices, as an alternative to Bluetooth? Or maybe Apple is planning on something like Amazon Sidewalk?
I wrote more in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526

Basically the qcovid calculator tells you the overall risk during a specific period of the pandemic . Most people didn't get covid during that period, which makes the overall risk appear very low.

However, if you do contract covid (which seems inevitable if it becomes endemic) then the individual risk of hospitalisation is much higher - 1%+ for even young adults.
I agree it wasn’t going to happen, but I understand their confusion. Current satellite phones are the size of regular cellphones. That’s the equivalent of very low bandwidth internet access, but even low bandwidth access can still be really useful. https://www.g-comm.us/iridium-9555-satellite-phone.html

Dropping that to something that fits in an iPhone would be a very significant improvement, but it hardly breaks the laws of physics. Thus https://xkcd.com/2501/
There are efforts like the UK Biobank but healthcare institutions are very sensitive about their patient data.
“you will be able to complete your configuration as production nears in 2022.”[1]

Rivian is frantically trying to IPO for $80 billion during September. If possible, before they actually ship any trucks.

Meanwhile, Ford is coming out with the electric Ford F-150. They have 70,000 pre-orders. Also, the boring but useful Ford Transit commercial van is going electric.

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/08/07/tesla-confirms-cybertruck-ele...
Seems a little unfair to existing home owners though. This is how you get people voting down tax increases for any reason whatsoever.

Frankly, I think as long as you change the zoning the market should work itself out.

The issue is complicated, not just economically but morally and ethically too.

Point Reyes isn't very dense for example. Should I be petitioning the government at Point Reyes Station to raise taxes so high that people have to give up their current homes so I can have a cheap condo to buy? I mean that's basically what we're asking to be done in San Francisco, it's just not covered in baggage.

Another alternative is that if prices become too high then companies won't be able to attract workers to the area, or they'll be paying so much it's like well, fine then.

Idk. I have a hard time with this because I don't view skyscrapers (or any building over around 3 or 4 stories) as good development, but I also don't like actual suburbs either. It's two ends of an extreme spectrum and both are bad/good for their own reasons.

I also don't think you can really satisfy the demand for living in San Francisco either. The more you build the higher the prices will go. It's counter-intuitive but when developers go off and pay exuberant prices for these single-family homes, they'll have to make up for that somehow. So they'll build higher-priced units which will create higher rents. But the previous units aren't going to drop in price. If you're a landlord or property manager that's not good for business and it messes with your investment forecasting models. But unlike a typical supply/demand relationship that you may think of, what ends up happening is that this current price point is just filled by other workers who previously wouldn't have lived in San Francisco and they come in at that rent price.

So what happens then is that the higher-rent people want higher wages to maintain their previous COL. More people move in, more developers build, etc. etc.

And you can see this in Manhattan right?

I think often people assume that the demand is stable. But it's not. It is just increasing and further supply does nothing to change that. People are willing to pay any price to live there, they just change how much they're making.

I'm sure there are examples, but I can't recall a major city like San Francisco where rent prices have gone down over time as a result of building new developments. Maybe someone has a link or anecdote. I mean, prices in Manhattan haven't gone down have they? Maybe Chicago if people have actually been leaving the city.

Idk.

Tl:dr

New units increase prices.
It probably wasn't "BIOS" persay, but the Intel Management Engine (IME).

Citation: I bricked my own Lenovo applying the IME "critical" update.
I'm sure there is an answer to that but this is DIY, so maybe just touch the fan while its been operating for a while, say "damn that sucker's getting hot!" and add more surface area until satisfied you won't burn your house down.
HIPAA is about not identifying the patient. It doesn't say you can't take 100M mammograms, wipe out the PII, and add "this image is of a patient that disease X". I'm not sure how much other demographically interesting metadata you can add, like age, gender, height/weight, etc.
Seems legit, kids can run away or be kidnapped. It’s important to know where your kids are.
Ok I'll say it. It really whips the llama's ass!
I have mixed feelings about this. 1) It's nice that FAA reads newspapers and reacts in a sensible way 2) It's weird that they needed an article, rather than starting investigations after actual incidents.
Prepare to be impressed.
yes, probably because people spammed those way too much.
>Would be useful for emergency text-messaging after a disaster, though.

Disaster is probably the least useful use case for this. The satellite would be overloaded from all the people requesting help. A far more plausible use case is if you got lost hiking or something.
They could. The success of that approach would vary though. The email provider could look for that too and resend the email. They could also disallow rules that block emails from them in this case.

The user could also get the email on their device if the hacker doesn't delete it quickly, which is a possibility given the low and slow nature of this scheme.
> "We have no idea if we're ever going to be able to make these at this point."

Didn't they essentially just say something close to this in corporate speak?

It seems quite clear that they have every intention to make them, as soon as they're quite literally able to do so from a supply chain perspective.

I currently have 9 month lead times from near every contactable company in the world for some simple polyurethane products. If polyurethane production is that backed up and having to prioritize its largest customers with existing contracts... it's somehow not too hard for me to think that there might be some real trouble with materials for the roadster, especially given the fact they're trying to make something selling for roughly $250k that puts $1MM+ competitors to shame.
Was surprised to not see Chet's name come up. When we were shipping WSL, I got the team in touch with Chet to give WSL a test run, with no major surprises (a couple edge case bugs, IIRC). I'm bummed I never met him in person while at Case, but always a fun little factoid that came in handy the one time.
> how on earth reddit manages to be valued at $10B

Reddit is ~16 years old and was in one of YC's first batches (first batch ever?). This is an absolute dinosaur in "startup" age. It's been acquired, traded, and recap'd multiple times for (presumably) sub-$1B value. For all intents and purposes it's a distressed asset in "enchanted forest" terms (note - this is not a criticism per se, many distressed assets can be very valuable).

I'm convinced (with limited evidence as an outsider) the following drives their valuation:

- Record valuations of FB, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, etc. that have comparable features and "industry metrics" (DAU, MAU, etc.) that can be easily parsed by public analysts. The latest round of investors probably got a great insider deal so they could prep it for IPO and pass it off to the next sucker.

- Reddit started to receive more and more M&A attention when mobile biz models went public (Snap, Uber, etc.). The key to any financial success for Reddit is simply mobile. This an incredibly risky, because (1) reddit allows 3p mobile apps where they can't control ads/tracking and (2) their conversion to their own Reddit mobile app is extremely user hostile. But this is essentially it - you can track and sell ads on Reddit via it's native mobile apps. If somehow (I'm personally not convinced) they can get everyone on to their native mobile app, then sure, they will be as valuable as Snap/Twitter.

- It's essentially a "cost of doing business" for YC. If Reddit became essentially not valuable or not as valuable in the public eye it undermines YC's brand. This has become less and less an issue overtime as more successes have come out of YC, but during those time periods when it wasn't the value had to be continually projected as being valued (thereby creating steam that never fizzeld out). Think of this like saying one of your clients in the 90's was Bear Stearns, which gave you social proof to work with Goldman Sachs, etc. you'll hold on to that Bear Stearns logo on your sales deck until it ultimately fails, but now you have Goldman, Morgan, etc. to show your social proof.
I'm no expert, but it sounds similar to Holochain to me.
You realize that whole story is made up, right?
> If I wanted to be a scientist, learn Greek.

This last one isn't a serious suggestion – in the 1970s or 1980s, reasonable advice would have been to learn German. Plenty of research papers were being published in German back then.

(I was advised to learn German by a postgraduate student, who said he had examinations in German at an English university.)
The article is saying Amazon made news by shutting down an ISIS propaganda site celebrating a suicide bombing that killed 183 people last week. It's fairly likely the US federal government is at least exploring plans to find and kill whoever owned that site, so I don't see how holding Amazon to the same level of restriction as the US federal government makes a difference here. Freedom of speech doesn't give you freedom to use the Internet to plot a criminal conspiracy to kill US soldiers.
The internet has a new editor. Be prepared for your blog to be crawled by an AI for paragraphs that warrant further inspection by a minimum wage employee, and unappealable bans.

I remember from a few years ago a well-regarded BASE jumper's passionate post on Facebook about wingsuits killing people, after the wingsuit-related death of another well-regarded BASE jumper he knew. IIRC he used the earnest rhetorical device of saying that he was glad his friend died so publicly, because it would stop young people getting into the sport from using wingsuits, because they were unreasonably dangerous. There was a lot of debate back and forth about wingsuits stimulated by the post (which was its purpose), but I was shocked for a different reason.

Facebook deleted it, for saying that he was glad someone died. So now, the entire internet governed by the owner of the Washington Post.

The idea that the west is intrinsically superior to China in terms of freedom and censorship is a joke. Our army of censors is as big as theirs, and we share technologies and methods.
Somehow, I suspect that the Ford Motor Company will be able to deliver electric trucks that work. They kind of have some experience with trucks.
"The Melancholy of Infinite Space" is a beautiful take on this: http://www.geoffreylandis.com/infinite.htp
How computationally complex is a transistor?

I mean, all the ways that even a micro transistor interacts with voltages and heat make it potentially more complex than an AND/OR gate. But that's often what a given transistor is used for.

I'm not saying all the complexity of a neuron doesn't matter or that neuron isn't much more complex than a physical chip piece - just that treating parts in isolation, if you don't understand the system, can very easily result in wrong conclusions.
It wouldn't even make any sense.
It's a sign of being in a low-competence regime. What matters is what makes the news, not what's actually happening.
Also: Julia Evans has a great writeup along these lines:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/04/27/new-zine-how-containers-work...
> Fitting the electronics inside the usb plug itself has been used for years in slimline usb memory sticks and in tiny readers for micro-sd too.

those readers usually heat up like crazy for any significant length transfers. good in a pinch, though.
Reservations and preorders are just interest free loans
These are some empty hopes! It's beyond the obvious that America's leadership in defense, science, and technology is doomed. Only Trump was crazy enough to recognize the fact that China's America's biggest rival, and that Democrat's obsession with Russia is taking us nowhere.
Yeah and now nobody I know except software developers can afford a house here. All my friends have degrees, some multiple, and they are never going to own.
Author here, the article is already 26 minutes to read, according to some algorithm. I had to cut it somewhere, sorry. Any suggestions are welcome!
I mean, there are some rules, actually. The structure of a neuron is not a black box about which we know nothing. There will be many atoms used to construct the cell wall, for example.

Your analogy is like saying my computer has X number of atoms, so they might all be used for computation! Instead, we know that, for example, the case is not used for computation. The power supply is not used for computation, etc.
What's the value of the asset it's protecting?
> Perhaps the EU could adopt the Indian strategy of using a language that no national group claims, thus seemingly not favoring any one member group over another.

Esperanto.
>You can use memory module busses, power/camera/keyboard LEDs, fan speeds, ultrasound emitted from speakers...it's not very interesting, at this point.

This is why classified information is typically handled in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, "skiff").

It's an implementation of defense-in-depth; the idea that an adversary must breach several layers of physical and digital security to compromise your secrets.

These attacks are of little use at the National Defense level because they would require installing e.g. a receiving antenna within 6 feet of a compromised machine. In other words, to leverage this attack you'd have to achieve a total collapse of your adversary's classified processing security posture.

Well, if you can effect that then you don't need this attack.
I remember buying a car in 2000 in Europe -- walk into small dealership with almost no cars, place order, wait a good bit of time for it to arrive.

I thought, "Sure do like that American way of buying a vehicle that's already on the lot."

And here I sit with reservations for an electric F-150 and a Tesla vehicle, and it's hard to know when either will actually be available for delivery.
I didn't really read your proof, because it's late and I'm tired, but there is no Banach-Tarski construction in 1 or 2 dimensions (whether or not you like the axiom of choice). The third dimension is crucial. So if your proof doesn't somehow intrinsically rely on "n >= 3", it can't be right.
Few strokes of a hacksaw and a rubber band (for grip). Or just some pliers
If they go public, what will it take to get “kill New Reddit” onto a shareholder vote?
https://github.com/blues/note-hardware/blob/master/Notecard/... has the measurements, looks like 35mm x 30mm
I for one don't necessarily disagree with government having a monopoly on violence and all that jazz. But I guess that what makes me HN crowd is that I'm also easily convinced to change my mind if someone brings up a convincing argument.
Yep, that was it. Sorry.
You have a limited view of what the free software movement is. It's not all about software (despite the name), but most generally a movement that wants to go into the direction of a decentralized and more open internet, where all central entities, not only software companies, but also record companies, publishing houses, banks, and news companies, will become obsolete.

It's a fact that news companies are lobbying against the freedom of the internet, just take a look at article 13 of the EU copyright law (that of course the EFF, FSF and Stallman did a campaign against).

Other than that, typically free software, takes privacy and anti tracking more seriously. If you use Firefox for example, out of the box most trackers, that are the things that make newspaper earn money for each click, are blocked by default. Of course it's easier to just pay Google a percentage on the money earned trough ads and user tracking because you are sure that they will never allow blocking of them in their proprietary browser. While Firefox, a software developed by the community, you can't control, there is no company to pay to make the software go in the direction of your interests.
in my experience, the people active on subreddit discord's are mostly people not as active on the sub itself

and that most active & upvoted redditors on a sub mostly don't use its discord
I own a satellite transceiver for backcountry usage that enables me to SMS from anywhere in the world.

It weighs 3.5 ounces (including a rugged case), is only 2 or 3 inches tall and wide, was cheap, and is three or four years old.