skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see much discussion of quantum mechanics as being leveraged inside of neurons.

But I'm just not convinced chemistry is fast enough for thought to happen any other way than quantum.

Life has been far ahead of human state of the art for a long time.

Often, we don't even know what to look for until we learn basic physics ourselves.

For example, barely 100 years ago, we figured out that light is energy delivered in photon packets. Only then could we understand processes like photosynthesis. Something life figured out billions of years ago.

As we learn more about quantum mechanics, we discover that photosynthesis seems to harness quantum effects to improve conversion efficiency.

I'm convinced the brain is using advanced physics we don't fully understand yet.

Yet, that the brain and neurons are quantum is something I haven't seen much of in literature.

Once we figure out room temperature quantum computing, I wouldn't be surprised if we find that the brain has been doing it all along.

We just don't know what to look for, until we learn enough about physics ourselves.

Disclaimer: I believe there is an intelligent creator. (https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/science/)
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0% of the studies were better than 2 radiologists reviews - which is the current practice.

The 6% only scored better when compared to a single radiologist review. That's why we use double reviews.
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Ruckus for Wifi. More expensive, but way better.
I can't find any on Google that specifically are made without the data lane. Maybe these magnetic ones don't do data[0]. Could also try burning the data lanes on the lightning part of the cable[0] (although you might have issues if it's a lightning-to-C cable, I would guess it uses the data lanes for power negotiation).

0: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/3-in-1-cable-led-ligh...

1: https://nyansatan.github.io/lightning/
I don't think that's right.

Why would a codec problem, repeatably, affect images of a particular document, but not other images?
selecting survivors of comparative study without understanding where the performances come from gives you no guarantee of future performances - which is more or less the issue with all these complex multivariate regressions that journalist, startups and venture capitalists insist calling AIs.
Forgive me if I misunderstood your intent, but this feels a little like moving the goal posts on me. In my comment, I was addressing the specific claim that we know little enough about neuronal complexity so the number of atoms in a cell could be seen as a reasonable upper bound on the complexity of the neuron. When you say I "need to consider" the complexities of response modulation and the combinatorics of the entire neuron population acting together, I disagree (purely in the context of the original claim, because that was specifically about the capabilities of a single neuron).
Surveillance drones with sufficient range and sensors for effective broad area maritime surveillance are too large and slow to be effective in the suicide attack role. In theory someone could hang missiles in them but that would cut into range and sensor payload.

Antiship ballistic missiles have very limited maneuverability in the terminal phase where their onboard sensors come into play. Atmospheric heating and plasma effects reduce the effectiveness of those sensors. This article is a fairly good summary of the current state.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2021/05/chinas-anti-ship-ballis...

All of this stuff is possible in theory. It's just extremely difficult coordinate all the moving pieces together in real time and make it work in an operational environment.
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A DIY solution would be to get activated carbon that's intended for water filtration (fish tanks, etc). Then add a step that moves the air through the media (put it into a mesh box, or heck even just blow the air down onto the carbon that's sitting in a "dish" or some kind.

Certainly not as efficient as a commercial all-in-one solution, but it that's not available to you, it can work.

You can even make your own "activated charcoal" but it's a pretty messy and time consuming process.
>All of which has been common for a long time

No, this has never been done before.

>You where already sending your unencrypted phots to Apple

No, I wasn't. The whole point here is that Apple is not scanning server side, they've built the functionality to scan device side. You need never use iCloud in any way whatsoever in order for Apple's new scanning tech to be used against you. That is a major difference.

>Apple and all other service providers are required by US and most other countries laws to do searches on their servers.

No, they are not, even if that was the new thing Apple is doing which it isn't. If a company builds server-side scanning, then they may be required to fulfill certain requirements. But companies are not required to actually do that in the first place even if many choose to do so. Apple already did scan uploaded photos and voluntarily chose not to have E2EE for iCloud data in order to please law enforcement agencies, but that's a voluntary choice by Apple. This new client side scanning is a different beast. Please try to gain even the slightest fucking clue what you are talking about before spouting off on something so important.

Edit: to add for those interested in more details on the law, the federal reporting requirements are under 18 U.S. Code § 2258A [0]. What you'll see there is a "Duty To Report", and the reason for that is to evade Constitutional protections. If the government compelled companies to scan, as well as any legal challenges (by very well funded actors) and public blow back, as a practical matter those companies would become State Actors for the purposes of 4th Amendment evaluation. However, even if it's heavily incentivized so long as it's "voluntary" courts have repeated ruled that 3rd parties can do searches that would be illegal for the government, turn discovered evidence over to the government who in turn may then use it freely. Walter v. United States (1980, [1]) is a good example, covering the [righteous and just prosecution] of someone transporting "films depicting homosexual activities" after it was mailed to the wrong address and turned over to the FBI which I'm sure everyone here on HN would applaud and definitely is what they have in mind when they think of client side scanning in the US. Tim Cook is carrying on that tradition with Pride no doubt.

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0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A

1: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1979/79-67
Check out my SnackUI in my GitHub, I built it to improve in a lot of ways on the single codebase use case.
Are you suggesting a stolen cable brings the same sort of premium as a new one from Apple?

Regardless, I'm not suggesting this at all. My point is that there are likely ways to get something worth so little without risking significant jail time.
> There will be some good things that come out of it. The whole social hierarchy will be flattened.

Will it?

> Since consumption will be strictly controlled no matter how much money you have, there will be very little social inequality and use of the planets resources will be based on not violating the laws and doing pro-social, pro-environment actions.

Will it? Or will the rules not apply to those with enough money? Will they still fly to Davos in their private jets and devise more rules to cut down on how much carbon the rest of us emit?
This release from the Office for National Statistics supports other research. It shows that there has not been a rise in death by suicide in England and Wales over the pandemic.

There was in fact a decrease in deaths between April and July.

In England the ONS uses coroner data, and so these figures are for the date the death was registered, not the date the death happened. This is why there's a delay in the data. It's also a small, partial, explanation for the decreased numbers: so many people were dying of all causes that coroners were disrupted and so some deaths were registered late. This does not explain the full decrease though.

We do need to be cautious though -- we know that the pandemic has increased despair for many people for a variety of reasons, and so we could see an increase in death by suicide in the future.
What some people don't understand is that the freedom to create a reputation by selecting which speech to amplify and disseminate is, itself, an integral part of free speech, and the reputations of the oldest, best established social institutions for the dissemination of information -- such as schools, universities, and publishers -- have been built on what they don't publish as much as on what they do. We are arguing for more freedom of speech for organisations to allow them to choose what level of scrutiny, or even what bias, to apply, so that we can establish the level of trust we think they deserve based on their record.
Ruckus for me. Single AP replaced too, and has been way better.
Electricity in the UK is pretty expensive, so energy cost is definitely a consideration for me.
The full snippet editorialized by the post is

> Thirty four (94%) of 36 AI systems evaluated in these studies were less accurate than a single radiologist, and all were less accurate than consensus of two or more radiologists.
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"It’s a bit different. The State Governments are enacting health measures that only have any authority under temporary declared state of emergency, and immediately cease as soon as that expires (they have had to be extended a bit)."

Worldwide, I'm seeing a heck of a lot of extension and precious little expiry so far...
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It means that each instruction reads no more than two general purpose registers (i.e. inputs), and writes at most one. When you build CPUs, register files are expensive components, and the more parallel accesses to them you need, the more expensive they become. RISC architectures generally rely on only reading two operands and writing only one result. Sometimes this rule is broken, but RISC-V tries to stick to it unless there's an extremely good reason.
I smoke and it's likely I'm smarter than you

(somewhat in jest)

But seriously, your attitude is myopic and rotten.
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only more accurate than a single radiologist review. Current practice is 2 radiologists review. 0% were more accurate when compared to the current practice.
> the HDMI out limited to 1920x1080

Well this really sounds nonsensical. I wouldn't believe if someone else told me but I feel like I can believe an HNer on such a subject. Thank you for letting us know. I would otherwise not imagine this can exist and wouldn't check when choosing a laptop. Now I wonder if my laptop supports higher resolutions on HDMI.

> Carrying a docking station around defeats the portability of the laptop IMO

You are not supposed to carry them, they are meant to be put on your table and stay there, already connected to external monitors, power supply and other devices, waiting for you to bring the laptop and connect it to just the dock.

Nevertheless small and lightweight "traveler docks" also exist.
Thanks for the character assassination! So supporting public health makes you 'vicious' now.

In other news, folks are vicious ideologues if the oppose murder (Individuals should make the decision for themselves!)
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Personal view: the idea and importance of 'The Exponential age' is being oversold here. Sure Moore's Law has - with some adjustments - applied for a long time, but lots of things that are really important don't follow this pattern. Is the author really saying electricity isn't as important as Moore's Law because it wasn't 'exponential'?

The key issue is at what point does the technology progress to a point where important things that previously weren't viable suddenly become so. The way in which the technology progresses to that point is key, but being exponential or not is not really relevant.
The moment ppl got notification about Docker Desktop going to paid version only for corpo -> everyone freaked out.

This will make ppl look for alternatives now.
Not sure about how automated alerts work but I suggest manually subscribing to your local emergency websites. For example, I am subscribed to https://www.nixle.com/ which subscribes you to local emergency alerts. I received notifications from them in addition to the default ones.
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What seems to be coming up repeatedly is that machine learning techniques are pretty good at being almost adequate replacements for recognition problems. Able to catch blunders but also missing at a rate high enough that you need the expert human anyway. In reality just replacing human kinds of error with machine kinds of error.

Automation though can also make experts stupid depriving them of the practice to keep skills sharp.
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Related, a clip of a Goffin cockatoo making a similar tool three different times, out of different material[0].

These pesky lil' birds are very intelligent/clever. I know someone who has one and it has pretty complex social behaviour, and easily breaks out of its cage -- it taught itself how to manipulate the mechanisms to open both cage doors. The owners just leave the door open now, haha .. The bird also alerted the family (by squawking nonstop until someone came) when an elderly family member fell over. I can definitely understand comparing these birds to 3-yr-old humans.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQpqtbxplQ
So you're just gonna lob a missile at the first cruiser you see and hope that the carrier is nearby? Like, China's production for these missiles is like, 10 per year. They can't afford to miss that often.

Repeated air assaults to repeatedly tear down defenses (ex: target the Cruiser first, removing the first shield of the Carrier. Then target the next cruiser. Then finally work your way to the carrier) is certainly a workable plan. But again, this is a repeated air-assault against a CSG.

My point is that its not going to take "one missile". Its going to take a campaign, at least if the CSG is doing its formation correctly. In the meantime, the CSG is presumably in range of its target, and also launching an all-out aerial assault.
I wouldn't put the US in the same category at China, but the US is not that far ahead either. Take a quick look at the attitude to gay rights for a start.
Good thing that it is ok to lie when asked this question in a job interview, at least in Germany (because it's inadmissible to ask the candidate questions about leisure activities).
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I guess I've never driven a nice enough car. I used to keep my windows down any time I parked along 8th/Harrison and fwiw nothing ever happened to my car, though there were obvious signs of folks rifling around inside. All my documents were kept in a locked glove compartment and I pretty much had nothing stealable in the car without having the car be cased.
I first encountered Ampro (and PC/104) while working on mobile robots back in 2001. Embedded systems were lagging quite far behind desktop and laptop performance at the time. We were running soft-real-time control on a 486! Compiling code on-board (regrettable, but sometimes necessary) took hours!
There's a Bloomberg opinion piece from earlier today [1] that focuses on shopping around for "friendly" jurisdictions for bankruptcy hearings. It focuses on the judge in this case (Robert Drain). Excerpt:

Bankruptcy lawyers can shop for venues they think will be favorable to their case, and a lot of them bring their corporate clients to Drain’s court. And though Drain told the Wall Street Journal last year that any notion of legal friendliness was “an offensive fantasy,” the bitterly fought settlement in the Purdue Pharma case he announced from the bench on Wednesday would seem to provide ammunition for his critics.

A worthwhile read, in my opinion.

[1] https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/purdue-pharma-oxyconti...
I mean the usual things that are meant by both those words, no special meaning. To address the simpler of the two directly: it's not necessary that an authoritarian state be unpopular—often they're not, especially at first—but that doesn't make them democratic, obviously. As for where the new Afghan government is likely to fall on the liberal-to-illiberal spectrum, I think most folks agree it's likely to, at best, lean toward the latter. That this may, nonetheless, in some ways, still be an improvement over the regime they're replacing, is irrelevant for my purposes.

The reason all this matters is that the question I'm concerned with is whether the standard argument for why private gun ownership is vital to a liberal democracy—that is, that they're indispensable tools for preserving both the "liberal" and the "democracy" parts of that term—is actually true. My suspicion, from what I have turned up so far, is that they're more often used (when effective, that is—they're used ineffectively too, sometimes) as a tool for imposing popular but illiberal positions, than for preserving liberty & democracy, but it's possible I've just not looked at the right evidence yet.
> For some reason, for this virus, we moved away from naming the variants after the city it was first detected in.

Based on your link, it's very unusual to name them after cities.

Cities mentioned:
Brisbane
Perth

States / provinces / territories:
Hong Kong
Fujian
New Caledonia
Shanghai
California
New York
Jiangsu
Wisconsin
Hiroshima
Ohio
Florida
Yamagata
Massachusetts
Texas
Phuket
South Australia
Victoria

Countries:
Malaysia
Solomon Islands
Switzerland

How do you look at that list and think "it's usually the city"? It's the city in two out of four strains named for a location in Australia, and zero elsewhere.

(The names Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Hiroshima, Yamagata and Phuket are ambiguous between a province and a city within that province. But the ambiguity is easily resolved by comparison to Fujian, Jiangsu, California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, and Texas.)
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I was tired of WHOIS websites full of ads, slow loading times or useless features so I made one minimalistic site written in GO.

Any feedback is appreciated
San Diego as well; happened to me Monday. Car didn't lock all the way (older car) and they try every handle.

Thankfully they didn't wreck the car or anything. Just laid the seat back.
This is awesome. I love DIY stuff and love the idea of an affordable clean air solution. For me, the aesthetics, noise, and issues like overworking the fan motor, make the extra $50 for a purpose-built filter worth it.
Is such device useful to minimise dusting of objects in the room? Like plants, cupboards etc. ?
Do you still have to clean dust in the room?
A Bentham panopticon without the expense of having to actually build one. How lovely. Stalin would be pleased.
Chemistry is extremely fast, and it's all based on quantum mechanics. Each atom/molecule is colliding at least billions of times per second at standard pressure and human body temperatures. Example calculation: [0]

[0] https://socratic.org/questions/calculate-the-number-of-colli...
The Hindus as well I believe. Especially within the "Vedanta" school of thought.
The inspiration for the Somu FIDO key, albeit with a different microcontroller, I think: https://solokeys.com/products/somu-tiny-security-key-two-fac...
That's inadequate. You're just burning to the ground a corporate shell from which the profits have already been removed. Instead, jail the person behind it.
In that case you could probably get away with just charging it for a bit in the evening and a top up in the morning while you get ready and be able to wear it basically all day. It's supposedly 90 minutes to 80% from zero and that should get you to the evening where it'd be good to unplug and unwind for a little bit anyways.
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it's nice until the guillotines return.
I think the tight feedback loop for multiple scans is a good idea worth exploring, but the larger idea of building alternate systems has a problem that there's no clear path to a viable end-state.

With diagnoses, collating a consistent set of data is not a requirement you can impose because of how fractured the healthcare system is. If you had great AI systems in place maybe they could be convinced to invest in these systems, but you don't and so creating them is quite difficult.

Similarly, in the case of cars having their own highways and roads: how do we do this in a way that people find acceptable? If you prevent current highways from being driven on by normal cars, you cut off the majority of people from their daily commute which is a nonstarter. Making new highways in most places will also be a nonstarter for both cost and space reasons. At best you might hope that decades from now every single car has the means for self-driving in the limited environment and then one day the government turns it on, but that also feels iffy to me.

Building parallel systems incrementally creates harder technical problems but allows you to side step even harder coordination problems.
In Japan it's still a big deal for women. Japanese value conformity and coloring your hair a bright color is a big way of sticking out.
You can get away with publishing models with worse accuracies if you can pitch a more fair evaluation scheme, but it's way harder, and you don't get to do flashy presentations where you state you're SotA.

I hope I don't offend any other people in the field, but I think historically fields like histology/radiology/MRI screening via AI have been subject to less scrutiny by virtue of their multi-disciplinary nature... particularly in the past, it was hard to find reviewers that both (A) understood the biological/clinical validation (B) the technical validation.

I think things have drastically changed over even the last 5 years, which is why you're more likely to see headlines like these. We have a lot of discussions like these during our lab's journal clubs. The optimists among us (e.g. myself) argue that this opens up a lot of opportunities whereby more fair validations/benchmarks allows us to compete with "SotA" methods that are actually fragile and easy to surpass on even ground. More pessimistic members are quick to note that it's far harder to introduce new, fairer validations and that reporting lower metrics is far less buzz worthy (all true points).

This reminds me of a fundamental error that was recently found in methods that tried to predict protein-protein interactions. It was found that the train/test/validation method used by ostensibly every paper was leaking huge amounts of data [0]. When we plugged that leak, we saw much more modest metrics, but focusing on regularisation allowed us to beat the competition [1].

The kicker? The information leak were identified in 2012, yet you'll see papers written every year that have the same leak and report >90% accuracies, and >0.9 ROCs.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2259

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.13.456309v1