skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single neuron has hundreds to hundreds of thousands of synapses and at each synapse there is a number of receptors and channels on the receptor end and neurotransmitter molecules and vesicles on the transmitter end. Synapses are far from the nucleus so there are reservoirs of mRNA hanging out waiting to be transcribed that needed to be staged there. There's epigenetic state affecting how much and what type of mRNA is produced. All of these are continuously affected by the combination inputs. How much of this needs to be included in the model? I'd like to see them comment on which parts of the original system they consider out of scope.
Here in the toxic air of California, I decided to go with an industrial level "DIY" solution: activated charcoal air scrubber with a high CFM fan. Just hopped down to my local indoor grow shop (4 in a 10 mile radius!) and had all manner of choices. Yes, I spent about $150, but I'm quite sure that I am getting much much more than 3x value out of it.
That's assuming they can consistently do it, that the results in the paper were not just random luck, and not taking into account the costs and risks associated with inaccurate diagnoses.
It's a pity that they only combined two human models; would be interesting to combine some of the AI systems and check again.
China's war on celebrities and capitalism: Stars are deemed 'social tumours'
The government does need to do more, against the actual criminals responsible for causing real harm to millions of people. I don't care about people holding (not even distributing) marijuana, but I care about illegal naked short selling the stock market, illegally creating a drug cartel and fraudulently misrepresenting the product, illegally misrepresenting a drug testing product - all of these crimes have HUGE impacts and really harm people. These are the crimes I want to see people in jail for. Hell, honestly maybe we should consider the death penalty for these crimes.

If the justice system would try to actually dole out justice instead of maintaining the status quo, we might actually live in a better world. As it is, the world fucking sucks, and I refuse to defend the status quo.
Please don't pick the most irritating detail in an article and then copy it into the thread to complain about it. This leads to significantly lower-quality discussion, especially when the detail is off topic.

One thing we're working on learning as a community is how to respond to the interesting parts of an article or situation and leave superficial provocations alone. Not easy, but important for curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We Turned Our Front-End Code into a Component Library (and You Can, Too)
>Once an SVN user discovers the magic of a staging area

You can already do that with TortoiseSVN or just through the cline

>stashes

SVN uses shelves

>git isn't hard

This feels like the "lisp is magic" argument that no one can seem to prove, despite how universal its proponents claim the law to be.
My first personal computer was based on the Little Board. I put together a two floppy system and ran CP/M on it. I connected it to my HP19 terminal, which I had previously used with a modem to access the University computers. The system is long gone, alas.
Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'
With all the talk about China and their handling of CEOs lately, let us ask ourselves, what would China have done ?
That's a real shame. It's been years since "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" has been published and out in the world. You'd think that using a large N for statistical learning methodologies would be standard practice by now.

Do Hospitals keep radiological images? Are they researching this stuff? Presumably they'd have a large enough sample size.
„What Japan really needs is more pink-haired girlbosses“ he wrote on his phone, as he tried to avoid the feces and needles of SF. He knew he was One Of The Good Ones, an ally, because the future was female. One day that attitude would surely get him a girlfriend.
The Panic of 1907
There is something really scary about this being all secret functionality. How do I know my scanner/printer/camera/... isn't snitching on me when connected to the internet?

Also can I put those dots in any picture/document to mess with cameras/editing software? Or is there more than those few dots to it? Would be kinda useful for public images, to at least annoy some stalkers, impersonators and other creeps. Doing this all over the place could also really support open source projects like GIMP!
I had the same thought when I heard of the settlement. There are millions of people with loved ones who have died of OxyContin overdose, and rarely do you have a case like this where a good deal of such visceral suffering was planned and profited off of by such a small and identifiable group
So currently I'm not using any. (the list above is what I am NOT doing)

Previously, I had sensor from this family hooked up to a Raspberry pi doing measurement only:

https://www.amazon.com/AITRIP-Precision-Quality-Detection-Co...
Another solution is to simply require registration.

Or a renewal after 20 years. I.e. the copyright holder has to proactively do something to extend it.
In California, there is the Caldor Fire raging right now in South Lake Tahoe. Heres what it looks like on the ground: https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/pfczpl/caldor_fire...

The highest purple air sensor, near/on the fire front, in raw PM2.5 ug/m³ is at 368 when I checked:
https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mPM25/a10/cC0&select=735...
Probably "VC Cash".

I've got a couple of the units and can say they are working well and very easy to interface with.
> Or I can just spend $40 more and get a nice looking air purifier?

Then YOU go ahead and do that. My point of arguing your elitist criticism is that some people either don't have or need that extra $40.
The "watchdog group" the article refers to, Media Matters, is not particularly unbiased themselves.
Is this a thing that AI can't be good at, or a thing where the training data set is too small? I can imagine clearing all the privacy and legal hurdles to get 100 million annotated mammograms to be quite the feat, and most AI have to train on very little data.
That's why most uses of AI in medicine that I've seen have focused on performing a sanity check on the physician (e.g. checking a new prescription for contraindications like conflicting meds or maladies). Medical insurance companies have embraced this practice for obvious economic reasons.
Just remember that Jeffrey Epstein was also granted immunity from future prosecution in 2007 in return for getting 3 1/2 months in an unlocked cell in a private wing of a Palm Beach minimum security resort.

It didn't ultimately work as a combination of media exposes causing public outrage and his many victims sueing him anyway eventually got the government to renege on the deal, the man who originally granted it to resign in shame, and Epstein is dead now.

I, of course, wish we didn't need to rely on a future spiraling outrage cycle to force the Justice Department to actually hold rich criminals accountable for their crimes, but there is at least some solace in the hope that it might happen to the Sackler family, too.
You imply hacking human minds to be more acceptable than hacking computers?
not for success. But for domination
We mostly find meaning in moving towards a goal. Once we attain it, it no longer brings us happiness. Having no goals or thinking that some future reward will change our lives doesn't seem to lead to good outcomes. It's strange, but "becoming" itself is meaningful.
For no good reason to me.

Stallman predicted years ago things that only now are getting the attention of people, most notably the fact that with proprietary software it's the software that controls the user and not vice versa: just see the recent news, for example we now discuss about the control that Apple has on the store, or the fact that it's legitimate to scan the user internal memory and reporting to the police, something Stallman again predicted years ago.

I think that in the end he is right. In a world where software is becoming more and more part of our lives, and not something for a couple of nerds like in the 80s, it's fundamental to embrace the free software, if we want to be free and not slaves of corporations like Apple, Google or Microsoft.

Of course the media is against Stallman: it's the same media that is controlled by the companies that makes billions with proprietary software at the expenses of the users!

Unfortunately most technicians don't understand the message of Stallman, that is not about money (free software != you don't pay for it) or about convenience (some proprietary programs are better than free ones and vice versa), but about something more important, democracy, that in the world we are transitioning to cannot exist if the software is a small oligarchy of 5 gigants.
Buy your own cables, and as you unwrap them, secure a tamper seal around them in some way. Commit the tamper seal codes to memory. Only then can you be absolutely sure.
This is old, but I thought another hilarious unforced error was when you could click on a tweet link, and it couldn’t fit the 140 character message in your initial view!

https://imgur.com/972el7u
> Use your stove's vent fans!

We saw a huge improvement in air quality (less smoke, less steam, less grease) when I installed a vent to the outside so the microwave fan over the stove could vent outside instead of just circulating the smoke through some charcoal filters.
How exactly does a company generate bitcoin from witch to pay employees from?

Assume a company, now they want to pay people in BTC. how get BTC to pay employee - and what methods are used to accomplish. ELI5
but muh systemic bias
Its not that it is chirps it is that any iPhone beeing tracked by a airtag for a extended amount of time will inform its owner that it is being tracked.
Rakuten has since sold Overdrive but yeah they do have that feature.
And people absolutely certain of knowing the truth despite the lack of evidence are... what are they?
That is just evil.
I completely agree. In fact, one wonders if the biggest use of AI/ML in medicine will actually be in medical notes and record keeping -- voice transcriptions, medical scribing, and interpreting writing, free-form text into standard diagnostic categories.
Something "easier" to use is going to be like Excel, injecting errors into your plots as if your computer was possessed by the devil.

(Like that time I gave a talk to a conference in NYC, came back to Ithaca, and then a web designer with an eye for detail saw my charts were wrong right way...)
One thing that will cause mammograms to be political, in several countries, is that there's a difference in perception of the downsides vs upsides of such screening programmes, and we're bad at communicating the trade to a population who lack the statistical literacy to understand it intuitively.

So our best shot from a public health perspective is to say "Here's what we recommend for everybody" and pay for that.

All screening programmes have two difficulties, which must be balanced against the benefit, and this trade is somewhat personal, so when the balance is quite fine the arguments can be vociferous as a result.

1. The screening itself may seem unpleasant. One woman may find it a very mild annoyance, a drive ten minutes out of her way, the staff are very pleasant, the scan itself is far less traumatic than a bra fitting, and she receives easy to understand results after not very long and isn't anxious about them; but for another maybe it's an hour's bus journey to the city hospital, the staff there are short-tempered and say she has the wrong paperwork, then another hour in a queue, she feels like she's just meat, squashed around for the convenience of the machine for what seems like forever, and then after anxiously waiting for what seems to be too long the results are confusing to her and she has to have a friend interpret them.

2. Over-treatment is always a problem. Screening by definition detects something that isn't causing noticeable symptoms. If you have a noticeable lump, or mysterious bleeding, you don't need screening you need a doctor's appointment. So a positive screening result might be nothing important. However either you've now got the burden of a diagnosis you ignored or, you accept the medical advice and are treated, even though it's possible (not likely, but possible) that you would have been just fine without treatment.

So, screening programmes are set up based on guessing how to trade these factors plus a third, how much should we spend on this medical intervention? After all, in some sense every dollar doing breast cancer screening is a dollar you don't have to cure blindness in poor orphans (or of course, to bomb somewhere)

If your experience of a screening programme is that it's a minor inconvenience at most, and yet you know people who died of undetected disease, more screening seems like a no brainer. Particularly if you live somewhere where screening stops at age 50, and somebody you know died of undetected disease aged 54, you might reason that the screening should go to age 55 or 60 to detect such cases, no matter the public cost.

On the other hand if your experience is that it's an awful ordeal even when negative, and you know people who spent their last years horribly scarred by surgery as a result of suspected disease but then they died in their sleep from something else anyway, you may feel that there's already too much screening and it should be trimmed back, not to save money but the extra money for other programmes is welcome.
Does the buttons cause wear on the USB port? Are they perpendicular to the plane of the usb port or parallel to it?
What do you think of avoiding implementing Outbox by just having things like Kafka Connect subscribe to the table changes in the database?
> "For example, 0.45 minutes are lost per gram of processed meat, or 0.1 minutes are gained per gram of fruit. We then look at the composition of each food and then multiplied this number by the corresponding food profiles that we previously developed"

So if you eat 10g of fruit a minute you'll live forever? I knew it was good for you but not THAT good.

Edit: just to clarify, my comment is here to highlight how ridiculous it is to convert things like "people that eat less fruits and more hot dogs live X years less" to "eating one hot dog costs you 36 minutes of your life".
Note, the actual filter material is not "thicker", but is just folded or "pleated".
> government power grab

Strange. I don't recall them warning about the twisted newspeak of "public/private partnership" or the capitalist capture of government meant by the phrase.
I wonder how long it took for the written interpretation in each case? I work in a rural ER where the "stat" reads often take about an hour, sometimes up to 5 hours, and the quality is... such that I've gotten a lot of practice at doing my own reads.

Something that is "not as good as a radiologist but maybe better than me," and with results in minutes instead of hours, would be HUGE, if even to just prompt me to review the images myself before (instead of after) seeing the next patient.
What is complicated about wires?

I'm from the generation that had just discovered CD players with "anti-skip" techology and Minidisc. I don't find wires complicated, but I feel wireless earbuds, despite potential loss of quality, more practical for things like commuting or working out. Even for phone meetings I like being able to put in earbuds and walk around, do laundry, etc., without having to carry my device or worry about wires getting caught. I would prefer a set that doesn't have tracking or voice assistance though.
> SM3/4 are required for use in certain places in China. RISC-V is popular in China, hence their inclusion in the RISC-V spec.

That sounds like a pretty poor reason.

China could create the RISC-V SCE-China spec that extends RISC-V SCE with these, and call it a day, instead of requiring the rest of the world to waste transistors for something that's useless.
They could do lots of things:

- Keylogging

- Manipulate USB Power negotiation to cook your hardware

- Sniff traffic from other USB devices on the same internal hub.

- Log your location

- Log screen lock/unlock times/habits via voltage draw and permitted device type enumeration

- Install malware via keyboard emulation

- Sound exfiltration by emulating USB speakers

- Screenshot by emulating a USB/thunderbolt external monitor

- Mouse movement/click injection to prevent screen locking

- Exfiltrate data to hidden internal flash memory
They show this cycle infographic in the article:

https://profectusmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tabrrok5...

I think one very, very crucial but taken for granted aspect of this cycle is "Natural population growth occurs."

It's stated as though this is inherent, and should be considered immutable. I disagree, and think that population growing beyond its capacity is not a symptom of capacity so much as growth.

When I gain weight, I don't blame my jeans for not fitting.
This article never really tackles the fact that p(infected|vaccinated) != p(vaccinated|infected).
With high-vaccination rates in Israel, that matters a lot.

In fact, the scariest statistic it gives--that nearly 60% of serious hospitalizations are fully vaccinated) gives the p(vaccinated|infected), not p(infected|vaccinated).

Trivially, and to make the point, if 100% of people are vaccinated, then 100% of hospitalizations will be among the vaccinated--which tells you almost nothing about how likely it is to be hospitalized when vaccinated (beyond that its nonzero).

An embarrassing failure for science.org
Prohibition proved people want alcohol regardless of the damage it does but we don't need people pushing new societal harms just because the old ones are embedded in the culture. No horse in this race but they were handing out opiods like candy to people who thought it was safe because the doctor gave it to them to solve a medical (not leisure) issue.
I'm glad you caught that before it caught fire.

The ~$25 box fan I got for a DIY air filter was simply failing to push much air through the 3M filter, but I didn't think to check whether the cord/plug or motor was getting hot in addition.
This is an extremely cursed idea, I love it.
NYtimes really uses tech well. Interesting article.
Tell HN: Some Braintree subscriptions billed on Aug 27 may have been duplicated
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There's not a day that passes by, I don't regret choosing Braintree over Stripe. Thank you Paypal for screwing up consistently over years.
“Hard drugs should be legal” is not the same as “addiction is good.”

This thread lays out compactly some of the Sacklers’ perfidy:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1085959572886560768
USB condom LOL :D

Got any links for those?
Broken window is the idea that the economy as a whole is better off because of a broken window. That's fallacious. Some people benefited because they were paid to replace the window, but the economy as a whole is poorer. The original owner is out the cost of a window.

This isn't that fallacy. They aren't saying that there is an overall benefit to the window being broken. They are saying that McDonalds benefits at the expense of franchise owners.
When the Caldor fire (now 210 thousand acres, 328 mi^2!) was smoking up Placerville, the downtown Home Depot had, at the main entrance, a big stack of 20x24x1-inch #9 furnace filters, box fans, and rolls of tape, with one all constructed sitting on top, running, black with trapped smoke.

Kudos to HD for not jacking up prices.

It is best to make them with a four inch thick filter, which HD does not stock, and higher than a #9, likewise, bought online. You can stack a #8 in front of a #17, to make the ~$100 #17 last longer, and stack two box fans (one intake, one exhaust) to get more suction. Maybe stack #8/fan/#17/fan, to keep the fans clean.

But the single one-inch #9 filter cleared the smoke from my whole house in no time flat! Don't let "best" stop you from doing "good".

An advantage you have from high airflow is that particles that make it through the filter once are likely to get trapped the next time around, or the 20th. Atomizing some water ought to make filters momentarily stickier, until it dries.

Fan blades getting dusty can cut airflow in half! (Same on laptop cooling fans; use a vacuum cleaner on your laptop air path.)
How do you measure your air quality? What sensor do you use? I have a similar setup and I'd like to measure the results.

I know its working because I don't smell smoke, but I'm curious to see a measurement
Isn’t most science political in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8QKZNFxLw
Indeed. The adversarial court system means that every lawyer involved is on one side or the other; the judge is both neutral and in charge overall, so it makes sense for the judge to make that decision.
You can actually do quite a lot with it, in terms of getting data and dropping various payloads:

There is also an editor and parser for Duckyscript – the scripting language used by the Rubber Ducky offensive USB drive – which acts as a virtual keyboard and launches keystroke injection attacks. That alone opens up a wide array of custom payloads for the O.MG cable. There also appear to be attack payloads for Windows and Ubuntu systems.

In April 2019, when the video was released, MG and the team of hackers working on the embedded cable were also developing extra functions such as detecting user activity/inactivity. According to the Hak5 listing, they also appear to have cracked another key problem: USB enumeration.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/02/omg-evil-lightni...
It's entirely possible! But my perspective is that there's a very one-sided risk. It's extremely unlikely that particles are beneficial. Thus, given the uncertainty I think it's good decision theory to run a purifier, especially given how easy it is relative to other lifestyle changes that could plausibly have a benefit of the same magnitude.
or this fairly recent one https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2018/05/k-meleon-74...
> And there could always be a card that does 2fa for every transaction in exchange for lower fees, that would have to lower the chance of fraud to near 0.

Two questions here:

1) I could be wrong here but isn't that what the Chip and Pin combo is supposed to be? At least in the US I swear I remember the reason why a ton of businesses moved from swipe and signature to chip and pin was that they would get charged a lower fee.

2) Could someone explain to me why (at least in the US) debit cards are universally require some sort of 2FA but credit cards don't?
At least it adds an extra fun dimension to our otherwise grim social credit score future.