skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super effort. I understand your reluctance to accept funding but if you ever change your mind on that be sure to publish it here on HN. If giving you more tools means more progress in this domain without the usual red tape then I'm all for giving you as much of a push as possible.
As an AI/ML researcher who publishes in this area regularly, I will be using this as a case study for AI ethics classes. That this is allowed to go on is shocking.

> In 2018, a programmer named “coolwulf” started a thread about a website he had made. Users just need to upload their X-ray images, then they can let AI to carry out their own fast diagnosis of breast cancer disease.

Literally the worst fears that we have as a community is that people will recklessly apply ML to things like cancer screening on open websites and cause countless deaths, bankruptcies, needless procedures, etc. How many people went to this website, uploaded images, were told were ok and didn't follow up? How many were told they have cancer and insisted on procedures they didn't need?

The website is totally unaccountable. Totally unregulated. Totally without any of the most basic ethical standards in medicine. Without even the most basic human rights for patients. This is frankly disgusting.

In the US this would have been shut down by the FDA immediately.

We should not be celebrating this unethical "science" that doesn't meet even the most basic of scientific standards or ethical standards.

I can't believe this is getting upvoted here.
And where does the taxpayer money come from? :) The state (or in this case the european central bank) owns and distribuites the money, then the tax payers give it back.
> Video is not rated. Log in to watch.

I don't have a vimeo account; is there a mirror on a site that doesn't require an account?
> At least Germans are getting train tickets and not shiny new drone missiles.

Germany is actually getting both, train tickets and armed drones [0]

[0] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220408-germany-buys-140-...
This is, of course, addressed in the article and associated comments - namely its second quote and the thread https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lavenders-game-silexan... .
Of course the same party who says that corporations should have “free speech rights” are the same ones that target corporations that speak out against their policies. It almost happened in GA with Delta Airlines and did happen in Florida with Disney.

In the case of Florida, if it isn’t struck down, it’s going to caused the cities in the surrounding area to have to pay higher taxes and take on Disney’s debts.
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Hacker news will show the first line(s) of text gray and the rest black, because the first "paragraph" isn't wrapped in <p>.
From readme in tehir github repo:

> The name Massa is due to a river near the Eiger mountain in Switzerland

Even though HN crowd is US centric, there are people, cultures, languages and places outside of US too.
This is true for me, but I can’t raise my dose past 20mg Vyvanse without getting “physical” anxiety even before the mental one starts.

Accidentally getting too much caffeine can be unpleasant too.
> now needs to redefine what being pegged means

Completely. For context, "the Reserve Primary Fund broke the buck when its net asset value (NAV) fell to $0.97 cents per share" [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/money-mar...
Hey, the author of the piece. For context here: I included the link to the 1973 abstract rather than the 1974 document because it was the first mention of UNIX in the ACM archive, which I made clear in the piece but got a little lost in the comment here.
Why wouldn't something like USDC be a better "crypto parking place"?
That's very US centric comment. I would need to think deep to picture Washington.

I tell you what - it's the face of the most advertised person. Currency is not used for advertising.

So out of three, it's easiest to recollect Lincoln with stove top with US flag and pointing finger. Her majesty comes second because all the memes of her longevity.

The most recognisable? Certain Hollywood actors. Period.
(I looked it up wondering if this was real and this refers to a fictional character from a show called The Blacklist)
Mercedes has it, but most don’t. My CRV has the equivalent to autopilot and maybe would have applied emergency breaking just before impact. Not sure honestly. These advanced cruise control features are not self driving at all. Mine won’t even stay in the lane if I take my hand off the wheel.
Weight is often a cause but is not necessary to produce apnea. The human breathing apparatus is just weird.

I'm glad you have a way to prevent snoring. But I wonder if sleeping on your belly isn't also bad for your sleep. Everything I've read recommends side sleeping for back-snorers. I've seen some sources say belly sleeping is bad for you as well.

In any case, good luck on your health journey
The quiet threat of 'covert' narcissists in the workplace
The ethics section is a tacked on thing which is required by some large ML conferences. They're essentially a PR stunt. No ML researcher i know cares about it, or devotes more than the 5 minutes it takes to write some platitudes to the task. There are simply no incentives to write this properly. And quite frankly, i don't think there should be. We are educated, paid and motivated to push the boundaries of research, not to think about all potential fallout (which, let's face it, would usually require a whole additional paper for most meaningful contributions). I don't really see how we could change this.

Tldr: as a general rule you can ignore the ethics section of ML papers.
Generally they aren't completely satisfactory so people are always looking for something new which might be satisfactory.
Serious question: why does an SFU need TURN? Is it just because you already had centralized stream broadcasting and making it TURN compliant was low-hanging fruit?
> You will still want an Uber after 5pm,

No, I don't.

I want a way to get where I want to go after 5pm, sure, but reduced working hours means, necessarily, that for a greater portion of the population than is currently the case, that will not be an individual, human-driven conveyance per party seeking transportation, and that's fine.

> 4 Day work weeks, shorter hours - all great ideas but all ideas that either negatively impact the poorest portion of our society.

No, they don't. Your argument that they do is based on the assumption that they are not applied to that group, which is odd because they are exactly the group (unlike elite workers who are generally exempt) to whom wage and hour laws apply.

> or a shop or restaurant to be open on a public holiday.

Actually, I want far fewer shops and restaurants open on public holidays, of which I would like to see more than currently exist.

> Even universal basic income, which ostensibly would have a positive impact there would still not allow those individuals to work less.

Yes, it will. It would drive up the costs for the wealthier people that would like the things provided by them working as much as they currently do, which would lead to a mix of reductions I working hours and downward movement of wealth, both of which benefit the poorer workers.

> Which is why my challenge is always; first we need to automate out the poorest roles in society (and then give them UBI obviously) before we solve our own lengthy work weeks.

That's backwards. We change the general workweek standards (which aren't, after all, hard limits but when, for non-exempt workers, extra costs for the employer and extra pay for the worker in the form of mandatory overtime compensation kick in), and establish UBI funded by taxes on capital income, and then the resulting pressure on labor costs drives automation, with the increasing pre-tax aggregate returns to capital as labor is minimized in production increasing the UBI funding bucket.
Software development is also about making things work for other people.
Once it is proven to work, it's called medicine. Prior to that, it's unproven stuff that people are selling to you.

The entire article is about evaluating the trustworthiness of the studies of this particular shit.
Since when is Varna in Bulgaria not Odessus?
The thing about civil forfeiture is it's not about contraband; the property is usually perfectly legal in itself, however, there is an alleged criminal nexus.

The situations it's intended to address are things like this:

Bob meets regularly with known members of Mexican drug cartels, but doesn't actually seem to be involved with the illegal sale of drugs. Bob files his taxes every year and makes a modest income. However, every day, Bob drives over the border at El Paso in his car with a million dollars of cash in a briefcase.

If the DEA stops Bob, he asserts that the cash is his. Since it's not obvious that Bob has actually committed a crime, shouldn't there be some mechanism to allow the obvious profits of crime to be confiscated without having to convict Bob?

A lot of reasonable people think the answer to that is "yes"; but it is apparently hard to create a mechanism that doesn't also result in the police confiscating your car because your friend that's riding with you has $500 of cash, a bunch of empty baggies in his pocket, and prior drug dealing conviction.
I believe mint and licorice root have similar issues.
This is like taking your temperature at home, are you making a diagnostic yourself? Not quite. But you can know some symptoms and take action (going to the doctor) maybe with less anxiety

edit: grammar
How can we help? Is there some way for us to contact you regarding this?
That is only partially true in most cases. The problem is that partisan rhetoric gets amplified so it became "the Right hates immigrants!" vs. "The Left is selling out our Country" when a rational debate around, "are we getting a result of being in the EU that meets or exceeds what we are putting into it." And it is scary if academia can't debate the latter example.

And yes, I know UKIP is very responsible for the acidic rhetoric
What is the difference to normal paid tickets? Once the ticket is paid I can ride busses out of boredom the whole day.
My feeling is that those topics would be best addressed in a separate paper by authors who have more of a background in ethics.
I don't understand why this comment is downvoted. Automated screening of radiological images by means of neural net is an extensively researched topic. Ten years ago there had been predictions that such automated screening will displace the radiologists, but that clearly did not happen.

For instance, this article is silent on false positive/false negative rates of the software. There is no comparison with other research. It reads like a corporate press release promoting a product.
The UK Pound is still considered an international reserve currency by virtue of being incorporated into IMF special drawing rights, even though the UK no longer really has a vast military or substantial colonial possessions.
Stingrays and cichlids can perform basic arithmetic
Warren Buffet could do it if he wanted, using his wealth to earn the favor of the right government officials. He could even buy himself a private police force to do the seizing. A real police force, licensed by the state but employed and paid by himself. This sort of thing is already a reality in America.

Anyway, my point is sovereign citizens seem to see the system as a machine, the function of which can be manipulated by giving it cleverly formulated inputs. They have a hacker mindset. They see lawyers and politicians doing this sort of thing all the time, and believe they can do the same if only they find the right incantation. It's as though somebody witnesses the Fonz hit a jukebox to make it work, then figure they can do the same trick if they hit that jukebox in the same way. Except it will never work for them, the jukebox only behaves that way for the Fonz.
It's about being used in the commission of a crime, not that the object committed the crime itself
I think it may just be the office software category that hasn't been entirely ossified into a single product as of yet. If you want a word processor and a spreadsheet editor, you have Microsoft Office. Or if you hate Microsoft (and yourself), you have Google Workspace. And that's it. There's not a huge amount of room for new competitors in that space, because a Microsoft Office product doesn't have to be the best at what it does, it just has to be included free with Office and it wins (see Microsoft Teams, and I guess, lol, Google Meet).

The todo/planning area really isn't satisfactorily filled by Office or Workspace, so there's room for competitors to jump in and play still. And it's a huge market not currently filled by one of the big product suites there.

Of course, the downside is that as soon as Microsoft clones your product as part of Office, your business is dead. Calendly and such set a whole new trend of meeting scheduling behavior, and now Microsoft and Google both built the functionality directly into their platforms.
And they were pretty much correct. So probably not the same as that.
> Washington, Lincoln, or the Queen

How are those gonna do inside that surprisingly-small circle you can draw over Asia and Oceania that contains half the world's population? How about all of Africa?

Whichever face it is, it's probably recognizable to both Indians and Chinese people.

I wouldn't be surprised the winner's a well-known bodhisattva. Though that opens up the question of whether it has to be a photo, and if not, the Lisa Gherardini might be a real contender (though possibly disqualified, since that identification isn't 100% certain).
Which is exactly the same rationale that the 2nd amendments authors used.
Well, he is trustworthy on psychiatry even if he’s a member of a religion that worships nonexistent AIs and Bayes’ theorem.

But his main posting hobby is that he wants to be friends with weird internet right-wing intellectuals and that you should too. So every time I glance at the comments there someone wants to give their opinions on exactly who is genetically less intelligent than the commenter.
If so - why most of the old heros are usually doing fine as well?
Birds repurpose the role of drag and lift
that would be a potential YC idea. A company that enables smaller groups to do clinical research w/o needing an army of people to wade through the regulatory red tape. That also isn't in and of itself a giant predatory CRO type organization.
Tricky question - what do you think about Databricks who acquired Bamboolib and saying they will integrate pandas GUI into their workspace?
Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012)
France has one major problem in that there are no transversal lines in the South (Bordeaux->Toulouse->Marseille or Bordeaux->Lyon) which makes a lot of the travelling in that direction incredibly inconvenient, to the point plane is the better means of transportation.
That argument might actually hold up with the current originalist Supreme Court. It's worth pursuing. There are upsides to constitutional originalism. There's no reason the Fourth Amendment shouldn't be taken as literally as the Second.
I think you should read my comment again. I agree with the premise of a right to privacy being found in the 14th Amendment. It you understand that I understand that and are trying to draw my attention to something else, then I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. What I find suspect is the court seemingly to invent a restriction to such an inferred right, the trimester rule.
a couple of years ago Twitter rolled out the ability to transfer a bluecheck between accounts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYfePxLUYAAoZj9.png
Clearly we can't accomodate everyone but it seems achievable to work toward a culture where (for example) meetings are discouraged at 6pm where some employees start at 8am or 9am.

One of the very minor customs that has developed (spontaneously) in my organisation (and I assume elsewhere) during the pandemic is (internally) people are quite likely to ask if it's OK to call you. This isn't a rule and obviously doesn't apply with anything urgent but it's starting to feel almost approaching rude now to call someone about a routine matter without checking whether they've got a minute for a call. Personally, I like that.

A lot of emphasis is understandably given to statutory/regulatory intervention to protect workers but there are small cultural things we can do to make work a bit less awful (like not scheduling your team meeting at a time when you know multiple people are taking their kids to school or right at the end of the day where you know people have trains to catch or whatever). These don't need to be documented corporate policies (because then it becomes something else) but just customs that quietly evolve over time.
That's one of the situations where the UK seems like a halfway-honorary US state, in a "Hold my damn beer--you're all right!" sort of way.
Debugging SQL Queries
I share your sentiment, people are focusing on successes too much but not scrutinise what potential outcomes false negatives in software like this can have.
In real engineering, you try to figure out what might happen if your system fails. In ‘financial engineering’ you assume failure won’t happen, and get caught with your pants down when it does.
Once again, my friend, that's not the point, and I'm not even talking about it anywhere. I get it that you like jQuery, but your reply defending it has absolutely nothing to do with my reply.

Nobody is reimplementing the 280k of jQuery as part of their projects, so no, you won't be "at jQuery anyway". That's bullshit.
Ask yourself why that might be, I think you might find the answer rather illuminating
These are top schools with huge endowment funds that act as investment vehicles.

Many of them could theoretically operate indefinitely without ever charging tuition, if the funds were hypothetically allowed to be used in that way.

Someone did some napkin math on this for Harvard on Quora: https://qr.ae/pvAQ7v

Now, this person didn't do a great job accounting for inflation, but I do think a professionally managed endowment can get much better than a 3% return on its investments to cover inflation.

Harvard's endowment is pretty close to the same size as Stanford.

It's really just the small, less prestigious universities that have financial issues [1]. The Stanfords and Harvards of the world don't need any help.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/27/more-colleges-face-bankruptc...
The result of lawsuit will tell how much is the driver or company absolved. Also would be interesting if you'll need special licence and 1000 hr training in simulator before allowed to drive Tesla.
Ancient forest found at bottom of sinkhole in China
There is still no standardised method to actually post something on the internet without getting copyright infringement for literally anything. I mean, what's stopping content creators to include certificate metadata inside the video just to proof that they have the right to use licensed music in their video?
> None of the big players has an interest in seeing USDT collapse and will step in to bail it out at the first signs of trouble.

As an exchange, if you keep some reserves in USDT and you think it might collapse soon, you might have an interest in dumping your positions before it completely loses value. Maybe exchanges would benefit from responding to such a situation collectively as you suggest, but I think it's likelier that they will just protect their own interests as individual entities.
This doesn't answer the original question - why all those companies keep stacking up and surviving despite Microsoft/Google and despite being essentially a clone of each other.
With more than 50% of gas prices going into taxes, are you seriously suggesting oil is a subsidised commodity in Germany?
The problem is that “legitimate” prostitution provides cover and legitimacy for sex trafficking. I personally favor a combination of the Nordic model (I.e. don’t prosecute prostitutes themselves) and prosecutorial discretion; middle class Orange County basement whores aren’t bothering anyone as long as they’re discreet about it.

Nor are the differences as clear as you make them out to be. Sure, there are clear cut cases of human trafficking, but how do you know that your Orange County basement whore isn’t caught up in an abusive relationship with some indolent man who uses her as his livelihood? More to the point, how does the john know? The whole narrative that women freely choose sex work and find it fulfilling may be true in some cases, but there’s no easy way to tell which cases those are, and the human consequences of guessing wrong are awful.
What's the chance of taking the wrong temperature though?
The idea is that many people will learn best when a combination of teaching methods are present, rather than one person always being taught in style X vs style Y. But most schools and teaching institutions are setup as farms that make students believe that if they don't find success in this narrow little box, then they must be dumb or doing something wrong.

Surely the idea that people learn in the same way is as bizarre as the idea that people learn in one of 4 ways.
They put the qualifier on it because they felt extremely strong that the country should not have a standing military that could be used as a tool of oppression. Instead, they felt that it should have an armed citizenry, which could form an army in the event of a war.
Thermometers are well understood, simple devices, and there are other complementary checks (e.g. does my forehead feel hot) if they fail.

This project might lead to people thinking they're in the clear and not seek appropriate medical treatment, or be overtreated due to an error. You should always talk to a qualified doctor if you're concerned about your health, and not use projects like these for decision making.
Kurzgesagt seemed out of character for his rant video on dairy, it was odd.
Sure, I get that. I'm pretty skeptical of a lot of stuff that goes on in naturopathy, but the best doc I've ever had was a naturopath (not the doc I mentioned above, unfortunately, I'm still looking for a replacement for that best doc) - why do I say he was the best?

1) he wasn't into the woo-woo stuff - he'd present papers on efficacy. So if I were talking to him about a specific issue he'd quickly look things up on his laptop "I was just reading a paper on this the other day, here let's take a look..."

2) he'd actually take time to listen - appointments were at least 45 minutes. Sometimes 1 hour. All the MD's I've been to since seem to be in a huge rush - you're lucky to be in there for 10 minutes (not the fault of the MDs, likely, more the fault of our healthcare system)

3) he taught complementary medicine to MD students at a local Medical School so he wasn't anti-MD as some NDs are. He was well aware of the limits of naturopathy and didn't hesitate to send me to a specialist when needed.

4) Very comprehensive blood tests. I haven't had an MD who tested for so much. And just because some parameter was in the normal range he didn't necessarily consider that everything was ok. He'd say stuff like "this is considered the normal range [for this parameter] but it's right on the edge of normal, we need to look into this further... (or we need to keep a watch on this)"

5) he thought like an engineer - most doctors aren't great at troubleshooting, in my experience. This guy was a good troubleshooter. He got me through some digestive issues that I'd been dealing with for a long time because nobody else seemed to dig into it like he did.

Unfortunately he retired a few years back - because of his reputation he was in huge demand and I think he just kind of burned out. In the years since I haven't found a replacement doctor that I've been happy with (either MD or ND).