skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you really sure the doctors are doing a better job when they go through the motions of incorporating a wide range of data? Or do we just convince ourselves they're better?

Personal story:
I was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease in 2019. If I ran the symptoms through a ML gauntlet, I would be sure they would cancel each other out or make little sense. Chest CT (clean), fever (high), TB test (negative), latent TB marker (positive), vision difficulty (Nothing unusual yet), edema in eye socket (yes), WBC count (normal), tumors (none), hormones (normal) & retina images (severely abnormal)

My condition was zeroed in within 5 minutes of a visitation to a top retina specialist, after regular opthalmologists were in a fix about two conflicting conditions. This was differential diagnosis based even though genetic assay hadn't returned yet, which also later came in favor. I cannot overemphasize enough how good human brain is in recalling information & connecting the sparse dots to logical conclusions

(I am one of 0.003% unlucky ones among all opthalmological cases & the only active patient with that affliction in one of the busiest hospitals in the country. My data is part of the 36 people in a NIH study & opthalmo residents are routinely called in to see me as case study when I go for follow up quarterly).
A price-slump in emerging markets with a ton of startup money is practically guaranteed. Bangalore's real estate has been propped up by speculative investor money leading to overpaid employees for a decade, and I can see it collapsing soon. Canada is probably in a similar situation.

US cities' housing value is entirely captured within the local committees' ability to block any and all construction nearby. If zoning limitations are eased then the American housing market will crash irrespective of the nature of the economy around it.
The problem of web accessibility is that, while critically important to a large segment of society (over 40% of Americans have some kind of disability) - the world doesn’t actually have the resources to make all existing content accessible with current methods. Every university has mountains of inaccessible PDFs and videos, and no budget for doing anything about it.

I suspect the only practical solution to this problem is AI.
If you're handicapped you don't expect to be able to go hiking. However you do expect to be able to go to restaurants
Everything old still works?
My favorite sandwich shop in Menlo Park closed because of these lawsuits

Two of the lawsuits against Kwan and the cafe were filed by serial ADA litigants

https://padailypost.com/2019/05/01/cafe-closes-after-third-a...
Truth is that most candidates' public Github projects are either a sloppy copy paste/fork of other repos or are mostly useless with hardly anything. Pros usually don't share code on github unless they are maintaining Open Source.

I personally put more value on blogs and writing than github code because the blog/writing tells you their thought process and what is important to them vs github code which is just some end result.
If so, I wonder why the option is not offered when shopping for a mortgage. I have a 2.5% 30 year fixed, so it is hard to imagine a 0.5% loan, with an early repayment penalty since I would have no incentive to pay it off early anyway.
Firefox private mode completely blocks indexeddb.
> I wish I understood it better.

Me too but... It would still be some form of mathematics as soon as you tried to write it down in a neat, precise way for others to understand it. Maybe exotic math, but still math :p
Sure, but listening to even a minute is difficult. I don't know if there's such a thing as an audio version of the uncanny valley, but were such a concept exist this would fall right there for me. I don't have any issue with naturally high pitched voices but I just can't listening to this.
Having seen some of the automation available in radiology, I’m a bit baffled as to why I still have a job as an MRI tech.

5 years ago I watched automated cardiac MRI, and it worked well. I was told about a site that were having good results with fetal cardiac MRI via a related bit of software.

These scans are hard to do, and the machines did well. In some cases they got confused and did a good functional analysis but of the stomach, not the heart. Oops, but easily fixed by almost anyone after a few minutes of explanation.

Why are basic MSK scans still done by a tech with years of training?

I don’t know the answer to that as it’s basic stuff and if I end my career without machines having taken over the basic stuff, I’ll be a bit disappointed.
Because MANGA is a better acronym than FAAAN
I am not asking about the founders. I agree we should be generous when considering their experience. I am asking about the investors. They put money in at some estimation of total addressable market.
> importing them with wide-open borders like the US

I get when some small country like switzerland complains.

But what the fuck is going on with the US - you people have a giant country, all of mexico could move in and it wouldn't make a dent!
Yes, more than a few will be lost that way. From what I've read though boomers as a whole want to stay out of assisted care facilities, probably because many of them saw their own parents rot in such places. My own parents are near the leading edge of the boomer cohort (they're 75) and it's a common feeling among their friends.

Also, the grim reality is that you have to live long enough to need assisted living. A life expectancy of 78 sounds good on paper, but by the time you get to your late 60s and early 70s people in your age bracket are dropping pretty quickly.
You end up in all branches and your consciousness ends up in all branches, where your mind works. MWI works best with physicalism, yep :)

Maybe your copy in another branch even posted the same comment.
It should be an easy legal fix - you have to give notice and ~120 day window to fix before you are allowed to file a lawsuit. Also, not sure private parties should be plaintiffs here.
I doubt this. The super rich have too much money and need this converted to assets. In the UK at least you're not just competing against would be first time buyers but multi-national companies wanting to expand their portfolio and the super/ultra rich.

We need to tax the rich to redistribute the wealth. Own more than 3 homes as a single entity? Mega taxes etc.
I am skeptical that we will ever see that.
Your last line seems wrong. American aircraft have had inertial navigation since forever. GPS is a more recent addition. GPS is easily jammed and that's always been known to be the case. Nothing would be solely dependent on GPS.
No, the fault is the person who abuses it. That's a choice. The law wasn't created with abuse in mind and while you could claim it should have been written better That's just a mistake.

Only one party here is purposeful in their actions
It was not just him, it was on a wide scale, he was dismissed because it all hapoenednon his watch, unless I am grossly mistaken.Guy is not fit to run a business, if he is not in jail for breaching laws with his products, then somebody should be sent to the slammer for sexaul assault, wouldnt you agree this is crossing the last and final taboos in society and law?
Sexual misconduct is punishable by prison in the us. I opine that this is morally worse than running a brothel, the women do not sign up for the sex part and the salary is worse than a strippers.
If these men are desperate for sex, they should be looking for it elsewhere.

Top management of banks and such at least have the courtesy to simply pay for an escort not associated in any way with the business. Most of them even simply live a solid family life. You will be hard pressed to find such misconduct in the classic instututions.
I'm all-for the advantages of rpm-ostree and sandboxing - these technologies are great, and they need a platform to be experimented on. Unfortunately, I feel like relying so heavily on Flatpak is a bit of a hindrance for this distribution. Anything but the most basic of use-cases is going to cause friction, and ultimately leave your OS feeling more like an iPad than a full-featured desktop. For terminal users and developers and people who want to run background services, this is a complete non-starter.

This could have been a great opportunity for Fedora to raise the bar and lead the industry by redesigning RPM to integrate with Bubblewrap and provide unprecedented thin-sandboxing. That's a great sell to enterprise users! The execution feels a bit botched though, and there's a lot of work left on the table before it can compete with other modern distros. It's creative, but not creative enough IMO.
Apple has a monopoly under many framings, now it comes down to wether a judge agrees or just kicks away Apple opponents.

How so? Google has 80-90% of the search engine market and Microsoft had 95% of the desktop operating system market and used that disadvantage competitors in the nascent browser market.

The bottom line with Microsoft was: should Microsoft be allowed to use its monopoly position in operating systems to essentially force customers to take your web browser, whether they wanted it or not? It certainly wasn’t okay for Microsoft to use the threat of canceling HP’s ability to be a Windows’s OEM (and therefore destroying their PC business) if they made Netscape Navigator their default browser.

People forget how dominant Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were back in the MS-DOS days; Microsoft used Windows to make Word and Excel the dominant word processor and spreadsheet.

Apple’s worldwide market share is barely 30%; it’s closer to 50% in the U.S. It’s also not illegal to disallow 3rd party developers to “break” your platform, especially when they entered into a legal agreement with you to not break your platform.

There’s nothing illegal about controlling a successful platform and deciding who and what can be present on that platform. Game consoles have long operated the same way but that seems to be okay.

Apple doesn’t have a monopoly position in either phones or computers; if a potential customer doesn’t like how Apple operates, they are free to buy something else. That wasn’t the case with Microsoft back in the day and it’s pretty much not the case today with web search, since it’s realistically not an option for a business to not be available on Google search or to ignore its advertising platform that reaches billions of users.
> And it only works with English.

Depending on how you define "work", Whisper also works with Hebrew. Not sure if the word error rate is acceptable though https://github.com/openai/whisper/#available-models-and-lang...
Please, no.

There's enough marketing geniuses hijacking other communication channels. Leave it to rest.
In the right environment (not just university), I'm pretty sure those can be learned in as little as four years. That is, I think you could take someone from zero to somewhere above junior IC in that time.

In the first couple of years they'd need a lot of independent projects with mentorship to start, then get plugged into an actual team with good peers and pairing.

They only need the basics of data structures and algorithms. They might see dynamic programming and AVL trees, but that needs less focus than the practicals of HTTP, MySQL, image processing, version control, hardware, etc.
If a disabled person asks for anything, they usually get a generic "we care about your feedback, this is on our radar" response and nothing actually happens.

I'm speaking from experience here, I've done quite a few accessibility-related support requests, and getting a human to answer is very often a struggle.
that's the whole point of the complaint about Ticket Master. The artist's don't really have a choice in the matter. What are they going to do? go somewhere else?
On that topic I've always wondered about official presentations where the program splits the screen between the actual speaker and a person signing.

Seems like that would only be useful for deaf people actually at the event whereas deaf people could be better served by captions.
I don't know anything about the unnamed firm mentioned up the thread other than what the OP said but it doesn't sound like they are actually following the law: I doubt that simply "finding" a website with a video that lacks captions is enough for a viable suit.

From Googling, it appears that suits without actual damages are getting thrown out[0], so I'd guess the attorneys running that show are doing something unlawful but not illegal by filing these suits, or maybe something not even unlawful by simply making legal demands without filing.

Probably one of the biggest causes for all of this pain is that so many "white collar" violations of public trust are either a) not actually illegal or b) not handled by any law enforcement.

The Prenda Law debacle comes to mind though -- these guys spent years terrorizing people with copyright law before anything really came of it but, incredibly, they actually ended up convicted on fairly serious charges. It's super wild to read about, I wonder if they had dialed it back a tiny bit they would have stayed under the radar completely.

[0] This doesn't help the defendants in question with their own attorney's fees but does send a message about viability of these garbage suits to the plaintiffs and every other firm looking into it.
I may be wrong but I'm guessing it's because in europe the peasants didn't own the land. The hub and spoke design of old world villages was beneficial to the landlords, not the workers.
While local effects like startup money or industry can definitely not be ignored locally, everyone is lifted by the tide of fed money printing, modulated by their exposure to the US markets.

Minus some really out of the way places (Iran? Central Africa?h that’s pretty much everywhere.

As money starts to tighten up again, expect a LOT of house pricing headwinds.
The iron law of bureaucracy:

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
yes at the way rates are going... 8% on a 30 year mortgage? Are you kidding me? that's insane.
The business would still have to make the change. That costs money
Tens of thousands of years? That's nothing, volcanos have been erupting for billions of years. Why do those keep making the news?
Yes, this is my point: technology increases productivity.
Couldn't the US re-enable Selective Availability?
Chose one, or two https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/h...

Abuse of dominance occurs when a dominant business (or group of businesses) engages in activity that stops or substantially reduces competition in a market. These anti-competitive activities may be:

predatory (incurring short-term losses to eliminate a competitor and gain future market power);

exclusionary (trying to prevent a business from operating in a market);

disciplinary (trying to punish a business); or

intended to adversely affect competition (e.g., by making other companies want to compete less and denying consumers the benefit of competition)
One of the finest chiptunes I've ever heard is L.F.F. by 4mat: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

It was the music for this Lemmings cracktro on the Amiga, I swear I spent more time replaying the tune than playing the game! https://youtu.be/mi9M8h6JrQU
> If people followed the law, they wouldn't get sued.

non sequitur
I grew up watching anime and that's not the case. It's far too cacophonous to me, anime does not sound like that.
You're missing the key difference: with the web PKI model, you have to trust every CA not to maliciously issue an unwanted certificate for your domain, whereas with DNSSEC, the owners of .ru (for example) can't affect your domain if it's under the .us TLD.
>Avoid exposing your Kubernetes nodes directly to public networks.

What's the best course of action if you need to connect to a specific pod? (You might want to do this if you're connecting users or to the same server instance, for example). Managing reverse proxies can be pretty cumbersome if you want to autoscale. Exposing an external node IP is easiest solution but if its a security risk, what are the alternatives?
to be fair, preprocessing comes with some other QoL things that I don't see CSS being able to support natively, namely mixins with math functions.

edit: don't get me wrong, i'd love to be 100% native CSS, but there are some things where preprocessors shine
It’ll probably deleted.

Then again, conversations are usually deleted the moment they happen, in the sense that they don’t get stored.
Point of cover letter is to make a case for why someone should hire you compared to others. It gives you a chance to be more personal and explain things that are difficult to add in the Resume. Problem is that a lot of entry level folks copy paste a Cover letter format with generic BS and then submit it. In those case, you are better off without one.

Personally, I want to see a cover letter that gives me an insight on who you are and we could be a good fit for each other. That means you need to research the company/product/team a little bit and be more personalized. Otherwise, don't bother.
If you analyze the house prices in "fast-moving" economies (bay area, nyc, etc.) you will see prices have corrected rapidly. However relative to the interest rate, these asset prices are still somewhat inflated. However due to the cash-heavy nature of buyers in these specific markets, you can expect less correction relative to interest rates as cost of borrowing is less of a concern.

Now move out to more desirable places to live (say, San Diego with it's great sunshine) and you will see asset prices are blown way out of proportion. This is a very geo-specific asset class, so you will have to look relative to the geo.

Unfortunately or fortunately, it has a lot to do with the interest rates and inflation. What you will see is with the layoffs and for folks who have taken out ARMs to optimize the cost of borrowing, a lot of folks are in for a big wake up call.
Whoa... somebody tell me that was machine generated?
I’m afraid most of the Linux classic applications will not be designed with multitouch inputs in mind. It may improve eventually, with newer software being created.
Consider that for certain kinds of video (one or two people, minimal editing, not in english), subtitles could cost ten times as much as the video itself.
Nextjs
Negative interest rates were hard to imagine a few years ago but they have been a reality in many parts of the world for several years. Maybe it's not multiple percentage points and it's around one, I don't know the specifics of the calculations. But the prepayment risk in principle has to be compensated. Otherwise lenders would have no incentive to lend money to you - if you can pay it off early anyway.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/financial-stability/fsr/focus/...

"The prevalence and handling of prepayment risk differs in two respects between Europe and the US. First, while in the US prepayment costs may be priced into the interest rate, in many European countries lump-sum prepayment penalties are induced by statutory requirements. Often banks impose charges on homeowners for early repayment. These fees force households to bear part of the prepayment risk and, if the fees are sufficiently high, may deter homeowners from prepayment, thereby nullifying the prepayment risk faced by banks. An exception to this is the Danish mortgage market, where long-term fixed-rate mortgage loans with an embedded option of a penalty-free prepayment are typically offered, as in the US."
DNSSEC has no shortage of problems, but this IMO isn’t really one of them:

> 2. Registrar signatures are more or less security theater, because those customers aren't even controlling their own keys.

It would be nifty if DNSSEC (or some superior technology) provided a degree of protection against a compromised registrar, but I don’t think that’s the primary benefit. Of course the registrar can change the DNS data.

DNSSEC purports to secure the transfer of data from the combination of the registrar and the domain owner to the resolver. For example, the combination of DNSSEC and CAA can, in principle, prevent even an arbitrarily privileged attacker on the network from getting a bogus certificate issued. Without DNSSEC, services like Let’s Encrypt rely on a degree or network voodoo to protect against MITM attack.

(Of course, a much simpler and more robust mechanism could accomplish the same goal. For example, there could be a standardized out of band mechanism by which a CA could securely ask a registry for the certificate policy for a domain. Something like this wouldn’t have the admin-screwed-up—and-the-whole-domain-is-down failure modes.)

edit: It looks like RDAP is moderately close to being able to do that out-of-band verification. I wonder if anyone is working on CAA integration with RDAP.
Then if it's free, can it really be considered a business in the eyes of the state? Why aren't free auto-generated captions from YouTube sufficient for appeasing the law if no money is being made by the creator from the work? Is it being targeted despite being free because YouTube is still generating ad revenue? Which would mean that it should be YouTube's responsibility for content on its platform to meet the new accessibility standard?
Again, I don't know how legal affairs like this work over there and he didn't elaborate, so readers are basically forced to ask questions like this in order to actually understand or sympathize with what's happening here.
Surprise, surprise. People hugely overestimate the data retrieval capabilities of healthcare systems. And if you really put clinical 'AI' systems to the test in day-to-day settings (which is in fact never done), results would be much, much worse.

Shit data in, shit prediction out.
That could be true many years ago, but not anymore. GPU is way more efficient at putting many bitmaps in the right place in the output. Even your mouse cursor compositing is hardware accelerated these days because that's faster and more efficient. Doing that on the CPU is wasted power.
It is objectively bad, and scummy lawyers are able to abuse the system in part because in the U.S., exactly what is accessible isn't actually written in the law. What's accessible is magically reinterpreted every eight years or so and are jotted down in a vague, sometimes shoddily written document. Such circumstances enables lawyers to take advantage of an ever-changing, poorly defined spec. I'm all for accessibility and work hard to make it happen at my job, but the system in the U.S. objectively awful. Congress should pass a law every time they want to update what is accessible, instead of making it up as they go along and encouraging this sort of litigation fishing for fun and profit.
From a legal perspective I can understand such a wording, but I wonder why an engineer simply tells a (non-paying) customer that he violates the ToS, without thinking about it.

I mean, one could simply wrap the content in a HTML body and change the extension, but that would actually increase the data load for no good reason. So it is complete non-sense to complain about txt files being served.
Under macOS? Not until Apple acts, I guess.