skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been doing that sort of AI + radiologist since the mid 90s now, and it has made an incremental improvement; I expect it will continue to make incremental improvements. It's certainly cheaper than double reading everything (which has been show to improve some things, e.g. screening). Anyone expecting a radical change in that model in the short term is unfamilar with the SOTA in one or both domains.

To put it another way, if we are looking for places to get a human out of the loop, radiology shouldn't be that high up anyone's list - but decision support is super useful sometimes.
I pay for YouTube Premium and every video I watch starts and ends with sponsored ads.

On mobile they’re not auto-skippable.
Mortgage and Loan Company Suffers Data Breach Impacting 14M People
What he said is totally in line with the article?

“In the pandemic’s wake, we see an altered population and it raises longstanding concerns about the cost of living, the growing wealth gap, the need to preserve a strong middle class, and the challenges of serving an aging population, while ensuring that families are able to raise their children here. We need the city to remain competitive on the world stage and a place where people want to move, put down roots and thrive.”
My godson once solemnly asked his dad "Were dinosaurs before or after steam engines?" which is obviously adorable.
I think the story of NYC is people try it when they don't need stability. Some make it and get stability there, some don't and move on, and a new generation moves in.

"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere ..."

.....

And yes, we look the same
Both pumping steel
Both sweating

But you know she got nothing to hide
And I got something to hide here
Called desire.
I got something to hide here
Called desire
And I will get out of here

You know that fear potion is just about to come
In my nose is the taste of sugar
And I got nothing to hide here
Save desire

And I'm going to go
I'm going to get out of here
I'm going to get out of here
I'm going to get on that train
And I'm going to go on that train
And go to New York City

I'm going to be somebody
I'm getting
Going to get on that train
Go to New York City

I'm going to be so big
I'm going to be a big star
And I will never return ...
Astrology Ignorance is a Good Thing! Cultivate it.
No. It was a policy problem large enough that legislators required it as a condition of selling phones.

It was a real problem that kids walking around high-school, or people walking in the street, were carrying something easily stolen and fenced for several hundred dollars. Ride-by theft by bike was a notorious mode. The equivalent would be people walking around with a stack of $50s flapping in their hands. A target like that is called an "attractive nuisance", and the law has a long tradition of discouraging them.

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2015/07/02/smartphone-anti-the...
Another democracy succumbing: It really seems like a economic hothouse flower vanishing as the winter of a failing economic system settles. Hope India soldiers on, even of its just to spite Thiel and the likes of him.
most of nyc outside Manhattan is 2 story townhouses
which american city has better transit than new york?
I think you missed the part where the issue was closed by the bot for the user not having starred the repo, in which case - especially on high-traffic repos - the likelihood of actually seeing it is reduced.
That's awesome, I want to read (part of?) Malazan in 2024, after having finally gotten around to reading Wheel of Time in 2022-23.

And I also have a collection of YoYos! Haven't learned too much relatively speaking, but I did love it when I focused on it and always want to get back into it.
I've seen fairly naive Go servers that do 10,000+ RPS that issue database requests on every request that consistently use less than 50MB of RAM without issue. Several of them barely ever break 30MB of RAM.
I like this discussion of cryptographic wrong answers at

https://www.okta.com/au/video/oktane19-cryptographic-wrong-a...

> And crypto has generally become, I think, less scary, at least for cryptographic engineers. I don't know if that's true for a wider developer audience. But again in 1995 phlogiston era crypto, nobody really knew what they were doing, right? And the official story if you tried to learn more things, very often you'd hear, what I call, abstinence only education where people just tell you like, oh you want to do some cryptography? Okay don't.

> ...

> So in conclusion, we're going to look for pitfalls that we can recognize. And to do that I'm going to run through a bunch of bad ideas that keep coming back and that every time lead to disaster for some reason.

> And so one of the very popular ones is algorithmic agility. Same spiel, you know the idea is look we have primitive-A and primitive-A might be, I don't know, AES or something. But what happens if is breaks? We like that, we want to use that primarily but we want to have option just in, we want to have something to fall back on. And the idea is we support both, and when A breaks, we just go turn on B and everything copacetic. A very related problem is negotiation, so lets say that I support A, B and C, you support B, C, and D and some how we're going to figure out that B and C is what we can both agree on, but we like C better so somehow hopefully we're going to end up with C. This is a really, really plausible sounding engineering decision and turns out to very regularly turn into, get us into trouble.

> The poster child for this is TLS. So TLS has a cornucopia of things that you need in order to make it work, right? There's signing, there's key agreement, there's bulk encryption, there's MAC algorithms in there. I'm not even going to mention like the variety of curve choices and key sizes. But for each of these choices, TLS gives you a handful of options. And it's not like a perfect Cartesian product, but it's pretty darn close. Now the question is, why does it hurt to support more things, just go turn them off. Well it doesn't really work that way, because very often you'll see protocols come back from the dead. So FREAK and logjam were real world TLS vulnerabilities that exploited export grade ciphers which pretty much died out in the late nineties.
New York has always had expensive housing. It's not as if that became a problem yesterday. On the other hand, crime varies considerably from decade to decade. I'm getting a good chuckle watching people bend over backwards to downplay the issue of crime in NYC. It often feels like crime is to liberals what climate change is to conservatives, a big problem made worse by their policies that's better off ignored.
actually I'm pretty sure that all our social security numbers leaked in full since the Experian/TransUnion hacks. I have kept my scores frozen ever since then. It's a minor annoyance but I don't know why this isn't required now
It's been years since I saw it, but there was someone who was convinced pdf should have become the standard for web pages and did a site in pdf only.

Assuming I remember correctly.
Yes, it used to be `--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia`. Nowadays it's the much tamer `--unsupported-gpu`
I just stole it from jmz - "every program attempts to expand until it can read mail" - I think attribution might be overkill. But thanks for the thought.
Rationalists really need a course in mid-century sociology/metaphysics, specifically grounding[1], typification, and reification.

It's incredibly frustrating to watch them go on about being rational and also being only obliquely aware[2] of the patterns of behavior that sociologists have identified decades ago. When Scott illustrates the Solomon conversation in section I, he's clearly talking about two largely overlapping categories which have different groundings and those groundings are precisely the cause of the disagreement.

Typification in particular is the subject of section II. And grounding again is the central focus of the rest of the sections on maps, gender, &c.

Scott, in the unlikely event you read HN comments, I'm literally begging you to pick up Categories We Live By, Ásta[3]. Its 154 pages of non-dense explanation on grounding.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/grounding/

2. Inferred by proxy. No mention of these terms by name, but oblique references to the shadows of their ideas. I'm sure there is some limited knowledge diffusion process taking place

3. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256791.001.0001
Collapse is when you go from a generic quantum state to an eigenstate of a given measurement operator. The disagreement is about whether this is an objective feature of reality, an artifact of semiclassical approximation, or not a real physical process at all.
I think the sweet spot is, let teams decide how often to meet if you're going that route. For example, last place I worked at we were mostly from various parts of the states, so we were considered remote, whilst others lived nearby and had to commute. I think managers should decide wholly how their teams work. If managers need to be onsite, that's reasonable too, though I would assume not always especially if their teams are remote.

I feel like the less technical teams might benefit more from face to face, but developers, a lot of us do our coding at home before our careers even start. It is a hacker's career path.
I think we fundamentally disagree on the nature of the outputs. I think it's extremely rare that a neural network trained on copyrighted material will produce zero outputs that are derivative of some copyrighted work. It might take a bit of experimentation or searching to find the derivative outputs but historically for any one of these neural nets that has been sufficiently public to allow experimentation we have found examples.
Not suprising. When I worked for an Xfinity "Branded Partner" they played it fast and loose with security. During training, a trainer on equal level ranking as a national director told my class full of new hires we should all make our secure internal-use Comcast account password "E@sypassword1", and later in the class told us that if a customer forgot their phone in their car we should just bypass the 2FA completely. why? Because there is a tracker on the door that tracks how many open/closes linked to the conversion rate. The conversion rate was considered more important than properly authenticating accounts. Im pretty sure Comcast knows about this and does nothing. Needless to say, when I made my concerns known I was terminated same day for "not being a good fit".
I posted this on another comment but

"IDK, they sound like "Heyyy, I'm wolkin' here" and they have new york tags and italian surnames. I haven't asked them where specifically they're from. They seem to love it here though. We have 3 families in my neighborhood."
> there was also the part about her thinking the Mexican–American War was in 1989. Which is Taylor Swift's birthday,

So that's what The Great War is about!
correct, but few people seem able to grok it.
I'm just going to leave this here: https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jmol.php?model=C%23N
It is not the phone. It’s the obfuscation/“automagical” of everything
It wasn't just the elderly. Pretty much anyone over 50 was at higher risk.

I'll point out again, covid killed over 1 million people in the US alone. That doesn't even account for the ~ 10% of infected who got stuck with the lingering effects of long covid.

Yeah, we asked kids to attend school remotely from home. Some didn't have parents that kept them on task, and suffered. The pandemic was hard on everyone, but even in places that didn't lock down, loved ones getting sick and dying takes a toil. I felt like I was rolling the dice every time I visited my grandmother.
This layout seems common for graduate student offices in academic buildings. I was jealous.
I think they've been diverged long enough that we can consider them separate products at this point. (14 years!)

You wouldn't assume that Plex and XMBC shared much compatibility despite forking around the same time.
Tech Debt Is a Big, but Not Expensive, Problem
Digi AI – We're Just Getting Started
Sort of. UL and CE are certifications that declare a a product confirms to the standards defined by those groups. The main difference is that UL only focuses on product safety (i.e. Shock and mechanical hazards), while CE covers product safety plus environmental and health requirements.

UL is technically a global standard, but mostly used in USA/Canada. That's only two countries which already have laws governing what can and cannot be put in a consumer device.

I'm not as familiar with the history of CE, so I don't know why CE decided to cover environmental standards. But my speculation is that it's because CE covers ~30 countries with a larger range of laws.
Plasmic at its core is a general React app builder. You can create components, add interactivity, and connect to other data sources. You can also bring in your own React components, so there's endless possibilities in extending the tool for your needs.

Our users have used Plasmic to build all sorts of things, from websites and e-commerce storefronts, to Retool-like internal tools, to full web apps (major parts of the Plasmic visual editor itself is built with Plasmic!). The most popular use case we have is as a CMS -- once developers set up Plasmic, the marketers are able to design and publish sections of the website without developer involvement. One remarkable thing is that the dynamically-fetched Plasmic-generated design is part of the same React tree as the rest of your React app, so it is able to read from your React contexts, etc., making it possible to have rather deep and interesting integrations into your site.

Ultimately, Plasmic generates React code from your designs. This code can either live in your code base alongside the rest of your code, or be dynamically fetched (like in the CMS use case).
All parents understand. I would end my life in an instant for my kids.
I agree with some of what you’re saying, but “regulation is to protect the public despite the fact that the regulations only come after working conditions have already improved” seems to be pretty patently false, historically, for workplace, health, and environmental regulations.
Thank you for providing error feedback. We will work hard to address it. Currently, the model-related data is relatively large, which may be related to network speed.
when a so-called flat-org/holacracy company says “you don’t have a boss” what they actually mean is you have an indeterminate # of bosses you just don’t who they are yet
I meant "prove" as in, "mathematically proven." That is, for all possible inputs your theorem holds. A unit test is only an example of one such input. They don't prove there are no bad inputs.

There are many places in programming where you don't care to prove properties of your program to this level of rigor; that's fine -- sufficiency is an important distinction: if a handful of examples are enough to convince you that your implementation is correct with regards to your specifications, then it's good enough. Does the file get copied to the right place? Cool.

However there are many more places where unit tests aren't sufficient. You can't express properties like, "this program can share memory and never allows information to escape to other threads." Or, with <= 10 writers all transactions will always complete. A unit test can demonstrate an example of one such case at a time... but you will never prove things one example at a time.
Just curious: how would that help exactly? So far we can get two relevant data points for exoplanets: mass or if we're lucky size and maybe spectra. That's one Uranus size, one Uranus mass and the atmospheric spectrum of Uranus. Since neither of those is variable (at least on human timescales) I don't see how a training dataset with one entry would help.

Finding Uranus analogues would also be particularly challenging since we cannot expect to ever confirm one using telescopes, given that a Uranus orbit takes ~84 years and you need to observe at least 3 full orbits to confirm a planet.

Any Uranus-sized object orbiting significantly closer to its host star (i.e. able to be confirmed within a human lifetime) would likely differ from Uranus as it would either receive substantially more energy from its host star or have a completely different host star altogether (e.g. a red dwarf), which may have an impact on its composition.
À previous employer decided to switch from single to two person cubes with announced objective of enhanced collaboration. This intense developer got mated with a non technical social butterfly. Interruptions verging on harassment.

I called the environment: one developer for the price of two.
FWIW, according to the specs the JWST starts at 600nm, which means it does at least cover the red visible spectrum. (R from RGB being 600-700nm per my understanding)

It seems a shame they didn't include the 400-600nm range as well.
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Yes. And not just the last 4 but your entire SSN, and most or all of the data that Credit Bureaus maintain, such as date and place of birth, past places of residence, whether you own or rent, income, education, marital status, and on and on.

It's all been exposed, somewhere, by someone who didn't exercise due care for protecting it.

Until this data becomes a liability and not an asset that can be sold and expoited, it will continue.
It does, unquestionably, and it has, for generations. That's where all the justice you have now comes from, and every day I see improvements. Just as an example, most cities have stopped prosecuting marijuana possession offenses.

Not enough, not quickly enough, but that's because you're not helping.
Interesting, i've always considered monorepo to be a maintainability win. Your code doesn't rot (as much) because it's constantly rebuilt and tested. When someone improves some downstream code (for example makes some code faster or safer) you get the benefits immediately. And most importantly - you can do huge interface-breaking refactorings on the whole codebase at once, without versioning dance. For example you can remove a parameter from some function in the library and make sure all clients still work, atomically. I think this is a huge maintainability win - as long as you actually want to maintain something and not let it rot.

But really, do you have a choice? Sooner or later someone finds a security bug in the code and you actually have to dig out the code and deploy an update.
That previous thread the other day made me wish there was a cheap usb pluggable to tell you about the quality (and quantity) of voltage from a usb device.

Simple small screen or just led lights.

Maybe even a "kill-a-watt" for usb power cube/banks.
Note for OP: While a big theme in the book is how Earth evolves between war deployments, much of the Forever War takes places elsewhere in the universe
It's the Hydrogen Cyanide molecule [1], also available on Titan [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide#On_Titan
You’re saying Linux users never make mistakes like clicking on the wrong link or opening the wrong attachment? Unless that’s true, yes, we need sandboxing.
New York’s population did not decline by 5%. The population estimates between censuses always undercounts New York relative to the actual census. The last population estimate for NYS before the 2020 census had the state’s population being flat relative to 2010 and it ended up being up more than 800k in the real census. Same thing is happening AGAIN here.

https://policybynumbers.com/a-caution-about-the-use-of-censu...
Yes and then HN'lers will shame any distro enabling it by default to death.
I've never been a Twitter user, never have and never will, so I can't comment on whatever the previous regime was doing, but I see people talking about Twitter much less than they did a year ago, which is kind of what the headline article is about.
The line is "suspended" since Hurricane Katrina hit NO and even with the new infrastructure funding is not set to be re-opened. 18 years later it's fair to say we've moved past "suspended".
Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive
Not every city needs transit the way NY does. Some are walkable, bikeable, or driveable. NY is walkable when the weather allows, but it's also suffocating in some ways
When did I say I expected it to be free? Obviously, it's paywalled because that's their only economically viable option now that advertising revenues have lowered too far for them.

I'm just stating reality: reputable news sources used to have free access to their articles on their websites. Now they do not.
Well, it would be great if that worked but in general people with this oppinion seemed to be fine to sacrifice (as in let die) anyone with a higher risk rather than contribute with money to allow this isolation.
Good things the price of accommodation followed that trend.
I generally agree with this sentiment.

However, unlike the situation in the 1980's, there's no desire to address any of their problems because it undermines so many ideological premises the residents cling to. Coupled with the most morally narcissistic people on the face of the Earth, I don't see any turnaround.

The mechanisms necessary to avoid becoming Detroit are not there
Thank you for this nice app. The default shortcut conflicts with my window manager, so I cannot use it. Please add a way to customize shortcuts. Also for the UI, if there is a mode that when the app is unfocus then the UI will hide all other text buttons, which I think will make it looks less distract.
Really nice and clean app btw!
Plus, when they nab a dealer they get to brag about seizing eleventy billion dollars of heroin or whatever. The math gets difficult to strain that far when they just bag a user.
On the other hand, there's a deep learning deficit that that generation will never recover from. That has costs too, and people trapped in a bad economic situation because of shitty schooling have reduced lifespans as well.
Every government has a justification to minimize Covid deaths. And that quote is the 'official death toll'.

My guess is this is grossly underreported. My original idea to track deaths was to compare before-covid year-to-year to during and after. Using death records would sidestep the 'died from covid' and 'died from covid but written down as something else'.

But hot damn. My post is at -4. Sure seems like people really don't appreciate 'intellectual curiosity' that much.
Don't forget the RealPage collusion by landlords, which pushed up rents considerably (in NYC too?)

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
What kind of distances? Any injuries?
FTA:

Not only did that fraud end up screwing over the retail investors who made the Saudis and the other early investors a pile of money after the company’s IPO – but it also destroyed the legitimate taxi business and convinced cities all over the world to starve their transit systems of investment because Uber seemed so much cheaper. Uber continues to hemorrhage money, resorting to cheap accounting tricks to make it seem like they’re finally turning it around, even as they double the price of rides and halve driver pay (and still lose money on every ride). The market can remain irrational longer than any of us can stay solvent, but when Uber runs out of suckers, it will go the way of other pump-and-dumps like WeWork.

--

Enumerating the manifest harms doesn't mean you didn't enjoy cheap rides for a time, it's not all or nothing.

"Cheap rides" do have a measurable cost to others and society.

In addition to the ills cited here one could add many others, not least of which was the elevation of a grotesque ethos of "breaking things" (i.e. evading any legal obligation or social responsibility until regulators and critics, viewed with contempt, "catch up"), and notably distilled down douche-bag toxic tech-bro culture. Both of which still tarnish and retard our industry.