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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by warent »

csbartus wrote: post #170

New aesthetics in web design. With the brutalist movement something new started. People went back to code editors to create websites by hand skipping third-party, non-web-native user interface design tools prefilled with common knowledge making websites looking uniform. The idea of design silos and brand-specific design thinking is dropped: no more bootstrap, flat design, material design, etc. It's like back to the n…

I think Craigslist is probably a good example of brutalism. But that website you provided doesn't even have a mobile version, which comes across as inexperienced, not "minimalist"

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Post by taneq »

chadcmulligan wrote: post #221
aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

PACS developer here - I asked the same thing a few years ago when I started in pACS about automation. I was told it's the need to have someone to sue that holds back the automation, not so much the technology.

Wouldn't that objection disappear once automation is more reliable than a human operator, since the human operator would be less likely to be sued when taking responsibility for an automated system's results than they would for simply trying to make the call themselves?

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Post by jackyinger »

taneq wrote: post #292
chadcmulligan wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PACS developer here - I asked the same thing a few years ago when I started in pACS about automation. I was told it's the need to have someone to sue that holds back the automation, not so much the technology.

Wouldn't that objection disappear once automation is more reliable than a human operator, since the human operator would be less likely to be sued when taking responsibility for an automated system's results than they would for simply trying to make the call themselves?

It's more about who gets sued. If you make software to fully automate interpretation you would be the party sued. If there is still a human in the loop, you are not liable for their errors.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by thunderrabbit »

amelius wrote: post #275
jdormit wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google still is! Progressive web apps now have the ability to be installed "natively" on Android devices [0], meaning they show up in the app drawer like any other app rather than being limited to a home screen icon. I think these are the future. Once they catch on with mainstream consumers, native apps won't stand a chance against the convenience of simply visiting a website to install/use. Plus, on the developer en…

That sounds absolutely fabulous! But do you think that Apple would embrace this technology, given that e.g. their app-store is generating lots of revenue?

They won't, but they eventually won't have a choice. If the experience is simply better on other devices, consumers will move.

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Post by neltnerb »

I can't speak for everyone in my field (chemical manufacture and catalyst development), but I wrote about some of what I think are the current coolest new developments in chemistry and materials science as it relates to machine learning. [1]

In summary, the use of machine learning can help us develop better representations of chemical reactions, catalyst behavior, and we can now use adaptive learning to create closed-loop systems to identify, carry out, and optimize chemical processes to reduce environmental impact, reduce energy usage, and decrease costs.

The state of the art isn't quite there, but I see no major conceptual barriers left -- just a matter of implementing it.

[1] http://www.brianneltner.com/machine-learning/

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Post by gigatexal »

Sqlserver coming to Linux via docker containers. It's insane and exciting. We are a sole MS shop and this is exciting because I'm pushing to move us away from Windows and onto Linux if possible the kicker being we are dedicated to SQlServer so exciting times ahead. Hopefully Ms doesn't gimp SQLserver on Linux.

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Post by chrisguitarguy »

dcw303 wrote: post #285
chrisguitarguy wrote: post #280

Advertising. Definitely first party data for targeting. An advertiser takes some data from its CRM, sends it to the big social sites and google, and then uses the list to target those folks specifically or create look-a-likes. Actual cross device targeting (because people are logged in), extremely personalized and relevant. This is coupled with a move away from cookies[0]. 0. https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/01/ma…

If the CRM has your purchase history, does this solve the problem of targeting products on users who have already purchased it? Because I am really sick of Google serving me ads for stuff I recently searched for and subsequently bought.

That's advertisers themselves doing a bad job of retargeting. First-party data is probably not going to change that. In fact, it may mean you'll just get those ads across all your devices.

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Post by i336_ »

neves wrote: post #240
aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

20 years ago I did some software to analyze satellite images of the Amazon to monitor deforestation. We got a result that matched the quality of human experts. The problem has always been political and economical, not technological.

How did your software work, what techniques was it using, and what was the surrounding context relating to the data that was fed in and the output the model gave?

There might be some interesting things that can be learned from this kind of info and applied to the current status quo (I'm definitely not arguing that there is a sociopolitical element).

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Post by PicoCreator »

onion2k wrote: post #19

My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…

It's probably just a matter of time. Because all software ecosystems goes through its phases of "maturity" regarding testing.

Not too long ago (in human-years, not internet-years). Most node packages weren't built with unit testing. Now its quite common in the popular packages.

Website UI is probably the same thing. After all, it took us a really long time till we got the whole HTML5 spec finally stabilised.

So you will probably see the tipping point occur over the next 10 human years, or less.

And just like you I been really frustrated with the inadequacy of UI testing tools, especially with Selenium. So like @donaltroddyn, I set out to develop my own UI testing tool (https://uilicious.com/), to simplify the test flow and experience.

So wait around, you will see new tools, and watch them learn from one another. And if you want to dive right into it, we are currently running close beta.

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Post by atrilumen »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #29

Not really my main field, but in web technology it seems that severless architectures such as Amazon Lambda will be a pretty big game changer in the near future: Lambdas are lightweight function calls that can be spawned on demand in sub-millisecond time and don't need a server that's constantly running. They can replace most server code in many settings, e.g. when building REST APIs that are backed by cloud services…

I'm really digging https://github.com/zeit/micro on https://zeit.co/now.
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