skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gizmodo images are the older Brijot passive scanners that look like this: https://sm.asisonline.org/ASIS%20SM%20Article%20Images/10-12...

Passive can also do high resolution[1]. It depends heavily on the wavelength being measured. Your second link is talking about far infrared (300+ GHz), or close to. Those waves are blocked more by clothing compared to the <100 GHz (30 GHz?) that Brijot and the current scanners use. The high frequency stuff will show a dark spot where something may be hidden, but is very dim compared to active scanners. They have similar resolution but are much blurrier.

Passive scanners at 30 GHz are by necessity lower resolution at the same price point, because the human body doesn't emit too much around there. However since all the waves are coming from the body, anything hidden under the clothing will block the waves completely and show up as an obvious dark spot. You don't need detail because of that.

Active scanners on the other hand are super detailed, again by necessity. That wavelength goes straight through clothing but since waves are being produced by the machine, anything besides metal will look basically the same as skin. You need to be able to make out the shape and texture to identify it, so the sensors are very high resolution. They need to see the trigger of a gun to know it isn't just a weird rectangle, so that means they can also see your foreskin.

[1]: http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/sites/default/files/...
You would be right, I guess I remembered wrong and didn't look close enough.
Written in Rust:

- rq: A tool for doing record analysis and transformation (replacement for jq, supports yaml, json, avro, protocol buffers, etc.)
https://github.com/dflemstr/rq
>you were writing about a popular JavaScript framework.

When there's a gold rush on you're more likely to strike it rich selling picks and shovels than mining.
I think legally, the car has to stop for an approaching pedestrian if it's physically able to stop, so if the pedestrian doesn't "stop about a foot away from your lane" as expected, you don't run into him.

Though I don't know the NYC traffic code. In California, I believe 21950 paragraph C applies... the pedestrian that stops just before walking into the path of the car might be violating paragraph B since the driver may reasonably expect the pedestrian to continue walking.

(b) This section does not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian may unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk.

(c) The driver of a vehicle approaching a pedestrian within any marked or unmarked crosswalk shall exercise all due care and shall reduce the speed of the vehicle or take any other action relating to the operation of the vehicle as necessary to safeguard the safety of the pedestrian.
I commented above - I published a technical book about 8 years ago, that's been pretty well received (lots of 5-star reviews on Amazon, still selling 8 years later). But boosting my career? Solidifying my expertise in a topic? An MCSE would have done more in that direction than having published a book. Mostly people are just confused when they find out.
Until your standalone software answers customer support requests automatically, you‘re still going to have variable costs that grow with your user base.
TLDR; the books on specific tech is lighly sold, gets out of date fast and publishers are ripping off authors by throwing them 10% revenue share.

Because we co-authored the book we each got 5% of revenue for physical books and 12.5% for ebooks and digital access (10% and 25% for individual authors).

So far I have received $539 over 5 months.

On average, the book has sold 222 copies per month which is greatly skewed by the first month which had 930 sales. The last month (March) had 34 physical book sales. I suspect that number will go down even more over the next few months.
Yes they do (at least in my environment) and it's extremely annoying :P

Me being more of a Floyd/soul/electronica aficionado.
Same here. I think the reason was the amazing customer service at Amazon, and mostly the effective price on Amazon was always lower.
Don't work for what purpose, according to whom? Are you sure that applies here?

What I suggested there isn't really a deadman's switch ("stop if no one is around to do task x"), but something to periodically, randomly check the driver's attentiveness, and can raise a red flag if they take too long to respond.

A deadman's switch is different and enforces "do X if person Y stops doing this thing at this predictable interval" -- not what I was proposing.
Not a lot of people seem to know what tripwire is nowadays.

There is this Linux thing called IMA which in some ways reminds me of tripwire (Integrity Measurement Architecture).
The rate of acceleration from 2010-2014 was unreal things are slowing down a lot over the last 4 years in some regards.

My primary focus the last few years has been AI research and I've taken an interest in OpenMined among others that attempt to use homomorphic encryption to share AI models. I think this can be a lot more valuable if it works the disrupting the banking industry (since people are willing to be exploited by banks it seems)

Does anyone know if the math behind OpenMined and pysift is legit? It's a pretty new area and they claim to be drastically more capable than Craig Gentry and his team and I find that remarkable if true
A really bad name.
How to Create a REST API with Pre-Written Serverless Components
I’ve seen this sentiment here several times, but I’ve always loved programming. Maybe not every language or project, but no work is perfect all the time. In general, software has been a great career for me.
The video was not from a "high dynamic range" sensor, regardless of whether the car actually had one installed. I believe it did have such a "high dynamic range" sensor, which shows the blatant disregard for the truth that Uber is showing here by releasing such misleading video.
As an aside - I saw you a few years ago in Gloucester UK and you taught me loads about virtualisation. Thank you Richard.
Well, I like how they are not hard on design and their kept focus on the safety since. That fits to my character. Of course I could still get a volvo, but a year earlier / non-android version.
Eventually? In principle? Ethanol is a thing, just not one that was able to compete without taxing its competitors' externalities. Not sure how the math works out for jet engines, but I suspect it works out better than batteries.
Early on they rushed poorly designed submarines out with poorly trained crews and poor leadership. There was also a blame culture eg welding rescue bouys to the hull because if they came loose accidentally then the factory would be punished!

This is well described eg in Nat Geo book on K19.
I’ve had some success with working backwards. Starting with an application they probably already like and have affinity to and then explaining that the magic is done through understanding this concept etc. I’ve given a presentation similar to that from a Linux Admins perspective to Jr. High kids and they seemed to like it.
I was speaking about just this with a friend a few days ago, and I think that getting together with people at a bar on Saturday evening functionally serves a very similar purpose to getting together with people at a place of worship on Sunday morning.

The important thing is that the rituals evolve organically to match the needs of each community. Several forces are driving towards a more globalized culture, which is the cause of a lot of dissonance.
A lot of people come to websites looking for specific products. When you don’t offer an obvious path to what they’re looking for, they get frustrated. I know I do.
That's a very good argument but I don't think it will come to pass, for this reason: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences/cutting_off

There's something about driving that turns ordinary people into assholes. I've observed it in myself. Bus passengers are much more considerate, and I think that passengers in self-driving vehicles will behave like passengers, not like drivers. So if a pedestrian cuts them off they'll just shrug and keep playing their game or whatever they're doing.

I hope.
What about them? Why even own a dog in that case?
China's About to Give Global Finance the Chance of a Lifetime
Hidden Costs of AWS
Has anyone experienced any hidden or unexpected costs of AWS, or surprises on their bills? Seems like there is a lot of that going on?
From the posts on here, both
True valuable read is always in the comments.
Becuase this approach to medicine was vastly more powerful than other competing approaches. Think about what this approach accomplishes in the 20th century.

1)Vaccines that basically wiped out most severe childhood illnesses

2) Conquest of polio

3) Eradication of smallpox

4) Antibiotics. No longer was bacterial pneumonia a death sentence

5) Significant advances in trauma care

6) Reliable birth control

7) Significant advances in cancer treatment, especially childhood cancers

Doctors had been talking about the importance of nutrition and environment for centuries (malaria literally means "bad air"), but it was this recent approach to malaria that could actually cure it.
What was actually lost? Aren't followers just a number? Did they interact with you in any meaningful way? Did they contribute to the project?

My experience is that even thousands of Twitter followers amount to no real contribution to anything.

Anybody here with a different experience?
Ar-Curunir = Lord of the Cunning Arts?
Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
This is one of those rules with essentially zero exceptions. Nobody that's telling the truth ever brags about that.

There's another musician I know in that scene (but in a different part of the US) who was in Vietnam. No one could ever get him to talk about his combat experience. There was one time that we succeeded on steering him onto the topic, and we very soon changed the subject and stopped bringing it up. (He was also one of the nicest guys I ever met, unless he was being blunt about music. He also could play Santa Claus without a disguise!)

Do you think Timothy McVeigh ever fabricated enjoying killing? There are accounts from his fellow soldiers that he quite enjoyed shooting at enemies. My estimation, from life experience, is that there are definitely sociopaths and psychopaths out there. 99%+ of people aren't like that, but you will definitely meet them all the same.

We shouldn't simplify reality just to paint pretty pictures for ideological reasons. Life is messy and there is a nasty side to reality. Hopefully, we won't have to deal with it that often.
This looks great.

What technologies are you using for sound and for visualization?
Instagram Code Reveals Upcoming Music Feature
> be naturally gifted in sports/music

By this are you referring to ease in college/scholarship acceptance?
Not every technology advances at the same rate as electronics. An order of magnitude improvement in supercruise efficiency over Concorde--which is one of the biggest bottlenecks--would be a significant innovation alone.
So crazy. I'd seen on HN that chrome was rolling out that feature, but it didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Chrome already blocks things like pop-ups and flash, but it tells me when it does so and offers me a way to load the pop-up / flash content if I want it.

This time, chrome just feels broken.
How can they actively bring a loss, though?

Does the power and bandwidth needed to have the server serve Firefox users cost more than Firefox users bring in over all?
Good to know that you got out of it. Every cloud has a silver lining - people who experience childhood adversity are more intensely creative. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0011...
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because that's easier than writing a long edit pointing out the specific context in which my comment was intended (a context that should have been obvious based on the parent comments).
>There's no documented proof that Indian system was descended from another system. The Fountainhead was India. Hence, purely of Indian creation.

You misunderstand my comment. Read it again:

>What we use today is the modified system, it's not purely of Indian creation.

The current numeral system used is not purely of Indian creation. This chart shows the progression of the ancient Indian numeral system to the one in use today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Numeration-brahmi_fr.png

The ancient Indian system was adopted by Arabic scholars who in turn modified it into an early version of the form used today, although you can see that even after the general forms of the numerals were "settled" they've continued to evolve to become the ones familiar to us now.

So no, not purely of Indian creation, anymore than the modern English alphabet, as noted above, is purely a Phoenician creation. Like most concepts, it's been adopted and modified across the ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu%E2%80%93A...
Does anyone know if Apple uses Kubernetes in their cloud?
>I think you're overselling the extent of the difficulty here. People from out of state usually manage to get through New York, pedestrians and all, without getting into an accident.

At this point, "it's easy for a person to do it" is probably better evidence that it's a hard problem in AI.

In this case, I believe it's an inverse learning problem. We observe other agents acting in an environment, deduce their policy, then implement that policy ourselves.

A self-driving car that can reconfigure it's software to mimic the behavior of other cars it observes, sounds difficult to me.
One would expect that MMT economists might understand what mainstream economists think, and understand it at a somewhat deeper level than that of an NYT column. One would therefore expect that they could avoid strawmen, because they could argue against the mainstream economists' real position.
This is awesome, and I hope I can find some time to contribute. Lots of low hanging fruit because I didn’t see any Swift stuff for some things I know.

If you want a Swift version of this (to which I have gotten to contribute!), see https://github.com/raywenderlich/swift-algorithm-club/
How many times does a car see this particular interaction, though?
I can't yet comment on the substance of Thomas Sowell's argument, but when I went to read his article I was struck by townhall.com's top 3 trending pieces.

• Why Science and Experience Command That You Buy an 'Assault Rifle'

• An Eagle Scout Explains the Fatal Folly of Taking the ‘Boy’ out of Boy Scouts

• Liberalism Must Be Destroyed

Draw your own conclusions on bias.

Edit: To those downvoting, why? If I'm in the wrong to point this out and let people draw their own conclusions please comment and let me know why.
Having spoken with a mathematician, I'm not sure this letter's assumptions are entirely sound.

The major finding is the original targets are based on the average response (so up to 50% still in deficiency), not getting 97% to a base level.

However only being able to use 10 papers and without their data (only standard deviations) hamstrung their ability to peg a better range. More, their approach requires a normal distribution and a solid link between input and output levels, neither of which really exist here. Random error scuppers their analysis.

Again, this is not to say there isn't something here, it just needs more work, especially when recommending people take 2-3 times the current max tolerable limit.
I don't want to sound like an old grump but I fail to see the value in this. It seems that everyone and their mother nowadays starts to write some code to prepare for coding interviews and it starts growing into an 'algorithm library' which ends up being a dump of implementations with little to no value to someone trying to learn something. Despite the large number of contributors, this is exactly what it smells like.

Can we just contribute to Wikipedia and Rosetta Code? Seriously, whenever I want to research something in this domain, Wikipedia + Rosetta Code proved extremely valuable. This is just an implementation in multiple languages, with no README, no context, no why's, no discussion, no sources, no complexity analysis, nothing.

What is the advantage of this? Offline? Can we just work on making years and years of experience of better content available offline? Is there a licensing issue that I'm not seeing?
That article compares dolphins to chickens and goldfish. While I doubt the level of intelligence that some people attribute to dolphins, I haven't ever seen a goldfish or a chicken do a trained complex acrobatic maneuver for food, or wipe a mark off of its body after recognizing itself in a mirror.
I agree. Mindfulness really is just another word for spirituality. Being mindful of where your food comes from, and being thankful for the nourishment it provides your mind and body, is just a different way of praying and "thanking the lord" for your food.

Religions are a way of trying to package this mindfulness and disseminate it. As you know, most organized religions have been coopted by power-hungry men and twisted into the ridiculous displays we now know today. We should reject those religions and what they've become, but we shouldn't reject the root they sprung from.
> Secondly, I use Mastodon, and I'm on an instance with just over 1000 users. There are over 150K users on the main instance.

For most people I know and follow, that's like, the low bar of twitter follower counts.
Google Product Search earned them a €2.4 billion fine from the EU for anti-competitive behavior. I doubt they want to repeat it.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm
I have been suffering with this for the last year. I have to say, its really a heinous condition.

First, I didn't think much of ticks - I thought they were a nuisance, but nothing serious. So, after I got particularly attacked one warm summer evening, I didn't really care much for it. 3 ticks in one day - okay, not ideal, but I wasn't going to freak (I've been stung by jellyfish, bitten by snakes, hundreds of spider bites, the odd encounter with a wasp or two .. Australian problems...)

But, a few days after I brushed it all off, I noticed the tell-tale signs of the red bullseye targets .. and I did nothing. I simply was ignorant that it could get so bad.

Three weeks later, I was feeling awful - just totally shit. I happened to mention that I was in an area known for ticks, and my friend said "well, have you been bitten recently?" .. I recalled the event, and they promptly sent me straight to hospital for a blood test.

Yup, I came back positive for Borellia. 6 weeks of antibiotics, and real hellish symptoms - lethargy like no other I've ever experienced, headaches, lack of attention and sometimes real cognitive problems. Aches in every bone in my body.

Take this one serious, folks. Get yourself tested within days of a tick bite. Its really not something you want to go through, believe me ...
Wealth cannot replace desire and drive. If both kids had these the same, then yes, the wealthy one would be better off. As theī say, one man can bring a horse to the water, but even forty cannot make it drink if horse does not want to.
To balance out the negativity: I absolutely love sublime text. It runs beautifully on my 7 year old laptop, unlike other newer text editors that don't care as much about performance.
Are the downvotes because of the last line? I would love to prove this with a metric but can't just like the parent comment author. The opinion I stated is mostly from personal experience of knowing those people, working with them or having interviewed them.
Apple carplay and android auto allow you to view windows displayed by your phone on your car screen. While I can use google maps with it and get the voice directions, it does not support displaying the map on my car screen for google maps, only apple maps. I want to be able to quickly look at the physical map on the big screen in my car while driving like so: https://www.google.com/search?q=android+auto+maps&tbm=isch&s...
In the context of programming languages and tech stacks, that is an astronomical audience though.

I work in a niche where there are two books that have ever been written, by the same author, and there might be a couple thousand people total in the whole world that use this particular SDK. Most technical books appeal to an incredible narrow slice of the already small pie that is software people.
ISTM that HN policy would replace TFA with the link cited in TFA:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-finds-deadly-ac...

...although, there is a paywall, so maybe not.
Just bandwidth or leaked keys or badly configured services. AWS had always been good to me and waived obvious problems as a courtesy, although I use Vultr because it supports the features we need and has some easier ipv6 options worth using (prefix routing)
I've participated in career days before and it was a lot of fun. The big thing to remember is: keep things concrete. Use stories and visual aids with concrete examples.

To really keep their attention, a presentation or interactive booth that let's them participate could help here. For the sake of simplicity, imagine a mad-lib style story through problem solving that allowed them to put in funny words for nouns, verbs, and adjectives while you tell a story of solving a problem with programmatic thinking.

You'll be able to structure it the same, but the novelty of video games, memes, and music references that will get laughs and will keep them engaged.
"Move fast and break things" doesn't sound right, when "things" are your own citizens.

But it's only my opinion, probably.
You'll have a strong bias in the answers—so here my honest answer:

2.5h in total, 1 of that on the weekends. At most. (because I also love my girlfriend, reading, culture, music and need to cook a bit, tidy a bit, relax a bit etc...)
How to accelerate revenue for SaaS startups
That article prompted me to reread "Remembrance of Times East" [1]. That describes an Australian aboriginal tribe which only has absolute position terms, no relative ones. So they say for instance "the cup on the north-east side of the table", rather than left or right.

This even affects their concept of time, whose flow from past to future is described in terms of an absolute geographical orientation frame. Rather than me repeat it here, if you're interested, read the abstract of [1].

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610386621...
Many of the k8s founders have left google. Google doesn't use it internally. I'd actually start looking away from gcp at this point for k8s, given google's history of dropping stuff that they're bored with.
Eh, Concorde turned a decent profit for BA of £50m a year or thereabouts.

It wasn't for "normal" people, it was for the super rich, captains of industry and movie stars for whom saving 4.5 hours was worth spending the equivalent of a 1st class cabin seat on a slow airliner.

[1]There's a great story about the making of the Band Aid "Do they know it's Christmas?" record. The recording session was underway and Boy George hadn't turned up. He was eventually tracked down to his New York hotel, sleeping off a heavy night. He got up, high tailed it to the airport and caught the next Concorde to London - and made it before the end of the recording session.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/making-of-band-a...