skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly, in most cameras the factors are in fact accounted for by setting the emissivity factor, a reflected apparent temperature, the distance to the object and the relative humidity. Thermography is certainly not an straightforward "point and click" process...
I don't think most companies want to relinquish that kind of control to a third party, due to the potential for abuse
Maybe I am just too junior of a programmer ( after all these years... ) to admit it to myself but I perform so terribly on technical interviews. Seemingly simple things I blank on. The stress is palpable and I can't function. I think with time, and practice I'll get better. Hopefully.
Incentives (carrots) and enforcement (sticks) are the only things most big polluters will respect. And that will require strong political will, leadership and outreach relationships to accomplish, one region at a time.
Not true, I was in China prior to 2009 and a VPN was required.
Apollo 15 postal covers incident
At least flash was somewhat consistent between platforms. Due to chrome's market share it has kind of become the defacto standard.
I count my calories on an diet entirely consisting of white bread and it works for me.
For quite a while now I've been hoping that cloud tools will hit the turnkey solution point where anyone technically literate can manage a small private cloud. Baby pictures shouldn't be on Facebook. They should hosted on my machine, and replicated on Uncle Bill's and Aunt Sally's, and only family members have access to them.

But I think I'm going to be waiting a while.
Wait, are you saying that organ harvesting and Muslim re-education camps are just different cultural values, and no one should judge China for it?
So don't touch it then?
The rate of fatal car accidents in the US is about 1 per 1e8 miles traveled. Of course, that's a terrible measure of driver error rate: Less than 1% of all collisions are fatal and with maximally safe cars that could ensure all occupants will survive any possible collision at any possible operating speed, the worst possible driving system would receive perfect marks.
That assumption may be technically correct (I don't think it is but that's a different conversation), but it's very likely to be practically wrong in the "galatic alg" sense. By that I mean that the complexity is so many magnitudes off that it's intractable with traditional binary computing. The pre programmed car would melt it's way through the concrete.

This is relevant:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
Comment Request: State of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods Trafficking [pdf]
A domain goes through various stages before it becomes available for registration again. They are auctioning them after expiration but before general availability.
It is right now, and they did. They've been trying to make it permanent: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/the-government-is-about-to...
What thread do you think you are replying to?
IMO that was reading, not lack of TV. Reading for me definitely changes my thinking, most obvious in that my inner dialog changes tone to match the author I'm currently reading. This is one of my favorite parts of reading and plays an big role in my choice favorite authors and books. On the other hand watching TV or not doesn't seem to have this or any other noticeable affect on my thinking other than a bit of content (or not).
My family is full of people in the medical field.

They generally make more than I do. I work remotely on a beach at 30. They cannot, or aspire to once they retire.

For my values and life goals, I prefer my compensation: freedom. Though they get to wake up everyday to help people.
This seems like a shockingly naive viewpoint given what we know about human susceptibility to advertising.

Consumers consider consider themselves too smart to be fooled by advertising, and yet advertisers spend billions every year because they know advertising works.

It's that gap in understanding that makes advertisements insidious.
And if there are no examples of machine-only failure? Then they will be invented, good ol' fake news.

Because our anxiety about AI driving isn't about whether or not the tech will work.

edit: Our fear of autonomous driving is akin to fear of flying. Flying is, by any measure, far safer than driving, but people are terrified of flying in a way far different than how they feel about driving.
China’s Orwellian social credit score isn’t real
7-Eleven has been a Japanese company for close to 30 years, and started opening stores in Japan long before that. If there's a trend, it long predates it, but my sense is that 7-Eleven never sold itself as American kitsch but was simply a business model that worked well elsewhere. It seems similar to KFC in that regard--far more KFCs overseas than in the U.S. as fried chicken has near universal appeal--though KFC and Colonel Sanders in particular is much more of an American cultural export.

Chains like A&W began opening stores in Asia in the 1960s. And not just around American military bases--a franchise was started in Malaysia in 1963. In general I think the trend isn't one of revival but more that these brands were already global when their American market disappeared. But maybe chains like Denny's and Mister Donut are different stories.
> I think what needs to happen is that you need programs tailored to specific routes/roads. As you drive any distance, you download/cache the programs for the routes and execute them.

Wow. That's so obvious in retrospect. I wonder why I haven't considered it before, nor why I haven't read of it before either.

I imagine having stationary "traffic controllers", semi- or completely automated, that keep real-time information about conditions on the segments of the roads they monitor, and which continuously assign "travel plans" to cars. An autonomous car wouldn't have to recognize weather conditions or static obstacles in fraction of a second, because there would be a static sensor network and processing centres responsible for this. All a car would have to do is follow assigned route at assigned speeds, and monitor its environment for dynamic obstacles.

This makes more sense than trying to pack all the intelligence into the car, and doubly more sense than having the car hooked up to the cloud. Unfortunately, I feel companies of today may find it difficult to coordinate on designing such a system.
They were when I joined as a customer around ~2012. But in more recent years they make weird distinctions between tethered and non-tethered. My SO's phone has T-Mo's version of Android, and enabling tethering causes a visible phone-home interstitial. My phone is unlocked/has vanilla Android, so it doesn't.

Our billing, IMO, is very not up-front about what our limits on tethered/not are. Generally, it hasn't mattered. Whatever our limits are, we're not hitting them.

And it's annoying AF; there is no reason for a carrier to give a crap about tethered/not. Limit my bandwidth, cap the amount I can send, sure — I completely understand not wanting a customer dragging down the network —, but what does it matter what device generated the bits?
Paying for tethering is the digital equivalent of Shell or BP saying, "unlimited diesel for your compact car for $X/month. Add your 4mpg Hummer for only $Y/month additional!"
Announcing Fedora CoreOS Preview
This article is actually describing how the Raspberry Pi 4 does NOT need a fan.

This is not the 1990s. It is perfectly acceptable and even advantageous to design for a high peak:normal load ratio, with thermal throttling. In this case, it allows for a compact, cheap, fanless design for the vast majority of users.

There is no evidence the heat dissipated will impact lifespan. It is common for the components picked out in particular (power supply, USB-C controllers) to be deliberately designed to run hot. They aren't made on the same process as the SoC.

I feel like there is a missing piece of the software/hardware design art here. There are many takes like this on the Raspberry Pi 4 design. Why only one ethernet? Why no fan? Why not more USB-C? Because it's $35 and because, perhaps, you aren't the target majority market. It's going to satisfy the vast majority of people, and those it doesn't have very simple and cheap ways to mod it so it does.
Maybe I don’t understand your point on “never liability on insurance”, but I have automobile liability insurance.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/automobile-liability-in...

If your point is that someone is going to die by these autonomous cars, and someone should be jailed for it... that’s another discussion. In theory you’d want society to say that if the autonomous cars kill fewer people than a human driver would, then... oops for the autonomous car. In reality, it’s going to be an absolute cluster of lawyers trying to convince jurys that yet another corner case was so simple that the autonomous car shouldn’t have run over that 3 year old running after a ball in the fog (and if Tesla had only used a certain type of lidar, this poor child would still be alive) Yes, legal frameworks/limitations will need to be established to keep every run over child from demanding a multi billion dollar settlement. Yes, it’s going to be dirty on both sides.

I personally don’t believe Tesla’s “autonomous cars are 2x safer than human driven cars” sound bite spewed by Elon. I believe that for the primarily highway miles driven autonomously by Tesla, an equivalent unimpaired human driver on the same roads is an order (or many more) of magnitude safer, but Tesla is likely comparing against all drivers for all miles driven.
>OCaml works great in windows and have good .Net bindings.

Perhaps I should clarify. While the language itself might work, the ecosystem didn't seem great. The last time I checked (less than a year ago), opam was mostly broken on Windows. opam is the officially recommended package manager. I didn't want to invest in a system where the official support was virtually nonexistent. Looking at it now, there does seem to be a port of opam for Windows, and the first commit in that repo was less than a year ago, so quite possibly after I last checked.

If it works, I may just switch to it (although in my opinion any software requiring cygwin still means poor Windows support...).

>Does it have bindings for the majority of popular libs? For example are there Gstreamer and Gtk F# bindings? Do they work on both .Net Core and Mono?

There is GTK#[0], which claims support for both. There is Gst#[1], although they claim it is in early stage development.

[0] https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/
[1] https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/htdocs/bindings/dotnet.htm...
Electric scooters are barely a blip in a city's overall transportation scheme. The biggest regulations going on is how to keep them from blocking the sidewalk.

Even restructuring a citys roadways for bicycles--a long-term, proven good technology--has been incredibly slow going. And this with something governments are actively trying to improve.

It will be decades until there is substantial enough change that self driving cars are viable as described in the great-grand-parent. And that's if it moves quickly.
There's a great Reply All episode (#144) about this exact article and the background, and eventual impact of it. From what I remember, the IRS had an idea to make a free filing online system but determined that the cost would be too great so they divvied up the different groups of people that qualify (people under some level of income, veterans, etc.) amongst the different companies (TurboTax being one of them) with the agreement that they would not build a competing system. I think they mention a bill that was shot down that would've maintained that agreement forever.
Same thing way back in the 80s. Only they would buy a small fruit (lime, lemon) for 10 cents with a 10 dollar stamp... then use the change to buy their liquor. And this was a middle class neighborhood.

Never saw stamps used for what they were supposed to be there for. Sad.
There has been research in using massive amounts of neural recordings to infer the underlying sensory cognitive neural network this year:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/553255v2

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco_a_0121...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016502701...

If that neural lace materializes there will be a lot of new material for that particular mental playground.
Much of Google’s revenue comes from the ability to track individual users. A Chinese Google Search would not be any more censored than Baidu, but it may be a much richer source of information for Chinese law enforcement agencies.
I find the top-level comments here on the whole shockingly negative, uninformed, wildly speculative, and even downright spiteful.

From the snide "hope there's no bugs" Titanic joke about an insulin pump -- This is a real mom and a real kid you're talking about. You think you're the first person in the room who's read about the Therac-25?? Do you think a snide joke implying catastrophic consequences is appropriate in this context!?

To the apophatic "almost as if she is performing research on a human child when they are not of the age to consent" which raises missing the point nearly to the form of art... almost as if you had memorized a handbook of research ethics guidelines but yet somehow completely forgotten why we do research in the first place and what technology is even good for!

Then we have the comments whining about the author mentioning other work she's done (like having built this stuff for much of her professional career is somehow irrelevant to having thoughts on what the risks and opportunities are?) as though it were pure self-promotion. And the funny-if-not-sad, "Why isn't he turning HIMSELF into a cyborg but his son?", missing both the author's gender and her point. If you'd glanced at the byline or even the author bio before commenting, you could hardly have missed that the author is a woman, not any kind of a "HIMSELF". And maybe, just maybe, if you had read the article just a little more carefully, it would have occurred to you that she is turning her son into a cyborg and not herself because her son is the one who has autism.

> I don’t want to “cure” someone of themselves. Especially not my son. I want them to be able to share that self with the world.

There is fascinating, thoughtful stuff here touching technology, medicine, science, religion, parenting, and ethics, and there are discussions we could be having around these issues, but first we have to actually engage with what's being said.
You would be correct!

Filebase[1] provides S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of the price. We happily use Sia on our backend. :)

[1] https://filebase.com
I believe that's one of the reasons that games such as Super Mario Bros 3 used additional hardware in the cartridge to do the y scrolling. The memory mapper had special support for just y scrolling and scanline counting.

http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/MMC3
> For me, it's better to eat less overall(not enough calories) or just miss the meal until the next opportunity than eating junk food.

This is called an eating disorder.
> Keybase has a relatively functional electron app

Oh, then I am mistaken, thank you for correcting me and sorry for talking nonsense.

> Isn't the goal with Keybase to see "this person is accountiknow on Github" and do verification that way?

Yes, but that doesn't help me because my chat account is not cryptographically tied to my Keybase account.

So let's say I sign this statement that I am lucb1e on Github as well as on HN as well as on Keybase. You know and can verify that I have all these identities nicely tied to my PGP key. The person who controls those identities clearly also controls the PGP key. Now comes chat. You start a chat with me, and... magic? I don't know, but there is no verification code that I can use to check that I am really talking to lucb1e on Keybase; nothing that ties it to a PGP key; nothing that ties it to the HN user. My device might be encrypting the data for an entirely different key (whose private part is known either by Keybase or some other (W)MitM ((Wo)Man in the Middle)) and there is no way to check as far as I have been able to find.
it'd be great if it worked this way, but it's already been captured at both a federal and at least 1 state level:

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...

https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
Can you share the methodology on how you calculate a carbon footprint/offset?
And by then you will have discovered that your software can not do this and that after being relegated to a lowest common denominator state.
This is one of the reasons why in the UK, back in the early 1990s, it was recommended that construction projects (both public and private) switch to what is now called "NEC" contracts:

* https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NEC3

Most contracts are cookie cutter templates, so everyone is familiar with them and lawyers don't need to be called in to create bespoke solutions for every project. There are various options if fixed-priced or cost-plus is desired, and pre-agreed schedule is decided on so that payments only go out at specific milestones.

Can anyone from the UK comment on the pros/cons of the system?
It seems like a pretty straightforward way to improve search for the end user would be to allow end user personalization.

For example search results could include ‘prioritize results from this site’, and ‘never show results from this site’ as options on each result.

As far as I can see the only reason this kind of search customization is not offered is because it would undermine Google’s business model.
Very interesting, didn't know about graphblas!

Does anybody here know about the advantages with respect to scipy.sparse ? Does scipy.sparse use graphblas internally?
As I've gotten older, not only has the idea of being bored evaporated, but the idea of other people feeling bored is borderline offensive.

As long as we're batting the n=1 ball back and forth, I have the opposite reaction to you. When I was young and an arrogant go-getter, I found the idea of other people being bored, or unproductive, or non-curious to be offensive.

Sometimes I was tactful about it, but that's how I felt, especially when I was consuming a large diet of hagiographies describing successful people as burning the entire candle factory, not just burning the candle at both ends.

Then I obtained two important and (for me) correlated things: Life experience. And empathy.

The former has shown me that I was the outlier. The latter has shown me that these are good and worthy people, they're just good and worthy in ways that my former Cult of Productivity does not value.

And even if I am still interested in productivity and so forth, empathy has helped me see them as they are without judging them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

People can't drink money.
There were quite a few “professional” software packages written in BASIC at the time. Of course most software needed assembly in the early days.
City playing “Baby Shark” to drive out homeless
You mean LinkedIn works great for you, but you would be interested in something around tech community only?
Mozilla are using k-anonymity in their FirefoxMonitor service[0]. This feature syncs from FirefoxMonitor to a local browser DB and checks against that DB. However, I'm not 100% sure what data it syncs from FirefoxMonitor (obviously a subset, but I don't know how that's chosen. I'm not sure if they're using k-anon for requests between the Firefox browser and their own service).

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-server/blob/master/hibp.js...
"<my area> locksmiths/plumbers/etc" may be a part of a massive ongoing scam that very few people know about.

Reply All podcast made an episode on it: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87/78-very-quick...
Most "big data" distributed compute frameworks that come to mind are written in a JVM language, so the focus on Rust is interesting.

So then, would Rust be better than a JVM language for a distributed compute framework like Apache Spark?

Based on what others said in this thread, these are the primary arguments for Rust:

1. JVM GC overhead

2. JVM GC pauses

3. JVM memory overhead.

4. Native code (i.e. Rust) has better raw performance than a JVM language

My take on it:

(1) I believe Spark basically wrote its own memory management layer with Unsafe that let's it bypass the GC [0], so for Dataframe/SQL we might be ok here. Hopefully value types are coming to Java/Scala soon.

(2) Majority of Apache Spark use-cases are batch right? In this case who cares about a little stop-the-world pause here and there, as long as we're optimizing the GC for throughput. I recognize that streaming is also a thing, so maybe a non-GC language like Rust is better suited for latency sensitive streaming workloads. Perhaps the Shenandoah GC would be of help here.

(3) What's the memory overhead of a JVM process, 100-200 MB? That doesn't seem too bad to me when clusters these days have terabytes of memory.

(4) I wonder how much of an impact performance improvements from Rust will have over Spark's optimized code generation [1], which basically converts your code into array loops that utilize cache locality, loop unrolling, and simd. I imagine that most of the gains to be had from a Rust rewrite would come from these "bare metal' techniques, so it might the case that Spark already has that going for it...

Having said that, I can't think of any reasons why a compute engine on Rust is a bad idea. Developer productivity and ecosystem perhaps?

[0] https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/28/project-tungsten-brin...

[1] https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/23/apache-spark-as-a-com...
This is coming from a company with one of the worst interview/recruiting experiences. I had to do two separate onsites just to determine what level I was, then >5 team-matching interviews. I finally went with a different company.
How Switching Domain Registrars Saved Me $300/Year
I would prefer a noiseless option perhaps a good heatsink?
Robo taxis in retirement communities also seem likely to me. https://voyage.auto/
We all agree that this is the problem, but the elusive solution seems to be the field on which we disagree.

I prefer to take an extremely restrained approach to state-backed restrictioins content and instead focus on empowering people to recognize when they are being manipulated and resist being fooled.

My concern is that the state-based censorship approach won't last long into the information age, and that if we haven't developed robust protections within our communities by then (against the full exposure of "bad" content) then the effects may be worse for the wear.
How do you work to avoid monoculture ecosystems when planting forests as carbon capture? Also, how do you ensure that the wood isn’t subsequently harvested and burnt, releasing the carbon into the atmosphere again.
Which routers did that? I'm well aware that the ASA firewalls did it ("ESMTP inspection") -- I've disabled that dozens of times -- but I've never heard of a router that did it (by default).
There were a _lot_ of armchair firefighters that day, questioning why there was so little water being (apparently) sprayed on the fire.

On reddit especially, I was downvoted heavily for explaining that they were likely making a defensive stand inside the structure (similar comments on HN were well received).
By keeping Part 1 as a placeholder they are potentially missing out on a lot of new users who are not familiar with functional programming but are willing to learn it through the use case of scientific computing.
Not really. White light doesn't work as well as flashing red and green.
>I've been a T-Mobile customer forever, but that kind of deception was really, really insulting.

Did you try calling T-Mobile? I would be curious if they could confirm it was in fact throttling tethered devices and if they could explain and maybe correct the behavior?