skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. This is what Steven Pinker Says in the parent article:

The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted – recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question – in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived... As the new generation of intelligent devices appears, it will be the stock analysts and petrochemical engineers and parole board members who are in danger of being replaced by machines. The gardeners, receptionists, and cooks are secure in their jobs for decades to come.[7]
+1 to this suggestion, Nextdoor's marketplace is great for this. People give away stuff all the time. I'm sure there's some nearby parent with lightly used baby clothes packed away. At least in my neighborhood, I see them offered from time to time.
Well the difference here is that in a liberal democracy we can prevent that from happening if we wish.

Unless we don't have a majority that is
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vetoes-congres...
Most of HN don't understand that the Advertising ecosystem is what is feeding the tech boom and their livelihood. Just like housing it is an entire ecosystem now with many people's jobs and livelihood is based on.

Hit that ecosystem and you get a recession. However it doesn't stop at the recession. Most VCs are funding hundreds and thousands of startups with the hope that one of them is going to get sold to Google or Facebook or Amazon or any of the Advertising Cash Cow business. Dry that tap and you'll have VCs pulling money from Tech.

Now, there is glut of Programmer supply and a severe lack of investments. Not dissimilar to 2008.
I read through your link, it's a cleverly written piece with very little to support its conclusions.

> Empirical studies of immigration’s effect on national economies confirm the general impact shown in the third chart. A review by David Card in 2007 concluded that “more than two decades of research on the local labor market impacts of immigration have reached a near consensus that increased immigration has a small but discernible negative effect on the relative (emphasis in original) wages of low-skilled native workers” but also a small, positive overall effect.

So in effect, more or less neutral, then?

> In the face of the reality that average wage levels are not negatively affected, one counterpoint is that the impact differs among skill levels (i.e., that low-skill migrants depress wages for native low-skill workers)

So that means, that low skill immigration which is the bigger chunk of all immigration, is at best neutral and most likely hurts wages? It is the high skill immigration which helps.

> National and even state economies are much more dynamic than simple theory

Just asserts a wishful thinking and concludes on this, doesn't really put any numbers to support this.

All of this from your own link.
No, because that's worked around with tape on the led. I think the use case that they are trying to solve for is to avoid camera owners unintentionally recording activities of other people who are unaware that they are being recorded, and then ending up with footage that they probably wished they hadn't captured because it makes them feel pervy. Maybe parent setting it up for security but ending up with videos of their teenage kid making out...
We are talking about Whales not dolphins. Dolphins have always been the subject of researches for their higher than average intelligence.
These features are also coming down in the prices ranges now as well. I recently bought our first car, a 2017 Suzuki that cost us $8,000 used (closer to $14,000 new maybe?)

It has the birds-eye view 360 degree parking camera (and curb view), forward collision auto emergency braking, lane departure warning and it'll beep at you when the car in front starts moving after a red light and you're too engrossed in your phone to notice.
Runs on a platform is very different from "officially supported"
Yes. We went through this same fight with the Clipper chip already, but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats.

It's a solved political, human-access issue that doesn't need an easily-hackable technological hammer in search of a nail: if they can get a warrant, then they demand the password or one goes to jail. Adding backdoors would inevitably give unimaginable power to a host of foreign governments, random hackers and political adversaries... little good could ever come from it that couldn't come from warrants and traditional channels of legally-compelling disclosure without the damage to the already tenuous image of the integrity, security, and trust in most every type of system. The attack surface of modern, complex systems is big enough without a hole the punches right through it if you have the master key to everyone. For example, think of the immense risk and target posed by a master escrow key database, and some random subcontractor losing or "losing" a laptop, compromising everyone.
I'm going to double down on this one. I poked around their site and read the blog post on their flyer campaign :

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/postering-san-francisco/

And it ends with this quote :
"By the end of our 8-hour workday, we had: - Put up 352 posters - Spent $96.16 ($31.08 for tape + $65.08 for printing) - Taken 25,497 steps - Walked 11.2 miles - Used over 400 ft of tape"

Nowhere in there does it say anything about the cost of paying the people to do that work.

They're very clearly and plainly stating that they do not put any value on the time of their employees.
Jupiter may have had a head-on collision with a protoplanet
The Huntly power plant in New Zealand is mainly natural gas now. It does maintain the last two coal generators in New Zealand but the intention of these are to be used as an emergency supply when there's a shortfall from hydro and wind. It's not fired consistently and it's usage fluctuates renewable generation in NZ from ~95% when it's off to ~80% when it's running. It was supposed to be shut down in 2016 but that was pushed back to 2025 when NZ is supposed to be above 90% renewable generation consistently.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
-Edward Abbey
As my grandmother's Parkinson's progressed, she had to give up knitting. Then she gave up all the crafts that she had spent her days on. As things got worse, she could no longer go for walks or visit the neighbors. She stopped cooking, too, another thing she loved. Then she couldn't hold a book still enough to read it, and the contraptions we'd set up for her also stopped working since eventually she lost the coordination to turn a page in a book. We got her an iPad and she could vaguely swipe so she could read. Eventually she needed help even with her iPad.

My point is that the elderly aren't necessarily hypocrites. They have a very different lifestyle than you do. The challenges they face are different, what they're capable of is different.

My father is perfectly able-bodied, but you can only golf so many times a week and I think he's gotten sucked into the news and his screen. He just doesn't have anything else meaningful to do with his time.
These are precisely my thoughts, too. I try to keep myself from falling prey to the ultimate human indulgence of claiming to live in some kind of moral decline preceding some end times, but this is exactly the kind of thing that scares the shit out of me. Once people are paying 40% or 50% of their income to rents because they have no choice, what comes next? Combined with all of the enormous consumer debt...
That would cause problems with the GDPR and saying "We have deleted it" and then not deleting it is the type of thing that invites lawsuits.
I believe Apple is doing a better job allowing monetization to continue than Google is.

They are working on ways to do anonymized personalisation/attribution/etc. The current Safari Technology Preview has someting called Ad Click Attribution API, for example.
Fantastic, someone driving a deadly vehicle responsible for 40,000 deaths every single year, and now they can't even hear anything either.

Hey, but as long as you are ok, right?
I think he pivoted to wrong platform. He is mechanical engineer turned YouTuber. He should have leveraged his knowledge into anything else.. like IoT or V2X or anything.

Very heart felt and sounds like PTSD to me. I hope a better future for him.
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Better to just put a shutter on the camera.

Oh wait, that breaks Google's business model of spying on people, plus it does nothing to the microphones on this thing.

(Yes, a shutter that blocks microphones can be designed, but it's a hard problem.)
When I think of bad guys with cameras, I think of Airbnb scams and the like hiding cameras in a home/office/etc. When they have physical access to the camera, there's a million ways to disable the light ranging from nail polish to opening it up and rewiring it.

I wasn't even considering remote attackers, but I'd imagine it's not a large step from [compromising a remote camera such that you can remotely record] to [compromising a remote camera such that you can control other software features while remotely recording].

I admit this update does make it a bit more difficult (for now?) for remote hackers to secretly record people; I'd be interested to see how prevalent that is compared to people actually just recording people with their own cameras.
With active noise cancelling, the music can be loud relative to co-workers and alarms but not dangerously loud in absolute terms.
The same argument could be made arguing against the launch of YouTube Premium.
There is also the ongoing escalation between adverrtisers and fraud. Creating an incentive to collect ever more data to detect ever more sophisticated forms of fraud.
> At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.

Actually, it seems like it's legal in most states? [0] Unless your local municpal code says differently.

[0]: https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/headsets/
It used to actually be OK... Before that big event a bit under 2 decades ago. I recall that as being the most meaningful turning point. That's when "the thing the airport left on over the terminal" became 'news-entertainment' (ad funded hell) and the 24/7 non-stop news-cycle truly gained momentum.

Want to make the news better gain? Kill ads.
Forget about parties, it allows them to control who wins the primaries for both parties.
Thanks! You're correct in surmising that our approach was heavily influenced by Judea Pearl's research.

And yes, the timing of the blog post isn't a coincidence, we actually filed a patent last week :)
It's not normal? Not sure about that.
Indian Army's official publication, Baatcheet, asked for "Sikhs to be reported to authorities as they are dangerous criminals" in 1990. After such a blanket generalisation, Sikhs were indeed reported to authorities, and killed extra-judiciously. Mothers came to know what happened to their sons through newspapers replete with a photo of a cop getting bounty alongside the article branding her son as a militant. Just last month, 3 policemen were convicted of one such extrajudicial killing, and they were all pardoned by Punjab governor. Same governor attended a convocation ceremony where a student handed him a letter protesting the pardon of criminals, and the student was instead issued a show-cause notice of why a guest was humiliated. So nothing, it's all hunky dory in Punjab right now.

BTW, this is a classic Hindu Nationalist propaganda move. Justify past excesses, whitewash them by saying everything is pleasant in the present. Also, use an ad-hominem and paint the other as an opponent instantly.
What quantity of people are you talking about exactly, and what price are you willing for poor black/Hispanic/white people with only high school degrees to pay in low-skilled labor competition, in order to assuage your racial guilt?

Do you have any idea what has happened to the wages for non-skilled labor since the 1970s? While you and I may have nice cushy jobs and live in nice houses, the largest employer in this country is Walmart. Most people in this country don't have college degrees. They are poor, and mass immigration has made them poorer, and continues to make them poorer.

A lot of the "Abolish ICE" support comes from people in highly gentrifying areas of the country, living in cities that are in the process of driving out their historic minority residents from their homes to go live in the Midwest, all to make way for wealthier white people. Not that this would be your situation, of course! But it can make that sort of person's cheap grace very cheap indeed.
Hopefully, sooner rather than later, a Google-Snowden will emerge revealing the truth about Googles data collection and truth about if that data really is being deleted.
How does deflation affect all the stock buybacks happening? Under these conditions, are stocks a good place to keep your cash?
I'm not sure why "supported by both Google and Apple" is supposed to matter. Apple doesn't need to ship a Rust compiler for me to use Rust.
Vastly more ways for it to fail without being immediately obvious to the user.
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
> But there’s nothing stopping anyone from paying back the entire mortgage in 10 years.

Apart from not having the money.
Not OP. My take is it was far too Bond, far too little le Carré. No problem that they modernised the setting and locations, or the cast that should have been great - and to be fair, they tried with what little they were given.

Trouble was it took a subtle suspenseful novel and turned it into a formulaic and predictable US TV series. It was uninspiring TV wallpaper but in fancy locations. Quality source and cast let down by horrible direction and story adaptation. The best I can say is it wasn't terrible. Nor was it a patch on the old or new BBC adaptations of Tinker Tailor.

I grant that it far from le Carré's best novel, but it was a damn sight better than this!
Jai Ho I Love India
That is correct.

From Landin’s paper:

6. Relationship to LISP

ISWIM can be looked on as an attempt to deliver LISP from its eponymous commitment to lists, its reputation for hand-to-mouth storage allocation, the hardware dependent flavor of its pedagogy, its heavy bracketing, and its compromises with tradition.
Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8
Hey, it wasn't me trying to frame this as some unreasonable bias by HN.

And its laughable, reframing big pharma as some poor unprofitable wretches.
Flatfair, the ‘deposit-free’ renting platform, raises $11M led by Index Ventures
Author Brad Templeton was the creator and moderator of rec.humor.funny ages ago, among numerous other exploits.
And hope the market has no natural bound or is at risk of getting obsolete.

Even where automation is not involved, you can get choked by lack of qualified manpower. This is already happening in the USA, stopping the brain drain from elsewhere. (Especially with the immigration policies.)

Outsourcing is essentially growing external competition by your own hand.
Can confirm. My mom is a Facebook power user and doesn’t even know it. She cares so much about what her high school graduating class is up to; including spats in comments about politics, etc.

My father on the other hand is old school and never opted into social media.
This matches a pattern I think I noticed in the last few years (maybe it was there all along): those who want to protect the weak by forbidding some aspect of life are often the ones that seem to somehow struggle with it themselves.

E.g. sexuality. Those with a healthy sexuality are literally never the ones asking to protect the youth from it. It is always those for whom it is connected with shame and stigma. So the most safe route to become afraid of the sexualization of the youth seems to be to have shameful sedual thoughts yourself. And because you, a (in your self image) controlled person have troubles with your dirty mind, how bad must it be for the youth?

So when it comes to assigning priorities to potential problems, one seems to look to themselves and extrapolate from there.

I saw similar patterns with parents that have troubles with their TV habits and extrapolate that onto the (in their eyes comparable) activity of siting on a computer.

The problem with computers is, that you can’t really tell what your kid does unless you spy on it or have the trust bond to ask them. They could be playing games, socialize, watch porn, read the news, watch videos, learn programming or editing software — who knows.

The generation of obsessive television watchers thinks kids are doomed because of the internet. The generation of wild parties belives the youth is unhinged (despite evidence against it). Etc. Just because it was aproblem for you doesn’t mean the next generation even wants it.

I have cousins that are around the age I threw my first wild parties and they didn’t even go out ror a drink yet, befause it literally doesn’t interest them.
I'd say a good chunk of them, but hopefully at the same time other gas stations are being decommissioned and replaced with sustainable generation.

If I look at NZ then in the last ten years pretty much all coal generation has moved to gas but in the same period about the same amount of gas generation was decommissioned and replaced with wind with thousand more MW of generation from wind and tidal consented to be built.
I trust Microsoft and avast to not lie about facts as they can get in big trouble for that. Rather I don’t believe this data from avast is indicative of the market broadly.
I recall reading that discussion when it was first posted. There was something I didn't understand at the time, and now that it's brought up again, I want to ask: He mentions there being a fairly short window in which an ENT physician can try to treat the damage, after which no treatments will be possible. I thought all hearing damage was permanent, always, notwithstanding the potential new advances in growing the hairs back. So what exactly could they try, and what difference does time make?
I did some tests on this, trying to find footage I thought would be least well suited to interpolation:

https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1156343739738152961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHmGEEemoY
As other commenters mentioned, it is just too far away to do that.

To give you a sense of scale, if you reduce Earth to the size of a basketball, low earth orbit (space station, starlink, etc) would be less than a quarter inch above the surface of the basketball. Geosynchronous orbit is a ring around the equator 26 inches above the surface of the basketball.

This is also why Starlink is incomparable to existing satellite internet solutions.
Degraded? Oh, is it looking bad for India? Then India should stop doing bad things. 10 Million people are caged right now, while you can express yourself and you have the audacity to try to mute me too now.

Here's your source, I am not into bullshit:

“While Planet enjoys a great working partnership with agencies of India’s government — like ISRO — we categorically condemn the anti-satellite missile intercept recently conducted by India’s defense department,” the San Francisco-based company tweeted March 27. “Space should be used for peaceful purposes, and destroying satellites on orbit severely threatens the long-term stability of the space environment for all space operators. Planet urges all space-capable nations to respect our orbital commons.”

Planet will still not be boycotting ISRO and using them for the upcoming launch of 5th series of Dove satellites.
Oh come on. You're just dismissing it, seemingly with the assumption that we'd have manned aircraft dropping into tight aircraft parking spaces with all the grace of the very first SpaceX landing attempt.

Obviously there is no reason to bother with vertical landings on a fully functional full-sized US aircraft carrier. This would be for other ships, clearings in jungles, and cleared-out parking lots.

You'd descend toward an area that has been cleared of debris and personal. It's not more absurd than flying toward a ship at 135 kts and expecting to grab a cable without crashing into things and people on deck. Compared to what we do on a CATOBAR ship, rocket-enabled descent is really tame and safe.

Vertical landing with the F-35 isn't exactly safe. This is the standard for comparison. Rockets can respond faster. This allows better stability and faster shut-down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntar...

"Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the tensor tympani muscle of the middle ear." (Emphasis mine.)
Since when is Copenhagen less bureaucratic? Or do you mean that more of that leads to lower costs?

And politics, do you mean US lobbying?
There is nothing about technology that inherently makes it more alluring for young people. In the future we should actually expect that it will be the elderly who possess the most knowledge about a wide variety of technology and are also the heaviest of users of it.

This expectation that young people would be more predisposed to technology grew from incorrect notions of their natural learning abilities and the technological adoption curve.

There is a generation of people who were born at precisely the right time such that technology was simple and analog enough for them to understand from a young age, and from that point grew in complexity at a pace that was proportional to their own mental development, allowing them to seamlessly transition into more advanced technologies with clearer intuition about how it works. Whatever the next best thing was, they were certain it was better than whatever came before, because progress was exponential for so long, and they had actually seen everything that came before. This may be the only generation that is so obsessed with technology, because all their life has been nothing but exponential technological advancement, and a belief that technology can do anything.

It cannot.

The new generations coming into this world where everyday technology is the best it has ever been and probably the best it will ever be quickly come to understand that, and have no expectations of better things to come. For that they will look elsewhere, back to the old ways. The vintage, the analog, the fleeting.
The article is (confusingly) not about all screen time, but just media consumption. I assume that 'media consumption' would not include tasks like doing work or financial planning, or taxes, or vacation planning, etc.
The implication is that most people will assume it hasn’t been hacked and is therefore lit when on.
Of course the US knew the rebels were islamists and when they succeeded in Libya, they tried the same thing in Syria. Fortunately, Russia stopped them.
The ear plugs I wear are 27dB reduction, so it's not like I can't hear anything.

How do you think the 27dB reduction due to ear plug hearing protection compares to someone playing loud music in their car.

Also see my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20702195, reproduced for your benefit here:

At low speeds, driving around car parks etc, the ear plugs are out and usually have all the windows at least partly open, because I’m those environments hearing can be a huge boost to situational awareness.

I find above 40k/hr my hearing is better with ear plugs because it attenuates the road, wind, and engine noise more for me.

Additionally, I've never been responsible for a serious accident, only a couple fender-benders when I was much younger.

Also, as per the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.