skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Insider reported in February that Amazon was equipping all delivery vehicles with an AI camera system called Driveri, which is manufactured by a company called Netradyne.

> The cameras are always on and scan drivers' body language and the speed of the vehicle, detect if a driver is wearing a seatbelt, and even measure drowsiness.

> The system then uses "automated verbal alerts" to tell drivers if a violation has been detected."

> [...]

> Amazon told Insider in February driver footage was not automatically available to Amazon and that the "live feed" was triggered only after the detection of a safety or policy violation. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

Wow this sounds like a dystopian science fiction movie.

It's scary to notice that Amazon PR team gets away with just saying "we promise it's not automatically available, and that we don't abuse it by surveilling 24/7". All this just reminds me of the creation and abuse of Uber's god mode, Snowden's revelations of NSA's secret dragnet surveillance, etc.

Things like this are only appropriate to use when the code for the system is 100% open source. It's anti-democratic when a system of rules that can instantly upload a live feed, which is "triggered after the detection of a safety or policy violation", is not visible to a participant in the system. It's tyrannical and terrifying. Systems like this just end up gaslighting workers and invasively monitoring them. It uploads their private information (it monitors their 'body language' - whatever that means) to a black-box vault, to be used for further exploitation by capital (and fed into the capitalist, racist and sexist Silicon Valley AI monster).
100 Years of Solitude?
Everybody thinks they have some brilliant insight about language without ever bothering to look at the work of people who actually study it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale
personally I am a fan of the parallel universe where the translation of "I am eating" is "sono mangiante"
Well the English 'counter words' for animals are also tough aren't they? Ok, a flock of birds everybody knows as well as a murder of crows. But what about an exaltation of larks? And is it a school of dolphins or rather a pod?
That is a great youtube channel there. The fall of the city of Ur was also a good one
Scenarios in the article may be cherry picked and videos are not the same as being in the same situation in real life. Also in article they didn't have a chance to provoke subject into verbal contradictions as they were only looking at visual cues.

Even in the article they mentioned 85% success rate after some training.
Kanji (at least the first 3-4000), counters, word-level pitch accent, etc are all totally learnable and I wouldn't consider them "advanced" topics. That's not to say it doesn't take a couple thousand hours to get there, just that with enough time spent studying and consuming native content learning these things is inevitable.

Likewise understanding something like は vs が to the level of a fairly advanced non-native speaker is not that difficult. Especially now that there are actual good grammar resources that don't explain things in the bizarre way that the traditional textbooks do. At that point you can _understand_ everything, and explain yourself in a way that you will always be understood.

However once you know all those things there's a whole different category of issues that separate you from native speakers. Case in point: this 331-page book [1], written in Japanese, only about は vs が. Clearly if knowing that が is always the topic etc was enough to pass for a native, this book would not exist.

As I said, this is in no way unique to Japanese. There's a difference between speaking correctly and speaking at a native level. Most are happy with the first, and that's ok - it's mostly an academic exercise once you go beyond that.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/product/487424128X
People only going to hear "25% less" part and only government protectionism can stop it.

Also you have the alternative to buy from other more reputable OEM - better fittings, but same core.
>If you didn't get a padron (local residency certificate for your municipality)

Worth noting that local registration (padrón) is a requirement in Spain for all residents, including EU resident citizens, and also that there was 11+ months notice before this agreement came into force (if you don't want to count the 4.5 years notice since the referendum).

Meaning, people who were present in Spain but not legally resident could have chosen to "move" from the UK to Spain at any point until Dec 31, 2020, just by registering at the town hall like they were supposed to all along.

Your description of heavy paperwork seems to be a highly exceptional case which allows people who didn't register (but can prove they were resident) to now appeal.
Most cameras remove a black frame from photos with a long exposure. I’m not sure about mobile phone cameras though.
I'd also be interested to hear the advice, particularly as the Police seem to have a number of situations where you must give them varying amounts of information, and could be committing an offence if you don't, and other situations where you can say "no comment" to everything including name and address even when arrested. It's really confusing.

For example, the police can get you to show your documents, name, address if they think you are not a UK citizen. Another example: in a stop and search you must tell the police what they might find during a search.

i.e. https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/sto...
If any Ada users are here, I have question on one section:

procedure Main is
type Distance is new Float;
type Area is new Float;

D1 : Distance := 2.0;
D2 : Distance := 3.0;
A : Area;
begin
D1 := D1 + D2; -- OK
D1 := D1 + A; -- NOT OK: incompatible types for "+" operator
A := D1 * D2; -- NOT OK: incompatible types for ":=" assignment
A := Area (D1 * D2); -- OK
end Main;

> The predefined Ada rules are not perfect; they admit some problematic cases (for example multiplying two Distances yields a Distance) and prohibit some useful cases (for example multiplying two Distances should deliver an Area). These situations can be handled through other mechanisms

I can get why you have to be explicit in type casts if you're trying to be safe, but is there any way to say that

type Area is Distance * Distance

Or

Type CubeVolume is Distance * Distance * Distance

So that of I say a: Area and b : CubeVolume and a := d1 * d2 it just works, and then b := a * d3 also works.

IOTW, explicit casts not needed.

Or is it the case that Ada really took the concept of "explicit is better than implicit" and went to town?

I just wonder because I love F#'s unit of measure types and how they can prevent logical type errors (say, multiplying 10 m/s by 3kg when assigning to a variable of type m/s^2).

Or for this case, if I wrote

x: Distance := y: Distance * z: Distance

It'd fail hard, because a Distance * a Distance is an Area.

I sorta figured Ada would have invented this sorta stuff and then it was cribbed by other languages.

So yeah, wondering what the other mechanisms the author mentions are. Because I've always heard Ada is great at type safety, so I'd be keen to see how safe it makes your code when combining values with units that aren't logical to combine.
Show HN: Online TV Streaming Watch Party
I saw an EV van that had solar panels that generated enough power to drive 50km per day. It was fully decked out to a comical level though.
When I am already on a marketplace trying to buy something, the intent value and timing of it makes it infinitely worth more than random videos, at best re-targetted because i previously visited something.
If they ask you why you didn't offer this earlier, you send them a link to this video. But in all honesty, I think it's of course very different when it's a PR situation vs a court situation. If you are asked about what just happened by press, "no comment" or "wanting to plead the fifth" might instantly make you enemy of the public even if you are innocent and want to be strategic about it.
"Moral Statute Machine:
Your repeated violation of the Verbal Morality Statute has caused me to notify the San Angeles Police Department. Please remain where you are for your reprimand."
I moved to Finland, and find Finnish quite hard.

On the one hand it is very consistent and regular, on the other hand the suffix-approach means it requires a lot of concentration in speech. (Which then often results in Finnish people replying to me in English.)

Russian I love to hear, and I love the Russian naming system (Anna -> Anya).
I relieved in a way that it's hard or impossible to tell based on the kind of stuff in the article as I've always been a bit rubbish at that and kind of assumed it was just me. Sometimes a practical way to tell if people are lying is observe them when they don't think you are looking or don't think it matters.
Yes, alternative shells for Windows used to exist. Back in the ME days I used Litestep:

http://litestep.net/

No idea if they still work.
It's "some dolphins" and "some larks"

Because nobody in the UK bothers with group nouns except for a very few (herd of cows, for instance).
That’s not a counter-example: the Latin root “corpus” was borrowed through French twice: once in the 16th century (corps) and once in Middle English (first corse, then corpse). This is a case of path-dependence: the newer borrowing is pronounced more like French while the older one has been regularized.
You point to various wrongs committed elsewhere in the world when the discussion was about whether there is Authoritarian rule in Venezuela. I interpret the deflection as a silent acknowledgement. You aren’t even attempting to convey any sense of non-authoritarian rule (freedom of press, independent judiciary, no demonizing of opposition, use of law by the executive, clear separation between executive and military etc). All you are doing is saying “yes but what about X”.

Is there or is there not a reasonable independent media in Venezuela? It’s as a simple as that! If there is (including for foreign “imperialist” interests of course!) then I’d say the country is under authoritarian rule.

Perhaps the world is being lied to and the smelly imperialist orgs like RSF make up these lies about disappearing journalists and suppressed opposition media?

I think the key thing here is: non-authoritarianism would mean (for example) free press and of course opposition. That in turn obviously includes media and opposition pushing what can be seen as foreign interests (what you’d call imperialist). Taken together that means: Venezuela has two options: either thriving pro-US media and political organizations OR authoritarian and undemocratic rule. Which one is it?
I really need the opposite: the option to use control for copy/paste on Mac.
I do wonder what kind of company culture produces decisions like this. Multiple high-level people will have signed-off on this. They'll have sat in meetings reading their six page documents and nodding at eachother. I wonder if, at any point, anyone said no - this is excessive? Or that this is dehumanising? Or is it that when you get past a certain level at Amazon are you already so invested in their worldview that the way that drivers and warehouse workers are treated just seems normal? Or is there some other reason for this?

I find the prospect of a world with more Bezos's and more Amazons and their dehumanising world-view genuinely frightening.
> detect if a driver is wearing a seatbelt, and even measure drowsiness.

These actually sound like good things, but they’re also implementable without a camera
There's a better way to do it. Terminals have a special escape sequence called OSC 52, which allows you to insert into the clipboard from even remote SSH sessions. Try this:

printf "\033]52;c;$(printf "%s" "blabla" | base64)\a"
To be fair, the last wave suggests that wearing masks has no effect in this pandemic[0][1]. Comparing Sweden and Germany (which have at least similar health systems and count similarly) the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is about the same, where Swedes rarely wear any masks and in Germany it is mandatory indoors (accessible to the public) and even mandatory in some zones outdoors.

Also when you think about it, the permanent mask usage has some serious hygienic downsides.

1. You need to touch your face way more often (reseat+put on/off)

2. Most masks still allow viri to go through (especially on the sides)

3. Masks are often reused and used for too long (correct usage would need either a lot of money+time or hundreds of masks/month)

The positive effects of masks in this pandemic are pretty debatable especially given the "circumstantial" evidence.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/MNlOoTN

[1]: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/blob/master/public/dat...
I had few issues with that video while it was extremely entertaining and captivating. Yes, there are innocent people getting a guilty verdict. But the actual question is, statistically how often? It's easy to cherrypick few examples, because law of large numbers means that if there's 0.0001% chance of getting wrongfully prosecuted if you talk as an innocent person, there's bound to be some famous examples.

But maybe in 99.99% cases speaking the truth and co-operating quickly will spare you many months of stress and time.

All I'm saying is, that from the video alone it is not clear to me what the risk/reward here is and of course it is situation dependant.
My Aunt worked did Maths at Houston and worked on the Gemini and Apollo projects as a programmer, eventually starting her own company.

She too has passed now, and despite being very interested in space as in studying it for a degree I never got to talk with her about what she did.

From what I have read women programmers seemed to be quite rare at NASA, but perhaps not as much.
This is a good point. When I was in Switzerland they had a guy from Muothathal on TV. TV decided to subtitle him. I thought Swiss German was weird, but this fellow seemed to be speaking a completely different language, to my beginner ear.

The thing is though, you can ask people to speak High German instead of mundart, eg at meetings. They admit it's different enough to warrant explicit statement.

You can't be telling your Liverpudlian or Brummie to speak the Queen's English, that would be rude.
Thank you for making my point. Your comment is as vague and nebulous as you say Gladwell's stories are. Neither does he claim to publish scientific papers, last time I checked those were "popular science" category books like millions of others. I'm not sure what value there is in singling out one guy, or to point out the gigantic discrepancy between a scientific paper and a popular book, especially when it's done worse than the latter and even farther from any rigor.

The vitriol, downvote-happiness and almost zealotry of "commenter movements" like anti-Javascript, or, here anti-Gladwell, to me signals that this is more a self-perpetuating fad driven by group think (trying to fit in and proof one is part of the core). If it was merely fact driven such as mine would be ignored - or not be given cause to exist in the first place. It's not like I care one iota about Gladwell, as I said, I never managed to read more than a small part of one book. What I did notice though and why I even paid any attention at all was the amazing level of effort - coupled with an equally amazing level of vagueness - some people put into this.

If one were to think logically, even if you conclude all of Gladwell's books are really really bad, you would just ignore the whole thing. That call to arms anytime anyone dares mention Gladwell - or Javascript - is scary and as far as I can see far worse than anything Gladwell may ever have written. It reminds me more of high school "cool kids" group dynamics.
Do the drivers have to work extremely long shifts or do they have to work multiple jobs so that fatigue becomes an issue? In that case the camera system is probably not the right solution ...
Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, et al.
Oh that’s neat. Do you use the x server for just this purpose or do you also run linux gui apps? I’ve been thinking about investing more into it but the high dpi stuff does not work properly.
the author leaves out a critical part of the story -- the canonical antifragile strategy is the "barbell" 80/20 strategy, in which one focuses the majority 80% on safe, reliable, even boring tactics. Options are relegated to the 20% because they can go to zero.

My buddy works at a huge old bank. When he complains about the bank job, I remind him the bank job is antifragile because huge banks are safe places (note; not investment banks doing risky stuff) -- this stability can translate into excitement and optionality for him in the other 20% of his life. Implicit in the notion of options which "cap your downside," is the fact you're willing to accept that downside. You can't do that if you're in a precarious position.

Universea might buy a lot of out-of-the-money puts, but they also hold vastly more money worth of bonds.

Also, that chart of long stock vs call options is dead wrong because the options are on a different scale from the stock. Long stock trades don't go into negative valuation. They go to negative ROI. Call options routinely go to zero valuation. when your option goes to zero, your ROI is -100%, not zero.

If you measure risk in terms of the percent increase necessary to recover a loss, then a 100% loss is an infinite risk. It's really, really dumb to YOLO all in on options because of the gambler's fallacy, and the principal of maximum pain. That's why risky options are best done in small bets. Luckily for some, even if you lose your money, you still have your life, so you haven't truly lost everything!

If anyone is interested in an excellent book on antifragility for business, I recommend Jim Collins' Great by Choice. The audiobook is read by the author and he does a good job.

TLDR: Antifragile is only 20% about optionality. It's 80% about how to reduce or even reverse risk. Don't tunnel vision the 20 and forget the 80!
Oh God, thank you for saying this. I cannot read two pages of Malcolm Gladwell and cannot fathom his popularity. Generalizing from anecdotes in an entertaining way: that’s his whole schtick.

Or, maybe I’m an old cranky curmudgeon and should let people enjoy reading his junk science.
Obligatory dystopian scifi on this theme: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Ethiopian news media have become dangerously divided along ethnic fault line
Ohm just makes me want to watch Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
These discussions are always super boring. There are dozens of technologies that can scale to the level needed but everyone goes goes lithium ion and pumped hydro as if everything else didn't exist.

Sure cell batteries might not work, we can try out flow batteries, we can try liquid metal batteries, we can try hydraulic hydro storage, we can try out hydrogen, we can try compressed air, we can try electrolyzing iron or aluminum, we can try another dozen different things and it is highly likely that at least 3 will work out just fine.
They open their mouths.

No seriously, we all, mostly lie. Stop and think about it for a second.

It could be just a simple thing to make an otherwise humdrum experience seem interesting. No harm no foul. But there it is, its a lie.

Heck, even my dog lies. He overplays the negative to get sympathy... and more food and petting.

Children lie. A lot. If you have a child, you know what I mean.

So yea, just open your mouth. That's how you can tell.
There's a few well known ones that everyone uses.

And then there's ridiculous ones, like "a murder of crows", that many people know because they're ridiculous, but people still don't use them.

And then there's a ton that almost nobody knows, and nobody uses.

In the end, it's not a big deal. Unlikely Japanese, where they really do use counters for those kinds of object. Flat things like paper, cylindrical things like beer bottles, etc etc.

https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crow...
There is very little demand for grid storage. The biggest problem with energy storage is that it's a red herring until the 30s and 40s.
Everyone votes (not specifically with their wallet) but with their choices. Perhaps there are some people who worry about the planet but continue to do it harm and not consider changing their behaviour. i would also translate voting with your wallet "put your money where your mouth is", instead of any concept of power differences between people, but thats just me.
Identifying vulnerable network daemons for remediation
Do any of these "tech" companies that employ blue-collar workers treat them well?

We have major class issues.
China did everything to stop the virus within their own country, but not to keep it from escaping China. They ripped up roads from Wuhan to other domestic regions, but still allowed citizens from Wuhan to travel internationally.

There are better sources, but here's one to get started if you need:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/Whathappensif/how...
Demolition Man (1993), for anyone wondering :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
These also sound like the excuses you come up with to install cameras in every car when you can't say the real reason because of bad PR.

This approach works really well, because you can just accuse people who are against your proposals as being 'against driver safety'.

It's similar to every other move in increasing surveillance in that you can come up with a 'PR-friendly' reason for the surveillance that people find tough to argue against to placate the masses. "Oh, you are wondering why we are spying on everyone... uhh... it's to protect the children! It's to protect the children! And terrorists! We need to stop the terorrists! And the people who are against these proposals? Well they must be people who are pedophile-enablers and terrorist sympathisers!"
I knew that, but, I see where the error is now.

The OP posts saying ~'why does _the_ Mona Lisa image say this' and then the responder doesn't explicitly correct them: the linked image is not _the_ one but one of the copies, a copy that's also in the Louvre collection.

Aside, Wikipedia says it's been "on permanent display" in the Louvre since Louis XIV; not quite right, perhaps they meant part of the permanent collection.

I'm interested that Wikipedia claims it had no special renown until pretty recently, yet there are several high quality copies. Is that consistent?
Fastest Y Combinator company to reach $1B Valuation
Which YC start-up had the fastest route to unicorn status? Was it Scale AI, Faire or something else?
I don't know how it is in the US but I always get the feeling the Amazon driver uses his own van or car to deliver the parcels. Wouldn't even think about having something like this installed in my own car.

I don't agree with such a system but if you use Amazon's van/car there is less opportunity to be against it.
> (for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the Tom Clancy book where Iran weaponizes Ebola)

Executive Orders.

IilIRC his last actual book.
Ok, so that was a bad example. What about order of adjectives, do people in the UK bother about that? Like a red metal big ball, or a big red metal ball?
Congratulations, impressive.
It's more like people wanting to be done with it using any excuse. I don't think jobsworths would particularly care who did what, they wanted things to go away. They were probably paid so little it made no sense to play a detective.
It would be interesting in northern Africa. Install soil erosion blankets and then put solar panels on top to reduce evaporation. Trim the plant growth to increase the biomass available to the soil.
>> They open their mouths.
No seriously, we all, mostly lie. Stop and think about it for a second.

I disagree. That's one of the oldest falsehoods in psychology. Sure, there are some people who lie all the time, but that's more of a symptom than a universal behavior.