jhonovich

Asking the right questions is the hard part for most people in most domains.

The cameras are doing the capturing, I can confirm (IPVM employee).

This can get even worse, e.g. Verkada, Meraki, what we named "Hostage as a Service" https://youtu.be/_vhIdsHeI0M

We have seen no indications Wyze does any work with Hikvision.

Per import records, Wyze's shipper/producer for cameras is Tianjin Hualai https://www.hualaikeji.com/en/about

One major distinction between cards and other physical collectibles is that they come bundled with the implicit protection of the legal system on others making more physical copies (i.e., counterfeiting). So if one owns a rare card, others can see pictures of it, but they cannot make their own physical copy (backed by the legal system and threat of being arrested). This is unlike the NRT / digital side where making identical copies (sans blockchain) is perfectly legal.

Thanks for submitting that. I authored that report.

To give some color, a number of those companies have angrily emailed us so evidently, it has been circulating around.

Happy to answer any questions.

IPVM Analysis on the deal https://ipvm.com/reports/amazon-blink based on our testing of multiple Blink and Amazon camera models

"The cameras retailers use with their surveillance systems are coming with facial recognition built in now. [1]"

Your source in the marketing material of an IP camera manufacturer.

We research that space and I can guarantee that less than 0.1% of IP cameras have facial recognition built-in or running. These manufacturers, like Axis, whom you cite, would love for such capabilities but they are still very uncommon.

Hawaii has defeated many powerful forces. Recall the Superferry disaster / ouster.

Whether or not Zuckerburg is right or wrong, locals have significant power to disrupt the actions of rich and powerful outsiders.

Too much of the comments here are analyzing the legal issues and the not the political / social forces involved in a haole vs local conflict.

"The eye is not a camera" Yes, that is obviously true.

The point is that the eye has the effective resolution, in terms of reading an eye chart, of a 10MP camera.

I am the author, let me know if you have any questions. Hikvision's controlling shareholder is the China PRC government. This move comes in light of increasing cybersecurity concerns with China.

Xiongmai has hundreds of 'manufacturer' customers, mostly in China. Together, they easily amount to millions of devices (though some are analog cameras that by definition are not IP enabled). To give a sense of scale, total cctv cameras sold are in the tens of millions annual and Xiongmai is the biggest module supplier.

In terms of well known brands, most brands hide using Xiongmai so there might be so well known consumer type brands but we have not discovered that yet. The typical Xiongmai brand sells to customers or SMBs at super low prices, where low cost is key.

I am the author of this post, feel free to ask any questions and I'd be happy to answer.

That Chinese firm is actually now fighting back against the allegations and threatening lawsuits against those alleging their fault here, see https://ipvm.com/reports/xiongmai-threaten

The $7 an hour rate is misleading. It is based on an annual contract of ~$50,000 per robot and assumes the robot 'works' 24/7/365. We got this information from the company itself.

"the language of startups is interesting (graduation as a euphemism for quitting or getting fired), but the clear message is that this is odd, and thus, wrong"

What makes it 'wrong' is that 'graduation' is deceptive when employees are being fired or quitting because they hate the company.

Surely, some / many employees are leaving for positive reasons ('graduating' to something bigger / better) but if Lyons is right that that was the general term used for people who left the company, it is not only odd but Orwellian.

The evidence provided was

- an anecdote from a "very rural part of Ohio" where the Amish "lived in grinding poverty". I have no experience with Ohio Amish so I cannot comment but what they describe is nothing like Lancaster Amish (the article referenced here and my comments on). - an entry from Amish America talks about spankings, which is a practice statistics show most American parents do https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+americans+spank+c... From what I have seen of the Amish, I think it is significantly less than the average American.

If you think it is child abuse to not let your children go to high school or to deprive them of the 'real' world, that is a different story.

Our neighbors are Amish and Mennonite. We know and interact with many of them including people who left being Amish. And even the ones who left and have issues with the Amish, I have never heard or seen any incidents of child abuse.

Do you have some evidence of systematic Amish child abuse beyond your stereotype of "socially conservative people rarely handle their family matters in public"?

Child abuse exists in the world, among tech founders, politicians, Amish, atheists, etc. I am simply saying, based on direct interaction and knowledge that it is most certainly uncommon in Lancaster Amish.

"The Amish stance on corporal punishment of children is well-known"

I live in the Amish community referenced in this article and I have never seen nor heard of any corporal punishment nor child abuse. Indeed, I have never heard any Amish person even yell, scold or argue with anyone. Because of that, I am pretty sure such issues are rare in this area.

"People like to think that Amish teenagers have a choice about leaving the community, but what choice do they have when their prospects in modern life are so limited by their lack of education?"

Most Americans, Amish or not, do not become software developers, bankers, accountants, etc. Lots of Amish leave. For example, two doors down from my house there is an elderly Amish couple. All of their children are non-Amish but still support, visit, help, interact with their parents. Not surprisingly, most ex-Amish do not pursue fields requiring advanced education but tend to do very well in more blue core businesses where their work ethic, integrity and significant youth experience working at home can be turned into a solid career.

I live in the area where this article covers, though not Amish nor related to Amish.

First of all, no one is expelled for disagreeing. And Amish regularly leave with no issues nor problems, making that decision before adult baptism. We know lots of people who do that. They still happily and friendly live next to and interact with Amish.

The problem (shunning) tends to come if Amish leave after baptism but I have yet to hear anyone expelled for disagreeing on issues.

As for children working condition protection, what do you think Amish children / teenagers do? They primarily do lots of household chores, certainly more than regular American kids but they do it with their parents and their siblings. Amish are not focused on making lots of money and they tend to do things at home so it's far unlike factory farms or third world factories one might imagine.

As for woman being poorly treated, it's quite rare for anyone, man or woman, to be poorly treated, attacked, demeaned, etc. among the Lancaster Amish from what I have seen and heard. I think what you are getting at its restriction of typical American freedoms. But the same goes for Amish men. Going out for beers with your buddies, getting a girlfriend on the side, building a corporate career, doing a YC tech startup, hanging out on a boat / yachet, etc. are all no goes for men. It's certainly not for everyone.

I would encourage you to check it out, it's less than 3 hours away from NYC and it's quite an experience. You might be surprised about how happy and fulfilled the Amish in Lancaster are.

Net/net, the article perpetuates a generally positive impression of Amish life because Amish in Lancaster generally have a positive / fulfilling life.

"I had no idea Amish businesses had such huge tax breaks."

That is countered by them not taking / getting Social Security payments, government insurance, benefits, public schooling, etc.

"Business Insider lost $11.9 million on $42.4 million in sales last year. Despite the loss, Axel says BI’s revenue rose 41 percent from the previous year" A $400 million valuation for this. Axel will need a miracle for this deal to turn out to be financially positive.

One theory I have read is that advances in producing iron (a new technology at that time) helped shift how wars were fought and the balance of power between older methods of war and newer ones using iron instruments / swords, etc.

I am not sure if this is factually correct but it was an interesting theory to explain such a fundamental shift / breakdown in the status quo.

"UCSF charges Theranos more than $300 for a comprehensive metabolic panel, said a person familiar with the matter. Theranos’s website shows that patients who get the same test at one of the company’s blood-draw sites pay just $7.19. A comparison of all the tests done by UCSF for Theranos shows that the company appears to be incurring losses on many of those tests."

If correct, anyone have a legitimate rationale for Theranos doing this?

The problem is not the growth rate but how they are getting that growth. Credit growth is increasing significantly faster than GDP and, since the 2008 financial crisis, China has 'invested' massively and inefficiently. This is not sustainable.

Author here, would you use these devices in your own home? Do you think the relationship is a concern? Appreciate any feedback.

We have been a grasshopper user for a long time. I've found it to be a mediocre product with limited options and a confusing interface. We've stuck with simply because phone calls are not a big part of our business and it is a pain to switch.

"But an 'arms race for scarce talent' probably benefits a large proportion of the readers here, and harms a much smaller proportion."

In the short term, yes. In the long term, it can lead to crashes where a large number of the readers here may struggle to get jobs at any price for a period of time.

This is a fascinating non-denial denial.

Key claims in the WSJ report they simply ignore: "At the end of 2014, the lab instrument developed as the linchpin of its strategy handled just a small fraction of the tests then sold to consumers, according to four former employees." "One was tested with Edison machines and the other with instruments from other companies. The two types of equipment gave different results when testing for vitamin D, two thyroid hormones and prostate cancer. The gap suggested to some employees that the Edison results were off, according to the internal emails and people familiar with the findings."

"ranging from ~10k in Brooklyn to ~20k in Queens"

Brooklyn is ~35k, Queens is ~20k Queens is almost twice the size of Brooklyn with slightly less population http://www.demographia.com/dm-nyc.htm