HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

kappi

403 karma · joined June 21, 2017

submissionscomments
kappi··on Astra for Law
this essay details how law firms became sweatshops from 80s. They charge hundreds of dollars to do make busy work by the junior most staff. LLM will kill the goldengoose of the law industry.

https://aeon.co/essays/what-made-law-into-a-white-collar-swe...

kappi··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
110 news related to flock submitted last one month! above is my first comment related to flock and calling flock bot.
kappi··on Jacob Coxon resignation appears to be a PR stunt for AI regulation
Well coordinated PR blitz by well funded non profits!
kappi··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
https://x.com/USLaborIG/status/2092719692741755140 Ankit Gupta thinks hiring Americans first—in America—is “DEI.”

No, Ankit. It’s called putting your own citizens first.

American companies. American jobs. American workers first.

If that offends you, the problem isn’t America. It’s your sense of entitlement.

kappi··on India skipped the credit card, and the fraud defenses that came with it
Long essay reitrating the problem but not providing any solution to the problem!
kappi··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
It's not just BT audio. In windows PC, if aliexpress is opened in one tab in chrome, and switching to a tab with youtube opened, audio don't play in this tab if you start playing youtube.
kappi··on Trump Admin Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students to Work Post-Grad (OPT)
because they are considered cheap labor and replacing american citizens who needs to be paid more.
kappi··on Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
He made millions last 20 years at Google without doing much and just being a honorary post, not sure what he feels about BS jobs like this
kappi··on How did professional workplaces become places of such soulless work?
Law is one field where AI can easily replace juniors who do menial work. But then how will law firms bill $$$ for the hours they used to do!
kappi··on DeepSeek v4
DeepSeek is planning to use Huawei extensively for inference

“Due to constraints in high-end compute capacity, the current service capacity for Pro is very limited. After the 950 supernodes are launched at scale in the second half of this year, the price of Pro is expected to be reduced significantly.”

https://x.com/jukan05/status/2047516566149816627

kappi··on What Happened to Fry's Electronics
Most of the employees of Frys were from Bangladesh. Now the connection is clear-> Ausaf Umar Siddiqui
kappi··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Instead of betting on RADAR and LIDAR HW getting better and cost going down, they went with vision only approach. Everybody in this field knows the strengths and weakness of each system. Multi-modal sensor fusion is the way to go for L4 autonomy. There is no other way to reduce the risk. Vision only will never be able to achieve L4 in all the weather conditions. Tesla may try to demonstrate L4 in limited geography and in good weather conditions but it won't scale.
kappi··on Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree
Forget not having degree, to get even an interview call, you need to be T20 alumni! Shows how execs are out of touch day to day operations of big companies.
kappi··on Tesla Doors: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where it Wouldn't Open
As part of a broad investigation into the risks of electric door handles, Bloomberg attempted to quantify for the first time the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. This reporting turned up at least 15 deaths in a dozen incidents over the past decade in which occupants or rescuers were unable to open the doors of a Tesla that had crashed and caught fire.
kappi··on Overconsumption is a spiritual problem
Covid times provied that people can live without 50% of what they usually spend and majority of jobs will disappear if people do that. Most jobs are catering to people's overspending.
kappi··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
During the presentation, Rivian speaker specifically said it is safe for your camera sensors. Check the youtube video of their presentation
kappi··on Rivian Gen 3 Autonomy
Gen 3 autonomy platform will include 11 cameras, 5 radars and a front-facing LiDAR. It will be powered by RAP1—our in-house silicon. Gen 3 Autonomy Computer powered by RAP1 hits a peak of 1600 sparse INT8 TOPS and can process 5 billion pixels of sensor data. Every second.
kappi··on Leaving Intel
measuring number of meetings seems deflection of actual output!
kappi··on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
Following the Airbus A320 emergency airworthiness action, everyone will be talking about the ELAC (Elevator Aileron Computer) manufactured by Thales, which caused a sudden pitch-down without pilot input on JetBlue 1230 back in October.

So here’s everything you need to know about ELAC.

The ELAC System in the Airbus A320: The Brains Behind Pitch and Roll Control https://x.com/Turbinetraveler/status/1994498724513345637

kappi··on Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
duplicate post of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790575
kappi··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
When you are driving in the night during heavy rainfall, good head light is difference between life and death. Get out of your bubble please!
kappi··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
This is correct. Freeways have lot of edge cases of hitting random objects and it becomes serious issue. Check the youtube video of bearded Tesla whose car hit a random metal object making them replace the entire battery pack.
kappi··on Number of Students at UCSD Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets
It's because of high admission rate from LCFF+ Schools

Beginning in 2022, however, UC San Diego took the lead, with enrollment jumping from 894 in 2021 to roughly 1,800 in each of the following three years (2022-2024).

The subset of California public schools in which more than 75 percent of the school’s total enrollment is composed of students who are identified as either eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or English learners, or foster youth, are eligible for additional funding through the LCFF program. The subset of California schools that meet these eligibility requirements are referred to as LCFF+ schools,

kappi··on The Bay Area is cursed
If you are looking for white people culture you won't find it. Young demography is mostly ORM males, I guess that's true across other age groups also.
kappi··on Future of Protein – 23g protein in a 100ml shot
is it derived from Soy?
kappi··on Nvidia's H100 GPU Takes AI Processing to Space
It won't last long because of space radiation. This is just another PR to create more AI hype around Nvidia stock.
kappi··on Childhood Relationships Affect Your Adult Attachment Style
You can find if you read the whole article
kappi··on Trump's $100k Visa Upends Lives: 'My Dreams Were Shattered'
Indians are spending $100k to get into US through illegal border crossing. https://youtu.be/jdgvUiw5yXU There will be lot of them ready to pay $100k to get H1B by under the table payment with the companies.
kappi··on Corporate ABUSE OF THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM
1. Fire American workers. 2. Blame it on “AI” or “tech advances.” 3. File thousands of visa petitions. 4. Underpay foreign workers in worse working conditions.
kappi··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
As authorized by federal law, the department will conduct investigations of employers through Project Firewall to maximize H-1B program compliance. To achieve this goal, the Secretary of Labor will personally certify the initiation of investigations for the first time in the department’s history. This historic action leverages existing authority granted to the Secretary if reasonable cause exists that an H-1B employer not in compliance.

Secretary-certified investigations, as well as other H-1B-related investigations, are important tools the department will use in Project Firewall to hold employers accountable and protect the rights of American workers. Violations may result in the collection of back wages owed to affected workers, the assessment of civil money penalties, and/or debarment from future use of the H-1B program for a prescribed period of time.

Page 1 of 4Next →