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HN stop supporting sites that block information with paywalls
The HN policy on paywalled articles in general is clear. 'dang has commented specifically on the NY Times as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003345
Are RFID tags not a more elegant solution? Or are they too expensive?
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>80% of the American population lived in what is called an urban area in the 2010 census [1]. While their definition of urban is looser than you might use, still >60% lived in 'cities'[2]. Unless the wealthier, more connected, more educated readership of Hacker News strongly bucks every trend suggested by their demographics, it's pretty safe to say we mostly live in urban areas. [1] https://www.citylab.com/equity/201…
How do you know HN is made up of only Americans?
I don't want to step in shop at all, I want my grocery delivered to my door and the delivery guy/drone can on the way out throw my trash. I was doing this in China (it helps to live in city with concentration of 20 million people), they even offer the throwing trash service though didn't went further into that step
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>80% of the American population lived in what is called an urban area in the 2010 census [1]. While their definition of urban is looser than you might use, still >60% lived in 'cities'[2]. Unless the wealthier, more connected, more educated readership of Hacker News strongly bucks every trend suggested by their demographics, it's pretty safe to say we mostly live in urban areas. [1] https://www.citylab.com/equity/201…
How do you know HN is made up of only Americans?
I know the standard reaction from a lot of HN folk will be to celebrate this progress: it's faster, more efficient, and no one likes to waste time waiting in line. Still, though, I think Amazon's automation of the retail experience is helping to create a society where there is even less real social interaction, and I think it's a factor (if even a small one currently) in the increasing tribalism in American society.…
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The HN policy on paywalled articles in general is clear. 'dang has commented specifically on the NY Times as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003345
I don't know of any work around with the recent changes they did.
Techcrunch article with additional technical details: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/21/inside-amazons-surveillanc... > ordinary RGB cameras, custom made with boards in the enclosure to do some basic grunt computer vision work, presumably things like motion detection, basic object identification, and so on. They’re augmented by separate depth-sensing cameras (using a time-of-flight technique, or so I understood from…
Imagine when Amazon sells this system to Palantir and police departments for use all over town.
I haven't seen anyone discuss the technology...can this really be reliable? It mentions cameras above the shop floor and machine learning. What do the cameras look for? Are there special visual markets on the products to make this task more robust? If not, there surely must be caveats? Are RFID tags not a more elegant solution? Or are they too expensive?
As for what they look for that's the secret sauce but there's a few things that are pretty clear from descriptions. They seem to be using mainly (only?) cameras for the identification. Luckily branding is pretty prominent so they have a pretty convenient thing for their item labeling to look for in the feeds. For cart shopping there's some simple things like tracking people with their faces from when they enter then adding items to their cart when they move an item outside a defined shelf region.
When I installed the app it mentions you can let others buy stuff from your account with a single phone on entry(kids, friend, etc). There is an animation that shows you tap your phone in, send your friend in, then re-tap yourself in. Didn't see this mentioned anywhere, and I thought it was kinda neat.