"detect and track people, drones, or vehicles, reporting potential targets to a remote human operator that could be located anywhere in the world. The system maintains a human-in-the-loop control for fire decisions, and it cannot decide to fire autonomously"

That last part is important. Though I do wonder, how much of this is 'testing waters' until they decided they can let it off the leash, so to speak.

On a side note, we know that the Chinese constantly steal IPs (like Boston Dynamics Spot, and there's been several university research scandals) and have no interest in following any kind of international laws -- so I hope we keep a close eye on the tech.

I'd be curious to see a comparison of the general population(s) -- all jobs, all education, all working ages, all socio-economic levels, etc. versus only those who are on LinkedIn, as I imagine it is a fairly different dataset.

Among the LinkedIn crowd the results might be true, but I wonder if saying "Nearly 50% of LinkedIn Users Are Considering Leaving Their Jobs In 2024" would be more accurate than "People", the article to me implies only a certain sub-set was surveyed.

I'd say the change was really in the 90s, 00s. In the 80s I'd run around the neighborhood all day and play whatever (street hockey/baseball, hide n seek, exploring woods/creeks/etc) or hang out at the mall or arcade without adults.

As a Gen X'er (and now a MS/HS teacher after a programming career), I'd say kids are insanely over scheduled down the the minute practically, no free time and no independence. Many of my HS students are really smart but have no basic life/common sense skills -- I think because everything has been done or scheduled for them. When they do have a free moment, it's straight to the phone, often just random stupid sh*t -- they are terribly afraid to be alone or unoccupied for even a minute.

It's interesting at lunch, you see no faculty with phones, we're all chatting, laughing, venting, whatever. Half the kids (or more) even when sitting together at lunch are on their phones and not engaging with one another. The school is trying to address it, but it's an uphill battle -- and parents are part of the problem, they act as if the world would end if their child didn't have a phone with them 24/7. Sad imo.

Even before covid, recent socio-political movements, economic changes, etc., I found Macys a weird experience in terms of their price the couple of times a year I'd go. At the ones near us anyway, there were also these hard to understand discounts, weekday or weekend or other random sales, 'member' special discounts, coupons they'd email/mail, etc.

It was a nightmare trying to guess what the actual price would be on anything -- and you know you were screwing yourself if you didn't try to get all the discount/sale prices, but I'm just too tired / busy / lazy to be bothered, I don't find that kind of shit 'fun', though perhaps some do obviously...

There is a range of options between rural Kansas corn fields and living downtown in a highrise. Neither are ideal to me.

A lot of people also live in cities for the simple reason that it;s where jobs are concentrated (mostly)

I did city urban living when I was younger, single, no family -- it was cool, relatively manageable (I didn't own property), but priorities can change for people when those things change. And honestly, at the end of a work day, I'm happy to be living in the quieter outskirts of the city now, Lots of college students near certain urban centers, and it's often noisy -- and crowded as shit, especially in the summer.

That's not for me, so I don't feel 'stuck' at all, lots near me within 10 min (yes driving), neighbors are chill, mostly professionals, works just fine... it's a good middle ground for me.

Wow, that's horrific. I'd require/request a work PC to use in that case. Or buy a cheap one, and expense it, again, just for work.

IANAL, but if what you're describing is the case, I'd be surprised if that doesn't violate some privacy / worker rights laws.

"Downtown is where SOME people want to live" FTFY

Same goes for the rest of your overly broad generalizations, you should have just said "I think" or "for me personally"

They lied/hid issues with the foam, the recall / replacement was a total disaster -- was more than 1 YEAR to get mine replaced by them. I'd get these emails full of legalese explaining how much they cared, but it was going to take a while because of x y and z.

What actually happened was my pcp got me a different make/model since he knew the recall was so slow and cumbersome. I did eventually get my replacement from Philips, something like 15 months after the recall, but by that time I've been using the one the doc got for me for over a year.

Fuck them... and the horse they rode in on.

Random silly person no one has heard of loses money on random coin that no one has heard of. Seriously this is news that matters how?

C'mon /. you can do better... we need CmdrTaco (I know the ship sailed ages ago...)

Lighten up Francis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They're stuff is mostly drag and drop (think Scratch) kind of fluff, the reason they have and 'hour of code' is because what they offer is so shallow. It's all hype and no substance, I know, I was forced to participate in it at my school because no-nothing team 'leaders' and admins thought "Oooh shiney!" and also "marketing photo op!" -- I wouldn't see marketing all year in my CS/Robotics classes, but come 'hour of code' suddenly they show up -- wtf.

The sooner code.org goes away, the better -- they're a bunch of self-promoters. Plus because of they have a certain ideology leaning, a lot of schools feel an allegiance to them -- what schools should focus on is what curriculum WORKS, not about the appearance of the curriculum.

I noticed that the last few days, nothing on youtube is so pressing for me to watch 2-3 annoying fucking ads that might even total more time than the clip I want to see sometimes. If they weren't SO obnoxious and frequent I could live with the occasional ad, but it's incessant.

It's just good incentive for me to find other sources for various media

.. I do not think it means what you think it means"

one tiny country != globally

I'm with you, totally creepy -- it's something that only belongs in dystopian sci-fi novels or Black Mirror, not reality.