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dudeofeaon The death of thread per core

I don't know the application, but just guessing that you don't need to compare an entire full-resolution camera image, but perhaps some smaller representation like an embedding space or pieces of the image

dudeofeaon Replacement.ai

Ford was sued for that philosophy by his shareholders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

dudeofeaon Meow.camera

Cultures that have many offspring usually care less about animal welfare (human and non-human) than those that have less offspring.

Cultures that have many offspring usually become the dominant culture of future generations.

Unless something catastrophic happens, I don't see how you can be right and I can be wrong.

dudeofeaon Meow.camera

The same applied to humans before it did to non-human animals. We are prescribing our worldview of "safe" predictable lives to them, just as was done to us.

dudeofeaon iPhone dumbphone

I find google searches distracting, I can only imagine what an AI chat must be like. I use a flip phone.

dudeofeaon VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

In 1950 the birth rates in Africa were higher than today. Where are those old people?

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/afr/afr...

dudeofeaon VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

Why do they have a young population? What happens to the old people who live in those countries? Why would that not happen in the receiving countries if enough people are imported?

dudeofeaon No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

> This technology gives the kids a lot more freedom than a pre-packaged asset library, and can encourage more engagement with the course content, leading to more people interested in creative-employing pursuits.

This is your opinion. I don't see how these statements connect to each other.

You might have heard this: it's helpful to strive to be someone only a few years ahead of you. Similar to this, we give calculators to high-schoolers and not 3rd graders. Wolfram-Alpha is similarly at too high a level for most undergraduate students.

Following this, giving an image generator to kids will kill their creativity in the same way that a tall tree blocks upcoming sprouts from the sun. It will lead to less engagement, to dependence, to consumerism.

Scams beget more scams

dudeofeaon No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

"Data Laundering": Commercial entities fund (either with money or compute tokens) academic entities which, in turn, create AI models which the commercial entities sell. https://waxy.org/2022/09/ai-data-laundering-how-academic-and...

dudeofeaon Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

An easy way to make this great tool twice as good: Allow inverted selections.

I don't want to live near sketchy storefronts, and neither do other people less honest than myself.

dudeofeaon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

Henry Ford tried not to be greedy all the time, then he was sued, and now all corporations are required to be greedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

dudeofeaon GPT-5 is behind schedule

what about when someone provides long-term value? They would be replaced by a short-term thinking corp (namely, all of them) for providing less value than an alternative with it's value purely in the short-term.

We are accelerating by preferring short-term gains. Like a fire becoming an explosion, that's modern society. Corps now throw the future under the bus for a slight boost in short-term value.

dudeofeaon Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports

Just my 2 cents but I would try with a suction gripper on a swiffer-broom-like joint so you can pick vertically (TCP facing +Z) and place horizontally (TCP facing +X): https://img.uline.com/is/image/uline/H-1960

dudeofeaon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/vaccine/index.html

> In children who have not already had dengue, the dengue vaccine increases the risk of hospitalization and severe illness if the child gets dengue after vaccination.

The mechanism is most likely that wild-type dengue has optimized itself a bit to infect better when covered with vaccinal antibodies (antibody-dependent enhancement)

dudeofeaon Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

> Except then some years later some assholes point out that mortality didn't actually drop in that targeted population. All that happened is the pathogen mutated to the point neither the test nor the immune system recognize it

Seems the incentives are such that you would want to make a virus PCR test using a narrow range of epitopes that you were targeting with the vaccine. That way, if/when you get breakthrough infections you can just say "well I don't see any virus!"

See bug, create unit test, fix unit test, no more bug. User complains bug still happens, you ignore because your unit tests still pass.

dudeofeaon Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents

US deports people, unlike Canada.

US has immigration caps per country of origin, unlike Canada.

US has strict entry requirements, unlike Canada.

US has less "free" social programs than Canada.

dudeofeaon Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

unlikely you could achieve that given that vaccine manufacturers purposely add adjuvants to annoy your immune system to in turn create a stronger immune response for higher antibody titers, which last longer.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

dudeofeaon Apple Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics

I'm the robot now

dudeofeaon No dogs were harmed in the making of this app

you can certainly fix an engineering design in-situ, just look at all the airplanes/jets designed pre-CAD software that were made "just-so" with all the know how embedded in the brains of those that made them/fixed them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPVT2lvMvOk

dudeofeaon Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration

why not plant other species to out-compete the invasive ones?

why do we need to perform chemotherapy on our forests?

dudeofeaon Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

I'm going to start with one assumption that I believe is true: higher mental and physical stress will kill you faster.

If two statistical people both get cancer, one gets screened and potentially treated, and the other doesn't and they both live to 80, I would rather be the person that doesn't get treated.

A regular schedule of treatments is only better than a hail mary if you actually get more longevity from it, otherwise it's just more pain for the patient. At least with the hail mary, I only spend a short time feeling horrible before dying. This is most likely why doctors don't opt for treatment more than the average.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...

dudeofeaon Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

dudeofeaon If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots

screws - axial load

nails - less axial load with shear stress

nails are made of a more pliable metal, whereas screws are more brittle. the real "long-term" fastener, in my opinion, would be bolts; but I don't see anyone using those to frame a house.

dudeofeaon If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots

I don't know about Vietnam and Cuba, but what evidence is there that China is ruled by the working class?

dudeofeaon New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

I think it matters more that the system is equally applied than what the system is exactly. So maybe no system at all would be better.

With our current system, some players can choose to ignore copyright so its not like we really live under a copyright system.

dudeofeaon Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits

By the same arguments, you can reject American original values

dudeofeaon Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot

learn to co....oh

dudeofeaon Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health

I'm glad I'm on the "right" "side" of "history"

dudeofeaon Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation

450 pages in one page would surpass printer DPI limits I would hope

dudeofeaon How computer vision is changing manufacturing in 2023

I'm affiliated with this company (Apera AI), here's my favorite demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSqpAK8Cn_E

Reasons why I think it shows off their best features:

- two regular industrial cameras 1.5m away

- shiny and slippery parts

- vacuum gripper (not magnetic)

- cramped picking environment

- works even when things move around (no scene caching)

- fast (video is not sped up)