Hacker News: dudeofea

New comment by dudeofea in "The death of thread per core"

dudeofea — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:09:46 +0000

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

New comment by dudeofea in "Replacement.ai"

dudeofea — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:49:01 +0000

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

New comment by dudeofea in "Meow.camera"

dudeofea — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:52:57 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "Meow.camera"

dudeofea — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:48:56 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "iPhone dumbphone"

dudeofea — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:18:31 +0000

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

New comment by dudeofea in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

dudeofea — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:44:27 +0000

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...

New comment by dudeofea in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

dudeofea — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:26:20 +0000

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?

New comment by dudeofea in "No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation"

dudeofea — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:58:18 +0000

> 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

New comment by dudeofea in "No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation"

dudeofea — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:48:49 +0000

"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...

New comment by dudeofea in "Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences"

dudeofea — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:27:04 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

dudeofea — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:40:33 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "GPT-5 is behind schedule"

dudeofea — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:47:51 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports"

dudeofea — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:08:23 +0000

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

New comment by dudeofea in "Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite"

dudeofea — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:25:44 +0000

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)

New comment by dudeofea in "Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite"

dudeofea — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:13:22 +0000

> 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.

New comment by dudeofea in "Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents"

dudeofea — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:24:22 +0000

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.

New comment by dudeofea in "Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle"

dudeofea — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:34:50 +0000

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/...

New comment by dudeofea in "Apple Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics"

dudeofea — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:36:36 +0000

I'm the robot now

New comment by dudeofea in "No dogs were harmed in the making of this app"

dudeofea — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:22:32 +0000

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

New comment by dudeofea in "Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration"

dudeofea — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:49:28 +0000

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

why do we need to perform chemotherapy on our forests?