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by brk 1y ago
"heat sensing cameras", meaning thermal cameras. They solve some problems, but create other ones. You lose any color channel data, resolution is low, and in many cases you get reduced thermal contrast if the object you are trying
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by brk 1y ago
Correct, I didn’t mean to imply it was a summary of the article but my comment could be confusing I guess. It’s my opinion based on 18 years in various AI machine vision startups, and having worked on this specific problem.
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by brk 1y ago
Short summary is that this isn't going to work. I was involved with a company doing some development on whale detection AI. The vast majority of the time you just don't see enough of the animal to make reliable detections. And tha
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by brk 1y ago
I remember saving birthday money and buying this at Radio Shack as a kid. It was pretty advanced for the time. Then I had the idea to try and make it remote controlled, or just fiddle with the internal electronics a bit. Joke was on me, the
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by brk 1y ago
Along the same lines, I've been working with a few of these modules and they are nicely engineered overall: https://quickspot.io/
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by brk 1y ago
Surprised there has been no mention of Wired's Return To Sender yet: https://www.wired.com/2008/12/st-15returntosender/
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by brk 2y ago
This is the same logic as dealing with VC investors. Nobody feels confident saying yes so they drag the process out. Then someone else does say Yes and they assume this other unknown party has figured out something they haven’t. Now they h
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by brk 2y ago
You don’t realize it (yet) but his post was not serious.
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by brk 2y ago
Not an entirely new concept really. Many cars over the years have had what are basically adhesive attached panels and components. Saturn had vehicles with composite panels attached similarly iirc. And I believe the weird GM minivan of the e
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by brk 2y ago
That is a van built by Ares (I might have the spelling slightly wrong). Funny enough I once bought a used one, stripped the sewer inspection equipment out, kept the Oman diesel generator and made it into an actual surveillance van. The insp
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by brk 2y ago
I've never really felt this way, and have used all kinds of screens of various resolutions, sizes, technologies, etc. For 99% of the typical use cases (chats, email, doom scrolling, etc.) there just is not a big enough perceptible diff
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by brk 2y ago
"This is an ambiguous and poorly divided line with loopholes you can drive a burning cybertruck through." Functions as designed.
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by brk 2y ago
In the very early 2000’s I worked at a company building something along those lines. We could analyze SQL and SMB traffic on the fly and spot anomalous access to tables/columns/files, etc. Dynamic firewalling would have been the n
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by brk 2y ago
There often are surveillance cameras on the tarmac. I’ve been involved in many airport surveillance projects with cameras covering the perimeters and operations areas. They just might not want to publicize the camera coverages.
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by brk 2y ago
You still have to consider conduit fill ratios (though fiber usually does not take up much room). But more importantly, you have to make sure the conduit terminates on both ends in some way that makes it easy for you to separate out the fib
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by brk 2y ago
"State of the art" and "powerline networking" have never really gone together well. The most common approach to your situation is point to point wireless. This can be off the shelf stuff from Ubiquiti/D-Link/Wh
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by brk 2y ago
You are correct in those examples, but I think it also opens up new avenues for creation. I can design reasonably decent PCBs (up to 4 layers), I can hack together not-terrible code in a handful of languages from embedded-C (eg: ESP32 stuff
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by brk 2y ago
I think you're mixing in too many technologies. I used the examples I did because they were all things that essentially directly offset or replaced human labor. Air conditioners did not replace humans in jobs, they made indoor spaces m
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by brk 2y ago
This reads like someone who doesn't have a solid understanding of the underpinnings at generative AI. Every major technology progression has come with 'sky is falling' predictions. Generative AI accelerates the productivity o
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by brk 2y ago
I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile a couple of years ago. Zero regrets, coverage has been excellent, and I travel quite a bit.
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by brk 2y ago
Yes it’s been a startup office space for the last quarter century. I did a few startups in various spaces there. And Monster was HQd there in their heyday as well. There were many artifacts of DEC still around the campus.
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by brk 2y ago
It’s not that hard or expensive. CATV analog modulators were common in the past. I had 8 in-home TV channels until our cable company went digital.
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by brk 2y ago
Looking forward to checking it out! I still have this email in my inbox from 2011, after a posting here on HN about your launch: Subject: You bought the first one! BODY: Congratulations... Great to see this happening again, best of luck!
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by brk 2y ago
Maintenance was essentially zero. No regular official inspections needed, but we had an elevator company come out every 3-4 years for a general inspection. Ours was a 3 story hydraulic unit.
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by brk 2y ago
Home elevators are a thing. We had one in our previous house, as did many other homes in the neighborhood. They are not terribly expensive, about $12k/floor during construction.
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by brk 2y ago
What is the correlation? Olive Garden has nothing to do with anything Italian.
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by brk 2y ago
This is very accurate. Most of the time the motivation behind restrictions and not releasing code is rooted in support costs. People can and will break things inadvertently, but they won't like that and will then go the route of reques
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Crypto Got What It Wanted in the US Election. Here's What's Next(bloomberg.com)
3 points by brk 2y ago|1 comments
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by brk 2y ago
Package insurance is more of the exception than the norm, even for stuff like that. The insurance cost is proportionate to the value you claim, and it's not cheap (not like 10%, but still, for $400K, might be $1,000?). That cuts into m
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by brk 2y ago
FWIW, I've had really good interactions with FedEx for the most part. Including for Apple hardware, where I had a FedEx driver pull into the end of my long driveway, wait 5 seconds and then leave. They marked the signature-required Mac

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