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johanamon Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library

Can you elaborate what you mean by this?

johanamon Ask HN: Would you mind sharing high fidelity ideas that keep you up at night?

Will solar geonengineering become essential to correcting global warming?

johanamon LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic

Even in times of low traffic, patrol cars are known to slow down the flow of cars in order to induce congestion. They do it because when there are so many cars on the freeway, it’s safer if the vehicles move along slowly.

It seems that with our current infrastructure, even if we could reduce the number of car users it would not be by such a margin that it would become safe enough to not have these “traffic breaks”.

https://youtu.be/zOjYQTkrdl8

johanamon City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

Would you happen to support Canberra, Australia? Or is there a way to request a city if it's not listed?

johanamon Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

Agreed. Anyone who stands to benefit from this company's services are a few clicks away from a trial--and it does not seem they're particularly sensitive to how their system is used.

johanamon Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

It seems that the EU is considering temporarily banning facial recognition in public for 5 years: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615068/facial-recognition...

But surprisingly a Pew Research [1] study recently found that more than half of Americans trust law enforcement with facial recognition tech.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614267/facial-recognition...

johanamon A small DIY air purifier

Greetings from Canberra! Thanks for sharing this--it's an excellent and much needed project. Also appreciate the use of the drone sensors for measuring air speed :)