đ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Originally published 23 April 2012, updated 10 September 2019 (add link to troubleshooting tool), updated 18 October 2019 (moved to Jekyll), updated 3 April 2023 with links to other tools Development of large systems using many shared (dynamically) loaded libraries can sometimes lead to some frustrating bugs that are difficult to diagnose. These bugs often arise because there a few different versions of libraries on the system and the âwrongâ version gets loaded instead of the one the developer used wanted. Note You may…
⨠Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Hi HN â weâre Julius, Jago, and Nils, and weâre building transload (transload.io).transload helps LTL trucking companies measure freight dimensions using the security cameras already installed in their terminals. Instead of sending shipments through a dedicated dimensioning station, we measure them automatically as they move through the normal dock workflow.Weâve put together a small HN-specific demo site here: https://hn.transload.io/In LTL trucking, dimensions matter because they affect pricing, freight classification, and trailer utilization. If a shipment is larger than the shipper reported, the carrier may undercharge…
đ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. You would think the fighting in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be sending the price of oil and methane for power plants in Europe soaring, and cause the price people and businesses pay for electricity to increase. You would be right, except for one thing. Europe has installed lots and lots of solar power in the last few years, and that solar power is saving Europeans more than…
đĽ Read this must-read post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: The sample app at this yearâs Platform State of the Union was a place to relax. An origami app. A place, as Maribeth from the Foundation Models team put it, âto unwind and get creative with paper.â The demo involved generating paper craft projects from photos and producing step-by-step folding tutorials. The whole thing was warm and unhurried and thoroughly charming. It was also, almost certainly, not chosen by accident. The art of the fold. At the same time those demos were being presented, developers…
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**What Youâll Learn**: Automation doesn't make operators more careful. It makes them forget how to be. The more reliable the system, the less ready the human.The argument for automation is that it frees up cognitive bandwidth. Fewer routine decisions means more headroom to think carefully about the ones that matter. What actually happens is the opposite: when a system reliably handles a task, the human monitoring it gradually stops monitoring, because nothing ever goes wrong, and sustained attention without feedback is not something brains do voluntarily. Aviation has…
đ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: About the Role We are looking for our first AI-forward growth marketer who wants to outperform entire marketing teams. The engine is already running. You'll inherit real traction and real data, not a blank slate. You'll own the acquisition channels that bring students to Emerge at scaleâSEO, paid search, out-of-home, channel partnerships, content, and attribution across all of itâwhile working closely with teammates who own storytelling, field marketing, and partner relationships. Your job is to figure out where the highest-leverage opportunities are and go…
đĽ Check out this trending post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: Catlantean 3D is a side-project I've been slowly building in my spare time for over a year, and I intend to release it on Steam next year. Your browser does not support the video tag. My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s, while allowing myself the luxury of using a modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer. What this actually means is, the constraints I have foolishly imposed upon myself are as…
⨠Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Apple fans would, for years and years, sneer at Microsoftâs penchant for talking about products that may or may not ship, deriding them as vaporware. After Appleâs bungled 2024 launch of Apple Intelligence and new Siri, however, vaporware is fair game, and just in time for this Article. Project Solara Last week, at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft put forth a vision for a new ecosystem of hardware devices under the banner of Project Solara: The concept â which isnât entirely clear from that…
đĽ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: 64 products tested â 45 contained non-approved pesticide residues The laboratory tests covered rice grain, paprika powder, different types of tea, cumin seeds and curry powder.The results are alarming: 49 products contained residues of one or more pesticides. 45 products contained residues of pesticides not approved in the EU. 14 samples contained residues above the legally allowed limit and should therefore not be on the market. All tested paprika powder, chili and cumin samples contained residues of non-approved pesticides. One paprika powder sample contained 22…
đĽ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?163 points by mdni007 15 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 130 commentsIt feels like every event/venue is selling tickets exclusively through Ticketmaster. Every other ticketing platform seems to only hold resale tickets in their inventory which just transfers the tickets to your Ticketmaster account when bought. With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten and all the other ticketing platforms out there, I'm surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty…