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Yep, I've worked in recycling for 6 years and am well aware that there's a lot of broken parts. My point was that if a PET bottle goes into a single stream system, the recycling in…

Based on the single stream comment, I'm going to assume you're describing an experience in North America, and your assumptions are pretty off base for PET bottles. Figure 1 in the …

Grafana miiiight be what you're looking for if that type of data is something you already have stored elsewhere.

Louisiana was pretty smothered by clouds during eclipse time yesterday which likely had an impact.

I work on a similar type of application (AI connected to a robot arm that sorts recycling). This looks pretty efficient for a few reasons. - Consistent lighting is crucial for the …

Recycling facilities everywhere use tech like this (near infrared) at an industrial scale [0], and sorting robots that use AI is a rapidly growing industry [1] [0] https://www.yout…

There's a few reasons I wouldn't feel comfortable calling anything made of recycled plastic food safe, but my biggest is from the huge variety of additives that go into products. T…

That's a good question. Sadly there's definitely microplastics involved. Research into microplastic effects is still in very early stages. When you're creating any sort of dust (wo…

Sounds like you might be excited to check out the new academy we launched. There's a ton of new unlisted videos there too :) I'd take a look at the Spaces chapter. [0] Collection i…

I spent a solid chunk of the last year contributing to this project and would be happy to answer any questions. I commonly see Hacker News discussions on how plastic recycling is a…

Interesting, AdBlockPlus in OSX Firefox was blocking them.

The article references a tweet and then fails to quote it or even link to it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/550297471289552898

Looks great for a static screen. How does it handle scrolling?

While this is really neat, the 595s also feature some nicer padding on the headband. Probably not enough for the price difference, but I just wanted to note that the piece of foam …

I took this directly from a newspost on what.cd, and I have no association with anything written here. Just thought HN would find it interesting. What.CD is a private tracker. Thus…

From your description in another comment, it seems like you've used 'status feed' when the more appropriate term is 'news feed.' As far as I can tell you're not saying that the com…