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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#151
Up until a year ago I worked on a personal project that involved putting online photos of old cars from my country as found on GoogleStreetView + some photos of the same old cars personally taken by me [1], the reason being that most of those cars will be totally gone in the next 10 to 15 years (many of them are already gone since Google took most of the photos back in 2012 and 2014) and so I wanted to sort of preserve and make these images easily searchable/browsable for existing and future car nerds.

I've also started a small project [2] where I'm posting photos of local flour mills built before WW2. I find them very interesting from an industrial-architectural point of view and by image-documenting as many of them as I can I hope that somehow these buildings will stir the interest of people with some more influence than me when it comes to architectural preservation so that maybe not that many of them will be teared down. I suspect this will be an "on-going project" for quite some time, as until now I've only taken photos of about 30 of these mills, while I counted 500+ still existing in the whole country (mostly using Google Maps/StreetView + Google Image searches + some old topographic maps).

[1] http://cars.maglina.ro/

[2] https://mori-din-romania.blogspot.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#152
Stalled a bit recently but I've been working on/with a programming language called Joy[1].

It's stack-based, "concatinative" and Categorical. It's a little like Forth+LISP.

I had just implemented some type inference[2] when Warren's "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" went by here on HN[4] and I got into a very rewarding Prolog rabbithole.

So now I'm writing a compiler in Prolog for Joy.

[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/

[2] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220280364_Logic_Pro...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#155

Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae,…

What a cool thing to be working on! What scale does your pilot installation produce at?

We are still constructing it. Total area in building is 300 m2. Active growing area in Deep Water Culture (DWC) system is about 100 m2. 25 m2 packing room, 25 m2 people facilities etc. Estimated production, 600 lettuce plants per week (6000 growing positions). About 9 m3 for fish, rainbow trout, max 200 kg in the system. Total amount of water in the system is about 30 m3. The insect facility isn’t even on the drawing board yet. But we have an empty horse stable next to the barn we use to put it in.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#156
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working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

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