Energy with magnetics: https://www.KryonEngine.org
Is there a working model?
Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here in Germany we have to split our garbage and one "bucket" so to speak is compostable and gets taken by the regular garbage trucks and I assume is composted in large facilities. That seems like a more reasonable approach because it scales to a whole city doing it
And then the yellow bags for plastic, which they take to SE Asia on the otherwise empty container-ships, so that it gets dumped on a beach or into a river, while Germany fills its quota for recycling. Sorry for the cynicism, this was the case a few years ago, maybe not anymore?
I don't see what you are trying to say here? That we shouldn't even try to recycle anymore because some garbage gets shipped to SE Asia?
Re: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
#33Without a doubt ChatGPT. Still surprises me daily.
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#34Magnetic resonance focused high intensity ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier in humans to deliver drugs directly to brain tissue - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12426-9
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#35Seeing a dude grow human neurons directly connected to a computer chip to make a "human AI", all from his garage [0].
It showed me what is possible with science these days if you have enough dedication and know-how.
Made me feel deeply excited and scared for the incoming future.
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#38LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596
most things don't have filters. I don't think I've seen a drive failure because of it though. I think the last time the robot failed it was mostly because of the autoloader not working properly.
Tape drives (3592) in a Singapore data centre had lots of problems in the smokey burning season until they put in filtering specifically for the drives. In other office-like data transfer rooms in other cities they didn't seem to have problems, so perhaps there's something especially bad about smoke.
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#39Neurons in a Petri dish learning to play pong https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03229-y
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#40Deep fakes certainly hit me wrong. Especially given how easy it is to do to celebrities. It started off with mundane stuff with a great message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0 Then South Park guys, Trey Parker, doing absolutely hilarious deep fake video. They make Al Gore and Trump say poop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM But then basically the same time I saw deep fakes presented as true. T…
You should watch "the capture" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series) (spoilers in the wiki article).