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Comment · 3 days ago
No firstly there are several Korean companies making both batteries and battery manufacturing machine tools.
There are big factories in both Michigan and Kentucky Ford operates it just took over from Blueoval SK.
They retooled Ford plants are now making grid batteries instead of car batteries is my understanding.
Tesla also has battery factories in the USA as well as a lithium refinery.
Batteries are complex but less complex than semiconductors. They are rapidly dropping in cost too.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's really tough to come to terms with it but making academic contributions in general from the outside (with or without AI tbh) is not often welcome and the whole process feels very gate-kept.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hi HN, I started PureJsImage because JavaScript image processing often means using a native addon, a large WebAssembly payload, a browser-only API, or a full source-sized RGBA bitmap. I wanted a portable TypeScript implementation that works in Node.js, browsers, workers, and serverless functions with zero runtime dependencies by default.
Right now the project has many more decoders than encoders. It includes first-party image codecs, TIFF and BigTIFF, scientific raster readers, whole-slide access, and geospatial support for GeoTIFF, COG, and GeoZarr. The encoder side is still much smaller, so feedback on which output formats matter most would be useful.
The main goals are portability, performance, bounded memory use, and reducing supply-chain risk in controlled or tightly reviewed environments. Optional JPEG and PNG WebAssembly accelerators exist, but they are separate explicit imports and are never loaded by the default package.
Some runnable demos:
- Browser viewer and converter: https://purejsimage.com/demo/ - Scientific raster explorer: https://purejsimage.com/scientific/ - OME-Zarr viewer: https://purejsimage.com/ome-zarr/ - Aperio whole-slide viewer: https://purejsimage.com/wsi/ - COG and GeoZarr range demo: https://purejsimage.com/geo/
One of the more interesting constraints has been memory use. Common baseline JPEG resize paths use bounded MCU rows, remote TIFF and COG access reads selected ranges and regions, and the scientific APIs keep native numeric samples separate from display pixels. Some codecs and format subsets still require explicit full-frame fallbacks, and I try to document those boundaries instead of hiding them.
The project is still young, and I would really value feedback on the API, missing formats, decoder and encoder priorities, adversarial files, browser workflows, and useful performance or memory benchmarks.
Source: https://github.com/a-r-d/PureJsImage
Format support: https://purejsimage.com/codecs/
Scientific format support: https://purejsimage.com/scientific-formats/
Comment · 8 months ago
Yes I understand what an idiom is jfc. OpenAI was never the enterprise focused company to start and besides they can walk and chew gum. There’s another idiom for you.
Comment · 8 months ago
This take is imo very contrarian. Is Anthropic really popping champagne? They kind of look like the bad guys in this entire saga. If not the bad guys the enemy of fun and open source builders.
Comment · 9 months ago
Great question. I thought that only citizens could access public healthcare benefits.
Comment · 9 months ago
I have read the Obama era numbers are inflated because they counted turn aways at the border.
It’s also a little interesting that Obama was able to be against illegal immigration without a ton of pushback. Why was that?
Comment · 9 months ago
It’s not just a simple case it’s an extremely contentious issue the country is deeply divided on based on location and political leanings.
Comment · 9 months ago
I remember a lot of stuff Bush did in the aftermath of 911 that was illegal. Anyone remember Snowden? And Obama did a drone strike on a US citizen. This has been going on a long time but maybe we used to play pretend better.
Comment · 10 months ago
Isnt the math of buying Nvidia stock with what you pay for all the hardware and then just paying $20 a month for codex with the annual returns better?
Comment · 10 months ago
Maybe better written and simplified to: “microservices suck”.
Comment · 1 year ago
Old man yells at cloud, then creates a labyrinth of mirrors for the images of the clouds to reflect back on each other.
Comment · 1 year ago
why would you not use sqlite?