(Full-stack Web) Engineer, Entrepreneur & UX designer in Paris, France.
I talk to machines in Python, Javascript and binary.
I talk to humans in French, English, Spanish (mainly).
Always looking for a good balance between these machine and human interactions.
Looking for new opportunities in 2024 :)
- https://blog.openbloc.com/author/maxime/
- https://twitter.com/maxmre
- max at openbloc dot com
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxmre; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxmre/sigs/fjPxknRyKz4k4fPi5sQBRnBKt-6y2mg_AFGBEp9I-A8 ]
Submissions
EU and Japan celebrate start of operations of the JT-60SA fusion reactor
energy.ec.europa.eu
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The Ideal Office: Concentric? (2012)
spaceandorganisation.org
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Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js
map33.openbloc.com
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Easy Ubuntu Hardening for Web Developers
blog.openbloc.com
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Ask HN: What happens to datacenter's servers once outdated?
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Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree
ameya98.github.io
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Native-Like Animations for Page Transitions on the Web
css-tricks.com
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Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation
research.nvidia.com
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Boundary First Flattening
geometrycollective.github.io
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Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code
github.com
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Fun with WebGL 2.0 YouTube Tutorial Series
github.com
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Phong shading tutorial with glslify
github.com
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Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10
blog.openbloc.fr
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A step toward procedural terrain generation with GANs
medium.com
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A step towards procedural terrain generation with GANs [pdf]
arxiv.org
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Making maps with noise functions
redblobgames.com
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The Book of Shaders
thebookofshaders.com
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DevSec Hardening Framework
github.com
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Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation
If it works it could reduce the electricity price in the evenings and mornings.
Now if I take the french grid example that I know best, for the past 7 days the usual spot price is around 100 to 150€/MWh but between 9am to 6 pm it is greatly reduced due to solar production, frequently down to 0 like today (current heatwave, lots of sun). And today between 1 and 3pm we had up to 5GW of solar production being curtailed. That is on top of the nuclear plants already reducing their output by up to 8GW around noon to accommodate solar power. Hydraulic storage was also running but tops at ~3GW.
That is to say there's already unused energy during the day, in theory, if you had a MWh battery you could have charged it for free today (sometimes even been paid to do so) and earned 100€ a few hours later.
One thing I see coming (albeit slowly) is EV cars phasing out IC engines, that once plugged on the grid with their big batteries could be a good distributed storage solution: they recharge during the day whenever the price is low and smooth out the expensive peaks when possible.
I guess you can have both positive and negative externalities.
I went back to re-read reflectorbital.com, indeed if you're only lighting a solar farm in the middle of nowhere maybe the light pollution is not so bad outside of the targeted zone.
Still fells like a complicated solution to me. Imo we need more storage innovation and investment, a lot more. We know we'll have more and more intermittent renewables electricity production, we just have to store it.
One question I have is about apparent magnitude: given the satellite's small size (relative to the apparent size of the moon) it would have to be very bright to match the luminosity of the full moon on the surface.
> calculated that the Reflect Orbital spacecraft would appear as points of light with a magnitude of -15 [...] might damage the eye.
-15 seems ~10 times brighter than the moon (-12,6) if I got the formula right so it would indeed be very bright.
Reminds me of all the led lighting we have now: one evening on a random street I watched the cars, bicycles, shops, street lamps: all leds, yes a bit brighter and colder than the old bulbs I know, buuut the light sources being very small dots (with no diffuser), it feels very harsh to the eye, at least to me.
Anyway, even if it proves useful for something, it would join the long list of innovations doing one thing at the expense of everyone else (externality == light pollution in this case).
I once worked with smart meters for electricity consumption that do run 24/7. Leap seconds were not an issue but we had a very similar one now that I think about it: DST shenanigans!
Like how much time is there between 2 and 3 am? Usually one hour, but sometimes 2 and also sometimes 0. It looks simple at first but it creates a lot of edge cases that your business logic now needs to handle and we had a fairly complex system for this.
> age verification doesn't have to be a nightmare dystopia
But I feel there's not a lot of trust that whatever implementation we could end up with wouldn't be such a dystopia. The real world equivalent would be checkpoints at every intersection verifying the driver's age, the cashier who carded the 20 yo with a beer now does it for everyone, makes a copy of your ID and stores it in a big folder shared with their 427 "business partners".
Imo we should scrap the whole idea of age verification. Kids get a kidPhone with kidOS, whitelist of age-appropriate resources & capabilities. You wouldn't let an 8 yo drive on the highway, yet they can have a supercar to drive unsupervised on the information highway, no biggie. Internet is full of adults doing all sort of stuff while kids need supervision and education: design safe spaces for children, not checkpoints at every corner.
The Man vs Horse marathon is interesting but in a real race we have no actual chance of winning.
There are horse endurance races where the winner arrived in 7,5 hours after 160km[1]. That's a sub 2-hours marathon almost 4 times in a row (not to mention with a guy on your back).
I understand the moral argument, yes tell me about your product or company from time to time, can be interesting or even funny sometimes but it should stop there.
I always use an adblock where possible. 1. I've seen too much ads trying to straight up serve malware. 2. I'm definitely not okay with the ad-industry data aggregation tracking my every move online.
Plus the algorithm is kinda dumb: I see you bought a mattress, how about another one, every day, for the next months? I was curious once about a product I would never buy but now, weeks later, I still have ten companies paying ads for the same product, each one claiming to be the real deal.
I still use google news on mobile, no adblock there, some publications are okay, others are, well... I take a screenshot when there's 0% of content on the screen → OnlyAds/NoContent folder.
As much as we speak about slop in the context of AI, slop as the cheap low-quality thing is not a new concept.
As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now have single-use plastic ultra-fast fashion, plastic stuff that'll break in the short term, brittle plywood furniture, cheap ultra-processed food, etc.
Classic software development always felt like a tailor-made job to me and of course it's slow and expensive but if it's done by professionals it can give excellent results. Now if you can get crappy but cheap and good enough results of course it'll be the preferred option for mass production.
Ah nice to know! In my defense I only searched for the English version.
That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where hastily judged and executed and he himself ended up executed 4 months after that speech. [1]
Ok so this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is so recurrent I once went looking where it came from.
The oldest account I found is in a religious book from 1832 [1]: "We must have nothing to hide, nothing to fear", but, and this is the important bit, this is in the context of your relationship with Christ.
Later accounts are mostly from judicial documents like "well tell us what happened, if you have nothing to hide, you'll have nothing to fear".
And later on we start to see the current form of the argument related to privacy, except now this argument is never directly used to erode it. It will always be in some form of "ok now we have to do this collective thing because of criminals, because of terrorism, because of protect the children, etc.".
If you search "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" 100% of the results are about how it is a logical fallacy, nobody at all seems to defend the argument and yet, here we are!
Food for thought:
- this argument may well be stuck in the collective unconscious of lots of people (albeit in the religious context)
- many governments, organizations and in any case the people in position of power and authority can develop a god complex (power corrupts etc.)
So unless I end up dealing with an all-loving and all-forgiving entity I could fully trust, I'd like to keep my right to privacy, thank you very much!
Pretty sure virus creators could just pick a real ID leaked by the "adult only logins" shenanigans, whereas legit app developers probably wouldn't want to commit identity fraud.
Nice project! Reminds me of a startup whom I met the founders several years ago: they had a system of hexagonal wooden tiles you could put on a device to play a specific songs (also maybe videos). I'm not sure the project is still alive but I found an article with pictures of what I saw: https://competition.adesignaward.com/ada-winner-design.php?I...
While digital files are obviously very practical and efficient for our pictures/audio/video I can't help but see how different our relationship to them is when a physical object embodies the data.
I understand but frankly "doesn't do anything if there is no illegal material" reminds me too much of the old anti-privacy argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".
It is about control and purpose, "my OS watches my communications" is true but weird to say because there's an expectation, unless compromised, that the OS is under my control so no problem. A third-party controlling the local scan of all my data specifically to report whatever it wants is a huge problem.
Too often are some specific issues left insufficiently addressed for too long and it seems like the answer ends up like, ok we give up, here's some collective punishment, that should do the trick.
I regularly see similar articles with similar comments here, but there's one thing I still don't understand:
From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]:
ARTICLE 8
Right to respect for private and family life
1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family
life, his home and his correspondence.
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the
exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the
law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of
national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the
country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection
of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms
of others.
So I wonder, what is the legal argument solid enough to justify interfering with everybody's right to privacy?
My layman understanding of the usual process is like, we want surveillance over those people and if it seems reasonable a judge might say ok but for a limited time. Watching everyone's communications also seems at odds with the principle of proportionality[2].
I talk to machines in Python, Javascript and binary. I talk to humans in French, English, Spanish (mainly). Always looking for a good balance between these machine and human interactions.
Looking for new opportunities in 2024 :)
- https://blog.openbloc.com/author/maxime/ - https://twitter.com/maxmre - max at openbloc dot com
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxmre; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxmre/sigs/fjPxknRyKz4k4fPi5sQBRnBKt-6y2mg_AFGBEp9I-A8 ]