There are other places in the world that farm salmon at a much lower density which helps in terms of disease and bioload on the environment. There's a company in New Zealand attempting to build open ocean fish pens, they might already have a prototype out already can't remember. Different species of salmon though.

Now I don't know this guy in the slightest. One view could be he's just a geek like us living out his dream building cool potentially useful stuff not entirely sure where it will lead.

A cynical view is it's all about $$$$.

Either way it's great HN content!

So im curious to know the limitations of this device

If some people see value in it then....

STL and 3MF are not very compatible with most CAD software.

So what? Should we feel bad for spawning them and effectively killing them? I think not.

Much like your setup their are sensors fitted to various infrastructure connected to PLC's connected to licensed uhf radio modems back to a base station (with a few hops through repeaters or microwave backhaul) into a PC running some kind of IO server which handles all the polling and collects the data into a database and SCADA software (Aveva).

Its a weird mashup of hardware and protocols (dnp3, modbus, serial) plus some data coming in through IoT devices over http and all sorts of bits.

All i built was a python script that runs the query (we are talking 200 bits of data) every minite and dumps it into a JSON file. Then there is a caddy server which serves the json, SVG (1.5mb uncompressed) and a vanilla html/javascript (300 ish lines of code, AI helped get started) page that displays it.

Its not open to public, nor is it a replacement for SCADA (SCADA has many many more objects plus the ability to control and send out alarms). There are many more people wanting 'view only' access than the city has pricey SCADA licenses for, so if fills this gap for free. Sorry i can't share more, i moved on from that job.

There are also patterns in the water network so issues reveal themselves pretty quick then easy to fix. E.g. pumps on=green, off=grey, fault=red. Easy to spot an element that is misconfigured especially when you look at it all day.

You can also hover over an element and it reveals its tagname in a tooltip which helps. And the script has an error log for things such as if there are any tagnames in the query it can't find a drawing element for or if it failed to set some value

This lets as many users view it as necessary and loads instantly. Has pan and zoom so yiu can capture everything on a page. Fully customisable, used draw.io for the diagram. Professional automation guys jaws dropped when i told them it took a few days to build and didnt require some ridiculous software license

Over the last few months I've been inventing this almost exact approach in my head as a hobby without consciously knowing it had already been done. I love their little RC car demo.

As easy as wordpress, square space or whatever claim to be, in my mind this is even easier, the solution is more elegant, and you expose yourself to a whole lot less crap along the way.

Edit: I recognise this doesn't cover hosting, domain registration etc.

Meaning advertiser's will have to be selective which company they pay to get the most exposure to their target human customers via the agents. Will we see affiliate programs for AI agents which in turn promote products to the users? and we end up with the same shit show we have today?

Or what if eventually everyone has their own personal AI that can bypass the ads. Will we just decide that advertising is a drag on society and kill off that industry for good?

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