<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gattr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gattr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:40:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gattr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gattr in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nitpick: in Greek mythology it's Artemis and Aphrodite. Diana and Venus are Roman equivalents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336533</link><dc:creator>gattr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gattr in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not that big of a problem, right? Just put a lot of power sockets throughout the workspace. Robot gets to its work station, can be tethered and recharge when it's operating there. Similarly in a household.</p>
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<p>And/or provide a baseline free tier, corresponding to how much a typical human user would at most push/clone etc. They have pre-LLM statistics on that.</p>
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<p>In other words, just as they did in "Rob Roy": "My factor will contact Your Grace's factor..."</p>
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<p>My classmate kept his Amiga 1200 a bit longer! ...eventually he got a PC with Pentium 60 MHz.</p>
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<p>I haven't played the game, but I like to have <i>Baldur's Gate 3</i> soundtrack in the background sometimes (can be found on YT).</p>
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<p>Delta-v relative to the Orion is probably not that big, so I guess the waste will also circle the Moon and follow the crew into Earth's atmosphere.</p>
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<p>It's Bighetti actually ([1]).<p>[1] <a href="https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Head" rel="nofollow">https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Head</a></p>
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<p>Yes, sorry! I like them both a lot.</p>
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<p>I don't think it's a best example. MMAcevedo is about running a real human mind on a different substrate (for science, for labor, or to torture it for fun a million times, I guess, by a bored teenager who got the image from torrents).<p>Scaling up these neuron cultures is rather something like "head cheese" from Greg Egan's "Rifters" novels (artificial "brains" trained to do network filtering, anti-malware combat etc.).</p>
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<p>Maybe a more formal "with extreme prejudice" would have worked.</p>
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<p>I have the same Dell (since 2016) and love it. But eventually I transitioned last year to a 27" 4K monitor. Still almost as sharp (KDE at 175% works fine for me).</p>
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<p>I concur; just last month I started with `wgpu` (the Rust bindings for WebGPU) after exclusively using OpenGL (since 2000, I think? via Delphi 2). Feels a bit verbose at first (with all the pipelines/bindings setup), but once you have your first working example, it's smooth sailing from there. I kind of liked (discontinued) `glium`, but this is better.</p>
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<p>I had such blocks as well. For a recent take on this, I can recommend Kapla, typically come in a large (a couple 100s) box of skinny rectangular cuboids. I had fun doing, ahem, preliminary testing, before gifting them to my niece.</p>
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<p>Once we develop more efficient propulsion (fission, fusion, light sails, etc.), would you like for someone to catch the Voyagers and bring them back into a museum? I myself am not sure. (Perhaps a "live museum" instead, keep them on their trajectories, but surround with a big space habitat with visitor center and whatnot.)</p>
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<p>I think it's a wrong way to look at it. In addition to DNA information content, one should count also the complexity of the proteins and higher-level structures in the gametes.</p>
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<p>From the report:<p>> To conduct the CT scans, the large mass was evaluated by a third-party
laboratory under NTSB supervision. This facility had a range of scanners with different
power and energy levels and could scan large masses using a rotating table, avoiding
the need to rotate the mass itself. Ultimately, the third-party laboratory attempted to
image the large mass at a power as high as 320 kilovolts (kV). The scans conducted at
320 kV were not powerful enough to penetrate the object, and as a result, no internal
structures or voids were visible, and no memory devices could be identified. The
NTSB evaluated using another laboratory with higher power and energy CT scan
devices, however, there was concern that increased CT scan energy could damage
data stored on any surviving NVM chips. Consequently, higher-energy scans were not
pursued.<p>I'm no expert, but remember reading about neutron imaging ([1]). I'm curious if that was deemed unfeasible, too expensive, or having little chance of success? From Wikipedia:<p>> X-rays are attenuated based on a material's density. Denser materials will stop more X-rays. With neutrons, a material's likelihood of attenuation of neutrons is not related to its density. Some light materials such as boron will absorb neutrons while hydrogen will generally scatter neutrons, and many commonly used metals allow most neutrons to pass through them.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_imaging#Neutron_radiography_(film)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_imaging#Neutron_radiog...</a></p>
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<p>Shameless plug: active region (and sunspot group) 4274 has already produced several X-class solar flares, alas, I didn't manage to catch one during my short weekend imaging session. Though there was a nice prominence; 38-min time lapse (Earth to scale):<p><a href="https://app.astrobin.com/u/GreatAttractor?i=9tkxay#gallery" rel="nofollow">https://app.astrobin.com/u/GreatAttractor?i=9tkxay#gallery</a></p>
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<p>On a somewhat related note, I like the IO shield of my new MSI motherboard - the USB ports are tersely labeled "5G", "10G", "40G" (and a few lingering "USB 2.0").</p>
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<p>> Stored on mobile phones, the ID would contain details including a name, date of birth, residency status and crucially a photo - which would distinguish it from National Insurance numbers.<p>Surely it will be possible to also store it on some government-issued, GCHQ-vetted digital device, and not rely on foreign companies (Google/Apple) and their locked-down mobile platforms?</p>
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