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New comment by mkl in "Cooling in Space"

mkl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:31:04 +0000

It doesn't say anything about launch location, and you'd need to ship it out there from a country using a large (registered) boat. That loophole won't work.

New comment by mkl in "Cooling in Space"

mkl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:21:52 +0000

The Outer Space Treaty [1] says "A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object", so no escaping jurisdiction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty_of_1967#Ar...

New comment by mkl in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

mkl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:22:32 +0000

Yes, I expect the problem is in this summarisation of the research, not the research itself.

New comment by mkl in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

mkl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:03:09 +0000

That statement seems totally empty and could be true even if those 12 months in 2024-25 were cooler. 10% of days in 1991-2020 were hotter than 90% of days in 1991-2020, which is on average 36.5 days in a 12 month period.

New comment by mkl in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

mkl — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:08:53 +0000

Working link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame%21

New comment by mkl in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:53:10 +0000

Much more information in the blog post this links to: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon

New comment by mkl in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:15:29 +0000

From https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425695-covered-mode..., emphasis mine:

> Prompts and model completions are retained for at least 30 days and then automatically deleted, unless they are subject to a safety investigation or we are legally required to maintain them.

They keep it as long as they want.

New comment by mkl in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:49 +0000

Just double tap the text you want to zoom to, as has been the way for nearly 20 years.

New comment by mkl in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:43:37 +0000

They walked that back, and now tell you they're downgrading the model: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-o..., https://archive.is/yxYhU

New comment by mkl in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:28:17 +0000

Click the "n comments" link, like you must have done to post this comment?

New comment by mkl in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:25:49 +0000

Then I think you are the confused one, as they mean the same thing but one is US and one is UK+NZ+etc.: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sceptic#English

New comment by mkl in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"

mkl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:05:04 +0000

Github icon in the header on the right.

New comment by mkl in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

mkl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:07:04 +0000

No, I'm talking about VGA. Super VGA is where it got more complicated, with its many variations, higher resolutions, and higher bit depths.

New comment by mkl in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

mkl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:47:04 +0000

Yes, it's weird that they're so old.

New comment by mkl in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

mkl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:42:23 +0000

Graphics programming in the early to mid 1990s was pretty fun: write pixel data into the memory-mapped video RAM and it appears on the screen! A pointer to 0xA0000 was all you needed - no API or anything. The reason for the non-square-pixel 320×200 VGA mode they mention was that the video buffer took 64000 bytes, which fit into a 16-bit segment, making addressing it easy in 16-bit code/CPUs.

New comment by mkl in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

mkl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:02:30 +0000

The Wheel of Time is 4.3M words: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/zs1ust/chart_of_wot_wo.... Some of its individual books are near 400k.

New comment by mkl in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

mkl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:59:35 +0000

Why not both? They partner with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.

New comment by mkl in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

mkl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:54:43 +0000

For me in Firefox Android, rotating the globe scrolls the page at the same time, so it's pretty hard to use.

SciPy can calculate spherical Voronoi diagrams, and MatPlotLib can display them with map projections. I haven't tried to display them as a rotatable globe, but years ago I did it in 2D for volcanos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21301942, https://imgur.com/closest-volcano-lsxjRXP (argh, Imgur has gotten really aggressive with autoplaying unrelated videos - at least they're silent).

New comment by mkl in "Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust"

mkl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:09:05 +0000

No, being commercial prevents that. SymEngine is much more like that, and shares developers with SymPy: https://github.com/symengine/symengine, https://symengine.org/.

New comment by mkl in "Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved"

mkl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:46:13 +0000

It's certainly exciting for theorists who predicted its impossibility, and exciting for any other theorists interested, whether they trusted or doubted the theoretical results.