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New comment by venv in "MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand"

venv — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:07:35 +0000

They mean 125um = sqrt(a*b), where a is the Planck length* and b the size of the observable universe (I didn't verify). Implying, 125um is some sort of middle ground. *Often said to be the smallest length with physical meaning.

New comment by venv in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

venv — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:35:17 +0000

And PBS is Czech, to name one.

New comment by venv in "Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet"

venv — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:50:20 +0000

Until the cardiac arrest.

New comment by venv in "Breaking transatlantic sailing record by more than a day (2016)"

venv — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:56:09 +0000

No, they are used in some classes of ocean passage races. IMOCA 60 is one such class.

New comment by venv in "Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?"

venv — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:15:11 +0000

Depending on your requirements for uptime, you could have a stand-by machine ready or you spin up a new one from backups.

New comment by venv in "How I think about debt"

venv — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:12:08 +0000

Piketty's book (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) is most definitely not a fad. It is a result of serious research into historical economic data and anyone intellectually honest ought take it seriously. As anything in the social science of economics, it is subject to debate, but to call it a 'fad' is odd, to put it mildly.

New comment by venv in "What happens when you quit sugar? (2023) [video]"

venv — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:35:47 +0000

Out of protein or fats.

Tell HN: I can report Facebook's new subscription does not work

venv — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:33:53 +0000

Being a very infrequent Facebook user, I logged in after being told a friend was organizing a party through Facebook events. Was greeted with a choice to subscribe or opt-in to ads. Chose to try the subscription (billing starts in March). After trying multiple cards, I was unable to actually subscribe. So much for choice.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244289

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New comment by venv in "All of Physics in 9 Lines"

venv — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:14:05 +0000

In our current understanding of the world (quantum mechanics), the world is inherently probabilistic ("random", not deterministic) in the microscopic realm. There are differing opinions among physicists whether or not there could be a more fundamental layer of reality beyond this, and if so, whether it would be deterministic. Notably it could be said the mainstream view is that reality is not deterministic.

New comment by venv in "Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?"

venv — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:17:43 +0000

Whatsapp's in-app notification regarding the TOS change references an EU ruling, so this is the likely cause.

New comment by venv in "Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing"

venv — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:59:12 +0000

And would the drivers be paid more or less (and what of other conditions)?

New comment by venv in "Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing"

venv — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:57:37 +0000

GP said it was proof of power. Power can be used for good or ill.

New comment by venv in "We are all animals at night"

venv — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:26:48 +0000

Developers?

New comment by venv in "Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi"

venv — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:40:53 +0000

I mean, who drives 1200km in day anyway? But it is doable with todays EVs, many of which have ranges of around 500km or more, and only need a couple of hours of charging to drive 1200km (after starting with full capacity), during breaks you would mostly take anyways. Teslas, VW's ID.4, Hyundai's Kona electric and many more come to mind. Cheers for Toyota's research, though.

New comment by venv in "Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker"

venv — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:13:56 +0000

Alternatively, run the dashboard script via SSH to get the output ($ ssh "host" "command").

New comment by venv in "TikTok Extends the Wasteland"

venv — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:48:43 +0000

If someone consumes what you call useless content, why would they use AI to produce anything else? It's not as if there isn't useful content around, already.

New comment by venv in "AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research"

venv — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:51:37 +0000

Maybe, but it would still be better if the situation didn't detoriate further.

New comment by venv in "AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research"

venv — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:47:27 +0000

What you are describing, is not replication.

New comment by venv in "AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research"

venv — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:42:21 +0000

Even this would require somehow verifying the raw data. It's plausible a bad actor could "reverse engineer" their data from a pre-determined conclusion.

But yes, overall more openness is good. Still, the cost losing trust in society is very high (as you need to verify everything).

New comment by venv in "Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model"

venv — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:15:29 +0000

Sorry, but you have a logical fallacy there (affirming the consequent). It does not follow, that humans and LLMs have all same properties, even if they have one same property. ("sentient being is text predictor" does not follow from "text predictor is sentient being").