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That site is awesome, thank you!

> we use the apparent rate of mug deterioration to estimate the proton supply required by a simplified corrosion model

Damn I love HN.

Sincere congrats to the Verda team :-)

Can someone please help me understand what their competitive advantage is, versus the likes of AWS / Azure et al, who are also available in the EU.

I love a good underdog story, but I'm not understanding the economics of it.

Fair point.

I'm on vanilla Ubuntu 22.04 but have also tried vanilla 24.04, with an Nvidia card.

That said, I thought steamdeck was just the handheld device - not sure if this would help with my Ubuntu situation - but I don't know enough about steamdeck so perhaps I am misinterpreting your comment.

Thanks either way.

Albion Online looks interesting, thanks, will check it out.

It was the late 90s, my very first day at a new school, I was asked to introduce myself at the front of the class, I mentioned I like computers, one guy at the back of the class blurts out “En Taro Adun” and without skipping a beat I replied “J’tokoh zohl”, and we instantly became best friends.

Thanks once again. You’ve totally improved my night time HN routine. My little one is asleep next to me as I type this :-)

Made me think of “Brainscan”, awesome sci-fi from the 90s.

thanks!

I don't know much about robotics engineering, so I just wanted to give kudos to the Robocurve team on this write-up.

Even for an absolute robotics newbie such as myself, the article was interesting to read, and easy to understand. Plus it was straight to the point, with no unnecessary waffle.

Just a pleasure all round. Well done Robocurve.

> He sees these scientists as strong men, willing to wrestle with the tragedy of existence by increasing the amount of happiness in the world. That struggle makes them optimists.

Loved that.

If you get a paywall, use this:

https://shorturl.at/1FR6H

Article is behind a paywall for me.

Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

My OCed DX4 got around 15fps, but I agree my memory of what was deemed “playable” back then probably wouldn’t stand today.

I recall we got it running pretty decently on an upper end 486 (DX4 100). That, and Winamp. Good times.

Apologies for the ambiguity, I was referring to the selling or donating of meteorites - and only because I've never heard of such a thing in my part of the world.

> In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please.

Does this happen often in the US?

I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it?

In which case I find it extremely frightening that one could be sitting on their porch, minding their own business, browsing HN, and then get unexpectedly head-shotted by a meteorite.

Not just you.

OP strikes me as quite childish. I’m guessing he’s quite young, nothing wrong with that.

And yeah, the circumstances aren’t great (the stressful move to SF in particular). Tough break!

I found this comment/question deeply intriguing.

I’m no expert at this and was wondering what you meant by the following:

> In real organisms behavior may be controlled by short or long term outcomes, and may oscillate between this "optimization" based on schedules

Could you perhaps provide an example that would help me understand what you mean?

Thanks for the insightful comment either way.

Love this comment <3

For those of you that are wondering, Mitch Hedburg was a relatively famous stand-up comedian whose special went viral.

In said special was this classic:

“I like an escalator because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. There would never be an 'escalator temporarily out of order' sign, only 'escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.’”

RIP indeed.

So great to see WebGL stuff featuring on the front page.

It was OpenGL that got me into graphics and games programming from a young age - NeHe's tuts in particular (anyone remember those?).

Are there similar introductory tuts for WebGL?

Heya, from the page I linked (her boat is named "Lily"):

> Lily is a Rannoch R25 built in 2019.

More info on Rannoch R25:

https://www.rannochadventure.com/boats-2/r25

There are several Youtube videos showing you the interior if you're interested.

Fellow rower here, affirming the above.

Thought folks would be interested in her boat, built for ocean rowing:

https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

> and contains significant embedded carbon emissions

Hi - thanks for the insightful comment - could you please expand on the above?

Genuinely curious :)

Publishing by necessity I wonder? American labs on the cutting edge pioneering the way forward, so Deepseek open sourcing what they’ve got is to help even the playing field.

Hopefully the experts here can offer insight. The above is just my hunch and I’m not a specialist in this field.

Woah!

You got a picture?

Thank you for taking the time to reply with a really insightful comment.

I wonder if open source / open weight models will reach the point where we can run them locally on our mobile devices (for free), even if they're slightly inferior to the proprietary pay-as-you-use online models.

I know very little about this stuff. My inner optimist kinda hopes that the tech will continue to advance and become increasingly commoditised, to the point that open source locally run models are as good as the advanced proprietary models of a year ago. So that even if the open source models lag the proprietary models, they're still pretty great. Perhaps we're already there but I wouldn't know.

Anyhow thank you for the insights :-)

I’m curious (and please forgive my ignorance if it’s obvious), are open weight models practically feasible?

I mean from a financial and sustainability standpoint, assuming they’re equally powerful as their proprietary counterparts.

I guess I’m trying to understand the economics of it.

Came here to say this.

And I suspect that one day we might even think of LLMs as "low tech AI", assuming we move on to more advanced forms of AI (here's hoping).

28 years of vi and TIL about ZZ.

Thanks friend! ^_^