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I don't owe you anything here.

US just showed the world its military strength.

It couldn’t open the straits and begged for help from is ‘weak’ ‘allies’.

Europe wouldn’t have been all that impressed.

No, the plasma forms a teardrop shape around small craft like Orion, completely cutting off radio comms. Larger craft like starship or the shuttle which have a roughly cylindrical shape (vs Orion’s circular cross section) aren’t fully enclosed by the plasma. The shuttle had a transmitter attached to its tail for later flights, which could send back telemetry during re-entry.

As a fan of Calvino I will say that If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller is somewhat more enjoyable after you've read a bunch of other Calvino, since it has a somewhat cheeky, self-referential feel and the more you sympathize with the author the more you may like it.

Numbers in the Dark is very good as a place to start.

Yes, I remember when they used the signal out the back through the plasma during reentry. It was astoundingly good!

Just because someone hates you and calls you the devil (or loves you and calls you an angel) doesn't mean they think you're literally the physical embodiment. Especially when you're not even a living being but a country or a government. I'm pretty darn sure you can assume it's a metaphor and that your coworker doesn't have evidence to the contrary.

Audio, video, and 3D animation are still extremely processor intensive. You need something beefy if you're serious/professional about those.

Office tools and web browsing are less demanding.

Discussions (565 points, 282 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716490

(81 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703573

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/atmos...

the density is low though

observe that where Helium becomes a significant percentage, there is also Hydrogen and (monoatomic) Oxygen.

if one were driven by purism or vanity for stoichiometric exactness, then at a height of 1000 km theres 2 Hydrogens per Oxygen atom, so this could be reacted to water, and the energy used to power compression of the Helium, the water would freeze.

without this vanity, helium becomes a significant fraction at much lower heights... and thus higher densities.

The energy to compress becomes nearly insignificant at low pressures.

if humanity ever builds space elevators, this will be one of many benefits of having space elevators.

> It will not all go well. The fear and anxiety about AI is justified; we are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time

Reason enough to pause and figure out the best way to continue. A massive societal change that won’t all go well means millions dead and tens more with their lives upended.

The author actually brought up commuters! I thought the LA Metro bathrooms are more relevant for that use case, so it seems weird that the author ignores those while focusing on bathroom programs for the homeless (not that homeless people don't deserve bathrooms, but the picture they paint of regular every day folks in Paris is not comparable to the skid row bathroom users)

LA Metro has a mere 120 miles of track vs Paris's 150 miles, but in our defense they had a 90 year head start :)

Aluminum should oxidize essentially instantly.

Of all things there's a relevant Tumblr post from nearly a decade ago that I often think everyone should consider (in agreement BTW):

"If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now."

Look where France is now. Can't afford their own retirement.

Who is “they”?

What did poor copilot do now?

Do any of the open weight models from smaller labs exist if they can't distill from the SoTA models that are throwing billions of dollars of compute into pretraining?

Sad that no real pages can load successfully, but I thoroughly enjoyed the writing.

> We turned on crash reporting on the way.

I haven't burst out laughing like this in a while! You'll probably make for some horror stories to a poor Mozilla team.

>But what about GC pauses

GC is like auto transmission, it's an inevitable natural evolution of programming languages.

I think the future of programming language will have hybrid modes auto transmission automatic and manual, similar to today's hypercar [1]. I considered D language as pioneer in this innovative approach.

My hypothesis is that GC can be made deterministic like manual memory management, just like how motor auto industry minimize the manual transmission. Heck, no manual for EV.

Hopefully the new io_uring facility with BPF controlled can enable this deterministic GC [3].

[1] Here’s how Koenigsegg’s new manual/automatic CC850 gearbox work (2025):

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/heres-how-koenigs...

[2] BPF meets io_uring (2026):

https://lwn.net/Articles/847951/

[3] How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux (2020):

https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/05/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-wi...

Have you been to Europe?

The comparison is stark.

I wish my country had achieved half as much in terms of infrastructure.

And in terms of protecting themselves, if the US stopped protecting Russia, the situation there would be a lot tidier.

As an American I feel like I've been going through a bit of an identity crisis from what I remember growing up.

Probably the rose tinted glasses of being a child but being from Florida I always had a sense of amazement and wonder as I heard the sonic boom of the shuttle returning to earth.

Really felt like I was coexisting in this incredible scientific powerhouse of a country full of bright and enabled peoples that knew how to prioritize curiosity and innovation.

Feeling like a bit of a "vibe" post which is everything wrong lately but I can't help but feel some satisfaction that we're still able to accomplish something like this in our space endeavors.

> There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago [...]

That is a lot of words, none of which state or claim the article was in any way inaccurate. Curious, that

I agree with you. I think such a culture is more likely to arise when you have people who believe in the idea of loyalty but haven't seen it bear fruit in their lives, and who are used to acting within such an organizational framework, which describes a fair number of the workers who either are being displaced or feel themselves to be.

[delayed]

"i updated the content of this website because the agent allows you to overwrite previous deployments"

?

Running three agents(gpt, gemini, claude) in production for a different domain — curious which model handles the /studio skill best in your experience?

There will be a blinding flash which signals the superintelligence singularity. When the smoke clears, you'll see a 50-foot tall Altman/Borg hybrid. He is about to destroy humanity with his death ray. Suddenly, a 50-foot tall Musk/Borg hybrid appears out of nowhere, and stops Altman just in time. Then they work together to destroy all humans.