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herodoturtle··on Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
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.
herodoturtle··on Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
> 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.

herodoturtle··on This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
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!

herodoturtle··on The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
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.

herodoturtle··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
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.

herodoturtle··on Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second
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?

herodoturtle··on Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
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.

herodoturtle··on Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
Fellow rower here, affirming the above.

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

https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

herodoturtle··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
> and contains significant embedded carbon emissions

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

Genuinely curious :)

herodoturtle··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
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.

herodoturtle··on Ask HN: What size is your journal book and why?
Woah!

You got a picture?

herodoturtle··on Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
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 :-)

herodoturtle··on Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
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.

herodoturtle··on The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring
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).

herodoturtle··on The Traditional Vi (2007)
28 years of vi and TIL about ZZ.

Thanks friend! ^_^

herodoturtle··on The Traditional Vi (2007)
It's been years since I heard the term "Throwback Thursday", funny that reading it here felt like a throwback in its own right ^_^
herodoturtle··on Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform
I agree with you.

I'm sure the author means well, but it comes off as someone who lacks real-world experience sharing what they think is an ideal team structure when building apps.

That's just my opinion, but yeah, the article doesn't resonate with my experience at all, and I've been at this a while.

herodoturtle··on Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
There is a link in the other comments that is intended to explain the context, but as someone who isn't familiar with the structure of threads / conversations in the Wikipedia editing community, I am honestly struggling to follow it.

Can someone here please help me understand what the issue is?

(I keep seeing stuff in that linked article about canvassing and "the left marching through institutions" but again I'm not following the overall argument / issue. Please forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something obvious.)

herodoturtle··on Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to comment here and for offering constructive support too.
herodoturtle··on Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
> But I know a base jumper .. and he only does the jumps if he feels the fear and his kick is to overcome it and feel the adrenalin rush.

This sentence has beautifully crystallised the meaning of what it means to be an adrenalin junkie ^_^

herodoturtle··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
“vibesludge”

^_^ hah what a great word, first time seeing it.

Another one I came across recently - “sloptimization”

herodoturtle··on I Stored a Website in a Favicon
How long before someone ports DOOM into a favicon? ^_^

(For the technical gurus here, would that even be possible?)

herodoturtle··on Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs
Could you please expand on this?

Aren’t prices sky rocketing precisely because of excess demand? And they’d collapse in turn if demand disappeared.

My understanding of economics is entry level so please forgive my ignorance. I’m just curious what you mean.

herodoturtle··on John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
And I'm here wondering if there's a limit to HN's nested replies.
herodoturtle··on AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Kudos to you and your team for not burning through the rest. Hope you have better luck with your next project.
herodoturtle··on Emacs appearances in pop culture
That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.

At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?

herodoturtle··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
I suspect it has more to do with Germany’s industrial scale in the automotive space (as opposed to incentives or culture).
herodoturtle··on Dopamine Fracking
Great article (and phrase).

Thank you.

> Becoming aware of this concept has made it easier to navigate the world. And it's becoming easier and easier for me to simply stop a video and close a tab when I sense that it's just trying to give me a hit of dopamine.

I’ve just gone ahead and placed a little sticky note at the bottom of my monitor that says “dopamine fracking?”

herodoturtle··on The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
Burninating the countryside.

Burninating the peasants.

Burninating all the peoples.

herodoturtle··on Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
Let’s see Paul Allen’s calculator.
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