Damned good question, and I played stump-the-search-engine for 15 minutes and it’s like they’re AVOIDING that question

Stockholders and aalesmen make them put that towards the end… to make investors feel dizzy I think

It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision. A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed. Some posts can be flagged or simply go ‘dead’, also not transparent.

LOL I would NOT be surprised !!

What if some civilization in the past already had something like this, and there are ‘plates’ or pieces of rock out there (under sand dunes? written in the sides of those vases from ancient Egypt?)

Could they make portable readers that can at least spot old pottery chunks that are probably FULL of videos?

Manipulating the atoms in a crystal to store info is extremely high-precision, as is verifying the accuracy of the write). So is reading positions down to a few nanometers, But consumers wouldn’t need a $6000 reader to get, say, 10GB dumped to a hard drive … you’d carry your crystal and 16GB drive down to the corner store and user their reader to dump sector 37BJ to the drive. No need to trust them with your platter … but are you exposing all 360TB to potential damage from the machine?

I have to admit I’ve only ever used it to translate a paragraph or two at a time… where I was just looking for the gist of a text.

Not too surprising, considering that for centuries many people well-versed in two languages have made a very good living as translators … and often having to get delicate nuances across (for poets as well as statesmen). It’s as much art as science.

overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. I really don’t understand that! But then, there are truckloads of worthwhile texts from throughout history that will never see translations otherwise … so that’s a worthy cause. Over time it may be improved, IF the algos are given feedback that allows them to learn from mistakes.

deepl.com (text translation) has been useful to me

Sooo… you’re looking for volunteers to join your discord … no website to learn more … and get involved with … who, where, what, why completely unknown … to ‘collaborate remotely’ to ‘foster critical thinking’ … with little mention of what ‘volunteers’ will get in return … that’s all a very vague come-on inviting complete strangers to cooperate with you … an completely unknown organization, no mention of your qualifications, no mention of who’s paying for this (podcasting is not free) or why … that is SO NOT TEMPTING

Except in regions where there is no access to Pu … as the article itself pointed out.

That it is!

10 times as much as gold

To -make-, yep. As the article pointed out, there’s a lot of Amercium in waste dumps where old smoke detectors … and anyone can make it. Five times the half-life means it can power much longer missions.

Electrics produce maximum torque at 0 rpm …

Yep, I noticed that, you’re right. And that’s near-miraculous efficiency. The maker’s website sez: “YASA also estimates that its all-important continuous power will be in the region of 350kW-400kW (469bhp-536bhp).” It also sez: "To achieve a 750kW short-term peak rating and a density of 59kW/kg … " Devi’ls in the details … The image on the ‘superblondie’ page shows A LOT of cooling built into whatever metal that is: https://supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/YASA-tiny-electric-motor.webp

I think he was trying to admit he doesn’t know shit about electric motors.

Oh those mathers. At least scientists are humble enough to recognize that theorums about the physical world can’t be proven.

It was a decent summary, I was replying when you pulled it. Analog has its strengths (the first computers were analog, but electronics was much cruder 70 years ago) and it is def. a better fit for neural nets. Bound to happen.

Nice thorough commentary. The LiveScience article did a better job of describing it for people with no background in this stuff.

The original computers were analog. They were fast, but electronics was -so crude- at the time, it had to evolve a lot … and has in the last half-century.

Nope, and this one is NOT going to change that … can’t take all that cutesy animation and the fast-flowing babble for 2 minutes, let alone 12

This video is very probably also AI slop