I, for one, would absolutely love to see you carrying up a mountain the contraption in the video with its full 50kgs weight, then raising said weight by three meters with the power of your muscles to launch each single 4 grams pellet, and doing that for several hours every day. I am curious though if you have considered how much you would have to eat to power your muscles, how do you plan to procure the abundant food supply you'd certainly need (and which of course it should have been produced without chemicals and industrial processes of any kind), and how would you carry that up the mountain as well.
What part of "I can't wait to see this optimized into a portable version" did you not understand?
Yes, this prototype is big and unwieldy. So?
The development process is obviously on its way towards the construction of a smaller, lighter version.
BTW, there are rocks up the mountain. They can serve as the weight once you get there.
It's the math of the thing that is going to end up becoming optimal. Not just the material design - which is important once the loading and tolerances are understood. The gearing/screw mechanism is especially interesting from this perspective - it provides a clear path for optimization.
Once he has the equation dialed in, it will be interesting to see it scale down. The winding gear provides a path to optimization on the horizontal plane, and that is going to be very interesting to see go through a few more iterations. Pun, intended.
> What part of "I can't wait to see this optimized into a portable version" did you not understand?
The part where you don't need to load into the system at least as much energy (actually a multiple) as you get out of it.
But there are already a lot of simple, portable and lightweight mechanical systems to launch objects at high speeds, and optimised to be loaded by muscle energy: they're called sling, slingshot, bow, crossbow, etc. They have excellent performance. Since air drag is dominant on small projectiles, speed decays exponentially and the range only increases little with more energy. Claude calculates that a bow can double the video's trebuchet at throwing distance because of the arrow's shape and weight, despite shooting at much lower speed and needing about a quarter of the energy input.
Might be that I am not reading probabilities correctly, but how do 1.3% -> 11.2% and 1.8% -> 15% become "15 to 30 times more likely"? Sounds like less then ten times?
> the work pumped out by this synthetic think tank does not seem to align / disfavours the official party line of the country
The article DOES NOT say this- it says that sometimes this seems to be the case, but reports exactly one example of extremely little significance. In the meanwhile,
"Piro, Inc, the firm that created the Hanover Institute, has received $900,000 from the Israeli government for its work."
Opening the linked example, one sees that the article is basically dedicated to laundering the idea that there were many "antisemitic incidents" at Columbia University.
MEMRI is the US non-profit organization that provides translations from Arabic for the Western media:
"MEMRI was co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1998. MEMRI describes itself as being independent and non-partisan. Some critics have described MEMRI as aiming to portray the Arab world and the Islamic world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it republishes." (Wikipedia)
That explains a lot! Yesterday, I came across this article - Outrage In Oman Over Trump's Threat To Bomb The Sultanate... - https://www.memri.org/reports/outrage-oman-over-trumps-threa... and posted it on HN. But then, I had second thoughts as I had never heard of MEMRI and a scan of the website revealed a lot of antisemitic content and in general poor quality, tabloid like "hyped" up articles. The website also had no 'About Us' page that highlighted who runs it. All this made me suspicious and I immediately deleted the posted link on HN.
Yes. And these people have successfully managed to pollute the US information system with their "independent reporting" on the Middle East media for close to thirty years.
There's also supposed "UN watch" which is another innocuous looking Israeli front meant to sow confusion into decades long UN's attemmpts to deal with the mess jewish terror gangs in Palestine created by stealing massive amount of land from Palestinians in 1947-48 for their bigoted state project.
Who is saying that? And by acknowledging that the land was bought pre-war you're also acknowledging that the (explicitly colonial) Zionist project pre-dates the Holocaust. So it has nothing to do with "nowadays", that was more than 100 years ago.
The commenter referenced 1947. And said from nowadays PERSPECTIVE about THAT time that it's a "bigoted state project". I just reminded them that the project got its population (50%+) from Jews that ran for their lives. So his NOWADAYS perspective about that time is crazy. As from the first moment, it was about protecting Jews.
The only other alternative at the time was the US, but with limited immigration after WW2, it was obvious it couldn't be the whole story.
If you have further disagreement, please explain why in the same sentence he wrote "bigoted state project" and 1947.
EDIT: you added "(explicitly colonial)" before Zionism. And I looked at your comment history...
Your are deliberately misreading stuff... good luck out there.
My last words to you are: At that time before WW2, this entire area was under the Ottomans, so making a government there for Jews (enclave) by BUYING land, is colonial, and not what you try to say which is: "Kill all natives, we are the superior race". Because who at that time thought he could overthrow the Ottomans? But you don't care.
about immigration I found interesting learning that:
- before 1948, zionist agencies only allowed young fit pioneers and wealthy persons to immigrate. used a strict selection process that excluded sick, elderly, and poor.
- 1950, law of return, "immigration open to all jews", in reality filtered by early state authorities and the Jewish Agency that did exercise administrative, medical, and practical prioritization favoring ablebodied pioners or youth in certain periods, while being overwhelmed by the influx of impoverished refugees and holocaust survivors.
- socioeconomic situation forced the state to prioritize young, healthy, and productive immigrants due to resource constraints.
- the selective immigration (Aliyah Borer) involved officials prioritizing healthier family units during the massive 1950s migration waves.
- cultural and social hierarchy biases led the Ashkenazi establishment to place Mizrahi and Sephardic immigrants into peripheric areas and transit camps.
and after learning this, you understand that there was and there always will be discrimination and imho that's often the result of selfishness.
All of this just show young country with shaky economy that cannot help elderly and sick. Nothing changes. But because yout lenses are the same, you will never see it.
It's bigoted because it's exclusionary state for Jews, most everyone else is second class, including people on defacto annexed lands in the rest of former Palestine. Other people are such a low-life dirt to this state, that they just bomb, kidnap, steal and kill whoever they want regardless of state soveregnty. No thought to how that may make population of other state feel. Today they just bombed yet another country that did not do anything to them, because why not.
If it was not bad optics, and europe would not have the power to really fuck them up by actually cutting trade and giving them their own medicine, they'd be bombing europe these days for all the imagined wrongdoings.
Nice fanfic. Now explain how Israel has 2M Palestinians citizens and they are in every place, from medical to judicial (including supreme court) to political.
A settler colonial apartheid state is bigoted by nature. I don't understand your defense outside of the word "bigoted" making you upset when you should be more upset at the rampant colonialism and genocide being done in the name of religion.
Are you really upset because the descriptions make you sad?
Your have 3 mistakes in describing Israel as "settler colonial apartheid" alone. I cannot help you. Maybe Wikis or LLMs will or [1] as a start.
I am only sad about HN level of discussion, and how smart people in tech leave their critical thinking, kicking it out the door when the "I-word" is in the article/comment.
Judges from ICJ may need your deep learnings too, since they describe Israel policies as apartheid, too.
And as far as settler-colonial goes. Establishing your pet state on other people's land while driving out the original population with terror and violence and death marches to the front lines, while stripping them of valuables along the way and using them as human shields as Israelis like to say these days, while settling former population's land and houses, is as settler and as colonial as a [Zionist] group can get, outside of actual state establishing actual colony somewhere.
OH, we looking at ICC and ICJ? Then sure. But then, you will surely agree to never let a Palestine state to be? As long as Hamas is in control, as, after all, look at their warrants- such bigots:
Just because you're running from war or genocide does not give you any rights elsewhere. Also in 47' jews were not running from anything but poverty and fears of the future. There was no genocide anymore.
Of course. It's all so simple: Israel is asked to police itself against the misappropriation of highly desirable territories belonging to others. What do you think will happen- and not just over one year, but over decades? Individuals are not of one mind enough to be trusted in such a situation. So imagine states, that are composed not of one mind but of thousands, millions of individual wills.
The fundamental deception is the idea that it could ever work.
> The facility runs on 100% renewable energy and uses zero water for cooling — relying entirely on free cooling from the mine's constant underground ambient temperatures.
I'm sure they made their calculations but I wonder where do they expect 6MW of generated heat to go. Does the underground environment remain at the same temperature despite heating? Where is the heat going?
Active mines are already ventilated so the miners don't drown in CO2 and other gases.
Heat goes up, and mine layout dictates where the air flow is drawn from; best guess is lower cooler air voids, which cycle and reach dynamically stable temp. before being drawn through the heat generating compute racks.
The heat going up part may well be assisted by the same already existing HVAC for working mine portion, it may also be utilising pre existing exhaust shafts cut like chimneys.
There is likely outside air being pumped in to the active mine portion; again mine layout and topology count for a lot here, if the mine happens to inside a mountain halfway up it's entirely possible air is being drawn in through lower drive shafts to outside air all without an excess of dedicated HVAC energy.
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