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Show HN: SkAI – High performance, AI-powered, universal Drone Controller
Hey all!

We’ve trained ML model(s) to receive commands from a user and execute them, replacing the PID Loop(s) currently in charge of controlling most drones. We achieved this using Reinforcement Learning to train these models. Namely PPO and TD3.

I highly suggest watching the demo (3 min):
https://youtu.be/K4AGAfHXH38

These models perform better than a PID Loop, require no tuning, and work in many more situations than a PID Loop. Requiring no tuning also means that the same model is interoperable between multiple different drones/configurations. So it will work directly out of the box!

To make these models work regardless of platform dynamics (E.g. weight, size, power, etc.), we trained it while simulating a massive amount of variation.

The models are lightweight, so most hardware should be able to run them. However, we are still in the process of writing the wrappers for the various hardware/firmware combos. At the moment, we are working on a wrapper for hardware running PX4.

We are hoping to talk with people who want to boost the performance of their drones and remove the headaches of tuning.

If you own, fly, or work with drones and are interested in trying this out, please let us know. We are trying to learn what kinds of drones, what flight controller hardware, and what firmware people are using so we can make something that runs on your system.

If you’d like a good jumping off point to learn more, I highly suggest this repo (and the paper(s) mentioned in the repo): https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly

We are also planning on some future features (E.g. giving back some high-level tuning capabilities like prioritizing holding position vs holding orientation). Please tell us what other features you'd like to see!

Thanks!

Discord:
https://discord.gg/Pu7XRxJTXa

Email:
Hagenoneill@gmail.com
Yep, as a last resort I tried doing this with an apparently unstoppable catalog and got about a month before the postal worker scrawled a nastygram back on one threatening delivery embargo.
Step 1: Build an imposter site that delivers safe files

Step 2: SEO optimize to get good Google rankings

Step 3: Build a good reputation that many people start to think is the real site.

Step 4: Wait

Step 5: Swap the legit download links to malicious ones.

A tool like Noptepad++ is used by IT admins and developers, so just like xz it’s a juicy target for malicious actors.
After disabling it on the UI, your device may still cache the DNS records for a few minutes. There's no immediate feedback on whether disabling adblocking changed anything. It is extremely tedious especially for non-technical users, and adds "tech-support" burden to their technical friend/family who set it up in the first place.
Well, no, that's clearly not the case. It's always possible to improve the safety of a plane by spending more money. Airlines could do a 72-hour safety review of every plane after every flight. Planes could have 7 copies of every system/sensor instead of 3. We could stick 6 pilots up in the cockpit in case the first 5 have simultaneous mid-air heart attacks.

Deciding to shift the needle from "safety" toward "economic feasibility" is very often the correct thing to do, and vice versa.
Yea I guess I should have been more specific - I was looking for this directly on the main landing site.

Maybe I'm alone, but my immediate thought when seeing a new language, with fairly familiar syntax, was "why is this different than Java". And if that's my first thought, it probably makes sense to answer that question immediately rather than talk about vague things like Productivity and Open-Source.
The book is 16 years old now... The statute of limitations is passed.

The motion of the planet is completely determined by what the three suns are doing, and their motion barely depends on that of the planet.
I suspect self-driving mode will be safer than human drivers only when every car is driving itself. Meat and silicon brains sharing the same road in large chunks of high velocity metal is a scary prospect.
Also heavily used in the industry are toolkits like sciter, which give you HTML/CSS UIs without an entire browser engine underneath. I suspect those will be eating the remaining market share for 'traditional' toolkits, simply because it's the dominant UI paradigm.
SNI is enough to classify traffic for enforcement purposes.

dont forget that if certain SNI is detected, your ISP/government may try to force downgrade TLS or replace server-hello with their own cert - meaning you will need to install government certificate to browse certain websites and 99% of users will do that to get access
Using Rust for GNOME development seems to be becoming more popular. https://gtk-rs.org/
I don't follow Tesla terminology, is this actually FSD or fake FSD? If not actual FSD, is there a name for "actually FSD"?
GNU Stow 2.4.0 Released
I, and apparently a lot of other people on the Internet find the latest Tesla FSD update pretty incredible. There's a reason why Tesla gave it as a free trial to everyone. I drove it downtown and back without any interventions this weekend.

Is it 100% perfect? Of course not. But this article is the ultimate in low effort. A person who felt that the car might hit another one but probably not. Yes, real value there.
Well I'd say that if Spotify were forced to, they'd instead just remove small bands from Spotify entirely.
Actual report from a few weeks ago: https://www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/aston-university-researc...

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864107
> So would I pay the money for it? Fear on this level seems like a pretty poor use of $12,000 or $199 a month. You can rent a horror movie for $2.99, and paying attention to America is free.

I like the way the author writes this. Interesting to hear unfiltered thoughts from a first-time user of the software.
Honestly don't know enough about their monetization strategy, but we did a user survey and -- at least the audience of users currently using Turas.app -- only a small % was interested in paying a subscription. So to make that scale, we'd have to invest heavily in marketing to get more users to make it sustainable.

Felt like it was better to just keep it free and ad-free :P
I guess if it's a symlink, then, that would pretty much solve all the problems, wouldn't it?
That’s how I implement my keyboards. Much smaller part count and way easier to code
html/template

https://pkg.go.dev/html/template
Part of the difference between human artists and DALL-E is that the human is likely to ask "why?" or "you mean like someone who's really orthodox or someone in a really Jewish setting, or just a generic corporate figure who could plausibly be Jewish?"

(this is, as GPT4's "hall monitor" demonstrated in a super cautious way, also possible to do with an LLM chained to an image generator...)
Agree. Hard to adapt for TV but thought they did a better job than the other streaming service with Foundation. In general loving the spike in SciFi drama after a long drought.
indeed, if you just need a quick terminal for the odd command here and there, guake is amazing
Guy seems like a panicky type. Would like to see him hop in a car with my relatives. Is FSD perfect? No. Much better than many human drivers? Yes.
> To take India for example, the northern parts rely more on wheat and the southern parts on rice. One could easily make up an argument that the rice dominant south is more individualistic as it produces more economic output.

I think that argument would fail due to the assumption that you can infer community's bias towards individualism vs collectivism from "economic output." If you want to turn India into a counterexample, I think you'd need to use similar kinds of psychological tests across the different regions.
On the internet, it’s all network effects so competition and proper alternatives is almost impossible. You can’t say “just don’t choose to use it” as flippantly in these cases
6079 Proof of Inference Protocol
"Trustless, unmonitored, and uncensored AI,
so you can own your intelligence."
Are you aware that they asked the author who gave his blessing to "adapt" the series to a global audience?

Also, giving up because there is a strong female arch? Damn. Macho much?
Seriously. For all we know, these are relatively local people who had to settle for this cheap "vacation" instead of a more expensive/longer trip further away...

Relatively few people own stocks & home ownership has tapered off & isn't back to its pre pandemic highs... Maybe these things show the people that were doing well are still doing well, but we knew that already.
Those 5 key predictions are rather easy to predict relative to the boomer retirement phase of society. Many easy conclusions can be made when simply looking at population pyramids.

In fact, dare I point out the fourth turning which was written in the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...

Now lets just go to the fourth turning predictions. Covid was predicted. This world war tension mainly between india and china; but with russia/ukraine as backdrop. This isn't significant enough for the end of the Millennial Saeculum, assuming the theory is set to repeat.

But lets consider, world war is a given in asia, china will shed their incels, and end this saeculum. But what comes after? By about 2030 we're going back to the 'american high' or the 'gilded age'. Optimism is to be expected bigtime.

Terrifying followed by grand success.
> But usage of the feature has been low, perhaps in part because if you’ve spent $40-90,000 on a car, spending another five figure sum is annoying, and perhaps in part because people generally value their own lives and the lives of the people they love.


Pssh. These people are letting the emotions of humans keep them from innovating, disrupting, and generally becoming certified Silicon Valley sharks.
For variable number of sectors per cylinder you either need control over bitrate or motor speed.
This means the economy is doing fantastic if they still $ for useless stuff.
Good point! That would work yeah. The placement will have to be modified a bit to avoid shadows but that would work just as well.
I previously lived in Portland until I moved to New Orleans. (My father still lives in West Linn.) I agree Clackamas County has lost its mind.
For people who have not been following FSD closely it is important to understand this is the equivalent of GPT-3. The RoboTaxi will be running the equivalent of GPT-5.
> the article is the ultimate in low effort.

What’s low effort in sharing your personal experience? It’s very clearly written as an opinion.

Any reader would be reasonable to assume that there are other opinions out there, and that this opinion may be in the minority.

That said, I’m happy to see a dissenting opinion in the comments here! Would be curious to see others thoughts in the sudden appearance of a free trial.
> 62%, which sounds right - that’s how far between black and white you are at pure red.

First, it's not 62%, but 62.8%, so that's already a fail at producing a basic color. Second, it doesn't sound right - you have no general knowledge/experience clue that this much light between black and white is red, so have no chance for a good guess

> I appreciate is a thing you have to learn, but it’s not beyond human comprehension.

Can you not appreciate that 0-100 is something that you almost don't have to learn?

> if you lower that chroma you get colors that are as red, but less intense - which is what you would expect

Yes, that's the good part!

> And then you have a hue, which is an arbitrary angle

That's another common flaw of all these color notations (they should allow "r" for red and then +-degrees for deviations), but it this case it's worse because it's again not a clean 29 number for a "clean" color

> Add 180 to it to get a complement though, or add or subtract 120 to get to green or blue.

If you remember the whole wheel. Not beyond "human comprehension", just UI fail for the non-expert general human
The Future of Specialty Coffee
Something this (unironically) comedic is probably far from "unfiltered". Fun read though!
Show HN: The fastest way to run Mixtral 8x7B on Apple Silicon Macs
I’d originally launched my app: Private LLM[1][2] on HN around 10 months ago, with a single RedPajama Chat 3B model. The app has come a long way since then. About a month ago, I added support for 4-bit OmniQuant quantized Mixtral 8x7B Instruct model, and it seems to outperform Q4 models at inference speed and Q8 models at text generation quality, while consuming only about 24GB of RAM[3] at 8k context length. The trick is: a) to use a better quantization algorithm and b) to use unquantized embeddings and the MoE gates (the overhead is quite small).

Other notable features include many more downloadable models, support for App Intents (Siri, Apple Shortcuts), on-device grammar correction, summarization etc with macOS services and an iOS version (universal app), also with many smaller downloadable models and support for App Intents. There's a small community of users building and sharing LLM based shortcuts on the App's discord.

Last week, I also shipped support for the bilingual Yi-34B Chat model, which consumes ~18GB of RAM. iOS users and users with low memory Macs can download the related Yi-6B Chat model.

Unlike most popular offline LLM apps out there, this app uses mlc-llm for inference and not llama.cpp. Also, all models in the app are quantized with OmniQuant[4] quantization and not RTN quantization.

[1]: https://privatellm.app/

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-llm-local-ai-chatbot/id6448106860

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AE8yXIWSAA

[4]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13137
All I can say is ‘huh?’

Growing plants pulls carbon from the atmosphere.

Rotting puts that carbon back into the atmosphere.

None of that has much to do with sustainable farming, which is about soil fertility, pest control, and micronutrients like fixated nitrogen - and not raw carbon.

Which is why nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides have been so important in producing mass yield improvements in farming.

Are there ways of doing this more naturally, using crop rotating, etc? Yes. In field Composting can help a little too, but has major disease and pest vector issues.

They’re also less efficient when you factor in transportation and land use costs. And they don’t really have any impact on macro level carbon cycle stuff.

I think you’re missing the forest for the trees? Or crossing wires?
Great thing is that as opposed to the web, the platform/library designers already took care of a lot of that, so the biggest overlap between GUI libraries and CSS is usually the layout (these days, where CSS isn't utterly abominable here).

A lot of the color fiddling etc. that web apps due is due to

1.) Graphic designers having no other way to go, now that print is dead

2.) Corporate Identity (which is of lower priority than platform identity)

3.) Selling stuff (not needed as much with desktop apps)
I’m afraid you’ll need to contact shenzen resistor corporation #6552 as that’s the component that’s failed and they’re the responsible party.
I think that FSD v12 is at a point where it went from a useless liability to a useful product. It's definitely not perfect though.
Gamification or Financial Incentives, to Increase Patient's Physical Activity
I had this issue and it appears to be fixed in the latest version of mutter available for Arch.
I remember one of my teachers about 35 years ago telling us about a specific fern that concentrated gold in its roots. I can't remember the name of it but I'd recognise it by sight. It was interesting because as an organism it's virtually unchanged in appearance since examples of it were laid down in the coal layers. So it's not an unlikely story at all.
2048 on Duck
your view is definitely outdated by about 20+ years and traveling recently made me aware of how far behind the West is and how deeply ingrained Western exceptionalism is in the psyche here preventing them from seeing reality with objectivity.

East Asian cities are far more peaceful, safe, and advanced than any north american/europe counterpart. Much of the infrastructure in the latter are outdated, old, rustic even as the historical look & feel triumphs over efficiency. Whereas cities like Singapore blows backward cities like Vancouver out of the water on civic report card.

Even in cities widely marketed as a desirable "western liberal progressive bastions" are filled with corruption, ideological drives from special interest groups (ex. NIMBY/YIMBY), that makes it impossible for any sort of progress to happen at the rate that is beneficial to the citizens. Especially now we had the pendulum of compassion swing so far towards the left to the point of ridiculousness (ex. math is racist, 1x1=2) that everybody is so worried about losing their jobs about going against the narrative of their employers that they can't/won't introduce homeostasis when the equilibrium is knocked off. It's only NOW that this pendulum is swinging to the far right but extreme swings are not what produces peaceful progressive societies, they produce violence because of the absurdities that followers believe about themselves to support whatever narrative is being disseminated through their favourite echo chambers.

Most of the west's rich (double to five digit millionaires) are sending their offsprings to Singapore, not Paris or Berlin.
I remap the escape key away from C-a as that conflicts with emacs and I increase the scrollback size of sessions.
Cancel your daily meeting and have a single weekly update meeting. Have each project’s lead write down what progress they made last week, risks, problems, wins, and what they’ll expect to do next week.

Spend the first 10m of the meeting silently reading these updates. Then have each lead verbally give a condensed summary of their update (DONT ALLOW them to read verbatim) with a focus on the information that everyone on the team really needs to know, especially problems and blockers. Make sure they do verbally say what their next incremental unit of progress will accomplish and when they expect to have it done.

You can do “people” instead of “projects” for smaller team.

Oh, and keep all the notes and updates in a single shared doc that you add to the top of each week.
Quantifying subtle biases is very difficult. There was a great study published in 2015 that showed that the skin color of the hands holding baseball cards in eBay listings had a measurable effect on the sale price.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1756-2171.12...
It's mandatory if you've never been to the hospital/clinic before, it's for insurance purposes. See https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/identificatieplicht...
Or disable self-driving in hyper-dense areas such as cities? I know close to nothing about cars and driving but I guess it's an ok thing to have outside of cities?
Can't wait to have a self-driving taxi hallucinate while I am in it.
Collaborative Prototyping Environment
TLDR: react prototypes in a shared workspace.

V0 is a bit better, but lacks a shared workspace.

Hope it helps!
The first thing made frictionless by the Internet is probably communications. And yes payments is something that can be solved mostly inside of a computer so it's much simpler than healthcare.
Cholesterol 2.0
hey thank you!

i try to operate at zero-basis and quickly scaffold to a simplified model so ANYONE can grab the "why this makes nerds say wow" factor haha
Is the FSD's gpt5 actually on the horizon? Or is it like Trump's 6G?

We know well at this point that progress, especially when it comes to AI, is anything but linear
Don't fall for confirmation bias i.e. seeking out information that confirms your priors.

If you want to get an accurate picture of FSD 12, watch random youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fsd+12.3

The majority of people are over the moon about how good the latest version is.
I agree, it always feels strange putting my root password into a box that just popped up. True, it's only ever been in direct connection with a command line program I'm running, but there's nothing hard linking the terminal with the GUI window.

I think that either the terminal program should print something like a PIN which is repeated in the window to cross-check, or the window should be able to use some restricted window manager feature (like Windows' fullscreen greying out thing) to prove that it's not just a random Qt/GTK window from an attacker's script.
I have heard PRC-native Chinese females complain about misogyny in the original text, so I think they are getting out ahead of something here.
the Beatles sold their first thousand records, at one short time in history.. and there will never be another Beatles due to "long tail" modern distributions.. casual ill-will and indifference to new projects must not be confused with reasonable, or even legal contractual behaviors
Like Russia and Ukraine.
Sadly USPS is frequently the perpetrator.

https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm

I’ve tried every opt-out I can find and it still doesn’t stop.
> It was your interpretation that I advise people to not use any 2FA at all.

No, to be clear, it's the obvious interpretation of a non-expert user, which is why your advice is so dangerous. They don't have a yubikey, don't understand how the apps work, and are faced with a decision to either enable SMS 2FA or not. And you're telling them not to, so they won't. And we'll all suffer.

Again, work the other side of the problem if this is important to you. Make the other solutions better and educate people about them. Don't tell them not to use something that might very well save their bank account.
C# on Linux still has some warts, the runtime is massive and most distro-packaged software pulls that in its entirety. (And for extra fun, sometimes multiple versions.) All that overhead sits between your code and GTK, and something like Vala completely sidesteps that hassle.

That said, it only really shines for the "gtk based linux desktop" usecase, for everything else the situation flips around, as you now need to bring your own GTK. Occasionally still worth it embedded, but not much else.
I am seeing different things online about this, de.usembassy.gov says "no such government issued document exists in the United States", but maybe they are referring to the federal government.

In any case it say that since 2021 Germany will accept a sworn oath from US residents to declare their eligibility.
It should also make us reconsider the motivations of those who push such criticisms.
Regardless of safety, I won't use FSD because it is too embarrassing when it takes forever to figure out it can safely go. It also drops down to 2mph in my neighborhood to go over a small pot hole, that everyone else would just go around.
I think the second they used the term "Full Self Driving", they opened themselves up to criticism when it doesn't fulfil that promise.

Hell, I'd argue they shouldn't be able to call it that legally.
It's mostly just a matter of comfort. Characters appearing very quickly after you type them is more comfortable.
To be fair, I’m reading “The New Leviathans” by Gray right now. It includes the ideas of Turchin in its analysis of the “decline of liberalism” and I’m intrigued (and concerned) by the arguments. But I read “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” when in came out in 1987, found it convincing, and yet practically everything it predicted went wrong within 5 years.
That last sentence is a phenomenal explanation of why it can be harder for experts to teach a subject than non-experts.
Inner monologue is pretty much exactly that. The ability to internalize sound and voice that is not hallucinatory or accusatory. It's literally at a very simple level being able to just think of yourself saying something and you thinking it you hear it. On the other end of the spectrum you can basically make any sound or voice at will audible in your head.

I am on that far end of the spectrum where I could just make anything happen in my head visually or auditorily.
A Giant Explosion in Space Will Happen This Year, and You Can See It