skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know… something I’d never really considered before now is that Mars has an absolutely pristine RF environment that would be pretty much impossible to find anywhere on Earth. I’m not sure how the overall noise floor would look with the lack of a global magnetic field but I would guess that you could set up a really great positioning system using small low-power beacons since you could use any frequency you want instead of trying to compete with, say, all the 2.4 and 5GHz noise on Earth.
I understand these arguments, which is why I'd just kill the accounts if I were Twitter or Facebook or even HN. It's not in Twitter's interest to allow these handles to be property. It's not in the interest of Twitter to allow some high profile account to be taken over in this manner. I'm not a fan on Alex Jones, but it wouldn't be good for Twitter to let these people take over his account. The users who do interact with the account expect to be interacting with Alex Jones, so handing the account over only degrades Twitter's service for those users.

It's perfectly reasonable for Twitter to care more about its own integrity and value, like how users would prefer things to be moderated, than whether people who Alex Jones owes money to can extract any value from his social media handles.

The difference between Elon Musk buying Twitter is that the previous owners sold it willingly and everyone accepts that Twitter is Musk's now, and he can do as he likes, even renaming the site. Nobody believes that the Onion or whoever is really Infowars just because some bankruptcy judge says so. When Musk acquired Twitter he continued operating the service. The new owners of Infowars have no intention of continuing it.

If anyone acquired a browser plugin or mobile app in a bankruptcy, got the app store credentials, then pushed updates changing the fundamental nature of the app to something its existing users don't want or expect, then they shouldn't be surprised if the app store just removes them. Same goes for social media handles.
(I'm @moralestapia, but on my phone)

Non-profits have a mission that has to be aligned with a public/social benefit.

No amount of structuring would help you if it turns out that your activities benefit a private individual/organization instead of whatever public benefit you wrote when setting up the non-profit.

All it takes if a judge ruling that [1] is happening, and then it's over for you and all your derived entities, subsidiaries, whatever-you-set-up-thinking-you-would-outsmart-the-irs. Judges can see through your bullshit, they do this 100s of times, year after year.

And also, "oh, but we wanted to do this since the beginning" only digs you a deeper hole, lmao. Do they not have common sense?

I'm surprised that @sama, whose major talent is manipulat... sorry "social engineering", greenlit this approach.

1. https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
'I dedicated myself to changing the world and I didn't change a damn thing'
> You should travel a bit around the world, you would then understand how high NZ stands globally

They come from Europe to NZ - that is literally travelling the world.

There's a reason a large proportion of kiwis move to Australia and not the other way around.
Yeah, sorry, I'm hoping to integrate more login options soon. Are you more of a email/phone login person, or is there another third-party login you had in mind?
Ask HN: How do we evaluate real value-add in "wrapper" products?
"Just a ChatGPT wrapper" is becoming a common criticism of AI products, similar to how many successful SaaS products were once dismissed as "just database wrappers", and we can go down the stack.

But what makes the difference between a wrapper and a valuable abstraction? Looking for examples of products that started as "wrappers" but delivered significant value through their abstractions and orchestration.

I guess these are some aspects to consider:
- How important is the underlying technology vs the solution delivery?
- Historical examples of wrapper products that became industry standards
- Evaluation frameworks for distinguishing meaningful solutions from basic wrappers
Luigi Mangione and the making of a modern antihero
I mean once Boeing is out of the picture SpaceX is just going to raise its rates.

Tesla sells EVs much cheaper in China than the US due to actual competition.
You could post this in the ongoing thread on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406158 so the discussion doesn't split up.
Why do so many free sites force users to login? Are they trying to shield their content from AI bots? Or is it something else?
I know we've got cuprates, superconductors formed with copper oxide, useful up to 133Kelvin, higher than Nitrogen cooling's capability of 77K.

I've read of them being used in wind turbines and particle accelerators, as well as concepts for fusion reactors.

Your comment makes it sound like they have insufficient field tolerance / current characteristics though. I don't think I've heard about Cuprates at all recently.
it doesn't need to have infinite undo, just if I inadvertently do a "select all" and touch a letter, it would give my text back.
Sounds like Elon's "fourth attempt [..] to reframe his claims" might actually be close to the target.

Otherwise, why would they engage in a publicity battle to sway public sentiment precisely now, if their legal case wasn't weak?
(Can't tell if joking or serious)

The subset of people for whom such a title would be "clickbait" is so small and well-informed that they ought not to be falling for clickbait.

Everyone else understands that since it is impossible to build a sun, it must be a clever metaphor or some other intriguing novelty.
So all the batteries are on the belly and a door opens up in flight when they get heavy and they get yeeted? Now you need to have sensors and actuators and inspections on all these doors. The cost of the plane just meaningfully increased.

Mechanical systems experience failure, so now your pilots need to train on the procedure for a stuck drop pod door. It'll probably change the flight characteristics and fuel efficiency while stuck open, so any time that happens it is now an emergency. That just added some operational costs for stranded passengers. You also would probably need a whole new cert for the airframe for any changes to your drop pods.

Throw them in little nacelles under the wings? Now slipping it onto the runway gets harder, more pilot training. What's the procedure for a battery pod strike? More training and more procedure and more certification. More redundant safety systems.

Throw them in the wings themselves? Now if the drop doors get stuck you really have a suboptimal flight condition.

I don't doubt that the technical challenges are surmountable, but all these considerations could literally double the cost of operating a plane compared to just accepting a lower MTOW. The military does all this crazy stuff because it's a hard mission requirement and they don't care how much it costs.
Put up most of the panels on my solar fence
Gonna need a source on that one.

As much as I despise Elon Musk, the cost per kg to LEO has gone down a lot in recent years thanks to spacex.
Well, that's rather beside the point—if you're really worried about allocators failing, exceptions don't provide any benefit over simply returning NULL.
Why are so many guys obsessed with Master and Commander? (2023)
For me personally, a lot of times it's for table augmentation purposes. Appending additional columns to a dataset, such as a cleaned/standardized version of another field, extracting a value from another field, or appending categorization attributes (sometimes pre-seeded and sometimes just giving it general direction).

Or sometimes I'll manually curate a field like that, and then ask it to generate an Excel function that can be used to produce as similar a result as possible for automated categorization in the future.

So in most cases I both want to provide it with tabular data, and also want tabular data back out. In general I've gotten decent results for these sorts of use cases, but when it falls down it's almost always addressable by tinkering with the formatting related instructions – sometimes by tweaking the input and sometimes by tweaking the instructions for the desired output.
Show HN: A Svelte/TypeScript and FastAPI Template for Async AI Chat with OpenAI
Hi HN,

I open sourced (MIT) this repo to help developers save time setting up AI-powered chat applications. It’s a starter template with a Svelte + Typescript frontend, a FastAPI backend, and OpenAI integration. You can use it to build interactive chat experiences or experiment with modern web frameworks.

I chose Svelte for this project because it’s a great way to use plain JavaScript without the complexities of frameworks like React. Svelte compiles your code in a way that handles much of what can make React programming cumbersome, resulting in cleaner and more intuitive code.

It’s worth noting that this template doesn’t include LangChain. It’s designed to be simple and lightweight, making it a great starting point for those who want to customize their own AI chat applications.

This setup aims to save you about a month of work by providing a ready-to-go architecture for async OpenAI responses.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or any feedback you have. If you try it out, let me know how it works for you!

Here’s the repo: https://github.com/mthomason/mbot

Looking forward to the discussion!
Good idea, maybe I'll add Groq as another option, since I don't have an internal Llama 3.1 flow yet. But I'll still need to keep the others to maintain the diversity of responses.
Email would be best for me.
One thing that goes unmentioned about room temperature superconductors is that they store energy as well. U = (B2/(2u0))V. 2u0 is about 2.5E-6N/A2

So a 1m3 7T magnetic field would be about 20MJ or 7KWh. That doesn't sound like much, but collapse times could be microsec to generate GW of EM.
nice, i chcked the github and its a very nice robot, also i guessed you used a program that tracks objects or dots you put on a camera recording (sry if im wrong i know nothing about robotics) and the robots follows some pattern in it.
Okay, sorry about that. I'll refrain in the future. However, I wonder, at what point should we override single variable optimization (in this case the single variable is intellectual curiosity) if there is truly something heinous to point out? It seems by not doing that, we overnormalize those who will use intellectual curiosity as an excuse to subjugate.
DX-Ball 2
| We figured out how to heat water thousands of years ago

Then why doesn't this device heat the water
I think I understand the disconnect, now. CAI's product is not the character cards. The new site, of which you can only browse the vetted Public cards, is just a veneer over the same old inference services for the customer base they originally, and have always, served.

You weren't logged in for your "For You" screen shot (all of your terms definitely show up while logged in), but these are the first results from 'yandere': https://0x0.st/XFad.png

Wow, spicy! 148M (million) chats on the top result, about a billion total for all of them (and that's not including any Private or Unlisted bots). Elon Reeve Musk, for comparison, has 1.9M, and the others you listed were below 100K. Looks like violently possessive AI boyfriends, girlfriends, and more aren't a small market for c.ai.

And here's my 'For You' after searching 'yandere': https://0x0.st/XFBr.png

I don't speak Russian or Romanian, so I guess either it knows something about me I don't, or it's not really there to provide relevant suggestions.
I've been doing some anti-ADHD training on my own by reading a difficult book -- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin -- slowly.

Sure I could bro down those words in a straight beginning-to-end readthrough and get a sense of what's going on. But I find that going back over the past few paragraphs is rewarding, as subtle turns of phrase reveal details I hadn't noticed.

You could probably be trained to comprehend text electronically read to you at 900 wpm. Blind people using screenreaders, for instance, train themselves to understand text read aloud very fast.
Well Congress could meaningfully influence behaviors, but it seems very unlikely unless something drastic happens.
That’s actually a pretty hard problem when you don’t have a GPS constellation to assist you. Accelerometers, gyros, and magnetometers are used on Earth but all of them need calibration and drift compensation. We don’t really have much available for sensors that can directly detect position or velocity, it’s all estimated by double integrating acceleration data (which has noise and bias). On Earth most UAVs use GPS as a coarse position sensor and can use that to correct for accelerometer error but if you don’t have that constellation a camera is probably your best bet.
Thank you! Sorry I hit my Anthropic limits a few minutes after this post blew up. It'll be a few days before my Anthropic limits increase since I have a new account with them, so unfortunately it won't be back until next week.

Cheers!
Wow. Go over to [1] and read the papers. This is good stuff. When someone finds new physics, interesting things result.

Tungsten disulfide/boron nitride superconductors? That's a new direction.

This article describes a new research result as a new research result, not as "trillion dollar industry by 2027". That helps credibility.

[1] https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/long-ju/
>Ah i think writings is nessessary for not being extinct.

Give the poor quality of your writing, are you sure you're not extinct?
It's a salute emoji!

o7
Have you ever been a victim of domain squatting? One time I went to renew my domain one day late. Ask me how that went.
It’s still all based on consent.

Doctors are mandated to obtain informed consent, and patients have the right to refuse any treatment or medication they don’t want.

It appears that you may not be well-informed about end-of-life care protocols. Once a patient is admitted to ‘hospice care,’ the focus shifts from extending and preserving life to enhancing their quality of life.
> The development of commercial launch systems has substantially reduced the cost of space launch. NASA’s space shuttle had a cost of about $1.5 billion to launch 27,500 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), $54,500/kg. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 now advertises a cost of $62 million to launch 22,800 kg to LEO, $2,720/kg.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093

Why do you lie?
I dont think anyone is suggesting otherwise. The quest is to understand how brains work- full stop. This means what you said is true, as well as the exact inverse. There is interest in knowing why people cant do things. Why are some people face blind, suffer from amnesia, or incapable of complex thought.

It all boils down to understanding a complex system.
Try llama 3.3 70B. On groq or something. Runs on a 64GB macbook (4bit quantized, which seems to not impact quality much). Things have come a long way. Compare to llama 2 70b. It's wild
Scrutiny without the ability to exert oversight, control or any modicum of restraint is... utterly useless to everyone except the historians.
I think most async runtimes give you the option of launching a single-threaded executor when you explicitly request it.

AIUI the most esoteric tradeoffs wrt. GC involve how to have data representations that can be efficiently traced, and whether you should allow e.g. moving data in memory as part of the collection phase. But I think you're overestimating somewhat the variation within the Rust-focused community - given what most Rust code looks like, they're going to be mostly interested in something straightforward yet efficient, that can interoperate with existing Rust code w/ relative ease while addressing the common issue of cyclical data references.
UK, Italy, Japan to build next-gen jet in new joint venture
I'm left handed myself and have always loved and excelled at reading (according to various tests or programs in school anyway), not that anecdata is much good but there it is
Christians can suffer as much as they like. To everyone their weirdness.

Just don't push it to others under the name of morality out other bullshit.

I would like to be able to die when I want to, in a simple and painless way. Because I will do it anyway jumping under a train or lorry it is just messy for everyone.
Thanks! Yeah that's an excellent idea - this is my response from another thread:

I have a feeling that Perplexity and ChatGPT are doing something similar [caching], since common questions I'd ask like "top movies this year" will be answered nearly-instantaneously, way faster than GPT-4o could have done on its own.

The only explanation for this is that so many users ask certain questions, they cache the response and return the cached answer.

I'd love to do this for Ithy, but it'll be a while before I get the scale of ChatGPT/Perplexity that's needed for this...
I think setup an automated partiful with meetup invites for people who sign up, the location should be an easy going place that wouldn’t mind if 1-2 people show up, or 5-10 do. Sounds interesting, I might give it a go.
"It's a Ferrari!"

"It's a steel box!"
Expiring tokens is a pretty standard business model. Are they lying and saying the tokens never expire?
Show HN: Marginalia Site Explorer Rabbit Hole Generator
Some of this has previously been available in a somewhat inaccessible format. I've recently been working on a redesign of the marginalia search website.
"Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man." --The Dude
That is the worst part haha
No one has a strong answer for this. This question was the origin of a lot of universal basic income chatter and research beginning in maybe 2014. The idea being, whoever creates superintelligence will capture substantively all future profits. If a non-profit (or capped profit) company does it, they could fund UBI for society. But the research into UBI have not been very decisive. Do people flourish or flounder when receiving UBI? And what does that, in aggregate, do to a society? We still don't really know. Oh and also, OAI is no longer a non-profit and has eliminated the profit cap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XJlTaBnlrI
Thank you so much! That's incredibly enlightening!
As long as the essential controls are there (play/pause, volume, transport) and don't have serious UX sins (tiny or otherwise lacking touch targets) restyling them is overrated.

And an unfortunate number of recreated controls seem to have the serious UX sins.

"looks different in every single browser" is a minor issue. Might be nice if they were restylable via CSS, though.
Notably I don't think it matters what the public thinks right now. We had a 50% success rate at building AP1000s in the US because of problems intrinsic to building AP1000s not because of opposition to the AP1000.

The basic problem is that reactors cost a crazy amount to build, it's not just a matter of convincing the neighbors who will live near it, you've got to convince some investors to put money into it because they'll make it back and then some.

Granted with less opposition you might have less regulation and lower costs but the high costs don't come just from the nuclear island but also the steam turbine -- it's no accident that we quit building both coal burning and nuclear power plants in the 1980s because at that time gas turbine power plants were coming on line which had just a fraction of the capital cost of steam turbine power plants.
The Effect of Stress on Your Brain's Reward System
Show HN: Granular statuspage for third-party products
Hi! Wanted to share a unified statuspage that we made.

Annoyed of getting alerts for Github Issues when you only use Github for storing code? Use Braid, a granular statuspage for third-party products that lets you manually decide which specific services you subscribe to.

Feel free to host it yourself, or use it directly via usebraid.com

Happy root-cause-investigating!
Pre transformers paper emails. Fun to read.
Too soon. I still tear up over LK-99
As a former number theorist turned software engineer, I’ve noodled on connections between algebraic number theory and fairly concrete applications here:

https://kevinventullo.com/
And there should be an emulation environment for us to try and understand the details. Unlike the moon landing controller it is still alive …
https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10
This reference was such a classic for years after the release of the Fifth Element!
The latest UAVs also use ToF LIDAR and SLAM for GPS-rejected navigation / inertial dead reckoning correction. I'm not sure that would work well on Mars either, though, as the environment might be too featureless for that approach also.

I think the best approach would probably be to equip the "base station" / lander with an RF beacon. Ideally, you could drop some RF beacons throughout the environment as you went, but even a single beacon with some directional receivers on the drone should work pretty well (here, the featureless environment becomes a benefit as you have to contend much less with radio reflections).
Bambino might be OK stock?? Not sure. Only change the OPV if you have a problem to solve. For me it was slightly too fine gets zero extraction and the pressure compacts the puck. Then go a bit coarser and it spews out.
Did they ever get siblings tail recursion? I remember using it, but since it only worked in release mode I could never rely on it.

I found "loop" pretty horrible.
Very helpful that it's open, as while I wouldn't share my info, I would absolutely pop in if I knew one was going on.

there's an old thread about how to run an event that doesn't suck, but it may be for more structured events than meetups. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32876804

even a lightning round with the t-shirt slogan of what you're either building, thinking about, or challenged by, some structured Q&A, and around a table instead of ted talk would do it. pretty much the startup school office hours format.
What, you can't feel the Christmas spirit?
Yep, and that’s fine. It’s just that there is a lot of false assumptions and magical thinking going around about LLMs and Markdown and I was glad to not find any in the README.
I wonder if this was inspired by this discussion, but this just made the front page. I didn’t realize the famous Pentium fdiv bug was due to an error in a lookup table used for division: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391079
In case you didn't notice, mouse and keyboard on a PC with a non touch display has a very different input scheme and consequently can't be compared like that.

If something works well on such a platform doesn't man it's useful on the other
A lot of good points here, thanks a lot!

> Email-chain would be the easiest.

It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right?

> creating a some form of very simple forum board

Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.
Classical AI? Like what the Greeks used? Or are you referring to the post-Gothic renewal era?
And one of the major branch would state Buddha nature have evilness,is aibo evil as well. The hole can go very deep.
Anti-party defenses for New Year's Eve rolled out around the world
Zig runtime optionally records few last points in sources where the error is propagated to the caller so you get stack traces.

If you need more than that and error codes, then either log as the sibling suggested or use custom return types. Anything more complex than what can be encoded as error codes is not an exception.