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And one for fusion

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Dear Nuclear Fusion Power Claimant

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary nuclear fusion power technology. Your new technology claims to solve humanity's energy problems, produce unlimited clean energy, and is just months away from commercialization. Unfortunately, your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it requires materials that cannot be produced at any scale.

[ ] its energy gain (Q factor) is still substantially less than 1.

[ ] its plasma instabilities modes are completely unknown.

[ ] its plasma modeling behavior relies exclusively on numerical simulations.

[ ] it cannot sustain required plasma confinement criteria

[ ] it cannot handle the neutron flux without rapid degradation of components.

[ ] it requires magnetic fields stronger than currently achievable

[ ] it consumes more energy in cooling systems than it produces.

[ ] your claimed breakthrough violates fundamental physics.

[ ] the same approach was tried in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and abandoned each time for good reason

[ ] by the time it ships, renewable energy plus storage will be far cheaper.

[ ] your timeline has been "5 years away" for the past 50 years.

[ ] your claims are lies.

Sincerely,
The Energy Research Community
Back in 2019, every marketing conference was abuzz with hype for the latest in tech innovation: "voice as the primary interface for search". Hopefully those attendees diversified their plans with something timeless and battle-tested like "pivot to video".
A nice generalization.

An example in statistics is the expectation operator. You can throw away a lot of detail if you only care about one central moment. And if you need more information about a distribution, add more moments.

Also, this works for public policy. Frame everything as a well functioning market and hope for the best. /s

But seriously, a nice intuition.
Better to have the knowledge and never need it :-)
where can I read about fully-automated, ship-stable, ~zero maintenance deuterium sea-water extraction systems?
As i expect you know, that's not how they see it -
they were trying to keep the child healthy.

Now you might ask how RFK Jr feels about this.
I find it wonderfully clichee that the guy who's job was linking vendors and customers was called Mr. Link.
It's not exposed in the API yet, but it's very possible with the architecture and something we plan to expose. I am curious if you have a use case for that, because I've been looking for use cases! Being able to fork the chat and try different things in parallel is the motivating use case in my mind, but I'm sure there are others.
I remember reading about a physical device someone constructed with mirrors (I think at an early burning man) that gave you the experience of a huge inter ocular distance to get a giant's eye view. I've always wanted to try one (or the opposite to experience a tiny inter ocular distance).
I wouldn't mind it so much, if it benefited me in any way. Phones are listening all the time, Google and Apply know where I am constantly, they all have access to all my credit card purchases. Why can't I ask arbitrary questions I know they have the data to answer. Some examples of things I feel like should be trivial:

> Hey Google, when's the last time I bought gas for my truck? What did I pay, and how many MPG did I get?

> Hey Siri, the other day at the bar, my friend was telling me about a TV show he recommended I watch. What was the name of the show again? What service streams it? Play the trailer on the living room TV.

Instead, they just harvest all the data, sell it to whoever they feel like, just so everyone can show me intrusive adds for shit I don't care about.
I tried to get it to research the design of models for account potential in B2B sales. It went to the shittiest blogspam sites and returned something utterly unimpressive. Instacancelled the $200 sub. Will try it a few more times this month but my expectations are very low.
> You can do this by holding your finger substantially in front of the image, and focusing solely on the finger with your eyes, while turning your mind’s attention to the image behind it while keeping your eyes still.

This tip in the article helped me a lot, it's much easier to cross your eyes further with something to actually focus on
and TV these days often means laptop anyway.
To be fair, this is graphical, but it's not real-time, not performant, and while it technically takes input, it'll be a while before you see it reflected in the output.
no paywall: https://archive.is/LY290
Agree, very cool but not $200/mo cool.
Automation of Hoare logic is quite good these days. Dafny, from MS Research (https://dafny.org), is probably the most friendly formal language of any kind. It's built around Hoare logic and its extension, separation logic. The barrier of entry is low. A seasoned imperative or functional programmer can get going with Dafny in just a few days. Dafny has been used to verify large systems, including many components of AWS.

I am hoping that LLMs make more advanced languages, such as Liquid Haskell or Agda, less tedious to use. Ideally, lots of code should be autocompleted once a human provides a type signature. The advantage of formal verification is that we can be sure the generated code is correct.
Nope, it makes sense and you're the only one here whose lacking an example. Any definition of hate speech is ridiculous because grown adults who try to control the speech of others are all ridiculous.
> the network has grown almost 50% since then

How is this relevant to making your own server?

> You can set up your own PDS, right now

Any existing alternative servers compatible with the main network?
I keep a PowerPoint with screenshots of bizarre CATIA/ENOVIA error messages. It's up to 8 slides now, completely covered with errors. A few other highlights:

"As it was too important, the number of workspaces has been reduced."

"Primitive Value is not an AggrInstance"

"Instead of directly transforming an import, we recommend you apply the Add Position contextual command onto the solid. Then the required GSD transformation must be applied to the axis system of the Positioning Set. Do you want to go on with the transformation or quit the command and follow our recommendation? (Yes/No buttons)"

"A problem occurs during Process."

"Error: Error Stack is empty."

an empty dialog box with options of "OK" or "Cancel."

"An error condition has been detected, but no error information."

While performing a Surface to Surface analysis: Status: 104% complete, 1193hr 2min 46sec remaining.

"Cannot bitblt"

"Technological Package found use appropriate engine to handle it. It can not be saved as a File."
> I'd wager you'll end up pivoting to SMRs. They exist today.

who is selling ~zero maintenance, mass-produced SMRs today?
I am with you. I could also never see the hidden image things. Been trying for 40 years.
The V1 tried to combine real time gameplay and strategic thinking, so i added tooltips, highlights, etc.. to try to make that work. In v3 the two things are separated, and I tried to focus on mobile gameplay, with the desktop version being basically a scaled up mobile screen. There should be audio in both, what browser are you using ? The v1 had performance issues because of the use of a lot of css combined with canvas, the v2 is pure canvas and performs much more smoothly on low end devices. My focus for v3 was to make it fun and challenging for me to play it, while still being approachable for my girlfriend, who just wants something chill to play with and has no interest in high scores.
I don't buy it. It might support the part of the theory that talks about how brains work. But the statement that this is qualia is different, and can't be proven or disproven. Let's say I believe that some person is actually a P-zombie, someone with no conscious experience but who behaves exactly like a normal person. Would these experiments be able to tell me if my belief is correct? I don't see how.
The crucial difference is between misremembering occasionally VS consistently.

You won't give any job to that kind of person.
Ask HN: Email Inbox for AI Agents
I'm exploring the idea of assigning AI agents a unique email address as a way to facilitate communication with users. The concept is to let these agents interact via email - a channel that most people are already comfortable with - instead of relying solely on new or unfamiliar interfaces.

Here are a few points I'm considering:

- User Familiarity: Since email is a tool nearly everyone uses, could this approach lower the barrier to adoption for interacting with AI agents?

- Asynchronous Communication: Email naturally supports non-real-time interactions, which might help in managing multiple tasks or inquiries without needing immediate responses.

- Integration Benefits: Many existing systems and workflows already incorporate email for notifications and confirmations. Would providing AI agents with their own inbox simplify integration into these established processes?

- Real-Life Example: Imagine a scenario where different AI agents manage various aspects of your daily work. One could handle scheduling, another could deal with project updates, and a third could manage customer inquiries. Each agent would send you email summaries, reminders, or even initiate actions (like booking a meeting), all through the medium you already use regularly.

- Potential Drawbacks: Could this lead to email clutter or introduce security challenges? What measures would be necessary to ensure that the system remains efficient and secure?

I'm keen to hear your thoughts and any potential concerns or alternatives you might suggest. Is this a solid direction for facilitating user interaction with AI, or am I overcomplicating things?

Looking forward to your feedback!
Plan G is probably better than plan F for most people now. The only coverage difference between the two is that plan F covers the Medicare part B deductible ($257 this year) and plan G does not.

Plan F is not open to new enrollees in less they were eligible for Medicare before 2000-01-01 and so the pool of people with plan F is shrinking and aging.

Plan G on the other hand is open to all, and is the most popular choice for new Medicare enrollees with something like 70% of the people who buy a supplement plan choosing it. That gives it a younger and growing pool.

Accordingly plan G is generally cheaper than plan F which is usually more than enough to make up for not covering the $257 deductible. G just needs to be at least $21.42 month cheaper than F to come out ahead which is the case in a few sates I looked at.
I assumed it was patent-encumbered that could not be reconciled by either party.
The reason you need to change the inter-frame distance is because the amount of information carried by the parallax drops off quite quickly, to the extent that at the sort of distance in the tree photo, your brain is mostly using motion cues for 3d reconstruction, not stereo vision. Increasing the horizontal distance simulates bringing everything correspondingly closer.
I think it's more about running up the legal bill of the defendant. It costs virtually nothing to include a spurious claim in a complaint (it can literally be a sentence or two). The defense has the burden of getting the weak claim dismissed with pages and pages of arguments (because they don't want any chance of it slipping through).

The bar for a "shotgun" complaint is way too high in the legal system.
Yep, because there's already another one, our hex code merchant clearly has nothing better to do: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vira-the...
This is another remainder that crucial business communication should be based on self-hosted solutions to be independent on third-parties and for privacy reasons. There are good and even more lightweight open source Slack alternatives: Nextcloud Talk, Mattermost, Zulip, Element.io, Jami, to name a few. Relying on a third-party provider is asking for trouble. Plus giving away your private business conversations to feed AI and NSA is another thing.
Just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's not useful. It has the best shopping list of any assistant (non-Apple-walled-garden), it's the only one that can text me my reminders, and the skills are killer - sprinklers, remote car start, the possibilities with skills are limitless. I've never felt compelled to buy a product it has offered me, but it did offer me a really good deal once on an item I had been looking at, which was useful.
You can post your article without the Show HN but Show HN itself is for things you've built people can try, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
'It wasn't nice': Australian couple sat next to corpse on long-haul flight
Scientific Calculator for iOS and macOS
I've been working since about 2016 to try and make the best calculator app. There are many apps that have fantastic UIs, and many apps that have a wide breadth of features - but very few that do both. My aim since the start has been to do both.

The input follows regular maths notation, and a cursor lets you go back and edit previous parts. Typing follows iOS's keyboard pattern. You get most of the buttons on one screen, and you can press and hold on buttons to bring up menus for more advanced buttons - like pressing and holding on sin will give you asin, sinh, asinh etc.

It's grown a lot since the beginning, now including graphing, unit conversion (including maths on units), date maths, and solvers.

The app itself is written in React Native, and the core engine is also open source (https://github.com/jacobp100/technicalc-core)

Happy to hear everyone's thoughts!
Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to make life easier?
For example I'm learning German and I realised I can give Claude a list of the words I heard in a documentary to get plural form, article, definition, example sentence etc, in a csv I can import to Anki.
Thank you. I enjoy playing it during my programming breaks, and fixing issues as they go, to the point where it often derails me from real work. All that to say, i'll keep working on it :)
Throughout the video and while appreciating this unbelievable feat I kept thinking "how could someone have the motivation necessary to tackle such an insurmountable undertaking" ?

And then he said it: "All I wanted was the specific reason DOOM can't run in a type system but every time I hit a roadblock I always came up with some ridiculous workaround. I clung to that belief that it couldn't work and that doubt fuelled me the whole time."

Beautiful. I wonder if I can trick myself to one time attempt the impossible.
As always, there's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/2838/
I'm not optimistic, but my recent experiences with Gemini's mobile app gives me pause on my pessimism.

My wife and I are planning a family vacation, and we had some questions about various destinations. I opened Gemini, and we had a helpful 10-minute conversation.

If Alexa+ can provide a similar experience, I can see us having more of those voice-based sessions.
Arithmetics were apparently integrated into TypeScript types for that exact reason:

https://note89.github.io/typescript-typelevel-tic-tac-toe/
> I'm even questioning the narrative that he actually had much to do with kicking off the EV revolution

I would argue that Tesla did absolutely push the EV industry in the US. China would have dominated outside the US regardless but Tesla's involvement in China probably moved that timeline forward by a few years.
I usually like my float representations to have some use. But sure, this does seem like a very interesting idea.
What I remember in the 3G era was that my MVNO phone [1] worked great in medium sized cites like Rochester, NY but poorly in places with lower density and even worse in the highest density places like NYC and Hollywood. 4G had the capacity to serve super density urban areas really well.

[1] I've got a suspicion that Tracfones ride the back of the bus and get worse service than you'd get with a premium-priced plan.
Can't believe that 1password doesn't enforce multi-factor by default for the online account. They have a secret key which more or less acts a 2nd factor but it looks like in this case they stole the victim's web session which held the key. Could have happened if they had stole the multi-factor session too I guess.
Found it http://eyestilts.com/intro.html
Anything you want and can launch into space. The program goal is being able to grow large structures. The intent seems to be using biology as a means to more efficiently transform launched mass into big structures.
The kind run by a wannabe Jobs/Musk type.
Are you familiar with Duverger's Law? The "system" doesn't require an overhaul, but how we vote, does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Why We Don't Trust Doctors Like We Used To
If using Anthropic professionally with, e.g., Cline, it's easy to spend $1500 a week.
Do you manage to align the two small white squares above each picture so they are on top of each other?
So three taps instead of one button. Exactly the problem with many other Tesla's controls, like defogging, for example. (At least they did have the sense to put control buttons on the steering wheel to which they have added some functionality.)

Tesla does get a lot of little things right -- auto sensing for seat and steering wheel heating, auto-setting seats to your profile as you enter the car based on your phone, automatically setting/unsetting the emergency break when you park, auto locking the doors when you leave, etc. But its "thou shalt not have physical buttons" dogma is annoying. The other thing I miss is the absence of a HUD right in front of you. Again, feels like dogma rather than good design. Other brands (BMW, Polestar, etc.) succeed in that regard (my favorite being the BMW where it projects the HUD onto the bottom of the windshield right where it doesn't obstruct the view but is extremely convenient.

I don't dislike the Tesla but even if Elon wasn't going full fascist, I'd pick another brand next time.
Absolutely. If your team has the expertise and bandwidth, self-hosting Mattermost or similar tools makes a ton of sense. We may even explore a self-hosted version of emdash in the future.

That said, most customers tell us they’d rather focus their resources on their core business vs manage every tool themselves. Even those who’ve tried self-hosting haven’t necessarily seen better uptime vs Slack.
https://archive.ph/YlN08
Improving Consistency in Large Language Models Through Chain of Guidance
A pair of periscopes laid flat will do it, but it'll really confuse your eyes. I can feel it on these images: the eye muscles are trying to converge on a distance closer than the focusing muscles want to focus on, and I can tell that's a bit weird. That might be an age thing though.
> The devices team at Amazon also saw a major executive shakeup in the interim, with longtime leader Dave Limp being replaced by Panos Panay, who’d come over from running Microsoft’s Surface lineup.

Limp is now CEO of Blue Origin. I wonder if it really was a shakeup or if he just had a more interesting job offer.
* without the user's consent
https://archive.ph/yiKwx
Top triathlete reveals positive drug test and blames "transfer of bodily fluid"
I need this on iOs, now
Chile is further south than you think and more developed than you think. Unlike most of Latin America, the tap water in Chile is generally safe to drink, so their electric grid might also be better than you expect.
Because they are not the same focal length? Although I'm sure software can mitigate that to some extent.
> for thousands of years, the human labor required to feed, clothe, and shelter a family wouldn't have allowed anyone to learn, preserve, and advance human knowledge without the labor of many being exploited one way or another by an elite few.

That's quite a claim; is there a basis for it? Is there data? Research? Did manual labor really leave no time for other things - I've heard otherwise too.

And why do all those people working need an elite few taking most of the capital for themselves, e.g., to build massive homes and to guild their castles and churches? That capital could have been invested in the population and greatly improved the standard of living, technology (reducing the need for labor), knowledge, etc.

The elite few spent a lot of that capital fighting each other over power and land, not only consuming capital but destroying it - destroying much of what that labor built. They also use it to oppress many who could have raised humanity to greater fredom, knowledge, and prosperity.

We reside in a living example of the far, far more successful alternative - no authoritarian country, now or in the past, comes close to the prosperity of free, advanced democracies.

The justications for authoritarianism are popular these days.
In this case, they correctly met a standard, and the standard changed.

If you look at OS-X there are similar issues. The Apple File System is case insensitive for a particular Unicode version.
Has anybody ever figured out what "invert a binary tree" means? That came from Max Howell, and nobody else seems to have ever received that question.

The best anyone can figure out is that it's reversing the left and right branches, which seems like it's ten lines of code, at most?
Never sous vide your heros
True, weird they didn't link the website instead: https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/
I seem to recall that Magic Eye pictures had you decross your eyes, so you were looking past the page. It was a bit harder to do.
Worth noting that frequency space is often considered one dimensional. Adding the phase is what gives the other dimension.
I guess the reasoning is that the vaccins in other kids killed their kid. I've seen this said on x when the topic comes up.
LOL at the extract:

The People's Republic of China dealt with addiction as a political problem, offering the new society hope, food, shelter, work, and land instead of opium. Addiction no longer had its appeal. Opium producing poppies were replaced by food corps. Large opium distributors were imprisoned. Addicts were "clean". A mass campaign against addiction mobilized the entire nation. Before Liberation in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party had kept opium out of their areas. However, it took until 1953 to rid China completely of opium. Twenty million Chinese outside the People's Republic of China continue to have serious narcotic addiction problems.

At least make it subtle.
Heh, yeah that happened right after I made the post above. Fate, it would seem, has a sense of irony :-)
mad respect! you are a legend.
So, the coins counter, aka score, is at the top right. The combo is on the puck, it's an important number because most of the strategy is about increasing it and catching the extra coins that fall. I agree that it's not the best place to put it on desktop, but there are fewer options on mobile. I'll see how it feels to put it at the top, or even replace the score with just the combo display.

You start with just one life by the way, but if you pick up more they'll be shown as hearts at the top right near your score.
How can I try it? My Prime expires in 3 days.
They have 3d renderings of one. So, in VC-speak, yes.
Yes, the spatial videos that iPhones can record are just stereoscopic video. This hasn't been cloned by other manufacturers because there have been very few viewing devices that they own, but that might change with Android XR.