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npianoon The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Why is that simple or plausible? Why is simpler or more plausible than lifting an almost-finished solution from a researcher's account?

npianoon The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

This is a sci-fi trope with no practical or realistic grounding. To "run", the AI needs vast banks of interconnected GPUs. These are pretty easy to spot and don't fit into anyone's pocket.

npianoon OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

It very clearly didn't do what they said they told it to do. We do not know what was truly intended.

npianoon OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Because there is no internal feedback loop. There is no internal process gathering information from the external world and using it to modify its future behaviour. There is only the beginning of the calculation and then the end.

npianoon Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

EMPs only occur in very high altitude tests

npianoon America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

A genuine question, presuming no correct answer: what is to be done about it? China is reportedly on track to run more than 50% of global manufacturing by 2030, if the World Bank is correct. What would you do to act against this? Is doing nothing acceptable?

npianoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)

Location: Valencia, Spain

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Full-stack web dev, React, NextJS, Django, NodeJS

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nLEh4UPupbztWl9J7PziMjDzOP...

Email: nicholas.piano@protonmail.com

Looking for contracts or full-time employment. A specialty of mine is getting a new site up and running in less than a month.

npianoon Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action

This assumes that logic is derived from predicting the next step from previous information, which is not accurate.

npianoon Ask HN: How do you deliver software and guarantee payment?

Yeah so many people (clients, and I guess contractors) don't realise this. There's a lot of work to keep a site going.

npianoon AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

It's true it's not unique. I would be interested to know what you believe are the main reasons why it fails. Thanks!

npianoon AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

Thanks! Honestly, I think this approach is inevitable given the rising tide of unstoppable AI spam.

npianoon AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

I would be interested in people's thoughts here on my solution: https://www.tela.app.

The answer to bot spam: payments, per message.

I will soon be releasing a public forum system based on this model. You have to pay to submit posts.

npianoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

Location: Valencia, Spain

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: React, Django, FastAPI, Ethereum, Bitcoin, AWS

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-piano/

Email: nicholas [dot] piano [at] protonmail [dot] com

Currently wrapping up construction phase of Tela Network. Long experience in web design and implementation along with deployment and system design. Have experience with payment integration. Open to contract opportunities in related areas.

npianoon Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2

I always think of the holographic orbit mapping UI from The Expanse when I see something like this. It's the paper of the future that will be hooked into everything we think about. Such a powerful tool for exploring the world.