skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Moon is kind of glossed over but it’s not as bad as it sounds.

There are peaks of (near) eternal light at the poles. Put up a tower there with solar collectors and you have power. Nuclear power works too and there is probably fissile material on the Moon if it can be found.

It’s only a few days away, meaning it’s close enough for people to come and go and supplies to be sent in an emergency. It’s also close enough for tourism while Mars is definitely not barring fusion rockets or something.

Magnetic or gun launch from the Lunar surface could export minerals from the Moon to Earth, another possible industry that could at least offset the cost.

There are some compelling scientific and industrial possibilities.

For science the Moon would make an amazing place to build massive telescopes. The low gravity would make huge structures easier to build too.

Spacecraft could be built on the Moon and launched into space easily, making it an ideal place to construct really huge craft that would probably be needed for any serious forays elsewhere. Nuclear powered launch from the Moon is fine too unlike Earth where this would be an environmental disaster.

The environment on the Moon is a bit harsher than Mars but not as much as it first appears. There is water and probably lots of minerals. A vacuum isn’t that much worse than the thin wispy Martian air. The dust may be more abrasive but otherwise is probably not much worse.

Edit: peaks of eternal light:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
That's a good point! But I'd still say (1) we don't want it to be a thing anywhere on HN, and also (2) these threads are already overwhelmingly large.
I just think it’s not wrong to want something better than fuck you, you’re disposable and the only thing that matters is profit.

That’s not a stable environment for people to live in.

No need to pretend like I’m an idiot. You know exactly what I meant.
In the opening paragraphs, he confused weather models and climate models. They’re not even remotely the same codes! One uses fluid dynamics, the other has inputs such as the precise absorption spectrum of isotopic variants of ionised molecules at low pressures!

We can’t predict where the bubbles will form in a boiling pot of water, but we can predict that it’ll boil at 100 degrees C.
They are fixing no problems. Before I get back to your comment, I have to ask.

You earnestly believe the party voting for children to work longer hours, more dangerous jobs, the party ensuring rape victims and children give birth to their rapists' child and in general remove women's medical autonomy, on religious grounds in a constitutionally secular democracy, are the ones 'defending women'? Shocking position.

They are encouraging ignorance and harassment. They are inspiring people like you to think there is any issue with trans people in the first place.

You have been tricked in to thinking trans people are anything more than a mostly invisible minority.

They lost the "gays and gay marriage is the devil" line and now have simply regressed to even weaker bigotry, the 1% or less I forget the exact % of people who are trans.

They do not, nor has anyone, "demanded everything that's been set up for women now has to include any male who says he's a woman".

These labels, man and woman, are flexible social labels, not the rigorous biological category they've convinced simpletons to believe in as some sort of personal axiom.
> At this point pretty much any language you want to pick for me is a couple weeks’ ramp up time. I couldn’t really care less.

This is the right attitude
Five Eyes/NSA/FISA have a history of counterexamples that make me think there's no reason to believe such laws prevent a government from surveilling whatever it wants.

If we know for a fact that phone call and internet metadata is routinely stored, I have no reason to expect mail or packages to be any different. (All the protections in that space tend to be for the contents not the metadata.)
> you don't even need to know if anyone is listening to or cares about your event.

Right up until you need to change something about the event because the business logic it represents has changed. Then you suddenly need to track down all the systems that have been relying on it, including that one that nobody knows anything about and always forgets exists because some guy decided to implement the service in erlang and nobody who ever touched it even works at the company anymore.
Explains some of the night and day difference from Claude 2 to Claude 3 Opus.

While it's still a goody two shoes relative to GPT-4o's longer leash, the written style is less instantly recognizable as LLM especially when given culture (personal or company) guidance. Perhaps this “EQ” training gives that system prompt guidance concepts to hook onto.

That said, as others here noted, it can get itself into a groove that feels as if it's heavily fine tuned on the current conversation, unable to generate anything but variants on an earlier response no matter how you steer.
It's a philosophical question not a psychological question, so I see no reason to appeal to the authority of psychologists here, who are pretty throughly unqualified to determine this.
Ask HN: Can round up error occur in Bitcoin?
Like a bunch of 0.00000003 BTC add up to a wrong amount as the price inflate and people split it into a smaller value when spending them?
Dr Friedman is giving off young Sheldon vibes
Something can be inconsequential and yet still interesting/amusing
Recent (like 5+ years) versions of "ldd" will not invoke the target binary either.

See: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages/ldd.1.en.html#...
I find the phrase "If that works for you, that's great!" to be so utterly condescending. Your argument itself is reasonable and interesting, but that phrase shuts my brain right off.
> How has autism diagnosis stopped any of this from happening? People are absolutely unapologetic about calling autistic men creepy in particular.

It hasn't stopped it completely but now you've got a LOT more resources available to use to do something about it. And there are many more who will say something like "hey, you should look into this stuff" instead of just simply shunning and shaming than there were 40 years ago. Especially when spotted in early childhood.

There are no magic bullets. The solution to not being called creepy is, in the end, not acting creepy, same as it ever was. But the diagnostic/psych world can help people find a path to get there. Many of us have been following it for a while now. Do I wish my parents and teachers had known what we know today? Abso-fucking-lutely. Could've started to learn to manage a lot earlier.

Recall the context here of the comparison to those "lacking the talents of these gainfully employed autistics". No shortage of bad names to call them either. Many fewer structured and well-studied support systems.
Could a million monkeys with a million typewriters replicate Shakespeare? (2018)
yep, also i think while they could have issues with dataset sizes less than 2^k, it's interesting to note their use in accelerating clustering algos like dbscan. they do make neat visualizations though https://marimo.app/?slug=x5fa0x
Everyone focusing, understandably, on the poor coding and testing practices. But this kind of thing blows my mind,

> This problem became really well hidden because of our backend setup. We had eight ECS tasks on AWS, all running five instances of our backend (overkill, yes we know, but to be fair we had AWS credits).

I mean sure, you acknowledge that it's overkill, but my word is that OVERKILL. You're servicing customers numbering in the double digits and you're using more cloud resources than could run entire established businesses. I feel like a lot of developers today have totally lost sight of what computers are capable of, and just over-provision (and overcomplicate) as a default approach. This is scary.
I don't think you actually understand modern clinical practice. We are surely better than where we were at in the middle ages with leaches and stuff, but there is still a lot of practice and experimentation to see what works and what doesn't, just evidence without hard proof.

> the utility of diagnosis itself is taken for granted rather than actually proven.

Given the topic of autism, I'm not sure if you are trying to be sarcastic or not.
Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M) [video]
Another factor I think that plays in here is a bit of hubris about who has access to truth. Someone of Freeman Dyson's caliber is used to being the one who can see further into complexity to find truth. When someone has these talents, they tend to see all problems as problems they have special access to. If they see a lot of people without their abilities believing a thing with a lot of complexity, this creates the conditions to flip to being contrarians about that subject. I believe this kind of reactive contrarianism has happened in climate science quite a bit.

The bias here is that highly talented people sometimes cannot fathom that the ability to see some truths is broadly distributed. But in the case of human behavior, our ability to see truth is broadly distributed, much more so than the science someone like Freeman Dyson can do. And if that human behavior factor is the key variable, then the broad consensus can be correct.
> I really think in a lot of ways it'd help to have a couple of smaller buckets inside the giant bucket that is ASD.

The reason we don't is because it's not possible. Every time someone tries to make a high / medium / low-functioning distinction, some PhD gymnast running three companies and a dog shelter who can't reliably feed herself has a weeks-long non-verbal episode after she wore the wrong colours to an investor meeting, and completely ruins their categorisation system thereby.

If there's one thing all autistic people have in common, it's not being well-described by the paradigms according to which you want to bucket them.

That's not to say there aren't apparent subtypes of autism, just as there are apparent subtypes of allism. But they're hard to pin down, and they're not really useful for what you want to use them for: there are people in each of them who live happy, fulfilled lives, and who struggle to function on a daily basis – and who could be described by both of those clauses, for that matter.
I don’t see why people are so excited about Mars.

1. For one there’s the perchlorates. Basically the dust is poison.

2. After that, there’s pressure or I suppose the lack there of basically You might as well be in space.

3. Solar panels don’t work for shit on Mars, because it’s so much further away in the inverse square law is a bastard.

4. It’s a long ass way away.

5. The lower gravity has implications long term for having babies.

Like, I think we should explore space, and become a multi planetary species, but I don’t know that Mars is the place for a viable long-term colony. I’m much more partial to Venus-cloud-cities or something similar.
> I don't care about open source

That’s fine, of course! I do, so I was offering that example as a disadvantage (for me) of owning a Mac.

> All Macs are basically the same so if there is a popular app X that people are using, I know I can simply run X too.

This is 100% not true, as there are often features shipped on the Mac that are not available on certain machines. For example, when Sidecar was first released (the feature that lets you extend your Mac’s display to an iPad), I saw a friend using it, but I could not. I can’t remember now, but either the Mac or the iPad was too old and it wasn’t supported. So all machines are not the same.

It’s true that there is sometimes fiddling on Linux, but I prefer my environments 100% free of ads and customized how I like them. Thanks to the distro I use, I typically only need to tweak/experiment to get something right once, and then I never have to worry about that thing again.
The author describes their experience with this set

> Two years later in 2024, Lego released their own orrey design. I was quite excited at the prospect of an official Lego orrery, but I was disappointed by the execution....
My first impression is ... why not format your maths?

You don't write: "asin(x) = pi/2 - 2 asin(sqrt((1-x)/2))" on a blackboard.

I'm a bit slow at the best of times but translating maths from computer code to abstract concepts is not easy for me. Yes, I can mentally substitute pi for pi but please put a pi on the page (it looks like a ... pi) ... Π

Whilst you are at it an arcsine is sin^-1 (or an arcsine). "asin" doesn't cut it 8)
There has been significant political and even social pressure on researchers to hedge their bets and predict the minimum value from their models.

Basically the final reports have been the “floor” — the guaranteed amount of warming expected with the most optimistic scenario and the most conservative modelling.

It turns out that the nonlinear feedbacks are nasty, perhaps worse than even the high estimates.
Is this a reference to one particular company/language?
There are various usage patterns I have in feedly.

If I have time, I walk through the list of titles with the vi keystrokes.

If I don't, I'll just roll through the list with a mouse.

One killer feature is filters. I can drop "Kardashian" without ever seen any such content.
It fascinates me that it's an exponential function—the engine that transports fuel, and consumes fuel proportional to distance traveled: its fuel cost grows exponentially. The precise laws of physics work out, just barely, that we can send fuel around the world by boat; or, as here, by airplane to a near-antipode of the world. It's physically possible to circumnavigate the world either way.

It'd only take a slight modification of several physical constants that planets would be too large to cross. An alternate universe with continents so vast, no machine, no amount of fuel, could allow any exploration of their deepest interior; secrets permanently concealed.
I'm always surprised when I see this approach to hiring. I have a lot of Haskell in the codebase at my current company. It hrs never occured to me to try to hire from the "Haskell community" we always hire from our product community because tech is easier to teach than product.
One day... building a 4x5 is next.
Having more than one Geneva convention sounds like a violation of the Geneva convention
That link appears to describe a process for patching the Firefox package. That does not strike me as a reasonable solution.
What are you looking for that you won't get by running the OP in screen/tmux/emacs/zellij?
Her blogs are always a joy to read
Show HN: Clip2qr: displays whatever URL or file is in clipboard as a QR code
Interesting take and it feels familiar. I'm definitely in the "I need a tool to keep complexity under control" camp but I don't see it as a bad thing. Coming from a support and sysadmin/ops position seeing the same kind of problem every time makes you want to avoid the problem class. Of course it's often a fantasy. However I realized most problems I experienced were due to a general lack of understanding of the tools and concepts used. This was Java, Spring Framework, Aspect Oriented Programming and an ORM wrapper (MyBATIS) and 99% of my ops problems were due to the devs working around and against these concepts and tools with lots of bad code and so many NPE's that I still get nightmares. A skilled crew of veterans familiar with i.e. Spring, MyBATIS could have refactored this in a few months and most problems would be gone just using each tool how it was meant to be used. But we only added poorly understood layers upon poorly understood layers...

I understand everyone that goes into functional programming after realizing classes of problems don't exist there. I like guardrails. I learned to like immutable functional data structures after realizing 70% of time is Java serialization in the flame graph and I'd rather had the clojure way of solving these problems instead of the hidden magic. But properly learning all the mentioned tools and not abusing them would be enough.
Is it amusing that someone suggested an impractical and ineffective idea once? There are billions more where that came from.
Indeed. Category 3 seems to be about developers who insist on using Gooby regardless of whether or not it’s a reasonable choice for solving the current problem. What about developers who simply have Gooby as one tool in their toolbox, know how to use it, and enjoy doing so when an appropriate opportunity arises?

I once wrote some Haskell professionally. It was a successor to a previous generation of the application that I had written in Python and maintained for several years. Using Haskell was my choice and it was made because some of Haskell’s strengths would address specific pain points learned from that experience. Meanwhile, everything else I wrote for that client was still being done in mainstream languages for mainstream reasons and there was never any suggestion that we would rewrite anything else in Haskell or adopt it by default for any new work, so I think this situation is clearly distinct from category 3 in the article.
A signal of a health system that doesn't meet the needs of the population and is unconcerned with containing absurd profits when the chems are cheap. If a person elects to get more tests than medically necessary, then they should be charged nominal fees. The crux of the problem is whether the latter should be allowed to be less accurate or less precise, and/or calibrated, but then disclosed as such for equal comparison.
No, I think it will also include a smattering of Englishmen, a score of Germans and (maybe) a guy with a mechanical engineering degree who dedicated his career to washers.
They’re not spam submissions. I’m a legit solopreneur, and what I’ve found is hacker news no longer cater’s to the solopreneur. It used to, but now it doesn’t.

Before you judge, you should check out my work. It is worthy and good, but I’m having a very hard time marketing it, there are a lot of people like me.

The work is good and my journey is good. A lot of people are in the same boat: a product they don’t know how to market. HN used to be where you show things off, but it’s harder now.

When someone posts a link like this, they want help! Believe me, I know! I don’t why hackers are so loathe to help each other.
> It read like no one really knew what they were doing. "We just let [devs] generate the code and everything seemed to work" is certainly not a good way to [whatever].

Except, have you met startup devs? This is by and large the "move fast then unbreak things" approach.
Inflation should effect wages proportionally to prices. If it does not, its just a price imcrease, which is whats happening. Something, termites, something ...
These results are unfortunately going to provide further mainstream legitimacy to the far-right.
This is a problem that extends far beyond “esoteric language of choice”. It’s the challenge of being a nerd in a boring business world.

What attracts people to being a programmer? For some people it’s “looks like a reasonable job with good pay and conditions”. For others, it’s more “I love computers, programming, and abstract puzzles to solve”. This latter group (of which I am one), is more likely to provide both benefits and problems.

The benefit is they will generally be capable of greater innovation than the former group, but the downside is that they may just focus on interesting puzzles and ignore the needs of the (boring) business. Choosing an exotic language will greatly tilt the ratios towards this later group.

Most people in this later group can discipline themselves to focus on delivery, while remaining a great resource when truely challenging puzzles pop up. Most, but not all. Choosing a very esoteric language is pushing the curve far towards this tail, and the result will be many “brilliant, but useless to our business, people”.

Every small business needs a strong technical leader. I’m convinced of this. You need someone in charge that can stop the arguments, make people put down their toys, and remove people that cannot contribute for whatever reason. So this is my conclusion, it’s boring like so much of business. You need the right manager.
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> To make matters worse, the axis always points in the same direction.

I don't understand how this was never explained to me in high school. Of course we learned that the tilt of Earth is what causes seasons, but I never understood why. Now I know why I didn't understand it, some part was missing.

And I literally thought I wasn't smart enough to understand.
The thing is this right now your app is just a little germ of an idea and you’re not ready for any type of criticism at all really it doesn’t matter what anybody says you’re still just trying to explore this thing. I’m very much against a lot of the programmers on this site. A lot of them have never tried to build and market anything and they don’t know how hard it is, but they’re willing to shit on anything anyone else does,

it’s not like that a lot of different Reddit sites and there’s a lot of good people on here too, but man, it’s tough.

Anyway, I’m trying to reach out to help you and tell you to join my Reddit or reach out to me on Reddit rather at demofunjohn. We’re building a nice launch network on there!
I have what may be an obvious question; by "A DSL for Implementing Math Functions", is it specifically a Python one?

From the article:

Note that the syntax here looks like Python. It actually
is Python; MegaLibm is a DSL embedded in Python making
heavy use of operator overloading.
The Day After is a light comedy compared to Threads.
Imagine trying to do this nowadays.
> At this point pretty much any language you want to pick for me is a couple weeks’ ramp up time. I couldn’t really care less.

When you learn a programming language for a few weeks, the knowledge will be very superficial. Rather consider a few years of additional learning outside and in addition to the job to be realistic to get a decent understanding of the very encompassing and non-trivial details of the programming language, its lore, its culture and its often huge ecosystem.
To a programmer it's reminiscent of a self-hosting compiler that comes with working source and binary, but not the sequence of bootstraps. "Trusting trust" makes a nice example of the hastiness in taking the source to be all you really need to know. Similarly, metacircular interpreters that leave evaluation order ambiguous.

Should be very interesting to quantify what's needed for a "clean bootstrap" of a minimal model organism that can reproduce.
but, not the service of enlarging the contact surface of the bolt or screw head.

Actually, they only perform a tiny fraction of the crucial services performed by washers and can be replaced by loctite in almost all situations, so, I'd contend they are the most worthless of washers.
I don't believe that either the Republicans or the Democrats are defending women, no. They're both patriarchal institutions that are misogynistic in different ways.

> They do not, nor has anyone, "demanded everything that's been set up for women now has to include any male who says he's a woman".

Sorry but you have been misinformed, this is the currently the actual progressive position. And it has led to horrifying outcomes when enacted into law, such as SB132 in California which allows imprisoned men to transfer to the women's prisons if they claim to be women: https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-...

> These labels, man and woman, are flexible social labels, not the rigorous biological category they've convinced simpletons to believe in as some sort of personal axiom.

No, what you're describing is a sexist redefinition of woman and man. There's really no need for it. It just reifies sex-role stereotypes.
> we always hire from our product community because tech is easier to teach than product.

Whether this is true depends a lot on the product and the tech that is used.