skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I guess you're right, you aren't going from orbit to orbit, you only try to crash something (and actually want to keep the difference to create an impact).

Still, your logic doesn't apply, and hitting something in a higher orbit shouldn't be that much harder. You also only need to nudge it to hit something UP. (though it does get harder with a lesser impact with increasing distances)

I fact there might not be that much of an effect at all when you consider that both Earth and the Oort cloud are in the Sun orbits - you would have to hit something pretty hard in the Oort cloud to create a massive impact on Earth, there would at best be a bit of leverage, which I guess wouldn't outweight the protective effect of Earth's atmosphere, unless you try to send something monumental, at which point you probably can just come down and hit Earth. Consider also the timescales involved.
> Considering color or religion doesn't have any impact on the ability of someone to be a "best astronaut", if your groups isn't diverse, it's most likely there is a bias in action.

You have 8 blue people and 2 purple people. The blue people and purple people have different colour, different ideology, but are the same in all ways that count.

The astronaut programme opens up and needs 5 people. From 10 people, choose 5. It turns out that there are 252 ways of doing this [1]. At most you could only have 2 purple people selected, when 1 purple person is selected it looks unbiased, but actually the vast majority of cases are when only blue people are represented.

Another way to think about it is this: 8 blue people, 2 purple people. You pick one at random, there is an 8/10 chance you pick blue, 2/10 purple. If you select a purple, for the next pick there is now just a 1/9 chance of picking purple, but an 8/9 chance of picking blue.

[1] https://www.hackmath.net/en/calculator/n-choose-k?n=10&k=5&o...
You think laws still count with an immune president who has packed the supreme court and DOJ?

Laws don't count with Don, conventions don't count, rules don't count. The only thing that counts is power.

And he has it now.
A Nazi punching a Jew in the face is much worse than a Jew punching a Nazi in the face. I hope you agree with this. The latter is even, arguably, good.
Until he pulls some bullshit and the supreme court just goes along with it and says 'seems good to me'.
How AI can help in User Research
The person I replied to made it sound like there's a magic switch you can press to make your workforce operate at 125% efficiency after getting rid of 20% of it and that it's idiotic to reduce the working week from 5 to 4 days.

I thought this was so absurd of a statement that I re-stated the 9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month saying to jokingly point out that it's just not how these things work.
Apparently, being a Sith meant to Ziz that you should do whatever is in your power and desire to do, without other constraints. If you're "fundamentally good" (a thing she believes in), then what you end up doing will be a kind of maximization of good.

Of course, this is trite pulp nonsense, high-school nerd level philosophy at best.
Thats Paul Graham the co-founder of Y Combinator, which runs this site. Afaik he's not connected with Cloudflare.
I think your strongest venue to keeping it (short of a civil war) is organizing in labor unions. Because individuals are easy to control but nothing focuses the minds of billionaire elites like a full general strike with no end in sight.
Enough already with the "Musk is a Nazi" schtick. He can't be; they made decent cars.
Thanks for sharing. I always wanted to use ESP32 to revive old Geotrax trains. Maybe that’s the right project to start with.
I have a good use case for them: Communication with the bureaucracy of my country. I tell my LLM of choice to write a letter to $whoever about $whatever, then I print it out (yes, we still have to do this as email don't get accepted) and send if off. I don't even need to proof read it because if there's a mistake the bureaucracy will tell me in another letter. So the burden of correctness checking is on some bureaucrat which saves me time and mental resources.

I wouldn't ever use a LLM for anything where correctness matters (code) because I'd spend the same amount of time checking the generated code as writing it myself. But a letter to my tax office? Heck, why not. If something goes really wrong I can always say "gee, I made a mistake let's try it again".
People lost their jobs because of this. The first widely published incident was “Donglegate”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donglegate, but I'm sure there were earlier cases. Some other were not considered for the positions, because their DEI statement was not sufficiently affirming or whatever.

Those are not "few celebrities", and not a propaganda. This really happened, and understanding that this is a real issue might be the first step to understand why the pendulum is in full swing.
Me too, until now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904925
They actually like male/female enforced gender. Maybe what they’ll do is add gender to English grammar!
I cannot interpret "not when they allowed the gender politics to flourish". Please clarify this.
No, no, no. A bias government has layers in opposite directions at an angle of about 30 degrees to the way of travel, as opposed to a radial government where layers are parallel to each other.

Radial governments have better fuel economy, and suffer fewer blowouts.
Large parts of the world don’t use a phonics system and for a long time it didn’t exist.

I am sure a properly performed study which accounted for the time spent on reading, as well as exposure to books, would demonstrate that phonics is no better than any other way of teaching reading.

My children live in a house of books, we have thousands. We read to them daily from soon after birth. They did not read early compared to their friends (though they did memorize some books which made it look as if they were reading pretty young). They didn’t start school until six and spent their early years in a bi-lingual Nordic school system before moving to the US and then Europe once again.

They now read at a very high level indeed, well above their peers. We made zero special effort. They just had access to books and libraries and live in an environment where everyone reads.
Thet're virtually identical. Seven chapter history: https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...
They got you all riled up about words and definitions while they ignore your constitution and turn the US into their own authoritarian regime.

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't a little bit deserved, since people are so removed from what really counts, they might need a reminder how unlikely having democracy actually is.

Divide et impera (or divide and conquer) is one of the old machiavellian imperatives. And language is enough to divide. Letting them divide you is a good way of making sure your own interest loses and theirs win.
As I expected this exchange would end with a thought-terminating cliché. Sad.
Wasn't Llama leaked before Meta conceded and made it open source?
La primera pregunta es: Que es mas macho, pineapple o knife?

Well, let's see
My guess is that a pineapple is more macho than a knife

Si! Correcto! Pineapple es mas macho que knife

La segunda pregunta es: Que es mas macho, lightbulb o schoolbus?
Uh, lightbulb?

No! Lo siento, Schoolbus es mas macho que lightbulb

Gracias. And we'll be back in un momento

~ https://youtu.be/6mRq1xgKykM?t=95
Yes. https://microbiologyandnature.com/PUBLISHED_ARTICLES/Couliba...
This looks like a rad API
And thank you. (I come from an old generation of people trained in linear algebra and differential geometry, well before the current ML era so I am holding onto my "get off my lawn" grumpiness.)
Don't excavators usually lift the dirt somewhere higher, either a mound or a dump truck? Otherwise they'd use bulldozers to push it lower/flat. Good thinking though.
You're one of today's lucky 10,000*:

Blake Lemoine, 2.5 years ago, hired a lawyer to make this exact argument: https://www.businessinsider.com/suspended-google-engineer-sa...

Myself, every time this topic comes up, I point to the fact that the philosophy of mind has 40 different definitions of "consciousness" which makes it really hard for any two people to even be sure they're arguing about the same thing when they argue if any given AI does or doesn't have it.

(Also: They can be "persons" legally without being humans, cf. corporate personhood; and they can have rights independently of either personhood or humanity, cf. animal welfare).

* https://xkcd.com/1053/
Highly recommend "Stories of Your Life and Others".

I describe Ted Chiang as a very human sci-fi author, where humanity comes before technology in his stories. His work is incredibly versatile, and while I expected sci-fi, I'd actually place him closer to fantasy. Perfect for anyone who enjoys short stories with a scientific, social, or philosophical twist.

Another anthology I'd recommend with fresh ideas is Axiomatic by Greg Egan.
This is downvoted, but it's true that President Musk is an illegal immigrant.
It's a rhetorical wrestling match, not an agreement. Moreover, the reality of the majority of the larger movement doesn't always align with the loudest voices in the room, especially when it comes down to semantics. Meanwhile any search for truth in the form of science suffers.
The two party system makes negative campaigning far too effective. If there are more parties and one spends its resources making another one look bad the others would also benefit from it.
Oh sure, I'm not suggesting Trump has a fountain of youth in his bedroon. Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il also eventually died, ending their terms. At least in their case, or pre-democracy European countries, the power was very explicitly blood-bound. This had the advantage that if a few quickly died in succession you might just get a child on the throne who ends up being overthrowable.

Unfortunately, this problem has been solved by dictatorships where the power is tied to a party or small non-familial circle, such as China, potentially Russia (though we'd have to see how things end up would Putin disappear tomorrow, they may actually have reverted to familiar inheritance) and now, likely, the US. There, pesky biology forms no such risk.
> (the guy makes Neil deGrasse Tyson look like a monk)

So years after an investigation into the allegation of sexual misconduct ended empty handed, it's still ok to throw mud?
But where? It’s got its nice sides but from my experience it’s in the azure web portal only, and I don’t want to write code there.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...
People seem to get really hung up on the fact that words have meaning to them, in regards to thinking about what an LLM is doing.

It creates all sorts of illusions about the model having a semantic understanding of the training data or the interaction with the users. It's fascinating really how easily people suspend disbelief just because the model can produce output that is meaningful to them and semantically related to the input.

It's a hard illusion to break. I was discussing usage of LLM by professors with a colleague who teaches at a top European university, and she was jarred by my change in tone when we went from "LLMs are great to shuffle exam content" (because it's such a chore to do it manually to preclude students trading answers with people who have already taken a course) to "LLMs could grade the exam". It took some back and forth for me to convince her that language models have no concept of factuality and that some student complaining about a grade and resulting in "ah ok I've reviewed it and previously I had just used an LLM to grade it" might be career ending.
> Science has shown that there is more than two combinations of X and Y chromosomes. So if you went by chromosomes alone, there's more than two sexes

This undermines the point most "gender positive" people want to make. Yes, there are non XX or XY people, but they're rare compared to XX/XY transgender people. They also tend to have issues like learning disabilities and problems with speech. By conflating transgender people with people with chromosomal irregularities you're establishing a link suggesting XX/XY transgenderism is also a "disorder".
Journal snatchers: How indexed journals are falling into questionable hands
https://community.amd.com/t5/ai/experience-the-deepseek-r1-d...
When DRY Goes Wrong (2013)
I got a monthly discount (small, between 5 and 10$) for using my own cable modem in Sunnyvale. I was using Comcast business, though.
I mean I sort of get it. HN isn't really the place for discussing this (ref. HN Guidelines[1]), and judging by the past two weeks, the Trump administration will do something as discussion-worthy as this at least every day for the next 4 years.

If each such instance gets a thread here, it will be pretty bad for Hacker News, an Eternal September-like event.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
That’s a different paper than the one this article describes. The article describes this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654
Barclays tells customers to contact food banks as IT disruption enters third day
If we are to believe this, antisemitism is no longer a characteristic. Also, reducing the size and scope of the state, which was previously celebrated as a foundational principle of 18th-19th century liberalism, is now a characteristic of National Socialism. In short, it has nothing to do with the original ideology. The historical record is irrelevant, as are the facts of National Socialist economic policy. Words don't need to have meaning, but the pejorative effect should be preserved for maximum emotional impact.

I'm not buying it. Perhaps a more compelling explanation of this phenomenon is that partisans seek to tarnish their opponents by invoking Godwin's law. It seems much simpler and requires less gymnastics.
And as a result R1-zero is way too crude to be used directly, which is a good indication that it remains relevant.
let's stigmatize admitting when you were wrong. never changing your mind is the only way to avoid joining a murder cult!
One of these archetypes is drowning in a hype-fueled news cycle, they mistake speculation for inevitability, dismiss skepticism as ignorance, and construct a reality where the technology's success is unquestionable.

The other is simply using the technology for what it's good for, observing that it's slowly, incrementally improving at tasks that it was already capable of since the major breakthrough, and acknowledging its limitations.

Incremental improvements don't give us any assurance that another major breakthrough is waiting around the corner.
> Much of philosophy throughout history seems to operate this way.

“Philosophy is poor at revealing truths but excellent at revealing falsehoods (or at least unsupported arguments)” was the main lesson I took from informally studying it.
Unlikely, France and the UK have nukes (yes, the UK is not in the EU). They will just attempt the same playbook in Europe. In fact, Elon is already at it in Germany and the UK.
A person who has not gone through a confirmation process is running an agency not provided for by Congress and not vetted for security clearances which is taking actions that violate employment laws and union protections.

That is what we are concerned about. This violates all kinds of norms, regulations, and laws.

The left did not lose "so badly". They lost a handful of electoral college swing states by small margins. These people do not have a mandate, no matter how much they say they do.

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/113926311776131035
Oh, we have new letter-number combinations now. That is amazing. I stand corrected.
Right now I wouldn’t be certain there will be anything resembling midterms. Trump and his pals are speedrunning turning America into an Russia-style oligarchy. There will be of course be “elections”, that happen to always turn out exactly like the sitting power wants it to be.
From my read of the article, aggressively performative moralism from either political side is bad. If we see it as human nature, then changes in political winds will do nothing to eliminate the underlying need for that kind of behavior.

I do find it interesting that this kind of counter-reaction from the right is happening during a period where the left initiatives has mostly lost steam. As the quoted article says, Wokeness is already in retreat. Universities got in hot water over all the pre-filtering of students based on gender, race and religion. Companies has lost interest in diversity hiring, and moderation/banning on social media is no longer seen as the silver bullet. The code of conduct wave has lost speed, and the rush to eliminate "bad" terminologies from standards seems to have lost interests.
I believe this is called doublespeak due to George Orwell, and many fascist dictatorships do it.
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For the growable array and slice types (C++ std::vector and std::span) at a low level we should actually store ptr and length not start and end, it makes a tiny but measurable performance difference.

This is one of the tiny perf leaks from C++ ABI conservation. IIRC All three popular std::vector implementations got this wrong decades ago and are now ABI frozen so too bad. The design of std::span is correct though for whatever that's worth.
Yes, https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...

I agree with your diagnosis as well. It's Dunning-Krueger. They keep re-inventing the wheel poorly due to their ignorance which is maintained because of their confidence which stems from their ignorance.
You can't reason about first principles. What first principles someone chooses as their "axioms" doesn't alter their ability to be reasonable. Materialism or empiricism are just as much a random choice for a base principle as deism or theism or many others.

A lot of the evils that the hardcore atheist crowd (Dawkins, Sam Harris, that crowd) ascribes to religion is oftentimes much better understood as imperialism and other purely political ambitions couched in what was the most common first principle of the time. The desire of European kings (including the Pope) to hold Jerusalem and later Constantinople were much better understood as a desire to control trade and expand their territory/influence rather than some deeply seated religious fervor, just for the example of the crusades. And for things like the inquisition, we can see today as well plenty of largely secular demonization and oppression of marginalized groups.
> I wonder how will this affect private institutions and private publications?

A government agency trying to enforce censorship in scientific publications outside its sphere of influence... I have to admit, that was not the first thing I wondered about.
It's merely a coincidence that Trump has said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our country, has invited Nazis and Holocaust deniers to dinner at his home, is rounding up brown people, had Musk deliver Nazi salutes at his inauguration, felt the need to say that Hitler "did some good things", was said to keep Hitler's speeches by his bedside by his wife, ran a campaign that promoted a video referencing a "unified Reich", and more? Just a long series of misunderstandings, I'm sure.
Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua
This is a project I've been building in my spare time over the past few months. It's a library that provides methods for working with musical harmony ‒ intervals, notes, chords. For example, it can parse almost any chord symbol (Fmaj7, CminMaj9, etc) and turn it into notes, or it can identify a chord from a given set of notes.

I started this project with the idea of using formal grammar to parse chord symbols. I wanted to use it instead of a hand-written parser, which is the common approach among similar libraries. Lua caught my attention because of Lpeg, a Parsing Expression Grammar library that is both fast and easy to use. An additional motivation for using Lua was the lack of comparable libraries for it, even though the language is commonly used in audio programming.

However, despite being a Lua library, the project itself is written in Fennel — a "lispy" language that transpiles to Lua. Fennel has features that make writing code for the Lua platform much more pleasant: a concise syntax, macros, and destructuring — a feature Lua sorely lacks!

In the process, I definitely learned a lot about music theory, although my new knowledge is quite one-sided. By working on this library, I know a thing or two about types and structure of chords, but I learned almost nothing about their composition and transformation. Perhaps these will be the directions I explore next in the project.
Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
Studied at the home University of this Nobel prize winner. Was a good bet you’d get a question on it in the exam every year.
That seemed to be “monk” in the context of humility, not chastity
Unexpected Benefits of Building Your Own Tools
Definitely. At this point rest of the world might as well become friends with China. At least Xi Jinping the CCP aren't idiots, which makes them more predictable to deal with than Trump's regime.
Please don't implement things like that: among one or two other related problems, it breaks keyboard navigability, because the document then isn't scrollable. So users have to focus your div by clicking or tabbing to it before things like Space to go down one pageful will work.

`position: sticky` or `fixed` are the only acceptable techniques to implement sticky headers for typical websites. (There are definitely app scenarios where you need multiple scroll areas and don't want any of them to use the document scroll area, e.g. a multi-pane email client; in such cases you should then manage focus just a little so one pane gets focus when everything loses it.)
The Constitution provides for checks&balances. This violates the Appointments Clause (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2). It is unconstitutional like so many of these executive orders that violate the 1st and 4th Amendments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause
I am curious why you are so critical especially when looking at code.

At least for Java there are search engines to look for code that call libraries etc. Models could probably be trained on free code and then be fed with the results of these search engines on demand even through the client who calls the LLM:

Client -> LLM -> Client automation API -> Code search on client machine to fill context -> Code generation w/o model that is trained on the code that was found through the code search, but merely used as context

Even if they only feed code into it, that is freely given, I think the difference in quality of output would approach the current quality and better over time, especially when using RAG techniques like the above.

Companies can also buy code for feeding the model after all. So beside the injustice you directly experience right now over your own code probably being fed into AI models, do you fear/despise anything more than that from LLMs?
Half the point of the order is Trump’s admin wants gendered language. That is:

Pregnant person -> pregnant woman

Pregnant people -> pregnant women
I'd like to hear some more from the HN community on this topic - what tools have you build & did you find any surprising benefits once you've started using them more and more?
It's interesting that when one tries to encourage a stepping back from the problem to consider larger patterns, that effort at abstraction gets carpet-bombed in the (im)moderation.
Users with high enough karma can also vouch for flagged posts, though anything involving politics will usually get mass flagged as soon as anyone does that.