skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't just rationalizing away possible costs.

I'd argue that we are more fully prepared for a human Mars mission now than we were for Apollo when Kennedy made his speech. We have decades of operational experience operating robotics on the planet and decades of on-orbit human spaceflight experience with durations of the same order of magnitude as a Mars mission. In contrast, the US had just shot someone on a suborbital flight into space by the time JFK gave his speech, and we had next to no understanding of the Moon's surface or long-duration human spaceflight.

I've thought intensely about Mars. I think a human Mars surface mission is easily within reach if the right architectural approach is used. SpaceX has a particularly good architectural approach. Using a reusable upper stage also as a tanker and a lander is a game-changer.

Scaling that up to a sustainable mass settlement initiative, on the other hand, is absolutely full of unknowns, as you say. That remains a crazy proposition without guarantee of success.

The first human mission is primarily about launch, entry/reentry, and logistics. SpaceX has a good handle on those and has retired a lot of risk by demonstrating supersonic retropropulsion (in a portion of the atmosphere approximating Martian conditions) and landing almost two dozen times, and I think SpaceX has a good plan to mitigate the rest of the risk.

EDIT:Another thing: SpaceX is building the lander and the rocket anyway and plan to pay for it just by switching over all their services from Falcon 9, Heavy, and Dragon. BFR is also big enough to serve as the transit hab and surface hab. So by just consolidating F9, FH, and Dragon to the BFR vehicle, they'll have 95% of the Mars architecture already built and paid for. The lone additional thing they need is ISRU: the mining equipment, the power production (primarily solar as it'll be cheapest), and the chemical plant. Chemical plant and solar are well-understood as both have been tested at small scale either on Mars or on ISS or similar, but the mining equipment only has some not-terribly-representative testing by scientific sample handling on the various landers and rovers of Mars. That is a question the first uncrewed mission will need to address.
Looking at the comments quoted by the Verge, it seems like internal Facebook commenters are no better than Fb commenters below news stories:

> Another theory floated by multiple employees is that Facebook has been targeted by spies or state-level actors hoping to embarrass the company. “Keep in mind that leakers could be intentionally placed bad actors, not just employees making a one-off bad decision,” one wrote. “Thinking adversarially, if I wanted info from Facebook, the easiest path would be to get people hired into low-level employee or contract roles.” Another wrote: “Imagine that some percentage of leakers are spies for governments. A call to morals or problems of performance would be irrelevant in this case, because dissolution is the intent of those actors. If that’s our threat — and maybe it is, given the current political situation? — then is it even possible to build a system that defaults to open, but that is able to resist these bad actors (or do we need to redesign the system?)

Also, the blind loyalty is really disturbing
so much fun stuff to do

Some of us...

DID NOT. (and still do not)

...have "fun stuff" to do.
Tcl 8 brought “dual-ported values” (among other things) to the table. Values were stored in “objects” (not to be confused with object-oriented programming objects) whereby the “string representation” was always available (“everything is a string” (eias) is a core logical tenet of Tcl, and has not gone away), and a “native representation” is available for (context-dependant) performance reasons. What does this mean? If you have “set a 0.8657309”, and do math ops with it, backing object will have a native float type available to do its work by. Previous to Tcl 8, the logical language promise of eias held, but the implementation within the Tcl interp was a char* array of bytes, too. That was a long time ago, though.
They must have some locale detection that's misfiring here. I also see English.
A Look at the Flaws in the Chinese Economy
Huawei says it’s still committed to the U.S., in spite of, well, everything
They'll be bored out of their skulls in no time.

And if kids come along-- well, they'll want to go back to work anyway.
Am I missing something or does the analysis assume every order is a minimum order? Personally my orders average around $100.
Living alone and sick, I don't want to cook. I want cereal, orange juice, ice cream, easy to prepare food, etc. These are the sorts of things I don't normally have around.

My emergency supplies have food, but I don't eat the emergency food unless there is an emergency.
Yeah it's painful to see it being dropped by people.

Typically I've found trying to predict what will happen with BTC's price on even year long time scales to be near impossible. However for the majority of the time saying it will be higher in 5 years has been correct.
Okay I guess I see the point is that the bouncing ball converges to a default state, unlike a light switch, which converges to an unknown state. Is it the force of "gravity" which causes this default state, so does the convergence just cancel out all other influences on the system state perhaps?
As a former FB employee, I say "bullshit".

I didn't go to FB because I thought it's unethical but "money". I went there because I wanted to work on a product that I and every one of my friends/family uses, that helped me a lot when I was getting divorced, etc. Money was OK, but you can make more money than at FB, eg. in Finance, or other special places.

I've never worked at a company that takes data protection as seriously as FB, or has the caliber of people protecting data.

Also impressive was that _every_ week there was a 1-hour QA where any intern/employee can ask Zuck a question (it's open mic). In my time there I've never seen Zuck really duck a question. He stands behind what his company does and believes in the mission, as do most employees.

"it's the response of lots of pragmatic employees/"investors" being protective and worried about their investment" > sorry, this is just silly...
You can live like student for 20k/year in Prague, sharing room with other person and dont go out much. Doable, sure but maybe not a great plan for next 40 years.
Why sleep when you have 2read 1write GB/s SSD in there? suspend is couple of seconds.
The kinds of employee responses i see makes me think of an intelligence agency. Talk of loyalty and fear of foreign spy infiltration. And quite frankly, facebook is one. Except none of the employees are "Secret" or "Top Secret" cleared AFAICT.

I'm speculating here but it may even possible that they have a greater global reach than the NSA as 2.2 Billion people are in their system using their apps on all their devices from watches to desktops. They record all the personal data, track every website being visited, possibly hot mic phones, and record people's locations. Remember those russian soldiers posting photos from inside the ukraine? Yeah, facebook has that data and intelligence agencies of the cold war era would have drooled for this data.
Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II
> Because if you're working on a team, not everyone on your team may be a programmer

I think we're rapidly getting to the point in our civilisation that that's a bit like having an illiterate on the team. All programming is, is thinking logically & systematically about abstractions: everyone should be capable of thinking like a programmer — anyone who can't has a cognitive disability (like those poor folks who can't learn to read).

Fortunately, people who can't think logically & systematically about abstractions are pretty rare; people who won't think logically & systematically are sadly far, far too common.
Well, there are several ways to look at this, but we have enough resources to end starvation and enough science to produce those resources both economically and climate responsible.

The fact that we don’t is down to greed. We throw out so much food each year that we could feed 10x populations.

Sure we could kill all humans, but we could also kill all rich capitalists and redistribute wealth better. Obviously the best solution is somewhere in between, but the fact that big parts of society is talking about the extreme is worrying.
Sleeping 12 hours at a time frequently is hypersomnia (at least if actually sleeping, not just in bed unable to sleep). The wikipedia page on hypersomnia links to a number of things that can cause it, including depression. If possible, getting evaluated for sleep apnea is a good idea since that is at least fairly easy to treat (even if the treatment is rather annoying :/). I have Non-24 and insomnia and had hypersomnia when I was younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersomnia

I would encourage your friend to look at the Circadian Sleep Disorders Network site:

https://www.circadiansleepdisorders.org/

There is a mailing list mentioned there for people with circaidian rhythm disorders, a good way to hear about what works or doesn't work for other people (you don't need to join the organization to subscribe). There is a huge amount of individual variation both in how people are affected and what helps deal with it. Some people do well if they stick to their internal schedule and some of us don't. Unfortunately, there isn't really good treatment for circadian disorders and trying to live on the shifted schedule can be the easiest for for people who do well on that schedule (which is not to say easy as finding a job on such a schedule can be very difficult).

The standard treatment recommendation is melatonin and avoiding light before bed and light therapy in the morning. This works for some people, at least for a while, but not for most people (I'd recommend putting some effort into trying to adjust the schedule, just know that it might not work). If avoiding all screen time is too difficult, I recommend turning the color temperature on f.lux or redshift way down (I use 2500K). Also worth noting that trying to adjust your schedule by shifting forward can turn DSPS into Non-24 (that is what happened for me, and the CSD-N survey shows it has happened to a bunch of people while only a few find it helpful), so I'd highly recommend against that (unfortunately some sleep doctors recommend it). Also, stay away from benzos; they don't work long term but are addictive.
It’s always nice to see useful little tools like this in the MAS. Will definitely check this out when I’m back at my mac.

I’m sure I used to have an app called “Jet” that showed scrolling time zones side by side for this type of thing - but I can’t find any reference to it anywhere. If anyone knows what I’m referring to and/or what happened to it, I’d love to know!
In regards to your edit, that looks like a false dichotomy. I don't think everyone who disagrees with population control is anthropocentric, illogical, irrational, etc. For me, I just don't want any government to have that much power. There are lots of other arguments, population control is not the only answer, we have saved other species without it.

Insulting downvoters just weakens your position.
Early Linux success vs the morass of "perfection" that is now plaguing its userspace.
Building a House Without a Bank Loan Is Not Mission Impossible
Middle schools already have partitioned showers. At least mine did, I imagine most others that have them do as well. The biggest issue with the showering are the time constraints. The social stigma is present, just in a minor fashion. Being late to class trumps all else.
Jensen Huang on the Uber Tragedy and Why Nvidia Suspended Testing
Unlike those of us in STEM most high schoolers or college students don't end up using anything they fail to remember because they're only getting 6 hour of sleep a night. I'm a lot more concerned with the link between poor sleep and poor mental health.
But my point is that if we implement a policy to rollback but otherwise not punish executives who sell stock right before an event like this (notwithstanding any actual other crimes related to insider trading that could be prosecuted separately; for example tipping someone off), the standard of proof becomes irrelevant.

Personally, I think the solution is to not allow executives to sell stock without publishing a schedule in which the first sale is more than 9 months from the date of the announced schedule.
Ha. That actually happened to my dad decades ago (Russian cars lol)
The active components have been studied for treatment of a variety of things - anti-tumor and pesticide uses being big ones:

http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/Pawpaw%20Acetogenins.htm

Unfortunately, it's hard to get funding to work on directly plant-derived compounds since companies can't get a monopoly on the resulting treatments.
Battlefield technologies come home.
I'm feeling the same. I think it's very common. That's what motivates people to go above and beyond and try to be financially independent - as the alternative is having very little from life until you're old and retired.
NYC is really an outlier on this. Lots of businesses here are cash only, including all 3 pizzerias near my house, all halal food carts, hot dog carts, many small performing arts operations, and most bodegas (unless you're spending $10+).
Very poor analysis with both bad assumptions and weak imagination.
Come on, are you serious?
2B people use it every month to keep in touch with their friends. I'm typing this in Dubai, and I use FB/Messenger daily to keep in touch with people in Budapest, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc.

Disclaimer: I worked at FB.
> consume 50%+ more than their healthier eastern counterparts

That's not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener...
Not victimless. That fraudulent vote cancelled a legitimate one.

The punishment is excessive, but there is a real crime here.
It helps me understand what is really going on behind closed doors. I think you meant that "it helps no one who works at facebook" a demographic that most of us don't care about at all
Thats why I write my code without any libraries or frameworks.

Sarcasm aside, you are correct but it’s better to learn things first. But after a while, those aliases and dotfiles are just shortcuts. I’ve had my dotfile repo with things I need for something like 8 years and hasn’t changed much beside vim plug-in updates and I could just whip up the same setup manually but it would take a half a day to get everything to how I prefer things. They just save time and sanity.
Nowcasting of Earthquake Consequences Using Big Social Data
You are being downvoted because population control is often a totalitarian idea. There are few things that are more ingrained in us as a species as the urge to procreate. Taking that possibility away from people is extremely oppressive. Your animal analogy also doesn't help as a literal interpretation of it would seem to support genocide.

There are other ways of addressing this problem. For example, birth rates have consistently been shown to be inversely effected by education rates and standard of living. Population growth will therefore decrease if we raise the education level and standard of living of the world.
If you want to have time in your week outside of work where you aren't drained, one thing to try is waking up earlier every day and focusing on your own stuff before heading in to the office
That's great. I showered and then continued to sweat for 2 hours though (I was massively obese). HS Gym was a nightmare.

Funny enough, I did lose the weight, and am in much better shape now, through activities that are the antithesis of HS gym (turns out riding a bike and swimming for my own pleasure beat the torture of team sports any day)
From the linked study, under acknowledgements section: "...partial funding support were provided by ChromaDex, Inc."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03421-7#Ack1
Saying that putting children in the world is the most egotistical thing you can do seems like an ad hominem to me, so we'll call it even.
The idea was that you could upload your non-Amazon-purchased music to their service.
Cloudflare has never made me fill in a captcha.
I don't know your specific situation however speaking broadly about this kind of line of questioning, a different perspective here is that she may have wanted to be able to evaluate the value of these different programs on her own, rather than be told what needs to happen.

In many cases middle managers think they know what needs to be cut or what programs are a waste without all of the facts of the organization. I saw this a lot in government.

For example some organization was on the books for the primary reason of being the focal point for a contract vehicle but was in a holding period waiting protest or something and not doing much for a year or two - so it looked ripe to cut - when in fact it was more of a "lady in waiting" for the broader organization.
At Uber, a New C.E.O. Shifts Gears
Can't biological clocks change? Or are there really populations of people who have a truly different clock? Or is it a result of their environment?

Personally I've been a night owl and a morning person alternating between the two throughout my life by choice.
What is the relationship between overpopulation/climate and poaching? I was under the impression poaching was more of a consequence of China's huge homeopathic market than Africa's temperature or population density.
> We announced unprecedented new developor tools like full-stack view source

Is there a shortage on proofreaders this year?
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/3_austi... for the actual paper
You are correct, football keepers make a much lower amount of saves - but goals tend to be fewer and hence "heavier" in football, so having a bad keeper will still likely result in a loss. And it's still the sort of role no regular player wants to do - which results in some funny differences at the cultural level.

At the very least, I guess this concept could work as a feature for all those apps people use to arrange 5-a-sides.
This morning, actually.

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/brute-force-attacks.j...
I don't think it's particularly a "conspiracy theory", in that there's no cabal of people trying to cover this up. It's more an optimization function; we have N productivity units, and M humans (where M > N), so we hire from the most productive subsets of M. For the less productive subsets (largely youths, criminals, geriatrics), we encourage institutionalization to minimize the portion of M-productive required to maintain the unproductive ones.

If you look at post-industrialization patterns, the age at which humans become productive has been increasing as the productivity of humans has increased. On a subsistence farm, a 6-year old can be doing useful work to increase the productivity of the farm. In a coal mine or factory, an 8-year-old can do productive work. 16-year olds can do construction, food industry, but for jobs with decision-making responsibilities (as more and more jobs are today), we don't trust anyone under 22.
Using Security Automation for Threat Hunting
You are right (because out of control overpopulation is almost always a precursor species extinction event, true for any species in this planet, no reason why it isn't true for humans) and I agree with you. Population control is hard because most of democracies believes that reproductive rights is a basic human right, government cannot control it or take it away.

But one country AFAIK, China, did it (control population via fiat) and got overwhelmingly criticized all over the world. But in hindsight, China probably won't make it without it - still barely making it with 1.5 billion people today.

The total cost of human living is the entire cost of basic needs (food, water, waste management etc.), education, social, interactive and the change of natural environment, a lot folks forget about that bigger picture.
What they mean is that they are not allowed by the FDA to make any such claims.
CMA Coaching
You're right. Facebook has not sold personal information to advertisers. That's factually false. What I think we should say instead, is that Facebook sold the notion that 'they knew about you and your preferences' to help advertisers.
Bring back newsgroups!
Reminds me of the monetary damages levied against people who shared music files.

There was a wrong-doing, but the punishment is excessive.
It’s using the rel=canonical meta tag I believe?
It's weird how much we pretend like sleep doesnt rule our lives.
From the project homepage[1]:

"Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. It's backed by a very fast entropy stage, provided by Huff0 and FSE library."

1: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
New Witness to Martin Luther King Jr. Shooting Tells Her Story
Having met a person who started having regular psychotic episodes after a dmt trip, I’ve removed this from all of my todo lists.

She would start hissing, cursing in gibberish, clawing etc. and is the most horrific thing I’ve witnessed to date. If there’s demonic possession, this must be what it looks like.

So, no thank you.
Unrelated to the discussion but uTorrent has an open, major bug right now so you might want to switch clients!!! https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
He did very little analysis on how the actual Prime subscription price contributes to the profitability of Prime Now.

You cannot evaluate Prime related services in isolation because the whole point of Prime is that you get a bundle of services that make your life easier and allow you to get a bunch of things for a flat subscription rate.
Some of those services could be forever unprofitable, but if you remove them from the bundle, you could be destroying more value and making the whole program unprofitable.

The author fails to evaluate at least two key points:

1) Prime is still in its infancy. It's clear that Amazon's goal is to reach a total share of the market that can only be compared to paying for your phone bill, except in this case the phone bill is Prime, and Amazon is the only provider. That changes the whole picture regarding economies of scale and flywheel effects.

2) The author did his pseudo-experiments (asking Prime Now drivers how many deliveries they did last hour ) in Seattle (I presume since he mentions he is a PM at Amazon).

Of course Prime Now it's not going to be profitable in all markets but it's also not that far from breaking even.
The real profitability will come from highly concentrated markets like NYC and Singapore.
I didn't even really know they existed. I mean, we have a package sitting in the closet with Shyp tape on it, and I guess I was vaguely aware that the person who sent it had a service package it up, but that's about all I knew. I never bothered to investigate, I never heard about them from friends or folks on the internet, but I would have LOVED to have used their service. Shipping things is one of my least favorite activities ever. It's such a hassle for so many reasons; even though I live 2 blocks from a post office it still takes 30 minutes every time I ship anything due to lines, the fact that I forgot the one thing they don't have (tape or pens or something), it's impossible to figure out which shipping vendor will be best for an unboxed item of a given size (and trying to figure out what size box to use under which vendor for which price).
I like how you're getting completely opposite answers about what kinds of food different people have available, but you're getting downvoted anyway.
I can't tell if your serious or not.

These instruments don't sound the way they did 300 years ago. It's reasonable to suspect the fetish surrounding older instruments results in far worse music while also preventing people from hearing what music actually sounded like 300 years ago.
So nVidia cards are indeed supported?