skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fingers crossed I can make it happen this year! Thanks for your tips!
e.g.?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0098628314537968
Bing is way better for anything related to sex, drugs, or politics. Google applies aggressive ideological filters to their search results these days.
Weird. Functional code is usually easier to debug in my experience because it's based more on composition so you can test components much more easily and isolate error causing sections. It's a lot easier than a 1k SLOC C function (or even 100 SLOC one) where you have to use a debugger or introduce logging (printf debugging) to try and isolate the error.
> rather than being able to process any given object or objects of different types

Not necessarily- the functions can still be polymorphic. Rust does a particularly cool thing here, where any struct or trait method can be called in non-method syntax (or even passed as a first-class function!). I believe Julia also has type-based polymorphism while still being considered a functional-adjacent programming language. And then there are other languages where any function in scope can be called in method syntax, without being explicitly associated with the value's type (there's a name for this feature but I can't remember it)

> Difference between functional style and functional language?

I don't know the precise definitions well enough to distinguish them (though I'm not sure they have precise definitions)
Operator delete still exists. Dereferencing void * still exists. Access like a[i] is still unchecked. Etc.

But indeed, these things can't be removed or reworked without breaking backwards compatibility. (And if you seriously take on reworking them, you'll end up with a different language, which we already have several.)
We are not even a teeny tiny bit close to being able to replicate an environment like that in space. Waterfalls? With what gravity? Insects and exotic plants? You mean the invasive species that came to dominate Biosphere 2?

And even if we could replicate that level of Biosphere 2…well guess what? Everyone still went nuts anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2#Group_dynamics:_ps...

They went bonkers in a sealed bubble on Earth, with Earth gravity and Earth diurnal cycles. How would that possibly be easier on a planet where you’d have the innate factionalism in human interactions combined with the grinding stress of living on a world that wants to kill you?
Correct, this is an alignment fiducial for doping to ensure everything is in proper rotational alignment before masking and doping.
I don't think this tracks;

The argument seems to be that there are more and more students, and the number that can go to Harvard is fixed, so Harvard is selecting for the "best and the brightest" which when they were less picky was a smaller percentage of the class but now they only get really bright and talented students. Does that more or less capture it?

If so consider that grades are against the class, not the student. If grades did not inflate, and the quality of the students had risen, then the effort to get an A would go up commensurately with the quality of the student and those who weren't up to that standard would continue to get the B's and C's.

What the article is saying is that by not grading on a curve (or letting the curve parameters creep up) the median GPA goes up and the standard deviation goes down (compression). Rather than having a consistent distribution with what ever students happen to be admitted currently.
You missed one more social aspect: give too many students an F in a course (for example, for cheating), and the instructors in the following year will let you know what they think.
You have no way of knowing that.
> And there’s nothing in the foreseeable future (the next 10–15 years) that changes that.

If we cannot, at a nation-state level, apply ourselves to 30-50 year goals, we might as well just give up on the survival of humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFyP0qy9XU

- John Tuld ( Jeremy Irons )

If you haven't I do recommend watching the whole movie, or more like a mini documentary. Much Much better than the Big Short.
Moral dilemma: What if children conceived and born on Earth decide that Earth totally sucks, and they want to migrate to Mars?

Do we build a wall around Mars and tell them their shitty life on earth is all they get, and they should be happy with antarctica?

I think your moral argument can easily be flipped, why do you get to decide that we shouldnt do something because there exist people who dont want to do it? What of the the people who do?

If you dont want to go, then dont go...
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I’m on the fence about astrobiology, but I’ll go out on a limb and say the solar system is not a connected ecosystem “like Earth”.

Any actions we take that ruin parts of the quite likely ecosystem that lives on Mars will have zero effect on Earth’s.

I think a more likely threat is that we may bring something nasty back with a human mission to Mars, as unlike a sample return, you can’t keep the crew and every part of the returning spacecraft in a NASA biocontainment lab indefinitely.
Would it still require a 3080 to run adequately, that is, with 1-2 seconds of delay? I've no idea what consumer-grade hardware works well for ML loads.
Definitely feel like I'm playing a bit more GeoGuessr than Langoguessr. First one was a music video where I could get a good guess on the location by the style of license plates and background scenery. Second was a still frame shot of an album cover featuring the Armenian flag. Third one had no defining features and suddenly I wasn't so good at the game!
Depends if the Uber drivers, mum and dad are available to do the drop offs and pick ups.
> I feel terror at the idea of all of our species on one planet with no backup.

While I would like to live out the rest of my life as best as I could, and I hope everyone alive and not yet alive gets that chance too, I don't think it would be that great a tragedy if humankind no longer existed. Imagine a world where everyone is hooked up to a simulation that feels as real as real life and everyone gets to live out the best possible life (or even lives) for them. They can have as many (AI) children they want in the simulation and never even know they weren't real. In that world, where no one ever had real children again and humanity naturally died out, would that be a bad thing? Humanity is not providing any benefit except to itself.
> Everyone is the main character in their own story

For those with anxiety, one of the best pieces of advice I ever received (that also took me years to internalize!) was the corollary to this: nobody is thinking about you in a critical way, at the level that you are criticizing yourself, because they are their own main character. Which is incredibly freeing, because the anxious person’s assumption that one embarrassing moment will turn into them obsessing about your failure… is absolutely nonsensical, because the only person they are obsessing about is the main character to them, themself.
It's still actually helpful for showing other tools and example use cases. You're the one who contributes nothing with your needless sarcasm.

Please abide to HN Rules and Guidelines next time.
Even it is a fantastic goal—eventually—sending a human crew right now may not be the optimal approach.
Speaking for myself, the Prime Directive is the survival of humanity.

Any other altruistic Prime Directive (ala Star Trek) is a luxury affordable only by a species that has figured out a way past the eventual explosion of their system’s star.
I strongly agree. Trading in the "shared humanity" approach for one where we self segregate and pre-emptively expect and search for discrimination at all moments seems like the opposite of progress.
Most of them use the system AR sdks, which still relies heavily on the cameras for feature detection, if it’s too dark they have a hard time anchoring themselves to the scene
I actually suggested my VP go read the poster in the breakroom. It was not appreciated, but didn't cause me any real problems. That said we had a functioning HR department that I knew would be happy to explain the law to him, and I certainly don't claim that everyone could get away with this.

A more universal solution is file a complaint with your local Department of Labor (they can keep you anonymous), or if you have the funds, discuss it with a labor lawyer first.
I’m not sure, but traveling to mars would be a little different if there were already human beings living there.
Which, to me, seems like the closest real-world-on-Earth-world training simulation you could develop.

You’d be totally reliant on one power source, sealed inside a pressurized tube, with totally disrupted circadian rhythms. But at least on a nuclear sub, you have the chance to escape to the the surface world, and a chance to restock there. On Mars? Step outside, you’re dead, and if you can’t replicate a resource on a world with less gravity & less solar power & not a shred of a biosphere, you’re dead.

Sounds like a fun, low-stress environment to me. Humans do great with living with unrelenting psychological stress in sealed metal tubes.
Adults are just as cruel, they are merely more aware (or more a subject) of social and legal repercussions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEmD9WRKes
One of the arguments in favor of Mars versus the moon is that at least it has a normal Earth-like day/night cycle. Solar power on the moon means having to have batteries that last through the 14 day nights.

Mars is cold, but I don't think that's a huge problem. You just need an appropriate amount of insulation.

I imagine a typical Mars habitat to be either sealed section of an existing lava tube or some kind of dome structure built at the bottom of a hole and then covered with sand, except for a stairwell. Either way, you'd line the inside with something. Aerogel, polystyrene, whatever works in that environment and whose ingredients can be transported to Mars in a compact form.
In undergrad, the professor who taught intermediate microeconomics told us about how law and business school admissions officers knew how tough his course was (it was the weeder course), and that doing well would be a feather in our cap. I made the mistake of believing him. The savvy students took intermediate micro at nearby schools and transferred the credit along with a higher grade.

Graduate schools will look at rec letters and take the professor's praise into account, but they haven’t the slightest notion of whether a class you took is hard or not. Students who want to optimize their future prospects know this, and select their courses accordingly. Oh, and employers know/care even less than graduate schools.
This is spot on.

The people who do care are the exchange students, transfer students, and students applying to graduate school, assuming grades transfer (which they often don’t). Schools with unusual grading policies often include a letter alongside transcripts to explain away why a student’s grades may not match what you expect. For example, Wellesley College includes a letter explaining that grades are NOT inflated at Wellesley, so a B in a class at Wellesley corresponds to an A at a more typical school. Evergreen College includes no grades at all and provides a thick packet explaining everything.

Maybe Harvard should include a letter in its transcripts explaining that students at Harvard are graded in an extremely lax fashion, and any credits transferred from Harvard should be transferred as if the course were taken pass/fail. (Half joking.)
From their github page:

>So as long as you have your MSK, all of your passwords (past, present and future) can be recovered.

Uhhh... yeah.
>Take what you said and apply the same logic to privacy-focused cryptocurrencies

Is this supposed to be a gotcha? Those have mostly been used as Ponzi schemes or hobbyist toys that extract wealth from those who don’t have it to lose
Yes, this. There’s a reason that Picard was the captain of Enterprise, rather than Data. Bio-nietzcheans will lead the way, not robo-nerds.
They should simply kill the compatibility and provide a migration tool. clang-tidy provides the modernize module which can help.

If the only side effect of breaking backwards compatibility is making the people that write C++ as if it was C89 irritated and upset, then that's probably a good thing, let's do it more.

C++11 is 11 years old. If you haven't modernized your code base in 11 years you never will.

If you are using ancient C++, compiler security updates are the least of your security concerns.

If you have code that nobody understands and cannot be touched, you should see that as the real problem and an urgent call to action to fix it, not modernization.
I’d bet against Texas in the idea that their working class/average citizen population is going to be quite oppressed until women have meaningful rights there.

Hard to have a functioning society when a near literal half of your population is seen at best as second class citizens.
This also applies to high school in my experience. I had a lower GPA but took AP classes, my friends who took easy classes got into better schools.
Ram Dass - Be Here Now

Amazing book with mind blowing illustrations about life, purpose and spirituality. Changed my life. Every time I re-read it I discover something new.
I don't mind the idea of this list, but for me it would be more effective if they gave concrete alternatives. Just from eyeballing it, it looks like the only places that aren't "no"s for me would take a flight or a cruise to get to. Those aren't great means of travel from a climate perspective, which leaves me asking how/where would be better.
Oxygen production is also useful for sample return missions.

The biggest flaw with the rovers is that they’re terribly slow, so they can only explore a small range around a landing site. If they could cover even 100km/day, which seems plausible on RTG or solar power, we could explore many sites.
ChatGPT was great in assisting me in coding (I ask about postgresql stuff). But I do noticed it sucks at humor too.

There's a saying that the best jokes are somewhat offensive if not very witty, and ChatGPT might be playing safe lol.
> I'm sorry but that's a terrible comparison.

Do you have any arguments that would bake this claim? Where's the difference?

> If internet providers would not be in the habit of snooping and filtering on their customer's traffic […]

What are you talking about? This does not happen as it would be illegal. At least in civilized countries.

(Given a court order for lawful interception there may be exceptions to that, of course).

> net neutrality

This term means something else.

> we need HTTPS

For other reasons.

One of them being rogue states that snoop on people's traffic. [Not looking in the direction of north America now].

> VPNs

That's similar to HTTPS.

Also it circumvents state level censoring, which is needed by now in quite some countries.

> Tor

That's even more in the direction of hiding form state surveillance.

Your ISP usually knows that you're using Tor…

> Dark Web

That's a very unclear term, btw. And it has nothing to do with anything an ISP does.

> but the fact is that internet providers are in fact snooping for themselves

Like I said: Not in civilized countries, as this would be a breach of the constitutional right to privacy of correspondence.

> law enforcement

That's a tangent. Everybody besides a culprit needs to cooperate with law enforcement.

> denying customers the use of certain ports or protocols

You could do this in theory. But you wouldn't be selling internet access anymore in this case. This would be like AOL or Compuserve back then.
I guess you can take the boy out of the defeatist, fatalistic dystopia, but you can't ever take the defeatist, fatalistic dystopia out of the boy.

This whole article boils down to "I don't think we should go to Mars because I don't think we should, it would cost too much (limit not specified) money, it doesn't seem to benefit me immediately, and we should use robots instead, and it's all-or-nothing on the robot thing."

There are so many unstated assumptions, baked-in arbitrary limitations, and downright bizarre arguments that I'm struggling to understand what the point of the article is, if there is one beyond "stop it." I suppose if you really dislike the armchair-engineering hype factory of Elon Musk and you were looking for an armchair-engineering Space Eeyore, here's your boy?
the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain

Is that a basic urge? The actual glory of exploration? Or is it the need for resources? You reference the Donner Party, which was on its way to California, which had actual useable and useful resources. So of course people wanted to go there—there’s an ocean and sunshine. Mars has…uh…corrosive dust?
This is not surprising, but not for the reasons the authors imagine.

Of course going back to jail after being free would make any kid who values his own autonomy depressed. School in its current form is awful, because it's far too authoritarian and preachy, not because "bullying".

You wouldn't have issues with bullying if you didn't force kids who don't like each other to interact without oversight in the first place. Oversight is key, when you know kids don't like each other, don't put them together again until you know they're cool again. It's hard being a little person.
Note that `assert`s are disabled if you define the macro `NDEBUG`, e.g. https://godbolt.org/z/hMWo8KM7q

CMake defines the macro in release builds: https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/e1eacbe2c522a8bf9a82af...

Would be nice to have a non-macro solution for controlling behavior at configure time, but the `NDEBUG` macro is basically already your `DEBUG` constexpr.
Not only that, but the overall amount is chump change to Google. The people at Google likely settled with the widest possible grin on their faces. They know the settlement was of little consequence and lacking in deterrence.
America, the plutocracy.
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> Do we build a wall around Mars and tell them their shitty life on earth is all they get, and they should be happy with antarctica?

I'm not personally in favor of the "colonize Antarctica" approach. It's true that if we can't figure out how to colonize someplace like Antarctica first, then it's unlikely we'd be successful on Mars, but I'm not advocating the colonization of Mars anyway.

> If you dont want to go, then dont go...

This completely ignores what I said, which was "You personally may choose the hardest road, but your unborn children would have no choice in the matter".
That is true, but for several generations the first (if not the only) law will be survival of the colony, hence extreme meritocracy. That is very appealing for very many ppl.
> With modern CPU's having so many cores and threads being so cheap, couldn't NASA use these for redundancy?

Bold No.

CMOS technology have one drawback - it is prone to latch up by ionization, because it have The parasitic p-n-p-n thyristor (it is locked in wrong state, to reset must do full power off).

Rad-hardened designs have to deal with this, they used special type of die material and clamping diodes, so their technology essentially different from civilian designs.
As many are talking about inspiration and inspirational goals, it may be worth risking a view on this from a more cultural perspective. Mars is really the "what's next?" to the Apollo program and how it shaped our cultural perspective on space activities. It's the same thing, scaled up in distance, size, journey time, complexity, number of fundamental problems – and a fundamental lack of ideas what to do there, as it's all about going there. However, there had been other visions of space. We do not have to go further than the mid-century kids room: tin toy flying saucers zipping around asteroids (possibly making a fortune from mining), tin can shaped rovers stomping over the Lunar surface on their telescopic legs – and where there's a Lunar rover with perspex windows and some business to go about, there's probably also a vision of Moon bases and space ports now long forgotten, as these have dropped out of the popular imaginary. In a sense, Mars may not be that high hanging motivational fruit, it may be even the end of space inspiration, just the thing we clung to as we ran out of visions for space.
They do that in the Philosophy department.
I fucking was one?
When will Twitter collapse? (Elon Musk firings)
When you ask on HN whether software companies hire too many engineers most answers are negative. Twitter has lost 50% of its workers and Elon Musk just recently tweeted: "Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out. Twitter should feel faster.", and they've also released new features. HN commenters said that due to the firings, Twitter wouldn't be able to change things without breaking everything in the way anymore. When "Twitter will collapse"?

Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33984823
If I understand correctly, you're asserting that that's causal--that being born into affluence causes children to develop in a way that leads to them "passing" the marshmallow test.

Do you have evidence to exclude other possible interpretations, such as the possibility that children resisting the temptation of a marshmallow and their parents being rich are actually the effects of some other underlying single cause?
It's fine, as long as they call the ship the B Ark.
- Harvard has a legacy admission policy.

- Even if Harvard didn’t have a legacy admission policy, the ability to select the best possible students is limited (admissions is full of mistakes).

- Incoming students often know that they can get a near equal education at other schools, even if they are admitted to Harvard.

- Anecdotes from Harvard graduates suggest that performance of students at Harvard is not significantly different from other good schools.

- Grade inflation affects nearly all US schools.

Travel back in time to 1960 or earlier. You’ll find that the A grade in the US is reserved for the highest performing students, the top 15% or so. 30-35% would get a B, another 30-35% would get a C, and the remainder would get Ds and Fs.

Today, more than 40% of all students get an A.

If you think the explanation for why this happens at Harvard is different for the explanation for why this happens to most of the rest of the US, then you would want to explain what makes Harvard different.
The authors considered other possibilities for the reduction in teen suicide:

> There could be a number of explanations for these findings. Families spending time together during a period of fear and uncertainty may have generated important mental health benefits for teenagers. Moreover, increased communication between parents and teenagers, as well as increased monitoring (both of behaviors and psychological health) may have yielded important psychological gains for teenagers. In addition, the absence of in-person schooling could have helped teenagers avoid negative peer effects of in-person bullying. Or, it may be that reductions in pressures associated with high-stakes exams, athletics, or romantic relationships may have reduced triggers for suicide ideation. In the final section of this paper, we empirically explore a few potential channels.

As someone who has gone to public school, I know the answer is bullying.

The authors were careful to point out that they do not advocate shutting down in person schooling because it can also offer positive mental health benefits. But you have to wonder, between teachers, guidance counselors, and administrators, you would think someone would notice some bullying behavior. Could it be that collectively the adults tasked with overseeing children are, understaffed, unempowered, ignorant, complicit, or do the facilitate or lead this behavior?
I mean, what he says isn't untrue. Past a certain point the accumulation of wealth is negative, a point that most people will never reach. And many countries have inheritance tax that's not a communist thing... After all, you wouldn't need it in a communist system.