skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We will inevitably learn more about adapting our environment to our needs, as well as what our needs are when we are challenged by life on Mars, similarly to when we were challenged by life in LEO, on the ISS.

I do not know a space equivalent, but in medicine, treating severe diseases teaches us a lot more about treating their mild cases than the mild cases alone could.

As for space races and political motivations, if you look at China's advancements in space recently, both in terms of launches per year and the pace of their construction capability in LEO, it is clear that we are in a race. On both counts (launch count and construction in LEO, demonstrated by Tiangong SS missions), the US is losing it. There indeed does not seem to be political motivation to do much about it.
> When grades weren’t as inflated, a stray C+ or B- was to be expected. As A-’s become the new default and grades stabilize at the upper end, any lower grade is seen as a failure. Because most students receive consistently high scores, the cost of experimenting with hard classes or new subjects substantially rises.

Not if the hard classes or new subjects have the same level of grade inflation. On the contrary, if students have nothing to fear about hard classes messing up with their grades, they are more likely to take them.

Most kind of grading schemes are subject to manipulation. Students always find ways to game the system. Teachers are often biased toward giving grades that are correlated with past performance of students.

Its better to have harder courses with pass/fail. The top students will have more motivation to pursue subjects they are interested in. Grades are not great motivators for students at the top. Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein (or insert your favorite physicist here) were never motivated by getting grades that look better than their classmates.

Only major issue is that how to make the admission process fair when there are no grades. Despite all their downcomings, standardized tests solve this to a large degree. When grades are not standard, students who come out of a fairer grading system suffer compared to the ones with inflation. Good luck trying to explain this to the admission committee or whoever else.
This is a discussion about zoning and property values.
From your link:

> The US in their dietary guidelines for 2010 recommends eating 8 ounces per week of a variety of seafood and 12 ounces for lactating mothers, with no upper limits set and no restrictions on eating farmed or wild salmon.

? What am I missing?
You just sparked a therapy thread about the dubious ROI of AP programs! :-)
It's a hairpulling experience trying to write functionally in javascript. All those imperative apis like sort as you mention. I will sometimes copy as in [...xs] but I always feel like I am swimming against the current. Plenty more to say but it appears this node has been flagged, it appears HN censors criticism. Saddening.
It's only one part of your argument, but:

> Waterfalls? With what gravity?

Mars has gravity, and any serious space habitat would have a rotating section to simulate gravity.
Good. It is high time for some breakage. When your toe is gangrenous, you should cut it off, even if you're sad to see it go. This applies doubly so if you're as strange and mysterious a beast as C++ is — sprouting body parts in random places seemingly overnight, only incidentally producing anything valuable. Maybe you don't actually need a thumb in your forehead in the first place, especially since it bleeds into your eye whenever you try to use it.
What do you mean without Metal support? All Intel Macs shipped for the last 5 years at least have supported Metal.
#2 on 'Infinite with Timer Limit' on the second attempt where I didn't get trolled by broken video.

Found some absolute bangers from unexpected countries. Better than any ML algorithm in terms of recommending interesting music.

Feedback:

* Broken videos are a problem.

* I don't have time to report broken video during play.

* I often wanted to check out songs, but no time to open/save them during play. I want some way to look up tracks after a session.

* The pop-up after each guess is animated. Animations are resource intensive and take up too much time. Do you need a pop-up at all?

* I want to (clearly) see my HP during the game.

* As someone else mentioned, the video images often give away the answer. Picture of Shiva? Probably Sanskrit.
Smaller class sizes would probably help as a blunt measure. Might have to be down to 5-1 or 10-1 to really know it’s controlled though. And this isn’t practical.

If my hunch that bullies are products of abuse or otherwise need psychological help is true then trying to identify and help bullies and their victims could help.
Virta Health has been able to put type-2 diabetes into remission for many patients through dietary interventions.

https://www.virtahealth.com/reversediabetes
Of course it can, because we did not define what course of action "dealing with it" entails.
I think the DSL approach really comes from people liking the simplicity of setting things up. Jenkins allows you to write a job script in Groovy and bring in arbitrary functions, and it feels much more arduous to get something working than say, Gitlab CI. I wrote a pipeline in my current role that span up a database with Docker in the background to run certain tests for a web application. When we ported that from Jenkins to Gitlab, the pipeline was significantly less complex because it was easier to express what was needed in a declarative way.

Where the DSLs fall down is when you need to do something that’s difficult to express, but for the most part if that’s necessary you can always write a script in whatever language you like and call it, which is a worthwhile approach anyway since it’s good to be able to debug your pipelines locally.
To some extent that is true, but it's important to note that it's a sliver of Oxygen in absolute terms. Thee is more CO2 in Earth's atmosphere (by weight) than all of the gases in the Martian atmosphere combined, if I remember correctly.
tl;dw: Anybody born there, provided that is possible at all, could not walk on Earth: their skeleton would not support them.
In the UK, at the university level, grade inflation is often related to the high annual cost of tuition.

Students are increasingly treating university as a paid service with universities treating students as customers.

Failing too many students is a failure in the service provided - bringing the university into some sort of liability.

Further, students are working hard for the £50,000+ worth of student debt they accumulate. Which wasn't the case generations prior.
So if I use/chain Object.methods in JS I'm basically writing functional programming?

Is that really what FP is? I had the impression that FP was something different.
Not only do adults in schools ignore it, they may even participate. Anecdotally: I was bullied by my primary school teacher.
Heh no :-) - because the railway stations here don't have station clocks with second hands, unlike Switzerland.. heck I don't know why they bother with the minute hand.
Only very few places on Earth are truly that shitty that I would doubt people's sanity for raising children there. Active war zones and areas affected by climate change for example, and to no one's surprise people risk their lives to escape from those. Even in a refugee camp, their children would still lead a life that is magnitudes easier and more pleasurable than on a Mars colony.
We've been through this so many times. The original version of those simulation-based utility arguments was pushed by Warren D. Smith on RangeVoting.org.

There are so many ways to lie with simulation. When you took away even the most obvious lie in the simulations painting range in a good light - namely when you took away the simulated people's magical ability to honestly compare interpersonal utility on an absolute scale, so they always ranked their most preferred 100 and their least preferred 0, no matter where they were in "opinion space" - then most of the good properties of score vanished. Smith for a while conceded that, and advocated range with top-2 runoff if you were concerned with that (as if this was some obscure technicality).

Second, those simulations had lousy ideas of "strategy", as if strategy was just a percentage slide. Strategies are inherently dynamic, and require coordination - if I see you instructing your supporters how to vote, I can take that into account in how instruct my supporters to vote.
Build a BrainFuck VM with Wa language, and try it in online: https://wa-lang.org/playground/
> There’s nothing wrong with imperative code confined to the scope of a function

Thhat is a fine point which I rarely see discussed in connection with FP. (Pure) FP is commonly understood (?) to mean that there can be no mutable data. You can "bind" a value to a variable but only once. Right?

But within a function you can have local variables. I don't see why it would be bad to assign multiple different values to the same local variable, which only exists during the execution of the function. The variable only exists in the "stack" not in the "heap" and is gone as soon as the function returns.

So if I run a while-loop and repeatedly assign a new value to the local variable "i" for instance, would that be unacceptable according to "FP"? Why? I can't see any ill effects from modifying a variable whose value can not "linger" past the execution of the function.

What am I missing? Why is it (supposed to be) bad to rebind any number of different values to a local variable?
In some areas of Germany, they add a raw egg yolk into the raw pork or beef, and add minced onions, all to be eaten on breakfast bread.
> Has anyone come out and said "we should deliberately avoid sticking a colony in Antarctica or the Sahara or on the moon, and going to Mars with no trial runs is a great idea"?

Yes, at least with their wallets (and quite possibly worth words too, though I can't be bothered to trawl through interviews to see if anyone asked).
Indeed, my bad.

The argument still holds though. Overall team disparity should be much higher at low level than high level.

A team composed of "Michael Jordan + random players" would crush any amateur league with 100% win rate.

The same team with "Michael Jordan + Magic Johnson + random players" would probably get 75% win rate in an NBA match.

So the metric "win rate" alone, or any other metric non independent of the opposing teams level, is naturally useless in this study.
Massive clinical trials cost billions of dollars. Where will the funding come from? AI technology can't do much to cut the cost of clinical trials.
As the article mentions, NASA talks about landing on Mars in the next 2 decades. Elon Musk has suggested even shorter timelines. Who else is working on Mars missions? It's not unreasonable for Maciej to limit his criticism to the foolish Mars missions that people are actually spending money on, not the wise ones we wish existed.
Because 14% of the world's population speaks Mandarin Chinese. But what about Yoruba, Burmese or even Hakka Chinese?
You wouldn't even need an Iron Curtain: moving to Earth, however much they want to, would kill them.
There's always "that book" for everyone. That one they finally click with. And then they can't shut up about it, such as the davinci-code... or outliers (my daughter's first)... but so few books hit you like lightning... I think part of it is just trying to get to that point where one hits you so expose people to books, who know what will stick. Worked for my daughter.

For me it was axctually the first novel I read. My aunt gave me The Malloreon. I was bored in winter break in the late 80s and I felt guilty I hadn't used my aunt's gift. So I read it. Now I recall spending an entire day curled up with a quick trip insulated mug in our breakfast nook when it was below freezing out reading the next book next to my mom. It'd take about 3 hours to finish that herbal tea.

Shortly after my dad gave me unlimited allowance for books. It was a smart but mildly costly move.
How about middle aged women? Surely their birthrate sex ratio isn't exponentially bias to men. Also polygamy where a man having multiple wives (or mistresses) isn't a culture there.
I assume the tile based rendering architecture is the biggest footgun in the new Apple SoC's. It just doesn't scale with a lot of polygons.

I don't see how they can solve this either.
And what if those pills come with serious side effects, as most do?
The time passes whether or not the function is called, calling a function does not cause time to pass.

Time also seems to be a pure function: current state of the universe -> next state of the universe, which is neat.
Is the port allowed to have something different on each side? It seems likely not, and in that case at least cover this up in the driver so the port is always just the port...
> My university teamed up with an American University, Embray-Riddle, to offer a joint masters. Embray-Riddle required a minimum average grade of 80%; my university came back to them and said no one in the last 10 years qualified for the masters. Eventually they lowered the requirements just so they could have students.

They just shows the US university has no idea how universities based on the UK system work. At Trinity College Dublin the standard was that 70%+ was a first class honours, the highest rank of degree awarded. Getting 80% would be like getting a started first at Oxford. Most years no one gets one in any partial particular faculty.
A "life event" sounds something like a death or major illness of a loved one, an unexpected loss of financial support, a health problem, car accident, or some other third-party issue external to one's schoolwork. Penalizing these people doesn't filter for those who can cope; it sorts for those whose "life events" happen to occur after they graduate.
> Selecting a specific open source license

Its a one-time action. Its "set and forget". That's pretty passive. Yes, you took a direct action, but its not an ongoing action.

> issuing releases and bug fixes

Again, after each fix, you're done. And to the original point, you're never committing to anything.

To repeat my original point, a maintainer could die and the software would still be shared, and the companies that use it would have the exact same relationship they had prior.
It would be more convincing if that book were in Japanese. After all, the claim is about the popularity of raw salmon sushi in Japan, specifically.
I also went to public school and a lot of my depression and suicidal ideation in my high school years was related to failed romantic relationships and unwanted academic status pressure (a guidance counselor leaked my class rank to my peers).

No bullying was necessary.

I lacked experience in coping with the resulting intense emotions and didn't trust any adults enough to talk about it.

I do agree that bullying is probably the worst culprit.
Agree. I was bullied horrifically through the 10th year of public school. I even attempted to fight back against the bullies and was punished for that by the school. The effects linger to this day 20+ years later.
> pre-scientific

What does that mean?
I just checked the price for one of the digital G-Shocks.. I could buy a car for that! A used car, at least. So no, I'll stick with the cheap digital Casio I already have, even if it's a couple of minutes wrong today (it's a bother to adjust them all the time). At least I don't have to worry about one thing: Battery. It seems to run forever. I think the battery was supposed to last 7 years, but by now it's been twice that long. The backlight still works as normal too, if I press that button.
I agree. The ZigBee protocol is encrypted, but a replay attack is probably still possible. Another advantage of a hard wired panel is that it's not dependent on the Zigbee network being operational, and could be operated on the backup battery for days.

I think many systems fall through if the threat model includes someone watching you and doing a replay attack. But I'd still prefer a hardwired panel TBD. It's just not very easy to retrofit, with hidden cables.
Somewhat similar to 9/11.

For people not yet in their 20’s it must seem like ancient history (like the Vietnam war was for me despite happening not that long before I was born).
Can you cite any historical examples of this phenomenon? It sounds intuitively correct, but my understanding of the history of technology is that the vast majority of progress was made by finding increasingly effective solutions for increasingly difficult problems, not by "jumping in the deep end".
Anybody who volunteers for a one-way trip is not sane enough to want to have along.

They might not object to going with equally insane incels, but do I want to spend to send and maintain them? The best that could be said is they wouldn't be here anymore.
I really don't think this is how it "should" work. If you took time to actually research something and build nowledge in that area, a single sentence or verbal paragraph should not change your opinion. You should take time to evaluate and reconcile whenever was new. And spend time to check whether what was said was actually true. A single thing someone with no special authority on the mayter said should not make you flip.

Debates are more about speed and quick recollection then anything else.

Also, to your last paragraph, it does not show the other people are ideologues. It just show they see you want to win verbal game rather then engage in serious debate into the topic. People are not interested in it, because why would they?
Cameras - everywhere - except individual, single occupancy enforced, stalls.

I'd still support it, because with video evidence there is no they said vs they said. There is just the truth.

There's also no more wiggle room for mistakes or minor deviance. Policies that normalize and enforce non-punishment for non-serious offenses must also be put in place to prevent the abuses of that system.
>In those examples you start with an object, call a method on the object returning a new object, then call a method on that and so on. I like this kind of chaining in OOP.

Then this post from my blog might be of interest:

Examples of method chaining in Python:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/02/examples-of-method-chain...
> We need near Earth asteroid mining to understand the complexities of resource extraction in space, we need lunar colonies to study the day to day realities/psychology/etc of space colonization

We already know about the realities of space colonization: it’s not possible. People in space for a month already have permanent health defects. If you are up there you have to constantly be training your body to not disintegrate. Unlike other places where there are living beings, there is nothing in space for a reason!!

People don’t want to accept that space science fiction is as real as Middle Earth or Hogwarts, but there is already an abundance of evidence that the human body is not capable of existing for years on end in space.
IMO it isn't much about parasites, it is more a B2B sales tactics turned B2C, and turns out general public likes it. The Project Japan pitch in 1985 was targeting a group of japanese industry experts. It is this group of expert that says the salmon contains parasites hence the customer won't eat it. But in the 90s, after the striking the deal with Nichirei, they find that customer actually like the fatty taste of salmon, parasites wasn't a concern to most.

It's like facebook/tiktok pitching their platform to an HN crowd and we obsess over security, privacy, social bubble, vision and stuff, turns out no one give a damn. People like scrolling on the phone aimlessly. That's the fatty salmon
That is also my point - whole game shifted.

Maybe to clarify, by Linux I did not mean any people like "Linux advocates". What I wrote is about Linux as an idea of open kernel that won on its own.
Agree. It sounds like that joke where HR randomly put half of applications to the bin because they don't want to hire the unlucky ones.
Thanks for this, I actually appreciate the honesty. It is always difficult for me to parse the actual quality of things I don't have intimate experience with.

Can I ask another question? If I wanted to hack around with STT and TTS (inference only) on a pi (4B+) is there anything that is approximately appropriate and can be done on device? (I could process on my main machine but I'd love to do it on the pi even with a decent delay)
Thanks for the suggestion, that does look like an interesting read! I will check it out.
I woudl get so far ahead on the books I'd forget trivial things thye'd ask on the quizz. In high school our teacher made us read The Sword of Shanarah (~1991). I remember missing a question on a quizz because it was about a first encounter with Allanon where I answered about later in the book. But the teacher was a smart person, he just gave me the final exam on the book which I passed. So I got opted out of the quizzes. He had a whole group of nerds who were way onto scions of Shanarah or later. But this was a private school.

He told me that the reason he chose that book was that it was actually easy and a page turner, but also different than what most kids read. But most of all he chose it cause it's a big honking bok. To that point at the end of the class 90% of the kids had near on finished the book. Even the laziest kid in class had to agree that no it wasn't a big chore to read that big of a book if you broke it down and they weren't afraid of big books anymore.
Most of this is written from a US perspective, which ignores an important fact: it looks like it is going to be the Chinese that get boots back on the moon first and they might also move their eyes towards Mars soon. And they are not going to ask US congress for permission either. There's a new space race on with China. Mars is a prestigious target to nail that will vastly expand what's possible technically for whomever gets there first. It's going to be China unless the US stops navel gazing and gets its act together.

And love him or hate him but Elon Musk has built a pretty nice Starship that might help getting that mission done. The traditional route of slinging trillions at the likes of Boeing is indeed going to take decades. We know that because that's the past 50 years. It doesn't work. But Starship is nearly ready for operations and might cut that time frame short. And its a bar gain in comparison.

There was no point in going to the moon either in the late nineteen sixties. But it was preferable for the US to get there before the Russians. The moon program was really expensive and yielded a lot of indirect return on investment. Lots of fat government checks that went straight into the US economy. In the end, all it took was Kennedy telling people that we were going. Only took eight years or so from there. The Saturn 5 was way bigger than it needed to be because the people behind it were already looking at Mars. The Mars capable successor was already being developed until it was cancelled by Nixon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_C-5N

Anyway, Starship was designed for Mars, is going to the moon first, and might be flying there soonish. A bit over eight years from merely being a crazy idea. Sounds familiar? Only this time it won't be a one off. This thing is reusable and there might be quite few "flight-proven" ones flying towards the end of the decade. It will be very tempting to use one for what it was designed for.
Fermented cucumber? Interesting, down here in Slovakia it's similar recipe only with pickled cucumber (and without mushrooms). Also some people add ketchup and a drop of worcester sauce.
You need therapy.
I'd expect such vacuum chambers to be relatively easy to build. The hull only has to hold one atmosphere of pressure difference, and it's pushing inward, so existing pressure tanks should be more than adequate with at most slight modifications. Generating the vacuum is mostly handling the sheer volume of air to evacuate because the quality of vacuum is irrelevant -- leaving 1% of air is as good as 0.001% of air when you are pushing doors against that pressure.