skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop wasting my tax money on bullshit like this rather than having appropriate staffing.
Thanks :)

There has been some reports here in Norway of alarm station employees sharing photos of nude people — caught on their own motion sensor cameras triggering the alarm…
The technology for that colony would also be applicable to underground vaults, or we could first build those.

Either way, events such as these that would have wiped out humanity as it exists today have not yet happened in the ~1.6 billion years of eukaryotes existing on Earth, so there are good reasons not to worry too too much about it.

Note that the asteroid that "wiped out the dinosaurs" would still have left humanity as it exists today in a much better shape than a Mars colony is likely to ever be in.

Also, note that much smaller meteors/asteroids pose a huge risk to a Martian colony than they do to Earth, as they burn less in the almost non-existent Martian atmosphere, and since a Martian colony will be much less geographically spread out than the Earth. An asteroid wiping put all of the people in North America would still not destroy life on Earth, while a similar impact would easily destroy any human life on Mars for any kind of foreseeable future, if it happens to hit the colony itself.
Maybe knowledge and techniques to make raw meat/fish safe have improved in the last decades?
In Japan I tried raw chicken. My body almost threw it up from pure conditioning from knowing what it was, but it just tasted like most other raw meats, nothing too special to warrant that response. I definitely had to gush it down with some drink. I'm from Spain and chicken has to be 100% well cooked, absolutely no exceptions. I didn't compare it until now, but actually I'd bet it'd be at a worse-level than eating cooked dog meat. We also don't eat raw pork over here, cow seems to be the only one that is acceptable with low degrees of processing or even raw, and even then it's a bit rare (pun intended :)).
I love the idea!

The indian subcontinent kinda has an unfair advantage to popping up with their 20-something languages. Very hard for me to distinguish between them, and the rest of SE Asia tbh.

Should definitely only play the audio to make it harder.

I found a slovak song that was singing in English, but I recognized the surname and put 2 and 2 together.
Will there be a chapter on this element?

It’s always been unclear to me how much a Martian civilization would improve humanity’s odds of surviving Seveneves, what with humans being involved and all. I think it’s the article of faith I’ve seen the least substantive critique of— maybe because it’s so depressing to think critically about.
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Read the article by curiosity, but looking at the numbers, California lost a bit less than 0.00035% of its population, and that’s the excuse for this whole rhetoric about taxes and lawn mower regulations etc.

Perhaps the author has a point, but from a external point of view I’m not sure there is anything of value to take away from this rant. Is the population decline of any significance in the first place, and while I see people caring about housing prices and potentially wages stagnation, do people leaving really care about lawn mower laws ?
In Haskell you can implement moveUpOne as:

moveUpOne = fmap (+1)

...which uses a map over a functor, in this case a tuple. But once you're familiar with functors, there's not that much benefit in naming something like that, much as you wouldn't typically define `add1 = (+1)`.
The 1960's definition of "harmful contamination" sure leaves a lot of wiggle room.
We will not inevitably learn such things, there is in fact a much bigger chance that we will fail and stop trying for at least a while.
Finding out we can't, yet, would be pretty important.
I’ve seen ChatGPT spit out both correct and incorrect code.

The idea that you’d rely more on tools is in a sense the Java approach. Java is somewhat more verbose than other languages, in practice, and you deal with the verbosity by making more use of code snippets / templates, autocompletion, etc. Basically, your IDE writes more of the code for you. I think this was, in general, a dead end in language research for various reasons, and improving code generation (via ChatGPT or some successor) does nothing to solve the actual problems with using generated code.

At the end of the day, somebody has to at least read the code and verify that it does what is requested.

Maybe at some point, someone will hook a more formal front-end to ChatGPT or something similar, so you can write the interfaces and specs, and the AI will generate the implementation. That may take a while, however.
The current generation of mega rockets being built by SpaceX and Boeing will hopefully make the next generation of unmanned research far more compelling. They'll enable feats like drilling meters down under the topsoil.

If Mars does indeed happen to be a completely sterile wasteland (which it very likely is given that evidence of life contaminates every crevice of the earth), then human inadvertently depositing microbial hitchhikers on the surface of that world may be the most consequential legacy of humanity 10 million years from now
Designing a New Outlook Experience
Bitwarden will have my money this year too.
The thought experiment wasn't to end sentient life in a glorious generation of virtual hedonism, just humanity. Let the octopi build their ~own VR escapism pods.
Biosphere 2's missions were wild
It has been around a while in the west. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare gives you some history on raw meat in Europe and America and some jumping off points. Raw liver was the traditional treatment for pernicious anemia.

Quality and freshness of meat is a big concern. You didn't eat raw meat in warm climates before refrigeration, or if you can't source top grade meat uncontaminated by the slaughtering process. And even then you need to inspect for parasites.
they didn't eat raw salmon because unfrozen salmon has parasites.

aquaculture salmon doesn't have these parasites, likewise deep freezing (as in -20°C for a week or -35°C for a day) makes it safe to eat.

so they knew why they didn't eat raw salmon.
It probably isn't. Most mission critical problems and bottlenecks are resource depletion problems, and those can be easily solved by just sending a shitload of resources to Mars before sending people.

Need to scrub CO2 from the air? Nope, I'll just send over 10 extra cargo starships filled with Oxygen. Food for 100? Coming right up!

The whole plan hinges on making enough money with starship that sending up 100 rockets with triple-redundant resources becomes economically viable. At that point, you can slowly start building a somewhat self-sustaining infrastructure. But until you get there, the plan will just look foolish.
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Yes. more rational I guess
Yes, on that one I should have said “within a ship or station”.

But within that domain, my point still stands. We have no plausible way to construct such a ship or station that produces significant pseudo-gravity by rotating. Building such a thing is basically impossible with anything we can manufacture—building a “wheel” that can rotate fast enough and be large enough to not cause wild motion sickness and have the structural integrity to hold enough mass to sustain an ecosystem is beyond our materials science, and would be impossible to lift into space.
Keep reading.

For example:

> A recent study in British Columbia links the spread of parasitic sea lice from river salmon farms to wild pink salmon in the same river
I understand how serious it can be. I think in a healthy environment you would more often be able to escape and avoid interactions with bullies. It is unnatural to the extreme to be pushed and forced into randomly chosen social groups and forced to interact according to an extremely fixed schedule, in fixed locations, etc.

It leads to damaging abusive interactions with others who take advantage of that situation. Bullies know that you can't get away. I had a situation where I was literally forced to sit next to someone I hated for months - I can't think of anywhere that could happen except prison and school
Didn't have the opportunity to spend so much time with my clone yet, unfortunately :(
Grades don’t measure opportunities.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here—should Harvard students get better grades because they are getting a better value out of their education than peers who are performing at the same level? I don’t think that’s a reasonable way for grades to work.

If you’re not talking about grade inflation, if you’re just talking about whether it’s meaningful to compare education—I’d still say that it’s meaningful to compare the education you get at different universities. There’s plenty of room for cynicism, but I think people are sometimes too cynical about the value of the actual education that college provides. It’s well-known that people who are knowledgeable in a particular subject overestimate how easy the subject is to learn and overestimate the general public’s knowledge of that subject. In short, a chemistry major will think that chemistry is not so hard, and maybe conclude that they didn’t get much of an education in college. You can think of this as the flipside to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Ignorant people overestimate their abilities, and knowledgeable people also overestimate the abilities of ignorant people. Rephrased—smart people undervalue knowledge!

I’m not going to try and make the case that the world is some kind of meritocracy, but I’d still place my bets on a 10% better student than on a student going to a 10% more prestigious school.
Why do you think so, even in some far future? It's far more likely that Earth governments, having spent hundreds of years propping up such space colonies, would expect to rule them in perpetuity, and have easy means to do so (such as threatening to send nuclear bombardment or even troops - both far easier than actually establishing the colony in the first place). Especially since it seems very likely that colonists would not be allowed in any way to have access to weapons while they are still under Earth governments' control.

Not to mention, the Martian colony would forever be far far more frail to attack than any Earth society, since it has to spend so much of its nature wm resources just to keeping humans alive.
I genuinely wish that was how my parents had reacted to my bullying. It’s definitely what I’d plan if I was going to have kids. (And I won’t)
It is a known that eventually a planet killing asteroid will hit the Earth (again). We just don't know when.

But, more importantly, it is a misconception to think that the people GOING to Mars will have their lives improved. Life on Mars will take a very long time to become as good as life on Earth. But the tech developed to make living on Mars possible will help people on Earth.
It's not just the big companies. I've not heard of anyone rejected from a dev / it job for grades. I'm sure it does happen, especially in highly competitive, exam driven Asian countries. But otherwise? Not a single company even asked me about my grades in the first place. If you're doing a practical interview, they're not relevant.

And if I happen to somehow live in a bubble because I've not heard of those - in that case, keep in mind there's enough positions/companies to create that bubble.
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This comes off as extremely disingenuous. We aren't unable to inhabit Antarctica for the long term, we just aren't interested in doing so. We don't have much left to learn about living in space from living in Antarctica that we haven't already learned from the people who live in the various other parts of the world which do have permanent settlements and experience extreme cold for large parts of the year. Thus there is no real point to doing much else there in terms of human spaceflight.

Just like how America hasn't outright been unable to develop the means to go to the Moon again for the past 60 years, it just has had other priorities.

In fact, following your logic, Artemis also should be cancelled until we've spent the arbitrary duration of 100 years sitting around in Antarctica just to prove that we can do it.

An additional point being missed is that when we started talking about going to the Moon the first time around, we didn't really know how to do it, we sent out several impactors just to learn enough about the surface to decide where to go. By setting that goal we gathered data for the purpose and eventually managed to do it. Similarly, there will never be a time where we are 'ready' to go to Mars or any other distant celestial body if we just keep waiting for arbitrary requirements to be met. Right now it's living in Antarctica for 100 years, then it'll be something more ridiculous and arbitrary like maintaining an artificial atmosphere for 1000 years.

Right now we're in a similar phase for Mars as we were for the Moon in the early days of Apollo. We've been studying the surface for decades now, have got rovers storing away reference samples and testing oxygen production, we've even been testing how much mileage we can get with less conservative choices in hardware (eg Ingenuity's processor being much more modern than Perseverance's and Perseverance's landing footage being mostly off-the-shelf industrial cameras made possible by the more modern coprocessors being used to compress the video onboard before transmission).

A stated goal of Artemis is to use the Moon as a step to Mars, which it's turning out to be given that the only vehicle remotely capable of making the trip survivable is on the critical path of establishing a long-term presence on the Lunar surface. Everything that has to be developed for missions to Mars will end up tracing back to something tested or learned from Artemis, just as many aspects of Artemis are based on things tested on, developed for or learned from the ISS.
Is nomography the art of embedding content in an attachment instead of using the web page itself?
Seoul's first self-driving shuttle bus
People said just over 100 years ago that we'd never be able to fly, yet here we are. We're welll aware of the issues but there are solutions. I mean, we happen to exist in space, so it's not impossible, is it.
Pure functional programming is really about tracking and controlling effects by making them first-class, not avoiding them altogether. This has numerous benefits for reasoning, correctness and optimisation. Haskell allows mutable local variables, 'ST' references which can be used to build functions that are observably pure on the outside. The Haskell type checker will guarantee that no mutable state escapes. This is true "state encapsulation". It is completely acceptable for pure FP programming.
Agreed. But Venus might be better. We'll see.
No, it has different training, so entirely different neuron connection weights. They are very similar though.
The reference in the link is fairly lengthy. If you go beyond the first paragraph there sections: Disease and parasites, Pollution and contaminants... (about 10 more sections). However under Pollution and contaminants there are some eyebrow raising bits of information. "In sites without adequate currents, heavy metals can accumulate on the benthos (seafloor) near the salmon farms, particularly copper and zinc.[14]

Contaminants are commonly found in the flesh of farmed and wild salmon..."
I appreciate the "This is how I am, take it or leave it." attitude, and vaguely recall a Buddhist teaching relating to cultivating a self that can be consistent across different situations. I like it.

However, your version seems a little extreme. The article may seem to articulate the other extreme - like you should always contort yourself into the shape that others want, but I don't think the author was suggesting that. Seemed to me they were just pointing out that conversations are most fun when both/all parties take an interest in each other, and it's nice when someone takes a genuine interest in what you're talking about, so let's do that for each other.
A classical case of both can be true at the same time.

Like in every similar position (e.g. sports trainers, preachers, band leaders, ...) teachers are both powerless and powerful at the same time. If the student has respect for them/their role the power can be real, if we are talking about students who question the rules (and have parents that don't care/actively support the breaking of them) teachers are powerless.

Is a babysitter powerful? Towards an adult no, towards the child yes. Towards a certain type of child, no.
I've seen the terms pickling and fermenting used interchangeably so to explain:

By fermentation of cucumbers and most non-starchy veggies, I mean lacto-fermentation with just veggies and brine (salty water). They become acidy over time as lactic acid bacteria do their magic and create a probiotic. Sauerkraut or kimchi are examples of fermented white cabbage and napa.

Pickling involves using acid such as vinegar from the beginning.
No problem!

There are other ML TTS models that are both lightweight and can run on a CPU. Check out Glow-TTS for something that will probably work.

Also swap out the HifiGan vocoder for Melgan or MB-Melgan as these will also better support your use case.

I ran this exact setup on cheap Digital Ocean droplets (without GPUs) and it ran faster than real time. It should work on a Pi.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of STT models that operate under these same hardware constraints, but you should be good to go for TTS. With a little bit of poking around, I'm sure you can find a solution for STT too.
https://louis030195-krishnamurti-clone-main-26acgz.streamlit...
The Budapest Memorandum was specifically not a treaty. The US and UK did enforce the terms as written by raising Russia's invasion as an issue in the UN Security Council. The memorandum didn't require them to do anything more.

https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000...
> I'd heard the folklore that snow tires are more important than all wheel drive for handling on both snow and ice

All wheel drive helps zero with winter conditions, except for going uphill or some other acceleration-equivalent action. Quite the opposite really - many people have experienced how with 4x4 you don't get a warning before you just lose your grip and off the road you go. For the record I'm driving a 4x4, but using summer tires in the winter, with or without engaging 4x4, the car will simply be like Bambi on the ice. Going downhill would mean that I wouldn't stop before hitting something or ending up in the sea. 4x4 doesn't matter for that.

The first thing I do when getting a new car (I always by second hand cars - not that I buy them often, but I'm old enough to have gone through a few) is to buy the best possible summer and winter tires I can get, particularly the latter. That goes before any other investment in the car. I had enough of bad tires when I was very young and without any money.

EditAdd: Many people comment about ice and studded tires. Yes, studded tires are better, not just on ice, but on many kinds of packed snow conditions as well. For some conditions they are the only good option (interestingly enough, this does not always mean that they're better than studless tires on all kinds of ice - it depends on the ice). However, if there's a lot of bare asphalt around, as is often the case when there's a lot of traffic, then studs aren't particularly popular (road wear etc), and in some countries in Europe with lots of bare roads in the winter they're illegal (e.g. Germany IIRC).

As for winter tires without studs, on ice, be aware that there are great differences between brands and types. My father's car had stud-less winter tires while my car had studded tires, and I drove both cars on the same roads and his car behaved well, even on ice or "glassy" snow. But then the tires got old and he replaced with brand new tires, but a different type - much newer, so should be better, right? Not so. Very different to drive. Dangerous I would say, and in fact he got into an accident because of that. I checked that place with my own car afterwards, and no doubt his old tires would have held up just fine.
This begs the question of the whole essay, doesn't it? So what if China gets "boots on Mars" first? They'll waste hundreds of billions of dollars (and likely many lives) doing it, and be no better off. If we're really worried, we can just counter them by sending killer robots to Mars.
It's not irrelevant. Virtually the only conceivable thing that could make Earth even temporarily as inhospitable to humans as Mars is today is an impact close to the one that created the Moon. For any other scenario, some places on Earth will continue to be more inhabitable to humans even during the event itself than Mars is today.

So, having humans on Earth + Mars at best only marginally improved the chances of humanity surviving long term than only having humans on Earth, by a tiny amount.
Yes, it is a method. It would be a “query” if it causes no changes but returns a value.
Engineers are taught how to use a slide rule. Mathematicians don’t need one!

(Just look at the engineering / math departments of today. Engineers make heavy use of calculators, spreadsheets, Matlab, etc. Math majors don’t.)
> Why are you being dishonest? You know damn well Israel has no intention of ever relinquishing Golan Heights back to Syria, under any circumstance, whether peace is achieved with Syria or not, and their government has said as much whenever the topic comes up.

Peace with Syria is such a bullshit concept (no chance in hell it happens) it really means nothing what an Israeli government says about it. As if the Assad regime is a partner for peace. Israel did give Sinai back to Egypt for peace so it's definitely possible in theory.
Hard thing in living on Mars is not the cold, it is the lack of oxygen or easily accessible water. All of these are abundant on Antarctica so it is not really a practice run.

I see little point in exploring this on Antarctica which is why I believe no one really is entertaining idea of this type of test run on Antarctica.
Undercooked pork is still a problem as it can transmit viruses such as Hepatitis E. Like chicken, you really need to know and trust your source.
This is why it's common for languages to be multi-paradigm. For instance, in OCaml, it's perfectly fine to use while loop and mutable variable, and more generally mutable data-structures (typically records with mutable fields, or arrays).

It's mostly a matter of preference. I think experienced programmers will favour the pure approach unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, and know well how to solve common problems without relying on mutable structures (typically, it's very rare that you need a while loop in OCaml). But sometimes, it makes more sense and is less verbose to use mutable DS.
Robin Hood is pretty well recieved in the broader west, and Ned Kelly is an Australian icon. I think the theme is pretty universal. For Christmas tradition the west has Scrooge which reveals the inherent disconnect between Christmas and wealth.
Electronics Explained with Mechanical Devices [Steve Mould's Spintronics]
You don’t have to be wealthy to have connections.
Europe also has 20-something languages.
“individual, single occupancy enforced, stalls.”

How about exactly and only that? You go to school, sit in your assigned stall for the day isolated from all other stalls by a locking mechanism, and assigned to lunch periods according to your history and the other kids histories.

(Sounds a lot like administrative segregation in a prison…edit- yet I would have RAN to this option in my school days)
Energy efficiency vs outdoor farming with Sun is not applicable to any Mars colony.

You can be very inefficient if it is your only method of producing food.