skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much like how it would be inconvenient to refuel my Ford Escape if I could only do it at Ford gas stations or with Ford fuel but that is a solved problem.

I believe pre-unleaded gas it was just a standard but the US Gov made some regulations in the 70s about it.

I think it would play out similarly, with companies coalescing on a standard on their own and regulation coming afterwards.
Self fulfilling prophecy.

It took several near burn-outs and tons of hours of my life lost due to frustrations before I truly understood this. The world is what you want it to be.

Hopeless because everyone in the world is so selfish? You create the world you live in. Live selfless and see the world transform around you.

Frustrated you have to constantly interfere to make someone good at their role? You have to yourself believe they are the best in that role and then see them flourish.

Afraid your relationship might not workout? The fear itself will make your worst thought a reality.

Your life becomes extremely easy once you truly understand the world is what you believe it to be.

Note: There are of-course strings attached to this concept, but understanding the power of this is life changing.
It is gonna happen for sure. People will leverage powerful tools and claim it is their own voice. Me shrugs.

I more want to at least have that individual emitter be accountable for what they post; to establish continuity. I want to know that that emitter is say 3 hops from me, and is trusted by 12 friends in between, and has a general trust score of say 7/10 overall as an overall rating by my extended trust graph.

It is less that I want people to say good things, or be truthful or whatnot - I just want to know that they are real, that there is a human behind it, that that human has an opinion of some kind. The thing is that there are a ton of sock puppets that are not real - it's more about reducing the noise / spam rather than a perfect solution.
This guy seems to live an alternate reality where SpaceX and Elon Musk don’t exist. Yes, a NASA abomination would cost a fortune and be a disaster. NASA isn’t going to establish a Mars outpost, SpaceX is. It’s literally what every one of Musk’s businesses support and why Starship is being developed.
This story is embedded into their novel "Жук в муравейнике" ("Beetle in the Anthill"), so it does not have a name, never being a separate short story.
In the longer timeframe of frequent large-scale Mars travel we will have humans and transhumans and human successor robots with different body plans that are more adaptable to the Mars environment. Any article on this topic that is not built around this eventuality will be missing what is going on, as this article does.
I mean, in an example where the problem and solution is well understood, sure, but like all things there are downsides and you need to consider appropriateness.

Firstly if you're conceiving a novel algorithm it can be tedious to debug/test if written in a functional style because it's hard to step through in the debugger.

Second, you need to be extremely familiar with the language and ensure that you know that you're not mixing and matching mutable and immutable system calls, which will be hell to debug, see 1.

I'm not anti-functional and sometimes it can yield really clean and easy to read code, but I have to recoil when I see praises sung without the criticism.
1Password has a handy solution to that problem: https://support.1password.com/generate-security-questions/

They have a bunch of "standard" questions in the drop-down list, like "first grade teacher" or whatever, but you can always just type your own since they're merely designed to be helpful. The answers they generate are built on top of their normal password generator, but I found the "battery horse staple" variety makes for the least amount of headache, although you could probably generate a PIN format if the target website accepted it since it'd be much easier to read to a customer service rep if it came to that (err, aside from the social hurdle of "what is your first grade teacher? ... 8675 ... no, I mean the teacher? ... yes, my answer is 8675" nonsense
Hey, Thanks for following up! My Vitamin D level is deficient. I want to somehow address this as well, let's see what effect it has.
https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb
Reminds me of that one Love, Death + Robots episode, “The Drowned Man.” Worth a watch (both episode and series).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14536156/
Hi Joe, thanks for the article. I am thinking of getting into satellite data science (from a data science/ software eng background). If you can recommend any datasets that are open to the public that can be fun to play around with or any other advice I'd be happy to hear it.
Right, which would imply that Nazis are pretty damn strongly disfavored.
Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not (2018)
He's alluding to nuclear submarines.
No, they do not. The entire station has about 40 hours/week free for research, and the priority now (according to NASA) is testing next-generation life support systems. The only useful experiments on there are the ones that are automated.
I think you can get the effect you're looking for by using the previous cell as an init image and only repainting the character.

As for consistency of character details, I think that will depend on how many images you use to train dreambooth etc. and how varied those images are.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Mcuh38wyM
I agree with you; I also wish Bezos would go all-in on Venus and make things fun.
My top ones:

- abstract interpretation. It was at least a year after I first heard of the concept that I grokked it enough to try to write my own, and it wasn’t until many goofy failed attempts and something like 6–7 years that I actually understood it enough to write a good one. And then it was another 5-6 years before I understood the theory well enough to understand abstract interpreters designed by others. So, like, that took me more than a decade to understand. Maybe I still don’t fully understand it.

- SSA IR design. It’s so easy to understand the facts of what SSA is, and it’s not that hard to use an SSA IR designed by others. But it took me over ten years from when I first read the papers and did my first attempt until when I actually got it. And I still feel like there are aspects of SSA that I don’t fully understand.
Exploring the Inner Workings of the Node.js Event Loop
Examples totally do suck.

A class Animal is inherited by Dog class that barks. That's like the total opposite of what any practical example can be and people confuse how that's even useful.
If you break you neck in LEO you could be in a real hospital in a few hours. From the moon it's a couple days, comparable to like an arctic base dueing a storm.

From Mars your family will only get ashes because your body will have been deconposing for months.

There is steel, aluminium and oxygen on the moon,'it can host heavy indstry and peoduce ships, space stations, equipment. It can host a space elevator today,'made of normal kevlar. You could build an aircraft carrier and lift it into orbit.
This always seemed an odd motivation to me. I am not really attached to the idea of the species continuing in the abstract, my concern about a mass extinction event would be all of the individual living humans that would die. It would be little solace to me that a handful of humans remain clinging to life on a distant rock. Investing in something like asteroid defense makes total sense to me but creating a colony as a sort of backup doesn't really.
Still it means that other more useful research will likely not get funded by congress. These big hype projects can do a lot of harm for everyone else.
> The reason people want to colonize Mars is because it solves the problem of an extinction event on earth wiping out all of humanity (assuming the Mars colony eventually becomes self sustaining).

Life on Earth survived the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, obviously, otherwise we wouldn't be here now. The dinosaurs were wiped out, but the dinosaurs had nowhere to hide and were completely unprepared for the asteroid impact. It's important to keep in mind that the Earth after the asteroid hit was still vastly more livable and conducive to life than Mars is now. Mars is more hostile to life than a big asteroid impact, because Mars has no habitat to start with. Mars has no benefit whatsoever to humans as far as Earth disaster survival is concerned, except for the fact that Mars is not Earth.

A much better plan to avoid extinction is multifold: (1) Stop destroying our own environment, duh. (2) Get rid of nuclear weapons. (3) Stop killing each other in general. (4) Invest in asteroid detection and deflection. (5) Build shelters on Earth capable of surviving disaster, such as underground. It also wouldn't hurt to (6) Stop being afraid of vaccination.

We've got everything we need here already: normal gravity, breathable atmosphere, food, water, raw materials, people. It would be sooooooo much easier to build disaster shelters on Earth than to permanently populate Mars. The difference in difficulty level makes Mars a total joke in comparison.

As a species, if we can't even get our shit together on Earth enough to stop polluting, stop killing, stop the threat of nuclear war, and vaccinate against contagious diseases, then we have no hope of long-term survival anywhere, because of our own stupidity. You can forget living on Mars, a massively hostile environment, if we can't do it right here on Earth, which was practically made for us.
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> Mars is further away in travel time, but not much further in fuel costs, and it's far better than the Moon for living off the land.

The prospect of an inhabited Martian colony living off the land is dismal, for anything except extremely far-future timeframes (thousands of years or more). Any extraplanetary colony is going to be invariably tethered to Earth and highly dependent on imports for survival. The moon has the advantage of not just being closer, but having a launch window of "whenever you feel like it", in contrast to Martian launch windows that occur 26 months apart.
Using a new Dell Alienware PC now, first thing I did, install Ubuntu, wiping Windows. RTX 3080 is the GPU. Been using nvidia for years, they rock. I game on it using Steam Proton which also rocks, and run other native Linux games. Haven't needed to try the WiFi on it yet. Only use one screen, not sure why I'd need two.
To me this article misses the main point for not going to mars, which is it is stupid vs the next best option of investing in building up our space infrastructure near Earth, ideally finding profitable niches (moon/asteroid mining, solar electricity? zero gravity manufacturing? I don't know what, but I am pretty sure something can be profitable up there) that support that effort so that the spend on point 1 and 2 of the article's argument is motivated by positive cash flow driving us towards whatever the feasible version of an O'Neil cylinder ends up being. Why would we ever want to go back down an expensive to escape gravity well to a barren wasteland that we would have to terraform when the opportunity to terraform more manageable chunks of space will probably exist at the same technology investment level and will almost certainly be much faster/easier/cheaper than doing a whole planet at once?
Makes you wonder if some of those UFOs are aliens who are afraid that they will contaminate our planet if they make physical contact with us.
Doesn't Venus's thick atmosphere make it different from trying to do it over Earth?
The moon has no atmosphere and is much less dense. Mars has some advantages which can potentially make it self sustaining in the long future.
If that funding were used on other technology, the people otherwise completely occupied with space tech would be working on... other technology. We don't have infinite resources, time, money, or brains.
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If the goal here is to suggest that Mars contains any natural resources of significant economic value, it doesn't.
This guy literally devotes an entire section of the linked article to dismissing Mr. Elon’s Wild Martian Ride as the vaporware that it is.
Anyone have a link for this?
Happy new year 2023. Here's wishing everyone success in their endeavors and peace, harmony in the world.
Not easier. More awesome.
Japan has been a slow runner in the startup race. However, the situation is rapidly changing. Part of this is because of Japanese government's initiatives to improve the startup ecosystem and part is because of changing mindsets of younger generation with improving risk appetite. This article presents some interesting statistics about startups in Japan.
> The worst conversations are those where both parties are waiting their turn to talk, saying as much as they can before getting interrupted, and then being forced to listen to the other.

I feel like this is a west coast US mentality. I don't mind people interrupting me, and think it's pretty typical from the east coast of the US.
Speaking of huge cultural variation... an experience I had working with Russian contractors: they didn't realize that we disagreed with their plan because we hadn't yelled at them. No idea whether that's a general Russian cultural principle or not, but we did get better at disagreeing, when necessary, after that.

I suspect that a large part of the problem was that Canadians tend to disagree rather obliquely.
Humanity has no back-up.

Compelling reasons to venture beyond this single, solitary rock include: Catastrophic volcanic eruptions. Devastating climate change. Extinction-level asteroid impact. Gravitational shifts from a rogue celestial body. Directed supernova blast. Coronal mass ejection. Unknown cosmic cataclysms. Loss of magnetosphere. All-out thermonuclear war. Unyielding plagues.

Back up your data, back up your species.
They deserve it.
I think you're right except that in this case it would not only be cool, there would definitely be some real world value too, overall I feel it is worth it.

And sending robots is definitely super cool :)
> I have to secure a physical object that grants irrevocable ownership of my wealth

That's one way, but not the only one.

My preferred mean of storage is through a _vault_ smart contract, such as the "Gnosis safe".

It's basically a smart contract that you deploy, and send your assets to. You can then add some of your trusted friends as co-validators and require 2/3 validations for a withdrawal. You can also set a no-validation required threshold at $X/m for the day to day.

> I obviously don’t expect them to guarantee the value of the crypto, just that the broker doesn’t lose it

For the record, brokers rarely (if ever) store or guarantee client money.

Usually you have a custodian to hold your money (who will guarantee deposits, up to some limits), and your broker will unlock a credit line for you based on your collateral posted at the custodian.

There are custodians in crypto as well, "Paxos" and "Coinbase Custody" being the most well known. They will store your money on cold wallets with very strict guarantees (shamir split of the wallet keys among anonymous holders, strong entropy guarantees on key generation, proof of reserve, etc) and unlock it upon verifying your identity with real humans. It's costly though.
Because it is cool and inspiring. This doesn't have to be about min-maxing.
What extinction event could possibly make Earth less habitable than Mars?
> We could build nuclear reactors and mining facilities and indoor vertical farms and a whole bunch of other industry to make the continent self sufficient and import more people but... why? We really won't learn much more there than we can from the ISS agriculture experiments, McMurdo's existing research, how Saudi Arabia and the other rich states grow and survive in extreme environments, and so on.

The reason why is because you will learn a lot more by doing that stuff. The things that are going to doom a first Mars colony attempt isn't necessarily something like "we don't know how to grow plants on Mars" but "we don't know how to build a proper door for the Martian environment" (inspiration for this is taken from https://brr.fyi/posts/doors-of-mcmurdo, which has appeared on HN recently). If your ultimate goal is to build a self-sustaining interplanetary colony, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that maybe we should start by trying to figure out how to build a self-sustaining colony anywhere inhospitable first because it's never been done before, and all previous attempts have failed.
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I’d say this is by design. Exposure, not enjoyment.

There’s a number of classics I read at the time that I didn’t enjoy until adulthood. Reading them early on gave me a framework for understanding them later on in life.
I've only ever used Discord as a discussion forum. I use Google Voice frequently (audio). I've used Teams and Zoom successfully (native Linux installations). Linus Tech Tips is a jack ass channel. I find it overwhelmingly difficult to comprehend anyone having major issues with Ubuntu. I've not run other Linux varieties much since around 2006.
Then where are all the other mRNA vaccines? If it is a tech change rather than a regulatory exception there should be a whole bunch of other vaccines coming out by now, they've had long enough.

COVID appeared in March, they had the vaccine in clinical trials by April. The technical aspects aren't a factor here - the time taken to develop a vaccine is basically instant.
Then we can invest in practical applications instead of spaceflight, which is ancillary.
I’ll take it off your hands if you want it to get some use :p
Quantum mechanics as continuous probability distributions.

It took me about 3 tries in taking QM classes to learn and understand that the whole thing was about continuous probability distributions (at least, the beginner, static stuff). And finally to understand how to understand what continuous probability distributions are, and how to use them.
True, but irrelevant to the point that it's a different basket.
> A marginal mission that didn't do much other than get someone there could probably be done on a pretty short timeline.

Did you read the article? There’s no such thing as a marginal Mars mission.

Short summary: we don’t have a way to keep a crew alive in space for the 21 months that would be required to get to Mars and back.

And there’s nothing in the foreseeable future (the next 10–15 years) that changes that. How do you feed a crew for that long when getting food sent from Earth (like the space station) is not an option.

That’s one of thousands of major issues that need to be solved before even attempting a test of a Mars flight.

It took 10 Apollo test missions before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, a total of about 6 days total for the trip to the moon and back. (Of course every Mercury and Gemini flight was also a test for the moon but I’m trying to keep it simple).

A trip to Mars and back is nearly 1000 days.

It’s not gonna happen anytime soon.
Mostly people arguing about if the technology covered in the article should really be used or not.

I see a lot of positive experiences with Dev Containers on the web, and i was surprised to find a majority agaisn't it in said subreddit.
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I'm actually not British but you're right the Brits can't even fight for their own country they kind of deserve it to become unrecognizable and run by people who think Hitler would have been better running things than Churchill.

Good for you Indians. Keep up the good work of turning Britain into your home literally.
Ship in some dirt, add some mirrors and greenhouses.

Build a port, and have people delivery stuff by boat.

It's not that hard to do
But we... have already mostly done that in Antarctica already. There's not a lot more to learn by moving a few thousand more people to a particularly unpleasant place to live.
in my opinion as a blue collar fly on the wall at this site, we dont "mars" because it. is. hard.

i dont mean math hard or physics or biology i mean human species, everything hard. its interdisciplinary hard on a level that requires transcending class boundaries and race boundaries and if we cant even invite chinese taikonauts to our spacestation then we arent solving the real blockers.

mars is an every human effort.
Biology, a hard science? Well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves now...
My impression is that underground human settlements on another planet would better handle a GRB than the status quo on Earth.
I got to ask Scott Kelly why we should send humans to Mars instead of sending up more robots. His response (paraphrased) was:

1. Humans are explorers by nature

2. Humans can do science 100x faster than robots.

3. People will be inspired by Mars missions to go into STEM and even if they don't end up working for NASA, they will likely do other great things.

4. It gives people jobs

The romantic explorers angle seems practically indefensible for the reasons listed in this article. I like the faster science angle the most in theory, but I didn't realize that contamination would be such a big deal.