skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a fellow white man, currently surrounded by Mexicans in Mexico. The only white here. No problems at all. I’m treated as an individual and treat others the same.

It’s very refreshing. It’s like the USA in my youth. Back in Chicago the racial tensions with blacks is far more. But still not as bad as one would assume. There’s a few that think their purpose in life is to scold you. A lot of that is just culture though, victimhood culture is permeating all racial groups in the US.
It has. You haven't read recent psychology textbooks. The biggest critics of Zimbardo (and Milgram) were and are psychologists. Those ethical issues (which are not the same as epistemologic issues that make things pseudoscience) helped psychology and social science develop immensely. Anyone can double-check the assertions we are both making. What is your deal exactly?
> because I just didn't see anyone like me there

To me, that would be the other way around: a chance to stand out and be one of a kind, act in a way nobody else had acted before, and reap the benefits of being unique, or the first at least.

(Seeing this as exciting or frightening probably depends on your level of sociopathy.)
Man, the downvotes lol. If you disagree just write a reply, happy to be corrected or read others opinion
This is a low quality and nonsense article. ChatGPT-4 doesn't exist, neither does chatGPT3. GPT4 is also not a fine tuned version of GPT3.
> The conditions many children and young adults experience at school at the hands of their peers would be cause for firing in a corporate environment and even legal action in the adult world.

This isn't really relevant though, because kids are a lot more cruel than adults.
if it was clear, unambiguous, and had proper stewardship, there wouldn't be open issues and PRs.
> It's a fairly simple thing to understand about human nature.

Amercian Nature.
> However, it will lead to so many new technologies and capabilities that the spinoffs from this project alone will be worth many times the cost of its implementation."

I would be curious who believes that today we don't have the technological capability to feed, to well beyond basic sustenance, every human on earth today. I include both growth, storage, distribution, and preparation.

I would be curious who thinks insufficient technology is the reason people starve today, and why they think that, despite philosophers arguing since the mid 1800s (with numbers to back it up) that we have the means to ensure none should go hungry.
> if every rude student got expelled, there wouldn't be many left in school

Anecdotally, in my experience, probably about 90% would've been left in school.
Kids are far more cruel than adults everywhere.

I also had a tough time in school, and I grew up in Europe.
Examples 4 and 5 sound like George Clooney for some reason.
a k80 is extremely old by now, so I'd expect this to be maybe an order of magnitude faster.
Not sure what fantasy you’re living in where a terrorist group (aside from perhaps the U.S. government) is “creating the modern world” lmao

I presume whatever fantasy it is might be a fairly common “master race” one
Thank you for explaining clearly and thoroughly what I have been trying to get across in many HN comments here. Putting a Man on Mars promises to be the biggest non-military waste of tax money.

The problem is that it is a very well marketed waste of tax money. It came with its own hollywood movie and a very effective guerilla marketing campaign. When I see those "cool" people wearing NASA shirts in bars, it makes me sick ... it is as if they want to steal money from me.

And I actually thought NASA was pretty cool back when they were doing mostly robotic missions that had a lot of bang for the buck. But back then of course there wasn't a marketing campaign to make NASA cool, nobody was wearing a NASA shirt in a bar, and NASA got constantly criticized even for doing its cost effective robotic missions.

Now that they are on the verge of a really massive boondogle, all of a sudden everyone is a NASA fan.
Counter view

Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/student-suici...

bullying is issue, but children mental health during school closings clearly deteriorated if you look at increase in mental related visits, so I doubt results of this study, there might be temporary increase associated with any change, but long term it's definitely healthier if someone in school is able to monitor kids and take care of their mental health, which is going largely unchecked if schools are locked
Can I ask how many elementary/middle school/high school kids you have worked with?
We will continue to kill each other at a similar rate regardless of the outcome of colonization. At least, unlike “Manifest Destiny”, there are no innocent sentient beings we will be attacking.
> I think that's a pill too bitter to swallow.

And what a fate to impose on your children. You personally may choose the hardest road, but your unborn children would have no choice in the matter, and those future children would be essential to a permanent colony.

Moral dilemma: What if children conceived and born on Mars (if that's even medically viable) decide that Mars totally sucks, and they want to migrate to Earth?

Do we build a wall around Earth and stop them as "illegal aliens"?

Seriously, life on Earth is likely to be much better, much easier than life on Mars, so there's going to be a desire among a significant number of Martians to leave, just as there's a desire among Earthlings to move for a better life. Then what? In order to keep the Mars colony sufficiently "staffed", do you turn it into a totalitarian regime, where nobody can leave? No personal freedom?

How many of us want to sacrifice our lives and our happiness just to be a "backup plan"?

I rarely if ever hear space enthusiasts talk about the morality of a Mars colony. They act like it's just a technological problem, and it's somehow a given that we can put large numbers of humans wherever we want, whether or not the humans themselves would want that.
The article seems to argue that point 2 is strictly false, or a red herring: humans can do the science on earth, while robots collect data in space.

Point 4 seems more a political/economic failure than a valid reason to pour resources into a Mars project.
Nah, none of what you described (encapsulation and separation of concerns) is specific to OOP, you could do that with FP or imperatively with plain structs and functions. It's more like you are starting finally understand how to program in the large.

I'm not completely against OOP, but written code that strictly adheres to this paradigm tends to be more convoluted than necessary.
> E.g. effective altruists credit the B&MGF with basically removing all possible "room for more funding" wrt. vaccinations in low-income countries

This is wrong. idk anyone who believes this
What Is a ‘Launch Window’?
Not only BEC, the recovery rate for ridiculously named authorized push payment fraud fraud (i.e. craigslist car scams) is also very low.

Reg E at least protects consumers from some banking malware, but still does not provide protections for phishing victims (despite new non-binding CFPB guidance)
Well there's a certain anti functional feel to it because your functions are tied to the object rather than being able to process any given object or objects of different types.

Difference between functional style and functional language?
If anyone gets the chance I’d challenge you to visit Biosphere II in Arizona. It has some mixed success and controversy associated with it back in the day, but anyone can visit and take a tour if you want to feel what it would actually be like to live in a domed space colony.

The reason I suggest doing it, is because it might inspire you. When you open the door to the main dome you walk into an overgrown tropical rainforest, complete with waterfalls, insects, exotic plants, and so on. It left me with a feeling that yeah, actually, we could live on other planets and it wouldn’t be half bad.
Even Go gets to add features.
I think as soon as people are moving to Mars, you'd at a minimum at least need some kind of commonly agreed-to standard around land ownership. I.e. maybe each new settlement implicitly owns all the land in a twenty mile radius. If you want to settle closer than that to an existing settlement, that's fine as long you can work out an agreement with the original colony.
It's not primarily a US phenomenon, but I believe it's easy to forget or to ignore for those who were not subjected to bullying.

It seems to me like it's just how humans work when they're not properly socialized and educated (which is expected for children of course) and nobody really polices their behavior effectively.
I mean, if you then use the result of f in a mutating function, the default value will be mutated the next time you call it
Your comment history reveals you're just another Putin apologist. I regret having engaged, cheerleaders for fascists are rarely good conversationalists.
Do you have examples of successful middle-out devtool businesses?
My point is that that's not the choice they're faced with. If they lower the rent for an unit just a bit below market rate for an equivalent unit, shouldn't we expect all of their units to sell? In other words, isn't Z usually negative?
Dump 3 large solar arrays at 120 degrees on the moon. Run a large power cable 11k km around. You have continuous power.
We want to avoid contaminating Mars before we explore it so we can learn more about the origin of life on Earth, and the distribution of life in the universe. It's not like terraforming technology is ready to go and the researchers are holding it back with unreasonable demands. A Mars landing brings your dream of colonization no closer while potentially ruining a scientific dream that is just as valid, and far more achievable.
Show HN: Banger–A Firefox extension to extend DDG's bangs
Hello HN! I made this Firefox extension to extend upon DuckDuckGo's idea of bangs (check https://duckduckgo.com/bangs if you aren't familiar with them) and also allow the use of any search engine with them.

I found DuckDuckGo's bangs fascinating, but was disappointed by how little search engines inherit that feature. And on top of it, DuckDuckGo has the "!" bang that jumps to the first search result but other search engines offering bangs like Brave Search, searx, You.com don't seem to have that. I also thought that the "!" bang could be extended with the ability to jump to the first search result of a specific site, so I added the "!!" bangs in my extension that allow you to do just that (e.g. typing "!!mdn flatMap" will bring up the MDN page for flatMap). I also added a bunch of extra features like the ability to add custom bangs, ability to search in a search engine with the "site:" parameter using "!@r" (r for Reddit), or "!ddg@r" (specify any other bang as the search engine to use), and the ability to chain multiple bangs together with ";" to open them up in different tabs; it also allows you to use multiple "site:" parameters combined with the OR ("|") operator with "," (e.g. "!@r,yt"). Feel free to mix and match! Also, for those who use it, it supports sync. There's also an option to import/export any settings including custom bangs. I've also added custom handling to fix a few bangs which are usually broken such as "!archived" and "!imgops" (They require unescaped URL as part of the path. However, DDG and other search engines always escape the URL. Banger only escapes the URL if it's part of an URL parameter).

I've been working on it for around 2 months now, and I'm pretty satisfied with the result so far. Let me know if you have any comments/feature suggestions/bug reports/anything else!
If my master password is compromised, do I want all my other passwords to be compromised too?! Or have I misunderstood what "deterministic" means?
"non" potential customers who demand apps to be open source likely to just want to feel safe that said apps won't go away. I've seen a lot of opensource SaaS "manage the ecosystem as they want" because of that. Actual customers be like .. I'm done when I get the value I want (don't care anything else e.g. privacy,lock-in doesn't matter)
That still doesn't make sense - as the author writes, such a project would require several miracles to survive the multiple election cycles it would go through. Why do people consider themselves a "we" with their government when said government regularly goes against the polled preferences of its citizens. Clear examples in the USA include the fact that weed is criminalized in its country and a huge swath of its citizens are imprisoned for marijuana crimes despite the nation's citizenry as a whole not wanting this. Another example includes the citizens preference for a guaranteed right to women's healthcare, and the government's failure to enshrine this right, or in some local cases, to actively outlaw women's healthcare.

So when people use "we" and include their government despite not living in democracies, I get confused.
Interview with Eudora founders [video]
Eudora sources were released by the Computer History Museum in 2018
https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/eudora-source-cod...
You’re not alone. I was severely stressed in the K-12 system. Problematic child. When they wanted to put me in the special education class, my parents took me out, dropped the Ritalin and just helped me pass the standardized tests. We used even courses over the internet to help! This was in the late 90s. Suddenly I didn’t have any “autism” anymore, got into college at 14 and I’m now a thriving adult with a family and rich social life. Of course a lot of people seem OK, but for enough of us, it isn’t. I remember how I felt and I -can- envision having commit suicide if I had gone to high school.
One major selling point of C++ over other languages is vast volume of the existing C++ code. If some critical portion of which required major updates to cope with the removed features, that might not be something that everyone is looking forward to.

I am just worried that some proponents of "move fast and break things" might be undervaluing what they are breaking, although C++ committees are are generally good about backward compatibility.
You can tell this was written by a student who doesn't really understand grades or what the problem is.

> You may have gotten a C in Math 55 but your potential employer could see the average grade was a B+.

This never happens. No one cares if you were a C student at Harvard or an A student. All they care about is the degree. With one exception: grad school. Bad grades can shut off doors for more education.

From he point of view of people who give grades:

1. High grades are free, low grades are expensive.

I can mint as many As as I want. No one will ever complain.

Give a student a B or a C? I have had students flip. Their parents can call. They can appeal. Some people just cause endless problems.

2. I don't need people posting hate about me online

When you give students good grades they say great things about you on ratemyprofessor and on surveys. When you give bad grades.. they say bad things. No thanks.

This has even resulted in lecturers losing their jobs.

3. Cheating distorts grades anyway

Can you imagine the disaster when you catch most of a class cheating? In my experience a significant fraction of students cheat. Guess how many hours of your life you will waste if you pursue every clear cheater?

With that in mind, if you grade on a curve and set a low average grade, you're just punishing the honest stuents.

4. Who cares!?

So what if everyone gets an A? What's the point? Given that no employer cares and that your wealth is largely a function of your parent's wealth, why are we wasting so much time on this. Any reasonable effort should merit an A and then we leave people alone. Students who want to excel will go on to do research, side projects, etc. regardless.
>And I've seen firsthand how just getting a _little_ bit wrong with your free vs. premium tiers can result in some significant and unforeseen infra charges.

same question here - would appreciate some war stories here.
PubPeer
To be clear, are you saying that white people are supposed to feel bad for being white because of "bad things" done by white people?
Thanks for this,

I am wondering whether to study a MSc in the field or whether just self-led work will suffice for progress,

I guess I will play with some of these datasets and see what I learn on the way.
Since this is HN, there is a canonical translation of this, something like "Ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything".
The Sierra Nevada watershed

https://www.nature.org/media/california/california_drinking-...

The large greenery to the right is the Colorado River which provides 15% of CA water at the bottom.
Grade inflation is always and everywhere an admission rate problem.

The US college-applying population has grown (a lot). The Harvard class size remains the same. Harvard continues to be a (the?) top tier school. This means that Harvard classes are probably getting better year after year. Even if Harvard is evaluating performance exactly the same (no new cushiness), if the admitted are better, they’ll be getting better grades on average, and those grades will be more compressed.
Well they're both Automatic mobements with a Swiss lever escapement design, but the Rolex is finished better and has better balance adjustment (free-sprung balance). It is also factory adjusted as opposed to the Seiko 5 movement.
Canada as well
> The author must keep in mind that this is real life, not Star Trek with high-minded Prime Directives and some deep philosophical mission.

Speak for yourself. I want the continuation of the human species, I don't want to unnecessarily genocide another untold number of species to make that happen. I similarly don't like when we cause species here on earth to go extinct.
I think space agencies should adopt a Prime Directive.

Do you believe the continuation of the human race requires genocide, here and on mars? That seems very zero-sum, I believe I can argue against this being necessary.
Functional combinators over generators (output) and iterables (input) works well for this type of problems, including ts type safety ie. [0]. We use it in production in many places and works well for years for us.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@mirek/project-euler
This is just economy question - registers are faster than stack, for similar price.

In 80th, transistors on VLSI where expensive, in rad-hardened design where prohibitively expensive, and stack gives possibility to make same Turing completeness as with many registers command.

So some time stack architectures performed well in microcomputers, than their area shrink to narrow-special things, and after many registers become accessible for all, stack architectures become history.
A piece of art.
> You could build an aircraft carrier and lift it into orbit

No you can’t. You still need to spend the same amount of energy per ton to escape earth’s gravity. An elevator does not magically violate laws of physics

Edit: As pointed out below I probably misunderstood the comment I was replying too. My bad
> which are not the same as epistemologic issues that make things pseudoscience

SPE was garbage science and all attempts to replicate the results failed. Your deflection of 'ethical issues' underscores the problem with psychology when you ignore the fact that a hallmark study in the field was rigged by the experimenter to get the results he wanted.

As for textbooks:

> Zimbardo’s 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), one of the most famous studies in psychology, is discussed in most introductory textbooks. The present study is concerned with the nature of this coverage, given that there have been myriad criticisms, especially recently, of the SPE. These criticisms concern both Zimbardo’s situationist explanation of the outcome and the study’s methodology, such as the presence of strong demand characteristics. Thirteen contemporary introductory textbooks were analyzed for their coverage of the SPE and the ensuing criticisms of it. Eleven of these texts discussed the SPE, but only six even mentioned any of the criticisms. Possible explanations for such coverage and a plan to incorporate more accurate coverage within the discussion of research methods are offered.

> ...

> Of the 11 texts, 5 did not include any criticism of the SPE, and the other 6 provided very minimal discussions of such criticism. One text included a sentence questioning the ecological validity of the SPE results but did not provide a reference. Three texts briefly discussed ethical questions created by the SPE, such as the question of whether the ethical costs of the SPE outweighed its scientific gains but did not provide references. One of these texts also stated that many researchers have challenged the legitimacy of the SPE, which would seem to be referring to the recent criticisms of the SPE, but no references were provided.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0098628314537968
FP feels neat, but good luck debugging it.
Yes?

It was on the softer side in Auguste Compte’s original 19th century definition, but things have moved on quite a bit since then. Platt’s famous article on “Strong Inference” explicitly calls out molecular biology as a success—-and does so ahead of physics! Storer calls biochemistry a hard science and botany a “medium hard” one.

The whole idea of a single, uni-dimensional spectrum of “hardness” is pretty silly, but even within it, the natural sciences (especially in the lab) are pretty unambiguously “hard”.
What we have on Antarctica is an outpost, not a colony. It's made up of habitats, not homes. It has virtually no local industry, and cannot support itself. The only way it could endure for longer than its food reserves is by fishing, which is obviously not an option on Mars.

We haven't even solved the easy case where water and oxygen are available in unlimited quantities, let alone the much harder scenario of space or another planet.
The database with the most coverage to my knowledge is Crossref but I'm not sure if a retraction would be associated with the original doi.
Are there good records of opinions on 1400s Europeans thoughts on sea exploration or colonial Americans thoughts on exploring the West? Curious to see if these sorts of risk averse, "practical" arguments are mirrored in those times.
I'm no expert but I don't think there's a shortage of experiments that people want to run on mars and the other solar system bodies, especially with sample return capabilities.

We've been launching things into low earth orbit for ~60 years and orbital launch demand still seems to outnumber supply. If we could get our martian surface payload capacity to even 1% of our LEO payload capacity I'm sure there would be many organizations that would want to send something.
Legacy grows at least as linear tho.
Yes, the general applicability of these concepts is exactly why they should be emphasized when teaching OOP rather than wasting time on uselessly contrived examples of inheritance.

However, I'm not really sure why your comment is framed as a counterpoint to mine. I explained what it took for me to grok OOP, but I never said OOP alone provides composition and dynamic dispatch. It seems needlessly antagonistic to make this some kind of programming paradigm pissing contest when that has nothing to do with anything I said.
Tesla Doubles Discounts on Model 3 and Model Y Vehicles
This whole thread I responded to was about CA self-sufficiency and I was specifically arguing that CA can be quite self-sufficient.

> California would immediately become a failed state on its own, unable to meet even the most basic needs of its residents

Of course CA independence would be economically harmful and disruptive. Doesn't mean CA won't be able to provide its own water by taking an ag trade economic hit.
The term "too big to fail" refers to businesses, not entire industries.

Every industry is too big to fail.

Honestly, other than entertainment, I can't think of any situation where the government would allow an entire industry to fail.