skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't tried it, but the k80 is about 6 years old/5 generations. there have been massive leaps since then.
I do because I went to school and interacted with other students. Yeah, kids run into tough stuff growing up, but that's life. To say school = stress for most needs backing up.
I think that enough of us humans want to go to mars that it’ll happen regardless of what congress or bloggers have to say about it. Some of those who want to go there create arguments to justify it (exploration! science! profit! new technology! extinction if life on earth!), but I view these as post hoc rationalizations.

So yeah the best “why mars” argument is maybe just that someone will do it for the lulz.

Even if congress or musk don’t get around to it, someone eventually will.
What would people do there in their airships? It seems kind of anti-climatic to settle a planet without ever actually being able to descend to the surface.
I'm not sure the 2005 study tells us much. Our question is which strategy works best for reducing discrimination. To answer that, we'd want to measure the level of discrimination over time to estimate the trend.

Imagine we found an identical study from 1995 that showed that white people received 100% more callbacks at that time, and a study from 1985 that found that white people received 200% more callbacks at that time. And then imagine that when subgroup analysis was done on the 2005 study, it was determined that most of the effect was from older hiring managers who were about to age out of the population. In this hypothetical, the study would strongly validate the strategy being used in the 90s and the 00s.

>This idea that we can have equal opportunity by deliberately avoiding intervention is a proven fallacy.

I didn't claim that. I just want interventions that don't backfire.

For example, how about removing the name from the resume?

With modern technology, it would be easy to conduct interviews remotely over screenshare with a voice changer.

80/20 rule, 20% of the discrimination probably causes 80% of the harm. As you imply, hiring discrimination is one of the most harmful types of discrimination. So anonymized interviews could put a serious dent in racial inequality. As the technology matured, we could hit firms which didn't anonymize interviewees with a punitive tax.

Would certainly be an interesting study, at least. Run it every few years to measure the trend in discrimination, as discussed previously.

>The increase in political tension our culture has seen in the past decade plus is vastly more complex than the most visible catalyst of any given moment.

If political tension is a complex phenomenon, isn't it possible that racial discrimination is also a complex phenomenon, which won't be solved effectively using the social equivalent of a sledgehammer?

>Blaming social progress for the increasing resistance to social progress doesn't make sense.

Imagine a cop responded to criticism by saying: "Blaming crime fighting for the increasing resistance to crime fighting doesn't make sense." Would you find that persuasive?

It's possible to "solve" a problem in a way that superficially looks like progress, but actually makes the underlying issue worse. And if you can find a way to get paid money to do that, you'll never be out of a job. (Trump may not be good for America, but he's good for CBS. NY Times subscriptions exploded in the wake of Trump's election, IIRC.)

>You could just as easily blame fascism or any other activist end of a political blob.

I do in fact blame fascism. Historically speaking, it seems fairly normal for right-wing extremism and left-wing extremism to arise at the same time in the same society. The left-wing extremism is strengthened by the right-wing extremism, and vice versa.
The comment you're responding to is suggesting a space elevator on the moon, so you only need enough energy to escape the moon's gravity.
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/n...
This fits my personal experience. I don’t think I have ever slipped in snow when using snow tires. In fact, I have seen big all-wheel drives slip and slide in all season tires while my small front-wheel drive maneuvered just fine in snow tires. Driving in ice, on the other hand, feels just about as slick with or without snow tires.
Caveat: this is totally pub talk level speculation, read at your own risk.

There's a bunch of stories about how pissed the users of farm equipment are with everything being controlled by computers that are totally locked down to the manufacturer. They're the kind of "easy agreement" story that flourishes. I don't doubt that they're true.

What I suspect is that this segment of the market is too small and too conservative to support a new manufacturer. The end result being not enough sales.

If you're buying a product that lasts 30+ years, and there's relatively little follow-on revenue after the initial purchase, then the market needs to be pretty big to support a manufacturer. And if you're new to the game, who's going to trust you for a 30+ year product life, when you've got no track record?

I'd love to see someone try though: you could try to promote the openness of the system as a counter to the "untrusted manufacturer", I suppose.

Meanwhile, "big Ag" is perfectly fine with an equipment-as-a-service model, since it gets capital costs off their balance sheets, and manufacturers are happy to play along, because they can get a much simpler and more consistent revenue model?
What is the recommended way under Linux then? It seemed like everyone was going full steam ahead with adding devices under /dev and /proc with control via read/write/ioctl. ioctl in my experience has been the best way to add a clean, modular interface to kernel modules since you don't need to hack in syscalls or do terrible, custom shared memory communication.
Sounds like a good enough reason to mandate quotas for everything everywhere. Anything else on your wish list?
Has been the case for the past half decade, too.

MSVC's stdlib has been open-sourced, and MSVC is used by plenty of companies writing games, native Windows software, etc.
I'm curious if any of the mk1 or mk2 actors/models went on to bigger work in their careers. It would be hard to top revealing to your young adult grandchildern you were Jax in Mortal Kombat.
Studded bicycle tyres work great on wet leaves too.
Because learning how to do it in the inhospitable environment of Mars will teach us lots about how to do it better on Earth.

> We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
Why would you use Shamirs when the Bitcoin protocol has a superior mechanism built in?

SSS is a good solution for other key material, and for storing a paper key to be used for recovery purposes, but it's completely inferior to multisig for normal management of a shared and/or large Bitcoin wallet.
SpaceX got contracts to launch a couple of GPS satellites for ~$80 and ~$90 million, compatible ULA launches were in the military budget for ~$420 million.

It’s not like buying a bus ticket so pricing is complex and difficult to compare but spacex is all around dramatically cheaper than the competition.
Tell that to everyone in El Salvador and everyone exposed passively through the silliness of Elon and Jack, or OTPP or CDPQ. It's strictly false to say nobody is forced to use it - they are. Almost 7M of them in El Salvador. Their legal tender law isn't like the US, acceptance is compulsory and non-acceptance is punishable by prison.

But even if that weren't true, that doesn't mean its a good idea to use it or advocate for it or pretend it doesn't have these glaring flaws as folks march onward toward the abyss and take down the normies with them.

It's everyone's responsibility to call out bad ideas that harm us all. Especially when as soon as anything goes wrong, the afflicted yell "HELP! POLICE!!" just like our tweeter down-thread. That's a draw on public resources which puts this discourse squarely in the public interest. Not to mention spending like 0.6% of the world's electricity on coal-powered lotto ticket scratcher machines undergirding the whole charade.

The worst part is when things start to go wrong all the talking heads jump in and start saying "nobody could have seen this coming!!" and "crypto deserves better critics!!" It has fantastic critics - you just have to listen. Critics aren't supposed to say things you want to hear.
Unfortunately I don't think that can be done natively (like defining a function before using it in a query via the CLI). Only by writing and compiling some C
Why do you think Alex Honnold free climbed El Cap? Why do people pay money to go skiing, sky diving, or scuba diving?
I don't think they're saying they disliked reading totally, but that they disliked books they were forced to read. Although, if that happened to be every single book in the syllabus, then sure, someone might mistakenly think they don't actually like reading.

Ultimately, sacrifices get made to try and get mass education working; the current system is barely scalable, so anything even more personalized is pretty much out of the question.
It's doubly amusing since the conditions the Donner Party died in were like Hawaii compared to Mars.
The study uses large, national statistics, and shows a clear pattern on a national level.

The article you linked is just for a single school district, which may have unique circumstances. It could also be statistical chance, given the small sample size and single year referenced.
In my purely speculative mind it's because that's the number of eyes that is in harmony with the rest of the genes.
No, those things are totally orthogonal and people just mix it up because OOP came with mutations.

Bundling data and functions has pros and cons but has nothing to do with functional programming it.

Also, there isn't really a good definition for either functional style or functional language. If anything, there is a good definition for pure functional programming, but that's another beast alltogether and still is orthogonal to bundling data and functions.
I didn't even disagree with anything, just asked a question! I'm not anti functional or anti imperative, they're both fine.

My point was I don't think it's functional to chain method calls in JavaScript. Maybe it is, although I think you'd very easily run into an unintentional issue, i.e. call .sort() on the array which mutates it.
This doesn't help at all, it's still a single point of failure without recourse. You might be subjected to rubber hose cryptography or any of the systems you use might be hacked and your password extracted.
I think the premise of this article is flawed — aside from the (imo very valid) “who cares!” argument with regards to grades not actually mattering for really anything anymore except when it comes to some grad programs, the implicit assumption of this analysis is that the grade system will exist in its current form in the future.

I think it’s more likely Harvard does away with the traditional letter system altogether. Aside from the fact Harvard operated just fine without it for the first 2-3 centuries it operated, let’s take a step back and try to remember what the grades were to track in the first place: students’ absorption of the material (i.e. “learning”). This type of grade system is better for measuring things that have right/wrong answers— math, memorization of dates, anything mechanical, etc. Yet with calculators and the internet making things like historical timelines and formulas etc accessible even to payment, graders’ job of even grading these “objective” becomes more subjective— if you arrive to the wrong math question, but did all the right high level steps and made a small but cascading error in the beginning, I’d posit that student likely knows the material well and would avoid that error were it pointed out. But from a grading perspective, what is that? 7/10? Same situation to a history student laying out the historical context leading up to some event and mixing up some dates. Things get even more muddled when it comes to humanities.

In fact, off the top of my head, Pomona College and Brown University, both well-regarded schools within academia (and Pomona with I believe the highest undergrad acceptance rate into Harvard grad programs), have the option for every class to be taken as Pass/Fail, except when it comes to later-stage major requirements. Graduation accolades are awarded by professor recommendation, which fosters getting to know your professors out of the classroom better than grades. Anything that needs to be GPA-gated could instead be (likely better) gated by a placement test.

Knowledge is not a 0 sum game. Maybe instead of trying to adapt our current education circumstances to to an old grading system, it’s time to think of a new system altogether.
I guess i see children having to deal with choices their parents made a part of life.

Would the offer of a trip back to earth for any child born on mars go any way to overcoming your concerns?
Unfortunately, "the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain" does not lift a thousand ton of people and equipment to an interplanetary orbit. Money does. Well... money might do, we don't know for sure, because it's not tried before at the required scale.

Few will have an issue with a modern "Donner Party," who would buy interplanetary rockets out of their money, hop on them, never to be heard again. (Well, to be fair, if the party contains kids, people would object - consider that a sign of the society's progress since Donner's days.)

What people argue against is those quasi-Donners who demand that Washington DC fund their rockets.
Thanks. Well, textbooks last copyrighted a decade ago, right as the reckoning in experimental psychology around the replication crisis was taking off. I suspect they may look different now.
I imagine that's a question that interesting food-tech startups might try to answer?
For plays, performance is an important part of what they are, so a theater program is also good.

The issue is that performance arts, or the arts in general, usually are the first on the chopping block at schools that are either facing budgetary pressures or need to improve standardized test scores.
If exam grades follow some absolute standard, then throwing better students at them would result at more As, up tp only A grades for an entire class. This is without any grade inflation: the absolute level of knowledge to get an A stays the same, but the absolute level of knowledge demonstrated by students goes up.

To the contrary, to have any B or C grades in a class full of the brightest students, one needs to either increase the absolute expected level, or to give the class grades relative to its strength, which again means raising the expected level for an A.

Exam questions from Harvard can be easily tracked 100+ years back. A researcher who'd give current Harvard graduates some of the older questions could find out if the toughness of the exams went up, down, or stayed.
Yeah this has generally been my experience with f#.

On top of all that runtime errors are way less common because the compiler catches so much more
> it has enough gravity where the human body might be able to adapt without crippling bone and muscle loss.

I love the "might" qualifier.

Let's not forget the heart and circulatory problems too.
>The difficult and unglamorous problems of a Mars mission—how do you wash your socks? What is there to eat?

How do you breathe? Elon was talking about Starship having a crew capacity of 100 yet there doesn't seem to be any mention of how they would scrub the air of all that CO2. I've heard estimates that with existing solutions Starship might only be able to support 10 colonists per trip.
> You missed one more social aspect: give too many students an F in a course (for example, for cheating), and the instructors in the following year will let you know what they think.

Give too many Fs and the administration is going to be breathing down your neck. They've got graduation rate targets to hit, not gonna happen if you fail too many people.
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I am working on a virtual computer for kids and retro loving adults. I wanted to simulate block storage using Local Storage as the backing store because I felt that blocks were very understandable. I've had block storage working for many years, but when I went to build a filesystem atop it, my design was uninspired and my implementation was buggy.

When I found FatFs, I realized I had a perfect fit: a realish filesystem with an API that I could map right onto system calls, and FAT32 - a klunky old jalopy that will need defragmenters and other disk tools to maintain it. It'll make for an altogether more interesting ecosystem and a gentle challenge for the user to maintain.

Also, there are many areas of my javascript that are primed for conversion to C -> WASM, like sprite collision detection. JavaScript optimizers have done ok with my code, but I'd like my compy to run fast on mobile too. If I am successful with FatFs, I will have a convenient spot in my codebase for converting my busy number-intensive routines into WASM.
Sort of.

1. I want to start with working through applying shaders to a 3d scene using the Panda3d library (https://github.com/panda3d/panda3d) . This repo covers that: https://github.com/lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners.

2. Create a simple, custom, graphics-only (no collisions / physics) game engine using Entt (https://github.com/skypjack/entt) and Panda3d. The engine would rely mostly on simple inputs, like mouse clicks, and 3d graphics.

3. Configure clangd to error on features outside C++11 then refactor both projects (1 & 2) to use C++ 11.

4. Run experiments on the game engine while working through the Vulkan book: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Overv/VulkanTutorial/maste...
FP hides the individual elements behind neat functions. If you are investigating to find a single outlier that broke your program, you need to examine the data points one by one.
> Contamination risk is a real showstopper for Mars, one of those problems that gets worse the more carefully you look at it.

Not just Mars but anywhere humans choose to go to. Since

a) discovery of extremophiles;
b) humans themselves are a living (and flourishing) bioweapon (from an extraterristrial world's perspective)

– we have to accept a simple fact that full decontamination or sanitation is not possible, at least not at the current level of the technological progress of our civilisation.

There will be microorganisms that will survive UV, α-, β-, γ- and X-rays albeit in reduced numbers. A single toilet flush in certain cirumstances can be a biological catastrophe even here on Earth today, and a single bowel movement might yield a unmitigated disaster in extraterrestrial worlds that could wipe alien biomes or civilisations out. And select extremophiles will absolutely take advantage of a new environment, adapt and evolve. What the extremophiles will evolve into and that might entail for an extreterrial world as well as ramifications for humans are the biggest unknowns.

Then, at the extreme end we have prions here on Earth that we do not understand, can't neutralise, can't decontaminate prion infected surfaces and tools, and – more generally – can't contain the prions in any way other than hurling them into a nearby star (not practically possible today). What the prions will be able to do in a unknown environment is a very uneasy thought at the very least.

So the actual question is: what is the solution? Should we stop the space exploration out of fears of infecting other worlds with terrestrial microbiomes, sit around and do nothing? We won't even be able to visit asteroids in our own solar system if we do not find a way to allay our own fears.

Or, should we keep the humans on Earth, send out robotic missions instead and deprive the humans of fun of exploring new worlds and satisfying our own curiosity? We are curious creatures.

We need a solution.
Of course i could be wrong but you seem to contradict yourself in your first reply (You claimed new landlord policies were paramount, then that you were talking about primary residence ownership where landlordship wouldnt apply?).

You then said primary home ownership is a ponzi scheme which I gave an example as to why that seems untrue. I might be wrong here but providing a counter argument supporting why renting should be preferential to home ownership financially would be helpful as that seems superficially untrue.
>If any fugitives from the spacecraft make their way to a survivable niche on Mars, we may never be able to tell whether biotic signatures later found the planet are traces of native life, or were left by escapees from our first Martian outhouse.

Even if life on Mars miraculously stumbled upon the same four (five) nucleobases, the same twenty (-two) amino acids, glucose, glycerol esters, and (deoxy)ribose, it would still seem pretty unlikely that it chooses the same three-base sequences corresponding to the same amino acids in RNA translation. But maybe we're still holding out hope for panspermia? And adaptable though our microbes are on megayear time-scales, we're also talking about the same cells that mostly can't survive intentional cultivation, as the author himself notes, so outcompeting the life native to Mars would be a real feat — merely surviving cold and dryness through dormancy is a well-known microbial swindle. I suppose it isn't impossible, but I have yet to hear a good argument that it's feasible.

But overall I agree, Mars has nothing. It's not even very big: the surface of Mars is roughly the size of the Pacific Ocean, well below doubling what we started with. Meanwhile, the asteroids are full of palladium.
To add to this—I’d say that watches are quasi-temperature-controlled. You wear the watch in varying conditions, but most people spend most of their time in controlled environments, and the watch is directly next to your body, which itself is temperature-regulated. This just means that temperature drift may be less of a factor for watches than it might be for, say, a clock on the wall or in a car.

Assuming you wear the watch.
Worst time of my life. Thankfully my kids are not like me, but I do carefully watch for signs of trouble.
There are other records that are also ridiculous, though a lot less - check this list.

http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/w...
Coinbase unironically suggests using PKI to protect oneself. It’s unbelievable self-satire.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/celer-bridge-incident-analysis
Same though I’d say that the group who optimized for grades over challenging themselves in high school didn’t fare so well. Same in college actually. I don’t have much law school data but it seems like the folks afraid of competition when they’re young don’t grow into it when they get older.
How does establishing a colony on Antartica help the survival of humans upon reset-level astroid impact/super vulcano/other?
Definitely! The Byzantine and Parthian empires had just fought a long war, and were very weak. That left the near East easy pickings for the Muslim invaders coming up from the Hejaz.
It makes a difference in someone moving away the second they get trained on some new skill.

It makes a difference at some place which might require late hours, weekends, or on call.

It also makes a difference for companies that want to absolutely abuse their employees.
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According to the linked thread, the Seiko 5 is an order of magnitude worse… 5 seconds per day, versus 15 seconds per month for a quartz watch.