skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article points out, that's not even in the top 100 things.

Having a self-sustaining living space is by far the biggest problem (one where all of the waste we produce can be reused to create new drinkable water, air and food, and to reliably continue to do so between Mars launch windows).

The second biggest is probably avoiding contamination of Mars, if we actually care about exploring one of the biggest mysteries of life - has it arisen only on Earth? Are there other modes of life possible, and what do they look like?

The third biggest challenge is human psychology and physiology - could we actually get a group of ~100 people or however many we need initially to live and be productive for the years-long space mission (including travel time to and from)? What do we do when at least one of them inevitably gets sick on Mars?

Each of these problems is fractally more complex than I make it out to be, and none of them would be fixable if rockets were very cheap. And these are just problems for a limited time Martian outpost, similar to a trip to the ISS. Thinking about an actual colony with some prospect of perpetual habitation being in orders of magnitude more issues, some of which may not even be solvable without biologically altering humans to make a new Mars-adapted species of hominid.
I used to be a proponent of anonymous money transfers. Then I read a few books about the extent of money laundering of criminal organisations, largest of them Putin's Russia, and how difficult and dangerous it is to investigate those crimes.

Now I think the priority should be maximum transparency. The job of solving a money laundering scheme should be as simple as a single search query, or a GPT bot question. BTC could be a part of this solution, since its ledger is open.

This is not a perfect solution, but the amount of power these criminals distill from money laundering is far too great.
LV is a weird, violent place. The schools are designed from prison architecture. The culture is a bunch of people who wanted to move somewhere so far from where they left they’d never be visited. (See the Anthony Bourdain episode as he did it justice.) People routinely move there then leave with a turnover rate of around 7 years. The heat and ultra dry conditions are their own form of violence, too. Pretty sure it consistently ranks low on education scores.

Suffice it to say, not a place to raise kids nor use as an example of choices made for their best interests.
Why do you want to be outside the schengen?
There's nothing we can do to "fix" the risk of an unknown/unidentified space object hitting Earth at high speed and ending human civilization other than establishing self sufficient human cities on other objects.
Quoting the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, "States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies."
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For synthesizing new ideas maybe it takes that long. But if you hold any serious views that you expect to have challenged by others (relating to politics or otherwise), you should have clear rules for why you believe those things and exactly what evidence it would take to cause you to change your mind. Then, you can change your beliefs the exact moment that new information is provided to you.

I try to start all of my conversations about politics or sensitive issues with the question "What would you have to be shown, or what evidence would it take for you to change your position on X?". If the person doesn't have a good answer to that, then they are usually either an ideologue or have not actually seriously thought about the issue in any depth, and it's probably going to be fruitless to try and have a conversation about that subject.

I abide by this rule and can change my views at the drop of a hat when presented with new evidence.
For anyone who wants to see the answer without looking at the, uhh, medical images, here's a quote:

"Pluripotent stem cells including human induced pluripotent stem cells have a unique property of being able to generate teratomas when injected in rodents in the research laboratory.[62] For this reason, the so-called "teratoma assay" is one of the gold-standard validation assays for pluripotent stem cells.[63] Because differentiated human pluripotent stem cells are being developed as the basis for numerous regenerative medicine therapies, there is concern that residual undifferentiated stem cells could lead to teratoma formation in injected patients, and researchers are working to develop methods to address this concern.[64]"
In Germany, raw pork is consumed. As a non-German, this was an extremely surprising thing to learn as in the Anglosphere it seems that consumption of raw pork is possibly a stronger taboo than consumption of dog or horse meat. I spoke to a German doctor about the issue who explained that all pigs are inspected for parasites at slaughter and it’s relatively rare - but not totally absent - for consumers to get a tapeworm.
> To folks who are saying this isn't enough or that we need to put executives in jail: you are all thinking from a systems/framer perspective and not from how the law actually works

And I think they're talking about how the law should work. Obviously currently it doesn't work well enough as a deterrent, and is more of a "costs of doing business". Thankfully laws are mutable and can be updated to be more appropriate.
In Germany, "Tartar" is without egg or veggies, but more spices. Common, just like "Mett" which is raw ground pork with onions, salt and pepper.
Well, bitcoin is not the only type of secret one needs to protect. GPG keys, other cryptoassets, password manager master encryption keys, etc etc.

I like to have one solution that can work for my entire cryptographic life.
I guess learning to live together in a society and putting yourself at risk of other's judgement is more stressful than the comfort of your house where everything you need is provided for by hardworking parents... But that's a very necessary step towards growing up.
I rather enjoyed wading through antiquated language in an attempt to understand. Honestly I don't recall if the prose in To Kill a Mockingbird was difficult to grasp and I suspect it wasn't but there were so many other books that we were "forced" to read that really were an enjoyable challenge. Shakespeare for instance.
On B) yes, of course. Aaagh, all these algorithms and their indistinguishable names!
I hope their desktop app is better now, last time i took a look, the whole vault is decrypted in memory and even when it timed out and request user for password, I was still able to inspect memory and retrieve the plaintext passwords
I don't think that is backed up by data. If you switch from regular summer tyres to good winter tyres, the braking distance on ice from 40 km/h decreases from 105 metres to 52 metres (or 65 metres on shittier European winter tyres). Switching to studded tyres would then decrease it to 33 metres.

https://www.rengas24.com/images/breaking-distance/breaking-d...
I am pretty sure Project Japan has very little to do with it. Ultimately Salmon Sashimi took off in the East Asia region as well as the Sushi world outside of Japan. And Japan being Japan, took their time to evaluate it due to culture issues.
If a “method” returns a value, is it really a method? Does it mutate “this”? What does it mean to be an object, if you’re not being changed at all?
Do you also not care if the interviewed didn't go to any school at all/didn't finish?
Light provides predictive power to an organism. That is, light can provide information about action at a distance, of relevance to the future, if there is a brain to process it.

Neurons connect and disconnect via hebbian and anti-hebbian processes in response to the stimulus, so in a way the impact of light energy is structured within a biological substrate.
Similarly raw chicken is consumed in Japan. [1]

The pork thing is also a bit of momentum. It was problematic to eat raw pork in the US before 1980 when Congress passed the Swine Health Protection Act. This prohibited feeding swine with trichinella-contaminated food, which was the parasite most likely to get you sick. [2] The risk these days is almost negligible and we're seeing restaurants starting to serve pork cooked pink in the middle. [3]

[1] https://matadornetwork.com/read/raw-chicken-sashimi-tokyo/

[2] https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/anima...

[3] https://www.seriouseats.com/case-for-raw-rare-pink-pork-food...
ChatGPT is so crazy it even works in fluent Thai. That's better than any machine translation I've ever tried so far. It even takes cultural differences into account. For example when you ask it to translate "I love you" into Thai, it mentions, that normally you would not say this in the same circumstances as you would say it to your lover in the West, correctly explaining in what circumstances people would really use it, and what to use instead. That's revolutionary for minority languages without a lot of learning material available online.

Also I am a native Swiss German speaker. For those who don't know: Swiss German is a dialect continuum, very very different from standard German to an extend, that most untrained German speakers don't understand us. There is no orthography (writing rules), no grammar rules etc. It's a mostly undocumented/unofficial writing system. Only spoken, and the varieties are vast. And guess what, I can write in completely random, informal Swiss German dialect and ChatGPT understands everything, but answers in standard German.
> Hm, I wouldn't be so categorical.

The Lycee -> Grande Ecole track in France isn't comparable (smaller, specialized, local.)

0. US business/law schools are singular, professional degrees with way more variety in the applicant funnel.

1. Program rankings/prestige are "everything"

2. Rankings are heavily weighted on quantitative acceptance/matriculation profiles by GPA and entrance exams (GMAT/GRE/LSAT).

3. As a result, GPA handicapping (for difficulty) doesn't really happen for top MBA/JD programs.
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Julia has the convention that mutating functions have names that end with a bang, e.g.

sort(x)

returns the sorted object, but

sort!(x)

returns a "nothing" and mutates the object in place.
> it can only be dealt with when that student is willing to share what is wrong

And "dealing with it" can make the students situation worse in some cases
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macOS or Linux, it doesn't matter - all hyperscale datacenter operators are going to move as much as possible to the highest perf/watt platform (ie ARM). Apple is a hyperscale datacenter owner and operator, if only for iCloud.

AWS is already doing so with Graviton.

It has nothing to do with macOS.

Graviton CPUs are not for sale. If Apple wants a million ARM cores to run iCloud, they are going to have to get TSMC to fab them.
1. I plan my drinking sessions so that I give my body enough rest few nights before.

2. Mix alcohol only with water. No carbonated water, no soda/pop.

3. Drink slowly and make sure to pee.

4. Portion control i.e., 2 or 3 maximum.

5. Only one alcohol family per session.

6. In case I get that inevitable hangover, I do a few things, sometimes all together, eat good breakfast, drink lime water or buttermilk and extended sleep.
I'm more interested in known quantities than unknown ones. Besides, I'm not the one going to Mars, nor are any of the people who I think deserve to have their lives improved.
Which is the question I have been asking since 2015. From a cost prospective it never made any sense. Presumably they will wait until Mac Studio becoming powerful enough to fill the gap.

To me the only reason they still make products like the Mac Pro is for brand reputation and face-saving. It’s like when a big auto maker sponsors a formula 1 racing team. There’s no profit in formula 1 (for the auto makers). It’s just a giant money pit!
i don't care about idealistic concepts
It's not from tiktok influence as much as Blind. In most companies you won't get a raise just for asking for it, even if you are underpaid. The almost unanimous advice is to interview, get an offer so you have leverage, and then ask for a raise or just take it and leave.

But that's not always practical, so it's simpler to just reduce your output to just enough that you don't get fired. Yes it hurts the team but it's the best outcome for the quiet quitter
What could possibly make Earth as uninhabitable as Mars, without destroying Mars as well? And why not invest in technology that could keep people alive on Earth in Martian-style conditions (without all the extra problems of logistics and low gravity)?

Let's first create a self-sustaining vault that can house a million people for indefinite amounts of time on Earth, and then let's revisit sending humans to Mars with all the new technology we developed doing so.

In the meantime, let's actually spend space program resources on actual useful exploration, such as finding out if there is life on Mars or on other liquid-water worlds in the Solar System (such as Europa). Confirming or denying this would be a much much much bigger boon to scientific understanding than getting an ISS-style outpost to last a few years on Mars, and it would also be far cheaper.
That’s aside from the point. They could accomplish that by simply killing off the Mac Pro line.

The question is how they will pay for a high-end chip when they no longer can rely on Intel to spread out the development cost among many customers.
> I had a semester where I failed almost every class due to a life event

Sadly, that's exactly what the universities here (not US) seem to measure: your ability to cope with an unmanageable mess called life. They overload you with schoolwork and those who are either gifted enough or able to cope with it will graduate.
I understand the argument you’re putting forth, I just view it as the equivalent of the argument made by the Nihilist Germans in The Big Lebowski. It ends in will to power.

Within the constraints of the materialistic assumptions underlying it, I do agree that the ideals of compassion and empathy are examples of best-case behavior but the humans who rise to the top in such systems are usually not encumbered with the capacity for either. They would push back on the constraints of such “objective ideals” anyway because they see no coherent place for them in will to power systems.
If we ever get to the point where thousands of people are moving to Mars, thousands will also be moving to the Moon, and vice versa. I don't see it as being just one or the other because the problems that need to be solved are approximately the same, and the cost of shuttling people and supplies is far from the hardest.
From the article:

«Texas gained an astounding 471,000 people last year and Florida gained 417,000, while California lost 114,000. […] Those Census net-domestic-migration numbers show that 343,000 Californians left for other states.»

Reasons stated in the article:

- Endless regulations

- Punitive tax rates

- Untouchable public-sector unions that are ransacking budgets and opposing reforms

- Shoddy school systems

- Decrepit (but pricey) public services

- Traffic congestion

- Absurd housing prices

- Growing crime rates

- Failing efforts to provide basic infrastructure

- Sprawling homelessness crisis

- Lack of political competition

- Problems are met by raising taxes and creating new agencies

- Old agencies are not held accountable

- Environmental policies
Any of those leaves Earth thousands of times more habitable than Mars. They even leave Antarctica and the sea floor thousands of times more habitable than Mars.
I was writing a comment very similar, I tried it and hated it, I thought running was the worst thing ever and just could not enjoy it even though I was most of the way through the program.

What I do now is go cycling/spinning for 30 mins at the gym with an audiobook, it feels like the same proper cardio, but everything else is different, I'm not outside, I don't have to watch out for anything, it's warm, by bones don't feel like they're all getting shaken about.
I think it's easy to imagine how something like a meteor or nuclear war could end our civilization without killing all humans on earth. A new civilization would almost certainly arise, and it could be better or worse, but it would probably be very alien to us. At least as alien as Ancient Rome. A settlement on Mars could conceivably preserve our cultures and current civilization in the face of such an event.
Czur should do the job. https://czur.com/
By the time Earth becomes this uninhabitable, we don't have the resources anymore for a Mars shot, much less a full-scale evacuation or, dare I say, colonization. And Earth would have to turn into a Venus-like hellscape to truly become uninhabitable. Even an iceball Earth is ten times as hospitable to life than Mars.
Have a look at this. Joey built a whole swathe of sensors to plug in to a f-91W like circuit.
https://hackaday.com/2022/02/24/remoticon-2021-joey-castillo...
I really don't buy this argument though. It you want a colony that can survive almost any planetary-scale catastrophe, build a colony at the bottom of the ocean. Kilometres of water will shield you from literally any amount of radiation, the surface of the earth could be a scorched wasteland and you'd be fine. And you'd have access to ocean floor resources as well as limitless resources still on the surface, even if you need to use robots to get them.

And yes I mean sure - colonizing another planet is the ultimate backup plan. But like this article(and many others) have said, it feels like jumping the shark - we can barely keep people alive for a prelonged period of time on a space station, and we are jumping straight to mars outpost from there? Why not make a self-sufficient base on the moon first, where literally everyone on earth would be able to see it almost with a naked eye and it would inspire countless generations of people to pursue science?
The name OpenMVS is all kinds of confusing for people interested in retrocomputing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS
How about yes?
(I didn't mean a function that measures time passing, I just meant the time that a computation takes.) Regarding my question which you answered, this means there is no such thing as a pure function then, since any function has the "side effect" of making time pass that wouldn't have if you hadn't called it.
That seems pretty bad, yeah.
I care about humanity. I care about myself! You're welcome to sterilize yourself, but i don't think I'll follow.

The scenario you describe doesn't involve pain, but that doesn't mean it isn't bad. An empty, dead universe seems worse to me than one teeming with thought.
(Note: this was a mistyping of 381/1250)
You are literally asking why we don't say what is literally true and instead we say something that elicits an image by comparison.

That's the answer. Because they choose to use a metaphor instead of speaking literally.
Which countries are those? There are a few screening and preventative care services which have proven valuable, and are covered in the US at no cost to the patient. But regular check-ups are pointless for most of us.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
Don't get me wrong here, I used (and still use) Windows for decades. All my Video stuff, all my Audio stuff is just not there yet on Linux.

I think Linux Desktop can be great for experts and beginners with simple needs. The inbetweeners are where it can fall short. With the added malus that the network effect favours the big operating systems.

When it comes to audio and video it is weird for me because at the same time there are some bread and butter plugins that I just won't get on Linux, on the other hand the customizability is off the charts. You want to automatically load a certain configuration when a certain device connects? Write a simple udev rule. You want to use three sound cards at the same time? No problem.

I can see how that kind of tinkering is not for everyone, but if a certain thing doesn't work on Windows or MacOS it often means there is no way to do it, while on Linux it often means you just need to spend a day or two on it if you really want that.
It should also be noted that the restrictions regarding pork and beef for raw consumption are very strict.
It's about 1.7km/s delta-v to land on the moon from LLO. If you are assuming an orbital station in the lunar gateway, that's another ~0.7km/s. From LEO that's another ~3.6km/s (3.2 to TLI and 0.4 to gateway). That gives you around 6km/s delta-v flat. Of course you can optimize this a bit by using a more direct route but it's probably cheaper if you leverage existing infra like the gateway.

Compare this to anything on mars. It'll be 3.6-4.0km/s to mars injection. Then 2.0km/s to low orbit (can be optimized with clever aerobreaking down to 1.0km/s). To the surface will be a minimum of another 0.4km/s (no engine, parachute only) and closer to 1km/s if you want a soft landing. So you can expect 5km/s at the bare minimum and ~7km/s along established "routes" leveraging to-be-existing infra.

So then the question becomes whether lower delta-v returns, regular launch opportunities, and shorter comms delay are more or less important than 1km/s delta-v savings.

I'd argue the delta-v savings aren't worth it on their own. Mars will eventually be worth exploring and it's a valuable opportunity but by every measure other than raw "throw it at the orbital body with no support or return plan" delta-v savings, the moon is a better site for initial extraterrestrial habitation studies.
Functional and object-oriented aren't two ends of a spectrum, they're orthogonal. Code can be both.

To program in a functional style means no more or less than to construct your program by composing referentially transparent functions (that is, functions that have no side effects, and whose output is deterministic based on the inputs -- in other words: the mathematical notion of a function). The solutions that are marked as functional in the post fulfill this criterium, so it's correct to call them functional solutions.

Whether your functions are written in method notation or not is not relevant to determining whether the program is written in a functional style.
Don't forget that "self sustainable" would be a pipe dream - there's no conceivable possibility of producing advanced machinery such as electronics on Mars given current or near-future technology.

Also, there's a very good chance that this type of exploration of Mars will forever contaminate it preventing us from using Mars to explore the origins of biological life, a much more important and achievable goal than space colonization, and one that doesn't shut out the other one in a farther future.
Our destiny is total domination in the universe. Mars is most certainly part of those first steps.