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> Elon Musk is a lonely alien

Ehh, all I see is just a guy who grew up on the Internet and behaves as such on both Social Media and in real life; except his story is one where, unlike most of the population, his often seemingly reckless risk taking paid off and now he wants to put his resources to its best use that creates a Legacy that will outlive him according to Dr. Zubrin. Pretty Human if you ask me.

> Alternatively, view these interests...

I'm well aware of that, perhaps latenly in 2007ish and understood it well by ~2013 and I have been part of Mars Society since 2017.

I got an offer to go to Tesla in Supply Chain during Model 3 ramp up, but declined so I could follow up on opportunities that led to me working for Kimbal's businesses for the past year in order to go to SpaceX. I interviewed at the Boca Chica Launch facility in February because I understood all of that and dedicated the last ~4 years of my Life to do that as I understand the imperative of being Multi-planetary. It went well, way better than I expected in fact, but in a post COVID World its just no longer tenable.

I still think by re-focusing on Supply Chain I can try and join Kimbal's Sqaure Root program when it starts to send container garden farms to Mars for future colonization missions, as I have a background in Ag as well as Culinary and I'm still in good with Corporate, my old Team and Management.

Hell, I'll go even further and tell you a big reason I'm a Bitcoiner to this day is because I think its the only currency/monetary system that can actually facilitate a Multi-Planetary Economy. We've had actual initiatives by members of out community petition NASA to put Bitcoin wallets on the Mars rover(s) so we could pilot test this and iterate [1], but were ultimately rejected. Still undeterred by that let down by NASA, Blockstream has a Satelite system to be able to validate the blockchain and send transaction without the need for a traditional ISP based Internet that allowed us to gain insight as to how it would work with Earth and hopefully apply that data eventually to Mars when the time comes.

But, back to my initial question:

What I meant to ask specifically was: from an ISP POV how do they build a system that can theoretically overcome China's Great Firewall, while simultaneously having a Tesla Factory there that is critical to the overall 'Master Plan,' without invoking the ire of the CCP and having them just take it like they have with Hong Kong?

Do they just deny citizens of the PRC these services and wash their hands of the situation? Can Starlink actually have the means to circumvent the disgusting Panonopticon that's been created with the current Internet, or does the topography of how these systems are built and are routed prevent us from having the ACTUAL Internet we were supposed to have all along despite that? Could the two be so different they simply cannot interact, or does the information suggest it will simply be the same protocol?

1: https://www.ccn.com/nasa-petitioned-send-bitcoins-mars/
You can inject your own CSS on Firefox mobile. It's also great for getting rid of popups and paywalls.
Germany to california for you: 170ms.
Switzerland to california for that other guy/gal: 160ms

So… awfully high how?
Scientists and the WHO estimated the IFR to be around 1% in February. Most models that estimate fatalities use that number as well.

That estimate has hardly changed.
any plans to support angular out of the box too?
re: "binary", i think the article just uses the term incorrectly – it's probably intended to mean "single file thing you invoke directly". i'm guessing they didn't just say "script" bc of possible confusion with <script> tags
#1 Your story and the landing page are conflicting. I can't seem to understand anything about your product from the landing page

#2 It looks like its time to pivot. Find a niche which you can exploit (like bio it seems) and conquer it. Google Docs looked like it was going to dominate everything and no one had to do anything else in that space, yet Notion comes along and is now valued at $2B.
Property developers (and the people who actually physically construct housing) provide places for people to live. Landlords simply buy/own those places.

Those are almost always different groups in practice though I’m sure you could contrive a counterexample.

A landlord provides about as much value to a consumer as a stockholder does to a public company. Economically the landlord-tenant interaction is primarily a speculative/investment/arbitrage relationship rather than a service
We'd better get started, and not stop this time, then.

Everyone used to have "Victory" gardens or whatever they were called....why did we fuck that up? Postmates? Another 5 hours of overtime? To pay for the Maserati and Postmates?
I am happy we let our expert government agency in this matter make the decision and not the politicians. There will be an autumn. Countries which let politicians shutdown early have numbers that look good now, but there is autumn and there is shutdown stamina. If you shutdown early there is little herd immunity in the autumn. There is also psychological effects of keeping people in total isolation for too long. In prison isolation is a punishment which I do not wish upon anyone.

Then has to see that its also a group decision from the health authorities in Sweden where there is consensus on the direction board on how to act. Its not a one person decision.
That comes to 1290 Mj per tonne and the theoretical lower bound for sequestering is something like 450 Mj per tonne. So this is a lot but I don’t think it’s shocking for what is still an early stage technology.
> Where do you draw the line between my living room, where I'm free to regulate who my visitors are and what those visitors can say, and Facebook?

Far from both your living room and Facebook so its exact location is merely of theoretical interest here.
We started using custom charts with Altair instead of Tensorboard and it has been amazing. Thanks!
Availability accelerates the process by an order of magnitude.
The Google people do use them in production, it's the clang version they build Chromium with.
Graphene and 2-D materials could move electronics beyond 'Moore's law'
Quite an interesting point I hadn't considered at all. On the one hand I'm wondering: what's your suggestion on how to address this with minimal changes to my criteria? On the other hand I'm wondering: well, if the analog of this is that AGI might get solved with more AGI, then that's only going to make me less likely to be worried in the first place!
This would be extremely useful. I can imagine the only reason why it doesn't exist yet is because few people were aware of this. Thanks for sharing.
It's beyond optimism to latch on to an a specific treatment that has no real evidence attached, and say things like "what have you got to lose?" from your podium, speaking as president. It's deeply inappropriate.

Where you personally draw the line between "authority figure spouting off about something in official capacity" and "pushing" is up to you, but it's hardly delusional. It's also a hypothetical worst case scenario, if you read what I actually wrote.
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I'm wondering at which point all of those who took the blue pill and switched to github for all their code and for its networking effects come to regret this decision as github expands into and competes with their customer's business, not unlike Amazon in this respect. I'd imagine there have been a sizable number of elearning/digital classroom projects in the last 3 months due to coronavirus that might feel threatened, for example.
They make between $200k and $500k and still shoot rubber bullets at helpful protestors in San Jose so maybe throwing money into a hole isn't super useful as a strategy.
Really nice work, this is impressive and important.

I do wish the text chat function only group of people was there. Maybe a future a/b test :)
> By all accounts:

> - Protesters were peaceful

From MSNBC's own coverage

0:42 - Visible in the scene are fireworks being launched at cops.

https://youtu.be/dUn-BShWYOs?t=42

You are being lied to, and by all the reporters of the major networks who were on the scene, no less.
"go for launch..." she says the decision was made by Falcon 9 autonomously. Not sure what that means, but sounds badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xBFHjkUvw&feature=youtu.be...
A somewhat related question since you’re here: do you have any ideas for people who don’t really vote to do this kind of dredging? Personally, I tend to use upvote/downvote a lot more cautiously than most people, treating it as some might consider “favorite” or “flag” (in fact, I run into the dilemma on which to use quite frequently; a notable narcissistic exception is that I will upvote my content if it’s posted here). I’d like to be able to mark something as “this is on-topic for Hacker News” but not mark it as “I liked it”, which I can’t really find a button for as upvoting does both…
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More important seems to be his previous statement (which is also quoted in the article):

> Tegnell's statement to reporters came after more contrite comments earlier in the day to Swedish radio in which he said “I think there is potential for improvement in what we have done in Sweden, quite clearly.”

> Asked if the country’s high death toll has made him reconsider his unique approach to the pandemic, Tegnell told Swedish radio “yes, absolutely.”
I use Slack to get notifications on new articles (I then read them on the original website), and it does not resolve to /feed.

Is there a standard for feed paths (/rss.xml seems common) that readers crawl when given a URL ?
A lot of games had similar problems too. I remember spending ages downloading the demo of Screamer 2 after getting our new computer and "the internet", and being disappointed that it crashed on startup for the same reason.
So what happens as soon as people want to start visiting NZ? Seems like you will forever have to be scared of corona entering your country again, it must be a huge blow long-term to the tourism sector? Not trying to be snarky, genuinely trying to understad the plan.
The meetup groups I have been to have been just as much of a sausage party as any companies I worked for.

Why do you need different skin colour or a vagina to have an alternative perspective? Do I think the same as all other white guys? Or do my blue eyes give me some unique insight that brown eyes (which are uncommon in this country) don't?
This is a very good point.

Ultimately, the comparison between government censorship and social networks' decision to spread somebody's message falls flat because of the different baseline:

If governments do nothing, there is no censorship. Governments have to decide to take action for there to be censorship.

If social networks do nothing, nobody gets to spread their message through them. Social networks have to take action (write software, run servers) for messages to be spread.

This difference changes the calculus of moral and ethical responsibility.
Yes, a full test suite. 100% code coverage is a thing, even in compiler validation.

Also, every test that was ever written for a compiler is still out there, being run, somewhere.

And, for the record, the real world is pretty big.
Are you working for American auto maker?

Because Europe and Japan also had this idea how touch screen is cool, new and the future. 2016-2018 were the blunder years with everything being touch. And soon people realized that touch, no surprise, is shit. So for most common operations makers have added buttons back - climate and audio controls.

For never used settings - like should interior lights come up when you open the door, beep sound loudness, interior light brightness, etc - yea, touch screen is good. For stuff that you actually use - no.

It blows my mind people think touch screens are good. If they are so good, why don't we use touch inputs for blinker signals behind steering wheel? For steering itself? Swipe left to go left. Why no touch input for shift paddles? Hell, why I never saw anyone using touch screen keyboard instead of a physical one? Silicon valley devs could easily afford one and to them touch is superior to physical buttons. Nope, 1970s or w/e physical keyboards for every computer, it's like there's a bubble somewhere where "new = always good and old = always bad".
I have personally been denounced on social media for asking the question:

"How is 'all lives matter' divisive in any way?"

The response was "Oh, well, you know."

No, really, I don't. "All" seems like an inclusive quantifier.

The best understanding I can reach is that many of the arguments in circulation these days are NOT rational in nature.
> This virus doesn't just kill or leave people unscathed, it also leaves people with long term damage

That is merely a possibility and if it's actually the case, it happens rarely.

> Sitting in bed for weeks is not appealing at all to most people.

It beats social distancing for months.
He’s in, boys
I have also implemented this exercise in rust although the one posted here is much cleaner in terms of code.

In fact I was even trying to reimplement the hack cpu emulator provided in the course using rust and tui-rs. The main hurdle now is how I can emulate a 512x256 screen in the terminal.
> Attacking and arresting credentialed journalists, while they are clearly identifying themselves and broadcasting on live TV is something I never thought I'd see in America.

You can thank your president, who labelled the press as "The enemy of the people" for that too.

Words have consequences.
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The excess mortality rates don't lie:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
>Why are we reopening in the first place?

our collective psyche reached the stage of negotiation. We've been through denial, anger (total lockdown), and now we're into negotiation (opening with specific rules).
> OneWeb was able to aquire a user antenna which is apparently a breakthrough in cost reduction at $15

Greg Wyler, the founder of Oneweb, has a history of making bold claims that are not really supported by facts.
The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014)
I come from a land where patents don’t really work. I often wonder, are there any examples of patents in the field of software engineering that worked like they supposed to, protecting small collectives from powerful corporations?
Not by a long shot. Its better than anything but the top companies. Total salary includes locality pay, which for DC is $142K and for SF is $154K. There are also a bunch of benefits, not least of which is the federal pension. If you worked for the feds for 20 years you would draw a $30k a year pension.
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> 192.31.243.0/24

how anticlimactic
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Adding this to the roadmap!
I agree with you this is important.

> verifiably false speech

Since social media companies can't be trusted to make that decision, I'm more worried that what they censor was true speech. Why? Because if it was false, they could just show the truthful information like Twitter did. Basic facts are contentious nowadays (e.g. number of genders in humans). They're going to get it wrong, so it's just too dangerous to censor.
What prevents the usage of decoy trucks?
And this is a "Google SWE"?
The Swedish assumption (not officially, but what I take away from communication is what they assume)

- No effective treatment or vaccine will arrive within a year.

- Measures that completely eradicate the virus aren't sustainable for the time it takes to do so or until a vaccine arrives (e.g. lockdowns),

- Without at least some immunity, "Test, Trace, Isolate" is not a viable strategy for dense regions.

- Without at least some immunity, a second wave is unavoidable, and risks being worse than the first, if it arrives early next season. It's better to have a small immunity in the low risk population now, than let risk high risk groups later.

- Even a small level of immunity has a large effectiveness in limiting spread, i.e. 10% or 20% immunity in a region can make a big difference, so if that can be achieved in the low risk population that is a good thing.

- Asymtomatic spread, presymptomatic spread, and spread from children are all possible but not significant (That is: if symptomatic spread is controlled, that is enough).

Some of these assumptions have been challeneged, some were not at all controverrsial to begin with but have changed over the last months.
By that argument it should have never went down back in April :). These are self-comforting arguments in the same line of "oh, it's all priced in".
Right, but the parent's point was specifically that pictures taken on phones don't look good in large size....and all I'm saying is that yes, they do sometimes. Obviously had this been in the dark, the result would be abysmal. But in conditions like the ones in the picture? The print is completely ok in my(non-professional) opinion.
Looks really nice so far. I've been working on exactly the same thing actually, but it isn't nearly as polished as notebrook (yet?).

The only problem right now is that I cannot find a save button anywhere and it also is not autosaving?
Sigh, I'm precluded from that - I've lost most of my old stuff to various HD failures and cdrom decay. I remember having a bunch of emails from my teenager years that became effectively unreadable when the proprietary client I used was abandoned (I realized too late). Sad times.
not a user, but this appears to be focused on programming coursework and would most likely be used to supplement an actual LMS. are there other products in this specific niche?
Compete with giants by doing open source
I agree with you that toki pona doesn't feel very similar to English overall.

Other similarities to English: use of prepositions, something like an accusative case (though marked differently from English). Frequently being willing to use the same word as both a verb and a noun (without any morphological changes).

Other differences: adjectives follow the nouns they modify (like in Romance): jan lili, soweli suli, tenpo seli, tenpo pimeja, telo kasi. English would say small person, large animal, warm time, dark time, herbal beverage. No participles, no relative clauses, no general word for "and", no comparatives. Particles are super-weird from an English point of view, especially li and la.
Many browser tabs are useful because Firefox allows for searching their titles using the address bar.

Similarly, keeping all emails in the Inbox starts looking useful once you have a nice to use filtering client.

I suppose holding a flat file structure will start making sense when a good filesystem-wide metadata search becomes available.

Sometimes I wish WinFS didn't die. That future could have meant the end of crappy ad-hoc directory structures.
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In countries where people are nicer to each other, there is less police brutality. It would take much more time, but I think more Fred Rogers and less GI Joe (or whatever their current equivalents may be) is likelier to provide a more lasting fix than any of these short-term policy proposals. WWJD?
> 2. Reopen the economy later, and lose the exact same number of lives

This is in direct contrast to the advice of the epidemiologists. Reopen the economy later has the effect of saving more lives - at least the lives of those who wouldn't have otherwise caught coronavirus.

The point may be moot in the US, however, as coronavirus is so widespread already. That's almost the only justification for re-opening I can think of: the damage is already mostly done so continuing the lockdown effort isn't going to have anywhere near the effect it would have if it was done earlier.

Which is a sad indictment on the leadership.
I've noticed over time that things that can be done elsewhere on the world are impossible in America according to most Americans. I even particularly like America because it has more of the sort of liberty I like but it also has some of the most unbelievable defensiveness.

For years, fibre was impossible in America. Turns out it wasn't. For years, bicycling was impossible in America. Turns out it isn't. Nothing is really possible in America. It's too diverse here, or too big, or too sparse, or has too many people, or has too few people, or too many cultures.

Even electric cars weren't possible because America is too big for you to charge on your ride. But it's not.

I think that's still the thing I like about the Bay Area in real life compared to the online America. In the online America, the current state is fully optimal under the constraints. It cannot improve. It is actually hyper-optimized to these constraints. In the Bay Area, there are no boundaries. Some fool will decide that freely available electric scooters are the future of urban transportation and some other fool will decide that laying fibre is a winning prospect and some other fool will decide that high-end bus services have value. Then it'll turn out that despite the assumptions of online America that the country is hyper-optimized to the constraints, the constraints don't actually exist, and of these three fools, none are fools, and one is very very right.
Tegnell was wrong.

He predicted that the virus was circulating many times more widely than people thought (20-25%) -- and posited much of his strategy on that.

In reality that appears to be closer to 7%.

He was also particularly wrong in attacking other countries - and the underlying Imperial College study that influenced them - for locking down in the way they did.

18.1m people came in and out of the UK between January and March in the UK -- nearly twice the entire population of Sweden. What was optimal for Sweden would never have been optimal for others.
One really great things about text interfaces is they're (drumroll) text-searchable! That's one huge benefit of emacs, if you're shown a huge list of options, hop into the buffer and just search. I've been frustrated by some parts of microsoft interfaces where I'm presented with lots of text options but couldn't search them (can't remember where).

A note on the attached PDF document, there seems to be a total blind spot about readability being damaged by dumb colours, look at Figure 8 on P11, I can read the coloured text but it is noticeably harder, therefore slower, than reading the white text on a black background. Also the light blue on white for listing 13 as another example.

Anyway, looking forward to reading it.
>Like are you suggesting the natural state of people is just to loot and behave completely selfishly?

Uhhh Yes? This is the natural state of Man, and has been for 10,000 years. My goodness, we've only gotten over it in the last 1000 years (and that's being extremely charitable). We're thankfully at a point where we've been able to regulate ourselves with some rules here and there. But that natural state of Man is the raison d'être for those rules in the first place.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have any particular examples that are conflicting? Would be happy to update the site to clarify any confusion.

In a sentence, the product right now is an 8-week bioinformatics course. It happens to use the CodeStories platform, which I developed, but haven't fleshed out into its own product offering yet. Does that help?

re #2: Good point; I suppose there are lots of similar examples. Zoom is a relevant one that comes to mind.
>Ehm, going back to that time to compare what is happening today? You do realize that this is Hitler times right? How was black people treated in USA at this time?

This may not be the best comparison to make if you want to argue that everything is fine now.