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Ask HN: How do I contribute to Mars colonization as a dev?
I have been thinking of problems that I think are worth solving. Space colonization & Interplanetary space travel top my list of problems that are worth solving & problems that I am really interested in. I am just fascinated by space. I'm not sure how can I break into this industry though, I am a Software Engineer by trade and a Computer Scientist by education.

I can't work for SpaceX as I am not American. I've an Indian passport if that matters. There are probably exciting space companies in India, and other places that allow Indians to work. Maybe there are some open source projects that I can contribute to in my free time, along with my day job.

I am guessing there are plenty of other devs on HN that are interested in space too but don't know what to do with this interest. I am guessing they feel things are slow and feel powerless too. I am hoping there are people here who have broken into the industry and are making an impact and can tell some of us how they did so.

If you are running an open source project that helps solve space related things, I am happy to contribute, please share a link. I am fluent in Python and good at Java & GoLang. I've written CPP /C in the past for work and I am happy learning new languages. Regardless of the language, I am guessing other devs on HN might be interested too.

Longevity is another field that interests me, mostly because it allows me to spend more time alive working on space. No idea how to break into this either.

Somethings that I can think of

1. Work in a space company / space research lab

2. Start a space company

3. Donate to some organizations / research labs that work on these problems

4. There are probably companies in indirect industries that help space too, probably some boring CRUD applications that make life for Aerospace engineers easier.

5. Contribute to open source projects that work in this field

6. Make a lot of capital doing something else and then pour that into a space tech company.
> I would prefer to work somewhere that I can work on an actual product from start to finish. And also work on products that have some actual value to them. I don't really care much for the code, I'm more interested in building products and optimizing them and learning along the way.

You may want to look into product owner roles.
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Literally every asset is safe from USD printing. Each and every one. As soon as you don't hold literal physical dollars in your possession what matters isn't inflation but the performance of the asset. Beanie babies, shoes, bitcoin, bond funds, stocks. All of them.
Please don't respond with this sort of indignation even when the feeling is justified. It takes the discussion way off topic and encourages worse from others.
You can kiss goodbye to your quality of life if you "work from bed". As Matthew Walker, of "Why We Sleep"[+], reminds: you want your brain to associate your bed with sleeping.

A related point is that if you're not feeling sleepy, don't lay around in the bed waiting for sleep (go to a different area of the room, if possible)—just as how we don't (?) sit around at the dinner table waiting for hunger to arrive.

[+] With warts and all, like any book. Don't let the so-called "egregious errors" pointed out by some guy online distract from the main points made in the book.
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It's not an argument against Democracy. It's an argument against how much of the decision making for a country needs to be a popularity contest.

If you left everything up to the public, there would be 0 taxes, free education, healthcare, housing and monthly paychecks of a $1000 for everyone. But that's a terrible idea, and it doesn't get implemented anywhere, because you literally choose people to represent the population and to make sensible decisions.
Krugman was one of the academics that signed on to the letter to cancel Steven Pinker. Nobody should take him seriously.
I would not define it exactly like that. I would say "Dithering is any method of reducing the bit depth of a signal that prioritizes accurate representation of low frequencies over that of high frequencies". This frames it as essentially an optimization problem, with randomn noise being a heuristic way of accomplishing it.
Any of those points could be applied to nationhood... except the part about Bitcoiners eating only meat?

And I doubt it's the first since 2000... I hear about stupid new cults trying to recruit members and cash every week.
Is gold a safe bet? Seems pretty speculative to me.
As someone who has never been particularly interested in cryptocurrency: what happened?

I remember it being a novelty in news articles around 2012, something you could use in very select cases to buy things. Idea of an online currency was interesting, but not something I spent too much time thinking about. PayPal already served much the same purpose.

Flash forwards to 2017 and the popularity of bitcoin is to the point where it's affecting supplies of computer hardware. Yet, it's not being treated as a currency at all, instead it's an investment. Again, what happened? I don't understand why it shifted like this, and I haven't found any particularly convincing explanations.
I find the two sets of problems incomparable, personally. It's dramatic to equate them.
I wonder how much longer this is going to go on. Is everything going to "go back to normal" only when there are no Fry's stores left to go to?
Don't futures completely solve the "Bitcoin price is volatile" problem for large actors?

Short Bitcoin futures to lock in your current rate; or buy some puts & sell calls to constrain it to a range without spending anything extra.

And your counterparty is CME rather than some fly-by-night cryptocurrency exchange.

Doesn't help with buying a pizza(a single futures contract is 5 bitcoin, or $150k at current rate), but that seems solvable.
This needs to be viewed through the lens of the Communist Party's primary motivation: the persistence of the single-party system.

In a single-party system, you can't allow dissent or you will end up with multiple parties, if enough of the dissenters agree with each other.

When someone speaks against the government in China, particularly someone with a high profile like Jack Ma, the government is worried that other people might agree with him, and they might form a movement that demands change and challenges the party's policies.

If the party allows this to happen, that would mean they recognize the legitimacy of political action originating outside of the party. That would be an existential threat to the single-party system.

(Also, the last time the party allowed public dissent, it grew out of control and turned into the Tiananmen Square protests. The party's current leaders remember that time well, and the lesson they took from it is that allowing dissent was a serious miscalculation.)
"Black start" is a term that refers to bringing up services when literally everything is down.

It's most often referred to in the electricity sector, where bringing power up after a major regional blackout (think 2003 NE blackout) is extremely nontrivial, since the normal steps to turn on a power plant usually requires power: for example, operating valves in a hydro plant or blowers in a coal/gas/oil plant, synchronizing your generation with grid frequency, having something to consume the power; even operating the relays and circuit breakers to connect to the grid may require grid power.

The idea here is presumably that Google services have so many mutual dependencies that if everything were to go down, restarting would be nontrivial because every service would be blocked on starting up due to some other service not being available.
It's only 6 weeks since that Rust revcomp #1 program was contributed — November 23, 2020.
The Jack Ma situation is eyebrow-raising but Guo Wengui is a nutjob and should not be taken seriously.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/07/guo-wengui-chinese...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/18/guo-wengui-...
This about covers it. There really isnt any more to add
And for large molecules (e.g., proteins) graph methods really start to shine.
Well, I hadn’t heard of it, so I’ll read this tomorrow :D Thanks for sharing.
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I posted this in another thread-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636761

The rumor in China is that Jack Ma is part of Jiang Zemin's clique of politicians/sphere of influence. Alibaba's backed by and invested by Jiang's families.

Xi has been purging Jiang's people/influence on the Central Government for the last few years to strengthen his ruling. Originally he was going to leave Ma alone as he has proven himself to be useful.

But 2 things happened- 1. people start to idolize Ma the businessman over the party's absolute rule. 2. Perhaps as a result Ma is embolden to speak out against Xi's government directions.

So now Ma has to go. Ma knew this and that's why he resigned from Alibaba's Chairman position, but it was too late. Ant Financial, with its main backers from Jiang's gang, was put to a standstill. This is only the first step. Expect the party to eventually to take over the Alibaba group (国进民退). No private civilian will be allowed to gain this much power again.

https://time.com/5926062/jack-ma/

“There is no so-called [Ma] era,” read a recent headline in the CCP mouthpiece People’s Daily, “but only an era that has [Ma] in it.”

Anyway, to quote House of Cards-

“Such a waste of time. He chose money over power, in this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years. Power — is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.” - Frank Underwood
My problem with that is that while it looks nice, I find it visually very frustrating if it's in your field of view. Those points of light that go in and out as your hands move over them are an annoyance for me.

If you don't touchtype and need to see your keyboard to type effectively then being able to configure the color and intensity is nice, but for me all the intensity I need is 0. At night I'll just have some gentle ambient light in my room.

I use an expensive Moonlander keyboard that comes with RGB lighting and I tried to give it a fair chance but I always end up finding it distracting and useless.
What I love about RGB is the flexibility: I have a white case (Lian Li 011-D) with a custom waterloop. I run 9 cheap chinese RGB fans (EZDIY-FAB) and two custom rgb strips at top and bottom, which emit light against two white radiators. [1] The white allows the light to reflect from basically every surface in the case. They come with a custom rf remote, and I setup everything so I can control the strips and the fans separately. Currently, the fans are all white, with the strips being red at top and bottom.

But if I want to, I can go all unicorn... - or turn everything off.

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I can hardly see those as alternatives to Slack. Maybe https://mattermost.com/ is what you were thinking about?
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Longer term, everyone gets a booster shot as soon as they're available.
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Some employers have a little flexibility in their contract (I got one of the probably not enforcable in California claims of ownership of work outside the office redlined on a support position).

If you're joining an employer with a negotiated contract, there's really no chance to change it when you're hired; it's accept it or leave. You generally aren't part of the bargaining if you're not a current employee.

Maybe the contract is better, but we'd have to see some to know. Maybe I don't want what the union wants and while I have a vote, it doesn't have significance unless my opinions are shared by others.
RocketChat works pretty well for simple team comms. I have no idea if it can do XMPP and/or Matrix.
Every time I see the term "nocoiner" used in response to criticism, I automatically stop reading the rest of whatever the person who said it wrote.
Assange has done journalistic work, but he isn't a journalist, not because of some technicality but because Wikileaks have a very flexible relationship with basic principles of good journalism and are clearly prepared to play politics when it suits them.

If Assange is a mere journalist, he and his organisations are hypocrites because of their use of NDAs and either malicious or deeply incompetent in their complete disregard for the privacy of people (bystanders) mentioned in their dumps. For example, dumping the credit card numbers and addresses of donors to the Democratic Party is unnecessary and clearly intended to do harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Promotion_of_conspir... and downwards is a good place to start - the idea that Wikileaks are some kind of bastion of good journalism is pretty naff
Notion is sending out emails that their outage/slowdown is due to AWS outages but AWS status board is green and I haven't seen slack or anyone else claiming aws issues.

> For the last couple hours, Notion has been down. This is related to some difficulties Amazon Web Services is experiencing today. As of right now, our engineering team is all hands on deck working to restore service. We're confident these issues will be resolved soon, but in the meantime I'm so sorry for any problems or inconvenience this has caused. I know this is not ideal as everyone returns from break, and we'll be thoroughly investigating how to prevent outages like this in the future.
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Ok, but if an advertiser spends $57M across many years generating likes on the platform and doesn't change its business practices materially across that timespan, it seems like they might be entitled to a refund when the pages are shut down.
> Some form of 51% attack succeeds

Given the current state of the market, this seems implausible to succeed.

Total BTC in circulation: 18.6m
Current BTC price: $31,697
51% of 18.6m: 9,486,000

to outright buy that would cost ~$300bn.

not accounting for lost coins, the fact that such a supply is inherently distributed throughout the market and such an attempt would almost certainly move the price much higher.

Zuckerberg and Bezos should pool their cash and take a stab at it, though.
> If you are living in the US or EU then being able to hide assets and transfer without censorship is mostly a bug

If you completely ignore how big corporations and ultrarich are able to hide their assets behind shell corporations and various other structures, then yes maybe your vision is correct. But that it not what happens in reality.

In reality right now the rich can hide whatever they can, and the poor have no recourse against frivolous seizures, lawsuits etc. What crypto does is levels the playing field.
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Jack Ma seems missing
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A fairer comparison is probably to other aerospace companies and defense contractors.
You're not thinking like an authoritarian enough. Some farmer living in Nepal might as well say, "Imagine driving a car just to buy a dozen eggs because you don't want to walk - isn't this a sign of mental illness?"

However, Americans do it all the time, not because they're exceptionally lazy or mentally ill, but because the driving infrastructure is so exceptionally good that there's no reason not to use it. Driving is just what you do every day, without much thinking, instead of something that must be deliberately planned and executed.

(Whether that's a net plus to America as a whole is, of course, a different question altogether.)
The agenda of the workers (benefits, pay, working conditions, etc.) rather than the agenda of the organizers/leaders. If the workers want social issues as their agenda then that's fine but there should be a broad voting process for that rather than a dictatorial preemptive agenda. This just seems like a few dozen people trying to tell 100k what they should care about.

edit: I don't think I've ever seen environmentalism come up as a desirable goal from proponents when people discussed tech unions. Pay, benefits, working conditions, abusive management and so on but environmentalism????
> I think this is definitely exacerbated by the general lockdown situation on top of just working from home.

Yeah, people need to realize, this is not normal. Even I, as a highly distractable/sensitive introvert have had trouble coping. And I won't lie, the bicycle commute to work was great for waking me up and energizing me.

That said, I would prefer 100% WFH for the remainder of my career, no contest. There's just no getting around the level of control I have over everything from noise, to light, temperature, etc. It helps that I live alone and have a dedicated separate home office. And I can always go for a run, walk, or bicycle ride in place of the commute.
Going a bit further, if at all possible, my tip from many years of remote work is don't even have a computer in the room you sleep in. It's amazing how much the brain correlates rooms with tasks, and if you work in your bedroom you will have a worse quality of sleep.
> the cycle where the dollar collapses entirely and cryptocurrency becomes the new global unit of account and medium of exchange.

I really don't think life tends to be as exciting as you hope it is.
> The rough trend was that success with STEM degrees was less reliant on the prestige of the institution where it was acquired

STEM degrees are way more standardized too. Good CS degrees are pretty much all the same in terms of content, from Stanford to State U and abroad. Same textbooks used universities for most classes (maybe a localized translation by a local professor).
Naming something tells you what to look for in the academic literature (or even Wikipedia), where you will find in this case that the academic consensus has mostly moved on from the view named here
Notion emailed me saying it was because of AWS experiencing problems but no update to aws status boards yet...
When AWS sinks, why sink with it?
Yes, the phrase "social justice" has been co-opted. So if you or anyone else wants to refer to what that phrase meant 20 years ago, then you should stop using the phrase "social justice".
I have this same thought a lot - even though Trump highlighted the fact a lot of our governance practices are simply norms rather than being enforceable, he also demonstrated that our system is actually pretty resilient to raw evil. Despite his constantly talking about wanting to do dictator-like things, and frequently trying to, he was never really able to in practice (though there are a couple arguable counter examples - one particular usage of police violence springs to mind).
NetworkX isn't a bad library, nor is it only suitable for "babies". Yeesh. Actual people work on this stuff, you know, and they may have different goals, requirements, etc than you. This whole post reeks of someone who's so in love with being a maverick speaking uncomfortable truths that they've lost sight of this human element.

If you're offended by (say) research papers that fail to break enough new ground to satisfy you, sorry about your luck, but again, not everyone's optimizing the same function as you. You'll probably do better bringing people around when you're not implying (or outright saying) their work is shit.
Who and when? If you're going make a grand claim like that, you should supply links so readers can make up their minds for themselves.

HN is full of criticisms of China on any thread that touches even tangentially on China. We don't ban users for that. We ban users who repeatedly break the site guidelines, such as by posting nationalistic flamebait—especially if they do it repeatedly. Those are not at all the same thing.

It's common, of course, for people to make grandiose claims about being banned for their noble views when really it was for their bad behavior.
The actual numbers are totally opposite of what you say. Please show some sources. I think Shapiro covers the arguments against lockdowns very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymD9ipSm-eg

I'm against them because they literally do not work, and they violate our basic civil rights. A man in Canada was shot months ago for not wearing a mask, after he left the store, outside his own home. In Quebec over New Years Eve, police arrested someone for having more than five people in their homes. New York wants to pass ordinances that lets them put people in camps if they're infected.

This is absolute insanity. The virus is an excuse to violate all our basic human rights. The United States constitution is basically suspended at this point.

Look at this woman who was arrested for trying to save her deteriorating mother locked in a care home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1E390UHzTY
That rather confirms my point.
Again, why is there no wide reaction to this news, and where are the people complaining about "western freedom" and how the US is the same as China...