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Yeah, that's something I have been wondering - how would things look like if the main driving force behind spaceflight was entrepreneurs of the Goddards generation, not military mainly trying to get good ICMBs and spy sat launchers ?

A lot of the current status quo of single use state of the art super-expensive hyper-optimized launchers can be IMHO traced back to ICBMs and spy sat launcher where accomplishing the given military mission was the most important goal, whatever the cost (both monetary and in general sustainability).

I wonder if it all was instead financed by private and commercial money from the start, we might have perhaps ended up with cruder (partially ?) reusable rockets much sooner, not to mention with a more robust in-space infrastructure (propellant depots, etc.) that simply does not make sense if you just want to lob nukes one way or launch a couple expensive spy sats per year & don't care about anything else.
I guess I never thought about what the next level of easy would be for word processing.

Seems like me that rather than directly dictating my writing, a word processor that could ingest a corpus of my writing samples, categorize them (emails, blog posts, requirements docs, etc.) and then listening to my ramblings and the cloudbrain organizing and editing my incoherent ramblings would make it better and more accessible than it currently is?
I agree with that. However, Martin Selmayr (Secretary-General of the European Commission) recently explained on TV that the slower approval was the reason that the EU is lagging behind the US in vaccations. Well, obviously that slower approval was for "more safety" according to him.

That explanation doesn't make a whole lot of sense since the delay was only a few weeks for Biontech/Pfizer or Moderna. As you mentioned, AZ is not even approved in the US. Europe would need to vaccinate around 50M people in a few weeks.

EU politicans know that the EU has failed at procurement. They now try to cover that up by blaming AZ and explaining delays with additional safety measures.
Yes, exactly. I would add, though, that the "Wuhan lab leak theory", in many people's minds, seems to be combined with a suspected intentional act by the Chinese government, to unleash a dangerous virus on the rest of the world. I think we should dismiss that part of the theory (it's of course not impossible, just not likely, mostly fun fodder for conspiracy nuts). But as far as infectious disease labs all across the world being dangerous places that need strict safety and security measures, duh, yes.
A lot of the discussion I see on this hinges on possibility and not strongly believing the claim is false. Sure, this theory is "possible" in some sense but I rarely see anyone presenting concrete evidence for it and I don't think I've seen anyone who supports it suggest a piece of evidence that would change their mind on it.

If most of the discussion on an idea is about how people dismiss it or how any evidence is being covered up the idea might not be that strong.
Many buildings where I live are explicitly rental buildings ... so I guess you would be meaning co ops and condos but they are surprisingly expensive conversions.
Maybe if it wasn’t CONCEALED by the government in the country of origin, our lives would be different now.

Talk about that will you?
> In ten to twenty years, China could easily rival the US Navy.

People said this 20 years ago. We've already started to see the CCP losing ground (see HK), and I'm quite bearish on the Party going forward. Jinping is 67, and I expect to see a major power struggle which will leave the Chinese Communist Party crippled when he dies.
>A rational actor...

Let’s remember this is China we’re talking about. Before you hand wave that away, consider the emphasis that China places on keeping-up-appearances at practically any cost
I don't think China is evil incarnate, but I do know that it is confirmed that they have performed GOF research (https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments...), that there were reports in 2018 that they were not following proper lab safety practices (https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-raised-alarms-a...), and that the Chinese military was engaged in secret experimentation.

This is all circumstantial, of course. But, that combined with the fact that COVID originated in Wuhan, thousands of kilometers away from the bat caves of Yunnan province, yet in the same city as the only BSL-4 laboratory in China, that's hard to ignore.
I'm a long time Zemax user. The subscription is just a cost of doing business for my employer.

It's cheap compared to hiring an optics consultant. ;-)

But this is pretty common for specialized engineering software. My company maintains several seats of mechanical and electrical CAD software. Not surprisingly, the landscape of FOSS tools gets more and more sparse, the further you get away from software development.

A problem in optics is that just having the software won't teach you optics unless you're already trained in an adjacent field such as physics. The people who can do it, can simply demand that the employer pay for the software.

Oddly enough I'm interested in this package, and have bookmarked it. It's not like I need an alternative to Zemax, but that there are some ideas I'd like to explore that would benefit from further automation, but that don't need the breadth of features provided by Zemax. And maybe I'd like to try some things at home.
This is not by some accident of history. It is a deliberate decision of euro-skeptic countries to avoid turning the EU into a superstate. It is usually the same countries who then go to complain about the "democratic deficit" of the EU institutions. I went through the Brexit referendum debates and the hypocrisy was rank.
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It will be interesting if the cause of the pandemic can be pinned down to specific time, place and person
the elephant in the room that became too controversial to question. Solid post
I remember having a discussion with the ceo of discord on their api server. The statement was something of "we will never sell user data". But our points of "okay but how about when you sell discord?" fell on deaf ears.

Discord does not allow you to delete your messages in mass. If you exit a server all of your messages, images, etc, are still there. Even if you delete your account. Servers can only delete up to some X amount of time if they choose to.

I have no doubt that just like facebook buying Oculus the promises of any sale will be voided in the name of money.

We have to remember that when you build products with other people's money, that money has to come back, and it has to come out of it's users somehow.
> with permissions

Even more secure would be hardware write only storage. CD-ROMs fit in this category, but they aren't big enough.

But all we need are hard disk drives with a physical write-enable switch. Turn it on, write your backup, turn it off. No software can then alter it.

A stupidly simple idea, and yet every time I mention it in HN it gets dismissed, denigrated, etc. Apparently people like malware, ransomware, etc. :-(
I'm a huge Crystal fan and spoke at the first user conference recently about my project which is almost what you're asking for:

https://nlh.me/projects/celestite

It's a way to tightly integrate Crystal + Svelte, including server-side rendering and the ability to write your frontend purely from components.

Not React (yet), but it's heading in that direction...
Huh? Do most viruses thrive in UV radiation?

I thought UV resistant organisms were usually referred to as extremophiles because it's so infrequent
Well, we know for a fact that the outbreak started in Wuhan, not in Chicago. Had it happened in Chicago, am certain the university lab would be under suspicion.

And no, the vast majority of cities do not have viral research labs.
It would be good to know if this vulnerability was related to memory safety before pinning it on memory safety. You can get cryptography just as wrong in Rust or Go.
A good summary of EU problems is described [1]. Washington and London understood that crucial to mass procurement was throwing large amounts of R&D money at many companies in hopes some would work. Brussels focused on haggling down the cost per dose. Europeans pay a few dollars less per dose but ended near the back of the shipment line.

[1] http://archive.is/M0bjW
Safety issues at US labs are not kept secret, as the author of the linked article has literally reported on them before, and they have also never caused a deadly global pandemic.
1) Yes, I know, that's how long Firefox has been going down the wrong path, performance-wise. They've only recently seemed to kinda start addressing that ("now we're as good as Chrome, finally!" OK but Chrome is also bad, so....)

2) I'd prefer software just, you know, not be bad. Safari, for all its problems, demonstrates that there's nothing inherent in a modern desktop web browser that requires it to be grossly inconsiderate of your system resources.
These guys just keep coming back for more huh?

/s
>the former is more likely.

Is this likelihood differential being calculated using data, or is it just a hypothesis?
As a layperson whose activism only amounts to charitable donations, yard signs, and voting, why should I care whether this virus was a lab escapee or naturally spread?

This is an earnest question, not a blind "I don't care". I think this is interesting, and I can see some amount of merit in these claims, but at the end of the day it doesn't feel like it matters to me which one it was. It seems like the only change would be "China gets more bad PR" and maybe American racists use this as an excuse to be more racist.
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Can't these 5% still compounds over time if you were at the equilibrium before? I have no idea how much it represents in weight gain over a day, but just 10 g/d is still close to 5 kg weight gain over a year.

Though I agree with you, it's more the overall activity that is way down than just gym/exercising.
It's only in hyped up circles where you hear that golang will displace Java. The latter is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future, and it keeps improving, whereas golang is stuck in the 70's.
I definitely read this like the two of you. If the information being shown by Google results is what I need, there isn't a need to click further. On top of that, many of us have been "trained" that products like ZScaler are going to block most sites and register a hit with InfoSec. I'm not going to click on bobsfunmainframefacts.com if Google scraped the needed info for me.
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> We should get better at responding fast and saving lives

If the whole pandemic could’ve been avoided, that’s part of getting better at this.
"Today’s progressives espouse climate change as the “greatest existential threat of our time,” a claim that ignores people who have been experiencing existential threats for much longer. Slavery, colonialism, ongoing police brutality—we can’t neglect history to save the future."

Is the author being intentionally provocative or just obtuse? What is this author trying to achieve with this paragraph? If someone sincerely believes that climate change is a worldwide existential threat, why shame them for not taking slavery, colonialism, and police brutality just as seriously? Advocacy and activism is not a zero sum game.
I like this article around this topic. I read it many years years ago and it rang very true for me. Traveling can be fun but it doesn't solve the problem needing purpose (for those with that need).

https://medium.com/personal-growth/travel-is-no-cure-for-the...
One-party consent seems far more empowering to me. It lets me record any conversation I'm a party to whether the other party likes it or not.

In a two-party consent state, the corporation just has a message that the call may be monitored or recorded and me staying on the line qualifies as 'consent'. I'm not provided with an option to talk without being recorded and for many functions companies won't deal with you except through these specific phone numbers.

However, if I tell the company I want to record them, they have very little reason to humor me. In practice, this means I'm almost always being recorded anyway, but I can't generally record them back. It looks to me very much like corporations get one-party consent, and I don't.

I've heard it argued that "This call may be monitored or recorded..." can be interpreted as consent, but I'm not sure how that works out in practice, especially since I'd be recording the individual employees (who may have consented to their employer, but haven't to me).
I think this is an unappreciated explanation, and is the biggest reason why I want to work towards some level of financial independence. I have no real desire to retire early, so I could take or leave that part. But being able to make decisions about how I spend my time without having to worry about my next paycheck seems like the obvious path towards long-term happiness. If a working environment becomes toxic I have the option to leave. If I feel like hiking the Appalachian trail I can go do it before I'm old and frail. If I'm tired of the field I'm working in I can take time off to study and do something else. If a loved one needs assistance I can go to their side.

Being compulsively tied to income generating work, and then all of a sudden being cut off from that seems like a surefire path towards unhappiness, since someone who has done that their whole life likely hasn't explored the mental space of what else they could be doing with their life.

On the other hand, being totally free from any restraints seems like it could be an almost worse curse. No pressure to complete any projects, to help anybody, to do something useful for the world. That also wires your brain in a particular fashion, and could be it's own version of hell. Perhaps this is sour grapes though :)
Different connectors. Molex connectors and the Molex company are still around. Not ruling out that you've heard them called the wrong thing, there's a bewildering array of connectors.
The biggest difference between all of those and this virus is that those were leaks of already-known viruses. SARS-CoV-2 wasn't known to exist before 2019 and there's no known precursor virus. There's a somewhat closely related virus that infected the miners in Yunnan but it was only 96% similar. There's nothing at all in this article on how SARS-CoV-2 was discovered or created.

The problem I have is that China isn't interested in investigating the start of the pandemic. They've thrown away their wastewater samples, there's some evidence WHO found of SARS-CoV-2 spreading locally prior to December 2019, but no backtesting of any samples. Nobody seems to be looking at the bats in Hubei for sarbecoviruses.

By blocking study of the zoonotic origin of the pandemic, they can use the theory it was imported in food for domestic propaganda. For external propaganda they're happy to have conspiracy theories flying about this lab leak theory creating a "firehose of falsehoods" and distractions. They can rely on American scientists to get engaged with the conspiracy theory and debunk it, wasting their efforts and then they can use that also for domestic propaganda.

Meanwhile nobody gets fucking outraged that China isn't properly investigating the origin of the virus and isn't aggressively looking at the bats in Hubei and any animal farms in the surrounding area. My suspicion is that animal farms (like minks) functioned as a bioreactor that had many opportunities to spillover from bats and then the close contact allowed it to spread well and mutate to optimize it for a more human-like ACE2 receptor, then the mink contact with humans allowed multiple spillover events until it started to spread epidemically in humans.
Those were stockpiled for the EU. Meanwhile also the US has a stockpile of AstraZeneca vaccines, but none were exported.
I think it would be hard to prove it one way or the other. There are a lot of variables that go into profit for landlords and property owners, and building one property affects the possible rent on other properties.

However, in a general sense, rent prices are affected by supply and demand, like most other things. Having a housing supply lower then the demand benefits landlords, as they can raise the price without making improvements, and they can more easily fill vacant units. If supply surpasses demand, then landlords are left with empty units they need to fill, and the prices go down.

Obviously, this can only go so far. At a certain point, prices can get so high that few renters can pay for it, or the math becomes more favorable to build more housing. However, the overall incentive structure is for property owners to keep housing supply low, to increase the value of existing properties with minimal investment.
Very interesting that your focus is "IDE research". Not sure I've encountered that before! One reason for the rejections may be that in industry, from what I've seen, dev and cloud tools are managed by more "soft skills" people. Masters in Psychology types may be more the candidate they seek. I suppose the thinking is that to gain mass adoption they have to be less engineer designed and more user friendly ;)
For the average developer what do I need to do? I don't use OpenSSL directly but I'm pretty sure some parts of my tech stack use it as a dependency. Do I simply need to run `apt-get upgrade` on the 25th?
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"what is essentially a portable assembly language" amen to that :)
> Not knowing what subjective experience is means there's literally no objective explanation for anything. Everything you experience - including all of science and math - is filtered through subjective processes.

I'm not following the logic here, unless you're suggesting some type of solipsism. Yes, my experience that 2+2=4 is technically subjective, but I'm not sure what it would even mean to "objectively" understand this to be true, I can't understand how it would have any consequences for any aspect of reality as we understand it.

> Intersubjective experiences are collectively consistent and reliable but are not provably independent and objective. The best you'll get from them is consistency and predictability.

Thanks for this term, TIL. I suppose my question is, what value does objectivity have over intersubjectitivy? I doesn't sound like this type of objectivity is even a coherent concept because it seems like a definitional contradiction to have any experience of objective reality. If something is objective but fundamentally unknowable, it might as well not exist, right?
Appreciated. It is probably just me, but I find the article itself (which I read in full) relatively hard to follow. So is the other related article [1].

I think it's because the author was trying to fit all the nuances in, which is a problem I suffer from myself when I write.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210209100324/http://www.mattmi...
Your request is admirable! Here’s how I go about gathering info:

Google “covid 19 origin evidence”, look for academic publications or scientific journalism that is well-cited & from reputable sources, eg

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01205-5
[2] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-05-09/was-the-cor...
[3] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientis...
[4] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/coronavir...

We really need to do better with scientific communication. As scientists we are evaluated too much on our communication with other scientists (ie paper publishing), while communication with the public is not weighed much for career advancement. I wish this structural problem would be discussed more so it can be addressed.

But not all of this is on the scientists. The public must do better. We can’t just blindly trust what a senator says on Fox News for political expedience, or “trust our gut”.
> Yet, if I simulated every molecule of my body

This gets into the concept of free will.

If you have free will, then it is your own conscious decisions that are affecting the universe, and not the universe affecting your conscious decisions.

In this scenario, you can't "simulate every molecule" of your body, because that simulation will have to include whether or not you decided to touch that hot stove. And that decision rested solely with you, in your mind.

If we do not have free will, and this whole thing is "on rails", then we are essentially watching an elaborate movie play out that we have no control over.
"The housing market here is suited best..."

Or people who've put down roots here. Some people value family, friends, and community more than economic maximization. The Bay Area has excellent schools, being nerdy makes you cool, immigrants and people with different skin colors are accepted, there are a wide variety of cultural attractions, the weather is always nice, and you can get out in nature quickly.

If I were still a single guy I probably would've moved back home after winning the stock option lottery, but my wife's family is all here, my friends are here, my kid won't get bullied for being nerdy, etc. That's really why people stay, and they pay a premium to do it.
It looks like Windows support is preliminary. They are working on it...
We may need to look into this further!
It seems like people are violently defensive in this thread. I flagged it because we are not getting down to the facts.

There are convoluted aspects of who manufactures it, where it is manufactured, what countries govern those companies, trade laws and agreements, what the contract was, what were the policies, what export/imports took place, and what is planned.

People are talking past each other.
> We should get better at responding fast and saving lives (my opinion).

I think you're wrestling with a strawman here, no one's arguing the inverse. But in any investigation (arson, murder, etc.) the details do matter -- where, how, what weapon, when, and so on.
I would probably use OpenSSL in preference to LibreSSL at this point. The dev culture point you’re trying to make hasn’t really been true for many years.
For me, those calculators tell me I'm better off buying if I'm gonna stay for at least 5-7 years. Which is... not a terribly long amount of time, honestly. If I'd made the buying decision 5 years ago, I would've actually been much better off by then, because my rent went up way more than predicted. So of course there's a lot of uncertainty there. Maybe purchase prices will crash soon. Or maybe we hit a new normal and individual homes or spacious townhomes never come back down in price, due to shifts in demand.

My rent means that there are tens of thousands of dollars a year that I'll never be able to invest in anything. So even if I had a better investment option than taking a 5x (or more!) leverage multiplier on a downpayment, it would still have to overcome a pretty big disadvantage right there to come out ahead in the long run.
So the US intelligence service isn't credible... but the CCP is?

I think I understand where you are coming from now, thank you.
Setting the US aside for a bit, how do you explain the success of the kibbutzim movement [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Indeed https://play.golang.org/p/-HvoqUjiE6s
The participants in operation warp speed get paid whether or not their vaccine makes it through trials.

To use your analogy, farmers can sign contracts for "all the apples that's produced this year" if they want to offload the risk of crop failure rather than a contract for a specific number of apples.
I use DuckDuckGo and haven't used Google in years, but searching "can cats eat asparagus" shows three answers above the fold just in the snippets without even needing to go to the page. Yes, they can, apparently, and it's perfectly safe. No ads in the results, either.