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> The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket.

This is a defensible opinion, as are the others saying that the most important job of humanity is to fix our current basket.

While neither agreeing or disagreeing, I will note another very important thing SpaceX is doing:

"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."

A lot of what SpaceX is doing is extremely inspirational, and I think the world could use more things to look forward to in the future.
I think there's already some that do that iirc.
Can we not with the performative histrionics please?

Media today is certainly different in that information spreads much faster. We do have some quantitative evidence that lies transmit faster than truth eg https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

We know there can be economic and political incentives to spread false news, and we also know that false information can result in avoidable suffering, eg by contributing to the spread of disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

I'd be great if we could address these quantifiable negative externalities as a technical rather than an emotional issue, where we would like to minimize the resulting loss of life.
Nope! I was surprised, too. Brokers were basically like "LOL, I take it you haven't shopped for individual insurance in a while if you think I can do anything for you—your only option in this state is the exchange". Insurers, including BC/BS themselves, said essentially the same thing—nope, we don't do that any more, check the exchange, and no, we're not on it.
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We put hackers in jail for building spyware! even those that don't use it themselves to hack a target. Why is it legal for NSO to sell Pegasus?
the answer you are suggesting has higher deadweight losses to the economy and will make the poor (and everybody else) worse off, full stop. In exchange for which you claim a hypothesized benefit to pigs which I don't believe and also don't believe you have a basis for believing, and which sits on a very shaky foundation, see Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene"
Not true. There is no shortage of rude or aggressive commentary today, and just because rude aggressive commentary existed in the past doesn't mean it was the default or median.
> Some states do, unfortunately, have very high premiums because their anti-Obama leaders intentionally chose to screw over their constituents for political points.

True, something along those lines is very likely what's up with ours.
On the flip side, Florida has year round warm weather and sunshine. Not only does that sanitize viral particles, but it makes it easier to move socialization outdoors.
You're missing the tree in the forest. No one is forced to look at their phone, the reality is that people have trained themselves to want it.
I'm probably not going to debunk it either, not by any real standards. But...

It seems to me that our level of technology has increased, partly through new discoveries, partly through new ways of applying those discoveries, but also at least partly through increased specialization. You've got a farmer growing huge amounts of food. But that's because there's a tractor factory, and the tractors are smart because of the chips in them, and the chips connect to the GPS satellites in orbit. To make that work, you need more than the farmer. You need the workers in the tractor factory, but also the workers in the chip plant in Taiwan, and the chip factory needs the equipment manufacturer in the Netherlands. And you need the rocket manufacturers so you can put GPS satellites in orbit. And the rocket fuel manufacturers. And so on. It basically has taken a globally integrated material culture to achieve that level of productivity on the part of the individual farmer. Which we can do, because the farmers are so productive that we don't have to spend very many people on farming.

A fair chunk of the progress of the last 200 years has been made possible by increasing scales of integration. But I worry, because we're running out of globe to integrate. (Africa, maybe?)

So, back to Mars. Yeah, none of this proves that 1000 people couldn't be self-sustaining. But for them to do that, they'd need a fair amount of tools. And that means that they'd need someone who knows how to repair and/or replace every one of those tools (and any tools they use in the process). And there's a hard cutoff below which they cannot fall, due to the need for oxygen. They can't just fall back to being hunter-gatherers.

So, yeah, I didn't debunk it. But, seriously, what's the maximum number of sophisticated kinds of machines that 1000 people can run and maintain? 100? 500? Can you build a self-sustaining colony on Mars with only 500 kinds of machines?
It was actually the perverse effects on viral selection created by World War I. The relatively mild first wave turned into a deadly second wave because soldiers who became mildly ill stayed put in the trenches, while those who had severe cases were put on trains and sent to crowded field hospitals, where they spread the more lethal variants.

If they simply suppress symptoms without reducing transmission, the current vaccines being administered may have a similar perverse evolutionary effect (although at least they're not actively selecting for worse strains).
Do you visit Reddit?
There are a couple of major reasons the FAA is involved:

1. Fuel-air explosions at ground level can injure people or destroy property (even kilometers away)

2. Rockets on unplanned trajectories can ruin people's day

3. Lots of fuel is toxic, we need to mitigate this.

Basically someone has to walk through all the worst case scenarios and ensure that everyone (and nature) remains safe or as safe as it is possible to be.
I'd argue that I've been watching this play out in real time among other... parents. It is actually sad when you go outside and start noticing that people are glued to their phone screens, including parents who would rather look at their smartphones rather than their kids. I can tell you that little kids notice that they lost the attention war to their parents' smartphones.
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I tried taking a photo of the moon a while ago on my phone, and I couldn't really get it to look decent. I don't know if most smartphone users even know how to adjust the exposure setting even if any of that helped. And if they saw something as interesting as a UFO, I don't think they would figure it out on the spot either. I'm not sure if automatic settings would cut it on a fancier phone.
Yes. Currently holding multiple opinions on related topics.
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> Big banks sell data to data brokers the same as telcos do.

Do they pay me for making money from me?
People don't decide to become terrorists. They are labeled that way.
I mean, re-inventing IPsec is probably inevitable anyway.
I think there is definitely something I miss from the pre-smartphone era, and that is that the Internet was something akin to an appointment activity. You 'signed on' in the morning and maybe again after school or work. Logging into AIM was like broadcasting to your social circle that you were home and free to chat. You welcomed the instant messages, the interruptions, the socialization - because you knew you could sign off and be unreachable again.

I think that era of having widespread, but not ubiquitous, access to the internet is a time period I would like to have back. For every useful or Maps or food delivery application on my phone, there's three more that steal my attention with an unwanted notification
ping me -- let's create something.

i dig the advisor job -- i always half-joke about the best way to become an expert at something is to just be really bad at it, declare yourself an expert, profit$$$$.
I think it would have, because the primary attack vector is your messaging app. Some Android phones, such as mine, are locked in such a way that this cannot be uninstalled. I can use another messaging app but this one will still run on my phone which means that it can still be exploited.

Unfortunately, the only way to secure my phone because it no longer receives updates is through rooting, but this phone is not a model that can be rooted so my plan is to buy a new phone and root that, and probably remove all text messaging apps or find a way to sandbox them in a secure environment.
Very cool! Wish you best of luck!
Tell HN: Companies which don't get give interview performance feedback are bad
I am looking at you Amazon.

I got two emails today
1) After considering your candidacy, we will not be moving forward in the interview process for this position. While Amazon does not provide feedback, we enjoyed learning more about you and hope that you had a positive experience. We encourage you to keep your profile and contact information up to date on http://www.amazon.jobs/ so you can be considered for other roles in the future.
Thank you again for taking the time to interview with Amazon. We wish you well in your pursuit of new opportunities and thank you for your interest in our company.

2)Rate our Recruiting Process. We strive to provide our candidates with a great experience at every stage of the interview process and are always looking for ways that we can get better. With this in mind, we would greatly appreciate your feedback on what went well and what we could improve upon in our phone interviews.

This is very annoying. Especially when I emailed them asking when I can apply again and they did not respond. I think companies which do not give any feedback have no right to ask feedback and STFU.
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Definitely. I don't think it's terrible at all given the alternative is tens or hundreds of thousands of additional people dying from Covid per year in the US. I guess we'll soon see the extent to which the public can be convinced to get booster shots every year. The governments of the world will have their jobs cut out for them, there will be a lot of resistance to forever Covid vaccinations as time goes on (and very lucrative for big pharma; Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are going to make a stupid amount of money over the next few years).

What will be interesting to find out in the near future, is if high vaccination rates + prior infections reduce Covid deaths below, say, 50k people in the US every year, or whether we're forever stuck with a sizable population killer no matter what (short of implementing elaborate forever cultural systems of lockdown; as in, those counter measures will have to become ingrained deeply into the culture, accepted and automatic). The next decade is going to be very weird and interesting on that front.
> The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket.

We are very far from a self sustaining society and economy on Mars. Easily a century or more. I'm cheering on SpaceX, but find this talking point of Elon's very tiresome. It's little more than sci-fi fantacism. As just a simple example: no one knows what childhood development is going to be like at 40% of earth's gravity. And that's just one issue among millions.

For better or worse we need to fix the planet we have. And we don't need to invent new technology to do it, though we certainly should pursue new technologies that might help or accelerate the process. What we lack fundamentally right now is political will/unity.

We can arrest climate change. We can end famine. We can extend modern medical care to the entire world. All of these are directly possible, today, with no new invention.

But we have to, to paraphrase Sagan, become a species more prudent than we are today.
Does an initial phone screen count as a round?
> 2. Biggest bottleneck from our perspective is nailing planning permission to build our plants

How do you get permission to mine seawater? Its kinda of a weird question and I imagine its very country dependent.

Very intersting project.
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I'm addicted to them. I get them from Trader Joe's here in southern California.
U.S. is only at 50% fully-vaccinated, with several states in the high 30s to 40s. I could believe 70% with at least one shot but haven't seen any statistics to that effect; it doesn't matter much since Delta is still pretty dangerous to partially-vaccinated people. We had 35M recorded COVID cases; I'd believe about a 2:1 undercount, so about 70M total cases (~22%). Vaccines + previous cases was likely past herd immunity for the original variant (hence why cases dropped dramatically after vaccines came out), but with Delta's increased herd immunity threshold we should expect another 50-70M cases within the next few weeks.
> If we don’t get some big companies to take on this roll

- Cisco - has built their entire integrated security platform on Clojure

- Walmart Labs and Sam's club - have some big projects in Clojure

- Apple - something related to the payment system

- Netflix and Amazon, afaik they use Clojure as well

even NASA uses Clojure.

I think the language "is going somewhere"...
You should probably learn TypeScript
By writing anything :^)
No, it comes from this model:

Highly-deadly diseases will kill their hosts quickly, limiting their spread. Therefore, one of two things will happen:

• A less-deadly variant will emerge, spread faster, and outcompete its more deadly cousin.

• The deadly disease will kill enough of the population that its R number drops below 1, and thus the deadly disease will die out.

Therefore, observed diseases will tend to get less deadly over time.

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If you look at the data, we're firmly in “kill enough of the population” town (to the extent you can stretch this model to our situation). The variants we're seeing spread are getting more virulent over time, not less, because:

• we don't want to die and we're doing stuff about that, meaning any model with “most individuals infected are removed from the model” in it is a flawed model; and

• we have fast long-distance travel, so any population model that relies on Euclidean locality is a flawed model.
Yes, the Postgres query planner can break in ways that are operationally catastrophic in large systems. Many companies have experienced this.

The root cause is that the statistics collection architecture of Postgres that feeds the query optimizer has some deep design flaws. Under some conditions it will produce statistical models of the data that are badly skewed in random ways, which causes the query optimizer which uses those statistics to make erratic and incorrect decisions.

Fixing the statistics collection would be a massive undertaking, the issue is architectural in nature. Adding hints would provide a reasonable workaround and is probably easier in terms of development complexity than fixing the statistics collection.

It is possible to reduce the probability of these bugs by reorganizing the data. The idea of changing your data model to work around a database bug is pretty horrific but companies do it.
Can't you uninstall or limit the apps that try to steal your attention?
I had a similar situation a few years back. Postgres has constructs that are optimization barriers. Once I understood this and reviewed the Postgres source code to determine the semantics of the relevant constructs, it was possible to get a 10X improvement for complex set of queries that had already been optimized for several years.
Back in 1992 when I was 10 years old we went to Disney World with my family (as a middle class Mexican family, that was one of 2 out of the country trips in our childhood).

My brother (2 years older) and I had a mechanical camera with rolls of I think 12 or 20 photos (with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110_film ) . We've got at most 30 pictures of that trip in our family albums. I wish we had taken more pictures as my memory of the trip has faded away quite a bit.
As a tangent, one way to get much more accurate data in a much quicker way is to accept human challenge trials.

We don’t even know the answer to whether delta is vaccine resistant. With challenge trials it would be dead simple. Take 10,000 vaccinated volunteers, randomize into a delta and alpha groups. Spray them in the face with Covid. Compare rates one week later. Question answered immediately with statistical certainty.

Right now, we’re trying to answer questions like this using nothing other than extremely messy observational data that’s subject to all sorts of uncontrollable confounding variables.
The Sprinter type vans that Amazon uses in my area get closer to 18 mpg. And they have some that are just like the UPS trucks, big and boxy in Amazon blue - no doubt these are much worse.
> I would very much like to do what you say but with a million interrupts a day, it is now or never.

The secret is to not be interrupted. If you're already reading the text, you might as well go and answer.

If you want to change something you will need to stop being interrupted (close the IM window, put your phone on silent, ...) and check once you have time. If you don't have time for a while, possibly give it a quick skim in case something important happened.

Things will always slip through the cracks. If you attend every interruption, it will once in a while interrupt an interruption itself and you're at status quo. At worst, put things on a todo list.

It's possible to do it.
If it's manufactured in a western country, it's probably fine, I don't think you see too many like that here in the U.S.

It's usually either American, Taiwanese or Chinese, and a reputable shop like Angle Repair, for example, absolutely will not touch a Chinese torque wrench, and might only ever touch a Taiwanese torque wrench if it's a warrantied item on one of their supported brands, and probably only with some arm twisting on the part of the vendor they're doing warranty work for.
How many years did it take for Google to release MapReduce?
> I could have instead been exposed to superior, corporate-sponsored values. Alas.

I am indeed sorry you didn't get to enjoy Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and other corporate sponsored values. You've been deprived.
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The design makes sense if your assumption is that approximately everyone's going to put a case on it, whether or not the back is flat.
We don't really know how this turns out in the long run. These kids do have an IRL social life, even if they're constantly staring at a screen.

I wonder how they will live their day by day when they are pensioners and their old friends which they haven't seen in decades still will be around inside their phones, asking how they're doing, how their day was.

Then they'll make a trip and visit them because they are nearby. Not much different as it was in the past, but better connected.
They were both.
I honestly think "ipsec is too complex" is overdone. Yes, you need to know your networking basics and understand routing but that's probably a good thing when setting up a VPN. Then you pick your crypto primitives from e.g. https://www.keylength.com/en/compare/ and you are basically done.

But no, it's the typical groupthink of 'old is bad' so instead of reading two pages of documentation and having native support across all major platforms people would rather re-invent the wheel.
"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime" - Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnham[1]

This new song from Bo's covid-lockdown inspired special "Inside" hits this right on head. The Internet, particularly when paired with mobile devices just tries to suck up so much attention, because that's exactly what we made it do.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
It will never dominate in China because of the Great Firewall, and Chinese ad-tech will never dominate abroad for similar reasons.
France is good for tomatoes too. I think it's definitely partly about local availability. But probably also a bit to do with cultural consumer choices too. France/Italy/Greece all have big food cultures in a way that isn't quite matched by northern European countries.

That said, it seems to be getting easier to get high quality vegetables (including tomatoes) here in the UK. It's not from a supermarket and you pay more, but it is available (maybe still not quite as good as other countries, but certainly much improved on the flavourless stuff).
Don't forget that unlike normal engineering, in the security world, malware, anticheat, cheats, DRM, etc all love to use the most obsecure, undocumented private APIs, memory writing, all sorts of bizarre and unnecessary calls that would get you physically attacked in a code review.