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If you give up, you've already lost.
Answer is pretty easy. People are assholes.

Those rules and regulatory frameworks exist for a reason, and with something like health insurance you don’t see better outcomes in states with lower regulatory burden.

Same with the financial burdens that companies cry about. Enron, GlobalCrossing, etc all demonstrated that corporate governance required the federal stick to behave.

Anderseen’s article is pretty lame with respect to why we can’t do things. We can and we have. The difference is now that you have executive leadership that is batshit crazy people have taken over the government. That happened because of the absence of regulation that gives extremists like Alex Jones, who were relegated to public access cable and weird newsletters in the 1980s access to the public at large.

Taking off what rails remain isn’t a strategy for success.
Maybe I am wrong but there is nothing that can be done today that could not be done in a 30 year old language. I am certainly glad IDEs have evolved though
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It could be a crap environment, or it could be that your team is bad at communicating, or any number of other things. We've ran into cases before where competing advice was given to mid or jr devs by senior members and they waste cycles spinning in circles trying to make everyone happy. However, with some communication, things get cleared up fast. In this particular case, the recommendation to the dev running in circles was to get the folks with different opinions together at the same time and talk it through. More often than not, there are misunderstandings on both sides. A quick discussion can lead to unblocking things, stopping the spinning in circles, and get things done. On the other hand, the people you work with could just be lacking in professionalism and you can always change to a new shop.

In your particular case, it is unclear to me if you pushed back. If someone asked you to find a way to do 'x,' and you already tried for a considerable time, I'd expect any non-jr dev to push back saying they've tried and they don't see anything and to either seek additional help or escalate the issue to get a resolution -- I would not expect them to spin more wheels unless there was a consensus from the team or higher ups that 'x' needed to be done.
Miss APL, (or K etc.), Pascal and Fortran and Algol 68 ...
With or without compiler pragmas?
Such great ideas, both in this article and here in the comments, yet, none of these ideas will bear fruit. Why? Partly due to the fact that the people like Marc Andreessen and others here in this thread that you can clearly see are very capable of thinking through and helping solve some of the issues touched on in Marc’s article don’t run for office. Instead you have glass eyed Attorneys and puppets on both the right and left side in office.
I’m embarrassed often while watching our federal and state leaders talk. I’m watching in utter disbelief, wondering how so many of these people got elected... we voted for them. It’s our fault. If we really want change we need to start with the people running the country, all of them and the system in which it allows politicians to be elected (selected) based on the amount of money they’ve accumulated.
Pre-enforcement lawsuits do exist to answer questions for parties prior to taking actions that would result in liability. One was just recently decided in favor of the ACLU.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200402/13055544225/dc-co...
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Our genus has been using tools, or at least one particular kind of tool, for at least 2.6 million years. Check these out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe
How is it outdated when the versions on the Play Store are automatically built with the open source version, which got an update 7 hours ago? Even if I had used a previous version, my current version is up to date by now.
Nothing resembling 30% of the domains in .COM are DNSSEC-signed. The number is much closer to 1% (like, it may by now be 2%; it is not 4%). This is an easy stat to look up, but it's often presented misleadingly; you may need to look at whatever chart you're looking at knowing in advance how many domains are in .COM.

And, of course, that 1-2% is almost entirely a bunch of random tiny zones nobody cares about. You can quickly discover that for yourself by feeding any list of the Internet's most popular zones (the Moz 500 is an easy one to download) through a bash for-loop against "host -t ds".

There is no evidence of any cache-poisoning attacks on DoH servers that I'm aware of. DNS attacks are in general far rarer than you'd think given the attention they've received in the past (again: there isn't much you can do with a DNS cache-poisoning attack other than trying to get a certificate mis-issued, and CAs have multiple levels of defense against that attack).

It's interesting that you played with DNS cache poisoning 25 years ago. So did I! Small world. I wrote a QID-brute-forcing cache poisoner in late 1995 (to get onto IRC from funny domains with). Towards the end of 1996, I wrote the DNS cache poisoning checks for Secure Networks Ballista scanner, which did QID stuff a la Johannes Ulrich, and the DNS authority record caching tricks Kashpureff used, plus some others.

It's fun stuff! There's not much to do with it anymore, though. In 1995, reliable domain forgery would get you past rutils filters and NFS exports; it was a very big deal, so much so that people took the time to do crazy things like elaborate source-routing attacks. But just a year or two later, everything was SSH; a few years after that, and most sensitive things on the web were SSL (it wasn't good SSL, but DNS wasn't the low-hanging fruit).

It's been hard times for people who wanted to spend their careers protecting the DNS.

There are, of course, lots of good reasons not to want to deploy DNSSEC. A good starting point would be that it drastically harms the reliability of all your sites, because when DNSSEC fails, every site in your zone vanishes as if it was never there. That's what happened to HBO the week they rolled out HBO NOW.

But there are strong architectural arguments against it, too.

I end up saying a version of a bunch of this stuff any time people complain about DNSSEC not being available on this or that online service. I appreciate the opportunity to write a new and hopefully more interesting version of the comment. Thanks!
Just apply the same technology to mitigate their mitigation. Arms race all the way down.
Could you please explain to the linguistically challenged amongst us what the error is?
Taiwan didn't make millions of facemasks before January. Ventilators are also made in the US and are very high value.
There are plenty of quotes that are right despite, rather than because of the point the quotee was trying to make: "Information wants to be free.", "The last enemy to be defeated is death.", "I'm not my brother's keeper.", probably dozens more if I had the patience to make a proper list. Adding "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." to list means little for the the latter, or the former.
Yep.

Markets build in response to incentives. Most American production choices are determined by markets, including the choices of investors allocating capital.

Public institutions build and manage in response to electoral incentives.

If we're not prepared, it's because the incentives are wrong.

On the market front, once incentives and maybe even insights become opaque at the level of the abstraction of return on investment -- especially on a horizon within which a generation can live and die w/o experiencing a risk event like a pandemic -- then investors will be essentially blind to this.

On the public front, we have at least one political movement in the US that generally stands on the idea that government shouldn't do things like this for the common welfare. That movement is a minority, but knows how to use countermajoritarian features of the US political system to maintain control and is determined to do so (demonstrably well past limits of defensible public stewardship at this point).

That leaves philanthropy, which is helpful, but often scales poorly and is distributed first by proximity to various privileges on the social graph.

And maybe some degree of private capacity to re-think incentives and how long-term value could be structured into short-term incentives in private markets.

If anyone is in a position to do the last two, it's someone like Marc, so it's weird to read this as someone who's in a position nothing like his. Perhaps I'm not the audience. Perhaps others in his wealth class and investor circle are.
or, alternatively, Poland and India have seen large cultural evolutions over a short period of time.
Fun fact: I keep my Vim's TIL in a org file.
What is progress like on dealing with hand signals (or other gestures) from law enforcement or construction workers directing traffic?
I've spent the last month setting up a company to build PPEs, so I hope to bring an interesting perspective here.

Most importantly: production ramps slowly because of the implications of structural organization.

1. From what I can tell, our supply chains are carefully tuned for efficient output of known, predictable, quantities

2. If you want to suddenly double, triple, or 10x production, it isn't easy: the reconfiguration necessary is hard. Building new injection molds is hard, the surrounding transport chains are hard.

3. In light of those two facts, our existing manufacturing infrastructure is wholly unequipped to change or to help.

This is exactly where a strategic, savvy reserve would make a huge difference.

You can see this in the flurry of press releases from three weeks ago which have largely turned into nothing. Bupkis.

By contrast, my small, scrappy, and deeply dedicated team of volunteers has designed, prototyped, iterated, refined, and is now shipping emergency PPE in quantity.

Go visit https://maskson.org

We're ramping up to 2000 masks shipped a day.

That's going to take $100k/day in capital: http://gofundme.com/f/maskson
You can’t pull over in that situation unless you want to get your car stuck, be stuck in the cold all night, and potentially rear ended.
Introduce a rule that any new law should be submitted in the handwriting of its actual authors. And not the handwriting of interns, or staffers of the official authors, the author themselves.
Yes, in fact dat was initially created for this use case: data analysts want to exchange their data, and that data evolves in time so it needs to be transported "efficiently", as in, you don't need to redownload a full .zip just for a single file change. The only metadata you'll receive will concern the new file and the old content is still valid. You can even seek inside any file if you don't want to download the whole file.

Changes _inside_ a file, though, are not handled. Today if a file is modified dat will consider any bytes of the old one to be garbage and will not reuse it.

dat is a sexy frontend on top of hyperdrive(https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperdrive), I personally think it's easier to see what dat can do by looking at what hyperdrive does
"hospitalizations with flu symptoms" is a good indicator, but you have to account for the fact that people who catch it in different areas (or with different incomes) will have different levels of access to a hospital. many people are dying (or recovering) at home.
Yeah, I generally agree. The book does highlight how much of it is hinged on contingency, though. The US has strong institutions, but the dynamic of having elites opposing change is still present, obviously. High barriers of entry is a prime example of how it can be done when other options are unavailable.
If the 70% CVE figure can be interpreted as misleading then that was a failure of wording on my part. The intent behind the short list of CVEs was to refute GP's claim that high-profile open-source kernels no longer suffer from memory safety/management issues, and the 70% CVE figure was just to show that high-profile closed-source software isn't much better. I think that the 70% figure is an appropriate example in that case.

Now if you wanted to examine whether Rust programs suffer from fewer memory-related issues, you need to look at more than a few CVEs here and there for both Rust and C/C++ programs. As you pointed out, C/C++ programs are much more prevalent, so looking at the absolute number of CVEs isn't a good comparison. Ideally, one would need to find a Rust and C/C++ implementations of programs with very similar feature sets and look at the various vulnerabilities, such as by looking at fuzzer trophy cases for similar programs and compare how many of the uncovered errors are memory-related.
So I guess my question to Marc is: how many of your portfolio companies pair their morally correct level of corporation tax?
Any recent example of a societal issue affecting American lives got fixed in American system?
this article shows why closing down hacker news would benefit the world. this dude refuses to actually look at the issue of politics & advertising as giving people ways to grift others to their own benefit and the detriment of the world at large. there are clear examples of government-run health care being better than the US system; public housing being worthwhile; public education working fine if you just don't cut and cut all the funding.

but none of that fits with the idea of randian personal profit.

this is garbage, anyone that praised it has garbage brain, ban my account and I'll holler backwards into hell
This is exactly how two of the biggest startups of the past 15 years - Airbnb and Uber - were built.

Airbnb and Uber built products that were in a legal gray area. Lawmakers are still catching up to them.
You don't need to be an expert in a field to raise capital or start a company. Most of the most valuable companies in the world weren't started by experts, and most of the most influential ones as well. Venture capitalists will throw money at just about anything.
Point being, why not write simpler laws and regulations and leave it to the courts to interpret what adheres to the spirit of it? With the barriers of entry gone, I think we'd see a renewed vitality to many ossified sectors.

I agree with your overall point, but you have the regulatory differences between the US and Europe exactly backwards. Europe (excluding England somewhat) has a statutory legal system. Things are either legal or illegal according to laws that have largely been written down ahead of time that anyone can go read and figure out.

In the US we have a common law system where much of our law is written by the courts in response to specific cases where judges interpret the general principles described in the "simpler laws" you speak of.

In practice this means that, under many circumstances, things move a lot slower in the US because of the time and expense of litigation (and even the threat of litigation). This is one of the reasons that it's harder to build things in the US. Our public transportation systems (trains, subways, etc) cost on the order of 5-10x more than similar ones in Europe. Our different legal systems is one of the big reasons why.
Conversely if 80% of COVID carriers are asymptomatic and therefore untested as is currently theorized (the US aircraft carrier that became infected is the most recent example) then we should be multiplying the denominator by 5 for the mortality rate, because right now we are just putting tested cases in the denominator for COVID. This dramatically reduces the mortality rate for the disease.

So the contagiousness of the disease actually reduces the mortality rate quite a lot, more so than uncounted deaths in the numerator.

Secondly if you do the same thing for the flu, put confirmed flu deaths over confirmed flu cases (tested) the mortality for flu is 4%. This would be the apples to apples comparison.
Rounding error?! The US had 434 mass shootings in 2019, between ~50,000 middle-to-higher institutions. Assuming each of the 434 events happened at different institutions, you had a 99.132% chance of not being present at a school shooting in 2019.

But you're at one of these institutions (middle through undergrad) for 11 years? Your probability of being at one of these during a shooting compounds to 90.86%.

9-in-10 people and their friends had a nice time, but that remaining 1 was there when four or more of their school were gunned down.

I don't disagree that the Constitution gives Americans a fair whack at freedom, but it also frustrates democracy. If a clear majority wanted to change things, even incrementally (background and mental health checks, storage laws esp child-access, restricting higher form assault weapons), overcoming the 66% bar really makes progress on [inexplicably] partisan issues like this impossible.

You've got to weigh up what this law was designed to do, against what it's permitting today. I think it's obvious we come to a different result when we balance that equation but I'm not deaf to your views either.

(Edit: Important to note that 434 is the mass shooting number. It's just 1% of all gun violence in schools.)
Great idea. Decentralizing would be a very effective way to combat disease like this. It would also make society more resilient to other kinds of disasters.
Lime is buying what's left of Boosted
The answer is a shame, but until collective ownership becomes more common, it's the right one.
Shitpost: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

Running a CA is not easy, and getting your root certificates included in trusted roots is even harder.

For the technical aspects of it, you will need an HSM for the root certificates generated, OCSP servers, a CRL mechanism, and the signing server. Many enterprises already run their own private CA, and there are plenty of free and open source software.

The difficult part is convincing root CA programs. Mozilla, Google, and Apple would be the start, but I suppose Curl/Java/Debian (which sync with Mozilla) will take some time to catch-up too. You need to be audited (by firms like KPMG and they don't come cheap), and they expect a certain level of transparency.

Why would you want to become a CA in the first place? Amazon and cpanel are root CAs that issue certificate for free. LetsEncrypt is free and issues certificates to everyone. I don't think there's any financial profit to be made anymore.
> Having shelter is a pre-requisite to existing.

That's why I said land instead of property. Land can't be created or destroyed, so there's no need to provide incentives for it, or worry about disincentivizing it.

> Taxing people that own $10m houses in SF at the same elevated rate as a homeowner in a poor rural region would be economic assassination.

I'm not sure this would be a problem. Increasing the land tax brings down the property value, since the value reflects some multiple of the rents you can extract from it, and so the tax would naturally be corrected. Of course, all this depends on having a good system to assess land.

I'm in agreement about healthcare; too much time is spent on discussing single payer vs private etc., and not enough on bringing down the costs, that would be there regardless of the system we use.
Maybe I misunderstood that the tool he was using was Loomio in this video (that's what it says in the title bar, but maybe that's just the name of the file) -- it could be he's using some other mind mapping tool, but I don't recognize it, and I'd love to know what it is:

Here is a talk by W Watson (the same guy who gave this talk) about Loomio, and its background, history, and purpose, as it relates to asynchronous group decision making!

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https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_enabling_worker_coops

There have been some HN postings about Loomio:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12348909
"i don't get what apple has to gain by not supporting webp"

I am not totally savvy as to the difficulty of the feat but, at least in principle, would it not cost them less in time and maintenance to not implement or support a feature?
Waiting for 6G
The real reason is money, as it usually is. Nvidia and AMD GPUs can in fact split their resources per VM - if only you buy their enterprise/research versions of their cards, like Quadro and Firepro. Most people have no need of VM GPU passthrough, so they don't support it for consumer cards. Intel does because they are not really in the graphics space (not yet anyway, we'll see how Xe does).
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Use it, love it. All it needs is a Data Modeler and it would be complete.
Application #300-something at PNC bank. Informed today they ran out of money and cannot make loan. We will survive this - hopefully - and I will close my PNC accounts. There's. That's more consequence than I can deliver to China whose output I cannot do business without, and who is far more responsible for this mess.
Infantilism? Or Masochism?

"Programming in Basic causes brain damage." -Edsger W. Dijkstra
The tests comment was meant in good fun. I made it up the corporate ladder as far as Director, but decided I liked programming better. But if I put on my management hat, the question would run somewhat as follows:

I see you're expressing a fair amount of indignation, and I acknowledge that. But are we supposed to gaze upon your indignation, or the indignity you claim to have suffered?
Just go to /r/Futurology for plenty of comments like this essay.
I believe the distribution is largely the same concept, i.e. you get a copy of the data from somewhere, then other nodes that are also looking for the same data might discover that you have it as well and so you might then serve it on to those other nodes too.
The signing schemes I've seen used in binary protocols fall into two categories:

1. Canonicalize and sign: the format has a defined canonical form. Convert to that before doing cryptographic operations. If the format is well designed around it, this is doable, whereas JSON doesn't really have this and with many libraries it's hard to control the output to the degree that you'd need.
2. Serialize and sign: serialize the data as flat bytes, and then your signed message just has a "bytes" field that is the signed object. This is conceptually not far off from the base64 solution above, except that there's not extra overhead, since with a binary protocol you'll have a length prefix instead of having to escape stuff.
You're being downvoted by people who don't like the truth or haven't seen a public school "equity" document recently.

A better solution is to raise taxes on those rich families, not handicap education.
Thanks, that's very informative, and the intro in the Hyperdrive README clarifies the goals very well. I have a much better idea now, thanks again.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/information-...

‘Long term readers will recall the Philip Cross Affair. A Wikipedia Editor named “Philip Cross” was relentlessly conducting a propaganda operation’ ..

‘The incredible thing about “Philip Cross” was that he never took a single day off. From 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018 “Philip Cross” edited Wikipedia every day, including Christmas days, for 1,721 days.’
is that what suing for "declaratory relief" is, or is that only for civil law?