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As many people on this forum know first hand, it's very, very hard to write that's 'perfect'. I've had the chance to write some fairly technically complicated EVM code (on chain contract upgrades with some other admin features), even the simple lines need a plethora of testing and review. This was a few years ago, but it took myself and another engineer, start to finish a couple months of dedicated effort to write what amounted to something like 5 source files. You have to know how the code executes with extremely high confidence up and down the entire stack, this takes time even with seasoned people. We ended up going through a security review with a third-party team, this is big money to do, high five figures for what amounted to two weeks of code review and pen testing! The problem is, without this serious dedication ($$) to making sure it's as good as you can get, projects are doomed to blow up like this. Hell, who knows what happens in 6 months after release when some EVM level bug gets discovered and directly exposes a hole in your contact. This might be different now, but a lot of contracts back then didn't have anyway to upgrade from those security exploits!

So from my point of view, you have this massive upfront cost, that I suspect the vast majority of teams are not paying, and you also have the chance of success being very low. Where have we seen this before, home automation seems to ring a bell and we've seen the security horror show with that. I don't mean to be such a downer on these projects, but they're really difficult to get right and audit. And when we're talking about putting millions(90!) of dollars into a thing, I don't really want to rely on the goodwill of some hackers to give me my money back. I wish the general public understood the security aspects of these contracts more, but people seem to see these hacks, shrug to themselves thinking they'll get debugged and fixed like normal software, and then continue on in life.

Unfortunately people are going to get burned in crypto by lack of experience, lack of review, lack of investment, and pure and simple scams.
It's fantastic! If you are on a mac you can try it right now with emacs-plus[1]. Emacs plus even works natively with apple m1. Doom[2] with CIDER[3] is such an incredible dev experience and I've only recently started using clojure. Native comp makea everything so snappy.

[1]https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

[2]https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

[3]https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
Is the name “social media” doublespeak? Comparing the online or digital equivalent or approximation as a simulation of reality has either created a false hyperreality at best but usually that of a poor imitation.
I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types
That’s a pretty glib and incorrect way of explaining crypto’s creation. Really, it was created because of the misguided belief that the fed breaks things, not “banks”. Basically, it was goldbug ideology on steroids.

If we’re comparing who “breaks” things more, crypto or banks, crypto will lose every single time. So far I’ve never had my bank account wiped out and the website replaced with a single page that says “penis”.
The converse observation also holds - if people didn't take him seriously, he wouldn't have been important enough to ban.

The fact is that people do take him seriously, and it's a huge problem. You can ignore the problem, but the problem won't ignore you.
I knew a particular self-important PM that had follow up point-poker meetings that easily went into the three hour range. She was very useless, but it was almost like going to her own little tea-party with her little dolls that she fed fake tea.

Apologies for the gender connotations, but I have no better analogy. It was a little girl playing with her little dolls.
I've been down-voted for years for saying this, but I am right. The stock market is a scam. Just like casinos in Las Vegas. The house wins more often than we do. 'You need to diversify' simply means 'Give us more of your money'.

Don't fall for it. It's just rich people and politicians taking money from less rich people.

If you want to double your money, fold it over and put it in your pocket (and buy real things that appreciate over time).
After reading your parent comment I was going to reply and ask if you had considered writing a blog post about your experiences. Thanks for writing about this kind of stuff and sharing it so openly.
> A sexist joke

...against a protected class. All others are allowed, apparently?
This looks like a large scale domain modelling problem for the movie production process. This is the last place I was expecting an overlap between computer engineering and film-making.

But it is not surprising given that large parts of film-making are now supported by software, which has a tendency to direct the evolution of terminology and concepts.

After a cursory glance at the model, it starts with a fairly generic set of primitives: Task, Asset, Participant, Context and Relationship. It then creates further instances based on this idea.

I'm sure other industries could also benefit from collaborative modelling of their problem domains like this.
Looks like one development you need to be super connected to get into…
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And that is the crux of the issue. Modern banking has tons of fees and burdensome regulations, but it also has entrenched layers of protection that makes sure both the bank and the customer are not 100% nuked when there is a problem.

Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore. Currencies devaluating like an exploding balloon - not since the civil war. Sure, it costs you more, but it saves you more.

Lotta benefits to crypto, but lots of hurdles need to be overcome (power and security for a start).
Ooooh ... smart! Now ... I wonder if I can do the same thing for my 3D printed (hobby-) VAWTs!
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Ok but this paper was a work of many different researchers, on site and off site, over many years. And now someone on Twitter is claiming it's wrong and someone else is claiming some image in the paper has been doctored.

Sorry but this reeks of attention seeking.

I can't say what's what since I'm just a layman but until I see an argument that makes sense to me I'm on the side of the original authors.
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You're certainly right, and the specific term here for what consumers should, but generally don't, have is a "Service Level Agreement" (SLA). This is pretty standard for business links and nearly anything at all at the datacenter level, if you ever subscribe to a whole line at a colo you'll probably see that. SLAs tend to spell out not just maximum sustained bandwidth, but 90/95/97/99%, uptime, what if any burst bandwidth is available, any latency guarantees, etc. All of these are different measures that cost different amounts to hit at any given level, and SLAs spell out exactly what is being paid for in numbers that can be monitored fairly easily.

If I could make one simple change to the home broadband market, it would be insisting on a standardized big number consumer level SLA. I certainly don't expect residential rates to cover the same 99.97% or worst case minimum that business class does, that's a major part of what higher end connections are paying for. But whatever they do offer should be transparent, fixed for contract period and measurable. ISPs should by law be required to spell out not just the top line bandwidth level, but also 75%/95% guarantees over a standard time (day/month maybe) and what the worst case guaranteed minimum is. This wouldn't be some big centralized bureaucratic decision about implementations or what numbers have to be hit, but rather merely make sure the market has clear information so customers can compare and ISPs could be held to their promises. Energy Star consumer information might be some guide to layout, but I think something like that would be low hanging fruit.

Also to be clear, a distinction can and should be made for intra-network vs inter-network, and both should be accounted for. Obviously an ISP has the most control and is the most responsible for how traffic traverses their own network to their edges, but ISPs do have some responsibility (affected by size/location) for their peering agreements too. If they're purposefully choking that it's on them, though small/remote ISPs may be at a disadvantage in negotiations there which should ideally have some eyes on it.
I think in your analogy netflix is more the shop that those truckers are delivering goods to.

So if you want to be more accurate, the proposed payments won't be like a tax on truckers (in this analogy the truckers are the users, or maybe ISPs), rather it'll be a tax on supermarkets and shops that are getting the goods.
If someone accidentally wires you too much money, or wires money to the wrong account, is it not illegal to keep the money?
People are getting taller; Why are Indian heights on the decline?
Ah. Not only does our car (VW from 2016) not have one, I don't think I have ever been in a car that had a backup camera.

Reading in this thread that it's impossible to even buy a car without it is very surprising to me.
In some ways it's like the early days of banks, where flaws like this were found and fixed. However a lot of those fixes were put in place by governments and regulation with the threats of prison time and fines for both banks and their customers.

Another question is if things like this will poison the well and scare people away permanently.
That's like asking why people trust sites or banks after some sites or banks have had bugs. In neither case does it invalidate the whole concept.
IMO, if the project is truly decentralized as they claim, then the recipients of the tokens should be entitled to keep the funds. That said, I hope the SEC will investigate this to rule out a scheme in case the bug was an intentional way to launder tokens to insiders.
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Saying "72% of vehicle sales are trucks and SUVs" in the context of pedestrian safety is highly disingenuous when a huge slice of that is crossovers that are mostly sold globally and conform to European requirements for pedestrian safety.

Hitting one's head on the windshield is/was the source of a lot of the pedestrian injury and fatalities and modern safety requirements try and prevent this outcome.

Would you rather get hit by a'21 CRV or a '95 LeBaron? CRV seems like the obvious choice.

Of course there's a lot more big trucks to hit you on the roads in 2021 but improvements in pretty much every smaller class of vehicle do a lot to balance that out.

Looking at the data I don't see any clear trend that pedestrians are at more risk today than in the past.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/road-users/pedestr...
I think those have some kind of centrifugal pitch control with a linkage (based on RPM), might have to look at existing designs.

There are some helicopter blades that have this same idea, a little moving thing to control the pitch of the rotor over a swash plate
Yes, and that lack of power is a feature not a bug for some people.
Yes, and it's been quite obvious for a while. Search "Donald Trump" on a search engine like Yandex and you'll see radically different results than on Google. Here's an example from a search I did earlier this year, https://i.imgur.com/oPXP0wh.jpeg

I believe the explanation for this is that left-wing news sources have generally received higher fact check scores and Google now ranks search results by authoritative sources. As a side note, they seem to do this much more aggressively on YouTube and these days almost any search on YouTube will return videos from various mainstream media channels.

Being charitable, I do think right-wing news outlets have a problem with bias and misinformation and I can understand to some extent why sites like Fox News and Breitbart do not rank well in Google search, but on the other side, I also see huge amounts of bias and misinformation coming from left-wing outlets like CNN and The Guardian which rank comparatively very well.

There is a lot of soft censorship happening on the web today which most average internet users aren't aware of. The majority of search results and recommendations on tech platforms are far from neutral. For example, good luck finding anything negative about COVID vaccines on Google. Popular subreddits like CovidVaccinated are seemingly removed from Google search results completely probably because users on that subreddit tend to discuss the side effects they experienced after getting vaccinated or how they caught COVID despite being fully vaccinated, which obviously isn't good if you care about protecting the narrative that vaccines are 100% safe and effective. Again being charitable, you could argue that it's in the publics best interest not promote communities like CovidVaccinated, but right or wrong it should be understood that the content you are consuming is biased and deliberately altered to promote certain political narratives.

These days I do my best to avoid Reddit, Google and YouTube entirely when researching anything vaguely political because what I know what I will see is a biased representation of reality. The problem is most people don't understand the extent to which sites like Google and YouTube are biased and therefore believe what they're seeing is representative. And so should they decide to research COVID vaccines using Google there is only one conclusion it would be possible to come to.
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KDE and macOS managed. I don't understand why Microsoft cannot.

Maybe there are external forces preventing them. Be it patents or even just the threat of being accused of anti-competitive practices again?
That's certainly the case in the UK at least
That person is likely just making a fun of it. "California Core Corporate Policies" - take every first letter - CCCP, which is a Russian abbreviation for the Soviet Union.
Maybe I'm just a huge nerd, but this is awesome.

The product I work on ends up doing a lot of work for order processing, stock management, logistics, etc. There is no industry standard ontology for anything. All off the shelf software works in different ways. Terminology is somewhat consistent but not at all formally defined.

The idea of being able to build software (or human processes) around a well understood ontology is great. Full software interoperability is a long way off, but building integration points is rarely the challenge when integrating, the real challenge is in adapting one way of thinking about a problem to fit someone else's entirely different model.

If this is close enough to reality then it doesn't even need lots of parties on board with "supporting" it, they could already be close enough. Having it all written down is a great next step that should enable a lot more products to enter the marketplace.
I haven't found any conclusive numbers. About 6.5% of all beef eaten here is organic. However not organic does not always automatically mean it's 100% bad.

My neighbor's meat is way cheaper than organic meat in supermarkets. Still at least twice as much as 'cheap' meat.
This is true, however it's also not an unusual feature - pretty much every capitalist society has the characteristic that those with capital can gain more capital with a minimum of additional work.

Alternatives that don't have that feature to at least some extent would be regarded as very radical, and difficult to implement.
Paying taxes on free money isn't the end of the world.
>Don't fall for it. It's just rich people and politicians taking money from less rich people.

How do rich people make money in the stock market if it's a "scam?" And how do politicians use the stock market to take money from anyone? (usually they use taxes to do this) What about index funds, which usually have proven returns and require no special knowledge?
And the government stepped in to save them. Not a fan of that but it's just what happened. Government will not step in to save crypto, at least not yet.

There's also the possibility that governments will actively ignore cryptos problems just to de-enforce crypto's utility.
I think of it the other way around - dimensional analysis of units is a special case of a type system. Two units of different measures cannot be added/subtracted with one another. Units of the same measure (e.g. length: cm, in) are trivially convertible via a scalar factor (e.g. 2.54 cm/in), and units of different measures (e.g. length: m, time: s) can be multiplied/divided to get a new unit of measure (speed: m/s), although some such units might have no practical use.
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Crumple zone for pedestrians (i.e. those big bulbous plastic front bodyworks that every modern car and crossover has) are new, like mid-00s new.
Some of the them were practitioners and very technical. Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Dave Thomas, Robert C. Martin, Martin Fowler. In general there was a movement about better ways to develop software (beyond waterfall) and people were trying to figure it out. In 2002 they just got together and put it in writing.
I think that's a pretty valid question to ask, but one that doesn't sit right with the typical neo-liberal/venture-capital clientele on HN.

The wishful image of financial autonomy and chances of personal and business development through a public market seems to provide too much cognitive dissonance when confronted with the realities of how bloated, speculative, manipulated, and self-fulfilling stock markets have become.

It's like telling someone who's put their entire live saving into bitcoin that it's a pyramid scheme.
I mean any other idea would probably die on here, once it's been shown that it's success is coupled to NP=P being true.(https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284)
The most confusing thing to me is a discussion of "offline first" applications which starts with, and maintains, the assumption that your only option is a web app.

Back in my day we had a word for software that always worked without an internet connection. We called it "software" and it was installed on the user's computer.
> True of course but also now the Developers and Architects are compensating for the scrum master's/manager's lack of knowledge

What do you mean? Scrum master's role is nothing more than facilitating the process, they don't need any technical knowledge at all.
The disruptor may have an answer for the content problem that Netflix never thought of. It's a competition for attention, after all, and if someone else can provide a more compelling alternative than video for people's attention then that will mess with Netflix' business despite its content deals.
He wrote how the masses need babysitters.

Even if that’s so, my problem is he thinks he should be one of the babysitters. That’s what elected officials are for.

All I owe Peter Thiel is letting him live his life. If he wants to co-opt the agency of others without consent, I don’t even owe him that.

Workers build the world. Thiel is not the smartest man in the world. There are engineers and scientists doing useful work while he grifts off government corruption he claims to hate.

When he’s participating in the management of the real human mess that enables him, he’ll have earned his place. Right now he’s a lazy nobody who has convinced people he’s worth a number that means something special.

The only number that applies to Thiel is he’s 1 of 7 billion+. Nothing more.
>If Mrs. Smith realizes little Timmy isn't paying attention, is she going to accept and consider the possibility she is boring, or just punish Timmy? For perspective, consider how often children are currently drugged when they are found not to be paying attention in school.

As someone who was diagnosed with ADD in 1988, this point is very poignant. Society largely tends to ignore and downplay the fact that everyone's experience is subjectively different and that not everyone has the same "brain wiring".
This three-part series of (long) posts is a very thorough and fascinating counterpoint to the idea that computation was discovered and that there is anything surprising about the confluence of lambda calculus, Turing machines etc, mostly using primary sources from Leibniz onwards:

"Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra"

https://pron.github.io/posts/computation-logic-algebra-pt1
Traffic engineering does not just cover what. It also covers where. At the eyeball network level where is way more important than what as what is constant.
Could the users sell now if they haven't already?
This is largely true, but there remains the issue that there are some people who, for whatever reason, almost seem to go out of their way to assume bad intent and interpret what was said or written in the worst possible way.

There is probably some sad history behind many of those individuals, but reasonable people can disagree about how to deal with the situation.

The current fashion implies that as soon as one such person enters the community, everybody has to start metaphorically walking on tip toes.

Maybe a better outcome overall would be for the person to get therapy.

Everybody has a line somewhere for what they consider "too easily offended". This is true even for the staunchest defenders of the current fashion, because even they understand implicitly that offense can be faked.

So yeah, you need good defaults, but that's really a discussion about where exactly that line should be drawn. I doubt either extreme is the right answer.
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I knew one company where the standups were getting so bad, the managers solution was to have everybody in a plank position for the meeting. Meeting time got short real fast.