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Governance tokens & DAOs are helping to bridge the human divide. Not everything can be coded, humans have to make judgement decisions sometimes. The smart contract is just the agreed upon structure of cooperation.

For cases like escrow over digital goods, it should be perfect in a p2p context without human involvement. It already is for any web3 good like tokens or nfts. Bugs happen but these contracts are often simple and used lots of times. We'll settle on more and more common standards to implement simple transactions.
> I'm not sure the government would police itself either

Has it ever?
I was thinking this just yesterday, when I realised I could probably fix the leaking drain, even though I'm not trained as a plumber.

At first I had my doubts, but then once I got my hands on the pipe and started undoing the join, one thing led to another. By the time my fingers were wet, I had the confidence to keep going and see what I could see. When the drain sections were apart all was revealed. The thin black washer had perished, probably after 30 years.

All that remained was to buy a replacement from the hardware store, fit it, and do the pipes up in the reverse order.

"It's not rocket science." The phrase entered my thoughts as my anxiety abated.

But then again, I thought, rocket science isn't so very different, is it?

I thought about all those pipes on the outside of Saturn V, and the O ring made famous by Richard Feynman's investigation after the Columbia disaster.

Yeah, it's similar. A lot of thing are reducible to something akin to "plumbing".

What makes a good rocket scientist are the same things that make a good plumber. Knowledge of first principle, attention to detail, and a willingness the think things through.

Whilst the stakes may be higher in actual rocket science and brain surgery, the practice of plumbing and gardening have a lot in common. I think that when I spend hours in the yard pulling up weeds. Is what a brain surgeon does much different when she removes a tumour?
That is an excellent talk
We need a Lennart to say 'fuck it', here's what I want, here's why, and I'm gonna do it. Unfortunately I don't think a whole gui display environment is in the cards for one person.

Wayland is also missing that one cool feature that makes people say: yes, I want that; I need that. And I KNOW I don't want Gnome 3.
> Chesterton's Fence: "I don't understand why this exists, so let's tear it down" is an big and tempting error. Wait until you understand.

Right, but the quote I was questioning seemed to indicate that this principle should be applied in cases where no one knows or perhaps even there is no way to know what the purpose is or even in there is one.

That’s a much stronger claim than Chesterton’s fence, because a fence is at least a pretty clear indication of human intent (prevent creatures or objects of a certain size from traveling from one particular area to another), and the class of reasons to build a fence is fairly bounded and can feasibly be investigated.

Also, I’m not sure how Chesterton’s fence is used in detail, but I wouldn’t agree that you must discover the original reason for the fence to justify removing it. You should investigate all the normal reasons a fence would be there, and if no extant reason turns up, tear down the fence and maybe keep an eye out for a while in case you missed something.

I don’t want Chesterton’s fence to devolve all the way to the precautionary principle. Sure, maybe the fence was never needed as a traditional fence, and instead was built by ancient people because they were visited by aliens who said they will destroy Earth if there is ever not a fence in that location. Sure, that’s probably physically possible, but keeping the fence around because of that possibility is terrible epistemology.
If it is enlightened do you even need to be believer?
A Safer San Francisco
It's also not entirely accurate in the case of newer DisplayPort interfaces offering Panel Self Refresh / Panel Replay, where only the changed area is sent over the interface and static refreshes come from the panel's own memory https://vesa.org/press/vesa-publishes-displayport-2-0-video-...
A lame answer that happens to directly, and accurately, answer your question... better move the goal posts. I'm sure Lenin would strongly disapprove of a strategy wherein everything is regarded as a right to be overseen by the government, and proponents for said argument wouldn't be "useful idiots" at all.
Their developers to implement some dbus protocol probably?
I mean, dozens of generative artists have set up this exact workflow, and anyway the blog post doesn't give any useful detail on how it was done. So I'll second puzzlement at what the point of this write-up was (self promotion?).
Number 5 is the 'He who smelt it, dealt it' world view.
This exploit was found after the article was published: https://www.wired.com/story/supermicro-bug-virtual-usb/
But if a private person may not fly over private property of other people, than that rule should apply for government personal, too - unless a warrant, or "special rules". And they can be changed by the people.
I’m fairly certain “unscientific” means “not scientific.” I believe what I was saying is that ID is not scientific. And for a while I’d argue with other Christians about theistic evolution, but even then they’d insist that life was created in a continuous, 7-day period. Or that dinosaurs weren’t real because they’re not documented in the Bible. Or that the traditional biological ontologies that lump humans with other animals is incorrect.
I live in a place outside of tornado alley (sort of) and we still have tornado sirens so I would imagine they definitely do
I'm on the side of honesty here despite the argument for secrecy, but I want to note your argument can be firmed up interestingly.

You say "evil deeds require secrecy 99% of the time" which means that P(need_secrecy | evil) = 0.99

However, you are saying you don't like secrecy because of this, which means you are accessing a different fact, P(evil | needs_secrecy)

This is one of my favorite examples of flawed reasoning of all time because it is almost entirely hidden until you formalize things in one of a few ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy

Comment note: P(A|B) = P(A&B)/P(B) is the "conditional probability" and is read "Probability of A given B".
I know I'm a few days late to this reply, but Handshake is a Proof of Work system like Bitcoin. You generate balances by mining it using a powerful computing device.
Social conditioning by years of right-wing media to distrust everything any scientist says is what will cause the outcomes we're seeing, not a cartoonish reverse psychology plot.
It's fun to imagine trying to wander into a Go community ~4 years ago and suggest that this might happen. I actually feel small and withdrawn just thinking about it.

Boy, I still remember when I go shit on by Real Go Devs who insisted there was never a need for more than one GOPATH or real dep management. And raged when I gave countless examples of how large Go projects (cough k8s) were doing all sorts of ... creative stuff... to accomodate The Google Way.
Shouldn't the question be the inverse? Can you point to any cases where the ability to do this without consequence is actually necessary?
People like Saule should have their citizenship stripped from them and deported immediately.
i was more nervous for Crew-2, the first manned spacex flight. If this doesn't work we've got SLS and starship coming down the pipe that should make more telescopes much cheaper and easier to build. If Crew-2 blew up it would have set spaceflight back much worse.
Hospitalizations and deaths lag behind cases, mortality shoots up above some case load threshold (hence attempts to flatten the curve), etc. Feels like most people skipped their 2020 homework.

Aside from that, most countries are not even on pace to triple vax their population by end of winter, so letting it rip is a not an option. The countries currently led by populists will lock down just like the rest, only later and with more deaths.

Food for thought: Has China changed their pandemic strategy? Why not?
I work from home so I only drive 4k to 5k miles a year and not the 15k or whatever most people put on their vehicles. I also drive a 2003 that I bought used about 10 years ago (which means less depreciation, I can "self-insure" for collision/comprehensive, and I didn't require a factory to pump out all that carbon to build me a new car). Does require giving up the sense of self-identity that you get from chasing after a new vehicle every couple of years, but you can still get that utility out of old vehicles that aren't status symbols.

And one big thing that Americans can all do first is give up the idea that you have to do something perfectly or else you're a total failure at it.
Do you really need to be told about every company that could conceivably offer to pay you too little? I've go news for you, you won't be able to read that list as fast as new entries get added.

Telling people to value their time and effort is laudable. Lambasting some company or person in public because they offered you less than you were worth is not. If I contacted you in private and offered you $1000 to design a GBA emulator (not quite the same thing, I know) and you thought that was far too little money, is that worth posting screencaps of, or maybe you should just tell me "really that's so low of an offer that whether you intend it to be or not it's sort of insulting, as I would be working for so far less than I value my time"? That seems like the most useful thing to do for all involved. Maybe something good comes of it, maybe nothing changes, but at least it's not just one person pointing at another and doing the equivalent of saying "look at them and laugh because they had the temerity to try to pay me for work, but just not enough". I mean at some point the person she's talking to literally says in the screencaps "No hehe this is just a personal conversation".

It's not screwing someone over to make an offer of work, no matter how low. Some people are happy to do certain types of work for free. Others want to be paid. The amount they may want to be paid might be based on many things, including market rates and cost of living in their area. Making an offer to someone is never screwing them over, nor even trying to, as long as they can freely reject it. The whole idea that them making an offer, no matter how low, is some sort of way of screwing someone over is just totally weird to me, and I'm not sure how people are even coming to that conclusion.
If you didn't already notice, this is what Excalidraw uses to get its distinct style
Although this time we have the advantage that the high volume production and distribution process for mRNA vaccines requiring a cold chain is all set up and ready to go.
Right, but the underlying tech was in development for a decade or more.

I can deploy an app to Azure, tell it to allocate a server farm, databases, Redis, queues, etc... in 5 minutes too. But that's only because someone took years to do all the necessary work.
Most new linux users don't know this and will give up., Ubuntu really shot in their foot when they made Wayland default in 21.04 and beyond. It's going to lose a lot of new users.
> If you lie, or omit the truth and get caught, they will never listen to anything you say ever again.

Hydroxychloroquine.

Ivermectin.

Yeah, right. Peddling the lies have cause these individuals to get more trust. People want their false hope and false cures, and snake oil.
Two in the city centre are small enough that, if they were my nearest shop, I might not use them for most shopping. The proportion of ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook food (for workers / commuters) is too high, meaning there's less range of meat/fish/vegetables. I think the shop name is even a diminutive version of the normal supermarket to account for this.

Otherwise, I am not sure where to draw the line between a grocery and a supermarket.

It used to be that groceries were smaller shops with fewer categories of goods and less range within those categories -- they didn't sell toiletries, or light bulbs, or paper plates, or socks. Rice came in white and brown.

But around 10 years ago the large supermarkets started to take over shops this size, except with the same building they can use more floor space for retail. Their well-run logistics means they can deliver to them every day or two, so the smaller shop doesn't need a large stock room to maintain a wide range. Therefore, the smaller/independent general grocery businesses have mostly gone, but I can choose from perhaps 8-10 kinds of rice, compared to the 16-20 they have at the largest stores. The 8-10 kinds will be varied according to the area.

I do 80% of my shopping at one of these shops, 15% at another one (when I fancy a change, or walk home a different way), and less than 5% at a supermarket large enough to sell toasters, toys, televisions and t-shirts.
If automation and analysis over the IR is your goal, Binary Ninja is the far better choice compared to both Ghidra and IDA. There's always things to work on but even most people who don't use Binary Ninja regularly who have evaluated it agree that our API/BNIL stack is superior to other options.

Disclaimer: BN founder, so biased of course but I'm pretty up-front about our strengths/weaknesses.
James Webb Space Telescope Launch December-22
The free market works well in spite of downvotes, too!
Well, she is a communist. When you want to abolish private banking accounts what exactly do you call that?
They're his lawyers, not journalists.
are you sure about that? - seems right now the most vaccinated states also seem to have the largest spike in cases - I agree the vaccine, at this point anyway, seems to be reducing deaths - but not sure I agree on transmission - seems like it it still spreading worse than before.

And no, I am not an antivaxxer i I am triple vaxxed myself and work in the healthcare field.
This exploit was found within a year of Bloomberg's article being published: https://www.wired.com/story/supermicro-bug-virtual-usb/

Whether or not that was the exploit being referred to by Bloomberg is unknown, but suspicious.
The "utopia" part is a jab at fantasy thinking, lacking practicality, and most likely leading to poor outcomes. "Utopia" is generally used in a derogatory way by people who consider themselves practical.
The only good commie is a dead commie.
I'm happy to pay for other people's kids to get good educations because I don't want to be surrounded by idiots. Just because you don't have kids doesn't mean you're not living in the same society.
Well, the god of the Christians doesn't seem to know that as there is a commandment written to not worship other gods.

Either many gods seem to have missed the memo that they are identical to all other gods of their type or your conception of religion is more about you than the religions that actually exist, and I would bet on the latter.
Ah, well I think the answer would be to investigate whether something that seems terrible, is in fact actually terrible or not, and then act on that rather than a superficial impression.
Original comment is specifically stating that people are replacing their religions with wokeism
> “placed the within the boundaries of where he lives, farms and hunts.”

I recognize the words, but that is a really strained sentence structure. What are they trying to say?

Placed within the boundaries sounds like my property. If I'm roaming my property and find something there that I did not put there, then I'm going to be taking it down. I'll probably even attempt to sell it.
> You would be right to expect the DB library to escape the string so that no SQL injection is possible.

SQL in some (hopefully good number of) cases is much safer than that. Going with MySQL prepared statements here: parameters are not sustituted into the SQL statement string, but rather sent as seperate data packets in the wire protocol.
The short answer is, you can't. But you might be misinterpreting what Hayek is referring to by "the anonymous and seemingly irrational forces of society". Here is what he says a little later on, when he is comparing the individualist approach he advocates with the alternative:

"So long as he knows only the hard discipline of the market, he may well think the direction by some other intelligent human brain preferable; but, when he tries it, he soon discovers that the former still leaves him at least some choice, while the latter leaves him none, and that it is better to have a choice between several unpleasant alternatives than being coerced into one."
Not exactly what you were looking for, but the CBP were deployed to put down the Portland riots and were making arrests without probable cause.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/trump-border...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53453077
Leprosy.

There's a lot of diseases we've eradicated. Surely something will come along that you don't have an excuse for.
My working theory for the growth in the religiously unaffiliated is that they demographic of people who would have been nominal religious attendees a few decades ago. The number of people who attend church weekly (i.e. those with strong religious affiliation) has been basically static for a while now [0]. You could say that there is a difference between those with "weak" religious affiliation and those with "weekly" religious affiliation ;)

I think this migration to no religious affiliation is probably due (or accelerated) by the internet. Sociologists of Religion such as Peter Berger suggest that a group of people holding a particular worldview create a social structure for the plausibility of the beliefs that underly the worldview. Exposure to more groups means you have more choice, and in fact must chose, between worldviews. The internet opens up a much larger number of plausibility structures which will be the most enticing to those with loose religious affiliation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance
To add to this, thunderbird has started to crash and hang in Ubuntu 21+ because of Wayland[0]. It's feeling the old days when I had to separately install wireless drivers to make WiFi to work.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1...
> Third places are never snobby or pretentious, and are accepting of all types of individuals, from various different walks of life.

According to Oldenburg's criteria HN doesn't really fit.
I wonder how much Biden knows what is going on at any given time considering he appears completely brain dead or drugged most of the time.

Who actually is running the White House right now?
For D's formatted write function, %s means "I don't care what type it is, just do the write thing with it" which works fine for nearly all uses.
Not the parent.

I think it's the standard social media stuff - pseudo anonymity, lack of nuance or easy clarification, lack of private conversations meaning everything is exposed to the lowest common denominator.

Not saying HN is particularly bad as social media goes, but there is a big difference between having a chat at a bar where you adapt to your conversation partners and have a mutually interesting discussion while being mostly diplomatic, vs posting something for posterity where everyone that passes by can give a hot take or "what about", "source please", "explain what you mean by"...

Your comment is actually a (very benign) example - I don't mean offence, just saying that the gp put a comment out there and now it's available for anyone to come by and jump on, where the dynamic would be different in a pub convo
This reminds me of CEO-speak.

A CEO cannot speak their true mind or their true assessment of a situation. They can't say "wow we're in trouble here" because then people will jump ship and then the company will be even more in trouble (and the CEO would get sued for breaching Fiduciary Duty)

What a CEO says is merely wishful thinking for a goal they want people to follow. They can never speak their true plan. (And of course, it's all just game theory, a more elaborate version of https://youtu.be/S0qjK3TWZE8)
Some things are cheaper in web3 than web2 and web3 can do everything web2 can so it's all going to get rebuilt. The same thing happened with mobile phones. Mobile completely changed the internet and the only "invention" there was the form factor and battery. Everyone all of a sudden needs an app and the whole internet was rewritten for IOS & Android.

The promises for how it changes society are pretty weak. It could change nothing or a lot. Web3 is just a better cheaper tool for humans to use so it'll get used. How it changes society is up to the people using it. Just like how the internet didn't usher in a utopia, web3 won't either, but it will change a lot.
The central Gangnam Style example is… meaningless? The reason micropayments hasn’t taken off isn’t the difficulty in collecting payment details. Many companies have tried to solve that using accounts and batching transactions. This is yet another example of Web3Hype that doesn’t rely on Web3 at all.

Even on top of that: a quick google suggests Gangnam Style has 4 billion plays, and generated something like 8 million USD in revenue. Or 20 cents per play. Ok that’s nice, but it’s hardly going to legitimately revolutionize the internet industry is it?
For me the most frustrating thing about Wayland is that with Wayland a crash anywhere in the stack means I lose all my work. I really like the fact that under X I can simply restart my DE after a crash to get a working desktop back and the open apps are unaffected, this saved me so many times. I tried Wayland for a while, but after losing all my work twice to crashes I came back running to X.
This felt a bit off but the note at the bottom explains it:

> As one might have guessed, this is not an essay. It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others). You are free to make any conclusions from this.

If there's a thing that has arguably "killed" haskell and could potentially kill rust too it's probably not this but rather packages bifurcating into a million different incompatible implementations of everything because so little is in the standard library.
That's neither true (humans are less irrational than chimps) nor inspiring (screwing up and letting people die is bad, not good)
Meanwhile religiosity is going nowhere: repetition of mantras, hostility towards science that doesn’t support preconceptions, shaming and shunning of outgroups, tribal loyalty, purity purges, supplication before power, confession of sins, forbidden words, tolerance of incoherence… these are all distinctly religious behaviors that seem to be living on happily without the need for the traditional religions that used to host them.
"which is why revolutions usually end in tragedy"

A more judicious takeaway might be that revolutions often have tragic periods.

The French revolution had its blood-soaked Terror and Thermidor, lead to the Napoleonic wars in which many perished, etc. But it also liberated millions, spread an ideal of democracy and human rights cherished by much of the world today.

The U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction were in every sense a revolution against slavery. Who can deny that despite it all, this revolution was necessary, and did not go far enough in achieving its aims?
Does your vote not matter? I agree in most cases your vote won't change the result.

But, it does act as a signal. Also, not voting puts you in the group of people politicians don't need to care about.
But such vows ("till death do us part", etc.) are commonly said explicitly.

The article says: "You consider telling everyone... but decide it’s better not to make that explicit."

I'm asking for examples of something people "consider telling everyone" but decide it's "better not to make that explicit."
I don't know, most people like to at least have the illusion of making their own choices.
> Wait until you understand.

But you might never understand; that is part of Hayek's point. Which means you can never just "tear it down". Your #2 is really the essential point.