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The scanner uses some neural nets and an IR camera to see if everything around the iris checks out. So you can’t (easily at least) scan some disembodied eyes, or your dog’s eyes.

The orb does a round of “liveness” checks before the retina imaging to ensure someone’s not trying to scan their dog / detached eyeball.

It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.

With proof of stake, a complete chain history is not strictly required by validating nodes. You don’t want everyone to delete it, but it’s not required for consensus.

I’d imagine they would, kind of like the levels of arbitrators and courts today.

The article said the neighbours first vote that work is done. Most of the time that could work. But it also mentions the neighbours could collude to steal the collateral. In that case courts could get involved and force money be returned etc.

I’m very far from a legal expert, but smart contracts seem like a potentially useful tool, within the current system. Not as a complete replacement.

HN is basically the “Dad internet”.

They’ll instinctively shoot down all your ideas, but their accumulated experience is helpful once in a real discussion.

The example in the article had a way to enforce contract breaking - the person had to put up collateral until the work was done.

There’s problems with that particular mechanism, but in general if contracts can automatically decrease someone’s money, reputation, access etc, they can do enforcement.

I think with any weird new technology, fundamentally no knows if it’s going to work.

People who can’t see or imagine use cases become sceptics.

But others who piece together enough observations to tell themselves stories of why it will work become believers.

But neither can explain why the tech will or won’t work, so we end up with technobabblers and angry sceptics.

I suspect that blockchains won’t need to reference external data to be useful.

If the data on chain becomes valuable enough, an ecosystem of open source, auditable programs operating on it seems powerful to me.

And yeah tx fees are facemeltingly expensive right now, but scalability tech is making gradual progress.

I think professional software devs won’t get much value from copilot.

OpenAI’s demo from a few months back showed it as a sort of bridge to convert natural language instructions into APIs calls. Eg converting “make all the headings bold” to calls to a word doc api.

Most of the comments here are opinions on what other people should do to stop climate change.

For those that have read up on it, What are the highest impact things the average hacker news reader can do over the next few years?

The flickering is concerning. Kind of suggests their NN hasn’t learned basic object persistence yet.