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> * I emphatically DO NOT UNDERSTAND the extent to which people place trust in external services to manage passwords.*

I'm generally fine with this if the password vault is end-to-end encrypted, the vault's password is never shared with the server, and the server doesn't have access to the plaintext passwords at all.

At that point you have to trust that the crypto used for the vault is done correctly (and that trust is easier to come by if the clients are open source). But that's the same trust you'd have to extend if you used another solution (e.g. Bitwarden) that allowed you to self-host the sync service.

If you only access password-protected resources from one system, then you don't need sync at all, and this problem goes away. If you do need sync, you're going to have this problem no matter what.
I think the basic answer to that is: by measuring height before and after, controlling for laying down still but not sleeping, perhaps also with some intermediate measurements.
When I owned I PalmOS device I was at my most productive. One button access to my to-do list kept me focused and on track all day long.

Nothing on modern smart phones can compare to less than 1 second access to my todo list. Pull out of my pocket, press button, by the time my device was up to eye level the todo list was shown.
I’d also be curious the goals/budget of Quantum AI.
Maybe?

All the governments around the world have only seized a handful of wallets, so to me it seems like an improbable risk. Most of those seizures were only possible via user-error and non-chalant storage of these kinds of assets.

You have to go to individuals and force them to give a password to derive a private key. Without use of force, many governments don't have a legal power to force people to open things. With hacking even on-premise, there are still extremely high barriers per wallet which makes it basically impossible. With use of force they will still have a challenge with too high of a crowd and will still lack the legal rationale to do so.

And everyone can own this asset without the state knowing of it.
Sorry, but "cost way less to make" does not equal "a lot of fucking profit".

It's likely margins remain the same and prices fall substantially. That's what competition does, and the auto world is full of it.
Why wouldn't a similar "takeover" be possible in a PoS system? You really haven't addressed the parent's point.
> I was looking under security and I don’t see any mention of misuse, but that can also be hard to identify.

For what it's worth, the overall WebGPU spec draft (rather than the shader spec) has a section on security/malicious use: https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#malicious-use
Dodged a bullet for now.

I’m worried this is their extend-embrace stage, and the extinguish is yet to come.

I truly hate to be pessimistic, and I’m not trying to start a flame war. I just can’t see this behavior lasting in the long run.
Arguably, all of the Bitcoin miners.

Bitcoin mining creates a price floor for energy. It is a buyer of last resort with infinite appetite. By pushing up the value of energy in the market, it encourages expansion of energy production.
N-gate has done a good job of debunking these arguments (google for "Discourse on HTTPS n-gate").
I'm pretty into photography and love to shoot manual on my mirrorless and film cameras, so was naturally very intrigued by Halide. Unless I need to take a photo at a fast shutter speed, most photos look better taken through the stock camera with all the AI/ML processing Apple does. I guess I could also use Halide to shoot in RAW and edit later, but I don't really care to do that with iPhone photos.

Curious what you're shooting where you feel you need the fine tune control Halide provides and if you actually fine the results better than the stock camera app?
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> Existing miners can't do this in a PoW system

Sure they can. It's easy to only mine on top of blocks from certain sources, and if most of the network does this then those are the only blocks that matter.
Crypto is dumb, although I will try to ride the wave.

PoW -- wasteful electrical mining, only big entities can build efficient asic farms. And only in low cost of electricity spots.

PoS -- will incentive oligarchal collusion. Basically same as our current financial system.
In practice even high power WiFi APs tend to top out around 300mW. Multiply by free space power loss and the inefficiencies of the system and the total available power is approximately bupkis.

Those tiny solar cells that power cheap calculators are a far more practical solution.
There needs to be something. I'm curious what we will come up with. Some kind of sentinel that sits on the network and does behavioural and threat analysis of all network traffic and prevents damage before it can happen perhaps?
I have an iPhone and I've noticed if I have gmail open in a browser I get the email notification on the phone before it shows up in gmail the browser. I use the GMail app on iOS not the Apple Mail app.

I guess I'd ask what is so important about instantaneous email notifications? Or rather is another technology better suited to what you are trying to do?
The time to first paint for a smallish website from across the planet seldom crosses the two-second mark. I would happily take that over a website that fails to load from a server <100 miles from me because my packet loss is >40%.
Had a somewhat similar issue, but with Drive File Stream.

At one point I set it up to use my second SSD as the local storage. Then I needed that SSD elsewhere, so I just took it out. It was impossible to restart the damn thing. It kept complaining about missing folders. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but it kept its settings.

Since I barely used that machine, if ever, and I'm not particularly familiar with Windows, I never really looked into how to completely clean up the configuration. But the point is that there clearly are some pretty stupid decisions about some products.
In practice a PoS network tends to have a participation rate of between 10% and 30%, and the 2-3 largest exchanges collectively tend to own between 10% and 50% of the total supply.

And then also in practice most of the staking is performed by a small number of outsourced staking firms, which increases the power concentration even more.

And it also makes hardforks more traumatic because your economy and your consensus builders are fundamentally intertwined. You can't fork an exchange off of the network without also disrupting every single user that parks funds on that exchange. The same concern doesn't exist with PoW mining.
So back to the OP's point, Ethereum minus smart contracts and efficient energy use is "nothing for humanity", as if the basic features of money haven't improved our standard of living and there's nothing wrong with central banks and the powerful that benefit from them. The energy used provides immense value today. The costs need to be internalized though.
I have a sleeping disorder and if I wake up and remember having a dream I almost always also feel well rested.
This is great feedback, thank you. We have $0 monthly costs to use the product to sell on Instagram, however we do still charge a transaction fee + the Stripe fee. We thought that for the IG seller community, it would be good validation to see if people would start out paying a transaction fee to use it. But your point makes a lot of sense - definitely something for us to revisit!
Let me add that blocking outgoing requests to non-standard ports should also not break payment systems, yet I've encountered exactly that.

If your checkout system connects over anything but port 443, you done fucked up.
But like, what were cryptocurrency's goals again?
It's like rejecting quantum superpositions because you're fond of cats.
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By the time complex animals evolved, the awake state would already be the norm for survival. So, I guess everything we now assign to complex animals is already dependent on the appearance of an awake state.
Ruffle developer here. A good chunk of our incoming issue volume used to be "how do we configure the WASM mime type" disguised in various "omg it doesn't work, what does this error mean" type issues. This is because we were using WASM's instantiateStreaming function to load our module, which requires valid HTTP headers on the WASM file which most web servers weren't configured to produce. Adding a fallback to a slower WASM load approach that doesn't require a header made all those complaints go away.

In our experience the average webmaster does not know how to configure proper HTTP headers and should not be expected to for a basic web library. So any web API that will not work with the standard web server configurations of Apache, nginx, or IIS is a non-starter for us. (Not to mention that the site isolation headers have non-trivial implications for sites that use iframes...)
No it's very different. Bitcoin consensus is achieved through a combination of mining actors and economic actors. PoS collapses this into a single group: custodians.
While Peter Watts' writing feels like he enjoys being intentionally abstruse, his books are very thought provoking. I still get reminded about the concepts in Blindsight from time to time, years after I read it.
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> tasks like Spotlight indexing

<personal rant>

I'd swear that Spotlight indexing would prefer a freaking supercomputer when it runs.

My whole system just starts to feel sluggish, especially if I just moved a bunch (say 1-5GB) of files onto my system and not it wants to index them.

</rant>
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If we're the first, that also requires just about as much explanation really. There are how many galaxies, and how many systems per galaxy, and how many planets per galaxy? If the chance of life per planet is anything more than on the order of 1/trillion, laws of big numbers suggest we just _can't_ be the first or only.

None of this is any kind of _hard_ proof of course, it's just attempting to reason through what we expect without having enough data to prove either way.
Yes, that's a feature or bug, however you see it, that's universal in capitalism, even communism or socialism what implementations I've read about. I guess if one isn't happy with those that have power in one system, a person should switch to another system. It's just so universal that I don't think there's any other way around it other than switch systems as none are perfect, all insofar as I can see are susceptible to the power of consensus.

We've tried to mitigate it with constitutions in the political world and it helps to some extent but many would agree that there is still an exploitable hole in that those with power can use their own to gain more or mitigate risk. And any time you mitigate that feature/bug too much you run the risk of decreasing reward for work and stake, thereby delegitimizing the system itself or in the case we speak of, your currency. So pick your poison.
ITT: massive amounts of contradiction. This is just ridiculous: no one seems to know how this all works, or even agree on something that is happening right in front of us. This is a big red flag.

EDIT: Instead of down-voting, maybe prove me wrong?
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That's how you end up with crypto-mining sweatshops...
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It's a well established result in PoW that a small constant improvement in efficiency (say, one mining farm is 5% more efficient than others) turns into an exponential advantage in hashrate over time if the profits are continually re-invested into building more hardware.
No, 8K is not really reality at the moment, but editing UltraHD is reality, and being able to easily edit or composite 2/3 streams of UltraHD with some complex effects in realtime is desirable.

It's a bit mind-bending for those of us who remember the SGI Octane and Onyx days to think that 100x as much computation is available at 100x less power-consumption. (That's 10,000 times more efficient, for those following along at home.)

Between that and the almost infinite instantaneous computation power available in the cloud at the press of a few buttons (and sufficient capacity on one's credit card), we ain't in Kansas any more.
If it were possible to recover lost passwords as in your wife's case, then I absolutely would not trust the service at all. If you forget your master password, the passwords contained must be unrecoverable at that point. If they aren't, then that means the server/service has access to your plaintext passwords, and that is (or at least should be) an unacceptable security risk.
You can mine anonymously, you can't stake anonymously.
That's the same with PoW though, isn't it?

Existing PoW miners can fork away from any new miners that won the last block.
This is great. Is there any hope of having the possibility to export entries? Looks like it's missing compared to Windows and Mac.
Sorry, have you worked with the former employer I'm mentioning? I'm talking about a specific use case that has specific needs and challenges. Blanket comments like yours aren't really helpful or necessary.
The issue is not scarcity, it's pollution.
Or, you can think of it as increasing the incentive to take security seriously.

And it seems like they’d have to pay the fine for (2) regardless of if they pay to get the data back in this case.
All of this has already happened, and all of this will happen again.

- The original rsync author wrote rproxy (https://rproxy.samba.org/), an ingenious system wrapping http inside the rsync protocol. On subsequent visits, the proxies see the resemblance and sends a diff. I've toyed with it myself (https://github.com/rakoo/rproxy/) but I don't think website really care about how disastrously huge and cumbersome they are to use

- another idea is to invert rsync: instead of the client calculating a signature, sending it to the server, and the server calculating the delta for every request of every client, it is possible to have the server calculate the signature once every time actually changes, send the signature to the client, let the client calculate the parts they need and download only them. In short, zsync (http://zsync.moria.org.uk/)

There are a million things already done in this sector, but for some reason it has never caugh up... I think there's just not enough interest
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Ban cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are all negative externalities with few societal benefits.
I can consume an order of magnitude more diverse and interesting media than I could without the internet. I can order exactly the right thing from the internet instead of making do with a kind-of solution from the store.

I think you're remembering what it was like pre-internet with rose-colored glasses.

The internet is great.
Well, here's a datapoint for you: I've witnessed firsthand how a big miner farm resulted in full blackout in a small-ish city (~100k population).
"The city also sought the return of the documents"

I... what?
[responding to the pre-edit question about PoW] I just did, you don't need any capital to run a node. The book documents an incident where there was majority hash-rate (miners) wanting to change the rules against the wishes of the users.

more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IT4s-6T__k
The government should fine the company either way for not properly securing their user's data. Security is serious business, it's time companies took it more seriously.
Baskerville is one such font. The italic version is single-story, but the regular version is not.

Even worse is that this shift doesn't occur between the letters g.
Why wouldn't executives just start having their personal transactions and outsized living expenses conducted w/ untaxed corporate revenue? This sounds like fixing a loophole by making the hole so big you can't call it hole anymore ...
I've gotten a little more paranoid in recent years and started blocking outgoing requests, just as a defense in depth. So I would prevent clients from connecting to anything but 22, 80 and 443 (to start; I added more for things like WebRTC and Amazon Streaming which uses AWS). I found a checkout that was connecting over some random port and wouldn't work until that was unblocked. Fucking annoying and I'm just left wondering how long until they have a security breach through their non-standard proprietary bullshit.
Because shortages aren't the issue. The issue is using more power than all of Argentina for one currency. That is a lot of CO2 emissions for something that brings questionable value.
And I'll happily fill out a form to tell you any information I feel is relevant to my purchase. If you want to covertly fingerprint and track me, I'll gladly take my business elsewhere.
The OCTO DevEx team reaaaaaallly loves VS Code — beyond the editor, it's just a great surface for experimental developer tooling!

GitHub Codespaces aren't generally available yet, but being able to target both "native" VS Code as well as in-browser VS Code with the same extension is super powerful. Expect a lot more from us on that front.

We've also released a pair of little projects re VS Code development that we've extracted from our work:

https://github.com/githubocto/tailwind-vscode: a Tailwind CSS plugin which creates Tailwind color tokens for each of the VS Code theme colors, easing theme-native styling in VS Code.

https://github.com/githubocto/snowpack-vscode-extension-temp...: a VS Code extension template that incorporates the fastest toolchain with the wisdom we've accumulated about webview development.
We really need to stop calling things "lambda". You'd think Google would grasp the concept of unique names on the internet, but I suppose they can always push their own stuff to the top.
Sounds good to me. Why should companies be allowed to save money by exposing our personal data and then pay for it by funding terrorist organizations, organized crime, and totalitarian governments?
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Wow, an automated garden? Can you share more on that or drop some links about it?

I used to grow weed and was trying to go in that direction before shutting down.

I was able to tie alexa into water pumps, so I would just say "Alexa, flood top tray" and it would water my clones.

I half joked about the goal being "Alex, grow weed"
Math, physics, and chemistry, don't discriminate.

The Emperor and the downtrodden, the Ivey League and the community college, you'll find the same mathematics wherever you go.

Some may have an advantage in innovation or inspiration, but it should he fair trivial for any sufficiently motivated individual to check the numbers.
I agree, a button next to the field would be nice. I'm most often alone while typing the master password, it would save me a lot of tries.
I had similar problem with MagSafe; the culprit was the dust that both the charger and the laptop collected over the years. After some compressed air treatment, it was as good as new.
Nodes still work on consensus, and given that they have no incentivization to exist, they have been dropping in number over years.
Then the incentive is to avoid becoming a victim to ransomware in the first place by making it more cost effective to hire decent security than to take the risk and end up getting targeted.
I used to think like that but syncing files and syncing passwords across multiple devices are different things, mainly because of conflict management. If you have a conflict on a file which has been modified on two devices, there is not that much do you can do except using the most recent update based on timestamps and keeping the other one as a backup file. Dropbox does that for example. For password entries, it’s possible to be much master and do the same per entry, and even merge the fields within an entry. To do this in a reliable way on a remote file system, I think a file locking or a compare and swap mechanism is required.

Another constraint with using a file sync service is this is introducing a kitchen and egg problem when we lose everything. We first need to restore access to the file sync service to then be able to recover the password file. Which means we can’t use the password manager for the file sync service. Not a deal breaker, as it is what I’m currently doing, but I’ve always wondered how it would go after a catastrophe like losing everything in a home fire.
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Lots of pickup trucks in that price range are parked outside. Garages are not a norm outside of detached homes.
Diesels don't handle it well, but it doesn't actually damage them. The northern 2/3rds of Canada may be an edge case ... unless you actually live there.
Have a look at an open-source smartwatch instead: https://uk.pcmag.com/news/122580/pine64-is-making-a-25-linux...
No. The old adage tells an important lesson: you cannot take care of others if you cannot take care of yourself.

Even a cup of water cannot function if it cannot maintain structural integrity.
I'm talking about it scaling; not about the value of the token. Ethereum 2 tackles scalability through PoS and sharding. Hence the reported energy advantage. Ethereum 2 will be one of the largest proof of stake networks once it launches both by market value and by number of users and validators. The longer that stays up without incidents; the better. The market value means that every known angle towards possibly abusing/hacking the network will be pursued by countless very incentivized hackers. Them failing to get anywhere increases the level of trust people have in these networks.

In think your point of view is a bit comparable to late stage skeptics arguing against dot com companies 20 years ago. They were mostly right and yet the FANG companies booted (or rebooted) straight out of that. So clearly they were also wrong. Very wrong. Because those companies are now worth trillions. Looking at what came out of that bubble, it is hard to argue that there was nothing there. Of course there was. But of course there were many failures as well and lots of investors backing the wrong companies for all the wrong reasons. But the technology from that era bootstrapped a multi trillion dollar industry.

The blockchain space is very similar. Lots of obvious scams, naive companies, poorly thought through business ideas, half-assed technology, etc. And lots of investors getting rich on being there early and losing other people's money (which, lets face it, is how that greed fueled behavior works). It's a symbiotic relation ship between mediocre investors and mediocre entrepreneurs. That hasn't changed in the last 20 years. That bubble is going to pop at some point. But that does not mean it will drag all blockchains with it.

The thing with Ethereum is that is mostly not directly dependent on VC cash. And that's one of it's strong points. The wider ecosystem is of course. But people like Vitalik Butarik and his friends are not reporting to anyone financed by a VC because they are already financially independent. That's also the reason they have been moving slowly and carefully with Ethereum 2 for years rather than rushing it to market in a few months. They've been talking about proof of stake and sharding for years already. Before the first bitcoin bubble even (four years ago or so).

Blockchains are as strong as those running them. Ethereum 2 right now looks like it is happening and has staying power and will have quite a bit staked among quite a few users. I'd argue most of the Ethereum 1 value is actually based on that future potential.
Unfortunately that doesn't work for those of us that need to run compute intensive tasks, like browsing the web, or compiling stuff, or running docker.

There's this stupid dream that the computer needs to be light and fanless and thin and sexy. It doesn't need to do that. I'm happy if it doesn't melt while trying to run some software I need to do my job.