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I am glad you asked. The value that cryptocurrencies provide boils down to 3 main things:

1) A store of value.

2) A transfer of value.

3) A creation of value.

Bitcoin provides a store of value by still letting you buy a pizza with your Bitcoin both now and in the future. It’s price has always been highly volatile but after every 4 year cycle, it has been worth more in every major world currency.

Stellar Lumens, Algorand, Dogecoin, and to a lesser extent Bitcoin, & Ethereum provide a transfer of value by letting you send money across the globe.

Ethereum is the poster child for a creation of value by allowing people to permanently deploy smart contracts to the Ethereum mining network. These contracts include ERC20 stablecoins like MakerDao’s Dai, USDC, lending platforms like AAVE and Compound, DeFi exchanges like Uniswap, Yield aggregators like Yearn.finance and Curve.fi, and DeFi coin converters like 1inch. Back in 2017, the only compelling Ethereum platform (or DAPP) was CryptoKitties which were the precursor to today’s NFTs. I think NFTs are in a bubble but nowadays there is a much more compelling and diverse lineup.
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PktMon is the next generation tool in newer Windows 10 versions and brings many of the same benefits referred to in this blog - particularly being able to view packet captures and traces together in the same text file.
Can this scale down to 0 like Cloud Run? I can't tell from the docs if you can have NO provisioned instances and have the connection hold and warm up an instance on-demand.
> Nodes enforce the ruleset that miners must abide by, and can invalidate new blocks that miners generate.

In practice, this means “nodes run by centralized exchanges”. Your narrative is fraught with risk.

Basically “Bitcoin” is defined as the chain with the highest cumulative hashing power¹.

¹: which investors expect will maximize returns under the banner of “Bitcoin”

Much of Satoshi’s genius was selecting values for constants, e.g. 21M max supply, conducive to the establishment of a global currency of fixed supply and generally aligning incentives of disparate entities such that the most likely outcome would be the upholding of community expectation. But none of that is technically guaranteed, rather its continuity is assured with exceedingly high likelihood due to historical choices made.

> You can see examples of this in history e.g. bitcoin.com mining a block with a greater block size than consensus allowed, which caused the block to be invalidated and the cost of energy wasted.

IIRC they weren’t a majority miner at the time. Had they been a majority miner, and had they been able to assure the community of global Bitcoin investors of the superior soundness of their choices, all bets would be off. Ultimately the block size debate was resolved with hashing power.
Those are good theories, but there are also some larger questions, like can humans stomach being part of a non-local mega tribe? Can they accept that there is no possible way to feel ‘finished’ when there is an infinite amount of content? Does superficial overconsumption of content leave the brain depleted yet unsated?

Hacker News is ad-free and not particularly aggressive with engagement-optimizated sorting, yet I often walk away from HN sessions with mild depression. Also inspiration, defeat, numbness, laughter, and a sense of subtle superiority.

My point is that digital connection, content, and curation is completely novel to ours or any species. Facebook’s use of the technology may be greedy and or detrimental, but the entire paradigm is without precedent.
> It's not like alcohol companies are being sued out of existence.

Take a look at the history of litigation against tobacco companies and the policy consequences over the decades as the harm became known and public.

If not legal issues at the very least Facebook would face severe regulatory problems if administrations and consumers actually started to look at digital media consumption from a public health perspective.
I fully agree with your previous statements. I worked as a BI consultant for 5 years and 4 years inhouse. Consultant can be misleading, we really created stuff (not only hot air) ;-) ... We created visualizations (dashboards) and data models mainly with Qlik.(complete road from data extract to visualization/analytics)

I think the most efficient way is to have inhouse staff for visualizing data and extracting insights. They should be able to cover 70-90% of the demand. The remaining part and possible peaks in demand should be covered by a contractor(s).

In the long run, this makes sure you have a reliable contractor, who already knows you (the company) and also the infrastructure and meaning of your data. It helps a lot for example when an employee is sick or has left the company. So you can bridge the gap with almost no delay.

Most employees don't want (and often don't have time) to learn additional tools for anayltics & data visualization next to their daily business. And the data models quickly become too complex for "casual users". To make "self-service BI" really possible it needs a lot of work upfront (to prepare data etc.). I think I never saw "self-service BI" working in the real world. (maybe some "poweruser" in finance & controlling)

Imho the best case would be to have a specialized BI team which works together with the domain experts to create insights. Normally the persons from specific departments know their data very well and they are very helpful in the process of finding insights. They often have already done reports/calculations etc. before. But the manual process is just too complicated, too slow or whatever.
Someone is going to make a chart comparing crypto to the already-ridiculous crypto derivatives market, and you’ll realize your point is totally irrelevant.

Companies don’t transact in Bitcoin because nobody wants to hold it. Except for companies getting a valuation boost from retail investors.
Give it a shot, because the current implementation specifically side steps the need for that full copy, and does let you test functionally against fully up-to-date production data.

You're right, though, it doesn't cover all of those uses cases. Luckily, Vitess does offer most of that out of the box already. Just need them exposed through the PlanetScale UI. :)
I couldn’t find a history feature in my app on iOS but I did find the following on Apple Support: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/ipha4521ef7d/14... (at the bottom it talks about how to view recently played songs)

I haven’t played music in awhile and I can’t seem to get that list to appear on my phone. It would be nice if Apple would document how this works or if they could integrate with Last.fm the way Spotify does.
You can still read doc files from 20 years ago. Microsoft is very good at keeping backwards compatibility. I would be surprised if they decide to change course and start breaking things.
Yes, it's extremely tiresome seeing people summon those same boogeymen over and over. It's gotten to the point I assume anyone who even mentions those things has an agenda to push.
Which is easier to pull off, once you have control of the stolen coins?

* Use them to vote for two chain histories, and thereby get the victims slashed?

* Launder the stolen coins, buy an ASIC fab, churn out ASICs, plug them into the power grid, and use them to continuously and sustainably attack a PoW chain for eternity, all while not getting caught?

In case it's not obvious, the first one can be done the second the compromise takes place. The second one takes years.

> Hacking billions of dollars of cryptocurrency is NOT easy, and it gets harder with every passing month, because validators and hodlers have billions of dollars of incentive to protect themselves.

Why should a hodler bet that over 2/3 of the chain's validators will never, ever be compromised? Money doesn't buy invulnerability, and an attacker only has to succeed once at breaking quorum to break the chain.
With one one millionth as much death
http://archive.is/Wcp7t
I'm glad they're acknowledging the app they made was a mistake.
No can do. The whole thing is a get rich quick scam by Marcus Aurelius.
I don't think this will help pricing or availability much either. LTT did a video on this topic somewhat recently and it turns out a lot of the reasons that you can't get a card right now is related to chip shortages and people (yes, regular gaming enthusiasts) buying any card they can find. Even cards that already have terrible mining efficiency are scarce.
Did you consider Google Nest Hub for this use case? I’ve been thinking of doing the same thing but I’m not sure which to get.
Seems relevant if you have a choice. If it isn't untrue, then I don't see a great problem.
Well, the book is a proper tome, but the section on Stoics is very concise (as is rest of the book, really), so I'd go for "A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell.

The book also gives a good context on where Stoicism arose, so it might be worthwhile to skim the sections before, though there's no need to get too deep with, say, Aristotle's metaphysics.

It's on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/westernphilosoph035502mbp/page/n...
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In Palestine, Civilians Are Using Bitcoin More Than Hamas
I think that probably has more to do with how recently you were in REM sleep (which is when most dreams occur). If you have the sensation of waking up from a dream, whether you remember it or not, you likely woke up from REM sleep. If you don't think you dreamt at all, then perhaps you just were in REM sleep much earlier during your sleep.
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No distributed system is guaranteed to make forward progress if over 1/3 of its voting nodes is faulty, full stop. Once an adaptive adversary controls more than 1/3 of the voting power, they can forever delay the remaining 2/3 of the voting nodes from reaching consensus. Hell, they'd even be able to delay votes from other nodes to slash their stolen stash.

From this, I can conclude at least one of the following:

* LMD GHOST is incorrect

* your understanding of it is incorrect

* LMD GHOST is not a BFT consensus algorithm
Isn’t this just your average news site on the web though?
That would be https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312, which is merged and registered with IANA and coming to a web browser near you real soon now.
Non-mining nodes cannot invalidate a block. Nobody can invalidate a block. Only mining nodes can choose to not mine on top of a block.
Benevolent dictators can make their dictatorship feel very democratic if they aren't abusing their power. The problem is that benevolence eventually erodes when conflicted interests come to head.

Then everyone sees how truly democratic/free something is.
I'm not an expert on either, but based on my one course in neural networks I took, they are basically a series of linear algebra equations.
They do not seem to have considered convergent evolution, like the article about trees that was on the front page a few days ago.
Well - it depends on the product. Do recall that until recently MJ was illegal across the board and the US Federal Government is still against legality.

It's also illegal to own a tank.

Honestly, companies are prohibited from selling dangerous products unless there is some reason they are viewed as being dangerous but of more value being legal than illegal.

While libertarianism is rife in America - there is no inherent right to trade in dangerous products. If I decided to sell needles full of deadly poison at my store - even if very clearly labeled and even if I sat you down for a twenty minute presentation before each sale occurred - it's quite likely I'd be shut down.
I've no love for Facebook and the rest of social media - I can't help but hear this latest warning as just the current "think of the children".

We've had Elvis's hips, communists, hippies, satanic rock, video-nasties, murder-simulating computer games, raves and have worked our way through at least 3 waves of 'internet panic'
My guess is we'll rank this discussion in retrospect the same way as those previous 'issues'

When I read a story about "the Republican congresswoman from Washington confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg" I can almost hear the mantra instilled in Mark's head "Don't say nobody under 30 is using Facebook, say anything, admit anything, just appear relevant"

Now I'm definitely not saying social media is blameless - but it's not invented aspirational capitalism or bullying. It existed, will always exist, and just uses the conduits available.

If we consider the message, not the messenger, I actually think "the youth of today" is far better adjusted than I was at their age.

But we're not allowed to say that are we?
There's never been a generation than looks at the new one, and collectively says they're better than us.
Mumble beats nearly all service‘s in latency and audio quality because these two things are the problems it‘s trying to solve.
Did you ever play around with Teamspeak? It‘s a bit worse on the latency side but more mainstream friendly.
Personally I run a mumble server as well because it solves our problems but TS may be worth looking into for you.
I agree on the practical level, which is pertinent here.

It is possible to experience non-dual consciousness in high concentration states. [EDIT: For many, this experience is a milestone in psychospiritual development, which undermines the habit of dichotomous thinking.] Awareness and perception aren’t the same thing. Way, way off the subject, but your main point stands, be mindful of priors.
Easy, just buy guns, steal some ASICs, steal some coal, and mine away!!!
What is "controversial" about the info in the link?
Has anyone found out if Hashcat is impacted on the cards that have this already (3060)?
So the long march towards the "other" future continues ...

Failure #1: to get operating systems to ever agree on a truly common API for most modern computing

Failure #2: to implement a write-once, run-anywhere language capable of being used for the majority of software development (mostly because the main efforts at doing so all rely on VMs that come with their own costs and benefits)

Conclusion: just give up. Postulate the existence of a virtual machine inside a web browser. Spend a decade or three slowly extending the scope of that virtual machine. Put in a little bit of effort to persuade people that this new, evolving VM is the new key to "write once, run anywhere".

Result: a new platform, distinct from all the rest (i.e. "native") with its own costs and benefits.

Whoo-hoo.
The core clock is undervolted while mining - but the memory clock is absolutely cranked to the maximum it will support.

I've been idly mining on an RTX3080 for 6 months now, and the hashrate has slowly gone down about 20% since new. I suspect the thermal pads on the memory chips are slowly cooking. I replaced them once already and restored a bit of hashrate.
I think this is what will be done in the future. You will interact with the camera for 15 minutes or so and it will create a custom compreasion algorithm for you.
"In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent" hard to justify given Trump
I read the article, which mirrors your points. And what I'm seeing is a bunch of politicians who are ignoring reality for politicial points, using their favorite horsemen of the Infosec apocalypse.

Breaking, excuse me, backdooring encryption (including MITM attacks) breaks the trust model which makes our modern devices, communication, and commerce (which fundamentally relies on secure communication between verified parties) work.

> It doesn't feel like they're wrong about that these days, does it?

If you mean they can/should force companies to break encryption - yes, yes they are. Period.
> Such a vanishingly small percentage of cryptocurrency activity is actually used for trade

In reality, an overwhelmingly large percentage of tangible trade is fasciliated by one specific cryptocurrency for one particular umbrella of goods and services that may have something to do with onions.
When I was a kid in the sixties I got chock-like candy cigarettes in my Christmas stocking, and for Halloween. I remember some were a bit powdery and you could blow on them and simulate smoke.
> I wonder if the Notion developers made a serious attempt to build on top of a more conventional structured schema, and found it really was unworkable?

This is an interesting question. I actually think Notion's data model is much more conventional than the data stores behind document editors like Google Docs or Figma. Blocks are "just" (these quotes are doing a lot of work) rows in Postgres.

We use JSON for properties for flexibility and for user-defined property schemas. We could use an entity-attribute-value (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...) table as you describe for that, but such a table would complicate our caching techniques. It would also be enormous, but, it might be time for another think about that since we finished sharding.
There’s more to it than that. Most Googlers (all?) are stock holders for one.
> On the other hand, any exchange that automatically opts user deposits into staking without notifying them should be criminally liable.

I never realized this could even happen. And this is a HUGE problem for PoS if I am understanding this correctly. Because Exchanges don't even settle the transactions that often on chain, and could totally do this without user knowledge and then say they did with someone else's coins. You can't even prove it.
If you find that article, I'd love to see it. I know a bit about plant hormones, but most of what I remember is some of the growth hormones degrade in sunlight, which can cause the apparent growth toward the sun. So if you have a stem and the light is coming from the right, the cells on the right side don't divide or elongate as quickly as the cells on the left side in the shade, which causes the stem to bend to the right. This is also the cause of etiolation, or legginess, in plants that aren't getting enough sun. Those cells have plenty of the hormone as it's not being degraded by the sunlight, causing them to elongate more quickly than a plant getting adequate light.
I love Lunchmoney but it pains me that roll over budgeting is not supported yet. It feels like the perfect personal budgeting tool for me only missing one very critical feature.
The S&P is actually down since 1970 as measured in gold. Gold is strictly worse than Bitcoin on every front save for its ability to be used offline.

(But even offline, gold transactions would require a great deal of care wrt anti-counterfeiting, and this is an edge case given gold’s primary use is as a speculative store of value.)
The main reason to consider something different to Jitsi is to directly use Matrix for decentralised e2ee signalling to manage the media streams, and allow hybrid SFU and MCU models (like hangouts or zoom) rather than pure SFU like Jitsi. We do like Jitsi though and already contribute directly and indirectly - Jitsi’s E2EE is derived from Matrix, and the Matrix community just contributed a tonne of a11y fixes to it that just landed. But we’d still like a fully decentralised Matrix-native group call solution eventually.
Editor’s note: there is no naturally occurring source of hydrogen and no established industry of producing hydrogen from renewable energy. It’s made from oil and natural gas and exists purely by the grace of the carbon industry.
What they are wrong about is that backdoors would only be "exceptionally used". It might be that way for a couple of years, then there will be a terrorist attack or a major child abuse scandal, new laws will be passed eroding legal protections, and before you know it any random official will be happily looking into your private conversations.

Think I'm exaggerating? This has already happened in the UK, RIPA bill was passed to "fight terrorism and child abuse" and ended up used by local officials to identify people who let their dog shit on the sidewalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...
None of this would be a problem with a user configurable feed and not whatever crap they throw at you
It is important that any discussion that leads with "think of the children" is immediately turned into "Yes, let's think of the children. Here is a four point plan to address poverty, systemic racism, education and opportunity..."

"Oh, but this is free and those things cost billions of pounds!" Actually no, this is not free. This prevents protecting banking. It prevents protecting oil pipelines. The cost of breakable encryption is billions or trillions.

My brother spent several years doing legal aid in the UK, and my mum is on children's panels. There's plenty the government can do to reduce child abuse that doesn't involve encryption, but it chooses not to.

So here we have one group that is looking at a visual evidence of child abuse, and determining that we should not have encryption because then we wont have visual evidence of child abuse - as if child abuse started in 1993. Another that runs a business which makes the claim of having identified hundreds of child predators and informed the FBI - with no fact checking from the BBC or presumption of innocence or linking to other stories of AI bias...

Meanwhile, there are no social workers. No teachers. No opportunity besides crime. And is killing a kid child abuse? What if the kid is black, and the police did it?

Here's the test: sure, government, here's a list of things you can do to stop child abuse. Encryption is last on the list. You can get to that after you've addresses all the other, vastly larger, problems.
Notion is great for about a month, then the glacial performance and forced-hierarchical structure really start to grate. But by that time you’ve already bought it
Child abuse survivor here. I'd like to review some history.

For the entire history of police, until 1990 or so, children who had experienced abuse knew to not go to the police. It wasn't worth getting gaslighted or worse. In no way were cops there for us. Not only did we know it, so did abusers.

What changed? Sounding klaxons over child abuse began to draw press attention - then political power and fat budgets for LEO and NGOs. Once abused children became a sure path to the cash and power, police leadership and politicians suddenly cared like they never, ever had before.

This anti-encryption farce is no different. Damaged kids are the means to their ends - for LEO to acquire even more new surveillance powers along with the stacks of cash needed to deploy them - and as virtue-flags for politicians to wave before uncritical voters.

Those of us who were hurt before it was profitable to care - we aren't a fan of seeing kids' pain traded like a commodity.
It heavily depends on what encoder and config you use. In my experience, 20Mbps (or less) HEVC by Turing NVEnc realtime encoder is enough for 1080 60p. Also halving frame rate won't halve bitrate because of how video compressed by reference frame. Also video meeting won't move pictures as much as FPS gaming.
yup, and to be clear, that’s why we built Spaces. doesn’t stop the “wow we accidentally created the realtime read/write web” thing being cool tho ;P
The records of the time suggest that it's just viewed as the correct order of things. It was a long time ago and it came to be unenforceable; we can't really know why it was done.
The biggest thing that I notice, is the extremely practical approach she takes.

Decisions based on reality, limits, and resources. Despite all that, she's a remarkably capable person that makes it all work; regularly, and repeatably.

I've had to make those types of decisions all my adult life. It's how we ship.
Do you know if foreign keys tend to be a problem on postgresql as well?
I'm more interested in what Toyota is doing with hydrogen powered race cars.

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-toyotas-hydrogen-combustio...