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Nick Szabo has been potentially mentioned as Satoshi for sometime [1] due to him working on decentralized currencies since 1998 with Bit Gold [2].

Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3]

> "Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas," said Musk, adding, "he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behind it than anyone else."

> Szabo is best known as the inventor of one of bitcoin’s predecessors, Bit Gold, and digital smart contracts—which eventually evolved to become a key part of the ethereum blockchain. Szabo has previously denied he's Satoshi Nakamoto, telling financial author Dominic Frisby in 2014, "I'm afraid you got it wrong doxing me as Satoshi, but I'm used to it."

Szabo's full name is Nicholas Szabo [4]. Just seems quite a bit like Satoshi Nakamoto. It feels like there is something there potentially.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Satoshi_Nakamoto_sp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/12/28/elon-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
I'm exactly at a point where I'm considering SQLite for its single file db advantage, but I'm struggling to find solutions for my use case.

I need to import some 30k JSONs of external monitor data from Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) into a normalized form so that everyone can query it.

I'd love to get this into a single SQLite file that can be served and cached through CDN and local browser cache.

But is there something akin to Metabase that could be used to query the db file after it was downloaded?

I know I could have a Metabase server that could query the SQLite DB on my server, but I'd like the db and the queries to run locally for faster iteration and less load on my server.

Besides, I'm reluctant to run a public Metabase instance given the log4j vulnerabilities that keep coming.
Yes. And I've seen The Gervais Principle, it helped me understand what am I dealing with. Recommend it too.
I think of Satoshi as a genius for the invention. Unfortunately the invention is causing a global climate crisis. Similar to how Einstein's laws helped create the atomic bomb.
Ideally there would be 30 or over students randomly chosen.
The class probably has less than 30 students to begin with.
And the bias and friction for students to set up an account and review makes these results spurious to begin with.
We've been using SQLite in production as our exclusive means for getting bytes to/from disk for going on 6 years now. To this day, not one production incident can be attributed to our choice of database or how we use it.

We aren't using SQLite exactly as intended either. We have databases in the 100-1000 gigabyte range that are concurrently utilized by potentially hundreds or thousands of simultaneous users. Performance is hardly a concern when you have reasonable hardware (NVMe/SSD) and utilize appropriate configuration (PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL).

In our testing, our usage of SQLite vastly outperformed an identical schema on top of SQL Server. It is my understanding that something about not having to take a network hop and being able to directly invoke the database methods makes a huge difference. Are you able to execute queries and reliably receive results within microseconds with your current database setup?

Sure, there is no way we are going to be able to distribute/cluster our product by way of our database provider alone, but this is a constraint we decided was worth it, especially considering all of the other reduction in complexity you get with single machine business systems. I am aware of things like DQLite/RQLite/et.al., but we simply don't have a business case that demands that level of resilience (and complexity) yet.

Some other tricks we employ - We do not use 1 gigantic SQLite database for the entire product. It's more like a collection of microservices that live inside 1 executable with each owning an independent SQLite database copy. So, we would have databases like Users.db, UserSessions.db, Settings.db, etc. We don't have any use cases that would require us to write some complex reporting query across multiple databases.
> > It is how many people communicate.

> No. Your argument is a linguistic work-to-rules strike.

It's both.
the closest anagram i can make from “antonomasias” is:

Satosi nanamo

seems like a stretch, unless there’s more that i’m missing.
The Palm VII had a built-in GPRS modem with some truly expensive data options.
We do have quite a bunch of hydro, actually.

Electricity consumed by source 2020:
Nuclear 28%
Electricity by combined heat & power production from central heating & industry and other thermal 25% (about 50% split bioenergy vs fossils)
Hydro 19%
Import 18%
Wind 10%

Altogether electricity production is 52% from renewables.

Source:
https://www.stat.fi/til/salatuo/2020/salatuo_2020_2021-11-02...
And:
https://www.motiva.fi/ratkaisut/energiankaytto_suomessa/sahk...
It's funny you suggested that because I use the r/BWF's Recommended Routine myself. I'm big on calisthenics and wish to do one arm push up and handstand pushups someday. BWF for the win because if a gym is closed because of a pandemic or if I'm on vacation, I don't want to feel my routine being disrupted.
> Every study ever done on demand curves for literally anything shows that they consistently slope downwards, with the exception of Veblen goods

Since Veblen goods are defined as anything where the demand curve slopes upward, that would only be a result of an empirical study if the study was designed to test, and strong enough to confidently disprove, the existence of goods with a flat demand curve. But it's not meaningful in any case.

> Veblen goods, which kidnapped children most certainly are not.

[citation needed]
>FB brand is super toxic

I am in the market for a new phone. I had to disqualify my previous top pick because it came pre-loaded with non-uninstallable Facebook.

Paranoid? Maybe, but Facebook has been previously demonstrated to do whatever they can to escape a sandbox and capture your data. They likely employ teams who do nothing but look for exploits in IOS/Android.

Edit: missed the clutch keyword "non-uninstallable"
The value prop here is the “without a third party” bit I presume? That seems more like a political or ethical preference rather than true value. Email allowed you to instantly and perfectly send a message anywhere at any time, and you could cut down on machine and paper/ink costs. Genuine value.

Ironically, the crypto way of doing transactions is more like the fax machine to Venmo’s email. The former is slow and more expensive, while the latter is instant and free.

Edit: I’d also like to point out you still have a third party in crypto. It’s just that the third party is the entire network rather than a single company.
5 seconds is a long time, especially when a normal modern tech stack can do the same things in milliseconds. I'd also love a reference showing that any of these chains can handle 100k requests per second with a latency of a few seconds. I've never seen it.
Yeah but leaking such data from an ISP would be considered illegal.
I think they mean:
Energy; a shorthand reference to myriad qualities of lived experience including perceptions, ideas and emotions. Deliberately vague to encourage intuitive and personal interpretation. There is a leaning towards embodied sensation.
The general the implied dogma is that energy is healthy when moving and undergoing rhythmic change. It's problematic when variance and flow diminishes.

Take some drugs you'll get it
Interesting take. I’m not sure many would agree with you. Care to expand or point us somewhere where your ideas are expanded?
He was on a podcast and misspoke saying he invented it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_z-vzkA0r4
I recall the same things. I remember being bitterly envious of students that seemingly were given topics to examine while I had to spin my wheels for a good year or two coming up with my own ideas to explore.

Looking back my perspective is very different. First of all, my ideas generated a minor spike in publications for the lab all centered around my work. After I graduated I continued to advise new students to continue what I started.

I now think in these teems, which might sound cynical but simply reflect the vicious nature of academia.

1. The students given topics, the ones I was jealous of, all kind of sucked. They were given topics to advance a short term goal and gtfo. It may seem paradoxical or cruel but a savvy advisor will maximize both short term and long term gains. I was a long term bet, the others were short term plays.

2. I benefitted greatly from being forced to identify my own topics. This is the one skill that I use every single day. Every hour of every day. As time goes on the ability to evaluate ideas deeply and with some speed effectively defines what it is I do for a living.

3. Students given topics were cheated out of more valuable long term skills for the lab’s short term gains. This is not always universally true, of course. Some super stars really can crank through a deep serious topic quickly and continue on to generate novel research if their own. One such person may appear in a university department once every ten or twenty years, they are extraordinarily rare.

4. I was well aware of the exploitive nature of grad school, did it anyway with a clear head for what I wanted to get out of it and my only disappointments came from when I giddily let my guard down and expected more than what I already realized would be forthcoming. A specific example, my advisor would use my conference paper acceptances to fund their own personal travel and vacations; I was not allowed to present my own first author papers. Silently tolerating that sort of bullshit, in part, allowed me to graduate.
Yes this is one of the crazy things about politics and populism. If we compare the efforts to combat welfare fraud to the ones to combat tax evasion considering the losses to the state it's completely disproportionate and from an economic standpoint doesn't make sense. From a political standpoint however it likely does, many people feel much more strongly about welfare fraud than tax evasion.
> Such offers go directly to Mark Zuckerberg and he has to approve them personally

This is absolutely incorrect.
Offers above the band have to be approved by a comp committee/VP.

It’s quite a common process especially since number have gone up.
In practice it's also very likely that customer mind boggling amount of bureaucracy, allocating extra penny might require approval from several committees.
Team Shanghai Alice / Zun (aka: that one crazy developer) does all his own artwork, music, and programming for the Touhou series.

A lot of people joke that his artwork is sub-par and the music is repetitive, but frankly... the integration of all three into a single product / series of games is pretty amazing.

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I don't know if gaming is the "ultimate" form of art. And no one is going to say that Zun's art or music is the best in the world.

But the fact that Zun can do all three and have them play off each other in his games is pretty masterful. There's a big difference in feel between people who only have mastered say Programming, but rely upon a team-member to do the art and/or music.

Having the sound-effects integrate into your musical scores (thanks to understanding music theory / beats), as well as generating artwork from programmatic features (the pretty "bullet patterns" of Zun's games) is pretty unique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8JmfCYmtHo

Zun can make bullet patterns that look beautiful, while simultaneously is fun to dodge / play with, and with sound effects that integrate well into the music.
Advice to myself (a while back when I wondered the same thing)... put the phone down once you've reached the end of page 1, and the first page of new submissions. Life is for living, tech is for 'doing', and anything more than 20 minutes online is procrastination.

You're a different person with different requirements, but I thought I'd just throw in my 2c.

PS: I rarely keep it to 20 minutes a day but I try
There was historically a push along these lines (Ada as official DoD language for the software on the systems it buys).

I don't have the whole story as to when and how this stopped being a requirement (1990s?), or if it was ever a true requirement, but in U.S. DoD aerospace today, Ada is uncommon. I'm not sure of any new systems developed over the past 20 years that are based on Ada. Perhaps some of the avionics suppliers like Honeywell or Rockwell Collins that historically used Ada still do, but I don't think most aerospace prime contractors do today.

The prevalent U.S. Government view is that the industrial entities that implement systems should have the latitude to decide what they want to use. For DoD systems, they would just be expected to have the DoD conduct reviews of their software/system design. [Sadly, such reviews vary wildly in their quality and how much companies' feet are held to any fire.]

Keep in mind the FAA requirements for civil aircraft certification are different from DoD's airworthiness assessments. And then launch vehicles and spacecraft are assessed/certified on a different basis than aircraft.
> uninstallable Facebook.

Do you mean “non-uninstallable Facebook”?
Nothing can promise constant performance at infinite volume. 10,000 transactions are a tiny number for most modern and popular products these days.
Can't churn through engineers at the rate SpaceX do with Ada vs C++. They'd run out of replacement staff very quickly.
This is a re-upload from earlier in the year.
If telcos want the phone to be relevant, this is the wrong way to go about it. Just 10 years ago I answered my phone when it rang, even with an unknown number. Does anybody do that anymore? It's become nearly unusable, for example, as a way for businesses to contact customers they have an actual relationship with because of all the spam.
> What they're effectively doing is trying to completely destroy someone's life just for them having written a piece of software.

Also, in the process, they could easily destroy someone else's life through a mistaken identification.
It's not testimony. If you don't want the IRS to know about it, you have to invoke the right when you submit the return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Does this give Microsoft access to AT&T call data?
Now I'm fascinated. What would happen if someone just every few weeks deposits a few hundred grand cash into his bank account. Then dutifully declares the income as the gains from illegal activities and pays his taxes. Law enforcement investigates but can't find the source of his cash...

I know they could impound the money but the onus is on the law enforcement side to eventually have some evidence of a crime and the guy doesn't have any obligation to answer any questions.

I'm sure there might be some laws in place for this (maybe?) but it's still a fun thought experiment.
You're filling out an official form that you're required to, and affirming that the statements are correct under penalty of law.

The caveat here is that you can list it as misc or various. So no admissions.
Consider, though, that in the days past (when your server would be probably on an equivalent of dual-socket Pentium 166-MMX), most clients would be coming from slow links like 33.4-56.1kbps dialup, and it wouldn't be a problem to serve them at all. Links were slow, users were patient, timeouts were high, webpages were sort of slim. Although if you ask me, they always have been heavy, just within the constraints of their time.

Then, of course, there was ISDN and xDSL, which would give you true to god whopping 128 kbits/s for a while. 64 kpbs if you were cheap. It took a while to get to affordable multiples of Mbits per second.

Now that there's at least 10 Mbps uplink from each residential subscriber, doesn't take long to DoS even a beefy server.

And I'd say that server-side, things improved vastly with advent of FastCGI and its equivalents. Back in that heyday of your P166-MMX server, it was CGI with Perl, spawning a process for each incoming request, or "blazing-fast" Apache's server-side includes, or other things like that. Maybe mod_perl with its caveats on memory sharing.

Anyway, you're right in that whenever you show them a wider pipe, they will find more stuff to congest it with.
You could do incremental updates of the local databases using the session extension:

https://sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
I think that applies to making anything completely by yourself, a DAW, a drawing app, a house. The only problem I'm facing is: I keep going deeper and deeper in making tools and never made a game since (game engine -> programming language -> OS), tbh I am a bit jealous to see people already using Unity making cool effects, where I would have to spend weeks learning the maths and engineering behind those
I consider a detached home with a private, wooded yard (which is still near enough to urban amenities and utilities to not be a "country estate") to be my ideal home, and don't see how this kind of home and lifestyle can fit into neo-urbanist planning schemes without a lot of friction.
That's incredible mental gymnastics. This is like a straw man version of what leftists say the average fox news viewer is like. If this is parody, then congratulations on fooling me.
Can you provide a pair of examples in which Snopes, Politifact, or a similar mainstream US-based fact checker used clearly different standards for what constitutes a question of fact based on the political orientation of the subject?
This question makes me feel like HN is becoming lame.
I find it nearly impossible to retain any information from audio sources, be they podcasts or audiobooks. Lectures are usually fine, unless they're just someone standing up and talking. Presentations with suitable diagrams, animations, illustrations, or photographs are OK, but far, far, far away the best medium for me is the written word supported by appropriate diagrams.

For me, podcasts and audiobooks are a (near) complete waste of time.
For me this is the most infuriating part:

> The Commission does not collect criminal fines for violations of section 227.
> If a party fails to pay a forfeiture, we refer the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice for further enforcement action. We have referred to the Department of Justice forfeiture orders involving violations of section 227 by Adrian Abramovich, Marketing Strategy Leaders, Inc., and Marketing Leaders, Inc. (Abramovich), Philip Roesel, dba Wilmington Insurance Quotes, and Best Insurance Contracts, Inc. (Roesel), Affordable Enterprises of Arizona, LLC, and Scott Rhodes a.k.a. Scott David Rhodes, Scott D. Rhodes, Scott Platek, Scott P. Platek (Rhodes). 34 During calendar year 2020, the Attorney General did not collect any forfeiture penalties or criminal fines for violations of section 227 cases that the Commission has referred. We lack knowledge about the U.S. Department of Justice’s collections beyond those cases.

It said earlier that these entities owe tens of millions of dollars in forfeitures. Why were they not collected? If these criminals know that there’s no penalty, they’ll continue acting badly. (And we can see already that they do this. They change names and start over.)
Like most government dev work, Canada Post outsources to Accenture for their projects.
If you think LA housing prices are crazy now, just wait till people start factoring in potential billions of dollars buried in the backyard.
Not only, if has an autofocus option (--autofocus flag). However, you cannot select the focus area (or focus points like in a pro camera) :(. But, the autofocus function is implemented and works nicely.
Numbers for new hires or people whose equity appreciated? A new hire E6 will make like 0.75-1.2 top end over 4 years in equity and cash is between 200-300 + bonus. I have recent data.

Sure 500 is on the low end but it’s nowhere close to $3M a year for a new hire E6.
> You're a prisoner of your money.

Moreover, all these claims of Satoshi having a lot of money are pretty much just speculation -- all they do is show that some early miner mined a few hundred thousand bitcoin. They don't show that miner is Satoshi, that's just a plausible guess because the people speculating know of few other early Bitcoin users. They also don't show that whomever mined those coins hasn't lost the keys for them.

Any person 'identified' as Satoshi may not actually be Satoshi anyways, people have shown that they're remarkably able to believe utter drivel.

So now imagine all the problems you listed but apply them to someone who isn't actually wealthy because because that early miner wasn't them, they're not Bitcoin's creator, or because the assets had been lost back when they were worth very little. They'd still be subject to all the assumptions and thus threats, but not be able to buy their way out of them to the extent that it's possible to do so-- e.g. they couldn't afford the multi-million dollar a year security.

(Someone might reply to you that if their problem was wealth they didn't want they could always dispose of it, but that just reduces to the problem above: people wouldn't believe they did so it wouldn't solve the problem, it would only remove the best tool they have to ameliorate it)

> They gave you a software for free which spawned a whole industry, they don't deserve to be harassed for that. If you don't like it then don't use it, but don't destroy the developer's life. Nobody forces you to use it

Not just that, the very premise and fundamental design of Bitcoin was to give its creator no particular control or authority over it. So their identity doesn't really matter. The fetishization of the identity of Bitcoin's creator is a stupendous act of missing the entire point.

People shouldn't delude themselves that they're not engaging in a mean and harmful act against someone who never caused them harm. It's gross and creepy. If Satoshi is still alive and wanted to be known, he would be. Not only did he expressly complain about the speculation about his identity when he was around (in the last message he sent before disappearing), his continued silence shows he isn't interested in now.
Ok it’s mixed signal.
So what's next?

Modular telescopes? Couldn't the whole manufacturing of the module (semi-)automated? (So no need for so much testing, verification, etc.) Bring unit costs down, and launch a few of the modules each year. Eventually they'll have as big a mirror as they want.
A bit of a disappointing read. All I got out of it is that the individual control systems run at 10 or 50 Hz (less than I expected).

From my own background knowledge I remember that the rockets actually run on Intel chips and the Dragon touchscreens are Chromium-based (less certain about that one).

I was hoping for a lot more details like that.
Depends, at your Sunday brunch, sure. While making small talk with a potential investor, I don't think so..
I think that's only fair, to be honest.
> Where did he say that these people don't believe in medicine?

Refusing to take a vaccine that appears to be safe and reasonably effective despite being in a pandemic and in a field of work that both increases your risk of exposure and increases the potential damage caused by said exposure (spreading the disease around people who might be already weakened by other medical conditions) suggests they don't.

> Ad Hominem attacking the author

Could you elaborate? I don't see anything in my comment that's attacking the author directly rather than their claims which I totally disagree with.
You seem like a guy that's read the studies/blogs on the Satoshi/genesis nonces