paulproteus

The article is from October 2023. If you or someone else has a link to a more recent article where they take it back, I would be happy to read it as well!

The article says there are 3 advantages of IPFS -- speed, data verification, and data resilience. HTTPS/curl can provide the latter two. Does someone know if they published speed numbers of IPFS vs HTTPS/curl in the satellite environment?

The article doesn't mention Bitcoin, but I was able to find another reference to that here:

> More controversially, the lander contains non-scientific payloads, including a physical coin “loaded with one bitcoin” and a Japanese “lunar dream capsule” that contains 185,872 messages from children from around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/08/nasa-peregri...

Happy to hear that more Bitcoin is lost.

If it's a big problem, can you ask the DAO to mail you a check instead?

Code is law. I welcome our new overlords.

Another possibility is that the Spanish officials were bribed to sell information to people pretending to be the United States, but not actually representing the United States.

If you put the property deed and your best attempt at its history in a public database, such as a blockchain, then all you've got is your best attempt at the property deed's history. You're still going to want to buy title insurance.

When I tried that, it didn't show a lot of detail. It seems they blend shrinkage generally into the cost of goods sold, and the original article in the thread discusses the idea that shrinkage is mostly caused by employees, not non-employee theft. I consider employee theft to be not the kind retail theft that news articles are really about. I can't find what you're saying, losses due to theft generally, nor can I find something specific about non-employee theft. Let me know if you can find something else I can search for, since I am quite new to this.

I took a look at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27419/00000274192100... and searched for theft, and found this text as the only hit: "data loss or theft [...] could [...] adversely affect our results of operations. We continually invest to maintain and update our computer systems."

What are you finding in the SEC reports about theft? I'm not an expert at reading them.

I can offer one piece of puzzle: the demographics of registered votes has increased significantly. Take a look at "Age and generation" at https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/26/what-the-... .

> The U.S. electorate is aging: 52% of registered voters are ages 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996. This shift has occurred in both partisan coalitions. More than half of Republican and GOP-leaning voters (56%) are ages 50 and older, up from 39% in 1996. And among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, half are 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996.

> Another way to consider the aging of the electorate is to look at median age. The median age among all registered voters increased from 44 in 1996 to 50 in 2019. It rose from 43 to 52 among Republican registered voters and from 45 to 49 among Democratic registered voters.

I think that on average, people consider age significant, so they expect their candidate to be around as old as them. I don't think it's the whole picture, but it helps me feel less baffled at least.

When people wear lipstick and are drinking something, a straw helps keep it on. If society's going to have lipstick and people go out, I think society sorta has to have straws! See e.g. https://stylecaster.com/beauty/makeup/468366/how-to-make-lip...

Allowing Apollo to operate would cost $20M in opportunity cost for Reddit. But not allowing Apollo to operate has an opportunity cost in website downtime. I am amused!

https://maroofy.com/songs/1651341589 is one of my favorite songs, but it says, "Hmm, something went wrong," and shows no similar songs.

When I was a teenager, I thought no band was as cool as Rainer Maria.

Does this mean I was right?

:D

Nice app! I tried it for another fave https://maroofy.com/songs/1578598760 and will give those a listen.

This is a good joke because numbers came from India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...

In May, FTX.us announced stock & ETF trading: https://www.investopedia.com/ftxus-launches-stock-brokerage-...

I don't know anything about how it worked or who used it, etc. I wonder if it relates somehow to this idea of wrapped securities though.

I think phone wi-fi is just like this sometimes!

When I used ping to test my iPhone's wifi latency (1), I frequently saw 200ms results, even when the phone screen was on and I was using an app. Maybe there's aggressive power saving stuff causing latency on the network stack. I was very surprised as well. Friends with Google Pixel phones tried a similar test on their Wi-Fi networks and got similar results.

Edited to add: When I test with the Blip website, it never goes above 80ms for gstatic. Go figure.

1. Tested by a wired Mac pinging the default gateway, a Google Nest Wi-Fi Router, which was <1ms consistently, then I used the wired Mac to ping the phone

As I understand it, Bitcoin mining involves selecting which unconfirmed transactions (mem pool transactions) to include in the block. A common algorithm for selecting them is ones with higher fees. Another aspect could be ignoring ones from sanctioned wallet IDs. If treasury.gov had a monthly-updating CSV file of wallet IDs that are sanctioned, then the person setting up the mining software could have a cron job to refresh treasury.gov's list periodically. Would that work?

I think you're saying this would be a big hassle, maybe for miners. Can you explain that more?

For miners operating in the US, I’d like to see sanctions violations cases if they mine blocks that include transactions for Iranian (and other sanctioned) entities. This seems straightforward to me. Frankly I’m quite annoyed that my democratically elected representatives’ sanctions regime is being undermined by Americans interested in a quick buck from wasting electricity with their PC.

Happy to see this! I’ve been disturbed by GitHub hosting financial infrastructure optimized for criminal activity.

I think I figured it out. An AI will make a cryptocurrency and people will mine it, and mining will directly advance the AI. It will be negative utility to humanity, and it will doom us.

I hope you can go beyond root cause analysis and publish some kind of cost-benefit analysis.

The risks from misrepresenting your copyright in these cases are not small. Diebold Election Systems paid $125,000 in a similar situation: https://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold

We followed the process with the IRS, doing a bunch of verification as you said, which gave us access to the API docs. We're only part-way through the full process of becoming an Online Provider per https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3112.pdf

I wish it were simpler. I get why the IRS wants to verify who is submitting tax data to them, though.

I work at Code for America on the Tax Benefits team, and we're working on a different website to apply for the Child Tax Credit. (See https://www.getctc.org/ and https://www.getyourrefund.org/. ) From the original article: > Alas, all [People's Policy Project's website] can do is funnel users into Intuit's terrible [child tax credit] site. Today at work, I'm learning how to use the IRS's e-File SOAP API in the hopes that we can build a flow that is easier to use than Intuit's. Feel free to subscribe to our newsletter. :) https://info.codeforamerica.org/newsletter See also https://www.codeforamerica.org/news/meet-code-for-americas-n... for how we're thinking about this work.

The official Ultimate Debian Database only allows Debian project members to access it. Mattia Rizzolo and I co-maintain a mirror. Query and enjoy!

psql "postgresql://udd-mirror:udd-mirror@udd-mirror.debian.net/udd"

I wrote up its history recently: https://announce.asheesh.org/2020/11/the-ultimate-debian-dat...

More info about the service: https://udd-mirror.debian.net/

I'd love to know what kind of false information you're enjoying sending them, and how!

So I guess for 32GB, it's:

- Sealing: Done once. 3-4h compute on one CPU initially, plus 2-3 hours on a few CPUs.

- Proof of space time: 10 minutes of GPU time per day.

What are the latency expectations within the system when my node is asked for a Proof of SpaceTime? Is it feasible to keep the sealing data, delete the file itself, then spend ~5 minutes downloading the 32GB on my 1 gigabit/sec home Internet connection when someone asks me to do the Proof of SpaceTime, and return the Proof of SpaceTime in 15 minutes (5 min to download, 10 min to compute)?

Thanks again for engaging with me here! It seems the compute time itself isn't a constant enormous cost necessarily.

Cool!

So then, dumb question. Can I delete the file, keep the "seal", and keep winning 1% of the blocks?

If yes, then that seems bad for the system.

If not (hopefully), I'd like to also understand what's the ongoing compute cost of using the seal plus file together.

I understood from the article that sealing is something you do if you are publishing a mirror of a file. Is that right?

Feel free to get bored of this conversation and link me to a paper or something. :) I'm grateful for the reply you gave above already.

It seems that Filecoin fundamentally relies on a proof-of-work type system called "sealing." The article calls it "an intense amount of work" that you must do in order to host a file. Does anyone have any estimates or comparisons for the CPU/energy consumed?

I've long believed that when companies do illegal things that would normally be punished by prison, the company should go to prison.

The company office would have to operate according to the same rules as a prison. Employees on arrival are security-checked the same way prisoners would be when they arrive for the first time. Rules about talking between cells, and device use, are the same as a prison. Once you get to your prison office, and you have your prison clothes on, you can work on paper.

I think this should be an existing prison. If a company wants to instead hire prison guards and do renovations to make their existing office work like a prison, I could be flexible to that.

Presumably all the employees would rather quit than work in prison. Sounds okay to me.

Presumably all investors would pressure the CEO to avoid getting the company put in prison because it would be a real productivity problem. Sounds okay to me.

Hi kovek! You might like https://www.codementor.io/ . I admit I'm a mentor there, and I've made about twenty bucks helping people, but anyway it was super fun helping poeple. :)