pjkundert

No; but it is a signal that indicates whether we're going in the right direction, or at least not in the wrong direction.

When groups whose primary motivation seems to indoctrinate innocents into a cult are pissed -- then I'm less worried.

Demanding mental assent to questionable claims to avoid punishment, regardless of questions about the predictive failure or successful outcomes of testing the hypotheses underlying those claims seems ... culty.

And, there's a lot of that in modern public schooling.

The first thing I ask my daughter whenever someone tells her to believe something, is "how could you know?". Quite often, the claimant has assiduously avoided informing her about how they "know" their claim is true. It's astonishing.

A related conversation from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650271

Basically: Polyunsaturated Fats are poisoning your Mitochondria, causing all sorts of metabolic illnesses.

Seed oils seem to be poisonous to humans. However, there is a global Trillion-dollar industry that depends on this not being true...

What could go wrong?

This series of articles is very, very interesting.

There appears to be a lot of evidence that the explosion in consumption of Polyunsaturated Fats (PUFAs) is at the root of the global reduction in basal body temperature, and a general inability to metabolise Glycogen, leading to eg. brain death by suffocation, obesity, etc.

This could explain a lot.

Suddenly, distributed private inference, compute, storage and bandwidth mediated by Holochain at global scale will become … valuable.

This paper details, topic by topic, all of the problems solved by Holochain.

And, defeats all passwords generated by the same password generation software before 2015…

How do you know he isn’t hedged?

NOT keeping it in Bitcoin is some next-level stupidity, by the simple analysis of trends over the time he’s held it.

And the inflation produced by the creation of broad money over the last 3 years hasn’t even come home to roost, yet.

I’d say he’s being ruthlessly analytical, not greedy.

Hire (and work) only in High Trust environments.

Until this general expectation is restored in "western civilization", you'll need to apply ideological filters to where you seek employees, and where you are willing to work as an employee.

Some in society may find this ... undesirable. However, one may ask whether these are the same people who wish to enjoy the benefits of High Trust environments, without the corresponding obligations.

/Remaining/ California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wage, starting Monday.

The "minimum wage" is, and remains: $0

I’m wondering if their plan is to obtain government funding, instead of attracting and educating students…

Because, who would knowingly send their kids to an institution with this stated as a primary goal?

Sure — with about the same likelihood as selecting the same atom out of all the atoms in the universe, twice in a row.

Besides; don’t. Generate your own entropy, save it as sets of SLIP-39 Mnemonic cards, and use the https://slip39.com App or https://iancoleman.io/slip39/ to recover your entropy (and your BIP-39 Phrase).

Sending trillions to people with a 100% track record of predictive failure isn’t popular?

Weird.

Yup, and a good implementation that already handles Integral anti-windup, and damps Derivative bump when changing setpoint, variable cycle rates, etc.

Here’s a decent implementation in Python:

https://github.com/pjkundert/ownercredit/blob/master/pid.py

743 x:

- Addresses that are wrong

- Passwords stored (probably insecurely)

- Other personal data that can be stolen

If they "need it", they can be granted access to it (or a personally encrypted copy of it unique to them). Of course they can (and likely will) mis-manage even this data; Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Homomorphic Encryption should be used instead, where possible.

Remember, Public data written by an Agent are written to the DHT and are persistenly available, so "upload and decrypt" isn't really usually a thing in Holochain hApps.

So, if they want to make some non-repudiable claim under the auspices of "my account" (ie. claim agency on my behalf over some change of state, such as a "post" under my name, ...), then they can bloody well get me to sign such a state change with my private key. And, make all such data publicly available so that I (by my sole decision) can cease to use their service and take my data elsewhere.

Remember -- these are "randos on the internet" holding your data. Hundreds, or possibly even thousands of them including all the partners they sell your harvested data to, who are evidently incompetent in managing/securing it, and certainly don't care a whit about you and the sanctity of your data.

In some of the Holochain prototypes I've built, certain state changes are more critical than others.

For some, you might allow "what you know" security (ie. the agent knows your private key).

For other, you might demand "what you know + what you have" security (ie. the agent knows your private key and has provable access to your device). I used various proof of knowledge constructs, such as the ability to read "Private" Holochain entry data (that only exist on-device, and not in the DHT), and demonstrate this by providing the hash or PKI signature of the private data (which is published to the DHT, in an entry provably before the private data being proven was written). There are other ways.

For yet others, you might want that, plus "who you know" security, in which case we do all of the above, and ask some previously defined Agents to also sign the transaction before it is allowed to be written to the Agent's source-chain.

So, the requirement for logical, physical or relational levels of security are available to Holochain / Holo hApps. This is higher security than is available for physical devices like cars, and is even better than provided by devices like Apple iPhone and Watch -- because you retain control over releasing the lock (if you forget your password and lose access to your email address, your Apple device is locked, forever).

Yes, you'll have many machine Agents that are grouped under your personal agency.

In Holochain, a standard service named "DeepKey" (https://github.com/holochain/deepkey, still under development) is tasked with managing groups of "Agent" keys.

On creation of a new Holochain Agent (associated with some Holochain application or piece of hardware), you'll associate it with your Deepkey keyset. Later, you can discard (or recover agency over a lost private key for) an Agent ID.

But at no time should "randos on the internet" be responsible for the agency of your data. That's just crazy -- no matter how "easy" they make it, they simply don't care (evidence would suggest) as much as I do about my data.

I have 743 login credentials (1984-present).

Trusting 743 “randos on the internet” to safeguard “my” data, and give me access to use it.

Insanity.

Agent-Centric systems where I retain signing keys to authorize access to (and transactions using my) data are the way forward.

A Key Fob (like you have for your car) is not onerous, and methods for recovery using trusted community members is practical.

Holochain (and the Holo project) are good examples of working implementations.

Everyone could be a “trillionaire”, if debasement of currencies continues at its present rate of acceleration.

Real inflation (debasement) has increased from ~2%/y to ~10%/y in the last decade, in an exponentially increasing fashion.

So, as “looting the treasury” accelerates, the trend toward 100%+/y inflation seems likely, and then hyperinflation seems inevitable.

Trillion dollar bills are the outcome.

KYC is already effectively useless.

Unless the “use” of it is to harass and exclude citizens from free commerce with each other for trivial amounts of money, while allowing industrial-scale fraud in the trillions to continue unabated.

With trillions unaccounted for by the Pentagon, etc. — how is this not like trusting a serial pedophile to look after your children?

I’ll continue to ignore their advice, thanks.

Or, perhaps wiping out the wolves which naturally culled the weak/sick was … shortsighted.

“a book written about the scheme of central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits, and property financed with debt.”

The book appears to make a compelling case (using excerpts from recently updated national securities regulations) that “ownership” of securities has been systematically subverted on a global scale.

If incorrect, relevant law should be simple to cite. If correct — then it indicates an extremely worrisome development.

How quaint! If only organized crime and industrial scale money laundering (billions through NGOs and international “military” operations) were affected by this — at all.

No, this is about Total Informational Awareness and control of the peasants.

“in the worst cases, minors would be discovered in grueling jobs like farming or construction.”

This is written by someone who, quite frankly, is almost suicidally stupid.

I would recommend only hiring kids who grew up in farming or construction.

Curtailing parents and employers from training kids in these skills is a recipe for civilizational collapse.

You’ll want to read “The Great Taking”.

This isn’t happening simultaneously on a global scale by accident.

Thanks, you can keep your “money”.

We have choices now.

An EV problems report — with no mention or ranking of Tesla?

Worthless.

Crappy EVs sold by sleazy salesmen aren’t selling?

No.

It doesn’t work — because the robber-baron banksters and their politician and judicial enablers are completely free to commit crime, globally, using the banking system.

This KYC/AML only affects scum like you and me.

If you don't really understand what you're reading -- I'd recommend not downvoting. Instead, do a bit of research!

Just today, an article was published noting that, if AI becomes a significant proportion of modern productivity, then “When compute becomes the basic unit of labor, a currency to represent future potential compute is needed.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761430

I personally modelled just such a thing early in the evolution of the Holo project, to see how value-stabilization algorithms might affect a currency denominated in compute, bandwidth and storage:

https://github.com/Holo-Host/holofuel-model

Attempting to account for fraud, attacks, etc. is a significant concern in any system, but especially those involving running arbitrary attacker-controlled code on systems managing valuable resources.

So, by downvoting in ignorance, you are diminishing the value of this platform for those seeking the distilled wisdom it (formerly?) contained.