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Rust lang - Memory safety through zero cost abstraction as a way to eliminate a large class of errors in systems languages is interesting. Especially if it allo

by iamwil 6y ago

Rust lang - Memory safety through zero cost abstraction as a way to eliminate a large class of errors in systems languages is interesting. Especially if it allows more people to write systems programs. WASM - Mostly as a compile target for Rust, but I think this changes the way software might be deployed. No longer as a website, but as a binary distributed across CDNs. ZK-SNARKS - Zero knowledge proofs are still nascent, but being able to prove you know something while not revealing what it is has specific applicability for outsourcing computation. It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today. Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, will be pretty interesting. BERT - Newer models for NLP are always interesting because the internet is full of text. RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way. Oculus Quest - Been selling out during COVID. I sense a behavioral change. Datomic - Datalog seems to be having a resurgence. I wonder if it can fight against the tide of editing in-place.

chx 6y ago
> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.
- sosodev 6y ago
  Genuinely curious, what’s wrong with the lightning network?
  - dane-pgp 6y ago
    I don't know why the parent comment talked in such absolute terms, but these recent problems may be relevant: https://news.bitcoin.com/hidden-lightning-network-bug-allowed-spending-of-fake-bitcoins/ https://news.bitcoin.com/hidden-lightning-network-bug-allowe... https://news.bitcoin.com/mishap-sees-user-lose-30000-btc-on-lightning-network/ https://news.bitcoin.com/mishap-sees-user-lose-30000-btc-on-...
    - CraigRood 6y ago
      Bitcoin.com isn't a neutral source on LN related material. The parent company (St Bitts LLC) directly invest in Bitcoin Cash startups that compete directly with Bitcoin itself. The bug has already been patched, and had a limited userbase. The user who supposedly lost all his Bitcoin ended up not being true, vast majority was recovered. It's also worth noting that the user also deliberately went against various UI warnings that funds may be lost. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2468 https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2468
      - companyhen 6y ago
        Linking to a Bitcoin.com article about anything BTC is like linking to a Fox News opinion article on Obama.
  - chx 6y ago
    It's not the lightning network -- it's micropayments. Three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978
  - dylkil 6y ago
    For starters the whitepaper concludes that a 133mb base block size is needed for it to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size limit, which it will never increase.
  - homakov 6y ago
    one design problem https://medium.com/@homakov/catch-22-of-lightning-network-inbound-capacity-7bdb4964e64a https://medium.com/@homakov/catch-22-of-lightning-network-in...
baby 6y ago
btw since two weeks ago the official Oculus Quest store is not sold out anymore (although it might be sold out again, haven't checked since it got back in store)
azureus 6y ago
Datomic .. not just because of datalog, but because its hands down the best implementation of a AWS lambda based workflow I've seen (Datomic Ions). It's such a peach to work with.
Gollapalli 6y ago
wrt to Datomic there's also another Clojure DB using Datalog called Crux that's pretty interesting. I built my most recent project on that.
pot8n 6y ago
Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.
fsflover 6y ago
> It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today. Perhaps you may be interested in Golem project devoted to distributed computing: https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/
dmak 6y ago
I’m surprised people are still looking forward to the Lightning Network. Layer 2 has missed the boat because of all the politics and contention between the Bitcoin factions. Decentralized finance is already happening on Ethereum. We have stable coins like Dai that underpins loans.
guildmaster 6y ago
> RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way. Just checked out the website, how is it any different from Dynalist or Workflowy?
- iamwil 6y ago
  Never tried dynalist. Used Workflowy. Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph. Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down. Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.

by iamwil 6y ago

chx 6y ago

> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.

sosodev 6y ago
Genuinely curious, what’s wrong with the lightning network?
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  I don't know why the parent comment talked in such absolute terms, but these recent problems may be relevant: https://news.bitcoin.com/hidden-lightning-network-bug-allowed-spending-of-fake-bitcoins/ https://news.bitcoin.com/hidden-lightning-network-bug-allowe... https://news.bitcoin.com/mishap-sees-user-lose-30000-btc-on-lightning-network/ https://news.bitcoin.com/mishap-sees-user-lose-30000-btc-on-...
  - CraigRood 6y ago
    Bitcoin.com isn't a neutral source on LN related material. The parent company (St Bitts LLC) directly invest in Bitcoin Cash startups that compete directly with Bitcoin itself. The bug has already been patched, and had a limited userbase. The user who supposedly lost all his Bitcoin ended up not being true, vast majority was recovered. It's also worth noting that the user also deliberately went against various UI warnings that funds may be lost. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2468 https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2468
    - companyhen 6y ago
      Linking to a Bitcoin.com article about anything BTC is like linking to a Fox News opinion article on Obama.
- chx 6y ago
  It's not the lightning network -- it's micropayments. Three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978
- dylkil 6y ago
  For starters the whitepaper concludes that a 133mb base block size is needed for it to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size limit, which it will never increase.
- homakov 6y ago
  one design problem https://medium.com/@homakov/catch-22-of-lightning-network-inbound-capacity-7bdb4964e64a https://medium.com/@homakov/catch-22-of-lightning-network-in...

baby 6y ago

btw since two weeks ago the official Oculus Quest store is not sold out anymore (although it might be sold out again, haven't checked since it got back in store)

azureus 6y ago

Datomic .. not just because of datalog, but because its hands down the best implementation of a AWS lambda based workflow I've seen (Datomic Ions). It's such a peach to work with.

Gollapalli 6y ago

wrt to Datomic there's also another Clojure DB using Datalog called Crux that's pretty interesting. I built my most recent project on that.

pot8n 6y ago

Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.

fsflover 6y ago

> It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today. Perhaps you may be interested in Golem project devoted to distributed computing: https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/

dmak 6y ago

I’m surprised people are still looking forward to the Lightning Network. Layer 2 has missed the boat because of all the politics and contention between the Bitcoin factions. Decentralized finance is already happening on Ethereum. We have stable coins like Dai that underpins loans.

guildmaster 6y ago

> RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way. Just checked out the website, how is it any different from Dynalist or Workflowy?

iamwil 6y ago
Never tried dynalist. Used Workflowy. Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph. Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down. Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.