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by Taek 5y ago
Have you had a chance to try Skynet? It provides all of the same features as IPFS, but it's also a lot more performant and higher uptime. You wouldn't need a centralized node that you run yourself.
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by Taek 5y ago
Maybe unrelated but YouTube has been throwing a lot of faux science and astronomy at me lately. Youtubers reading controversial papers presented as indisputable even when there's no scientific consensus at all on the results.
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by Taek 5y ago
Forgive me, but I don't understand the distinction here. I tried build software that cost money to run, and I had a horde of people telling me its not open source but rather "source available" because the license specified th
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by Taek 5y ago
With the right micropayments architecture an upvote could easily be 0.1 or 0.01 cents. Or even $1. None of it has to be visible to the user either, just like mobile data bills aren't visible to the user
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by Taek 5y ago
You can't call your license FOSS if the code isn't entirely gratis to run and distribute. It's the first requirement defined by the OSI. It's also the only requirement that I disagree with
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by Taek 5y ago
No need to pay an existing host or get any sort of external party to enable you, it's a permissionless network
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by Taek 5y ago
The blockchain gets us a decentralized marketplace for decentralized storage providers. Anyone can join as a provider and get paid, and the blockchain can act as a decentralized escrow that holds the payment until proof is provided that the
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by Taek 5y ago
Closest we got at the moment is this: https://skynet.guide/discover/storage-chains-compared.html#f... I'm writing a more direct comparison this week, we just recently (less than 30 days ago) hit full feature parit
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by Taek 5y ago
You can always run a host yourself and pin it to your own host. The main reason we chose a host-based architecture instead of a pin based architecture is that we saw on IPFS that having people pin their own data resulted in really poor upti
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by Taek 5y ago
How would you set it up? The decentralized world doesn't really have a great system for curation at this point (unless you can point to a counterexample!), and so I'm in favor of any sort of playing around with decentralized votin
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by Taek 5y ago
It's still very slow - retrieval times >30s for files that aren't cached on cloudflare or ipfs.io. Also, those two providers each have multiple periods of downtime every year. If the files are cached and the services are up, it
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by Taek 5y ago
Once exception: security related incidents. Critical software upgrades, fraud alerts, someone tried to access my account, credit card expired, severe weather warning, that sort of stuff.
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by Taek 5y ago
It structurally pays less per GPU as you add more GPUs, because the security budget is a zero-sum budget. (though, that's only if you ignore extrinsic effects, and some people argue that more security = higher coin price = higher secur
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by Taek 5y ago
The amount of value extracted by the person mining reduces as more compute power starts mining, but that's actually a negative feedback loop that will reduce the total spending on chips for crypto mining. The amount of security provide
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by Taek 5y ago
It's mostly not ML either. There were production hiccups do to covid, increased consumer demand for chips due to covid, increased demand of mobile chips because the mobile industry is still massively growing, among other issues. Crypto
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by Taek 5y ago
Cryptocurrency chips are less than 5% of TSMCs total production, it's not the major driving force in the shortage.
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Infra Bill’s Cryptocurrency Measures Risk Pushing Criminals Further Underground(wsj.com)
4 points by Taek 5y ago|1 comments
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by Taek 5y ago
Well really, I think it's the responsibility of the parents. In an ideal world, a parent can decide when their child is mentally ready to engage in an industry like that, and can also decide where the line is safe (teases? partial nudi
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by Taek 5y ago
The reason that people find Go to be so much more readable than anything else is because there's often only one way to do the thing you want. The entire language spec is like 2 pages long, and the standard library is relatively thin -
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by Taek 5y ago
And the top 1% of developers know that you are most productive when you stick to the simplest primitives ;) I jest, but I also don't. All the best developers I know strongly prefer footgun-free libraries and primitives. The advantage i
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by Taek 5y ago
You definitely want to optimize for people who are new to a codebase. Over enough time, the codebase grows to a point where essentially _everyone_ is new to each area of the code, because nobody has touched that code in 2-3 years and the pe
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by Taek 5y ago
Lines of code is a complete red herring. It takes me less time to read and review 500 lines of Go than it does 100 lines of JavaScript. Sometimes - especially in other languages - you see a piece of "elegant" code that does someth
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by Taek 5y ago
Not excited about this feature, I guess we'll see how frequently it shows up in unwanted places. Generics in C++ really damage the readability of the code sometimes, maybe the go devs have found a better way. Very skeptical, but the go
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by Taek 5y ago
Find a different way to solve the problem. I've written close to half a million lines of code in Go and the lack of generics has been a pain point in maybe 1% of that? Usually, if you are thinking about generics you are reaching for ab
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OnlyFans Is a Microcosm of Everything Wrong with the Internet(blog.sia.tech)
3 points by Taek 5y ago|0 comments
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by Taek 5y ago
Same. And I loved Gentoo so much. Made me feel like a car mechanic, upgrading his machine with all the custom parts. I would go back to running Gentoo if I had the time to mess around, it was a ton of fun and it really did give you a system
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by Taek 5y ago
Software complexity is how long it takes an engineer to fully understand the form and function of a piece of code, and all the way the ways that code interacts with the rest of the universe.
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by Taek 5y ago
Especially as we move more key infrastructure into the cloud. If people start trusting these sorts of remote systems with things like financial data, the payoff of a clandestine compromise could be hundreds of billions of dollars. Doubly tr
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by Taek 5y ago
The Internet also failed to refute the arguments of skeptics until one day it didn't fail and now several of the largest companies in the world are entirely Internet based and providing indisputable value. Cryptocurrency offers new pri
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by Taek 5y ago
> If this is not the case, could you point me to some sources and not just your anecdote? It's difficult to find sources, but generally speaking you are going to go 'on warning' at around 1.5% and if you go too much over 2

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