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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
Activitypub is a pretty dated standard thats really not super easy to work with or adapt to a more open network. Its an XML based protocol that bakes in really difficult to use notions of identity and doesn't address the problem of dat
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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
I assume you havent seen https://twitter.com/bluesky ?
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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
> GrapheneOS is compatible with several Google Pixel smartphones. That doesn't bode well for things working all that well. As someone who ran linux on chromebook for two years, then on a macbook for three, i'm a bit burnt out o
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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
People are working on smaller unixy tools to do fewer things well, but at least for the main codebase we are limited by go itself. Making binaries smaller is not simple at all... You might be interested in checking out the rust implementati
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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
This is really great stuff, thank you for making this!
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by whyrusleeping 5y ago
Its not really though, if the majority of PoW miners want to omit a certain miners blocks, they can. The protocol dictates that the chain created by the majority of mining power is the canonical one. In the event that a censored party can c
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Use an incognito tab
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Someone might want to take more precautions generating keys for $1 billion vs $1 million. I'm betting this person (or persons) generated keys in a more secure manner (potentially a sharded key, or using hardware wallets) than the origi
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Wow, these are some impressive numbers: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/uploads/2020/06/S5-260-1.pdf (note: uber launched in 2009) You can't say there's causation here necessarily, but the correl
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
> I'm not sure about how consistently people in Filecoin need to be connected to the network, but that could prove to be an issue. The initial release today focuses on Storage Mining, which requires the nodes storing the data to be
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
> Also, I had a thought that a smart miner will just create a thin layer between Backblaze B2 and Filecoin to earn some FIL basically for free since no one is going to out-price B2. And then we're just back to storing everything on
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Hey! Filecoin Tech Lead here, I really wouldn't take any prices you see for deals as authoritative yet. Things are gonna be pretty crazy up and down until the markets settle. Filecoin miners right now are making about 0.25FIL per day p
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
I really appreciate hearing things like this :) We put a ton of work into making the layering of our projects just right so that they can be reused over and over even if other things we're working on fail. It often does make it slowe
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Some links without comment: - https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipfs-npm - https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/apt-on-ipfs - https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-contain..
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Yeah, sybill attacks are pretty hard to get around. IPFS itself doesnt entirely depend on a DHT though, it uses it when it can, but also falls back to a more gossip style approach of just asking peers you connect to for the data. So if you
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
Yeah, thats roughly the idea. We can evolve the current DHT into something coral-like, or if something better comes along, we will use that.
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by whyrusleeping 6y ago
In an actual interplanetary setup, we would definitely not be using a single DHT across the entire space. The main idea once we get to that scale is either a different content routing system altogether, or sharded coral style DHTs ( https:&
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
I'm not trying to censor anything, lol. Just referencing many hilarious moments in your comment history where the HN mods tell you to quit spamming, and here we are again with more off topic mark spam ;)
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Its not like 1 filecoin == 1 gigabyte of storage. Its a market, people pay what they want to pay. I think you have an incorrect picture of the system in your head and havent actually gone and done the research needed to back up your angry s
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Not sure how thats true, If you and I can negotiate a price we are willing to pay for a given thing, it doesnt matter what the token is tied to or traded on.
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Yeah, Its pretty much a staple. Despite repeated attempts by the mods to get it to stop.
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
> Thanks again for engaging with me here! Of course :) > What are the latency expectations within the system when my node is asked for a Proof of SpaceTime? We want them to be as low as possible, but the practicality of getting messag
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Sealing ensures that miners have a unique replica of a given piece of data on their disk. Since we're basing block producer power on storage, we need to protect against a number of attacks such as people generating the data on the fly,
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Nope, thats where the second Proof comes in. PoSt (Proof of SpaceTime) periodically challenges miners to verify that they have the data they claim to. Since replicas are expensive (slow) to compute, and the challenge window is short, this v
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Its currently looking at about 4 hours of single core CPU time, plus 2-3 hours more of using many cores for a 32GB sector. The difference between sealing and an actual proof of work based network here is that once you've sealed a secto
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Bitcoin isnt anonymous, and doesn't claim to be. If you want an anonymous currency check out something like Zcash or monero. They use some fancier crypto to obscure transaction inputs and outputs, which gets you a bit farther towards b
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
A console.log in your npm package post-install is an attack vector? Sure, there are many nasty things you could do in a packages post-install, I think a text based ad is the least of your concerns.
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Also the guy who wrote vim is now at google
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
Feross could easily get a job, but the point is that he wants open source to work. So much of everything you do every day depends on open source code, and every open source dev I know says its an utter shit show. The alternative is Feross g
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by whyrusleeping 7y ago
I'm disappointed that Thorium reactors haven't been really built yet.

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