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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 28 May \ on: Why Bitcoin Knots instead of . . . Bitcoin Core ? bitcoin
Does Knots actually have more options for filtering transactions than Core? Or is it the case that it simply has a different set of defaults, which a certain group of bitcoiners considers more "virtuous"?
Pretty cool project, but omg that purple and pink is hard on my eyes.
I've seen something like that on trdr.io (order book overlay) and some other desktop tool I can't recall the name of. Not sure how useful is it overall, other than predicting volatility (then again, you can trade that too).
What exchanges are you pulling data from? Do you aggregate books of BTC against stablecoins as well?
If you don't want updates for whatever reason, just take an older commit of SN's front-end (it's open source) and connect it to the current API. Boom, you have a frozen frontend until it breaks because the backend changes (then you'll realize why auto-updates weren't necessarily a bad thing). Still don't need a native app.
The problem that you mention (styling articles) is a you-specific problem. Suppose you write an app that does that. But someone else doesn't want that, they actually want them a different color/font/whatever. Should they now write their own app or fork yours? The real problem is that mobile browsers have limited options for injecting custom styles compared to desktop (a PWA is a browser window sans the browser UI). Or, SN could just add an option to inject your own CSS.
Also, I'm surprised that you think going to an app store, finding an app and installing it is better experience (and easier to walk someone through that) than visiting a link and clicking an automatic prompt to install.
If you can’t invert a binary tree, why should you earn six figures?
Because there's an absolute bazinga of algorithms that's a waste of time to memorize because in your carreer you'll make run into needing 3.
For those 3 times there are LLMs which serve two functions:
- glorified search engine which might even understand your predicament (you're NEVER the first person to encounter a problem) - "I have this data structure and need to do X. Is there an algorithm for that already?"
- coding intern - "Okay, write me an A* solver for this graph."
I'm paid six figures to be the supervisor:
- sanity check the intern by checking the code against a Wikipedia article
- better yet, write fucking unit tests around what the AI spit out
- integrate into the broader solution
- know what tasks can be relegated to AI and which can't
Those tasks, LLMs are NOWHERE CLOSE to being able to do.
Central banks. More generally, money is fucked up. Everything else just follows fucked up incentives as a downstream effect.
Fix the money, fix the world.
Both React Native and Flutter produce native applications:
- https://reactnative.dev/docs/intro-react-native-components#native-components
- https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#run-android
React Native apps ship with a JS engine that runs the logic, but the widgets are actually native (OS-supplied).
Flutter compiles the Dart code to native ARM binaries directly (via LLVM, skipping Kotlin and Obj-C) and the views are constructed from custom platform-specific components.
And just because Flutter has custom components doesn't mean it's not "native". There are, for example, multiple frameworks for Windows (MFC, WPF, UWP, Qt, Swing, and many more) - they are just different renderers, but only Windows API/MFC/WinForms could be considered "truly native" (as in, OS-supplied). Noone writes apps using that anymore (because DirectX exists) but we call all those .exe's "native" apps anyway.
Bitcoin spam is what's unlikely to ever be included in a block.
So it really depends both on the miners and the economic environment.
- In a high fee environment, single-digit sat/vByte transactions are unlikely to get through and you could direct your node to start filtering them without even verifying against the UTXO set.
- If there's enough miners out there who don't leave money on the table and are willing to put jpegs on the blockchain, there's no reason to filter them because your node will have to accept them in a block anyway.
Excuse me, wtf? Wasn't the major intention of tariffs to bring back the industrial base back into the US? That will not happen overnight. How can anyone reasonably judge the effects already? This is insanely short-sighted thinking.
Throwing more hardware at this problem will only make the AIs faster and cheaper, not better.
The models are still dumb and don't show a shred of intelligence.
They still can't reliably count the"r"s in "strawberry".
You can't play chess and other games with them.
They continue to hallucinate every time time the task pertains to a hole in their knowledge. Totally incapable of saying "I don't know".
They are hopeless at creative story writing because they have the attention span of a goldfish and can produce discontinuities between adjacent paragraphs, despite massive context windows.
And don't even get me started at coding. They can barely comprehend what's going on in a single file in an actual project, much less a whole codebase. Again, despite growing context windows. They can't even do a proper code review and spot glaring errors.
The current model architecture has visibly plateaued. All progress is approaching an asymptote.
Intelligence is not as trivial as text completion. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional, has been fooled (that's you, repeating NVidia's talking points) or outright lying (Sam Altman) to waste more investor money.
We need a completely new model architecture, then another decade of iterating on it, and then we can re-evaluate whether we're anywhere close to AGI.
That is, if AGI is even possible to achieve on digital computers.
Of course it should be legal.
What two consenting individuals do in private is none of your, my or the state's business. That includes any economic transactions they engage with.
Go after the traffickers, slavers, rapists. Leave people working to satisfy a demand out of it.
Cool, but the hash chips are still proprietary. Is any company or project doing anything about this? Or will we keep running circles around the elephant in the room?
If you can even talk about a "strategy" with terrorists, Hamas' is, ultimately, that Palestine is finally recognized as a sovereign state. That's a minimum. Killing all Jews would be a bonus.
The ceasefire seemed to at least be a step towards the first objective. But, as you can imagine, Trump's brilliant idea of displacing all Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a "Mediterranean Resort" under American rule, does not seem conducive to these goals anymore.
They may be confused, and definitely crippled by Israel's operation in Gaza, but I wouldn't be surprised if they started cooking some more terrorists attacks or killing the remaining hostages.
The world is kinda going to shit.
Trump's either batshit insane or just culturally ignorant.
He sees this as a "Jews vs Arabs" conflict, like your average American redneck. He sees "Arabs" as a homogenous mass of people that you can freely displace and mix.
And yeah, he seems to not recognize the Gaza inhabitants' property rights (regardless of historical claims).
Can't wait to see what his "genius" idea for the Russo-Ukrainian war is.
[...] making it impossible for them to own a whole Bitcoin?
You need a whole house to live in.
You don't need a whole Bitcoin for anything.
(Maybe bragging rights.)
It's fine if Bitcoin goes to the moon if it demonetizes everything else because (a) things that you actually need will become more affordable and (b) whatever the next generations earn and save will appreciate (Boomers had to contend with money that loses value so they hoarded other things).
Bitcoin is the essence of property rights - money that you truly own yourself.
Communists are the enemies of private property. They want everything to be taken away and given to those in need. (In reality: given to those in power.)
Thus:
- Leftist politicians don't like Bitcoin because they can't steal it.
- Leftist voters don't like Bitcoin because politicians can't steal it and give them welfare for watching TV all day.
For a merchant who doesn't have any suppliers who accept Bitcoin, it's just an extra overhead without economic benefit: accounting, taxes, operational. He's better off buying Bitcoin on the side as savings.
So at this stage, you will only convince people who'd do it out of principle. Convince them with "Why Bitcoin?"
Once a merchant is introduced to a supplier who accepts Bitcoin, the landscape changes, but you still need to convince them to run a dual-currency operation, which is a big accounting headache.
However, at this point, the more "savvy" of them might realize the potential of hiding some of their cashflow from the government, which is a very enticing prospect. Convince them with "How Bitcoin?"