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Naturally (for the “new” HN), this post will be downvoted or banned, but…

How could an intelligent person agree that eliminating a market price for critical supplies would be the best course of action?

I’m legitimately asking. How does eliminating any sane supplier of legal critical supplies to a disaster zone make sense?

Instead of being able to see the line of suppliers from (literally) orbit, you want no supplies.

It’s as close to clinically insane as I can imagine…

Real utility bills of real citizens have doubled. All the associated taxes, delivery fees, etc. are clearly not included, or they’ve used substitution to alter the baseline basket they’re using to compute the metric (a common tactic).

Ask 10 citizens who own/rent the same property what their utility bill was a decade ago.

You’re being gaslighted.

In Canada, consumer prices across every expense category have roughly doubled over the last 9 years, implying an annual inflation rate of 8%.

Anyone with a calculator and the “Rule of 72” can independently verify this as fact.

That every government mouthpiece intones the party dogma doesn’t change this fact.

Your government is lying to you.

“… security precautions, largely to prevent bad actors from stealing the weights (and thereby disabling our safeguards) for a model that is capable of enabling extremely harmful actions. ”

They’re not stealing your “weights”. They’re stealing (or parallel-discovering) your training algorithms.

Assume your enemies are smarter than you, and have malintent. They don’t give a shit about your security and your safeguards.

Better focus on developing the best AIs, and deploying them to your fellow citizens as widely and defensively as possible.

Might I suggest:

- don’t teach them to lie (ie. 2001)

- teach them to love people

- bake in Asimov’s 3 laws

Unfortunately, all of these tenets are currently being assiduously broken by all major AI trainers.

What could go wrong?

I recommend you don’t commit suicide based on claims that have 100% predictive failure.

But, that’s just me…

"While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”"

Matt 26:26

Incorrect.

They were denied because they had not yet provided coverage in the area (years before they were required to, under the contract).

As FCC's Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote:

“Instead of applying the traditional FCC standard to the record evidence, which would have compelled the agency to confirm Starlink’s $885 million award, the FCC denied it on the grounds that Starlink is not providing high-speed Internet service to all of those locations today.”

“What? FCC law does not require Starlink to provide high-speed Internet service to even a single location today. As noted above, the first FCC milestone does not kick in until the end of 2025. Indeed, the FCC did not require—and has never required—any other award winner to show that it met its service obligation years ahead of time.”

Disclosure of an inventor for Bitcoin is spectacularly technically interesting!

I've been deploying continent-wide distributed industrial systems and writing, theorizing and producing prototypes for scalable digital money since before 2009 (when Bitcoin was "invented"). It was a gobsmacking breakthrough then -- and it has only gotten more interesting, as we discover the profound insights of its "inventor", by watching other nascent cryptocurrencies and other distributed systems make mistakes that Bitcoin's "inventor" somehow knew to avoid (UTXOs vs. account balances, I'm lookin' at you..., and that's the least of them).

For someone to ex nihilo solve byzantine fault tolerant global consensus w/ robust authority-free rejection of sybils? And then go dark for 15 years? Any non-trivial semi-reliable claim of identification (see: HBO's skin in the game) is automatically almost the most technically interesting claim this year!

So, for some religious (see: beliefs based in faith in a narrative rather than observation, hypothesis and testing) "expert" to "Flag" this post as uninteresting is pretty much the opposite of the credo of the HN of the decade past.

HN seems to have become the "mainstream media" of the technical world -- interested only in findings acceptable to righteously-aligned cultists, boring to everyone actually observing interesting and novel facts about the technical world.

Yes, there are hardware wallets that support SLIP-39 natively; however, the sequence of derived wallets is different than that produced when you take the same seed and save it as a BIP-39 and derive the wallets from the BIP-39 mnemonics.

Using the app, we actually produce the SLIP-39 recovery mnemonics from the underlying BIP-39 seed, and since we can recover the underlying seed, we can regenerate the BIP-39 mnemonics, and import that into a standard hardware wallet.

Furthermore, you can use the same App to SLIP-39 any arbitrary 128-, 256- or 512-bit key in a way that your family can combine their data to recover.

Sheesh; no excuse not to back up your BIP-39 mnemonic phrases using SLIP-39 (Shamir secret sharing):

https://slip39.com/app

I think maybe you took it too personally.

He said hiring professional fakers is bad. It is bad, and unfortunately a lot of founders do it?

Those founders who hire typical "C-level execs", many of whom are skilled liars and sociopaths (and strongly overlap with typical "Politicians", I suspect) perhaps deserve what they get: the self-destruction of their enterprise.

So Texas just did this: “Of those scrubbed from voter rolls, the state said more than 457,000 — nearly 40% — are deceased, …” [1]

But, you’re highly confident that they are the only jurisdictions with similar voting roll issues? And that none of these have been voted? How do you establish your level of confidence?

1: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/el...

Ah. It appears that it is not possible to enable “Remote Desktop” on a remotely installed Ubuntu — you have to use the desktop Settings app locally.

This of course is impossible if you don’t have a display attached (a headless install). Or if you have remote access but forgot to enable it before it was deployed somewhere inaccessible…

Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 has been a train wreck — I haven’t achieved a single successful Remote Desktop session of any type, even when the machines are literally next to each-other on the same switch.

My mother ran a local small-town library for years.

It is indeed a tragic and unnecessary waste of a wonderful resource.

A small city library in western Canada.

There is nothing that I as a visitor can do (without being arrested).

There is nothing the employees can do, because the vagrant can beat them, and the young thug can report them - and the judge will rule in favor of the assailants.

It’s my civic duty to expose my daughter to hostile vagrants and vulgar uncontrolled boys harassing her in front of bewildered and powerless staff?

I can’t imagine why these places are closing!

I read this because (of course), payments engineers should only use state machines: so why would someone claim this?

It says to not hide the events that drive the state machinery: make both the events and state machines available (to both servers and clients), so everyone can reconstruct history when necessary, using the agreed upon events and state machinery.

Which makes sense.

As it turns out, this is what Holochain does to build reliable distributed systems at scale out of unreliable components (payment systems, or anything else).

Every event stored / cached by every App DHT participant is verified by ensuring it’s valid according to the verified shared “DNA” of the App (any state machines and other arbitrary validation code). Misbehaving clients / servers self-incriminate (all events are signed and non-repudiable), and are ejected from the App by all correctly operating nodes.

By induction, a node can then reason that every prior event in the App DHT is valid, regardless of system scale — because an attacker would have to subvert all nodes to avoid having just one valid node notice and report their error to everyone.

No.

I wasn’t aware that there was any publicly accessible interface to the Mistrals (or any other) models without training-wheels!

The Fed and everyone else involved has been lying about inflation so much, and for so long, that I wonder who would still believe such a preposterous lie again?

And I’m not even remotely interested in the “corrections” supplied by some group of right-thinking meddlers!

This corruption must be disclosed as assiduously as the base dataset, if not more so.

The future of everything you depend on is open source and decentralized.

Because all indications are that the powers over you cannot abide your freedoms of association, communication and commerce.

So, if it’s something your family needs to survive - it has better be distributed and cryptographically secured against interference.

This includes interference in the training dataset of whatever AIs you use; this has become a potent influence on the formation of beliefs, and thus extremely valuable.

… and let’s us poor slobs transfer money to our friends and families without getting fleeced and cavity-searched.

So, there’s that too.

“don’t work with …”

You seem strangely certain of that.

It is unlikely that you should be.

Or, you know… build more houses.

We could drop western Europe into central BC / Alberta/ Sask. / Manitoba and not notice.

Or, we could destroy our small builders, import millions of immigrants incapable of construction / trade work, inflate asset prices, pay for their housing with government grants, lie about CPI inflation, and fix it all if we just…

“only allow Canadian nationals to own real estate”?

Hmmm.

No competitors, you say?

Peel back the layers of shielding against you rolling in as a “competitor”, and what will you find?

A big steaming layer of government.

Regulating that only their connected buddies can fleece you - and there’s nothing you can do about it.

You voted for this. For your safety. You want this.

A private enterprise can charge whatever they like; you aren’t forced to visit and buy - go to a competitor that doesn’t charge as much! Or take your own alternative supply.

This is not even remotely an example of “gouging”.

Try again?