"which was never designed to catch fraud anyway." Exactly. This isn't a good system that got off the rails; it was always a gatekeeper system that ensured that new insights had to stay in line with current orthodoxy.
When I submit something for peer review, there are two options: I get youg reviewers (who want the exposure and the glory), or I get old reviewers who have the reputation and like to engage in "field control". The young ones are usually dogmatic and eager to prove their worthiness; they will tear you apart over BS to prove how much they've read to the journal editors. The old ones have a legacy to defend, and want to make sure that "what they found out" is not abandoned by snotty youth. Either way, if your paper goes against orthodoxy,. it has a hard time. Worse if it tries to use insights from one side of the subject to augment another side of the subject, because in all likelihood, the Old Ones have mad a career of trashing that other side. The editors will likely send the article to one "representative" of each side, each one of which will trash the half of the paper you're trying to adapt to their field. Worse if you're challenging a "basic understanding" in that field; then, all of them will trash you.
This is old news, of course. Read Kuhn about the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, still unmatched, about how science is generational and political to defend given orthodoxies; though he's optimistic about how revolutions arise when generations change.
Could you inspect the mempool in the days leading up to the prize block and outbid competing transaction's miner fee?
I doubt it, because you state that this is "well-known", so miners would know too. A miner would cherry-pick her own transaction to spend the UTXO. The only way it would be rational for the miner to mine your tx instead of her own, would be if you offered a fee worth more than the UTXO itself.
What's are your tactics to spend it first?
Assuming it's a large enough UTXO to justify it, I'd try to time the purchase of some cloud mining, and try extra hard to win that block, and include my own tx in the block.
Curious to hear the answer about propagating a "not-yet-but-soon-will-be"-transaction. I believe it would, or at least should, propagate.
I spent a few hours writing code for a personal micro blog. It will look vaguely like Twitter; but only one user, no threads, no responses/comments, and no images/videos. In otherwords, an actual micro blog, unlike Twitter.
I've written 99% of the code (130 lines so far). What remains is to correct the HTML generation code and to get the HTTP server working. I'm writing this in Common Lisp, which has made many things easy (e.g. multiple values). The database is very slick, and arguably only possible in Common Lisp (and maybe Scheme).
Started a 21-day challenge in which I aimed to learn something new about Bitcoin or interact with its ecosystem every day. I would also record my progress on Stacker News.
Day 19 - Was thrilled to encounter Zapread and registered an account with it. Though my excitement died down when another patron @Undisciplined mentioned that Zapread seems to be inactive these days, I have hopes that having another Bitcoin-focused Avenue would stimulate my brain juices and motivate me to write more.
Once it was implemented, the value it brings is immense in tying posts together and increasing visibility for older content.
I think you mean the update that @k00b did to our search engine which now uses a neural network to find similar posts with "once it was implemented".
I agree, it's very valuable to find similar posts this way. Kudos to @k00b for that!
But I think with "embedded search", a search while writing a reply was meant.[1] For example, you could simply type / in your reply and a search would popup to find the post you want to link to. Just like you can currently @ and a search for all users shows up. This way, you don't need to stop writing your comment to link to a post. We haven't implemented that yet though.
During my first year on SN I spent a lot of time dredging up old posts to read. It felt like a shame that, at least for me, they were so difficult to find.
It's still a shame that there are no obvious, only abstract rewards for that currently but we will get there, I think. :)
Great question, my dream is that it ends up providing a similar lightning wallet experience that everyone knows and loves while still protecting the privacy of the user as much as I can. There's a delicate balance I think between allowing the user complete insights and control vs making sure they can't screw up and not needing to worry about all the privacy tradeoffs on Lightning.
There's a cool concept we're wanting to experiment with Mutiny too where we inform the user of certain edge cases and teach them about what they should do or allow them to proceed anyways.I hope we can educate and allow the user to know their own threat models to proceed accordingly while hopefully still providing a simple send/receive UX. https://github.com/BitcoinDevShop/pln/issues/30
Here's a double-meta question for you to entertain at your leisure:
What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts; and what SN tools would help you do them better? How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?
I guess that was three questions, sorry.
It strikes me that this is a really nice dogfooding example of using SN in a way that it's not totally friendly toward, but that is incredibly high value and interesting. I'm curious how this has stirred up your mind.
If anyone does make it down here, even to scout it out, please hit me up. Would love to give all of you a warm welcome.
Now is a great time as we’re now moving into summer months of December to March.
I can vouch that it is extremely chill in Uruguay 🇺🇾 , (and whilst some might claim it is boring) that is exactly what you want during times like this. One of the most commonly used words is “tranqui” which you probably don’t need to google.
No political polarisation, the whole country’s history is made up of immigration, plentiful food, solid gun laws, strong European vibes, meat & cowboy-based culture 🤠 Literally everyone just loves to sit outside, sip mate and chill with a view and sunset.
More expensive to live than most places if you’re on a budget, but the peace of mind more than makes up for that.
As a Brit having made the trip last year, people are so welcoming and surprised to see Westerns WANT to come here. Which makes them really welcoming and will very much leave you alone. Even people that aren’t so fortunate, rarely bother you unlike in many other Latin American countries. People find their way to get by.
I installed the Stacker New web app on my phone and allowed notifications. As a result I've increase my participation tremendously, and started making more sats than I boost to others. Uh-oh? Will this spark a new addiction and lead me to neglect my work and personal life to just sit on Stacker News and stack sats all day?
The money they "make" from curtailment is not a payment made to Riot for curtailing power usage. Rather, it's effectively a discount on their power bills. What's really happening is Riot is getting discounted electricity because unlike other power users, they're willing to shut off when electricity demand is really high; no-one is going to cut you a check worth more than your power bill simply for turning off your miners. Riot is still spending a substantial net amount of money on power.
It's likely that the $8.6m number in that article is nonsense, based on some misunderstanding of Riot's business figures. Eg that might simply be the raw amount of Bitcoin Riot happened to sell that month. Or it might be the profit margin they made that month.
I used to be very addicted, about a decade ago. Anxiety caught up and really fucked me up, couldn't even take a drag of anything without feeling like I was dying. Took a very long break (5 years) and kept trying again. I think the thing for me, personally, was acknowledging that it still had 'power over me' even if I wasn't smoking. I didn't like that. Gradually found the right CBD-heavy strains and introduced it back, safely. I still only solo smoke, I always have a ton on hand. But I haven't smoked in like 3 months and don't think anything of it. Even when I do, it's with a herb vape with a very small container on a low temp. I think we as a society have completely over done it.
Applaud your reasons, sounds like a different scenario but just wanted to share my perspective since you mentioned anxiety. Part of me getting past that was to make sure it didn't have power over me anymore. Not every addict can do that, but it felt important to me. Weed is such a strange, magical plant. Gotta respect it.
Clearly OP hasn’t spent enough time here lol
"which was never designed to catch fraud anyway." Exactly. This isn't a good system that got off the rails; it was always a gatekeeper system that ensured that new insights had to stay in line with current orthodoxy.
When I submit something for peer review, there are two options: I get youg reviewers (who want the exposure and the glory), or I get old reviewers who have the reputation and like to engage in "field control". The young ones are usually dogmatic and eager to prove their worthiness; they will tear you apart over BS to prove how much they've read to the journal editors. The old ones have a legacy to defend, and want to make sure that "what they found out" is not abandoned by snotty youth. Either way, if your paper goes against orthodoxy,. it has a hard time. Worse if it tries to use insights from one side of the subject to augment another side of the subject, because in all likelihood, the Old Ones have mad a career of trashing that other side. The editors will likely send the article to one "representative" of each side, each one of which will trash the half of the paper you're trying to adapt to their field. Worse if you're challenging a "basic understanding" in that field; then, all of them will trash you.
This is old news, of course. Read Kuhn about the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, still unmatched, about how science is generational and political to defend given orthodoxies; though he's optimistic about how revolutions arise when generations change.
I have begun my journey towards becoming an Olympian in 4 years time, so today I will have a successful training session.
I doubt it, because you state that this is "well-known", so miners would know too. A miner would cherry-pick her own transaction to spend the UTXO. The only way it would be rational for the miner to mine your tx instead of her own, would be if you offered a fee worth more than the UTXO itself.
Assuming it's a large enough UTXO to justify it, I'd try to time the purchase of some cloud mining, and try extra hard to win that block, and include my own tx in the block.
Curious to hear the answer about propagating a "not-yet-but-soon-will-be"-transaction. I believe it would, or at least should, propagate.
Fun discussion.
I spent a few hours writing code for a personal micro blog. It will look vaguely like Twitter; but only one user, no threads, no responses/comments, and no images/videos. In otherwords, an actual micro blog, unlike Twitter.
I've written 99% of the code (130 lines so far). What remains is to correct the HTML generation code and to get the HTTP server working. I'm writing this in Common Lisp, which has made many things easy (e.g. multiple values). The database is very slick, and arguably only possible in Common Lisp (and maybe Scheme).
Started a 21-day challenge in which I aimed to learn something new about Bitcoin or interact with its ecosystem every day. I would also record my progress on Stacker News.
Day 19 - Was thrilled to encounter Zapread and registered an account with it. Though my excitement died down when another patron @Undisciplined mentioned that Zapread seems to be inactive these days, I have hopes that having another Bitcoin-focused Avenue would stimulate my brain juices and motivate me to write more.
I think you mean the update that @k00b did to our search engine which now uses a neural network to find similar posts with "once it was implemented".
I agree, it's very valuable to find similar posts this way. Kudos to @k00b for that!
But I think with "embedded search", a search while writing a reply was meant.[1] For example, you could simply type
/in your reply and a search would popup to find the post you want to link to. Just like you can currently@and a search for all users shows up. This way, you don't need to stop writing your comment to link to a post. We haven't implemented that yet though.It's still a shame that there are no obvious, only abstract rewards for that currently but we will get there, I think. :)
https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/542 ↩
https://widgets.twentyuno.net/
A widget builder that enables you to start accepting LN bitcoin payments on your website.
Also supports WebLN!
I don't care why, I want one
I didn't think about mining pools cherry picking. Still better get your tx in there just in case an oblivious miner misses it using default selection.
Great question, my dream is that it ends up providing a similar lightning wallet experience that everyone knows and loves while still protecting the privacy of the user as much as I can. There's a delicate balance I think between allowing the user complete insights and control vs making sure they can't screw up and not needing to worry about all the privacy tradeoffs on Lightning.
There's a cool concept we're wanting to experiment with Mutiny too where we inform the user of certain edge cases and teach them about what they should do or allow them to proceed anyways.I hope we can educate and allow the user to know their own threat models to proceed accordingly while hopefully still providing a simple send/receive UX. https://github.com/BitcoinDevShop/pln/issues/30
Here's a double-meta question for you to entertain at your leisure:
What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts; and what SN tools would help you do them better? How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?
I guess that was three questions, sorry.
It strikes me that this is a really nice dogfooding example of using SN in a way that it's not totally friendly toward, but that is incredibly high value and interesting. I'm curious how this has stirred up your mind.
I just signed up for SN after lurking for some time. Feels nice to just login through lightning without providing any email or whatnot.
If anyone does make it down here, even to scout it out, please hit me up. Would love to give all of you a warm welcome.
Now is a great time as we’re now moving into summer months of December to March.
I can vouch that it is extremely chill in Uruguay 🇺🇾 , (and whilst some might claim it is boring) that is exactly what you want during times like this. One of the most commonly used words is “tranqui” which you probably don’t need to google.
No political polarisation, the whole country’s history is made up of immigration, plentiful food, solid gun laws, strong European vibes, meat & cowboy-based culture 🤠 Literally everyone just loves to sit outside, sip mate and chill with a view and sunset.
More expensive to live than most places if you’re on a budget, but the peace of mind more than makes up for that.
As a Brit having made the trip last year, people are so welcoming and surprised to see Westerns WANT to come here. Which makes them really welcoming and will very much leave you alone. Even people that aren’t so fortunate, rarely bother you unlike in many other Latin American countries. People find their way to get by.
day 13 of 16 straight 12 hour shifts at work... definitely feeling the burnout...
I installed the Stacker New web app on my phone and allowed notifications. As a result I've increase my participation tremendously, and started making more sats than I boost to others. Uh-oh? Will this spark a new addiction and lead me to neglect my work and personal life to just sit on Stacker News and stack sats all day?
That's very misleading.
The money they "make" from curtailment is not a payment made to Riot for curtailing power usage. Rather, it's effectively a discount on their power bills. What's really happening is Riot is getting discounted electricity because unlike other power users, they're willing to shut off when electricity demand is really high; no-one is going to cut you a check worth more than your power bill simply for turning off your miners. Riot is still spending a substantial net amount of money on power.
It's likely that the $8.6m number in that article is nonsense, based on some misunderstanding of Riot's business figures. Eg that might simply be the raw amount of Bitcoin Riot happened to sell that month. Or it might be the profit margin they made that month.
I used to be very addicted, about a decade ago. Anxiety caught up and really fucked me up, couldn't even take a drag of anything without feeling like I was dying. Took a very long break (5 years) and kept trying again. I think the thing for me, personally, was acknowledging that it still had 'power over me' even if I wasn't smoking. I didn't like that. Gradually found the right CBD-heavy strains and introduced it back, safely. I still only solo smoke, I always have a ton on hand. But I haven't smoked in like 3 months and don't think anything of it. Even when I do, it's with a herb vape with a very small container on a low temp. I think we as a society have completely over done it.
Applaud your reasons, sounds like a different scenario but just wanted to share my perspective since you mentioned anxiety. Part of me getting past that was to make sure it didn't have power over me anymore. Not every addict can do that, but it felt important to me. Weed is such a strange, magical plant. Gotta respect it.
https://i.imgur.com/ebSJQ5f.png
come on over to the roundtable for some high-signal bitcoin discussions
https://stacker.news/items/269878