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This new crypto project just launched its mainnet a few weeks ago: https://chia.net It's a novel "Proof of" algorithm (Proof of Space and Time) that front loads the resource needs into a Plotting phase, with a very efficient Farming phase after that to process blocks with transactions. Seems like a much more fair, sustainable model for having a secure digital currency. It also has an interesting, Lisp based programmi…
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I'm not too deep into the data side of things, but this is interesting to think about. Aren't stuff like data lakes and warehouses supposed to address the need for a centralized datastore? Outside of perhaps an easy-to-apply interface, what benefit would a data hub provide over just streaming duplicates from all of your databases into a single data lake like Snowflake?
Want to cross ref the erp database with that stuff team x has in a lake and join with what team z has in a dwh? You don’t need pipelines and jobs and working out where to store that data... you just need a hub! And you can query it ad hoc too. We used to have to copy and shuffle data into centralized systems so we can query and join it. Data hubs do away with all that. Stop needing to think about storage. Instead, it…
100% resonates when you put it that way. Thanks for the explanation!
I think Bitcoin is genuinely exciting. I know it's not exactly "under-the-radar", but a lot of the discussion on HN is unfortunately only related to the price. It's a bit of a shame, but I can understand it's hard to see through the noise sometimes. The fact that there isn't more discussion around the cryptography, networking, etc. suggests to me that many are still unfamiliar with the power of the underlying technol…
This new crypto project just launched its mainnet a few weeks ago: https://chia.net It's a novel "Proof of" algorithm (Proof of Space and Time) that front loads the resource needs into a Plotting phase, with a very efficient Farming phase after that to process blocks with transactions. Seems like a much more fair, sustainable model for having a secure digital currency. It also has an interesting, Lisp based programmi…
I'm really excited, to the point of distraction by the RISC-V ISA. Some people say that there's nothing new in it, but to my mind, they're missing the point : the Berkeley Four took what couldn't be appropriated for profit, and built a statement about what computing is... They revealed the Wizard of Oz to everyone, so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely. And now this freed wizard…
Perhaps it will lead to a processor startup, but follow that to its logical conclusion: it takes a huge, profitable company to sustain processor delivery for years. There's a very good reason why only a handful of companies make the top 6 CPU architectures. There's still Synopsys ARC, Renesas, Atmel, PIC just to name a few of RISC-V competitors.
In reality, the Berkeley Four just made a handful of semi companies richer. WDC, NXP, NVIDIA, Microchip, etc. don't have to pay Arm for IP if they use RISC-V. Did that really help anything? Meh.
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-hydrogen-fuel-machine-ultimate...
https://newatlas.com/energy/osu-turro-solar-spectrum-hydroge...
https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/April/05152017Ren-Wa...
Homomorphic encryption, which enables you to process data without decrypting it. Would solve privacy / data security issues around sending data to be processed in the cloud
1 Zero-knowledge proofs,
2 shielded ledgers,
3 democratized and energy efficiency mining,
4 inflationary control, and
5 wallet recovery.
No one has all of these yet, but ZKP is a big part of it.
Electric cars and planes are going to be huge, of course. Increasingly batteries will be replaced by fuel cells, and the hydrogen that powers them will be produced by means of hydrolysis produced by sunlight. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-hydrogen-fuel-machine-ultimate... https://newatlas.com/energy/osu-turro-solar-spectrum-hydroge... https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/April/05152017Ren-Wa...