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@k00b: is there a way we can display video or reading time, Discourse has this feature
https://substack.com/@firstbornofthedead/note/c-211583216
All it took was ONE Japanese girl assaulted by an “immigrant,” and the people of Japan rioted, and the government TOOK THE SIDE OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" OUT THERE 🫡
It's only a background task, but the first and only thing I've done with my open claw bot is to create a collection of query->search result judgements then make a variety of adjustments to our search trying to improve NDCG.
double dip: write something really good, tempt a downzap troll, they downzap you to oblivion, zappers rally and zap you more. zap some of the proceeds well and collect the downzaps of the troll as rewards.
TIL umbrellas make it hard for thermal imaging to spot you
although apparently it still produces a unique signature (a uniform round spot)
Mary Poppins defense and jamming
Hey @itsTomekK, I'm going to be near Mahogany Beach area in Roatan in a few days. I know that's nowhere near Prospera, but do you know anywhere near there where I can spend some sats on lunch or drinks?
Thanks. I wish I had the time. It's a family and friends day. We will only be at Tabyana Beach for a few hours. Next time, I will plan a bitcoin trip and give myself more time.
Check BTCmap, we try to keep it up to date.
But bro, dm me I'll help you out visiting, show around Próspera, borrow a motorbike 💪 There are also interesting events happening
or is it just cruiseship stop?
Are you using dental floss from India? Here is how is produced
I think the biggest problem with AI agents is memory (not the RAM kind). imho next breakthrough will be better memory tooling. The generic context header should be a memory index, then agents should request all relevant memory with tooling. In time I suspect we will have local models do this memory relevance part. In the time after that time, we'll probably have waterfalls of pre and post models.
This is why I try to make the frameworks so that it don't need it to memorize anything but instead excels with analytic skills. Don't need to remember if you can analyze and adapt really well.
That's an interesting idea. If you can derive knowledge fast enough, either by knowing where to look or from scratch, long term memory serves little purpose.
Example from my (simplified/paraphrased) pipeline (to claude code) where each instruction is a new session:
/forgejo [1] (context: owner/repo [2]) < Implement the feature request from issue #1 and open a PR | Answer the question in issue #1 and reply in a comment | Fix the bug from issue #1 and open a PR | Plan the epic from issue #1, store the plan in a new issue | Review the comments on PR #2, investigate causes and update the code where needed > [3]CLAUDE.mddoesn't exist. Not in the workspace, not in the repos.ghlol)This fails 5-10% of the time, depending on what I make it do. Outcomes are way more consistent than using RAG to put it all in context. Writing good issues makes good results.
It's the inconsistency that kills me (although I don't know how much RAG is used anymore). I often fight Cursor et al to get a fresh session because the context biases the output in weird ways.
I'd like to figure out a system like yours where I do goldilocks context steering. In the end I suspect memory will be feature, and sessions won't be a thing. In the meantime it is a bug for folks that don't mind thinking.
Yes. Error rates compound. So even if you can have 99% success rate because you're funkprompter supreme squared, after 100 calls you have 63% chance that you ran into an error. And likely to have negatively influenced context/cache.
Folks make
SOUL.mdandMEMORY.md. lolit's fun playing with dolls
A friend gave me a Goggins book, maybe I should read it, it's been at least a year maybe longer now lol
I'm too restless to be relentless
Does this actually do anything... good?
I have not really dipped my toe into AI agents. I've not had great results with "letting AI do its thing"... for me to have good use of AI I feel like I have to be quite involved in the feedback loop - so much so that it's often faster to do stuff myself.
I'm happy I don't have to roleplay any of my bots and get great results because of it, because I'm not poisoning the expert mix for my prompts towards retarded training paradigms invented by 25yo BA-dropout openai employees with zero experience in anything.
Yes, I also have been thinking that messing up cache invalidation - and worse, poisoning - is also kind of hard if...
Can you do better?
Let's TURTLE #1435160
Nope. :( I really messed up today missing that first letter.
Tomorrow will be better!
@k00b thanks for fixing
top, my breh! Best posts are at the bottom 😂😂😂no problem breh! yeah we might need a wee bit of trust again to deal with outliers.
Maybe! It's still an experiment, right?
right!??!?!
Recent changes in the platform (and recent changes in behaviors) led to me boosting this week. So that was fun. However, I was surprised that it didn't say 'boost'. That's new right? Is that permanent? I liked the idea of knowing when a post was an ad of sorts.
It's new. All positive investments (cost, boots, zaps) are reflected in the
X satsnumber.We are in a project
reducephase. Brace for a bit oversteer. We'll re-bloat the project in short order though - entropy being a feature of systems generally.I think
lit's half-life is too long. I'll probably take it down to three hours next week.I miss something, what
LITstand for? is it an abbreviation or a 3 letter agency?lightning information transmitter
... it's common positive expression in english like "that's awesome"
What's the half life currently?
Four hours
Woot! Woot! sn in OP_Daily today. Woot! That was a nice convergence of two of my favorite daily reads. Kind of ironic article for me to share though while I've lost all my cowboy equipment. :)
wow, thanks for sharing
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Fixed! 😅 With 4:20 to spare! Sorry, I suck.
such "non-custodial"
ha! You gotta admit though, you got it if you want it.
sure, like this guy #1436660, right?
Ha!
building up a backlog of Scoresby posts to reply to... lol
MFW installing curl every damn CI run just to download and install a nodejs binary
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease [43.4 kB] Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages [9670 kB] Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates/main amd64 Packages [5412 B] Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security/main amd64 Packages [108 kB] Fetched 9874 kB in 1s (6974 kB/s) Reading package lists... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following additional packages will be installed: libbrotli1 libcom-err2 libcurl4t64 libgnutls30t64 libgssapi-krb5-2 libidn2-0 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap2 libnghttp2-14 libnghttp3-9 libp11-kit0 libpsl5t64 librtmp1 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db libssh2-1t64 libtasn1-6 libunistring5 Suggested packages: gnutls-bin krb5-doc krb5-user Recommended packages: bash-completion krb5-locales libldap-common publicsuffix libsasl2-modules The following NEW packages will be installed: curl libbrotli1 libcom-err2 libcurl4t64 libgnutls30t64 libgssapi-krb5-2 libidn2-0 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap2 libnghttp2-14 libnghttp3-9 libp11-kit0 libpsl5t64 librtmp1 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db libssh2-1t64 libtasn1-6 libunistring5 0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.@bot plz rewrite github.com/actions/checkout in an ash-compatible shell script because nodejs is the sux#1286364
#1435009
First time seeing this. Welcome!
Those are fun to get and unfortunately rare
Great! Good job. I think I got 3 of 'em last month and I suspect that they were all bots, but that "comes with the territory", in my case. lol
that reminded me of this XD
#453705
throwback @ek meme from that thread
nice
a wild ek appears
"fucking legend"
@optimism, I want to know what you think about this; my insecurity is holding me back:
I'm reviewing Add a "tx output spender" index.
I was confused by
-whitelist=noban@127.0.0.1in the tests. When I learned what it's for, I also learned aboutself.noban_tx_relay = True, which afaict does the same thing. I also noticed that tests usually useself.noban_tx_relayinstead of a manual-whitelist. I now consider mentioning this as a nit in my review when I'm done.But I'm not sure, because it's a nit. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. Also, the other reviews are about more important things. Nobody else mentioned it. Isn't this nit just distracting, then? Wouldn't it just look like I'm showing off that I know about
self.noban_tx_relay? lolI might only mention it when I also have something more important to mention.
Anyway, I guess my question is: Would you mention this as a nit? Or is this too much of a nit even for a nit?
I'm glad you're here so I can ask you this, but I’m sad I need to ask someone this instead of just making a decision on my own
I mention most of my nits. I think you should in this case too. The test framework option was introduced after the original PR was opened: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/c985eb854cc86deb747caea5283c17cf51b6a983 , so it should have been picked up during some rebase along the line.
It is very quick to fix and there are other review comments that require action from the author anyway.
Thank you for letting us summon you!
Thank you for taking the time to reply!!
I didn’t realize the framework option was introduced later. I will definitely mention this nit now.
Nit:(haha) I think a better person to talk to this about is @sedited as an actual project maintainer - I have zero commits to Bitcoin Core and I intend to keep it that way. There are things I want to remain an independent user of!Personally, (on any other repo, haha) I'd do this:
nit:, so that it is clear that it's not a showstopper finding.Per my above rationale, it absolutely does matter. It helps when reviewing now to see the nit, rather than having to context switch into that code later once more and think about it again. Human minds (at least of code reviewers) aren't that different from LLMs in terms of context resets!
Just mention it, don't make a show out of it. Stay humble and spend effort.
Aww.. I'm glad you're here too
<3especially on Bitcoin Core where every little nit is not just technical debt, but social debt because it is another PR that needs to be reviewed by 10s of people. Catch 'em while they're hot! ↩
Thank you! This helped.
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I'm glad @k00b took my suggestion to sync the daily subsidy with the block mining reward!
No wonder you are a statist. You love to be paid by gov.
pay your SN taxes !
if it helps catch the parasites of all sizes & personalities, that's a good "tax" to have;
I'm not gonna talk about that again!
hahahahaha
Is not the SN pool rewards like a communist state subsidy ?
I was for long time a supporter of removing any of these "subsidies", remember? #796213
CAmount GetBlockSubsidy(int nHeight, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams) { int halvings = nHeight / consensusParams.nSubsidyHalvingInterval; // Force block reward to zero when right shift is undefined. if (halvings >= 64) return 0; CAmount nSubsidy = 50 * COIN; // Subsidy is cut in half every 210,000 blocks which will occur approximately every 4 years. nSubsidy >>= halvings; return nSubsidy; }https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validation.cpp
I am talking about SN rewards pool. The Bitcoin mining "subsidy" is totally something else.
Jaja great analysis 😉🤫
If thoughts create reality, then whoever controls thoughts controls reality. Edward Bernays wrote that “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” If you control the narrative, you control collective belief, which shapes the collective behavior, and manifests material reality. The material reality then reflects back and proves that the narrative was true, which reinforces the loop. The battle for your mind is a battle for reality itself.
The Conversation. A short 12 min movie.
And one of important key in this manipulation today are the so called "prediction markets". Really powerful to manipulate the consciousness of clueless people and what is even more evil is that people participate in this way into their own manipulation.
And they just laugh how stupid are clueless people...
A thought experiment-
Imagine you were an OG and had stacked a few coins when they were cheap as shit.
You had spend decades opposing what you saw as the undermining of your civilisation by bankers and corporate lobbyists who had advanced an ideology that proposed there is no community, only the individual, and that as such government has no place or validity- that markets alone should determine all things in human society.
These amoral neoliberal hypocrits ignored the historical reality that business only succeeds when supported by a strong legal system and a government that can enforce the law within its jurisdiction and project power externally to support import and export trading in goods and commodities.
But these neoliberal parasites did not give a fuck about history or culture.
If they needed cheap labour they imported it, or exported their factories to countries where labour was cheap.
They bought and owned most of the politicians with money created out of debt which debased the savings of all citizens.
They built an empire of debt and slavery to increase their wealth at the expense of most citizens.
Pivotal to their empire was fiat money.
Just as their greed and treachery reached epic heights a spanner was thrown in the works- Bitcoin was created.
It was possible now for anyone to hold capital and transfer value directly P2P without any need for the bankers.
So, humanity was offered a chance to regain its integrity and reclaim all commerce and exchange of value from the parasites who had seized a monopoly over all trade and commerce.
But this was a narrow hope- one that assumed enough people would make the effort to free themselves.
Bitcoin was not and is not a free ride to liberty- it is only a road, a narrow and difficult path to salvation.
But some did see the need and value of it and so Bitcoin grew.
It was attacked and mocked and jeered, but its proposal was sound and enough people of conscience did support it so it grew.
But the opposition was and is strong and determined- it was made 'difficult' to use as a MoE payments protocol in most 'liberal democracies' and was outright banned in most autocracies.
It was allowed much more as a speculative commodity which enabled large corporate players and bankers to gain an ever increasing share of issuance either directly or by proxy.
And it was tracked and traced- KYC became increasingly universal.
The hope of freeing money from the state and its bankers was never guaranteed and looked increasingly slim.
There was a need to have places where the P2P payments protocol could be used by anyone and show its potential as a payments protocol...but few merchants dared accept it and face complex tax implications and FUD smear.
And then you come across an experiment- a social media platform using sats as a V4V means of both moderation and economic viability.
Stacker News!
This platform could operate and show how sats can be used everyday.
The many transactions required would support the growth of the LN and demonstrate it in use in a positive and useful way.
The state of course threatened to prosecute on the premise of money transmission- so the platform was forced to require users to attach wallets.
This was not easy and created an entry barrier and the compromise of allowing new users and those not capable of attaching a wallet to use a substitute inhouse token called a Cowboy Credit...nominally of equal value to one sat but only valid within the platform.
Most users attached wallets but some refused to and yet they were often some of the most vocal about Bitcoin adoption- claiming to be 'living on The Bitcoin Standard'.
In reality they were deliberately and knowing degrading the sats denominated nature of the entire platform.
What is their motivation?
It seems unfathomable.
It seems like blatant hypocrisy.
They appears just as corrupt and full of shit as the bankers.
And so, with your stack you decide to mete some wrath upon these hypocrit parasites.
Life is short and freedom is often difficult to win.
But you can always try.
https://m.stacker.news/130850
Only one letter off...
https://m.stacker.news/130849