"The more actively you try to learn the better you learn" category conclusion.

Any tools/frontends for ultimate youtube-based learning? Some things I miss: - highlight code screencasts (so I can copy and paste) - 3x (not all have 2x in youtube) - transcript extract and keyword search and jump to that location in the video => there must be someone doing this

PS: Not trying to promote any project by asking this, genuinely curious.

There are lots of points in the article challenging smart contracts because they need a social contract. Ethereum community also understands that social contract > smart contract. See below:

From Vitalik https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html:

"...What's going on here is a pattern of a similar type to what we saw with the not-yet-issued Bitcoin and Ethereum coin rewards: the coins were ultimately owned not by a cryptographic key, but by some kind of social contract."

"...Once again, millions of dollars of value are being controlled and allocated, not by individuals or cryptographic keys, but by social conceptions of legitimacy."

So the point is a bit moot, money is not flowing to web3 because of immutability per se. For most venture capital, mainly it is an effort to create a levelled playing field for startups –"decentralized x" etc. For retail investors, highly volatile, information symmetric (perceived) assets.

Could you expand on the VC part please? What is their exact interest here?

Cool, but this is one data point. Would be good research how autocratic type of coordination convergence (e.g. functional oligarchy in this case) is the case compared to open source? If more then that means DAOs are failing to be a better coordination technology.

So is this a filter on top of Google or is it search from scratch? Would love to understand more of the implementation.

It's built from scratch. I'm doing the crawling and indexing. Look through my comments and you'll find a few outlines of the stack and the index design.

Here are my blog entries relating to this:

https://memex.marginalia.nu/topic/astrolabe.gmi

This isn't meant to be pressurizing or to sound like a demand (if it seems that way), but have you thought about uploading the source code for your search engine?

Something like this has the potential to be used in university courses to teach how to build a search engine and/or teach 'advanced' programming concepts and ideas. It's a real program showing what you need to do to optimize your database and software to work on consumer desktops (even if your specs are higher than what other people would have; 128 GiB for example is quite a lot of RAM for most consumers) and how to handle malicious data that you will come across (for example, link farms).

In addition, I read all the posts on your site that were listed in the page you linked to, and to me those posts would actually seem more useful as an explanation of the code that people can view together side-by-side, rather than as the only way people can know how you implemented your algorithms and search engine. I guess what I'm saying is, having an explanation in words of the algorithms and code along with the actual code can be a very powerful combination for teaching and learning.

Thus, again, would it be alright if you upload a copy of the source code for people (including myself) to look at? I personally don't care about if it's released under an open-source license (or not), or if you just add a zip file on your site vs making a repository on Github, or even if you never update the code you release. I (and most likely others) want to peek at at least one version of what you wrote to see how something like this works under-the-hood, which again, I'm asking if that's alright with you.

Also, I'm not asking you to share the database(s) you have for this, especially since they're giant and would likely take up more traffic downloading from your site than anything the search engine can do.

I'm thinking I may open source some of the components I use, rather than publishing the whole thing, as it's part of a larger monorepo that contains the somewhat integrated code for a large set of services, public and private.

None of the code is particularly fancy, just highly specialized. I did build them myself mostly because I couldn't find anything available that the rather special demands that are put on the application.

That's understandable. I just wasn't sure if anybody mentioned what I said by now, or if you were already thinking about this, so I at least wanted to get the thoughts in your mind before HN closes all comments.

Also, if I'm not being too rude, your posts were a little hard for me to understand, so I thought that releasing some or all of the code would help people (and myself) understand them better, ignoring the teaching stuff that I already talked about. With code, people can debug and change it to show what the program's doing. It'd also at least satisfy some people's curiosity (and probably use up their weekend).

And thanks for replying!

Go to south west Turkey. Several kite surfing towns, food is very similar to Greek, people are super friendly, weather is fantastic. Internet is good enough. Finally, 1K USD a month is equivalent to a local mid-level engineer net salary.

Eastern part is cheaper and less crowded.

You still have to go through an on-ramp provider or OF does the on-ramp but then probably lots of reg headache. Plus I bet impulse buying is the way to activate OF users. One way to solve this can be to find an on-ramp solution w/ UX on par with card payments and then handle pay-in and pay-outs via Zcash or Monero or using Aztec protocol.

In this case, wider adoption (e.g. payments) will inevitably lead to USD hyperinflation. If onramp is not heavily regulated then you are giving up control of the money supply. Hard to not expect.

A regulatory move in the same direction from the US wouldn't be that surprising, by the end of this year.

Also an overlooked detail in the article: "Last week, Turkish authorities demanded user information from crypto trading platforms." Your BTC can be an asset that can be seized as part of a confiscation procedure –also in Turkish law... Seriously, not your keys not your money. DEX is under-appreciated in this ecosystem.

Here are some I've been thinking about:

- Eventually the virus mutates and becomes less lethal –it needs a healthy host population to survive. Evolution, not vaccines will drive normalization.\n - Cloud gaming explodes in Q1. Just before spring we will have a killer app for VR. - Much more paid-communities... - Close to the end of Q3, Apple starts creating a buzz around AR glasses.

Hypothesis 1: Inverse of variation is correlated with daily internet use and increasing group think. Hypothesis 2: Car lifecycle getting more efficient, hardware lasts longer. Same in iPhones?