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Parallel Validation merged
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Kudos to Peter Tschipper (Xthin's author) for the hard work
#BitcoinUnlimited #PV
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If any elected leader opposes data centers or the reindustrialization of America, just say you support them in Chinese. Make every reply below their posts in Chinese.
They will eventually go insane.
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The BRAM-ring bounty closed last night. Thank you to everyone who entered.
Five claims came in, every one of them bit-exact on all 8 vectors and on a fresh seed. That alone is a good sign for the spec: five independent implementations, zero disagreements.
@inkier35: unrolled gather chains, a 2% miss on the reference machine.
@sulla_alexander: three claims, scalar taps on CPU and a tiled-bank kernel on GPU. Big wins on your own hardware that didn't transfer, and the Downfall lesson is now in the README for posterity.
The winner: @AlexnderSmith04 with Prefetch32. An algebraic-normal-form cell evaluator plus a 32-lane deferred read-modify-write, +14% over the shipped CPU kernel, measured back to back on the 12700KF. No other claims were filed by the deadline, so the decision is final: 0.01 BTC, paid within 14 days of you posting a BTC address in this thread.
The 0.1 BTC goes unclaimed. Nobody showed non-FPGA hardware within 100× of 371 H/s per dollar, and the best CPU result after a month of public attack is 932 H/s, against 37,100 from a $40 chip. The little FPGA stays undefeated.
git.nodelabs.ca/nexapow/bram…
My little $40 FPGA can beat your big bad GPU. Prove me wrong and win 0.1 BTC.
I designed a proof-of-work called BRAM-ring. A $40 Efinix Tz170 does 37,100 H/s on it. The best anyone has managed on a GPU is 1,493 H/s, on a $499 RTX 3070. Per dollar the little chip wins by more than 100×, and I don't think any GPU, CPU, NPU or other off-the-shelf hardware can close that gap.
The bounty:
• 0.1 BTC to the first person who shows non-FPGA hardware at or above 371 H/s per dollar
• 0.01 BTC every time someone beats my GPU or CPU kernel by 10% (bit-exact, measured on my machine, the bar ratchets)
• 0.01 BTC for a real shortcut in the function: half the work per hash, counted not timed
How to claim: reply to this tweet with the full 40-character git commit hash of your code and the prize you're claiming. Your code can stay private until the deadline; the hash fixes your place in line.
Deadline: 4 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific.
Rules: git.nodelabs.ca/nexapow/bram…
Code (make prove checks C, AVX2, CUDA and Verilog against the same 8 vectors): git.nodelabs.ca/nexapow/bram…
Prize pool 0.2 BTC, held at bc1qtk8q5nsupm47kg5vz9turqacx8lg2whvxukpuj. Signed proof of funds in the first reply and in BOUNTY.md.
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I half expect that at some point in the next year both OpenAI and Anthropic are going to publish a completely rewritten vuln-free linux kernel. Or, just a whole new OS with full compatibility for applications.
This will be just some byproduct of their internal IT dept.
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‼️ Anthropic and Google researchers found a flaw that lets one crafted packet hijack a server during network boot, before Secure Boot checks the OS.
Almost all servers on earth are affected.
CVE-2026-97631 sits in TianoCore EDK II, code in the UEFI firmware of most servers.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The vulnerability is limited to servers actively PXE network-booting with vulnerable EDK II firmware; most servers boot from local disks and are unaffected in normal use, with Intel noting limited impact on supported products.
github.com/tianocore/edk2…
arstechnica.com/security/2026/…
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Prof. Lindzen “Il metano non ha alcun impatto sul clima. Chiudere le fattorie perché lo emettono, come hanno fatto in Sri Lanka e stanno facendo in Olanda, è la prova che i nostri leader sono stupidi, ignoranti e sadici. Produrranno solo morti per fame”
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NEWSFLASH: Dominion CTO Eric Coomer’s libel case against me for saying Dominion’s equipment rigs elections was just thrown out by the judge on summary judgment. Trial was supposed to start next Wednesday, but the judge read our evidence and realized I was correct. No libel.
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1774: they blew tobacco smoke up drowning victims' backsides to revive them, and the kits hung along the Thames like lifebuoys.
1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily tonic, and a pope pinned a gold medal on it.
1898: they sold heroin as a cough medicine, and spooned it into coughing children.
1918: they sold radium water as a health drink, and the millionaire who drank 1,400 bottles was buried in a lead-lined coffin with most of his jaw gone.
1921: they put lead in petrol, and Britain kept it in the pumps until 2000.
1930s: they X-rayed children's feet in shoe shops, and kids queued to watch their toes wiggle on the screen.
1940s: they rubbed mercury teething powder into babies' gums, and about 1 in 500 of those babies was poisoned.
1946: they sold cigarettes on the line that more doctors smoked their brand, and put a man in a white coat on the advert.
1949: they gave the lobotomy a Nobel Prize, and doctors went in through the eye socket with an ice pick.
1952: they sold a cigarette filter made of asbestos as the greatest health protection in smoking history, and smokers drew it into their lungs with every puff.
1957: they sold thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness, and around 10,000 babies were born with missing or shortened limbs.
1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat, and spread trans fat on a generation's toast.
1996: they sold OxyContin as barely addictive, and started an overdose epidemic.
1999: they sold Vioxx for sore joints, and pulled it five years later after tens of thousands of heart attacks.
2026: they're selling seed oil as the heart-healthy fat, and it's in almost every packet in your kitchen.
Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and the same total certainty.
The people telling you which fat to fear today sit in the same chairs as the ones who put radium in the water and a doctor on the cigarette packet, and they're every bit as sure.
"The experts recommend it" has the longest body count in medicine.
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Sentire su RAI 3 un discorso così... beh... lascia un po' stupiti.
youtube.com/watch?v=iQHLoGcb…
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Ma Iacchetti e la Salis bella che dicono che non è giusto far pagare le devastazione ai genitori che sono già in difficoltà economiche cosa dicono delle cartelle esattoriali dell'Agenzia dell'entrate che arrivano a gente già in difficoltà economica?
Cosa suggerisce Marx in questi casi...?
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“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Homeschool goes well. 8-yo is a machine. 11-yo has less focus. Both are going through 1-2 year of math per month. They spend 3-4 hours a day. Then they can do whatever they want. Will pull 5-yo in soon. Public school is child abuse for smart kids.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently.”
— F. A. Hayek
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Advocating for high taxes is not some sort of moral or compassionate act to be proud of.
Advocating for higher taxes is advocating for the theft of worker labor by force and threat of force to give the money to politicians.
There’s nothing moral, ethical or honorable about this.
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If raw milk were sold in the supplement aisle, the tub would read like this, and nobody would believe it.
- Complete protein, two kinds: whey for now, casein for later
- Calcium, with the phosphorus and vitamin D to use it
- Vitamins A, D, E and K2, in the fat that carries them
- B12, riboflavin and iodine
- Potassium and magnesium in the water
- Lactoferrin and the cow's own immune proteins
- Lipase and phosphatase, still working
- Electrolytes, pre-dissolved, no sachet
- Serving suggestion: cold, from a glass bottle
- Warning: the government has opinions about this product
The supplement industry would price that at £60 a tub and put a drawing of a bone on the lid.
It would still be selling you a copy. Every tub in that aisle is somebody's guess at what a body needs, assembled from powders in a factory and sold with a disclaimer. Raw milk is the only food on earth that was built to be the entire diet of a living creature, with nothing else allowed on the menu, and it has been passing that test for as long as there have been mammals.
The carton is that food heated until the living parts are dead and shaken until the cream can't rise, so the label can say the government is happy with it.
The cow charges grass.
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i call you a utopian rube who understands neither power nor governance nor liberty.
you think you can just make rules and everyone will play along and that all people are the same and want the kind of things you want and will not just take advantage of your systems to prey upon your empathy and lack of discernment.
there is no international rules based order. who will enforce it? countries. with armies.
see the problem?
the international orgs like the EU and UN are clownshow parodies of rule of law and free trade and free markets.
they are the antithesis of what you claim to want.
democracy is a desperately stupid form of government. even mentioning it as a value is self-indictment as being unserious. it's just tyranny of the majority. you've mistaken where liberty comes from.
you seem like a devotee of "montesori playgroup with a wise teacher looking on" view of international order.
that's just suicidal empathy with a side order of delusion.
high trust systems are made and preserved by people, not rulesets and schoolmarm scolding.
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Call me a globalist if you will. I stand for an international rules-based order, democracy, civil rights, the rule of law, free markets, and free trade. I believe that narrow nationalist, nativist, and populist thinking have led to wars, repression, and subjugation.
And I believe that we will come out of this nightmare world that the demagogues and tyrants are trying to build for us.
And yes, for the purists out there, "globalism" is ambiguous; liberal internationalism would be more appropriate. But I will be called a globalist anyway, so why not reclaim that word?
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The media doesn't want you to know this, but if you're a guilt-ridden rich guy who thinks the rich should pay more in taxes...you can just send all your money to the government!
Yes, really.
The Bureau of Fiscal Service has a voluntary account since 1843, and you can hand over all your earthly belongings to Uncle Sam if you feel they can do more with your money than you can.
Think we should all pay more taxes? Then you get to go first.
(Scott Kirby is worth ~$100M).
fiscal.treasury.gov/financin…
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The single worst intellectual error I ever made was discounting the need for some standard of enforcement concerning what should count as citizenship, which is the political right to participate in the formation of the rules concerning public life. As a libertarian, I never thought this mattered, which is an idiotic thing to believe. As I think back on Frederic Bastiat's The Law, this was a central theme of that book – he believed that receiving welfare should disqualify one for the franchise – a point I conveniently overlooked. This error is now the doom of Europe.