Rust lang - Memory safety through zero cost abstraction as a way to eliminate a large class of errors in systems languages is interesting. Especially if it allows more people to write systems programs.
WASM - Mostly as a compile target for Rust, but I think this changes the way software might be deployed. No longer as a website, but as a binary distributed across CDNs.
ZK-SNARKS - Zero knowledge proofs are still nascent, but being able to prove you know something while not revealing what it is has specific applicability for outsourcing computation. It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today.
Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, will be pretty interesting.
BERT - Newer models for NLP are always interesting because the internet is full of text.
RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way.
Oculus Quest - Been selling out during COVID. I sense a behavioral change.
Datomic - Datalog seems to be having a resurgence. I wonder if it can fight against the tide of editing in-place.
Datomic .. not just because of datalog, but because its hands down the best implementation of a AWS lambda based workflow I've seen (Datomic Ions). It's such a peach to work with.
Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.
Bitcoin.com isn't a neutral source on LN related material. The parent company (St Bitts LLC) directly invest in Bitcoin Cash startups that compete directly with Bitcoin itself.
The bug has already been patched, and had a limited userbase. The user who supposedly lost all his Bitcoin ended up not being true, vast majority was recovered. It's also worth noting that the user also deliberately went against various UI warnings that funds may be lost.
For starters the whitepaper concludes that a 133mb base block size is needed for it to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size limit, which it will never increase.
Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph.
Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down.
Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.
I’m surprised people are still looking forward to the Lightning Network. Layer 2 has missed the boat because of all the politics and contention between the Bitcoin factions. Decentralized finance is already happening on Ethereum. We have stable coins like Dai that underpins loans.
btw since two weeks ago the official Oculus Quest store is not sold out anymore (although it might be sold out again, haven't checked since it got back in store)
WASM - Mostly as a compile target for Rust, but I think this changes the way software might be deployed. No longer as a website, but as a binary distributed across CDNs.
ZK-SNARKS - Zero knowledge proofs are still nascent, but being able to prove you know something while not revealing what it is has specific applicability for outsourcing computation. It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today.
Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, will be pretty interesting.
BERT - Newer models for NLP are always interesting because the internet is full of text.
RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way.
Oculus Quest - Been selling out during COVID. I sense a behavioral change.
Datomic - Datalog seems to be having a resurgence. I wonder if it can fight against the tide of editing in-place.