Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Microsoft Ignite, brought to you by Cohesity and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Welcome back, everyone, to theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite. Happy hour has started. The crowd is roaring. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman. We are joined by Thomas LaRocque. He is the head geek at SolarWinds. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thanks for having me. So great title, head geek. Yes. So tell our viewers a little bit about what you, tell us about SolarWinds, and then also about what you do. Oh, SolarWinds is a company that offers about 40 different products to help with your enterprise infrastructure monitoring, really unified management of your systems. And I've been in business about 20 years, and I've been with them for about eight now, and head geek is really just equated to being a technical evangelist. Okay, so you're out there trying to win the hearts and minds, telling everyone about what you do. Yes, I need you all to love me. I love my products. So Thomas, and for those that don't already follow you on Twitter, you're SQL Rockstar. Yes, yes. And you were actually, I need to say thank you, because you helped connect me with a lot of the community here, especially on the data side of the house.  I usually don't talk about myself a lot, but sure, let's go for it. So I've been a Microsoft data platform MVP for about 10 years now, and it was interesting when you reached out, looking to get connected, I was kind of stunned at how many people I actually knew, or knew how to get in touch with for you, and I helped you line up, I guess a handful of people to be on the show, because you were telling me you hadn't been here to TechEd or Microsoft Ignite, and I just thought, well, I know people, and they should know Stu, and we should get them connected so that you guys can have some good conversations. But yeah, it's been a wild ride for me those 10 years where Microsoft, they award people, the MVP designation, and it's kind of being an evangelist for Microsoft, and some of the great stuff that they've been doing over the past 10 years. Yeah, it's a phenomenal program. Most people in the technology industry know the Microsoft MVP program. I was a VMware vExpert for a number of years, many of the things were patterned off of that. John Troyer's a friend of mine, and he said that was one of the things he looked at Citrix as programs like this. Many of the vendors here have evangelists or paragons of showing that technology they're out here. All right, so talked about a little bit of community. Talk about the database space. I mean, data and databases have been going through such the cambering explosion of what's going on out there, right?  So, yes, the SQL Server box product is still around, but I think what's more amazing to me has been the evolution of, you know, let's take, for example, one of the announcements today was the big data cluster. So it's essentially a container that's going to run SQL Server, Spark and Hadoop, all in one, but basically a pod that'll get deployed by Kubernetes. And when you wrap all that up together, what you start to realize is the pattern that what Microsoft's been doing for the past few years, which is essentially going to where the people are. And what I mean is you have, in the open-source world, you have people and developers that have embraced things like DevOps much faster than what the Windows developers have been doing. So instead of taking your time and trying to drag all these people to where you want them to be, they've just started building all the cool stuff where all the cool kids already are, and everybody's going to just gravitate. Data has gravity, right? So you're building these things and people are going to follow it. And now it's not that they're expecting to sell a billion dollars worth of licenses, no, they just need to be part of the conversation. So if you're a company that's using those technologies, now all of a sudden it's like, this is an option, were you interested in it? And Microsoft is the company that has best poise to bring enterprises to the cloud. I mean, Amazon has a huge share, we all know that, but Microsoft's already the platform of choice for these enterprises. Microsoft's going to be the one to help them get to the cloud. Just as- I'm sorry, Thomas, just explain what you mean by that because the strength I look at Microsoft is, look, they've got your application, business productivity, that's where they are. Apologize for cutting you off there, but yeah, is that what you mean that the applications are changing and you're trusting Microsoft of the application and therefore that that's a vendor of choice or? Absolutely, if it's already your vendor of choice, then I don't want to say lock in, but if it's already your preference and if they can help you get to the cloud or in a hybrid situation or just lift and shift and just get there, then that's the one you're going to want to do it and everything they're building and all the services they're providing, you know, at the end of the day, and Amazon, they're the new electric company. They want your data, that's the electricity and they don't care how you get it, but in even VMware, between Amazon, VMware and Microsoft, they're going to be the ones to help, they're going to be your infrastructure companies. Microsoft manage desktop now. We'll manage your laptop for you. Everything that they're doing is essentially like, I don't even need my own IT department. Microsoft is going to be the largest MSP in history, it's just, that's where they're headed. They're going to manage everything for you and the data part of it, of course, for me, I just love talking about data, but the data part of it, data is central to everything we do. It's all about the data. They're doing their best to help you manage it and secure it. Security is a huge thing. There was some security announcements today as well, which were awesome. The advanced threat detection and protection that they have, if I'm always amazed or when I walk through the offering they have for SQL injection protection. And I try to ask people, I go, who's right now monitoring for SQL injection? We're not doing that. For $15 a month, you could do this for your servers. That's amazing what they're offering. Why wouldn't you want that as a service? Why wouldn't you sign up tomorrow for this stuff? So, I get excited about it. I think all the stuff that they're building is great and the announcements today were great. I think they have some more coming out. I think over the next couple of days or at least in the sessions, we'll start seeing a lot of hands-on stuff and I'm excited for it. So, when you were talking about Microsoft being the automatic vendor of choice, why wouldn't you? You portrayed it as a no-brainer. What does Microsoft need to do to make sure that all its customers feel that way too? Oh, well, I think Microsoft is going to do that in how I would do it. A couple of ways is, one, at the end of the day, Microsoft wants what we all want, while I want, is they want happy customers. So, they're going to do whatever it takes so their customers are happy. So, one way you do that is you get a lot of valuable feedback from customers. So, one thing that Microsoft's done in the past is they've increased the amount of telemetry they're collecting from their products. So, they know the usage. They know what the customers want. They know what the customers need. But they also collect, it's a simple voice of the customer, right? You're simply asking the customer what is it you want. And you're doing everything you can to keep them happy and you're finding out where the struggles are. You're helping them solve those problems. How do you not earn trust as a result of all that, right? So, I think that's the avenue that they've been doing for at least 10 years. Well, let's say at least eight years. That's the avenue and the approach they've been doing and I'd say it's been somewhat successful. So, Thomas, it's interesting. As our team was preparing for the show, we understand that Microsoft has a lot of strengths. But if I look at the AI space, Microsoft's not the clear leader today. We think that some of the connections that Microsoft has, everything as you said, down to the desktop. Heck, even in the consumer space, they're down to the Xbox. There's a lot of reasons why Microsoft, you could say, okay, here's a path as to how Microsoft could become number one, number two in the AI space over time. But we're listening to things like the open data initiative that they announced today, which obviously Microsoft's working with a lot of partners out there, but it's a big ecosystem. Data plays everywhere. I mean, Google obviously has a strong play in data. We've talked plenty about Amazon, so what does Microsoft need to do to take the strength that they have in data, move it forward in AI and become an even stronger player in the marketplace? So AI itself is kind of that broad term.  It doesn't really have to do anything, it's just right. So let's talk about machine learning, predictive analytics, or even deep learning. So that's really the area that we're talking about. And what does Microsoft have to do? Well, they have to offer the services. But they don't have to be, they don't have to offer, say, new things. They just have to offer things that already exist. For example, the idea of incorporating Jupiter notebooks into the Azure Data Studio, right? So if that could be achieved, now you're bringing the workspaces that people are using just into the Microsoft platform a little bit, making it a little bit easier. So instead of these people in these enterprises, they already trust Microsoft, they already have the tools, but I got to go and use these other things. Well, eventually, those other things come into the Microsoft tools, and now you don't have to go and use that other stuff either. I would talk a little bit about the ability to publish these models as a service. Which, so I've done the Academy program, I've earned a few certifications on some of this stuff, and I was amazed at how easy it was with a few clicks. Publish as a service as an API, it's sitting there, I send it my data and I get back a result, a prediction, and I was like, that was really easy. So I know they're not the leaders, but they're making it easy, especially for somebody like me who can start at zero and get to where I need to be. They made it incredibly easy, in some cases, it was intuitive, I'm like, oh, I know what to do next with this widget I'm building. I think it'll take time for them to kind of get all that stuff in place. I don't know how long, but does Microsoft have to be the leader in AI? They have the cognitive toolkit, they have all that stuff with Cortana, they have the data, I think the customers are coming along, I think they get there just by attrition. I'm not sure that there's something that they're going to build where everybody just says, oh, there it is, except there's the quantum stuff. And last year's announcement of quantum, I thought it was one of the most stunning things. It just hit me, I had no idea they were working on it. So who knows, a year from now, there could be something similar to that type of mouse where like, now I get it, now I got to go have this thing. But I don't think we all need, you know, a hot dog, not hot dog app, which seems to be the bulk of the examples out there for, but some of the image classification stuff that you have out there is fabulous. There's a lot of use cases for it. Yeah, I'm not sure how they get there, but I do think eventually over time, the platform that they offer, they do get there just through attrition. One of the things that you brought up earlier in this conversation was the open data, initiative, and Stu, we'd expressed a bit of skepticism that it's still going to take three to five years for really customers to see the value of this. But once the announcement was made today, so now we're going to go forward with this initiative, what do you see as the future? Yeah, I was trying to even figure it out. So it sounds like the three companies are sharing data with each other. They pledge to be open, so if you buy one of their products, that data can seamlessly go into the other products, is what it sounded like. And they were open, if I heard it right, they were open to partnering with other companies as well. So it wasn't just those three. Other vendors or customers even that could tie into these APIs, do everything that they're doing, open data models. Speaking as a data guy, that means if I trust one, I have to trust them all, right? So I don't know. So I have trust issues, and I'm a DBA by heart, so I have trust issues. And I need to know a little bit more about it, but on the surface, just the words, open data, sound great. I just don't know the practicality of it, but it sounds like it's a way for these companies to partner with each other, to get more of your data into their platforms and their infrastructure. Yeah, I think next time we have Thomas on, we're going to spend some time talking about the dark side of data. Yes, indeed. We could talk dark data. Oh, sure. Well, Thomas, it was so much fun having you on the show, and I should just plug your book. You are the author of DBA Survivor. I am, yes. It was a little book, so being a DBA, I had some challenges in my role, and I decided, as my friend Kevin Klein put it to me, he goes, you should write the book you wish somebody had written for you and handed to you on day zero of being a DBA. And I said, oh, so it took me, I think, like three weeks. It was just so easy to write all of that. It's just stuff I had to say. But yeah, thank you. Excellent. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman. We will have more from the Cube's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite coming up in just a little bit.


George Bruna with a 21 report. We're at the 21 convention patriarch edition, and I'm talking with Elliot Hulse. Welcome, Elliot Thanks, George. All right. How'd it go today on stage? Really well. What was your topic? Defending marriage in a degenerate age It certainly is degenerate, isn't it? Yeah, I'd say. What are the enemies of marriage today? Well, you know, I went through a list of about 10 and I began with one that I learned here in the Manosphere from Rolo Tomasi and he refers to the the female primary Social order something of that effect Hypergamy unchecked hypergamy. It's one big part of it, but then it also goes so much deeper I think that's like the biological component. Yeah, but when you look at Consumerism, yeah, and the focus outside of the family and more on how much can we get and how much can we buy and how much Can we consume as opposed to how much time and energy and effort can be Given to the family for its own nourishment. Yeah, soul's nourishment the state with easy divorce feminism with their Objective to destroy the family. I gave a really good quote written by Dumbbar I forget the first name but so I went through a list of myriad of different ways that there's this onslaught Against marriage in our culture. How do you fortify a marriage with all this stuff being against it? well that was what my talk was about and One of the one of the things that I offered as far as fortification is concerned I think it's important for men to Take the position of leadership in their home And I spoke about where we get our authority and that it's important for us to draw down divine authority by having some faith That your woman is not going to trust you just on your own authority Many of us have strained or strange relationships with our fathers But there's always the archetype pattern of the father and Whether it's right or wrong. It's your level of conviction that the The path laid in front of you for how to be a man and how to lead your family The faith in that gives you the strength to stand on that gives her the the trust In your ability to lead so it's like we can't have we it's very Difficult for us to rest on our own authority because I say so right and so a part of my talk was just to at least Consider I know we've got guys of different religions and you know some are religious or not But at least to consider it as a as a red pill mechanism for how to Raise your family right now.  Yeah, how long we started dating when we were 14 years old That's amazing. Yeah, and we got married at age 23 And we have four children. So a part of my a part of my talk was the benefit of Limiting sexual partners and not being promiscuous You know men and women Of course, I have to be an advocate for Dating and marrying or marrying early, you know, I did it and it worked Yeah, and I laid out all the reasons why it worked and yeah, so That's pretty awesome. I think Because there's so many waves coming against marriage and society is pretty wacky. I was talking to the guys earlier You know, I'll talk to a young man and say So do you want to have children? He'll say well, I wouldn't want to bring children into this crazy world And I'm thinking that's kind of like Waving the white flag of surrender mm-hmm and just giving up before you even start and that's like saying I wouldn't want to give Medicine to this dying patient When we bring children into the world who can reflect the divine splendor children who were good children Yeah, we're offering medicine. We're injecting medicine into a degenerate culture. Yeah And they're focusing more on the Degeneracy in the world rather than the own the power in their own parenting mm-hmm Like I would want to bring children in this world specifically children are an antidote to the degenerate society, right? Absolutely. Yeah, and I think that's focusing on despair and I think a lot of guys in the quote-unquote man is fear succumb to despair and negativity and darkness and Our message is be fruitful and multiply. Yeah There's no better way to to create a legacy your kids will outlive you mm-hmm hopefully and Your seed goes on mm-hmm Yeah, and I think there's no better way than to be fruitful and multiply to perpetuate cultural values and norms we're living in a country where white people the people who built this country are having less children and Puerto Ricans and Mexicans are having a hell of a lot of kids Yeah, and you know that's not to say that Good or bad But if we want to preserve American culture Western culture Then the people who created it should be having more children. Absolutely. Otherwise they're gonna be out popularized pretty soon Yeah, outnumbered. Yeah, I had heard at one point In 20 years Italy won't even be Italian anymore because of the influx of non-Italians in Italy, right? Can you imagine Italy won't be Italian? Yeah, how weird like that's just an odd Concept it is I find that Bringing children into the world Gives the world hope. Yeah, and there's never a right time to have kids.  I mean every every era has its challenges Every era has its wars So for someone to say in despair, I don't want to bring a child into this world. That's almost They they just gave up too early Yeah weak It is weak. Mm-hmm It is weak. Mm-hmm And I'm finding a lot of young people are saying that. Yeah Weak, what do you think contributes to that despair? Why do they have that? There are all kinds of myths that Attend that also. Yeah, you know like this whole idea that the world is gonna melt because of climate change Yeah, I think that's one of the lies that White people have been more apt to just accept. Yeah that we should stop having children because the earth is going to melt Yeah, and I tend to think that that that there's a there's a social agenda behind that Science has shown us that it that's not true Not only that is it not to say that it's not true that the warm the earth is getting warmer But the earth is supposed to be getting warmer. We go through these cycles. It's normal and natural Don't stop having children because the earth is getting warmer right just acknowledge it. Yeah, and so Where am I going with that my point is I don't remember well I could I can see doing things like like not littering because you want to leave a nice clean earth I can see not like wasting natural resources. That's cool, but lumping Not having children into that same category To me is going a little bit too far. Mm-hmm. I think so and I think it's alarmist in nature Mm-hmm.  Yeah, yeah Where does hope exist in this world of degeneracy? How do you give hope to young people I know you spoke on marriage to have to give hope You've got to be inspired and I love that word inspired because it comes the word spirit Spiro to inspire to take in the spirit. There must be something that you've drawn in or has Infused itself into you that gives you this a courage and a sense of Meaning for the future That I think can only come from religion and our and a religious Imagination more so than religion itself. Yeah, but the religious Imagination that gives us this sense that things are can get better Think we can evolve we can grow in virtue. Yeah And so when we have that no matter how dark it gets in the in the mass of the world There will always be small pockets of light. Yeah, if we can carry those that light even in the in the thickest of darkness that Others candles will be lit. Yeah You have an influence you're on YouTube With quite a following. What kind of message do you give your followers? Well, it's as and always will be This become the strongest version of yourself, you know, I started as a strength coach But strength went beyond just the body. Yeah So to be the strongest version of yourself and to empower one another and that's about being that the brightest candle You can yeah and being sure that your flame is catching other candles as well I've watched you on shows like the red man group and Wow, what a what in addition to that group of men the perspective that you bring Changes the flavor of the red man group to it kind of strengthens it. I think it's It's not It's not all about picking up women. It's not all about the single life and Going wide it's about going deep and I think you bring a depth To that conversation. That's what I noticed. That was the one of the first things that I noticed. Yeah, thank you Yeah, absolutely. How do you like the convention so far? I love it I and I love what it stands for more than anything what it means. Yes, it's a it's a sign of the times It's needed isn't it mm-hmm It is Who have you connected with here that you feel that you will stay connected with in the future?  Yeah, I like powerful Yeah, I resonate with both of their messages Tanner was Was also right up there, you know between the two of them and their talks Resonated deeply with both of what they offered and then had a wonderful opportunity to speak with them yesterday at dinner What does it mean to be a hulse? To be strong. That's the first thing that comes to mind and comes to heart Hulse is about courage. It's about strength. It's about Determination and forward momentum. Yeah, and Stall wartness steadfastness, you know, it's very vigorous I've noticed three or four times during this talk already you've taken deep breaths To empower yourself. It's like breathing charges you up Mm-hmm, some people one of the biggest things that I notice the people's that they breathe very shallow Mm-hmm, you and air are good friends. You and oxygen seem to be good friends. I'm a fire sign Oxygen and fire oxygen I noticed that I noticed that and For the few moments that I saw you on stage There's periods of so you're not just talking to talk You have periods of silence And I watch you look at the crowd and Think and make eye contact with people and I was standing in the back and as you were walking back and forth on the stage I watched the heads Watching you it was really interesting Very inspiring just watching the crowd respond to you What do you think is the biggest message that the audience left with today? Well What I was hoping was to instill a sense of Dignity in the marriage archetype. Yeah, that there's something strong and masculine and devout. Yeah to to the marriage Commitment, you know, because I think it's really been bastardized Yes and taken advantage of and has lost so much of its splendor Yeah in our culture and so what I was hoping is to show them how red pill it is Yeah, to be married and to be a to be a father I know our Congress our whole conference is about patriarchy.  You've got to Lead women. Yeah, be strong for women. Yeah, draw down the divine authority and lead your home. And so in between just Giving marriage some dignity again and also with this sense of openness to God and religion as an authority that you can Rest on and bring into your home as a as a foundation for your own strength faith really that maybe I open some Questioning, you know and exploring Marriage and family is not for weaklings. No mm-hmm The first thing that I thought of was I mean you see all these hats With similar phrases make this great again, you know all but you know And I'm thinking make men strong again. Yes Make men strong again, and I think that's what you're doing. Yes. I noticed that when I When attendees stand around you like everyone has their Little moments with the speakers in the social areas after the speeches In the evenings and stuff like that When people are around you they stand taller is that right? Yeah, yeah, their posture is better. Yeah And they tend to mirror you And you are making men strong again. I observed it And I need to tell you that thank you. It's very very obvious. It's noticeable Elliot Hulse find him on YouTube. Thank you. Thank you George


Thank you, everybody, for coming today. Thank you for the invitation to be here and to discuss about this topic. The title it was given to me is Formality versus Informality in Job Creation. And I'm going to say something specifically about formality and informality. I'm going to spend more time talking about job creation and raising people's earnings and standards of living. So before I proceed, I just want to put two pieces of terminology on the table. The first is that at least in my 20 minutes, I'm not going to distinguish it all between a job and employment. And that is to say that we have the standard ILO definitions. You are employed if you worked one hour or more for pay last week. You are employed if you worked 15 hours or more, not for pay last week. You are unemployed if you were not employed but you actively looked for work and you're out of the labor force if you did not actively look for work and you were not working either. So those are the standard definitions. We'll use those. Now one place where the labor economist in me uses different terminology from what we just heard from Martin is what is a labor market? I define a labor market as labor economists do, which is the place where labor services are bought and sold. And the richer the country, the more likely it is that the labor services of a worker are sold to an employer through an employer-employee relationship. But the poorer the country, as Martin showed us, self-employment is particularly important. And in those cases, the labor market, as labor economists think about it, is that people are selling their labor services to themselves precisely because no employer is buying their labor services. So I just want to say that when I talk about labor markets, I'm not going to exclude in any way self-employed. Quite to the contrary, it's important to include the self-employed. OK, so growth and development. It's important to start with definitions, I think. And that is that, for me, economic development is about improvements in people's material standards of living. There are other aspects of social development that get into other aspects of people's standards of living. But the material part is what I think defines economic development. I like to think in terms of ultimate development objectives and to ask, what is the ultimate development objective? A bit of jargon, I sometimes call it bottom line management. I wrote a book on that. It was one of the world's great non-sellers. And in technical language, what people might call the bottom line is what we economists call maximans. What is it you're trying to maximize, or what is it that you are trying to minimize? When I say that the teams remaining in the soccer World Cup are all trying to win the soccer World Cup, I think that goes without saying that that's what their maximand is. So we, when we're talking about economic development, what is our maximand? What are we trying to achieve? And I think we're trying to achieve improvements in people's material standards of living. Economic growth, productivity growth, lots of other things, then I would regard as intermediate objectives, but they are not the ultimate objectives. They're not the bottom line objective. There are ways of getting there, just like scoring goals and preventing the other team from scoring goals are approaches to winning the game in order to win the soccer World Cup. And so in seeking higher household incomes, the data show, and Martin talked about this, that most people get most of their income from the work they do, that therefore jobs, employment, are important for people to attain higher material standards of living. And it's said that there are two kinds of people in the world, those that put things into two categories and those that don't. I'm one of those people that puts things into categories, and so the two categories I have here are two means for improving household incomes and achieving better work opportunities. One is through more and better wage employment or salaried employment, wage and salary together. There's an issue in translating from the Spanish, but let me not get into that. And the other is through higher self-employment earnings. And those two, that is more and better wage employment and higher self-employment earnings, are precisely what I understand two of the three themes of this conference to be that is structural transformation and inclusion. So this talk is very much about those issues. Countries face conflicting jobs goals. On the one hand, they want more jobs. And they want jobs with higher earnings. Anybody who has taken basic labor economics knows that an ordinary downward-sloping labor demand curve has embodied in it the idea that higher wages paid will cause employers to hire fewer workers. And so there's a trade-off right there. In addition, some jobs offer social protections, and some do not. So I'll talk here a little bit about labor market protections, such things as health and safety legislation, hours legislation, other sorts of things. And then what is in British English called social security that is pensions, health insurance, and other social programs. And there may be conflicts between wages and these protections on the one hand between more employment and more protected employment. On the other hand, economics is called the dismal science for a reason. And these are among the reasons. Now, the title of this talk they gave me was formality versus informality in job creation. I quote my friend and colleague Ravi Kanber, who said, informality is a term that has the dubious distinction of combining maximum policy importance and political salience with minimal conceptual clarity and coherence in the analytical literature. I think the very best thing to do with the term informality is not use it. And instead, to talk about self-employment or wage employment, to talk about registered employment or non-registered employment, to talk about workers who are covered by social protections and workers who are not. But I understand what the point is. The point of this title is to say that in addressing the issue of job creation, there may be these kinds of trade-offs. And policymakers are going to find those trade-offs difficult to achieve. It's no answer, by the way, to say, well, there are three good things, and so I want all three if we know that they conflict in a fundamental sense with each other. So let me talk for a moment about informal sector and informal employment. It actually took me a number of years and conversations that we had Ravi and Koshik Basu and Harun Borat and others for me to understand the difference between informal employment and informal sector. Informal sector, by definition, is that the enterprise itself is not registered with the government. Informal employment would occur when those people who work in as employees in those enterprises or those people who are self-employed are not registered with the government. But that's not the end of informal employment. Informal employment also occurs when the enterprise is registered with the government, but the worker is either not registered with the government or registered with the government but not protected for a variety of reasons. For example, because the worker is a probationary worker because the worker is hired in casual employment, where the employer says we will hire you today, maybe we'll hire you tomorrow, or we will hire you today. And after 89 days, the employer says we won't hire you tomorrow because legislation kicks in tomorrow. But if you'd like to come back next week, there's a good chance that we'll have a job for you again. And so what does that mean? In a country like India, here are the percentages. Of the people who are employed in India, 85% of them are employed in informal employment in the informal sector, defined as the employer, the work, the entity, the self-employment activity is not registered with the government. Another 7% of employment is informal employment in the formal sector. People who work in jobs where the employers registered with the government, but the workers don't have the protections that might come to others. And 8% of employment in India is formal employment in the formal sector. The metaphor is often used of let's study the dog, let's not study the tail. It's not the tail that's wagging the dog, it's the dog that's wagging the tail. And if we look just at formal employment and those enterprises that are registered with the government and those workers that are working in those enterprises, we're missing most of them in India and many other countries at similar stages of development. So broadly speaking then, there are groups of jobs policies to consider. I used to use the term that groups of labor market policies to consider, except that people sometimes object. And they say that labor market policies are those things that happen within the labor markets, narrowly defined as they think about it. You just heard Martin talk about labor supply, labor demand, and wage determination. And we also heard him say that very important policies happen outside the labor market. So the terminology I like to use here to capture the ideas that you just heard him put forward are that there are policies in the labor market and policies impinging upon the labor market. Policies in the labor market are addressed to how specifically the labor market works. Policies impinging upon the labor market are policies that affect in particular where the labor demand curve is positioned. Also where the labor supply curve is positioned. And so all of these are policies to consider. So in order to consider policies with regard to wage employment, with regard to self-employment, let's first consider the broad economic policies. There's lots of talk at this conference. And I think rightfully so about these issues that I've put on this slide. Economic growth, trade, aid, investment climate, harnessing the energies of the private sector because it's the private sector that's an important creator of jobs. Just say by the way that when people are self-employed, they certainly are not self-employed in the public sector, so they get counted as working in the private sector, but they're not working as employees in the private sector. They're working as self-employed in the private sector. And so the statement is sometimes made that the private sector is responsible for creating most jobs, which is a really weird way of thinking that I have created my own job by buying a pack of 20 cigarettes and then selling them to people poorer than I am one at a time at a higher unit cost. I don't think of that as the private sector has created a job for me. I think of that as I have created a job for me, but anyhow, these are some of the broad economic policies and it certainly helps. It's not sufficient, but it certainly helps to get these broad economic policies right. So there are lots of things that can be done to increase the opportunities for paid employment. I know this is a cluttered slide and I cluttered it up just so this would all fit on one page and I could tell you that there's a lot to be said about this. And in my last book, which I was very surprised to find is actually on the Oxford University Press table out here. It's called Working Hard, Working Poor, and there's a chapter on increasing the opportunities for paid employment that includes these points that I'm not going to read out to you. And there's also a chapter on raising the returns to self-employment and I'm also not going to read out what those issues are. But these are some of the means of thinking about how to raise people's standards of living through the work they do. Okay, now I talked earlier about trade-offs in the labor market. One big labor market policy trade-off must be faced is resources are limited. Yes, thank you, okay. Resources are limited that to use money for one thing means not to use it for another. Another limitation, an important one, is that policy attention may very well be limited and so too may administrative capacity. And so we have to avoid in our policy making getting policy makers so distracted that they can't actually do the work of making policy and or administering policies that have been decided upon. So we have to make choices. This is the economist's question. How do we allocate scarce resources among alternative uses? And we have to ask the question then how much effort should be devoted to creating more jobs with social protections versus using some of the resources or all of the resources to help formalize the informal versus or and or helping those who remain unprotected to be protected perhaps by getting out of where they are and moving into those sectors of the labor market where job protections are more plentiful. These are some of the challenges to be faced. What I wanna conclude with is a policy case study. I thank Ravi for organizing an opportunity for a number of us to have had homestays with working women and their families in India, South Africa and Mexico and then repeat visits to India and South Africa. We were divided into groups of two. We lived with working women and their families and when we went to South Africa, I lived with a woman named Masi Bisi who had earned her livelihood by selling handicrafts. The way that she had sold her handicrafts before I met her for the first time was that she had obtained a license from a friend in order to rent a stall along the oceanfront in Durban. And this was a government regulated place with a limited number of spaces and for several years she sold her handicrafts in that particular place. And one day a police inspector came by and he said, show me your identity card and she showed her card. And then the police inspector said, show me your license for this stall and she showed the license for the stall. But the license for the stall was not in her name. The license for the stall was in the name of a friend from whom she had rented the license. And the policeman said, this is not legal. You have to get out of here. I will give you 24 hours. If you are here 24 hours from now, I am going to confiscate whatever I find in this stall. So she left and she had difficulty finding a new livelihood. But then she and her husband found a new way to make an even better living, which was that they made and sold Zulu shields, which Zulu people bought for ceremonial purposes in which tourists like me bought to decorate, in my case, the office I have at Cornell and if you come visit me at Cornell, you can see my Zulu shield I bought from her. That's how they made their livelihood. But what happened is that the government had been hassling them and making it impossible for them to earn a livelihood the way that they had been trying to. Yes. Another thing that was striking about the oceanfront in Durban was the absence of something that one sees every place else in the developing world, which is people who are selling fruit juices and ice creams and slices of pineapple and all sorts of other things, walking along the beach and trying to sell it to people on the beach. There were no such people there. And the reason there were no such people there is because the local authorities had decided that these people were threats to the people who were enjoying themselves on the beach. And so to conclude the story then, we in our group, Ravi and Koshik and Harun, the others of us, Francie, met with the government. And the government official who was responsible for this said to us, we are doing this. My job is to protect you, he said, pointing to us, the foreign visitors against them. And normally I keep my mouth shut in such things when I'm in other people's countries, but I couldn't that time. So I just said, sir, excuse me please, I do not want to be protected against them. I would like them to be able to learn, earn their livelihoods. So to just finish the thought in 30 seconds. The point is, I said at the beginning, remember that there are ultimate development objectives. The ultimate development objective, as I said, is to try to enable people to earn higher material standards of living. That's the essence of economic development. If we lose sight of those ultimate objectives and put into effect other things that get in the way, such as these kinds of regulations, people are gonna lose their livelihoods. And I think the question to ask then is how can they earn their livelihoods? I've given what I think are some answers and this last part is what not to do. Thank you very much.


Welcome everyone to our August PL-Endres working group, All Hands. We have a packed agenda today. We have a very short working group update just sharing some of the updates on KPIs, highlights, and our OKRs for the quarter. And then we have lots of spotlights from boost, retrieval dashboard, SB reputation working group, and a ton of others. I will not list all of them. And then we have a deep dive on the Phil Dev summits happening in Singapore and Iceland in September, which is only one month away, which is super exciting. And then we should have some hopeful time for Q&A and other questions. So as a quick reminder, the PL-Endres working group is a gathering of teams working across the PL network, where we are motivated by building better technology for the internet so that we can secure a robust framework for future breakthroughs, starting with a lot of the amazing Web3 projects that have come out of protocol labs over the years, and are really spending a chunk of time on things like IPFS, LibPB, and Filecoin, which we'll hear updates from in a second. Our mission is to scale and unlock new breakthroughs for these projects by driving breakthroughs in protocol utility and capability, scaling network native research and development, and stewarding and growing open source projects, networks, and communities. We have a whole ton of different working groups. We're excited to welcome the data programs team to our working group, sharing some of their awesome updates expediting data onboarding to the Filecoin ecosystem. Our strategy stays very consistent with a first focus on helping critical systems be stewarded and grow over time, growing the amazing network of teams that are contributing towards these awesome protocols, and then two main pillars, one around robust storage and retrieval. So great to have the data programs folks joining us on that side as well, and then around compute over Filecoin state and data, building on things like FBM to add new layer two capabilities, additional chain space, and compute over the large amounts of data stored in Filecoin. A couple of updates here. You may see that we had updated this to a check mark last time, IPC M2 officially exists on Filecoin mainnet, which is super exciting. Ceiling as a service is also out there in the wild, getting used by a ton of folks, which is really, really exciting to see and great progress across the board on Saturn, Lotus, Minor, Station, and gearing up for both IPC M3 and the next Filecoin network upgrade and V21. Now we can do, okay, our update, starting with Lauren. Thanks, Molly. On keeping critical systems running, growing, releasing, scaling, and secure, since we're almost halfway in the quarter, most things are yellow on improving the IPFS Gateway debugability work on track. There is a MVP out and then iterations are in progress with respect to landing three high value FIPS. There's discussions under way for NV21, which will be planned for early November. So we'll see what actually ends up landing in that. On the five community bootstrap nodes, we're currently at zero additional that there's talks for two others and we are on track on moving users off of chain.love. And then on Filecoin chain robustness, we've launched the state profiling tool, so that is green, and we have two new disputeers and two new fault detectors moving towards that KR. And there's an amazing cinematic masterpiece from Tippi Flitz on how to use the disputeers that I recommend everyone check out. Steve, go ahead. Thanks, yeah. So for a hyperscaling, accelerating the talent and teams contributing to the PL stack, these KRs are all on track. A few details, the CryptoEcon lab has been updating their sales framework to better understand prospective clients. And so they've been going deeper in protocol design, mechanism design simulation, etc, with these clients and they've sent two work proposals to prospective clients last week. So that's great to see, congrats to DRAN, which have landed one of their lighthouse customers called Proof of Play. And then on this Helia IPFS effort, this is for work streams across Box of Kubo, Helia, JS, the PDP and Golub PDP, and those are all progressing in different ways. So so far on track for this objective. Thanks, go ahead, Matthew. I think Matthew is at a team summit today and I soon is out of office. So I am jumping in to help out here on the scale data onboarding and CDN speed retrievals to drive super linear adoption with lighthouse users. There are two partners lined up for when code is ready for our new project motion, easy filecoin integration tooling work that's happening across teams, which is really exciting. There's work in progress on unsealing fixes. And so we're on track for that one. For Saturn, the on track there as well team super close to meeting both latency and correctness goals for M1, which would kind of allow us to start serving that IPFS.io gateway traffic in prod, not just the mirrored traffic that we've been serving for the past couple of months. And then finally dot storage on boards, 100% of historic uploads to W3UP. This is also on track. These are in filecoin plus deals with a good SLA for you know, the future time to data in filecoin deals landed as well. For number four, upgrading filecoin with new L2 capabilities and chartable chain space. We have over 11 million fill TVL, which is super exciting. So making good progress over 200K wallets and just I think just breaking 2000 unique contracts. So good progress on our FBM adoption and capabilities. We're still I think at one end to end aggregator, but they have also done some of the IPLD reachability work. So making good progress on some of the later components of these FBM capability sides of things. For IPC, we are on track for a fundament based IPC implementation. Right now, three dev teams have expressed interest in this, you know, prominent early access dev teams and a few more in the works scoping. And then last but not least, there is a live cod test net that a number of people were building on. Sorry to seal someone spotlight thunder. Number of people were building on during ECC two weeks ago, which is super exciting. And they're still in early days that they're not yet advertising people to join the network in terms of number of nodes. But we're actively submitting early jobs and starting to run additional ML workloads on this new test net. So I think we're on track for some some really exciting momentum in Q4. All right, handing off to IPFS. Yeah, I'll take this. Sorry, IPFS we're making the web work peer to peer with content addressing so that content can be verified independent of the provider or the transport method. In terms of some of our KPIs. Yeah, no major callouts here regarding the public IPFS DHT and its network size and performance. Yeah, no major shifts. We also are looking at IP&I performances you can see in the bottom right hand corner. There's these graphs plus a lot more under problab.io. But yeah, nothing going to get into this time around. But these are some of the metrics we look at. In terms of the next slide, you know, this was a quieter month with events and vacations. But there's a few things we want to update on. One is Kubo022 did ship. So this includes IPIP412, which allows signaling for block order in cars on trustless gateways. So that's out there. We have the newest goal of P2P, which when measured in Kubo was reducing the number of dials by 30% with low to no latency impact. And there are a host of regression fixes, which is unfortunate, but also some important security patches. So if you are a Kubo user, please update. We've been talking, I think we've mentioned it before, there's been a major lot of work going on behind the scenes for IPFS Companion, updating it to use the MV3 model of new web extensions. So that's in our final beta right now. So please try it out. We'd appreciate any feedback because when we push that live into the Chromium Web Store, that does reach 60 to 70,000 monthly active users. So I want to get that right before we do so. And we will do a spotlight to get deeper in on this project once it's actually fully shipped. But this is setting the stage for a Kubo list companion, not needing to have a Kubo instance running in order for companion to work well and enhance the browser. On the Helia front, a lot more examples, even more examples have been added covering popular frameworks, bundlers and testing tools. And the forever land group, they have a pinning service in a gateway. They've been added to the web UI and the pinning service compliance suite. So another option there for folks. And we've mentioned probelab.io before, but that website is launched and fully announced the version one of it, I should say. Some things that are coming up, we're overdue on some communication regarding the Kademia DHT roadmap, and also work just happening generally in IPFS, particularly around areas like HTTP, debuggability and supporting large blocks. We will get those public comms out next month before the next all-hand, I should say. And on the, you've been a lot of talk before about the gateway conformance work, we will be wrapping a bow up on that so that there is a public dashboard so that you can see various gateway implementations and gateway instances in terms of how conformant they are. So that will be coming out, that OKR item regarding allowing content that's being offered in the browser to be retrievable from nodes like IPFS.io gateway. We're really pushing forward on that. We should have some good progress to share for the next update. And I guess the other thing I will call out is there's good work happening in LibP2P, enabling LibP2P with HTTP, and we'll be adding that into Kubo so that you can hit the HTTP trustless gateway API by doing that over LibP2P if you would so like. So yeah, good stuff and more to come. Thank you. Let's switch to LibP2P. Thanks, Steve. LibP2P is a modular network stack for PDP protocols, and it's striving to be the library of all Web3 products. Next slide, please. Normally we show our KPIs at this point, but we're going to skip them again this month because we have a whole bunch of new perf and interop metrics coming. And so look for this September all hands to have a new revamped KPI slide. So on to LibP2P highlights. Like I said, lots of new perf interop metrics. We've got new dashboards ready to be made public. There's Steve just touched on it. There's an experimental implementation of LibP2P plus HTTP and an exploratory refactor of IP and I, if you want to try it out, ping Marco. On the community front, we've replaced one of the bootstrapers with one written in Rust. We have a new community contributed hotline implementation of Rust LibP2P, and we're seeing lots of community contributions in JS and Rust. So the community engagement is going up into the right and constantly getting better. I think Marco is going to do a spotlight on our presence at IETF. So we can skip that center column here. We have some sneak previews of the new cool dashboards. And I want to call out that we're getting lots of love for JS LibP2P on Twitter with regards to implementations. Two things to highlight. Lots of security fixes, not lots, but important security fixes were made in go LibP2P recently. And there was a rewrite of quick in Rust LibP2P to use Quinn. I've been assured that this gets us close to a 10x improvement on quick throughput connections. So big improvement there and really that's pretty much it. I think the big call out here is that we're getting lots of community contributions, lots of engagement and the LibP2P community is growing. Our last community call had representatives from eight different implementations of LibP2P on it. So on to Filecoin. The Filecoin is a crypto powered decentralized storage network built for efficient, robust foundation for human latest most important information. Quickly, we are still a very large storage network. We are at 11.19 XB bytes of the storage capacity in the network. Many of them has a lot of data, which we are now at 1.3 XB bytes data stored in Filecoin. We are constantly reaching more than five pips per day from data onboarding perspective. Again, great job for data programs or any community member are onboarding data kinds to store and data on Filecoin. Next slide. Really quick, some quick highlights. The first one, Lola's just published our like July release, which is out with a lot of improvement for ESRPC service provider, storage provider and so on and so forth. One of the highlights that I want to call out is we officially launched the brand new slasher and distributor services. These are essential network services to maintain network security. Filecoin has two mechanisms, which is one of them is consensus thought. The other one is dispute window posts, which are a critical part for the Filecoin as approval storage consensus. And we launched services to allow user to round those, detect the bad actors, call them out. And by doing so, not only your security network, but you're also getting rewarded by doing so. And then the resource for running these services are very low cost. There's a masterpiece down by TP that shared in the loader's announcement channel just this morning. Please go check it out. Call to action here is if you care about Filecoin security as approval storage network, please run anyone. And if you know anyone that participate in the Filecoin and care about your health, tell them this exists now and ask them to run one as well. Right now, as of today, we have four active slasher and 10 active distributor in the network. By the way, four months ago, we only have one slasher in the network, which is concerning. But now we're increasing that amount. And I'm here to give everyone a challenge. Can we try to get that number tripled by the end of this quarter? That would be amazing. So please help us spread the news. Next up, yes, we finally got a date for the next network upgrade for Filecoin. It's codenamed as watermelon, because it's supposed to be very juicy. It's happening in November. Quodam are still evaluating all the fifths and figure out the priority and the scope. Some of the potential highlights are, as mentioned, since the pullback. We are also working actively on direct data onboarding, which from a long-term perspective, we are hoping with FVVM launch, we can have more dynamic different storage market evolve of Filecoin protocol. That's why we want to slowly enable that and less enabling basic storage market other than F05. The first step will be allowing data to be directly put into the sectors without sending a public storage deal via the F05. And a short-term impact for that is storage router can save a lot of gas for PSD message, which is the most costly part for data onboarding today. So I'm hoping everyone would love that. We are working with the DRUN team to slowly switch into the DRUN quicknet. Thank you, Patrick, for offering the implementation for all this. We are also considering to allow SPS to manage their post-stateline so that we can reduce the human operational dev ops costs for SPS, and they can spend money somewhere else. There's a lot of tips ongoing. I have a full list of the links added there. Please join the discussions, provide feedback. And if you want to contribute building Filecoin protocol, let me know. We can use more typing power. And another update, field dev summit is officially settled, and it's coming. I will have more details to share later. Next one is like I take it as challenges, but also opportunities with, as mentioned last time, there's a very interesting conversation going on how we evolve the Filecoin plus as a principle, but also the programs to run to incentive useful storage for Filecoin network, but also provide incentives for people to build in tools to ease a data onboarding process onto the Filecoin storage network. In the conversation, there's not actually a lot of interesting conversation on like what's the Filecoin storage network? What's the Filecoin's mission? People have different opinions on what a useful storage network is. Some people think, hey, useful storage network is when you have the the mind where you have client to pay for storage service. And some people like me, I would actually see Filecoin as a decentralized storage network that can offer very cheap storage for data set potentially has low funding to pay for very expensive storage service. And I love the fact that we have mechanisms to support that free storage like data network incentives. Again, to me, Filecoin is like three years old now. A lot of new people has joined the network. Everyone has different, there are very dynamic business models today in the Filecoin network. People have different opinions and I love that we are having this vibrant conversation in the community. So if you have something to share, please join the conversation. And the whole goal is to build a better Filecoin storage network together. So please, please comment if you have any, if you have any thoughts. Awesome. Super well said. Moving on to our spotlights. And we have a ton of them. So please help us keep it nice and snappy. Starting with Boost V2. Hello, everyone. It's nice to be here. And I'm here to share a bit more about Boost V2, which was released just a few weeks ago. The main change that you'll see in this version is that we've replaced the DAV store with the local index directory, which is powered by Yugabyte DB. And essentially the local index directory manages and stores deal data indices for storage providers. So as you can see in the diagrams on the right, hopefully it's not too small. There's information basically that maps CID to piece offset as well as sector details for the SP. So when one of their clients comes to request a particular CID on the Boost side, the lookups happen via the local index directory and then content can be located and retrieved. There's lots of benefits that we introduce as well. So SPs now have visibility into their storage health and they can identify fog pieces, which require either unsealing or re-indexing. So SPs can have better storage management services here. And it's also the first step we're taking for horizontal skill ability for SPs, especially as more and more SPs are storing client data and their power grows in the network. And we've also removed the dependency on DAV store, which lots of storage providers are running into issues with. So thanks everyone for the great work. Shout out to Dirk, Anton, Mayank, and the rest of the Better Rock team for all the help with this. And you can read more details in the links provided. Thanks everyone. Awesome. Super, super exciting. Over to Sheenan for Retrieval Dashboard. Hello. So Retrieval Dashboard, the goal for Retrieval Dashboard is to get an overall idea of how five coins store providers are performing in terms of retrievability and visualizing a nice public dashboard. On how it works, we have been running Retrieval Workers from five, actually those are actually coming from five different reputation welcome group members, more not joining. It covers, it's actually retrieving from different places across the globe, including China, Mainland area. More information about reputation working group in the next slide. And it is doing lightweight HTTP, graphing, and best wire retrieval. The major use case for it right now is for field plus program quality check, large data set issues, so that at another rate can do the due diligence by visiting the dashboard. It also offers a per client view. So like existing clients like Solana, Internet Archive, they can just use this dashboard to see how well their store providers are doing in terms of retrievability. And for new clients, they can look at this dashboard to see whether a new provider is good at retrieval. Also for store providers, they can take a look at the logs. So to understand how and to troubleshoot any ritual failure and see how will they do retrieval from other places across the globe. So there are a few links below, which links to the repo of this dashboard, as well as Retrieval Worker and the public dashboard. So feel free to look at it. Cool. Thanks. So cool. And also awesome to see all of the metrics in the field plus program increasing in terms of percent retrievability over time as well. So it's working. It's happening. Kero, tell us about the SP reputation working group. Hello, everyone. Thanks, Molly. Thanks, Sheenan, for the retrieval dashboard overview. So the retrieval bots, the five members that Sheenan talked about, there are five out of the 12 members in the ST reputation working group. The other members include Lassie from Batrock, Starboard, PhilScan, PhilRap, Ground Control, and PhilFox.  Currently, there are six T plus unique metrics collecting, you know, reachability data time to first buy, retrieval methods, retrieval success rates, as well as, you know, non-retrieval related, such as location and blocks mined, so both on-chain and off-chain data around the SP reputation. Right now, the reputation database is polybase. We are super happy to be able to collaborate with polybase, which is our PLN, you know, company.  Pretty interesting using our reputation database. One of them being Lighthouse, who is already testing on the reputation database. The long-term goal of the reputation working group is to become a DAO, whereas you can see in the diagram in the right, we have kind of a tokenomics mechanism for the contributors to earn DAO tokens and for the customers of the database to pay in DAO tokens to access the data. That part is still under development. Right now, V2 is launching with Open Data Hack end of August, and it is going to be free to access for now, before we have the tokenomics figured out. So feel free to message me on Filecoin Slack at Carol if you want access to the working group database. Thank you. Super cool. Thanks so much for sharing. I think we have an async update here. Hello, everyone. This is Steph from Sentinel Speaking. Today, I'll be talking about Mercury, which is Sentinel's latest initiative where we try to provide a service for the user-friendly API, serving both historical and monitoring data that Sentinel offers. Mercury Fill is the first client we created for the Mercury project to validate our idea. It is written in Python and was designed to help analysts and research scientists get their hands on historical Filecoin chain analytics data using tools they're most familiar with, such as Pandas and Jupiter, both within the Python ecosystem. Mercury Fill is available to download from the PyPI registry and can be used by people with the protocol.ai email address. The slide also shows a GIF with a demo of Mercury Fill in a Colab notebook. Google's hosted Jupiter notebook service. I've included a link in the slide for you to try out. When you do, and if you do have time to share some feedback, please do so so we can better improve this service for you. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks Steph for the remote presentation. Over to RG for data cap quality. Thanks, Molly. More recently, we've been working on defining what quality usage of data cap means. Right now, it's a combination of three tools. We're looking at retrievability, deal distribution, which is captured by the CID checker bot, as well as the risk and reputation scores, which is currently under development. So you can go to quality.datacapestats.io to play with this graph. But as you can see, as you know, Sheena mentioned, retrievability has been increasing and improving. So we're seeing some upticks there. There's still a chunk of data that is unknown. So we are working on bringing more insight into what kind of, you know, how data cap has been used, but highly encourage everyone to check out this website and support us in our efforts to define quality usage of data cap. Thank you. Awesome. So useful to be collecting good metrics here. Ali, tell us more about Lillipad. Hi, everyone. I'm Ali. I've been helping to build Lillipad, which is developing the infrastructure for a trustless distributed compute network on IPC that will enable this internet-scaled data processing, AI, ML, and other arbitrary computation from the Filecoin blockchain, basically. So it'll also unleash this idle processing power and unlock a new marketplace for data and compute via some of our SPs and anyone else that has spare CPUs and GPUs that they want to earn money from. So Lillipad leverages Bakuyao under the hood. You can kind of think of Lillipad as the incentivized Web3 version of Bakuyao. So kind of like Filecoin leverages, these crypto-economic incentives to act as a persistence layer for IPFS, Lillipad does the same for Bakuyao. So while they share some code bases, they are kind of completely different as well. So we recently released an early test net that you can try out as well, which is called Lullichusa. You can either use this from the CLEE or you can go ahead and use this from a smart contract. And we are also working really hard in the background at the moment to release an IPC version of this test net. We wanted a test net out for all of these Paris events though. So we kind of rushed one out in the meantime that people could use and play around with. So technically Lillipad is being built with these deterministic modules. So AI inference modules are currently being enabled with like kind of a payment per job economic model. Obviously we're only on test net so it's free. But the roadmap is firstly just for these deterministic compute jobs and then run non-deterministic game theory being considered in the future. So we want your ideas as well. Tell us what you want us to add and please like us on Twitter or X or whatever it's called now and we'd love to hear from you. Thank you. Awesome. Next, Singularity, Shelen. Thanks Marley. Hey everyone. I'm excited to briefly introduce Singularity V2. As we know it is the popular data on boring tour network. The V1 has prepared about 100 payback data in the past one year and we are excited to take this tour even further. So V2 started to test just a week ago and if you want to hear more updates feel free to join the Singularity V2 channel. The specific benefit of Singularity V2 bring is to for example the inline preparation it could reduce the disk space for the data propellers but more importantly the improved data making and the preparation module will be served for the project motion and eventually serve the ISV even even better and the V2 also add a dear monitoring dashboard to help the user to track dear status which is a highly requested feature. Shout out to Xinyan Hanna MRC for helping the V2 augmented and if you want to learn more about what V2 will offer feel free to check out those our gable links and our new dashboard. Thank you. That's awesome. I love dashboards. Everyone go take a look and I think this is 100 you know 100 boobs of data. That is probably one of our most high-volume onboarding tools in the Filecoin network so great work making it better. Marco tell us about ITF 117. Hey folks ITF 117 was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. ITF follows many of the same principles we value at PL and they've been doing it for 40 years. I think there's a lot to learn from them and I encourage engineers to attend one of these meetings at some point to see how the standards of sausage gets made. I've written some notes and takeaways it's linked there and I recommend watching oh no my text didn't properly show up. I recommend watching Corey Doctoros. Don't play this video. Presentation at the decentralization of the internet research group. One quote here that I have listed that is hidden behind the video is Corey quote or said like all billionaires Mark Zuckerberg is a policy failure. So if you want to see Corey dunk on the big platforms I recommend that video. Awesome we are now over to our deep dive on Field of Summit. Jennifer do you want to share some more about this awesome two-part gathering for the Filecoin developer community. This is our amazing Field of Summit. Apparently we have an awesome branding set up these days. This is a two-part event that the first part will happen in Singapore only a month away. September 12th to 14th and the second part is in Iceland. September 25th to 27th. We are having two part because PeopleBeautyFilecoin is delivering so many and spread all over the world and we recognize there are challenges for people to offer to one location. So we are having one in Asia and the other one in Europe and in North America so that we can gather all the developers, most of the developers who are contributing to Filecoin and having our very own depth summit. The goal here is to build connections, discuss about the protocol, discuss about tooling, how we can evolve Filecoin protocol, how we can make data onboarding experience better, how can we start working on Filecoin scalability with IPC, what kind of the use case is there, how can we start with compute over data, how can we start to compute jobs on the data stored on Filecoin and also all the retrieval storage is now we are storage network. You get data aid, again you want to get data out. So we are also having a retrieval check over there. Obviously we want to engage closely with the builders that's building on top of FEM and future quickly building on IPC as well just to discuss all the data economy and different kind of use cases that can be enabled on Filecoin. So having two events, it's a lot and can be a lot of traveling. So the way that we are thinking about this is that we are kicking off all the conversations in the part one, which is the Singapore event, start to gathering the problems, try to brainstorm the ideas on how we can resolve the challenges or the bottlenecks that's existing on the Filecoin network today. The second part, we will be quickly releasing all the discussion happened in the Singapore event to the public so that people can leave comments, engage offline as well. And then in Iceland we are going to continue all the amazing conversations, hopefully happen in Singapore and start to align out the future directions, roadmap and what to build over the next couple months. For us, there's also an idea that using this opportunity to hack and then hopefully leading to launches at lab week that we can share with the broader community. Because there are two tracks different, we also realized that there are different audience in different locations for the for the Filecoin community. So we, on the rough side, we have the track guidelines for folks as shared over here. So in the Singapore track will be focused on again for FEM application application use case like buildings. Again, all the content will be shared online so everyone can have access to that. We also want to engage with the SP community to talk about tooling and stack how we can build amazing things for people to provide storage service. It's a focus in the Singapore because there are going to be a DSPA, a long set of our event. DSPA is an accelerator program for SPs to join the network. That's why it's there. And in Iceland, we are going to have specific focus on FEM runtime development, you know, enable different like runtime on Filecoin, like AquaVM, enabling native rust, like what's on runtime so that we can develop like native actors. We want to talk about how to build scalability solutions, computer over data and retrieval stories on the network. In both locations, we are also going to talk about how to build in toolings to ease the data onboarding into the network and also how the Filecoin protocol development can evolve. And we are also going to have governance track to talk about Filecoin plus fit processes and how we want to handle network upgrades in the next couple of months. A lot of things, if you have any ideas on the tracks you want to lead and it's not listed here, we are opening for tracks. So you will see a huge announcement I think later today, very soon, very soon, that to announce the Field Dev Summit to the general public as well. In the website linked here, you can apply for the event. It is an application based event because we want to make sure we are having all the great talent that's focused on development into this event. If you are more like BD, business development or like, you know, marketing folks who want to build a Filecoin ecosystem from that perspective, there are Field Vegas and also in October, and also a couple other events that you can join over there for this event. Again, we are hoping we can have a lot of the developers and talents to join this one. Please submit talks and tracks that you think can be driving meaningful discussions and takeaways along with other teams. Please help us share the news, tell people to apply. I know it's only a month away and we really, really want to get the news to as many people as possible. So please, please, please help retreat, share the blog post, just invite people who you think can be valuable for this kind of conversations and tell them about it. And also we are looking for sponsors as well to either sponsor the event or like sponsor individuals who can travel into these places. So if you have any connections or you know any people that are waiting to sponsor the awesome Filecoin Dev Summit, please let you know. There is a public channel, hashtag Field Dev Summit in Filecoin Slack. So joining there, we are all going to be monitoring that channel. I think I covered most of it. I don't know, Molly, do you have anything to add? Nope. I think that was fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing many folks who are excited about making the Filecoin network stronger, better, more capable and building on top of it, whether that's FEM builders or people who are building Layer 2 networks or people who are augmenting additional tools and capabilities around this ecosystem. Super exciting. I'm also pumped for the protocol conversations. I am excited to jam with folks on the Venus and Forest teams about how we can simplify out really minimal consensus layer and start scaling Filecoin utilizing IPC so we can have regional capacity and data onboarding networks within Filecoin itself. So I think it's going to be some really exciting conversations and big thanks to everyone here who's helping prep awesome trucks and talks and discussions for that venue. Please go ahead and join us there. Start booking your travel because I know time's getting tight and very excited for that venue. And with that, we're at the end of our deep dive. Thank you all for joining.


Hi, my name is Prashant and I'm from IIT Kanpur and continuing with our lecture series on information and communication Technologies. I'm here to talk about blogs. You all must have heard about blogs You must have read about it.  What is a blog and we are here to answer those questions and hopefully towards the end of this lecture You'll know how to have your own blog. So let's come to the word blog blog is a made-up word it wasn't there in the English language till a few decades back and it's made up of two words web, which we understand as internet and worldwide web and log which is Is a diary or a journal entry or a record? So when we take the B from the web and the word log We get the word blog So it can be used as a noun that is a Blog is an internet entity like a website Which acts as a journal or a diary or a canvas to post your thoughts and opinions pertaining to a particular subject matter It can also be used as a verb that means to blog Which means to maintain a web-based journal diary or notebook and Who is a blogger? one person who blogs Now that we know about the word blog we can try and understand it in more details So what are the various kinds of blogs? There are personal blogs in which Blogger may write about his or her own personal life. What's happening? What are they thinking? It can be about anything friends family Relationships your career. So that's a personal blog Then we have corporate blogs which companies and organizations maintain as a way to communicate with Their customers or other people they could be informational like what are the new Advances the company has made they can be To debunk myths if there's a go if there's a rumor going around about the company they can post a statement on their official blog and Counter or discount that rumor then there are genre or field specific blogs You have blogs on data analysis. You have blogs on agriculture.  That means they collect Everything interesting that they find on the internet and they put it on a blog So that blog eventually becomes a file of everything they found interesting on the internet I thought that was a very interesting use of blogs Then there are discussion-oriented blogs some bloggers post questions and ask their readers to comment on those questions and Then there are informational blogs Which are mostly factual in nature for example if I write about if I write a blog about Jupiter So it's an informational blog So now we will try and analyze what a blog is So here we have taken the official Google blog and We'll see what are the various parts of a blog The first part of a blog is the blog address if you go to HTTP colon slash slash Google blog blog spot dot in you will find this blog so every blog has a blog address which is a URL like every website has a URL every blog has a URL Next is the header image the highlighted part is the header image which is there to make the blog look good Then comes the important part, which is the blog title What is your blog going to be called? For example, if you write a book your book is called something the book has a title similarly your blog has a title So here it is called the Google official blog it has to be very simple It should convey what it is about Then you have the blog description, which is a very small summary of what the blog does For example, this official Google blog is about insights from Googlers into our products technology and the Google culture which means Everybody who works at Google is free to write on this blog About what Google is coming up with how are they doing it and what is the life in a Google complex? then The most important part of a blog is the posts itself Which is sort of like a chapter if you if you consider Blogs to a blog to be a book then a post is like a chapter of that book so in this post You have the post title You have the content Content can be text. It can be images. It can be videos The more Engaging the content is the better your blog is So then you have the share widget that means I can share this post on Google plus or I can tweet about it as you must have known and I can ask my Facebook friends to like it or share it through Facebook This is to gain readership. You use Twitter Facebook all those social media tools to help your blog be popular and Then there is a permalink Permalink is the URL of your post blog address is the URL of your blog and permalink For this post is this and a permalink is the URL of your post Then you have some side links which contain your profiles or they may contain tags Or they may be an archive of your posts These all Make up a blog the blog address the image the title description post side links This is the anatomy of a blog Now comes the question why should I blog or why should you blog? you should blog because you have something important to say or You have knowledge to share about your subject You should also blog because it is free you can get started for free and It's a good way to it's actually a good way to reach out and connect to people and get their opinions on what you think and it broadens our horizons and at the same time if your blog is informational You're actually telling people about your subject which might be useful for them Then that's exactly our next point that blogging allows you to reach a large number of people all over the world since it's on the internet anybody present anywhere can read your blog and They can comment on it. So if I'm for example, if I'm writing about agriculture in Uttar Pradesh and a farmer from Or a fellow student Agriculture student from Kerala is reading it then I can communicate with that person through my blog and Maybe we can discuss better ways to talk about agriculture. We can come up with new ways to improve agriculture Not only that I could even talk to people in Germany or US and talk read their blogs on agriculture. So it has a lot of advantages Which is our next point that blogs are interactive you can discuss your ideas and opinions with your readers and If you're really good at what you write if your blog is exceptional it provides very good information then You can even own money by blogging you can use Google ads you can provide ads on your blog and It depends on the number of readers you have and the number of readers you have depends on the content you post So it's difficult to own a very sustainable living By blogging, but you can earn some money by blogging if only if you are exceptional that's our Condition you have to be really good at blogging and then maybe you can think about earning some money How how do you start a blog you can use some free blogging services like the one we just saw that was a Google blogger You can access it at blogger.com. Okay free blogging services are those where you can just create an account and start blogging It's like buying a notebook. You write your name on it and you start writing in that notebook It's as simple as that so you have Google's blogger then you have wordpress Which is slightly more complex than Google blogger, but it provides you with a lot many features Then you have medium it's a fairly new blogging platform and it's been doing really well it but remember that to start a medium Account you need you need a Twitter account So if you have a Twitter account, I think medium is a very good option for you to start blogging And then you have tumblr.com, which is mainly popular amongst young people Then you have your hosted blogging tools in which you Get your own server you deploy your software and you Blog using that software. Of course, it requires a bit of technical expertise you need to be Someward an expert in IT if you are then and you can deploy your own blogs then a ghost is A very good platform wordpress again allows you to host your own blogs on your own service and You can learn more about these at this link that is provided. You can even blog in Hindi It might sound like we can only blog in English because that's all we have talked about But there are a lot of ways to blog in your own language For example blogger.com provides you tools to blog in Hindi I know of a lot of bloggers who blog in Hindi not just Hindi they blog in Russian They blog in Japanese you can blog in any language you want blogging services provide you with a lot of support Depend depending on your readership. You should decide whether you should post in Hindi or if you should post in English if If I'm trying to reach out to farmers of India, I would prefer writing it in Hindi because they are more well-versed with Hindi So you have to decide your language based on what you think Your readers are going to understand So you can check out more at Hindi blogs net. This is another resource that we have pointed out Then what makes a good blogger? It's not enough to just start a blog and just type away at the keyboard You have to be good at what you do if you want sustainable readership If you want people to visit your blog if you want them to keep visiting your blog every now and then and Comment on your post and discuss You need to number one point is focus on the content of the posts. That's The basic premise of being a good blogger. You have to focus continuously on the content of your posts You have to before you write you have to spend a lot of time thinking about How you're going to write what you're going to write and what's the best way to present your thought? So you if you use images or videos Then it keeps the readers engaged. It's not just a big wall of texts. You need to have images in your blog posts the second Important habit of a good blogger is that they post regularly but not unnecessarily Do not write if you do not have anything to write Post regularly think about what you're going to post and then do it. It's not necessary to post daily It can be a weekly blog. It can be a monthly blog. It can be a fortnight blog Just don't post unnecessarily because you haven't posted in some time when you feel like posting and you have a good reason to post do that Engage in healthy conversations with your readers Your readers will comment on your post. They'll give their opinions on the post Talk to them Try and understand them so that you know how you can write better how you can reach out better For example, if I am trying to teach them about something through my blog I need to understand how they understand what I write and as I understand that I will make my blog better They also read other blog there are too many people blogging and it's always Helpful to read their blogs to connect with them if you're good enough And if you think they're good enough you can suggest Other blogs to your friends and the other bloggers can suggest your blog to your to their friends And that that's how a blog becomes popular Of course, you have to work to popularize your blog. You have to use Facebook Twitter and All these mediums to get some readers onto your website and With I think this is enough knowledge for you to go ahead and start your own blog So there's a little self-assessment assignment You can create your own blog and agriculture. We're calling it an agriculture blog And it will be a genre specific blog You can write a post about who you are and what is your blog about? Share the link of that blog Share the blog address when I mean link. I mean the blog address you can share the blog address on the forums in Agmoogs.in You can discuss in the forums about How are you going to popularize of your blog and how are the other people thinking of popularizing their blogs? You can read the blogs of other people So if you engage in these four steps in the coming few days You will get a good hang of blogging and once you think about it a bit more You'll be a very good blogger. So happy blogging and thank you


Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the Commanding General of First Marine Division, Major General Dr. B. Turner June, welcome to the First Marine Division's Commemoration Ceremony of the 80th anniversary of the World War II Battle of Midway. Welcome distinguished guests, shipmates, friends, family, and all of you gathered here this morning to remember America's fallen Marines and sailors of this historic battle. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the invocation given by Commander Greg Keats, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, and remain standing for the National Armed Forces. Shall we pray? Dear God, as we bow this morning in prayer, I ask for your blessing upon this ceremony as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. We gather here today not only to remember a great naval victory, but also to honor the heroes who gave their lives in a battle that would become the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The victory at the Battle of Midway was made possible through the teamwork of US intelligence, shipyard workers, sailors, and Marines doing their duty to the fullest extent possible, and brave pilots and air crew flying through enemy gunfire to accomplish their mission. And I pray that as we look back on our history and think of those sailors and Marines who left families and friends, it even gave up their lives to defend the freedom of the United States that we would be inspired to always do our part and carry on the noble legacy of those who went before us. In your holy name, I pray. Amen. Hug on. OK. Hoot. Can't read. Hoot. Let me hold to you. In October, we observed the New Year's birthday to celebrate this established by the Continental Congress in 1775. And then in June, we paused to acknowledge a moment in modern history where arms that it's faith and trust in our Navy is worthwhile. At First Marine Division, this annual event rests a little closer to our hearts because we can see behind the curtain, so to speak, and into the history that it's not often glorified or understood by most. It is extremely significant to our Navy successes at Midway. The Battle of Midway is often referred to as the turning point in the Pacific during World War II, where the campaign in the Pacific had a momentum shift and our Navy's defensive posture became insurmountable offensive posture. We at the First Marine Division also know that not only was history made at this small island, but modern naval warfare itself was changed and that the strategy behind victory at Midway was something more. We at First Marine Division recognized that while Midway was the turning point in the Pacific, it was also a pivotal point for information warfare. For cryptologic satyrs, Midway is also seen as a moment in history where, again, the Navy proved itself to be both adaptive and cutting edge in how it uses satyr's technical skills and then applies them to the challenges facing our nation and the Navy. To achieve victory in Midway, our cryptologic ancestors demonstrated that they were willing to be both persistent and creative when confronted with each other. Today, as we gather into memory the significance of the Battle of Midway and those who served in it, we also celebrate the battle's evolving legacy. Today, we honor the veterans of Midway and we also honor the significance that Midway plays as a part of our Navy's history. Today, we consider the Battle of Midway's legacy, which was established June 4th through 7th in 1942 and more fighters in the Pacific engaged in battle after having prepared the battle space using the most timely intelligence, calculated the odds given the enemy's order of battle and then confidently moved into the fold after having chosen the terms of engagement. Today, in considering Midway's legacy, we consider Midway's namesake, which was commissioned only three years after the battle itself on September 10th, 1945. The USS Midway served as a home for multiple crews through both peace and combat operations, having served in both Vietnam and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It was only recently, in 1992, after nearly 50 years, we see him in having been at home for nearly three generations of sailors that she was decommissioned. And with us today, as we commemorate the Battle of Midway, we have the next generation of sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines, coast guardsmen, civilians and family members who cannot clearly see before them just how a naval legacy evolves from being in a pivotal moment in history to being the inspiring namesake of a warship that deploys to defend freedom and democracy around the world and to becoming a stable in the Navy's calendar where history is marked and Navy heritage is reaffirmed for generations. Here now, we all can see the importance of why this heritage is deliberately passed into the hands of the next generation who now change the war and must be inspired to find new ways of meeting challenges, of engaging conflicts in this journey which may necessitate their participating in either combat or humanitarian operations either directly and directly or in a critically enabling capacity. As we commemorate Midway, we consider its legacy and its sustainability to inspire us and we wonder if, maybe one day, we, ourselves, will serve as a moment or place like Midway. And we will serve with enough to advance military history or leave a historical marker that is embodied on the home of a proud naval ship. We all should wonder if we will ever serve in such an honorable way that it leaves the war that tears itself into the culture of generations of sailors and their families to come. For now, we have Midway as our market to serve is a strong example of who we are and why we exist so that we will enter the future. Savers and Marines will continue to stop here in June 4th through the 7th of every year and consider how naval legacies are made and why they are tangentially cherished, generation after generation. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the playing of times and moment of silence to honor those who have come before us and have given the ultimate sacrifice for freedom and democracy around the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, to honor those who have served in the First Marine Division, the Division Song of Ultimate Tilda will not be played. The song originates from Australia where the Division Maintain a training base in World War II and prepare for the island campaign. Over the decades, the Division's Marines as leaders have marched off to war to this historic tomb. We ask that those who have served in the Division from World War II to those currently serving in the Blue Diamond today stand to be recognized. After the playing of Ultimate Tilda, we ask all others to please rise for the playing of Anchors Away and the Marine's hip. And we have the commanding general for the...