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I don't understand the negativity here. He is a top expert on a security topic. Running Android platform security gives him an opportunity to have incredible positive impact for ma…

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20+2 (conditional support) versus 7. 22/29 = 76% in some form of "yea" That feels like "rough consensus"

(1) in this case, an identity issuer provides the source of truth identity information. Examples include state DMV, your passport (you can try "Id pass" in Google wallet), etc. (2)…

My colleague Amit made a simple video explanation about zkp with Wired. https://youtu.be/fOGdb1CTu5c?si=EyBQS92WyeduIpH- That doesn't explain the way this scheme works, but it's a …

-- ID passes in UK, Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico and West Virginia. -- ZK technology for age assurance.

successive keys on adjacent rows of your qwERTy keyboard

If you owe the bank $10m, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $10b, you own the bank.

See also this thread from yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147914 "Thousands of scientists are cutting back from Twitter" Essentially, a survey published in Nature…

This is a case study for an undergrad statistics or responsible journalism class. * for traffic see the small note "all values rebased to 100" they are likely hiding the significan…

i certainly don't do clickbait. no links to the original or anything. i thought the content was this observation. i'm trying to use whisper.cpp to get transcripts for the older one…

i was skeptical. But these four probably do 100 meetings a week each, many about new deals with new founders. They hear a lot of smart ideas and the best of those are going to leak…

Maybe never...but he had the signal 2 weeks ago in E118.

Stripe charges 2.9% + 30c per transaction. From that, about 1.3% + 5c per tx go to interchange + assessment fees. This leaves about 1.6% + 25c for the payment processor. 14.3 on 81…

Perfectly conceivable that Arvind is punking us all by using an Llm to write that essay. Very basic stuff for someone who usually has subtle points to make.

A Turing Award winner (keeping it anonymous) related a similar story to me about his phd qualifier exam (when I was taking mine). This winner is a theoretical computer scientist wh…

I totally agree with you. The hutli experience is also very special for different reasons.

low season, long weekend, 1850chf. We are a family of 5, and in Switzerland, that means 2 hotel rooms x 3 nights. Staying in Zumthor's cabin is certainly a splurge, but marginal ut…

+1 even more so, because I could see the small flaws and gaps that Zumthor may tolerate in a personal dwelling, but may not fly in large-scale projects. Lesson for me: perfection i…

-- Indeed, we didn't want to support that hotel, which is why we stayed in Leis. I'll add that to my post. -- Like everything in Switzerland, it was easy to reserve spots online. I…

1-- First snow of the season occurred our first night. My memory is that the walls never felt cold. We started a fire using that granite cylinder fireplace. You pack it with about …