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811.
by Taek 6y ago
This story falls apart a bit with Filecoin because you need to attach them to 128 GB of RAM and a high end graphics card to do their storage proofs. Secondary markets for drives may appear to close the gap a bit though.
812.
by Taek 6y ago
Skynet is now a viable alternative to IPFS. It has much of the same functionality: upload a file, get a 34 byte link back, and now that link can be retrieved by any Skynet node. It's got support for things like webapps and HLS, and for
813.
by Taek 6y ago
Quantum computing does not defeat modern encryption, as long as you used an algorithm like AES or Threefish to protect your data, you should be safe from the quantum apocalypse. (Other really important things fail though, like digital signa
814.
by Taek 6y ago
Current plan is to support opt-in moderation. Users can subscribe to banlists or curated lists (which could be machine generated) which filter content. If a user doesn't like their moderation/filter, they can swap in a different o
815.
by Taek 6y ago
We're working on a decentralized app platform that mechanically is unable to kick devs off. Its early and doesn't have a monetization layer yet, but it's our goal to provide developers and users alike with a home that will ou
816.
by Taek 6y ago
What should really happen here is that the Sacklers should be put on criminal trial for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. And every one of the executives, and even the management tier below the executives. A fair trial will decide who i
817.
by Taek 6y ago
I don't think we need to be that charitable. Seems well in line with the Amazon ethos to proactively control the narrative around them in online discussions.
818.
by Taek 6y ago
Easy to forget this. Before Snowden, any claims I made to my family and non tech friends of government surveillance were met with incredulousness and had me branded as a conspiracy theorist. Snowden vastly changed the conversation for every
819.
by Taek 6y ago
As someone who went, I'd say most people were there for the same reason as me: 1. When 2 million people on Facebook say they will go to a thing, you know some fraction will actually go. 2. We were hoping it would evolve into something
820.
by Taek 6y ago
I was at Area 51, which he covered. And while his video was very entertaining, it did not represent at all what it was like to be there. AGNB is exceptional at finding the crazy people and encouraging them to be themselves on camera. 98% of
821.
by Taek 6y ago
The challenge with standards is feature creep. Example: amd64 One day Intel goes and implements instructions which support video decoding. And then Microsoft takes advantage of them, and now users have a better experience. Now open source c
822.
by Taek 6y ago
Wouldn't it be better to have standards that weren't so complex or more readily lent themselves to security? A big part of the browser mess that we are in comes down to just how much you have to do in order to support all modern w
823.
by Taek 6y ago
> But what if you didn't have to implement all of them? People will very much tend to prefer using browsers that are fully capable. If your browser only works on 90% of sites, that's not good enough to keep users, it's exh
824.
Reducing Latency 96% by Switching P2P Platform Skynet to a Multiplexer(blog.sia.tech)
3 points by Taek 6y ago|0 comments
825.
by Taek 6y ago
I've definitely had zero luck emailing this address, tried for over a week. They tell you to log in and then they close the ticket.
826.
by Taek 6y ago
I had this same issue with CloudFlare. Lost access to my email account. Had my CloudFlare username + password, but CloudFlare insisted that I verify with my email since I was trying to log in from a new IP (it wasn't a new IP, but mayb
827.
by Taek 6y ago
The original idea for this tax structure is for land. Namely, a piece of land can only be used for a limited set of purposes at a time. As a society, we want land put to valuable use. We don't want a piece of super valuable land (could
828.
by Taek 6y ago
In the case of devs it's not just staying in the same place though. You get more complete frameworks, more analytics, better ad engines, and faster development pace. It might not be what we wanted, but it is a benefit
829.
by Taek 6y ago
It's a mutual thing. The Fast and Furious franchise draws from the car culture in America, but the car culture in America also draws from the Fast and Furious franchise. If the director had chosen to highlight slightly different aspect
830.
by Taek 6y ago
The discrepancy is fully explained by variance. Some of the results that went into computing 1.424 had less than 20 samples, which is not enough to get a precise answer for such a highly variant task. That doesn't necessarily mean that
831.
by Taek 6y ago
Thanks for the changes! Interestingly enough, it seems to have had very little / no effect on the growth rate. Nice to have the precision in the outputs. Run with 5 million iterations per size: 15 size: 2514.4287536 steps (1.413 growth
832.
by Taek 6y ago
Not going to break immersion for me if guests are casually cheating. It's nice to see: 1. guests wandering around randomly - every part of the maze is regularly visited if the maze is busy 2. guests being not hopeless at actually solvi
833.
by Taek 6y ago
For a proper fix they would probably want the guest to remember places they had been previously and bias against those places.
834.
by Taek 6y ago
In the video, Marcel Vos essentially runs a monte-carlo simulation to try and figure out the growth rate of adding more elements to the maze. Though it is true-to-life, it's also very computationally inefficient. Based on the logic pre
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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video](youtube.com)
785 points by Taek 6y ago|131 comments
836.
by Taek 6y ago
That's why it's the platinum rule. There are people who genuinely attempt to abide by this rule and they can be great assets to a community as long as they are not getting trampled over.
837.
Trademark Law Does Not Require Companies to Tirelessly Censor the Internet(eff.org)
4 points by Taek 6y ago|0 comments
838.
by Taek 6y ago
I would argue that secure enclaves do not exist in practice. You have to assume a physical device where the private key cannot be extracted and the operation cannot be observed. The threat model is much weaker than for FHE, and imo not real
839.
by Taek 6y ago
> Imagine a 17 year old robs a bank and steal 100k from the savings accounts of random people. I think that's a great comparison. But it's not an armed robbery, it's a break-and-enter where no property gets destroyed. How
840.
by Taek 6y ago
Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me. Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in

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