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by Taek 6y ago
I wasn't able to find great specifications for the 130nm process, but it looks like the difference in transistor size and efficiency is somewhere around 100x. For specialized applications, going from a CPU to an ASIC is usually around
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by Taek 6y ago
I've spent some time in the chip industry. It is awful, backwards, and super far behind. I didn't appreciate the full power of open source until I saw an industry that operates without it. Want a linter for your project? That&#x27
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by Taek 6y ago
"The strength of CRDTs is in that they have extremely well defined behavior and aren't fundamentally reliant on a central coordinator or leader." Very much agree with this. Coordination is a super hard problem in distributed
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by Taek 6y ago
At least for some genes there will be uncertainty whether you got it.
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by Taek 6y ago
Out of that entire list, all of them are either academic projects or toolchain projects. None of them are FHE in use in an actual production system. FHE is interesting but very early.
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by Taek 6y ago
Because of the sheer performance challenges, and the availability of SGX as an alternative, and also the competitiveness of MPC, I think most use cases struggle to justify selecting homomorphic encryption as the best choice. To me, who is i
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by Taek 6y ago
Do we have good data on what happens if you change the IP laws around drugs to reduce the moat that the developers get? A common claim by big-pharma defenders is that if you take away the gouging aspect, drug development will stop. Is there
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by Taek 6y ago
A big element here is that the free market is being choked out. Consumers walk into healthcare facilities without any idea what they will be paying when they walk out, and therefore have no ability to choose one facility over another based
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by Taek 6y ago
GPUs do have much better gate density, and better clock speeds, but the problem here is so specialized that the improved raw speeds of a GPU don't remotely make up for its inflexibility. Additionally, GPUs are optimized for throughput.
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by Taek 6y ago
Ehhh not really. There was some FPGA mining that happened in Bitcoin but it was always niche rather than at-scale. FPGAs are a lot better than GPUs from the perspective of energy efficiency, but the FPGAs themselves are very expensive to pu
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by Taek 6y ago
I mean we only need to look back as far as the red scare to find a modern example of witch-hunting being used for political gain.
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by Taek 6y ago
Most high quality communities have active moderation. And many times, the vast majority of moderated activity is as simple as the mod privately telling a member to chill out or adjust their attitude. Don't need bans or downvotes even,
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by Taek 6y ago
We've literally been brainwashed from birth to believe that we have, by far, the best government that's ever been built. It's a major part of the school system. Cognitive dissonance around the idea that there is room for impr
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by Taek 6y ago
As a campaign topic, yes I believe people should be able to advocate the persecution of homosexuals or the re-criminalization of marijuana. These topics are important to the protection of free speech. Censorship of ideas you don't like
885.
by Taek 6y ago
It's hard to filter out things like being swatted, or having stalkers move to your neighborhood, or having your name known to all of your psychiatric patients.
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by Taek 6y ago
I do not like this example. Advocating to change the laws in favor pedophilia or child marriage is absolutely within the realm of what should be protected by free speech. We've made progress on topics like homosexuality because ideas t
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by Taek 6y ago
Hey, I used to struggle with jaw clenching, nonstop. My masseters were huge, I looked something like a chipmunk and by the time I found a solution I was having continuous daily pain. I realized I needed help when one day I caught myself roc
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by Taek 6y ago
All you need to know is one unique property to slip in a backdoor that nobody else may suspect for a long time. The NSA has given us good reason to question everything they release.
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by Taek 6y ago
The point is that you can do useful, practical modern computing on a 130nm node. It's obviously not going to compete with flagship 7nm processors, but it's not like you are working with commodore64 level stuff. You can run modern
890.
by Taek 6y ago
130nm is nothing to shake a stick at. It may not be able to run Crysis but it should be able to run modern linux and a modern web browser.
891.
by Taek 6y ago
Dementia is actually a decent metaphor for what happens to an aging chip. Internally, a chip is extremely dependent on gate timings. As the chip decays, certain gates or wires will start to slow down or speed up, and the chip gets sloppier.
892.
by Taek 6y ago
Working on privacy tech has taught me that zero knowledge is absolutely critical if you want true privacy. Statistical correlation is stupidly powerful. Identifying someone uniquely in the world requires about 33 bits of entropy. Which mean
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by Taek 6y ago
You can use tricks to reduce this requirement. For example, you access a random subset, and at the same time you randomly rearrange a portion of the data. Viewer can't narrow anything down because you are shuffling fast enough to inval
894.
by Taek 6y ago
Echoing another commenter, it's absolutely okay to be upset about things that run-of-the mill. If we didn't get upset about everyday human rights violations, we'd still have slaves.
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by Taek 6y ago
It's a structural issue. Corporations are designed to extract as much value for shareholders as possible, paying employees as little as possible is a part of that. That includes all levels of compensation, such as awarding shares to em
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by Taek 6y ago
We are in the middle of a national emergency and the IA made an aggressive an panicked move to try and improve people's lives at a time when frankly people really needed help. I would like to live in a society where temporary actions m
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by Taek 6y ago
Who would have thought in 2010 that 10 years from now Google would be a front runner for "most evil and controlling company on the planet" and that Microsoft would be the leading / dominant corporation in open source. I'
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by Taek 6y ago
> If there is competition MS seems to be playing a fair game. I hope it stays that way. The structure of US corporations is such that they are fundamentally misaligned with playing a fair game. Corporations have two types of cycles: grow
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by Taek 6y ago
Sia founder here. The hashing algorithm we use is blake2b. Definitely secure. We do probabilistic proofs, so we have the host provide us a small random sampling of actual data (so the host can't rely on precomputing), plus a proof that
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by Taek 7y ago
Games that do a good job of keeping the arcade format are a lot more immersive. Fact is, VR today can only put you in a single room. So the entire game needs to be build around that constraint to maintain immersion. Space Pirate Trainer is

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