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by Vervious 3y ago
We should still expect retail to be alive and well in cities, where people aggregate. The JP Morgan Chase institute report cited by [1] looked exclusively at the impact of WFH and covid. With the pandemic now "over", we should exp
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by Vervious 3y ago
That’s a different argument, though. And it’s a hard argument to make; nowhere in the Constitution does it say “Justice for wealthy people only.” The intent of the Justice system is not nefarious; it merely exists to enforce the law. I reje
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by Vervious 3y ago
You say the intent is different but don’t show why. What about obfuscation implies malicious intent? How come it doesn’t apply to encryption? It can’t be about applications, because I can come up with a thousand applications for obfuscation
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by Vervious 3y ago
For example, we could write a program that hard-codes a secret key, and then signs bitcoin transactions with that secret key, but only if the transaction has value less than 0.5 bitcoin. Then anyone who has the program can sign things of sm
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by Vervious 3y ago
The code obfuscation that DRM implementations use is not provably secure. I don't think anyone would (or should) hide a bitcoin secret key inside of an obfuscated program. There's no formal guarantee of security. This work, on the
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by Vervious 3y ago
I mean, the same argument has been applied to other cryptographic tools. Why encrypt your messages, unless you're sending something sketchy? Why obfuscate programs, unless you're hiding something? Yet I think the utility of encryp
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by Vervious 3y ago
Why? It's not a trash title. Explain yourself, and give us some substance instead of being inflammatory. Indistinguishability obfuscation (plus one-way functions) implies basically every cryptographic primitive there is, including publ
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by Vervious 3y ago
Yeah, I feel like this crowd sometimes forgets that the department of justice exists first and foremost to keep us safe. With PyPi hosting a ton of malicious packages and malware, certainly I am not morally opposed.
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by Vervious 3y ago
Sorting algorithms are pretty amazing, though.
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by Vervious 3y ago
There are improvements in both performance and understandability. On the performance front, see Algorand's consensus protocol (2016 ish), which can run on 10,000s of nodes, using a cryptographic technique called "sortition" w
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by Vervious 3y ago
There's a lot of new results in cryptography/distributed algorithms, motivated in part by applications to blockchains. But even if you don't believe in blockchains they are interesting. - better zero knowledge proofs&#x2F
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by Vervious 3y ago
No no no no no it'll run it to the ground like the USPS, or, gasp, the Israeli postal service (which, coincidentally, also lets you open bank accounts). (We actually have it super good in the states with door to door package delivery.
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by Vervious 3y ago
This could be a cool domain for LinkedIn to move into —— allow reviews only from people who publicly list the company in their profile
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by Vervious 3y ago
Though, P and NP are intrinsically defined asymptotically, so I'm not sure what it means for P != NP for all practical problems, other than saying that something like 80*n^5 is impractical to compute for n=10000, say.
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Show HN: We found a simpler/faster (BFT) consensus protocol(simplex.blog)
1 points by Vervious 3y ago|0 comments
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by Vervious 3y ago
Btw, I think technically if the car is locked, it's also classified as a burglary
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by Vervious 3y ago
A ton of people care about property crime and I don't think you should look down on them. SF has 3-5x the property crime of most major cities in the United States. I imagine most violent crime is targeted (i.e. the victim is not a rand
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Simplex Consensus: A Fast and Simple Consensus Protocol(simplex.blog)
1 points by Vervious 3y ago|0 comments
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Simplex Consensus: Fast and Simple BFT Consensus(simplex.blog)
9 points by Vervious 3y ago|0 comments
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by Vervious 4y ago
SF rent is pretty equivalent? And note that SF spends $604 on policing per resident, vs NYC's $626 on policing per resident
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by Vervious 4y ago
That's only because SF isn't safe, esp relative to rent price. I regularly walk alone at 2:30am in nyc in most neighborhoods.
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by Vervious 4y ago
Big +1 to you.
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by Vervious 4y ago
It’s not every day that a big tech exec gets stabbed and killed. It’s like a bank exec getting mugged in nyc, it just doesn’t happen.
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by Vervious 4y ago
it's actually a very open question, even theoretically, whether we can build an "hard on average problem" from a "worst case hard problem" in NP. This is why we haven't yet managed to design cryptography from 3
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by Vervious 4y ago
I'm confused, what are the takeaways, and why are there 83 upvotes with no discussion?
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by Vervious 4y ago
We have statistics to talk about this sort of stuff. And Twitter revenue, whilst a fraction of that of Meta, is growing, and is currently $5B/yr. To put things into perspective, Tiktok's revenue is only 2x of that of Twitter'
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by Vervious 4y ago
There are a number of mature and thoughtful communities on Twitter. For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under t
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by Vervious 4y ago
And honestly, with how successful 9-9-6 culture has been in other parts of the world, maybe he's right and you can actually run a successful software enterprise without a corresponding bump in compensation. It makes a lot of sense if h
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by Vervious 4y ago
There’s no verified journalists or faculty or domain experts, etc, on Reddit.
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by Vervious 4y ago
What an impotent philosophy. The world moves on from everything. Why bother stalking hacker news if this is not the sort of thing that interests you?

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