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by dlubarov 2y ago
Exactly - we sample uniformly from an extension field, so entropy is proportional to the extension field size. The base field is almost irrelevant from a security perspective, since things like the Schwartz-Zippel lemma just care about the
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Right - in case it's not clear to all, the square root metric Vitalik mentions is about measuring both proof size and verifier complexity. Neither the prover nor the verifier is doing any square root computations.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
I recommend Alan Szepieniec's series of posts for a clear, direct mathematical description of how they work - https://aszepieniec.github.io/stark-anatomy/ Vitalik also has this more informal series of explainer po
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by dlubarov 2y ago
I've been following the Screams Without Words story and I don't think it's really comparable to something that was basically confirmed to be false. The NYT stands behind the report > We remain confident in the accuracy of
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by dlubarov 2y ago
I don't really take issue with publishing the allegation (it's credibility might have been lacking, but that's difficult to judge), just quietly yanking the false information. Wouldn't any legitimate news agency do some
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Some propaganda goes beyond selective disclosure of facts, like Al Jazeera uncritically reporting questionable claims as long as they're anti-Israeli, and failing to retract the ones that turn out to be false.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
That seems a bit misleading. According to Wikipedia, there were two founders, one of whom worked in the Intelligence Corps until 1988.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Banning Armenia isn't really an apt comparison since Israel isn't banning all media from Qatar, just one particular news organization which has very deep ties to the enemy they're at war with.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Few questioned Ukraine's decision to ban RT's operations. This doesn't seem terribly different - Al Jazeera has very deep ties to Hamas, the enemy Israel is at war with, and has arguably been acting as their mouthpiece for pr
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> then publicly updated that to say that a Hamas investigation had called her credibility into question I don't think there's much of a question, the claims were just fabricated, according to Hamas themselves. By "publicly
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> As a longtime Windows user, Windows is a privacy and security clown show. I'd argue this is because it lacks proper sandboxing, not because it lacks curation. > A better so called "anti-monopoly" solution would be to
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Looking at FRCP rule 37, it uses language like "reasonable steps to preserve" electronic information, and "intent to deprive another party of the information’s use". I'm no expert, but it does sound like this might
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by dlubarov 3y ago
I think it's just a matter of semantics - "model" usually refers to a neural network or some similarly pure, deterministic computation, or so I thought.
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by dlubarov 3y ago
There are basically two approaches to on-chain inference: consensus-based approaches (several parties run inference and give a claimed result), and zkML (one party runs inference and proves the result cryptographically). zkML can be done us
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by dlubarov 3y ago
By targeting civilians, do you mean killing them? If that was Israel's goal, why would they need facial recognition? Facial recognition suggests selective targeting; if the goal was to kill civilians wouldn't they just carpet bomb
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by dlubarov 3y ago
> Israel is a annulling any distinction between a civilian and combatants, and treating the entire civilian population as combatants, including by employing dubious mass surveillance tactics. By dressing soldiers in civilian clothes, Ham
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by dlubarov 3y ago
It would be fine if companies were extremely clear about it, saying “the car is $30k, but the average customer ends up paying an additional $2k in subscriptions for basic features”. Or “the phone is $1000, but most software will be more exp
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by dlubarov 3y ago
Hey I briefly worked on that feature at Google! It looks like it's now known as Fast Pair - https://developers.google.com/nearby/fast-pair It's not part of AOSP, but something modern Google phones support. It
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by dlubarov 3y ago
Isn't ChromeOS secure because of sandboxing, not because of curation? And isn't the situation similar with iOS? I wouldn't really expect Apple's curators (or automated analysis) to reliably detect malware, but I expect t
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by dlubarov 3y ago
Alternatively we could use hash-based signature schemes which have been proven secure under certain assumptions about hash functions, such as SPHINCS, or ZKP based schemes along the lines of Picnic (Picnic in particular uses LowMC which is
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by dlubarov 3y ago
When you say they were not active combatants, what do you mean by that? If they were retired (which seems unlikely) that's one thing, but if they were just not on the frontlines, that wouldn't make them them illegitimate targets u
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by dlubarov 3y ago
The IDF at least claims that two of the names there are militants: https://t.me/idfofficial/6370 > Mustafa Thuria, identified in a document found by IDF troops in Gaza, was a member of Hamas' Gaza City Brigade,
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by dlubarov 3y ago
On the other hand “journalists” and UN workers aren’t disjoint from militants or terrorists. We just learned that UNRWA employees took part in Oct 7.
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by dlubarov 3y ago
What’s the alternative? Just no response and wait for Hamas' next attack?
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by dlubarov 3y ago
A new entrant wouldn't necessarily need to compete worldwide; they could exclude any jurisdictions with regulatory or payment integration challenges. The easy path to PCI compliance would be to use something like the Stripe iOS SDK and
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by dlubarov 3y ago
What kind of costs are you thinking of? Payment processing could be significant, maybe 3% or a bit more if the average amount is small. But isn't that about it? Like bandwidth becomes essentially free at a certain scale, but even if we
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by dlubarov 3y ago
I think it's useful to separate these scenarios - 1. A user knows they want to install a certain app; they do so using the app store since that's the only method Apple allows. 2. A user discovers an app while browsing the App Stor
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by dlubarov 3y ago
To add another anecdote, Apple refused to honor the warranty on an AirPod Pro with sweat-related damage. Nevermind that it's supposed to be "sweat and water resistant", they seem to treat any kind of liquid damage as user err
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by dlubarov 3y ago
ChatGPT estimates around the total warhead sizes of rockets from Gaza to Israel at around 200,000 kg. Maybe that's off but let's say 100,000 kg, and say 10,000 kg of that wasn't intercepted. Still seems like significantly mor
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by dlubarov 3y ago
I disagree that dumb rockets are more effective. Hamas, PIJ, etc. have only managed to kill 28 after launching something like 20k dumb rockets. There are many examples of modern precision weapons causing more deaths with a single strike.

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