first order zero knowledge proof system (zk-stark), it works on android, macos, linux, webassembly, vulkan/cuda backend (metal coming), but the composition polynomial evaluation is suboptimal so i am working on that now
zero-knowledge proof framework to prove for example that a bank has the necessary funds, or for a loan application that I make enough without revealing how much
It'd break if you wanted to do the dumbest thing and just not stream the windows users aren't looking at; but lowering the stream resolution on the fly could work but now involves more complexity (on both sides to communicate when to adjust the resolution) and because it's not handled entirely on-device breaks the illusion of it being invisible.
I can also imagine it having some weird privacy implications; like Mac apps somehow monitoring this and tracking whether you're actually looking at them, etc.
If you're OK with rendering everything at high resolution (and then choosing what quality to send over) then you shouldn't have any privacy issues, assuming that this part is done by the OS.
Well, on both of those points: (1) Net Zero is to be expected, not applauded. You mess up the planet as a side effect of becoming obscenely rich, then you put it right, sorry no star. If anything, we should be pushing for them to go well beyond Net Zero. (2) I think that's a fair question and a fair point. It might make for an interesting Hackathon though! What could Google do to alleviate the effects of war, or encourage peace? Who knows. But spending your time working out how to help people buy cool sunglasses isn't going to make much headway there.
I know this sounds dismissive and cynical, but I mean it genuinely: a Google hackathon focused on the problem of war would do as much to solve that problem as releasing a new feature to make it easier to impulse buy sunglasses.
> we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason
That is easy to say when you have everything you need. People whose grandfather's land was stolen have no other recourse than to wage war against the occupation.
Even if they don't own it, should they not still fight for it? Is it not their right to murder the descendants of those who live on the land that their grandfathers once lived on?
Let us assume that I live in a country that your grandfather fled. Now you want to move to that country but the government will not give you citizenship. Nor did your grandfather not your father not yourself receive citizenship of the new country you are in, and you were even born in that new country (like your father before you).
What options do you have other than infiltrating my country and killing me?
Wars are never waged just to wage wars, they are a means to an end: territory expansion, access to resources, religious reasons, whatever. It’s nonsensical to say humans should wage more or less wars. I get wars are unpleasant and cause suffering. Shooting someone in self defense is unpleasant and causes suffering too. But sometimes it happens to be the right thing to do.
in theory some publications are available as torrents, in theory they are in batches zipped together and in theory one could, by requesting certain parts of the zip file using a crafted torrent client, download only the publication they are looking for, in theory
That your heads immediately go for "races" when talking about overpopulation says a lot about the emotional weight and biases you have and that you are not making a good faith attempt to discuss.
Not defending OP. But whenever we talk about overpopulation the conversation will automatically shift to limiting some races to have offspring. (Even you commented on incentivizing poor communities to not have children. Guess who is going to be disproportionally affected by this).
I don't think that overpopulation is a problem today. Population collapse due to concentration of capital and power is.
...where do you think there are the highest suicide rates? In the rich neighborhoods? Which neighbors do you think the accumulation of capital and power is hurting the most and will continue to hurt? You are not damaging the comunities by paying them to have less children, unless you value life but not the lack of suffering by such lives.
Our carbon footprint would be an eight fraction of what it is if there was only 1 billion people in the world, current state of climate change would still be decades away giving us a bit more time to gradually change course, and consentration of wealth and power would be less dramatic as the workforce will be more limited (supply and demand for money itself).
talking as someone who is building such a system, why would an avarage participant of the network give their own money, i dont think they would for the same reason i'm not running a bounty program with my dollars,
the only use of having it on the blockchain is rewards without using your own money (so it's economics depends on the eventual value of the coin), for that it has to be bound to the minting process, but a purely algorithmic system for determining who gets how much based on their proofs seems elusive (think of the infinite possible proofs 1+2=3, 1+3=4...), we are going for having a central authority doing the minting for proofs (as voting based on money would hardly reflect mathematical experties)
I'd like to personally put 5-10 bucks toward the solution of the Collatz conjecture, just for fun (and to see machine learning people grind their GPU-teeth on it).
No idea about the minting process, there seems to be an infinitude of possibilities.
I am in a such a "meaningless" pickle myself, I have never imagined that hard tasks with strict deadlines are a breeze compared to this, it slowly but surely chips away my will to live, even though on the outside it sounds wonderful
The best encouragement I have for this thought trap is to not put your career on a pedestal, and instead find the things you truly want to progress in or enjoy and focus on those.
In my case, despite being a programmer, I am a creative type. I have found that I routinely need:
- 1-2 hours per week playing an instrument or writing
- A date with my wife that is scheduled like a meeting that I cannot ignore or cancel
- A secondary (or 3rd or 4th) project outside of work, where there is a clear goal and progress is measurable (indie game dev for me)
Given how much time we (have to) spend working, I’d also recommend getting a more satisfying and meaningful job. People shouldn’t remain stuck in a bad place.
well for their definition of tech "approaching zero cost", the only tech companies are pure software ones, the cost of manifacturing a rocket can hardly approach zero
https://theorium.org/constraints.html
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