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Given the current administration’s recent market behavior I would not be shocked if people got away with exactly what OP described.

Its inevitable because of capital incentives.

Someone makes money identifying you and selling that data to advertisers.

If your pseudonym is famous/infamous someone makes money / cultivates attention if they identify you.

There is a basic instinct to uncover the unknown.

Unless the above systems are disabled then the drive to unify identity will be ceaseless.

It’s not contrived and starts to touch at the root of the issue: taxes on transactions.

I’m not against taxes to be very clear. Tax something else.

One way of thinking about that is higher order even powers just reduce down to two.

For the purpose of inverting a negative vector, you can think of squaring as rotating the vector around the unit circle, 180 degrees, to make it positive. Higher order powers just keep rotating that vector back and forth- from this perspective the other even powers are the same transformation. Obviously with the magnitude being different.

I mean this kindly, but this is so “engineer brained”

Maybe the game has changed with LLMs, but its been a running joke that engineers will build a startup/product/library/thing only to then realize they can’t get any users and that marketing and sales are hard.

Attention and mind share are more valuable than ever. If you can’t answer “Why should I care about X?” then you are fighting an uphill battle.

I see this line of thinking a lot but lets look at it a different way.

Changing peoples behaviors >cost money<. Using your number here, taxis had a 25% value prop. That was just the cost of getting people to change.

I don’t care for Uber, but many many many businesses give people initial discounts and then full price later

The whole argument is moot though given self driving cars are going to wipe out the industry.

Copilot is the name for the harness / wrapper of MSFT products

The CLI can swap to whatever model (/models) based on your subscriptions.

The copilots on desktop or Office Apps are likely just GPT5 nano or other tiny models with cheap inference

I don't think its innate though - most people I've met can think of higher order consequences or at least understand them.

The real issue is actually measuring results. I think we have to design society to factor higher order effects in. That means a fundamentally new approach to things like voting and tracking accountability.

Is it even possible? Who knows. Sometimes I think our problems have outstripped individual life spans which makes them intractable.

What are the fatalities for e-bikes vs SUVs in the US per year?

Your comment is irrelevant otherwise because last time I checked cars are the real problem, and concerns over e bikes / delivery bots is just another lame extension of “safetyism” and ignorance around public transport failures that just misses the mark.

“Riding in traffic” is half the issue here. Like trying to explain water to fish.

Yesh go to literally any other industrialized part of the world and see how ** backwards the US is on trains

I’ve become quite radicalized on trains after visiting Japan and Switzerland myself.

You cant compare qualia of suffering. At least not with our current technology. Thats the point - they both involve suffering but that doesn’t mean one is inherently worse than the other. The details and experience matter which got glossed over in these stupid debates- hence loss of perspective.

Honestly I had to read the wiki page of false equivalence and you’re not asserting the fallacy correctly.

Zero Knowledge Proof schemes

Applied ZKPs are being actively worked on in the blockchain sphere.

We are not talking about inference.

The prompts and responses are used as training data. Even if your provider allows you to opt out they are still tracking your usage telemetry and using that to gauge performance. If you don’t own the storage and compute then you are training the tools which will be used to oppress you.

Incredibly naive comment.

Spotify only streams 16-bit lossless as far as I have seen (though they claim 24 bit in this post). Might require artists to reupload the audio?

Tidal has much more 24 bit options when I did an A/B.

The dynamic range difference is very material on quality sound setups.

As a side note Bluetooth (at least for Airpods) only does 16-bit!

Your example assumes there would be sufficient liquidity on that bet. The existing platforms aren’t houses or market makers that just provide functionally infinite liquidity on any bets. The “win” criteria on this example is so specific that verification becomes its own problem.

In theory a fun example, but practically it doesn’t play out the way you’re describing.

Wheres the wooshing joke jpeg when you need it

That is not where trust in the dollar comes from.

It comes from stability. Predictability.

Courts and law enforcement certainly provide these things, but they are not required. The inherent design of blockchains makes them trustworthy (an oversimplified statement), which is even better.

The prediction algorithms are so good that indirect behaviors and data can be informative.

You might also be profiled by Google and bucketed into a group of similar people who leak their data. They also went to this website and their YT recommendations became a signal to inform your own.

Not claiming any certainty here just possible ideas.

I was a bit peeved by the title, but I think its a fair use of clickbait as the article has a lot of little details about acoustics in humans that I was unfamiliar with (i.e. a link to a primer on the the transduction implementation of cochlear cilia)

But yeah there is a strict vs colloquial collision here.

Google zero knowledge proofs for verification

https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/

Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part

As someone who prefers iphones…

- iPhone wobble is real. Mostly mitigated by a proper case. Does the iPhone get a better camera in return? Usually in my experience.

- I don’t sort my photos. The semantic search has been sufficient, and I back everything up to my NAS via an iCloud docker shim.

- Chrome/chromium is adware garbage now. FireFox is the only browser I use. The FS API does sound great though. Enviable given how annoying it is to do work on an iPhone sometimes.

And we should be pushing for ZKP verifiable identification.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-ze...

Zero knowledge proof smart contract verification called by the site interested in your age. You provide your public key wallet with its government issued soul bound NFT of your identification.

This can be done, its not that crazy, it just requires a bunch of people to get their heads out of their sand in regards to tech and blockchain, which admittedly might be a harder problem.

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Additonal thought- if you don’t understand what I’m saying or have a negative reaction just plug the comment + thread context into an LLM and see what it says / ask for a clearer explanation.

Short answer is energy efficiency.

All energy on earth derives from 1) the sun or 2) geothermal

Energy is lost as you move further from those sources. Plants converting sunlight directly to usable energy are more efficient than a higher order animal eating another animal that ate another animal that ate a plant.

Now nature normally balances this hierarchy in a myriad of ways that you can go read about yourself.

The problem is humans have rapidly expanded and want to consume more than nature can provide and restock. We have exceeded the capacity for people surviving off animal products.

Attempts to produce more animal products is one of the major drivers of climate change, alongside things like concrete.

It wasn’t marketed that way. It was a throwaway line that became a meme at Ignite back in 2015

It was meant to convey the change in delivery model for Windows updates.

Windows 10 and 11 are the same kernel from a CI/CD perspective, just run winver and see for yourself. The Win10 and Win11 paint jobs are not something the engineers have any power over.

Zero knowledge proofs + blockchain stream payments + IPFS or similar based storage with encryption and incentive mechanisms.

Its still outside the overton window (especially on HN), but the only way that I’ve seen where we can get the benefits of big data and maintain privacy is by locking the data to the user and not aggregating it in all these centralized silos that then are incentivized to build black markets around that data.

Once we have a universal automated judge that can judge any kind of human research output then sure your statement is true,

If you've noticed, most LLM interfaces have a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" response. The prompt may provide novel data. The text generated is synthetic. You don't need an automated judge, the user is providing sufficient feedback.

Same thing goes for the other disciplines.

There is also an argument that we should have fewer electronics too…

I have an M1 for personal use, and recently got a Surface L7 for work. Build quality wise, its the closet thing you're gonna find to a macbook that runs windows.

I also run a custom Windows desktop and a synology NAS, so I like to consider myself mostly agnostic.