This was a great post, one of the best I've seen on this topic at HN.
But why is the cost never discussed or disclosed in these conversations? I feel like I'm going crazy, there is so much written extolling the virtues of these tools but with no mention of what it costs to run them now. It will surely only get more expensive from here!
It's worse than that, BF6's anticheat is kernel level and requires the Windows-only version secure boot to be enabled, at least on my motherboard. There is no way I'm going to faff about with my BIOS when rebooting just to play this game.
I play around with a Guix install in a VM, and with less than half of my system resources, a `guix pull` with a `guix system reconfigure ...` takes about 10 minutes. That said, if a pull happens to include a kernel update it can take much longer. I think pinning large packages (like the kernel) that may not need incidental updating is key to keeping pull times lower.
Brand loyalty might matter when the cost of a good is relatively low and the availability high. I can basically choose between coke or Pepsi anywhere, and they cost about the same, so why not go with my favorite?
For airlines availability with a preferred carrier is not guaranteed, and prices can vary wildly. Do I have so much brand loyalty that I will pay perhaps 2x the cost? Like most people, I wouldn't.
In terms of availability and cost, LLM providers are much closer to Coke than to an airline.
Not entirely true, there are other PKE and DSA algorithms that were/are a part of the competition that used problems not related to lattices. However, the lattice-based options were often among the fastest and smallest.
This is super exciting for me, I am very interested in MPC/PSI but I haven't been introduced to much about it outside of academia. A ton of potential applications obviously but limited by computational power, as I understand it. Would you mind sharing what company(ies) you work with/for? If you can't or don't want to disclose publicly you can email me: [email protected] or [email protected]. I would love to hear more!
I've implemented a toy version of a 3+ MPC protocol for graduate school, specifically private set intersection. Would you mind sharing what kind of MPC protocols you design and if you can for what types of applications? I don't often see this discussed on HN and my curiosity is piqued!
Would you mind mentioning who you use for hosting/email/domain registration? I'm doing research for a large migration and I love hearing what works for others in similar situations.
Love it. I don't love using LastPass, but I don't want to deal with the rough edges of KeePass either. Looking forward to the Android app. +1 for autofill API.