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This is what Word is to most people. They just use the default styles, or their company's template. No special formatting, styling etc.

Also if you do want to add a table or a figure, for most people Word will be much easier than doing the same in Markdown.

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falcor's point is that we will see this in 5 to 10 years.

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To be honest I don't really read insults either in this e-mail or in the thread you linked. If I'm seeing it right, there's only one comment by the guy in that thread, right? That comment is direct and uses language that may be considered unprofessional ("crap"/"crappy"), but it's not insulting the users (they are not referred to as crappy). Same for the e-mail.

Unnecessary drama as usual...

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They answer the second question quite clearly in my opinion:

    It requires only brief one-time physical access, which is realistic in cloud environments, considering, for instance:

    * Rogue cloud employees;
    * Datacenter technicians or cleaning personnel;
    * Coercive local law enforcement agencies;
    * Supply chain tampering during shipping or manufacturing of the memory modules.

This reads as "yes". (You may disagree, but _their_ answer is "yes.")

Consider also "Room 641A" [1]: the NSA has asked big companies to install special hardware on their premises for wiretapping. This work is at least proof that a similar request could be made to intercept confidential compute environments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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You're twisting their words. For the second question, they clearly answer yes.

It depends on the threat model you have in mind. If you are a nation state that is hosting data in a US cloud, and you want to protect yourself from the NSA, I would say this is a realistic attack vector.

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It's a bit more fundamental in my opinion. Cryptographic techniques are supported by strong mathematics; while I believe hardware-based techniques will always be vulnerable against a sufficiently advanced hardware-based attack. In theory, there exists an unbreakable version of OpenSSL ("under standard cryptographic assumptions"), but it is not evident that there even is a way to implement the kind of guarantees confidential computing is trying to offer using hardware-based protection only.

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You must be joking. When I try to log in on Outlook I get redirected to 'microsoftonline.com' (suspicious), when I log in on Wikipedia it sends me to something called 'wikimedia.org' (typo squatter?). How the hell am I supposed to know whether npmjs.help or rustfoundation.dev are _not_ the official domains of those projects?

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When notpushkin said "the spec is still at XSLT 1.0", I think "the spec" is referring to the WHATWG HTML Living Standard spec, which only refers to XSLT 1.0. (It wouldn't make sense to say "the XSLT spec is at XSLT 1.0".)

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Do you think an AI could come up with novel answers that a human wouldn't be able to come up with? I think humans could not just come up with answers to these questions, but some people would be able to greatly outperform AIs by using knowledge that is not widely known.

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To be frank, if you die, isn't it much more likely your friends and family will just stop using your homelab setup? They'll switch back from Jellyfin to Netflix, replace the smart light bulbs with regular ones, etc.

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To give a concrete example, matrix multiplication is not commutative in general (AB ≠ BA), but e.g. multiplication with the identity matrix is (AI = IA). So AIB = ABI ≠ BAI.

Or applied to the programming example, the statements:

    1. Server.accept
    2. Client.connect
    3. File.write  # write to completely unrelated file

123 = 312 ≠ 321.

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This is just an analogy used by the article to explain the Fiat-Shamir transform.

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But look at the questions:

"Does my use of AI lead me to neglect my personal hygiene, nutritional needs, or physical health?"

(compare with: "Does my eating of vegetables lead me to neglect my personal hygiene, nutritional needs, or physical health?")

"Have my digital behaviors jeopardized my studies, finances, or career?"

(compare with: "Have my healthy living behaviors jeopardized my studies, finances, or career?")

All questions are about negative impact on your life. To me it doesn't matter whether you label it "addiction". If you answer yes to most of these questions, whatever the subject, it is severely affecting your life.

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I would say all questions except maybe the first one, are about impact on your personal life: "late into the night", "whenever I have a free moment", "personal hygiene", "personal relationships", etc. So if you answer yes to them, I don't think you can use work as excuse; it is affecting your life outside work.

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My grandma did not have a microwave oven because she didn't see the point of it.

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But isn't that the same as saying: what about all the horse carrier drivers who lost their jobs due to cars? What about all the bank tellers we lost after inventing the automated teller machine?

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This is what I was going to post. It helped me a lot by first giving a very intuitive understanding of the concept of ZKPs using the Where's Waldo/puffin-among-the-penguins example, but then also going deeper with the graph-coloring example.

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Then you do that part yourself. You let AI automate the 20/50/80% (*) of work it can, and you now only need to do the remainder manually.

(*) which one of these it is depends on your case. If you're writing a run-of-the-mill Next.js app, AI will automate 80%; if you're doing something highly specific, it'll be closer to 20%.

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I think OP meant "revealing" as in "enlightening", not as "uncovering something that was hidden intentionally".

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I was going to reply that this is pretty common for web apps, e.g. NodeJS or many Python applications also do not use multi-threading, instead just spawning separate processes that run in parallel. But apparently, HN ran as 1 process on 1 core on 1 machine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548) O_O

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