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Nice ! I have a fun survival challenge: the swiss Via Alpina hike in Minecraft !

Quickly did the math. The real trail is ~390 km long, with 23,500 m of elevation gain and 14 Alpine passes. I found that Minecraft walking speed is 4.317 m/s (1 block = 1 m), so that's ~25 hours of continuous walking, or ~33 hours assuming 75% movement efficiency for terrain. That's one Alpine pass every ~2.4 hours, and a new hiking-stage destination every ~1h40!

The same is happening with AI-written codebase. You don't read AI written code, you ask an AI to explain it to you. Not that it's either a healthy place to be...

> I do not understand the demand for such a device at all.

You can have TikTok and Instagram-Reels opened at the same time... Don't you want that ?!

> Up to 2x faster gaming performance with ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition when compared to Mac mini with M4.

Interesting that Apple quotes performances when playing Cyberpunk 2077 ! Maybe they will want to care more about gaming ?

And while i'm at it, I was wondering a few weeks ago if I should try this game on my M3 pro. Anyone has played it on Apple and has feedback ?

I'm not an expert either, but i've studied it a little and tried some of these stuffs.

First, the attestor is not google. Google here only provides the infra (to generate proof and verify them). Let's call the attestor the issuer, and it's the trusted authority that gives you a proof of identity.

A possible flow is:

1. (pre-req) Some issuer (a state, bank, mobile operator, etc.) issues a signed credential to my wallet (stored on my phone, for instance). This could be a full digital ID, or a narrower “proof of age” attestation.

2. Later, a site asks my browser for a proof that I satisfy some predicate, e.g. age >= 18. The site provides the "zk-program" (circuit) that needs to be executed, and awaits for proof (which are essentially proof of executions of the program on trusted yet undisclosed inputs).

3. My phone generates (ideally locally, but not ready today yet) a ZK proof that it knows a valid issuer-signed credential whose hidden attributes satisfy that predicate. Essentially, it is executing the circuit with some inputs (some are public, like public key of issuers, some of private, like the issued ID)

4. The site verifies the proof against public inputs: the issuer public key, the circuit being used, the predicate being requested, and a fresh nonce/challenge.

So to answer some of your questions.

> Does the site know who I am? Not from the ZK proof itself, it will know who has issued your ID.

> Does the site know my attestor? Yes, it knows their public key.

> Does the attestor know what site I am visiting? No.

> Does the attestor know who I am? Yes

> Do I know who the site and attestor are, and when proof happens? I guess there are multiple possible ways to do this, depends on the UX.

While I appreciate all the stuffs mentioned here, I believe they are missing something: people should *go vote at all the elections*, and advocate for a system-level change. Systemic resilience instead of personal habits.

Pretty much all their suggestions are to be applied on personal-level. And I agree with those. But they could be made 100x easier if there was some help provided by localities, municipalities & states. I'd love to know better my neighbors & exchange skills & objects, but i'd be much easier if there was a *free* repair-coffee in the neighborhood.

One example from the article: one of the suggestion for "hope for the best prepare for the worst" is "start a local repair cafe". But come on ! With what money ? With what time ? Where ? Opening a repair café is the kind of stuff is by nature non-profitable, therefore the business of the states.

All i'm trying to say is: let's just not forget that this is a political concern, and we can vote for these stuffs.

> ML assistance reduces our performance and persistence, and denies us both the muscle memory and deep theory-building that comes with working through a task by hand: the cultivation of what James C. Scott would call

Imagine being starting university now... I can't imagine to have learned what I did at engineering school if it wasn't for all the time lost on projects, on errors. And I can't really think that I would have had the mental strength required to not use LLMs on course projects (or side projects) when I had deadlines, exams coming, yet also want to be with friends and enjoy those years of your life.

Interesting project. Is the main value to "self-host your own ngrok", or is it to actually compete with ngrok using an open-source project ? If so how do you intend to monetize your project ?

> Useful if you need to compile Rust on a shared hosting server from 2008 where the only installed runtime is PHP.

Not sure if it was meant as a joke or not, but this cracked me up