Ran out of space on my hard drive again. It's always docker, every single time

Anthropic won't pause AI development. This is a blatant lie unless they fire their whole army of AI engineers. They'll keep working and give strong AI to huge corporations and government while arguing that it's too powerful for plebs to use. Dangerous effective altruism.

... wish I knew this 15 years ago ...

They are now… 🤣

You will never guess from this chart alone the year in which Barcelona stopped issuing new Airbnb and tourist-use licenses. (answer in the next tweet)

layer 7: why specific curves are chosen not all elliptic curves have hard discrete log problems. curve selection is security engineering secp256k1 (Bitcoin, Ethereum transactions): → y² = x³ 7 over a 256-bit prime field → Koblitz curve (a = 0) for efficiency → chosen by Certicom, adopted by Bitcoin early → ~128-bit security against classical attacks BN254 (Ethereum ZK precompiles): → Barreto-Naehrig curve → pairing-friendly (embedding degree 12) → used for Groth16 verification on Ethereum → originally ~128-bit security, now estimated at ~100-110 bits due to improved NFS attacks on the pairing target group F_p^12 → still used because Ethereum precompiles support it and migration is costly BLS12-381 (Ethereum consensus, Zcash): → Barreto-Lynn-Scott curve → pairing-friendly (embedding degree 12) → designed AFTER the NFS improvements that weakened BN254 → 381-bit base field chosen specifically to maintain 128-bit security even with improved attacks → the "12" is the embedding degree, "381" is the field size ed25519 (many non-Ethereum systems): → Edwards curve over a 255-bit field → designed by Bernstein for maximum implementation safety → constant-time arithmetic, no exceptional cases → not pairing-friendly (no pairings possible, which means no Groth16) Pasta curves (Pallas/Vesta, used in Halo 2 and Mina): → designed as a 2-cycle: Pallas's scalar field = Vesta's base field and vice versa → enables efficient recursive proofs without pairings → not pairing-friendly (by design, since the goal is pairing-free recursion) BabyJubJub (used in Circom circuits for in-circuit signature verification): → twisted Edwards curve defined over BN254's scalar field → designed so that curve arithmetic is NATIVE inside BN254 circuits → enables efficient EdDSA signature verification in ZK circuits (~6K constraints vs ~500K for secp256k1 ECDSA) each curve is a specific point in the tradeoff space: → security level (determined by curve parameters and the best known attacks) → pairing support (determines which proof systems are possible) → field compatibility (determines how expensive in-circuit operations are) → implementation safety (determines how easy it is to write bug-free code)

A technical interview is like homework: nobody uses it, everybody hates it, and it is nothing like the actual job! How about giving engineers an issue in an open-source repo? If @FFmpeg merges your PR, you are hired! (inspired by watching the @lexfridman interview; but any open-source project can be helped this way!) Everybody wins! Open-source wins! Employer wins (no more time spent on stupid interviews)! Engineer wins (open-source contribution, good karma from actually building something people use)! You get new problems in a real project. You test collaboration. Why is this not done????

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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

New username. Who dis?

This week is crazy! Ransomeware attacks, Data Breaches & Leaks: OpenAI Oracle Logitech Crowdstrike CodeRED Emergency Alerts (US) SitusAMC > JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley Harvard University DoorDash EU: Let's make everyone collect digital ID data. We must protect the kids 😇

This is concerning how out of touch the education system (or whatever it is that spikes the searches) from the trends in the real world

Getting smarter and smarter

NFTs there are actually more users now than during overhyped peak in 2022. Just way less volume for obvious reasons

It’s incredible we were able to build a fully functional version, a testament to Timewave’s engineering excellence. Everything has been open sourced under Apache 2.0, which can be found on our GitHub if anyone is interested: github.com/timewave-computer

TIL that parameter existed If anyone needs a random one for Meetup that is very helpful There used to be an option to sort events by date. They removed it from the interface but functionality is still there. Simply add "&sortField=DATETIME" to the url of the search page

Can't say why too much about why but I ended up creating a @raycast shortcut / snippet for the word Schrödinger I've been using it that often lately

Today is a joyful day for us! On behalf of the validator POSTHUMAN and our entire community, we want to wish @kromsten a happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 May all your bugs become features, May nothing be lost in addresses, and may something be found, And may only positivity prevail in life! We wish you Endless Will, Eternal Youth, and Physical Immortality! 🦾💜🧬 Accept this gift as a fond memory: omniflix.market/c/onftdenom1…

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