skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. As opposed to the standard PKI where the system generates an X.509 certificate which is then trusted by your system by having the authority registered, our system relies more on live generation of Public + Private keys and securely sending the public bit to the Zalter servers during the authentication process. The service providers would then retrieve the public key as they're presented with signed requests, and verify the said signature to ensure the user is who they claim they are and the request is in fact coming from them. Meanwhile we do aim to have an X.509 solution as well, the current design is indeed allowing the app server to not have to rely on cookies / oauth and other similar things.

2. https://discord.gg/HFPnS3M7

3. Thanks for pointing that out. The correct text should have been something along the lines of: We only hold the public keys and the identity ids in our own database. All the other associations are to be held on the service provider servers.
Accessing the database of users can be made through your dashboard in your zalter user: https://dashboard.zalter.com/

4. It is being actively developed although we haven't had a whole lot of time to write blog posts as we have focused our efforts into developing the product main feature. We're currently writing more blog posts and show more activity.
Are there any major free/OS projects for which (2) is different? Some projects accept next to no third-party diffs, other projects will accept documentation diffs as eagerly as code diffs. I've never heard of a project that is happy to take code but not docs.
Yes, the webcam situation in Linux has been degenerating for years by now, as many laptop models and specially everything that is an ultraportable or convertible has switched to IPU-based webcams. I have multiple laptops from 5 years ago where the webcams don't work and will likely never be able to work under Linux.

Basically the main difference is that with IPU-based stuff the kernel must support not just a "webcam"-like device, but rather must contain support for all the individual components making up the webcam. Think not only actual raw sensor hardware, but even stuff such as controlling the shutter and voice coil motors directly.

The situation is similar if not identical to a smartphone where the OS interfaces directly with the raw camera hardware instead of like in traditional computers where it was all abstracted in the form of a USB UVC webcam. In fact, some of the newer sensor drivers are adapted/stolen from Android kernels.

Many, many laptop models come with IPU3 hardware, which is around 7 years old hardware at this point, and it is still mostly unsupported in Linux. In fact, practically _all_ the support in current Linux comes from the efforts of one guy who has been trying to make the Surface Pro line of devices work under Linux ( https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-S... ). I have had some success with these patches (which are now mostly upstream), by manually writing/converting from Android kernels/HALs the required sensor drivers in my laptop, but the image quality was just garbage. I don't even know how much image processing is done software-side on Windows.

Intel has published code, but not bothered to upstream it; Google, who is using this hardware in some ChromeOS devices, only cares about ChromeOS support which does things just too differently to Windows devices (e.g. basic things like enumerating which camera hardware is connected). None of the big OEMs is behaving nicely here.

IPU4 appeared more recently and is basically entirely unsupported. There is zero upstream support and don't bother with the out-of-tree driver since it will be a waste of time (you also need the drivers for the specific hardware sensors used in your laptop + the "pipeline configuration").

IPU6 is probably just a newer iteration of this. I don't know if it will have a bit more developer/manufacturer oomph and thus more Linux support than previous iterations, but even if it does, it's highly likely that all existing laptops with IPU hardware will never have a working webcam in Linux.
> One of the most blatant I'd call out is "studies have consistently shown that between 60-90% of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria". That's is a horribly inaccurate statement

Your comment doesn’t do what the parent poster asked, which was to show examples of the bigotry you claim. Why is it inaccurate?
What's that got to do with the possible need to adjust to changing climate by living underground or semi-nocturnally? I made no prediction of what level of technology we'd have. We may will simply find it provides a better mode of existence.
This made me realize that 'saving the planet' is actually 'we need to save ourselves and in order to do that we need to save the planet'. The earth and mother nature will certainly adapt (which they already do!) with or without people.

Fun insight, thanks for that!
An anecdote of why we should be comfortable with not idolizing any moral figures and yet respect whatever good things they've achieved / done. I guess this dichotomy of how broken men / women can also do great things or how great men / women can also do bad things is something we have to deal with in the real world. Could I point to DC Comics for some simple life lessons on that?
Perhaps controversial, but I agree with kelnos in that in order for a safe and secure society, sometimes we need to set examples and be stricter with our punishments.
Which part of the “big industries” would you target first, in order to make a bigger impact than the 2% that air travel represents?
Wow, that's a massive accomplishment! Do you plan sharing your code?
> the Dreyfusards who defended reason and believed that France’s identity was defined by the abstract principles of equality and liberty.

This makes sense as long as you don't think about it for longer than 30 seconds. Is every country, every person, striving towards the abstract principles of equality and liberty then "French"? Did being French hold no meaning when they were still a monarchy? Was everyone on the wrong side of the French revolution then not French, but some other nationality?

And is Jewish identity likewise meaningless outside of a commitment to some abstract principles (and if so, which ones?), or do they, unlike the French, get to define it with other criteria, such as kinship and shared history?
What's the point of that? One of the benefit of having a FOSS platform is that you can keep supporting and updating hardware and software that in the normal proprietary economy would have been abandoned a mere few years after entering the market. If instead of pushing for reverse engineering we simply made more and more people buy Linux-compatible devices (which still doesn't mean they'd run FOSS) we would have a humongous amount of perfectly fine hardware locked down and unable to be properly used.
The World’s Roads Aren’t Ready for a Hotter Climate
You wouldn’t think 90cm would be deep enough to cause too much trouble initially.

But imagine the cleanup.
If you're making an argument for the less fortunate surely the effects of climate change will hit them hardest?
Cool, so will the relevant wiki page, which is almost certainly both the most linked to and most desired page for almost all "thing" searches, go back to being result #1 instead of buried under content farms, copyspam, and Medium trash?
If you get bored, skip to slide 28.
Inappbrowser.com Check if an in-app browser is injecting JavaScript code
I think this is basically similar to the ideas of Stoicism.

Happiness itself is fleeting, it will come and go, you can't really aim for it, we are awful predictors of it and as you state it's an emotion so it comes an goes.

However we can strive to achieve a certain comfort, or tranquillity from knowing that we did our best, that we did what we could and what we should and gain a certain satisfaction from that.

That is much more rounded, it's more achievable and stops you from being at whim to the randomness of the world and your own moods.
I’m mostly worried that they’ll disable the “old.reddit.com” trick to get the old layout. Finding information in reddit threads is a complete chore with the new design, which only a few comments displayed at a time.
For what it's worth I don't think an incident like that would have played out any differently if it had occurred in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester or London.
Hey!

It's still in development. I built a proof-of-concept from scratch almost a year ago, which I just open-sourced at the following link.

https://github.com/nonoesp/note-parser

I intend to develop it a bit more and host it online.

A previous prototype, really barebones, is at https://expensed.me.

The idea is to drag and drop (or type) a plain-text note and visualize the data as a scatterplot or other charts.
Privacy fallacy: there is difference between state and commercial surveillance
That could be something like "debuger = 0" in the prod config. It's preferable to configuration drift.
And with the possibility of having the measures in metric.

Otherwise, it is almost useless for most of the world.
I wonder how many alcohol related deaths per day a city the size of London has on a typical day.
Saying a river of whiskey sounds interesting but it was more likely that they drank pure alcohol or it was simply contaminated from the journey through the city.
I'm not sure this whole drive towards 'original content' makes sense. It encourages people to make long rambling pages that don't get to the point

In fact it seems like Google worked better when wikipedia was almost always the first result on various topics

What I mean by rambling is if you type something like "types of oranges" and suddenly land on a page where some dude is clearly just filling up paragraphs for google like "so you want to learn about oranges? an orange is a great type of fruit. here's a bunch of text about oranges being described in historic literature"
Would “startup culture” be more accurate?
DMCA notices are unpopular with the crowd here, but when your content is plagiarized and other people are profiting off of your work, I'd recommend the following workflow:

* Use Copyscape and perform automated plagiarized content detection.

* Automate the sending of DMCA notices to Google and the website host (using captcha solving services, if necessary).
What the Hell Is Happening?
My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.
We are more in the mode of "deploy cerrion at your most critical production vantage points and we tell you when, why and where deviations happen". This mode doesn't require any consulting, because that every manufacturer knows their critical points and our tech doesn't need manual customization. We will focus on processes where this is always applicable and consulting is not needed to be able to achieve fast growth.

The analysis of quantifying potential jams points and surfacing targeted improvement areas is smth we are already working on given that this can be done automatically in the customers dashboard by running some correlation analysis on our detections
> Last year, we kicked off a series of updates to show more helpful, in-depth reviews based on first-hand expertise in search results.

I find myself searching <product name> + "review reddit" to find real honest reviews. My anecdotal experience is that everything else is written by content creators who are given the product for free to use for a few days/weeks/months w/o going in depth.
The use of "bug" to refer to an operational problem goes back to at least the mid 19th century. I vaguely remember an article where the author found reference to getting the bugs out of the design of a carriage.
Silicon Valley is a location, startup culture is everywhere
Listening to the average engineer presenting makes it really hard not to fall asleep. Reading the average engineers email it's often hard to find the point they're trying to make.

I think communication should be taught more in undergraduate engineering curricula.
Shell scripting is just one option for scripting, some popular (and IMO better) options are Perl, Python and JavaScript.

I'm sure there are also people who use C for quick and dirty tasks. Seems weird, yes. But if that is the language you know best it may be the fastest in the short term.
cnr.it is a domain which belongs to the Italian Research Council, and that subdomain seems to be a blog by the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems.

These are not scammers, it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one. Probably it wasn't even meant to be public. But because of the prestige of the domain, it becomes first in relevant searches.

If you track down the author and send him a quick mail, I'm 100% sure they'll help.

I've worked at CNR.
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
>Can't wait for people pairing their ipods to a friend phone ...

They already do it for Apple tv+ (like every other modern web based service). When you login on a new device, they send a code to your phone. Enter the code, click "remember device" if you own it or leave it if it's your friend's, done. Either way, you get an alert with the location of the login. No reason we can't have this for hardware.
Thanks, I'll try that and let you know once I have my first bank
Yes. In fact the entire javascript toolchain that HN is always bemoaning is there to make sure that an application runs on 15 year old browsers just fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Declaration_concerning_..., signed by various countries, but never ratified.
Maybe if you're only looking for a 2 liner to uncritically copy and paste...
Good riddance. I remember being forced to do this as a kid and knowing full well it was a waste of time and that my life would be spent with keyboards. The only time ive ever "needed" it was exactly once to write that paragraph they make you reproduce in cursive for the SAT, which makes no sense in the first place, as though the weight carried by an attestation is modulated by the font it's rendered in.

Now i feel bad for my colleagues who were diligent students and learned cursive. They are stuck with handwriting that becomes increasingly illegible to the general population with every passing year. The only benefit it offers is being marginally faster than printing, but still vastly slower than typing. People are so used to reading print that i would argue cursive is becoming regarded as somewhat unprofessional.
Think of the batch-search performed as „one secretary“. You either need to take what that search offered you, or you need to wait for the market to change enough in order to perform the next batch-search.
The not boring trajectory of Not Boring to 145k+ newsletter subscribers
Read "you" as "originating bank" and "call up" as "send SWIFT message".
I can't understand why people believe the people being able to make the more noise about a topic are actually being the best at that topic.

The reality is that the people who get the more noise are just the best marketers
Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?
I'm confident we can have both; industrial-scale monocropping is the bad one. We can do better with farming and land management techniques going back hundreds of years, but that cuts into short-term profit margins.
archive.org and domain records appear that it didn't expire and that they deliberately stopped using it a few days ago

they purchased it late 2000
You also answered the GP's question as to why we should care about this.

If you're reading and seeing multiple stories all over the media about what a wonderful, altruistic person someone is, the information as to whether that person is in fact a great guy, or whether he's a predatory scumbag who is exploiting the media to make himself look great is very valuable. It tells you something about how the media works.
More and More above the fold content is coming from google sites.

That’s not gonna change.

Especially if you’re searching for local services above the fold will be ads then maps listings.

I get it. But that blog post is some 1984 shit. Hahaha.
A review of Andy Dunn's “Burn Rate” (mental illness in startups)
Credit cards are effectively a second bank account in the former and in the latter "credit card" and bank account are merged as one.
Because it was gamed.
Is it? The headline just states a fact; it doesn't tell you how you should feel about it.
How does TC launder money? It's a privacy tool that hides the origin of cash, but when you cash out through an exchange you still need to prove the origin of cash. It's good to avoid others snoop through my wallet though.
> senior engineer

> been a professional engineer for 6 years

Man, the software world is just weird.
Got bad news for you… it’s a huge outlet for content writers.
> people took pride in their handwriting

A handwritten letter was often how others got their first impression of you, so you had external motivation for caring about it.
It makes sense when you’re a slick lawyer appealing to technicalities, but in reality users don’t know how their devices work and where borders of an app are. If tiktok was a restaurant, we would talk about its restroom surveillance here. It may not collect too private information like passwords or messages, but the doubt is reasonable.
>There's one side of the lake where there are lots of houses and hotels, where it would make sense to have a lodge like this. The side he wants to build his lodge on is the other side.

One of the key parts to building an isolated compound in case of societal collapse is that it is isolated.
The cookie law is not implemented as a browser function but something that operators need to implement if they want to legally track users. It's an annoyance because each implementation is different and every website wants to track users. If EU went after Web browsers and made them implement the legislation as an API, we would have had tracking prompts like location or camera access prompts and probably kill the tracking industry in a similar way Apple killed App tracking with their tracking prompt.

In the case of UIWebView/WKWebView (AKA the browser within an app that can access web data), this can be implemented by Apple as any other data access prompt like location data access or App tracking access for example.

Apps like to track user data like user location too but thanks to Apple's implementation of prompting the user first, they need to have a legitimate reason to request that information.

So, I guess, apps can claim that they need to access web data to provide some service(like widget, sign in session to transfer the login into the app etc) and users who want that can accept the requests and those who don't can have peace of mind.
Rapid Prototyping with Julia: From Mathematics to Fast Code
Because you've already formed an opinion (Maybe you've read articles saying "The one moral CEO in America" like the grandparent) and you want to correct it if your prior opinion was incomplete.
I don't want to read the times article, it's just going to be more accusations and conjecture without proof

And even if I did, and decided I don't want to let my daughter near him based on the rumours, I would certainly not slander him in public based on rumours
I have a delicious and baseless armchair theory that intestinal worms served as a great way to distribute gut bacteria among a close-sleeping community of humans.
Wikipedia doesn't run AdSense.

Content farms run AdSense.

Google algo updates have revenue as one of the core metrics.
Completely agree. I took matters into my own hands with my laptop. Wasn't able to reverse engineer everything but I got many features working on Linux and the result was better than the proprietary Windows app.

I wish I was knowledgeable enough to tackle more complex hardware like webcams. Perhaps one day I will be.
The more desperate one side of a conflict is the more extreme their actions can be. And they’ll always justify it.

Most people are against inflicting human suffering but sometimes it’s not so black and white.

Right now we can look at Afghanistan for an example - huge humanitarian disaster going on but world powers think by giving the cold shoulder then can soften the Taliban.

There isn’t a clear cut right/wrong here imo.
> Judging by Asahi, FOSS will be fine.

Or rather: based on the results of other contemporary complex hardware RE efforts, Asahi will never be relevant. Think of _how many GPU hardware_ there have been efforts to RE, and how few have produced any drivers that people would be happy to use on a daily basis. How many people use Nouveau these days? PowerVR SGX (a "GNU high priority project" from a decade ago!)? Lima? Even Panfrost?

In fact, this entire IPU webcam thing is not new. We've had hardware with IPU for at least half a decade and literally _NO_ such device works with Linux, only a couple devices half-work, and very poorly at that.

There are much fewer people working on hardware support on Linux that you may think.
I feel like these "back stories" will get even more important for a high ranking if Google prioritizes "content by people, for people"
Maybe we’ll finally get recipe pages where the recipe isn’t buried under 2000 words of drivel just to bump the SEO score
Your take is that having sex with someone who you believe to be asleep is ok if that person has chosen to sleep in the same room as you and to take cannabis?

This is obviously rape apology.
It's just another hoop to jump through.
Forming an opinion is great and everyone's right.

Nowadays, exactly the same process you describe, is used to cancel people without proper chance for them to defend themselves. So I would be double careful with "multiple accusations", amplified in mass media and/or social media bubble because this is exactly how mob virtually lynches people in 2022.
This is true; it's no wonder that a lot of people in the arts (or explorers like climbers) come from wealthy backgrounds.

For most of us, music or climbing is a hobby that needs to be fit in somewhere in their normal schedules. And when it comes to IT, writing, learning, and things like open source are often also spare (sparse?) time activities.

Which is a shame, I like to think I could write decent blog posts or even books but I never have (or take) the time. I have a passing hobby in music but that too never really takes off beyond noodling.
Ask HN: Do you believe in the right to a trial?
The U.S. Constitution and every state Constitution clearly states, in multiple places, that all citizens have a right to a trial if accused of a crime.

My question is fairly simple. Are there any crimes, technical like piracy, hacking, etc. Or non technical crimes the Government can accuse a citizen of doing that everyone would agree that we would collectively ignore that basic, almost millenium old right first defined in the Magna Carta.

With all of the violence and division, threats to weaponize the legal system against political opponents etc, Do you still believe the Govt should prove its case in court?

The reason I ask is that I am familiar with a situation where the Govt has accused someone of a crime and all levels of state and federal law enforcement, etc has all agreed this person is basically dead already, has never been arrested for anything, and will get no chance to defend themselves in court.

So in summary, is this a situation you would agree with, whether the Constitution in your country guarantees the right to a trial or not.

I hope that makes sense. Thanks!
Britain’s path to economic and national renewal is the genome revolution
Ideological Bias in the Psychology of Sex and Gender [pdf]
Then they should have simply ignored the signal, not canned the feature
Looking forward to this being able to run in the background, and be controlled from a tesla-overlay plugin.

I assume it's inevitable, with the fervour of people in the switch homebrew scene.
My impression is that this update is specifically about deranking those types of pages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Research_Council_(Ita...