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Hi HN!

I’m Dick Hardt[1]. Over the last twenty years, I’ve led the design of identity standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT) and systems that you and billions of others use every day.[2]

You know that these systems don’t always work in your favor. Each is bespoke and most, if not all, of your identity is locked up in these silos. I called this out in my Identity 2.0 OSCON talk in 2005 where I popularized a user-centric identity vision.[3]

Unfortunately, we have failed to realize the vision of user-centric identity: of giving you control of your identity. We have far too many passwords. Identity theft is rampant. Online interactions are either tedious or risky. In short, internet identity is a disaster today.

Most proposals today to give you control of your identity require you, your applications, and the issuers of claims about you (such as your bank or government), to adopt a new technology - a three-sided cold start problem.

I founded Hellō to take a different approach -- an abstraction layer that lets you use the technology and identity you already have -- that’s operated by a not-for-profit co-operative.

The Hellō journey did not start with building a product -- it started with exploring how to resolve the risks of a central service, and finding organizations aligned on the vision. Once three industry-leading organizations joined as founding corporate members of the co-operative, we built and tested our PoC, our MVP, and then our developer console.

Hellō is available for you to use today. We have a demo at https://greenfielddemo.com. Several apps use Hellō today, and many are exploring adoption. If you are building a new app, you can tick off most of your identity tasks in a few hours if you use Hellō. Details at https://hello.dev

We’d love feedback on your experience.

In contrast to other identity service offerings, Hellō does not help the developer manage and store user data -- Hellō helps the user manage their data and share it with the developer.
The Hellō business model is to charge (in the future) an interchange fee of a few pennies for each new verified claim the user releases to the application. There is no MAU fee. No fee for authentication. No fee for users. No fee for issuers.

We expect you have more questions.

https://www.hello.coop/pages/approach.html describes:

- Our approach

- How the cooperative works

- How we’ll fund Hellō with smart contracts

- Our guiding tenets

- How we protect people’s privacy

- Our architecture

Thanks for reading and trying! Please share your questions, impressions, criticisms, and requests!

Want a more personal interaction? I am hosting an AMA on Twitter Space later today (Wed Oct 12) from 4-5PM PT.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyxBqvnmAyJN

You can also email me dick.hardt@hello.coop

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickhardt/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hardt https://twitter.com/DickHardt

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6750, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E
StackOverflow's (and many other forums') solution to search noise is to avoid duplicates.

There are a few major issues with that approach:

1. The question asker probably doesn't know there clearest way to phrase the question, so they are ill-equipped to find duplicates before asking.

2. The question asker may ask a totally unique question that really ends up boiling down to a duplicated answer. Does that mean their question was simply an abstract duplicate? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, usually something in between.

3. The solution to a question asker's problem is often the answer to a totally different question. So their problems get answered, and their question goes into limbo. Now the next person dutifully searches the original question, and must waste time reading the answers to someone else's problems. Then they go ask the question again, and it gets marked as a duplicate!

---

So what can we do about it?

I think the answer is actually more pedantry, but with better paths. Give the pedants somewhere satisfying to go.

In situations where the asker's problems were answered, but the question is not, the question should be rephrased/edited.

In situations where a duplicate question is asked, just merge them.

In situations where a duplicate answer is given, have both questions clearly reference (link to) each other. Maybe even structure answers as separate objects that questions can point to.
If we are talking about a highly competitive situation, like hiring, then going by this line of thinking there can be no "benevolent sexism".

Any sexist or racist prejudice will either be against one group (women are so weak), leading to a disadvantage for them; or benefit one group (Asians are so good at math), leading to a disadvantage for everyone else. Both are leading to discrimination based on gender or race. Calling one of the two benevolent is just a bad name.
Nope, that's their full-size fifth generation aircraft, a two seater.
look at Western architecture. over the course of the last century, our most expensive constructions have gone from beautiful detailed brick buildings to (in my opinion) awful uniform brutalist and modernist slabs of concrete and glass. white walls and big windows

because of a wave of extremely poor taste in the post-war architectural community, many of the skills required to make those older style buildings are gone or no longer common. it's easy to see something like this happening in ancient Egypt. perhaps the Nile delta didn't fully flood for a few years, or there was a bad war. or it just became too expensive to use the old techniques and they died out
This feels inevitable. When you chase growth infinitely ads becoming more appealing over time.
Yeah, right, I was not specific enough on this one. It'll definitely go beyond GitHub, extending to some other git solutions, but we don't have a decision whether it's "any" public repo or public repo hosted on the service from some list (like, GitHub, GitLab, Gitee, etc.) We'll look into it later on.

gitlab.gnome.org - I'd expect it to be all open source, right? Open source program should cover such cases.
> The Wikimedia Foundation is still small as far as charities go

That’s just a damning argument against most charities. Like, you can say “the US is still a good place as far as human rights go”, yeah, ok, is it a good reason to stop talking about rights?
Not in Haskell at least. What ML language are you thinking of?
so, modular? :)

crud app with frontend + backend is not distributed, but it definitely is client/server architecture

but that's just nitpick, iirc "distributed" means something different in their context
I'm not sure if you're imploring us not to read the article because the title sucks.

Or admonishing us for not reading the article, because we've misunderstood it based on the title.
Can't wait to have hybrid meetings in these. It's sitll a hustle getting a mic and cam working
That is one of things people do not understand why "Twitter" Customer service is different than regular customer service

Twitter "Customer Service" is marketing budget
>> I have lost hope in Ubuntu. They should just complete there merger with Microsoft and get it over with. So many distros outperform Ubuntu with a fraction of the resources.

Ubuntu could be rebranded "Microsoft Linux" and WSL2 could begin full integration into Windows. Windows would really become "Windows subsystem for Linux" which would be a proprietary, fully-working version of WINE for compatibility with old Windows software. It has been speculated in the past, but it might be the future.
Clayx ships with MicroG and almost every app works with no problems.

GrapheneOS has a GMS install option, but it installs it as a non root service, so you are still going much more private than stock Android.
Interestingly, Monterey Bay Aquarium is located on Cannery Row (see their address, it's right at the end of the street).

Cannery Row used to be the site of extremely unsustainable sardine fishing. They used to pump sardines out of the ocean with essentially fire hoses. Until one year there just weren't any. People would ask "where did all the sardines go?" and the answer was "they went into cans".

It took over 50 years for the fish population to recover but the fish canning industry went extinct there first.
Automated dependency project health analysis
With Zuck watching.
Seems very grey-area. Would definitely not want my credit card details to be on their list.
So I tried it out. I own a CLion license and have been using Jetbrains products since IntelliJ 3.0. It seems ok, but very very VSCode-ish.

I tried it with our Rust codebase and it seemed to be fairly competitive with CLion in terms of analysis. I didn't try any refactorings but I did notice that it doesn't have many of them. It was fairly snappy, felt more responsive than CLion. I was disappointed that even after I switched it to "IntelliJ" keybindings many keybindings still were more like VSCode than IntelliJ. I.e. Ctrl-N was still "open new tab" and not "jump to symbol" (have to do ctrl-shift-alt-N for that.)

Overall, I guess I'm curious where they go with it. I won't be trading in my CLion license, though. I am probably not the target audience; I suspect they're looking to capture customers who work in large corporations where VSCode is getting penetration as a hosted/fleet solution. With the default keybindings I suspect those coming from VSCode will find Fleet very comfortable.

For myself, I continue to give Jetbrains money for their IDEs, because as a company they do great work and give good value. I'm happy to modestly help pay the salaries of their employees. I wish them luck.
That's a hard one. One part of this deal with Microsoft is making the Microsoft Game Pass available to the new Quest headset purchasers. But due to the price point, they're marketing the new headset at businesses, not end consumers.

It's like none of the departments within the Quest group are talking to each other.
Apple doing a 0 to 100 on ads is pretty remarkable.

Bold prediction: Apple will increasingly turn to services to maintain revenue growth as people don't upgrade their hardware as frequently because hardware innovation is also slowing down.

On a similar note, Apple will find it hard to move into VR because it'll never be a big enough business for them but a make or break for Meta.
You seem to be much more knowledgeable about this than myself. But I was under the impression that while large climate models are used to infer the extent and impact of a changing climate, they are not actually an important component in determining climate change caused by carbon emissions to be a real phenomenon.

No other hypotheses about geophysics are required to show realistic and fault free simulations of the climate of the planet over several centuries to be generally accepted. Why should we apply such extreme prejudice to the hypothesis of climate change caused by the greenhouse effect? The basic mechanisms is quite simple and well understood, there is a variety of kinds of measurements supporting the claim that the temperature of the planet is increasing (meteorological temperature measurements, glaciers disappearing etc.). Full understanding of all the geophysical processes and feedback loops involved is not necessary, and very likely impossible.

I also have a hard time understanding the motives for such an enormous scam.
Who would stand to gain from this except a relatively small number of researchers and the renewable energy industry? On the other hand, it's well documented that the fossile fuel industry has tried to sabotage climate science for the purpose of limiting political action on the issue.
Very few people operate against ethics, virtually everyone considers convenience (or, in other words, non-tangible use cost).
Bollocks. Various major cities were supposed to be underwater by 2000, then 2020. Sea levels have risen a few millimeters at most.

Or can you dig out some of the ones you have found to be accurate? Here's one that wasn't:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-na...
Maybe unvolontary sexism ? There s a difference between the base macho sexism, embracing the gender divide, degrading women as sexual consumption near-objects, and the simp putting women on a pedestal so high he d even rather they don't speak so they dont break his illusion.

It's sexism in both ways, but there's an interesting difference in how to tackle them I think.

Raising a daughter myself, I'm sometimes lost: should I tell her so often she's cute, should I instead vindicate her physical strength, should she do karate or dancing or both ? It's hard to navigate when you know there's a problem, that you're probably part of it and you have a responsibility to try to fix it for your daughter.
The 'real world' is not immutable, and even the current system has not existed for a particularly meaningful amount of time.
What do you do when you find out that you make more per ad-tier user than you do for ad-free user[0]?

The incentives go in the wrong direction from a UX perspective

[0] https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/hulu-makes-about-15-in-reven...
> lobbyists are merely revealing the very real preference that Americans love using single use plastics.

Citation needed?

So are you saying that it is the consumer that drives demand for single-use plastic? The massive cost reduction for the manufacturer has absolutely nothing to do with this push?
What internal work was he posting?
Not a song I'm familiar with. Thanks!
It is.

If the default project manager barfs out all of that - ??? and all - when you write a simple hello world project with a failing test...

Well I'm not filled with confidence. If you discover such a lack of care at that early of a stage, god knows what it'll be like when you actually start solving problems.
How would you steelperson parents argument?
Neal Stephenson sure makes a compelling case, even if the world he describes is in many aspects a dystopia.
So, then compare them at a similar position?

A side-by-side screenshot of iOS 7, when this design was introduced:

https://i.insider.com/5df902c5fd9db27769749a5f?width=1300&fo...
https://archive.ph/Wc2VX
You like oranges because you have never tried something better like Guavas. Sure, oranges have vitamin C, but not a lot. Check out this benchmark and see for yourself: https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/vitamin-c-foods.php

- "But I never said anything about vitamin C"

What about that oversized restrictive packaging that is only useful if you also have a knife? Let's be honest here, nobody even eats oranges, they make juice. Let that sink in for a moment. What the fuck are we? Five-year-olds? Guavas are edible straight from the tree, just grab this bad boy, stab your crooked veneers into it and let that substance with the superior amount of vitamin C flow all over your mouth.

- "... You're talking about juice? What?"

Well, since you're insisting, take a seat there, Peter Pan, 'cause I'm about to blow your mind: guess what else Guavas can be besides clearly preferable over oranges? They can be juiced. It's not only for advanced users. They really put some thought into that beginner's journey.

Look, I'm gonna be truthful with you, people see you with oranges, they know immediately you're not serious about your tropical fruits. Be better. Get Guavas.
> "benevolent sexism" (no, it's just sexism).

Huh? "Asians are good at math" is still racial stereotyping, even if it's not negative.

>(equally "men are bad")

No, read the wiki again.

>mm, almost like it's ironic. or something. So blatantly obviously ironic,

mfw 4chan so irun.
Yeah but the effect is that there really isn't one.
Try paying cash for your phone and get a data plan from mint mobile or Google fi for $15-17 per month. you will save money.
We are not ready to share more details on pricing yet, but we are working on it. Will share as soon as we have it!
[JetBrains employee] In the future Fleet will be able to update itself. Right now, we use Toolbox App as it can do Fleet updates easier.
As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?
I understand the argument you are going for, and agree that we must obviously consider the role of culture, but it's not plausible to claim that the capacity for violence is equal. The comparison with ethnicity is flawed because in the case of gender you have clear physical differences, the most notable of which being that the majority of women would have much difficulty physically overcoming the majority of men in life or death situations, barring superior tactics or weaponry. If, say, the propensity of each gender towards violence was identical, this mere fact would already provide a culturally significant imbalance.

I'm not sure what research you are pointing towards, but I sincerely doubt that the propensity for violence is identical, either. Consider the following scenario: a person points a gun to your head and tells you to pick a person at random either amongst all of the women or amongst all of the men (let's sidestep the question of gender neutrality for the sake of the argument) If the person you pick has an aggressive and violent psychological profile, you are shot. Which gender would you pick in this situation to maximize your survival? Would you sincerely rely on your intuition about equal capacity for violence in this case?
Your modification is actually harming the responsiveness. What’s there already handles responsiveness perfectly, whereas your alterations break the whole point of the exercise, bleed, as well as breaking column centring.
I like Eno, Eluvium and Helios and these are some artists that have similar music I’ve found that I didn’t see mentioned so far:

Ryuichi Sakamoto (sample piece: solari)

Roedelius (sample piece: A Short Walk in the Hills)

Vangelis (sample piece: Memories of Green)
> But I don't see how VR can really reach the masses.

The same exact way every technology gets adopted by the masses: it gets cheaper, faster, and better. I really don’t understand why people are suddenly forgetting this tenet of technology. Oh and btw Meta isn’t the only VR company. Despite the name, meta cannot fully own the metaverse since it’s essentially VR over the internet. I still don’t understand how so many technical people can fall for the marketing
UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage
They should have included a way to kill it after the experiment was over.
Server-side rendering aka SSR is back bae
3 gigs for a web app :crycat:
There's some responsibility on the questioner here, though. If you're on an ancient legacy system, say so. If there's a reason to go down something that'd normally be a horrible practice, explain a little about why.

99% of the time when someone on SO asks "how do I decrypt a password hash?" the correct answer is "you do not, being able to do so is very bad" because it's a common newbie point of confusion. 1% of the time it's "hashing isn't encryption, you want a form of reversible encryption for this particular use case". At no point is a user going to get a "how to reverse a bcrypt hash" answer.

Every once in a while the questioner gets pissy about both of those correct answers, because they're so focused on the answer they wanted they can't understand the problem.
our graveyards will
If white people want to learn about racism, fail to know French and try to work in Quebec. Black as soon as you open your mouth…
I don't think this is the case. The point of science as one commenter pointed out is a lack of trust (or faith). Hence the need for pages and pages of sources, concerted efforts on reproducibility, etc. In certain fields reproducibility is extremely important and a single scientific article should be taken with extreme skepticism until it's reproduced several times. I think this is the thing that's often skipped. A single article being published in a journal is not a sign of changing times. If there's no attempts to reproduce it we have an idea of something, but no idea if it works (really). Often times this lack of reproducibility is associated with so-called corporate "science" (Phillip Morris, from another example I posted).

I hesitate to use the word faith at all, even when describing the scientific process itself. Having faith in the process leads to (for lack of a better phrase) a failure to trust, but verify. IMO, it is one thing to approach scientific literature with a trusting demeanor and still walk through the proper processes to verify the results, and another thing entirely to literally take the author's word. Often times especially when big names are attached we aren't trusting-and-verifying we are simply taking their word. That's a problem that weakens the credibility of science.

I don't want to come off as someone who disregards everything he doesn't like. However, I do approach science with great pessimism and have since graduate school. Not because I hate it, or something is wrong with the scientific method, but because approaching it pessimistically allowed me to write better work by forcing me to actually perform the method instead of p-hacking my way to a result.
Author was an engineer:

> I was super excited I was actually getting an opportunity to pursue my engineering dreams. The word "engineer" was even in my job title!

He joined twitter and started sending his content to the PR team for approval:

> In fact, I was so prolific on social media that I got the attention of several industry analysts who asked how my company used social media for brand promotion and marketing. Of course, since I was in engineering, I sent these inquiries over to our PR department. ... I often tweeted about what we were doing, what the company was releasing, and what conferences I would attend. I understood the confidentiality policies at the company and never shared any confidential information. The company even gave me formal PR training so I would know what I could and couldn't say. ... After fielding several of my PR referrals, I eventually got the attention of a senior vice president at the company, let's call him Rick Dickerson. He then asked me if I could teach him how to use Twitter.

The author was clearly stepping out of their role and impacting public relations. The SVP asked them to explain what they were doing and be introduced to those the engineer was working with (in social media). Then they flagged future content and told them to stop.

The SVP was ensuring they had the information they needed to protect the company and then limit any future off-message content being produced. The SVP wanted this engineer out of the social media space and needed him stopped.

> At that moment, it became clear that the SVP didn't just want to get me away from anything social media related in the company; he wanted me out of the company entirely. He was trying to get me fired.

I'm not saying I would have done it this way, but this is what happened via the article.
> Hellō provides a fully-featured OpenID Connect interface

Why not just use self-issued OpenID identities then?

Well, I guess the reason is that the standard[0] hasn't even been finalised yet, and there are no implementations (as far as I know), but it seems like some combination of that plus Verifiable Claims is the correct way to provide decentralised identities.

[0] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...
> This deep integration with colours and status symbols does remain in specific areas like middle school where it is still seen as important to try to project wealth.

Are the kids wrong?

When I look at my app’s stats, Android users are worse in every way.

More expensive to develop for, pay less or none at all, and their halo effect is sometimes negative: they might word-of-mouth my app to more Android users instead of more iOS users.
I might be wrong, but it feels like this will negatively affect their other products in the long term. Brand reputation goes both ways.

Of course, in KPI spreadsheets Apple TV will bring more revenue and that's what counts. Slower growth of iPhone sales will be blamed on global recession.