skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works for both use cases. The only difference between the two is the source of trust (in case 1 it is some issuing authority, in case 2 it is you). There's no reason why you can't issue a certificate for yourself. The receiving party can choose to trust your public key if they wish.
FWIW, I've found most of my discord servers on...Twitter. Discoverability is still a problem. How does everyone else do it?
I took a hotel shuttle from the airport recently. Got to chatting with the driver. He’s an immigrant who owns 6 industrial rental properties and a few single family rentals.

You’d never know it, given his attire and evening job. But he is focused on keeping the cash flow growing.

His net worth is probably in the millions but few know it unless they really get him to open up (something I tend to be naturally good at).

I know a few folks like this. I call them the stealthy wealthy.
Not too dissimilar from Google Analytics official global opt-out browser extension.
It injects a consistent/unchanging item into the global window scope of every single page you visit.

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/index.html

License prohibits sharing its code so I won't - setting a good example for our artificially intelligent friends :)
Also, the extra warming from methane can trigger unrecoverable tipping points, such as melting ancient glaciers and permafrost, whose effects will last for thousands of years.
Thought about pivoting slightly to the left and adding a "content alert" feature? I could keep track of my interests in a hundred different ways, but what I can't do is keep up with them without being inundated with irrelevant information. For example, I want an alert when the bands I like release a new album. Not when they go on tour, not when they have a guest drummer, not any of the hundreds of bullshit "fan engagement" emails or social media alerts. Just content. Same for authors, directors, artists, etc. You build that system and I'd pay a subscription to use it.
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I interviewed for a concierge position at a fancy building years ago. The guy made it very clear that most of the time was spent idle at the desk, and all the other concierges would bring laptops and do other work online.
How could I match an incoming unhashed value to an existing salted hash?
There are only about 3 billion valid US phone numbers. How many hashes can your GPU compute per second?
One trick, just to ballpark this --- it probably worked better 10 years ago than today, but I checked a couple vendors and got results --- is to Google the vendor and "GSA price list" (for their FedGov pricing).
Slow hash function + salt would solve this.. e.g. you'd be lucky to do more than 10 hashes a minute with bcrypt and 20 salt rounds.
What could your startup do if it had the data of FB?
Wondering what opportunities are created if you democratize personal info including close friends, demographics, ect for sites and apps.
> so don't take the following as an aggressive defense.

I won't, but I appreciate the clarification nonetheless. I'm also trying to be non-confrontational, and while my opinion on ads is rather firm, it's still subject to change as I understand the world and the human condition more.

> Couldn't influencers be considered a more positive form of advertising in that they are open about what they are? (...) When I know someone is an influence/tech evangelist/promoter/some other term, I at least can have my mental guard up (...)

So, we have to distinguish between the two kinds of influencers here. Brand ambassadors, tech evangelists and the like are at least somewhat open about this (though elsewhere in the thread I've seen examples of ones that are purposefully unclear). It still feels icky to me, but I understand the game. Though again, many don't - I've seen plenty of people buy into what tech evangelists say uncritically, in part because their enthusiasm is an effective manipulation tactic, acting on an emotional level to get around peoples' defenses.

And then there are the other kind of influencers - the ones I believe are the majority on social media. The ones running random streams and channels, some sneaking in paid product placement covertly, some doing sponsorship section overtly - in both cases, the reason they're being paid is because of (for a lack of better term) trust transfer. You like the podcasts some influencer makes, so you mistakenly assume their recent interest in cosmetics is genuine. You like the high-quality science videos a YouTuber creates, so you assume they know what they're talking about when they pitch you a VPN service in the sponsorship section - even though, in truth, they have no first clue about it, and are setting you up for a bad deal. Either way, they don't care - you're not their peer, you're not their friend. You're the resource they're exploiting.

What irks me the most is when I see people intentionally seeking out career as this latter kind of influencer. They're already convinced that a degree of dishonesty is totally legitimate way of making money. I call it dishonesty, because I doubt they'd pitch the same cosmetics or NFTs to their mother or their close friends, in the same way they do to their audience on their channel.
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Cynical me is always impressed in how much funding goes to find emitters outside the develop world:

> "...emit methane at high rates span central Asia, the Middle East and the southwestern United States. By finding these sites from space, the satellite is bringing an important perspective to climate accountability,"

USA could close all of its coal mines with the same money spent in emergency Covid vaccines
This is related to the conservation of Etendue [1] in an optical system, which is basically a statement of conservation of power: you rightly point out that radiant flux is determined by the source and constant – and for that reason, the primary numerical aperture or f-number of the lens is ultimately what really matters – assuming, as you point out, that you want to use the narrower DoF that arises (in which case SNR scales as the square root of sensor area).

However, sensors get noise from different sources: and while you're right to point out that you might be up against photon shot noise, read noise goes down with pixel area: so, as long as pixel area scales with sensor area, and that scaling is performed by uniformly scaling the pixel, the larger sensor is intrinsically "a little bit better". Quoting shamelessly again from wikipedia [2]

> The read noise is the total of all the electronic noises in the conversion chain for the pixels in the sensor array. To compare it with photon noise, it must be referred back to its equivalent in photoelectrons, which requires the division of the noise measured in volts by the conversion gain of the pixel. This is given, for an active pixel sensor, by the voltage at the input (gate) of the read transistor divided by the charge which generates that voltage, CG = V_{rt}/Q_{rt}. This is the inverse of the capacitance of the read transistor gate (and the attached floating diffusion) since capacitance C = Q/V. Thus CG = 1/C_{rt}.

As capacitance is proportional to area, pixel area matters here – read noise is proportional to it linearly. In low-light conditions, read noise dominated most cellphone sensors (mostly for the above).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format#Read_noise
Providers have gotten creative now requiring you provide an identity proving you live in California and an ominous warning suggesting that it is a felony to state you live somewhere you do not.
"PFAS chemicals don't break down _easily_ over time"
> Alcohol makes you dumb

So does canabis (albeit in a rather creative way). I love the stuff but it's definitely better in smaller and infrequent doses.
$20 vs $8

This is Elon tactics 101.

You anchor people high with leaking outlandish (incorrect) pricing, that way when you officially announce the (always intended) pricing - it seems like a deal.
Regulatory compliance. How can I know what laws are applicable? Accessibility, taxation, privacy, record retention, etc. are all areas that I think many businesses could use help.
You're typing a lot in these posts but literally every point you're making here is orthogonal to the actual discussion, which is why utilizing the end product of exposing an AI to copyrighted material and exposing a human to copyrighted material are morally distinct.
The best idea is to work on something you are passionate about.
It may be true that only a very small percentage of Twitter users are actually creators and influencers.

But a far larger number of people think they are or aspire to be influencers, and they're going to want the badge too.
... for some definition of methodical that ignores multiprocessing.
The CCP has setup quarantine camps for COVID in Tibet: https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1571790317950763008

And red COVID QR Codes can destroy you: https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1562803858916933638

It stopped being about COVID, it is just straight up tyranny.
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Sure but you can federate with whomever you please. So $6 gets you 5 local accounts, but you can still follow anyone in the fediverse.
I wonder what the benefits of this versus e.g. OpenID Connect[1] are: OIDC is already semi-widely adopted, reuses a popular underlying envelope scheme (JWTs), and performs a similar type of proof (that some identity provider claims something about an identity).

[1]: https://openid.net/connect/
Wow, 4 comments on this post and two are about cracked Bechstein soundboards!
Does banning non competes help if you don't already have businesses attracted to an area in some critical mass?

I can see how it could make for a vibrant scene if you already have incumbents, but if you are an area trying to attract them, I am not sure that works.
If the barrier to a checkmark is $8 then all the scammers are going to have checkmarks too
Some rich act rich. Trump is an obvious example of someone with a lot of money who acts it. Though I suspect he has enough that it is still living within his means. (I'm not sure if his bankruptcy was personal or just a business venture)

Most rich though are not as obvious about it. Warren buffet isn't the only one living in a modest house, you just don't know the rest.

Most rich are not at the level of the above either. Several million in various investment is enough for a comfortable modest life, but acting like money isn't a problem will soon spend it all.
I used to know someone who’s family was worth at least 100million dollars. His family were shipping magnates out of Syria. Genuinely the nicest person. Other than dressing well and not obnoxiously so, you’d probably never know. It’s a shame that the city/our college gave him panic attacks, we lost touch when he moved to Germany and I wound up somewhat immaturely cutting the friendship short after initially keeping contact in my early 20s.

Ironically he taught me the importance of relationships and people after otherwise being the type of techy that only values technical acumen. Legitimately changed my whole life direction. Shame I didn’t take to the lesson entirely before I cut things off.

One of my few regrets.
It's worth noting also that this sort of "secondary strike" approach is explicitly illegal in the United States.
Throw in a cigar or pipe, and it’s my favorite guilty pleasure.
Yeah, if you got famous exclusively on Twitter it's because you're a demagogue, not a content creator.
Why is he driving a hotel shuttle? Unless he’s just retired and looking for something engaging to do, that’s a horrible waste of his clear talent for building wealth
I wonder what happens if someone blocks their phone number, then switches it.

Will the re-used number be blacklisted forever with a hash scheme?
If regulations make cleaner and more advanced industries less competitive, pushing production to cheaper places with less regulation and higher emissions intensity of production, then that could actually increase CO2 output.
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I tried Mastodon for 1 day recently, and then I gave up and deleted my account.

The web interface wasn't good (worse than Twitter if you can believe it), the native client I tried wasn't good either, but the worst problem is that following accounts of a different instance was a major pain. In retrospect, I made the mistake of joining the smaller mastodon.online rather than mastodon.social, which they claimed wouldn't make a difference, but it did.

I couldn't just follow someone on another instance from their profile page, because their profile page is on a different server from mine. It wanted me to copy a URL, paste it into a search field, find the account, and then follow, which is ridiculous and tiresome.

The onboarding for new users on Mastodon seems terrible in every way.

(I also couldn't disable "boosts" in my timeline, which is something I could do on Twitter.)

I wanted to like Mastodon! But I just didn't, and I didn't feel like enough other people were going to like it either to make it worthwhile to use.
Great book although I don't really agree his concluding chapter of Category X. I don't think one can materially participate in society and also fully extricate themselves from the hierarchies.
Yes I’m aware, and my point is that it doesn’t happen with a better sensor/camera and the lack of “smart” processing. Even my small compact point and shoot would take sharper photos in the same lighting than my iPhone 12.
As mentioned in the article the processing the iPhone does has seem to become more aggressive as well.
I chose them because I liked the way they looked most, especially zoomed in. I hadn't really considered how they would scale but that's certainly an important point for anyone creating something for wider adoption.
Offerings in the SSI/VD space are currently exploding -some even government backed. Microsoft, MasterCard, Auth0, the European Union are the biggest players that come to my mind.

This will turn the whole billion dollar kyc/identity verification space upside down.

I work in that space.
Yeah, this was a feature I am working on. It shows it on the site. Have a look by
"Stay informed - Subscribe to news about the specific things that interest you always keeping you in the know."
Because extracting rent does not scale with effort (and, in fact, requires none of it). It's called "passive income" for a reason.
For some reason the query string was removed. My actual submission was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubu_JeaV2g&t=370s
It seems to me that if any new device/app that "logs to your IM account" gets all message history, you're kind of defeating the point of having E2EE in the first place. If I sent encrypted messages to a trusted device of yours, I suppose I don't really want any new device of yours to get these messages.

I agree that this does not create the best "user experience", but if that is what you are looking for, maybe you didn't want E2EE in the first place? It could be possible to have a XEP that covers "history syncing between my devices", but what's the point of E2EE if encrypted information can just be transferred and duplicated like this?

It's also possible to disable OMEMO if having history sync'ed on any new device is what's most important to you. It's not like messages are sent as plain unencrypted text (unlike email...), TLS is used. If you and the other end are on servers you trust (or own), there is little reason to use OMEMO anyway. Except that nice lock icon that supposedly means "safe" without really defining "safe *from what*".
money buys the ability to build empire.
Does this mean no more megapints?

Seriously though, why doesn't the unit of 1 DAU correspond with any existing commercial form factors?

A single 12oz 5% beer would be a more helpful starting point.
It managed that from just 32 example illustrations?

Irrespective of everything else here, I find that alone hugely impressive.

ed - for 'hugely impressive' also insert 'slightly terrifying'.
Instead of the geopolitically-driven western trade regime we have today we should be basing trade relations on environmental standards.
No. You start by maximizing your corporate benefits. Then you focus on spending (much) less than you earn. Then you move the money you saved into compounding investments. Then you maximized your tax advantaged accounts. Then you use leverage to further accelerate your savings. Then you develop an exit strategy. Rinse and repeat prior steps until exit criteria are met.
Point being, they will still have a look and feel of an upper middle class while being magnitudes more wealthy.

That's a good tactics because middle class stuff has the best bang for the buck. Rich, status-displaying stuff delivers diminishing benefits for exponentially growing price.
When Twitter Elite? Only for 100$ a month your replies will have priority over Twitter Blue users and then Twitter Whale - contact us for pricing, you will have priority over Twitter Elite users, then me and my friends millionaires can all buy Twitter Whale and Elite, before you get to see replies from a common person (the ones that can't pay) you will already lose your attention anyway, so we the wealthy will shape the reality.
Nirvana fallacy. Your efforts aren't wasted if others don't follow suit. A partial solution is better than no solution. At the least you're buying the world a few extra years to figure it out.

Also, being the leader makes it easier for other countries to follow suit. Every country has a large bloc of cynical reactionaries within their borders pointing their fingers and saying "why would we do anything if other countries aren't?". If you do things first, you disarm that narrative that's going on in other countries, which makes it easier for their progressives to get change done locally.
I've been playing block the sensor with that little IR lidar thing or whatever it is beside the lenses same size as the flash but is a dark spot. I was trying to photograph some VVT solenoid channels with illumination creeping out the ports and it got the camera into a cycle of switching lenses. I covered the sensor and the toggling ceased so I could focus the photo and get a good image.
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If I'm not mistaken, a few years ago, the basic social network (facebook & Co) was valuated on this ad basis: one user = $10.

The same logic for twitter gives $45B/400M users = ~$110/user.

99% of those users are useless but 1% are not.

In my view, Twitter is a propaganda machine with its 1% influencers/journalists/prophets that overflow world media and their billions of viewers/consumers/voters.
The German government is already doing 2, they have their own Activitypub instance.
I would imagine they controlled for that or it’s insignificant.
Hmm, I don't know if it's consider JWT to be "just a data format". It's an envelope format (dotted base64'd JSON), combined with a schema for each component in the envelope. That scheme isn't particularly strict when it comes to the payload component, but that doesn't mean it isn't a schema.

OIDC's well-known discovery[1] also does this kind of claim standardization/expectation setting already. But maybe it goes beyond that, and actually normalizes between different IdPs? I'm not sure what that would entail.

[1]: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/openid-...
"The United States accounts for only about five percent of global population, but is responsible for 30 percent of global energy use and 28 percent of carbon emissions."

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You can absolutely deliver an app this way. I code up little games for my kids in this way: https://letter-press.netlify.app/ If the intention is to just share the file around and have people open it locally, then the concerns stated by others about caching and CDN are non-issues. You will be extremely limited in what you can do in that environment. Lots of browser features don't work without a server running, and you won't have a backend.

The question I have is why do you have to distribute it as a single file?
Do people really do that on github?
Im curious where you have noticed it or similar behaviour. I know the GitHub stars being a status symbol for dinner but never noticed badge idea.
Could be? the signal to noise ratio is something like 1:100, and if it's important they'll leave a message.
>> When you are older and settled down

In general when you are settled down it is easier to care less about trying to gain additional romantic partners.
I've read the CCPA sections of privacy policies, and it's (designed to be?) completely unclear what and how to request stuff. There is probably a lot they can be required to do they don't tell you.

I'd love to see a website that details what you can do, and step-by-step how to do it.
Just email them :)

Its easy to tell them in the email to not call you back. Plus you can instruct them to include a specific word in their reply subject line so that you can quickly filter to see who read your instructions and who didn't. It's a bit like that concert M&M check.