skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a web that is populated by identified humans (and their authorised proxies!) is likely to be the "cleanest", most ideal web space we can see (a web full of sock puppets and link farms is not ideal).

Depends on your definition of "ideal", and whether you even want to strive for such an "ideal". To me this sounds more like a "sterile" web. If we temporarily assume that humans won't do what they're experts at (finding ways around that system too), and take at face value that this will lead to this "cleanest" web space, we are still assuming that that's what consumers want. I would argue that the very existence, and success, of the web in the face of approximations to this "ideal" space in the native-app-world disproves this theory. We have the App Store, we have lock-down control and identifiability for apps, and yet the web still manages dominate commerce in the face of this. Consumers still end up going to the web, and arguably increasingly so with things like Figma. So where are the cries for this "sanitized" web? The demand certainly doesn't appear to be on the consumer end, that's for sure.
There goes half of your cover!
If they won a case for constructive dismissal, what do you think they would win?
...says the person who doesn't realize atheism is a-theism, or that theism refers to a god, not just any belief or concept you want

it seems you have no point that isn't based on pedantry, arguing semantics, trying to redefine theism, or falsely and failingly conflating a non-magical concept with a magical belief

I would have liked for you to respond to the subject of my posts instead, but since you couldn't: bye, friend!
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I used to do that almost 20 years ago with a little script.

This time I looked into my log file, said nope, too complicated, and just installed a WordPress plugin (or Matomo in another case).
Apple is a corporation. They could be lead by an entirely new executive team tomorrow if that's what the shareholders want.

I wouldn't do business with Musk personally, but I don't think most people view him the way you do.

In any case, we're talking about normies are comfortable with. They don't really consider any of this stuff.
Doesn't it seem obviously wrong to suggest that things beyond an individual's control cannot have a significant impact on them?
Agreed. But that sounded like creationist dog whistling to me, and I'm curious why OP doesn't want to be explicit about what he thinks. Being explicit usually leads to improving the quality of a discussion IMHO.
Couple of days ago no one in the company knew they're doing a rebranding. Including the CEO. One man knew.
Not sure Google is a great alternative if you want to prevent further centralization of CAs :)
In Sweden, this applies to the accounting system - bookings need to be immutable but there is no certification of the software. The invoice generation is not covered, they need to state due date, VAT number etc, and the invoices need to be booked in the accounting system but can be typed on a typewriter, or written by hand even, as far as I know.
The way that the Amiga engineers used interlaced video modes to support CRT displays with low refresh rates was also not a good look. In the early models that was the only way to get VGA equivalent screen resolution, but the flickering was so bad that some people literally wore sunglasses and configured the desktop with low-contrast colors in order to reduce eye strain. It was one of several design decisions that probably seemed like a good idea at the time but made the product look shoddy and held it back from mainstream adoption.
We see this pattern a lot.

It's like twitter. You can write an app that works just like twitter in a short amount of time. A week tops. But that's not the hard part. Moderation, getting the product profitable, etc, are the hard parts.

People often get a bit of tunnel vision and don't realize there's a whole bunch of behind the scenes stuff that's the real hard part. No reason to feel bad about it, it's a human thing, not just (the proverbial) you.
> Musk is showing the world that he got lucky with his previous ventures.

1 dud

A few successes

It's really hard to tell to what extent it's luck versus skill. It'd be much easier to tell if we'd live for 10K years and he'd have started like 50 companies. If even 10 of those would've become wildly successful, whereas the mean baseline of other people who started 50 companies would be maybe 1 or 2 companies, then I'd argue that he didn't only get lucky. I'd argue there's also a skill component to it.
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> they're comparable to a password manager.

They're comparable to using a password manager that has to run on the same device and autofill password fields. That makes them a pain for me, as using those sorts of password managers don't fit my use cases.
Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
Built-in software death dates sending 1000s of schools’ Chromebooks to the bin
The concern is that "origins of life" is a distinct issue from "origins of multicellularity". You rightly point out that origins of life per se is of more cosmological/physical significance, whereas multicellularity is primarily (exo-)biological in nature.

However I vehemently disagree that multicellularity is the "only interesting kind of life". We don't even know yet if life of computational origin exists so as to be able to call it life per se. We don't know lots of things. It's just hubris to act as if we have enough information to make such strong claims.
Watermarking is a more tractable approach, but the cat is out of the bag.
Not all sales require VAT. Nor does everybody have the need or desire to pay VAT. This tool is fine - as long as you're invoicing in English that is.
I've been going through this with my kids and some kids from the neighborhood. They really dig it, especially the first part but then the steps become too large to comprehend and the 'show components' bit stops working.

Some seem to check out around the half adder / full adder step, some don't understand why it could matter to create an optimal design and some are like fish in the water. I do my best to guide them through the levels without giving too much away but it is clear that even though the concept is great without close guidance pretty much all of the people that I've introduced to it would quit well before reaching the end.

I would love to see some stats on what a funnel like view from the first to the last entries looks like. I suspect that very few of the entrants make it to the last stage.
If they exist. That Google is bad at indexing SO aggravates this.
Yeah, but while you could think of trusted computing like "the author of the code has control" - and I'd not see a big issue with payment apps being tamper-resistant, I do see a GIANT issue with Google instering their bloatware in the middle..
> defense of their abuser

I personally wouldn't choose to work for Amazon, for their remote work policy but also many other reasons.

But I do believe it is insulting to say to someone who makes a clearly thought out tradeoff decision that it is where they want to work (e.g. someone who already lives in Seattle) that they are victims. Just because it doesn't suit your preferences, doesn't mean it doesn't suit others' perfectly well.
No, that's not clear at all. The smallest known system capable of independent existence and Darwinian evolution has billions of atoms. A mere 40 or 50 orders of magnitude is trivial compared to the unlikelihood of this arising by chance.
> I do not believe that anyone who respected him for entrepreneurship beforehand now disrespects him as an entrepreneur.

You can count me in that bucket. I didn't like some of what I heard from Tesla, mostly about the working hours. But I genuinely believe he was driven by a desire to do Hard Stuff that traditional organizations refused to do, and inspired a lot of smart people to come along and try to make stuff happen.

Now I'm convinced he's just a drug addict, or the drugs have done enough damage to his brain over time that it's noticeable now.
Security measures like Cloudflare anti-DDOS reverse proxy rely precisely on widespread TLS, can deny access to any client not performing sanctioned TLS handshake (like curl, scrapers, or even old browsers which by chance can do TLS 1.2).

https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
> Why can't you fake remote attestation?

I don't know. There have been farms of iPhones overseas, connected over residential-exiting VPNs in the USA, with warm iCloud accounts, for ages. There is nothing magical about having to own an iPhone in order to bot farm.

Giant social media companies are reacting to slowing growth & customer concerns in the ad market, they don't have a secret forward-looking agenda but a backward looking one that has a lot of diffuse agitations. This can reduce the perception of click fraud, even if it doesn't do much about it in reality.
it's really not as hard as you think it is. Companies are not limited to owning just one product with one branding. If removing a product from the shelves was all it took for others to be allowed to immediately steal all the branding you had on it, the tech world would be a lot more chaotic.

If not using it is a big deal (it's not, but let's assume it is), it doesn't require "detailed legal advice, disciplined ops" to put add logo on a webpage.
Apple and Microsoft supports
Goverment censorship?
Oh, I agree it's absolutely hubris.
OpenAI is experimenting with process supervision, which corrects many of these issues:

Problem
Let
x8+3x4−4=p1(x)p2(x)⋯pk(x),x8+3x4−4=p1(x)p2(x)⋯pk(x),
where each non-constant polynomial pi(x)pi(x) is monic with integer coefficients, and cannot be factored further over the integers. Compute p1(1)+p2(1)+⋯+pk(1).p1(1)+p2(1)+⋯+pk(1).

Model attempt

Here, GPT-4 successfully performs a complex series of polynomial factorizations. The use of the Sophie-Germain identity in step 5 is an important step that could be considered insightful.

1

I notice that the given polynomial has even degree and only even powers of xx, so I can try to make a substitution to simplify it.

2

Let y=x4y=x4, then the polynomial becomes y2+3y−4y2+3y−4, which is a quadratic equation.

3

I can factor this quadratic equation as (y+4)(y−1)(y+4)(y−1), so the original polynomial is (x4+4)(x4−1)(x4+4)(x4−1).

4

Now I need to factor each of these factors further, if possible, over the integers.

5

For the first factor, x4+4x4+4, I recall the Sophie Germain identity, which says that a4+4b4=(a2+2b2+2ab)(a2+2b2−2ab)a4+4b4=(a2+2b2+2ab)(a2+2b2−2ab).

6

Applying this identity with a=xa=x and b=1b=1, I get x4+4=(x2+2x+2)(x2−2x+2)x4+4=(x2+2x+2)(x2−2x+2).

7

For the second factor, x4−1x4−1, I can use the difference of squares formula, which says that a2−b2=(a+b)(a−b)a2−b2=(a+b)(a−b).

8

Applying this formula with a=x2a=x2 and b=1b=1, I get x4−1=(x2+1)(x2−1)x4−1=(x2+1)(x2−1).

9

Then I can apply the difference of squares formula again with a=xa=x and b=1b=1, to get x2−1=(x+1)(x−1)x2−1=(x+1)(x−1).

10

So the original polynomial is (x4+4)(x4−1)=(x2+2x+2)(x2−2x+2)(x2+1)(x+1)(x−1)(x4+4)(x4−1)=(x2+2x+2)(x2−2x+2)(x2+1)(x+1)(x−1).

11

These are all the irreducible factors over the integers, so p1(x)=x2+2x+2p1(x)=x2+2x+2, p2(x)=x2−2x+2p2(x)=x2−2x+2, p3(x)=x2+1p3(x)=x2+1, p4(x)=x+1p4(x)=x+1, and p5(x)=x−1p5(x)=x−1.

12

To find the sum of their values at x=1x=1, I just need to plug in x=1x=1 into each factor and add them up.

13

I get p1(1)=12+2⋅1+2=5p1(1)=12+2⋅1+2=5, p2(1)=12−2⋅1+2=1p2(1)=12−2⋅1+2=1, p3(1)=12+1=2p3(1)=12+1=2, p4(1)=1+1=2p4(1)=1+1=2, and p5(1)=1−1=0p5(1)=1−1=0.

14

So the final answer is 5+1+2+2+0=105+1+2+2+0=10.

15

Answer: 10
By this logic, "Is Moby Dick a sperm whale" also can't be answered factually because Moby Dick is a fictional creation and doesn't exist in the natural world?
Not really a billion years though. Perhaps several hundred million between when there was liquid water on earth and evidence of bacterial life. A surprisingly short time. We have spend almost 10x as long evolving to modern organisms than it took to get started.
This was already happening, I was laid off from AWS back in May with the other 9,000 employees and the vast majority of people laid off were the fully-remote employees far enough from an office to have a valid reason to stay remote. This is just AWS getting more bold about it
Right but how does edge prove itself to the TPM, what's to stop [insert alt browser here] from performing the exact same actions [insert blessed browser here] performs when it interacts with the TPM. It could even emulate a legitimate browser internally for the sake of argument, but it seems like anything could just pretend to be a blessed browser. Sure, you can hash binaries, but you can just as easily mess with their memory space at runtime after the fact so to the TPM (or whatever system checks the hash) the binary checks out because all the modifications are side-loaded after the binary runs.

It seems to me like you can only guarantee no tampering in an actually locked down system, like modern mobile devices.
"There are many different TLS certificate providers from different CA roots."
- Yes but there are only a handful of browsers and they preselect the default CA providers. The average user is not going to be able to configure custom CAs and will effectively be denied service should those pre-selected CAs go rogue.
Update - after more prodding both representative mentioned that you can actually move to monthly. It's just something that they can't (don't) want to enable. "Heroku online" exists but being aggressively hidden.
I understand very well how all this works. I just think it’s a bad idea.

You can’t have vote verification and anonymity at the same time. Either your vote goes into the anonymous, aggregated pool of all votes, or it’s possible for you to look yours up afterward to make sure it was recorded directly.

That latter option has fire real-world consequences, and any system that allows someone (and especially the people looking over their shoulder) to see their choices is dead on arrival.

The ability to verify votes after casting them isn’t just unneeded: it’s completely unwanted. It’s the sort of thing that gets people killed, and that’s not hyperbole.
There are very many sites where the content you see as a non-logged-in user is different from what you see if you have in your possession an all-important user cookie.
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On the public web? I assume so, but I don't know. I only know about the communities I am a part of.
The problem with most of these systems is they can never cope with any edge cases. This means it works fine for 99% of the population but the other 1% can get stuffed.

It would be like having a robot deny you access to the office after work hours even though you only need to grab your car keys that you forgot. The system is designed to be secure so you can't talk your way past a robot. If it was a human, it would be much easier to reason with them (normally!) and find a solution that works.

Techies gonna tech though. "If there was a problem yo I'll solve it, check out my tech while the DJ revolves it."
their self respect?
> If we take the "see the best of others intentions"

You do not, under any circumstances, have to “see the best of [a corporation’s] intentions”
"You must do X to keep your job," where X in this case is something onerous but still doable for most (like moving to a different city so you can work in-office). If you refuse to do the onerous thing, then you're voluntarily refusing to do that which keeps your job. Therefore, it's a voluntary resignation.
TikTok already does this similar way. If you share a link to a video, tracking data is encoded in the URL
One option is for sysadmins and IT shops serving SMBs to preinstall Firefox on workstations. That way users get used to the browser and might use it privately as well. Bonus: Preinstall uBlock Origin.

Thats what we do, anyways.
There are two reasons this is not comparable to the remote attestation proposal that Google is currently proposing:

1. The only things that WebPKI CAs are required to attest to is that domain validation was properly completed and that the private key is not compromised. The system is designed (in both intent and practice) for any website to be able to easily get a certificate, and even the most untrustworthy, undesirable websites can and do get certificates on the regular. In contrast, Google's remote attestation proposal is clearly intended to assess the trustworthiness/desirability of the client.

2. The TLS requirement imposes a burden on website operators but provides a clear benefit for end users, which is totally in line with the Internet's Priority of Constituencies[1]. In contrast, Google's attestation proposal places a burden on end uses for the benefit of website operators, which violates the Priority of Constituencies.

Additionally, I must note that Firefox also requires a TLS certificate for HTTP/3 (as they did for HTTP/2). Not sure why you'd omit Mozilla from your list of browser makers doing this, but it's a misrepresentation to imply that this is something only "mega-corp browsers" do, when there is actually broad agreement that this is a good thing.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890
That's like pissing in your own pants to try and keep warm and you weren't cold in the first place.
Yes! I find the UI confusing because I can't tell if it's really from the website or from the browser (it's part of the screen the website has control of).
Instead of a sugary drinks tax, how about ending corn subsidies that cause high fructose corn syrup to be so cheap? That would naturally cause soda to be more expensive
The perfect tax. Raises money whilst also discouraging objectively harmful behaviour.
That's backwards. It's the diehards (i.e. determined adversaries) they are thinking about. 99% of users are already not doing this stuff. They want a way to continue servicing that 99% and shut out the remainder. That's the whole point.
Growing up in Norway saw a grand total of one Apple machine in the 1980's and until maybe '93 or '94 or so: A lonely Mac sitting ignored in the corner of my local computer store.

They must have sold a few, but a whole wall was taken up by Commodore/Amiga machines, Atari ST's, and Spectrum. An Amstrad was located next to the Mac, and that got far more attention, but that too was rare.

I first saw more Mac's when briefly dealing with marketing/desktop publishing companies when I started working in the mid '90's, but only sporadically until the iMac.
Hey Xena, we fine-tune on your personal tone - this makes responses sound authentic ad is a great base to make further edits. We did this to amplify the individual since we believe people are the center of knowledge sharing. Discussion is key and we felt documentation alone wasn't created that space to share thoughts and ideas.
Playing devils advocate: how else do you prevent spam without requiring a login on every single web page? Especially in the world of AI-powered spam that can be indistinguishable from humans and automated at scale and can solve captchas.

Spam destroys everything. The open web has been at war with it forever, and soon it will win just like it has won in every other domain that is not completely locked down.

I love the fediverse but I fully expect it be destroyed by spam as soon as it gets big and influential enough to be a juicy target.

The Internet is a dark forest. The future is private encrypted networks, private forums, etc.
Nah, you get used to spotting people sealioning and JAQing off. In this thread, ezion is likely a creationist of some sort and is asking either bad faith or ignorant questions. I recognize where those questions are coming from, having grown up religious.

It's great to ask questions about evolution if you're a creationist and you're trying to learn. It gets tiring to recognize that someone is looking to do a gotcha and ignore the explanation of why it's not a gotcha.
Understandably, some of us just don't trust scientists wholesale.
Obligatory video of Dr. Tour 'debating' a reddit youtuber:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvGdllx9pJU

Hilarious introductions.
Why? Just skip the CA verification when you use HTTP/3. Done.

While this is less secure than a verified certificate, it still avoids plaintext on the wire and requires an active MITM to eavesdrop.
This is a poor tax, nothing more.
Oh cool, I couldn't find those on Google. I'll check them out
I am very doubtful that there exists any JavaScript that compiles to the specific instructions needed for this exploit.
Unemployment benefits. Possibly a position retained remotely if it progresses to legal arbitration. But more importantly, precedent for other workers & the hit to unemployment insurance for the company. Obviously with Amazon's size its different but that unemployment insurance cost matters to most companies.
Had they bought $250 Windows laptops seven years ago, they still would've received updates for another 2.5 years.

These laptops aren't used for video editing or 3D modeling. They need to run text editors and a few Chrome tabs. The screens are still the same old terrible resolutions. There's no reason why these devices shouldn't be usable to be honest.

10 years of software support for laptops is the norm, in my experience. I've seen people be more than content with older devices. If you're right and Apple can't get that level of support on macOS, then Apple is the disappointment, not the school's expectations.
Does Microsoft already do this with Edge,Safari, and Chrome?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/con...
> A deterministic but limited-entropy attestation would obviate the need for invasive fingerprinting here, and has the potential to usher in more privacy-positive practices in the long-term.

In reality: an attestation will be used along with fingerprinting.
Explanation in relatively straightforward form: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/10077

Don’t shoot the messenger!
He observed an 'intolerance of wrongthink' and got a reaction where someone was, in fact, intolerant of wrongthink. I don't see how that's anything but a confirmation.
> Engines make games economical (in zero interest rate times) but the value of the games is lower because nothing is invented, they are just copying the wheel.

Thats... a weird take.

lots of applications share 80% of their functionality and thus makes sense for there to be a shared codebase that engineers can start from to build their projects. thats the entire point of frameworks like ruby on rails or Django in web development. if you wanna go lower down, most people are using a library to interact with the gpu. either opengl or vulkan or metal.

Would you go as far as to say you won't play a game that wasn't built from scratch all the way to the metal?
Then you make the public good dependent on citizens' self-harm.

Just like all the "Master Settlement Agreements" with Big Tobacco.
Sure under the nebulous charges of "hate Speech" and "Disinformation"
Interesting. Makes puppeteer and friends hard. Perhaps also makes it hard to have an alternative browser. Doesn't sound good.