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by helen___keller 3y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “they aren’t doing it”. WEI doesn’t exist yet, obviously nobody is blocking clients who aren’t attested. More to the point, even the author of this proposal has recognized this is an issue, identified it as so
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> it's clear that they are being careful and are upfront about the some potential misuses and the proposed handing of them. On the contrary, my main issue is that they identify one of the primary issues and fail to address it. The b
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Attestation is an issue in incentives, particularly on the part of website owners who lose incentive to offer a decent UX to non-attested users when most users are attested. Apple PATs in isolation cannot achieve this, while google is makin
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by helen___keller 3y ago
The scary part isn’t what happens with attestation on todays web, it’s what kind of web gets built tomorrow when the vast majority of users support attestation. The author of WEI acknowledges this risk but the only mitigation is a suggestio
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by helen___keller 3y ago
WEI proposal leaves open the functionality of the attester, so it’s neither correct to say this will prove requests are humans nor that it simply proves a sanctioned OS/browser. The attester will attest whatever they want. They can evo
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by helen___keller 3y ago
It’s a signed attestation. A user agent can be spoofed, this attestation needs to be signed cryptographically with a trusted key, for example a hardware key shipped in your device by an approved vendor. Think Apples Secure Enclave. The goal
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by helen___keller 3y ago
There’s a saying, on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. WEI is part of a broader movement to make this false - more generally to make an internet where we know you are a human staring at a screen It turns out having dogs (or more commo
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by helen___keller 3y ago
This is good as a user story if you are using a blessed OS/browser/device in that you can avoid CAPTCHA or whatever This is bad as a user story if you are not blessed and get likely locked out because the web operator doesn’t reco
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> 401k/IRA Don’t forget HSA
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Is a tofu+pork dish not considered “consuming soy products”?
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Searching for photos of counterculture brings up black and white photos from the 60s because the term is obsolete in modern society except for sprawling wordy articles trying to redefine the word in a modern context
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Some people really really hate tofu I guess. Probably never had a great mapo tofu, that stuff slaps
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by helen___keller 3y ago
This could even be an upsell opportunity by twitter, offer a new “super verified” tier where an account bypasses all rate limits for readers (as well as the writer). This allows a public agency to distribute real time info to the masses for
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Agreed, this was already a frustration of mine. There’s been a scroll limit on Twitter from forever ago, and the most frustration I’ve experienced with social media is realizing I had to sign up for twitter if I wanted to look at the public
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I think this can be a complicated and nuanced discussion that unfortunately can be difficult to have on the internet (even HN!) without devolving into flame war My answer is that it largely depends on the context and power dynamics, so it’s
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> The media has whipped redditors up into a comparable frenzy over a guy who doesn't like the large role social media companies have been playing in the suppression of free speech as companies responsible for major ecological disast
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by helen___keller 3y ago
There’s a lot of comments posting personal preference in housing, but that’s basically irrelevant. Density and urban planning basically comes down to freedom. How much freedom do we allow? On one end of the spectrum, the fully suburban city
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by helen___keller 3y ago
When I was in China in 2019, the VPN built into google fi actually got me around the GFW with zero effort. I didn’t even realize it until I caught myself checking American social media unhindered. My experience is most younger and tech savv
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by helen___keller 3y ago
All you need to be ready is a commitment to not waste your time reading or contributing to online discourse.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Doubtful regarding the effort people will take to protect their content from harvesting. Creative content has been continuously devalued for decades now. The whole reason you can find so much music, creative writing, and art, available for
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by helen___keller 3y ago
On the contrary I think there’s almost certainly something that annoys you and could be improved about your position were it not against policy One time I was on a team developing a desktop client in a division of a major public cloud. We
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Not really, formal mathematics in complexity theory is involved when talking about asymptotics, constants like “for N < 10 trillion, a desktop computer is good enough” isn’t very interesting from a mathematical perspective. That said, so
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Meanwhile I (amazon) am returning to my local office by myself as the rest of my team is in Seattle or California The next year or three will be weird for office work, but at the end I’m fairly convinced it will look like pre-pandemic (5 da
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by helen___keller 3y ago
It’s a fun thought experiment but it essentially begins by assuming “the computer becomes God in a box”. Yes, if you make this assumption, everything goes to shit. In a world where problems have computational complexity and the halting prob
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by helen___keller 3y ago
If AI really has the potential to “take off” in the way that Bostrom etc fear, humanity doesn’t stand a chance. Between us and AI takeover there is trillions of dollars in the form of automating all white collar work in the world. If that v
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I don’t think I would give such an uncharitable interpretation Longtermism isn’t about acceleration per se, it’s about avoiding extinction Right now it’s plain to see mankind could see extinction in a few hundred or thousand years, for exam
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> it's more like a modern scam religion to distract from actual problems. This is more or less how I feel. I’m sure some (most?) proponents of longtermism genuinely agree with the philosophy. But then, it’s a time honored tradition
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by helen___keller 3y ago
This is the same thing as extinction. If humans don’t escape earth, then with probability 1 we will go extinct relatively soon (relative to the lifetime of the universe). If not from a standard extinction event like meteors and volcanoes, t
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by helen___keller 3y ago
It’s kind of “genius” as a hack to solve utilitarianisms problems - we can label all potential future utility as effectively infinite and thus any extinction scenario as a utility of negative infinite. Then, anything that influences odds of
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Yes probably as painlessly as a nonC language can get. First class support for C calling conventions, struct layouts, and so on https://ziglearn.org/chapter-4/ See here

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