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Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:02AM (#34880094)
This sounds very reasonable. Some of the replies in this thread are misinterpreting what I said. I didn't say the government should run the APIs etc, just that we already have identity in the real world and it generally works, so we can use that (but maybe not necessarily only that, there could be other options too). I should be able to use my Gov ID to get a Layer 0 verification from some provider, which then integrates with higher level providers, etc.

And again, it would be opt in, just like verifying with Facebook / Twitter etc is opt in. And for people who are concerned about government surveillance, they can already do that if you verify your social media account via your credit card, that's kind of the point there, that the credit card ties a social media account to a real world person.

Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified on Sunday February 19, 2023 @04:35PM (#34862103)
We already do identity verification in the real world, it's called government issued IDs.

There should be opt-in OS-level identity verification based on zero knowledge proofs and tied to your government-issued digital ID. This also solves issues like preventing minors from accessing adult sites, etc.

I should not have to verify with 1000 third parties and hand over my personal data and then hope it's handled properly and doesn't get leaked. We have zero knowledge proofs and we can get OS makers to make this seamless for us.

Yes. There's a separate queue for sites that need js rendering and it eats much more into your crawl budget. Best way to avoid it imo is to use something like Rendertron, which is made and recommended by Google.
Re:How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware? on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:44PM (#34251245)
Good point. There is a cottage industry of scams running fake Windows virus alerts.
Re:Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:35PM (#34235734)
There are several such cases discussed in the Cloudflare forums. It usually turns out that the webmaster was serving very large amounts of media, which no one should expect to be free.
Re:I Lost All Faith in LastPass on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:37PM (#34177610)
Their "password manager" on Mac is called Keychain Access. The UX is very bad, the interface is old and clunky and it doesn't sync with iOS (if for example you create a secure note there's no way to access it on iOS) - not to mention that most people don't even know it exists, it's kind of a hidden feature. Meanwhile, on iOS the password manager is hidden in the settings and again it has pretty bad UI/UX. I understand that they want to hide the complexity away from the end user and make these kinds of features "just work", but in practice they feel pretty half-baked.
Re:I Lost All Faith in LastPass on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:41PM (#34176165)
This is why we need good OS-level password managers. Phones and now computers have dedicated security chips which are infinitely more secure than any cloud solution. Such an easy market to grab that it boggles me why Apple and Google aren't aggressively going for it.
Re:Paul Graham is leaving Twitter on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:28PM (#34042831)
Also, people can be both smart and stupid at different times and sometimes even at the same time. It's not a binary thing.
Re:The Merge on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:20AM (#32537850)
There seem to be at least two big issues with the upcoming merge:

1 - Stablecoin issuers like USDC can de facto determine which chain succeeds in case of a fork (PoW vs PoS)

2 - 70% of validators are US-based, and as custodians, they will have to comply with OFAC.

More info in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/milessuter/status/1560070819518234624

Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:20AM (#27430898)
Interesting, but this does not seem to match empirical evidence by the likes of Ahrefs, which suggests that links are by far the most important ranking factor.
Re:Searching the web for under $1000/month on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:54AM (#27075862)
The value for money that Hetzner offer is just mind boggling.
Re:The real reason to end the death penalty on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:17AM (#26900998)
Most of the examples of innocents being convicted are from before the invention of DNA forensics. The problem is the criminal justice system which too easily gives the death penalty. We could easily reduce the probability of conviction innocents from 4% to one in a trillion by enforcing a set of requirements:

- Must have DNA evidence - Must have audio and video evidence - Must have fingerprints - Must have at least 2 witnesses

There are plenty of cases that satisfy these conditions (terrorist attacks being one of them).

Re:Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:05PM (#26514983)
Exactly. Wouldn't be surprised if this became a common type of scam on Uniswap.
Re:Bitcoin Is Time on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:09AM (#26432649)
Would you be willing to bet on it? I'd love some easy money.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, you will never pass that point. A well-optimized dedicated server with 90 fast cores, 128GB ram and 4TB SSD goes for $120/mo at Hetzner. That can easily handle 1 billion non-cached monthly page views if you write decent code. More if you cache. How many sites get that much traffic? A few dozen. If you're dedicating this much effort in preparing for 1-in-a-million eventualities, you will never ship anything.
Re:Bitcoin Is Time on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:36PM (#26322052)
You're predicting >12% yearly inflation? That seems like a pretty bold prediction. I'm curious if you have any sources that would back your prediction.
Re:RNA Memory Hypothesis on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:55AM (#26024125)
You might want to look into ethology, which studies innate behavior like the one you referenced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Saturday January 16, 2021 @01:40AM (#25800583)
Working on https://subbed.org, a subreddit recommendation engine that shows related subreddits based on a variety of factors.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Saturday January 16, 2021 @01:37AM (#25800568)
Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:15AM (#25789507)
https://redditbests.com - A site that aggregates reddit reviews and displays the most popular products from a variety of categories using sentiment analysis
Re:The End of the Redis Adventure on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:02AM (#23698242)
Thank you for your amazing work. Redis has been by far the most dependable component of my tech stack and it's opened up a whole new way of thinking about data.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:21AM (#23335615)
This would seem to just favor new posts with no votes over anything else.
Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:04PM (#22911085)
I love it because it's the only Mac app that allows you to connect to a remote Mysql server via ssh and Unix socket at the same time.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:33PM (#22648698)
I'm working on Slide to Subscribe, an embeddable signup form and universal subscribe link.

https://slidetosubscribe.com https://subscribe.to

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