I've been thinking a lot about why I feel disheartened at the state of the internet and of possible ways to approach fixing it.
I believe the root cause is the lack of a privacy-preserving 'Proof of Humanity.' My approach to fix this combines biometric passports (ICAO 9303) with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs/Confidential Computing) for verification. We then push a signed payload back to your device, not centralising any data.
I know 'Passport' + 'Internet' sounds like a privacy nightmare and this type of solution is generally disapproved upon by HN. However I'd like to offer an approach that tries to set such a service up as an integral part of the open web: Non-profit (Switzerland for what it's worth) association to avoid monetisation pressures to exploit user data and open source in a Tursted Execution Environment (TEE) to offer some additional guarantees about the processing of user data.
To be clear, this is not pushing for mandatory age verification - that is not the aim. It is however trying to increase the "human signal" on the web as we interact with each other while maintaining as much privacy as possible.
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I suppose you just have to trust that it's incentivized to find you the best route and not only offer you 3 options which it says are the best, but are actually paid promotions.
It depends too on what you value. I’d be more than happy to pay a premium if it meant the time for me looking for a flight and having a seat booked is drastically reduced.
We used to get that through the services of a travel agency. Maybe we will soon have that luxury again?
I would argue that just being in the office or not using AI doesn't guarantee any better learning of younger generations. Without proper guidance a junior would still struggle regardless of their location or AI pilot.
The challenge now is for companies, managers and mentors to adapt to more remote and AI assisted learning. If a junior can be taught that it's okay to reach out (and be given ample opportunities to do so), as well as how to productively use AI to explain concepts that they may feel too scared to ask because they're "basics", then I don't see why this would hurt in the long run.
Fully agree. I would also say it's easy enough to use Django for (almost) everything for a self contained SaaS startup. Marketing can be done via Wagtail. Support is managed by a reusable app that is a simple static element on every page (similar to Intercom) that redirects to a standard Django page, collects some info about the issue including the user who made it (if authenticated) etc.
I try to simplify the stack further and use SQLite with Borg for backups. Caching leverages Diskcache.
Deployment is slightly more complicated. I use containers and podman with systemd but could easily be a git pull & gunicorn restart.
My frontend practices have gone through some cycles. I found Alpine & HTMX too restrictive to my liking and instead prefer to use Typescript with django-vite integration. Yes it means using some of the frontend tooling but it means I can use TailwindCSS, React, Typescript etc if I want.
Any info on context length or comparable performance? Press release is unfortunately lacking on technical details.
Also I'm curious if there was any reason to make such a PR without actually releasing the model (due Summer)? What's the delay? Or rather what was the motivation for a PR?
Amateur question, how are people using this for coding?
Direct chat and copy pasting code? Seems clunky.
Or manually switching in cursor? Although is extra cost and not required for a lot of tasks where Cursor tab is faster and good enough. So need to opt in on demand.
"Responsible capitalism" is not a term you often hear but it's something I think we could strive for.
Not-for-large-profit is a set of guiding principals that tries to sit in the middle of the non-profit and profit-at-all-costs spectrum.
This is my initial attempt at an idea I've had floating around for a while and I would love to see feedback either in comments here or discussions/PRs on the GitHub repo.
I've been thinking a lot about why I feel disheartened at the state of the internet and of possible ways to approach fixing it.
I believe the root cause is the lack of a privacy-preserving 'Proof of Humanity.' My approach to fix this combines biometric passports (ICAO 9303) with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs/Confidential Computing) for verification. We then push a signed payload back to your device, not centralising any data.
I know 'Passport' + 'Internet' sounds like a privacy nightmare and this type of solution is generally disapproved upon by HN. However I'd like to offer an approach that tries to set such a service up as an integral part of the open web: Non-profit (Switzerland for what it's worth) association to avoid monetisation pressures to exploit user data and open source in a Tursted Execution Environment (TEE) to offer some additional guarantees about the processing of user data.
To be clear, this is not pushing for mandatory age verification - that is not the aim. It is however trying to increase the "human signal" on the web as we interact with each other while maintaining as much privacy as possible.
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