skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chris Hedges calls it a "coup d'etat in slow motion". The elites have realized time is on their side and they can implement their agendas on their own schedule, covertly.
Reminds me of the man who became wealthy by not growing alfalfa.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/771699-his-specialty-was-al...
Some are happy where they are, but most are stuck in a rut. There is a natural tendency to just "keep doing what you are doing", and many people don't have long term plans.

For example, how many people sit down and decide to become overweight and out of shape? Yet many of us arrive there by default. It is a similar process playing out in employment. Why many people avoid learning and growing. Not that they decided to atrophy, but more that they haven't tried to avoid it.

It's difficult to produce change in others, or to get them to see the rut. If you are self motivated, it's like speaking a different language. We expect the desire to improve to be intrinsic, and that if they have the desire that they will act in a way to produce results. But both are false assumptions. There are those with no intrinsic desire, and those who have the desire, but not the habits/discipline to take effective action.

My best results has been to push them down the path. Set the goals and routines for them. Get them moving fast enough that learning/growing in a specific area becomes part of the routine.
> To make second home ownership possible for more people...

Actual LOL. This is no different than Las Vegas time share scams. I hate HOAs with a passion, but in this case, any HOA would prevent this.
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Food production yes, but only transitively. It's mostly for animal feed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
If you can find it, this documentary is a lot of fun:

Pucker Up - The Fine Art of Whistling

There is a short, but great segment where this is demonstrated with two men whistling across mountain tops to communicate.

The film is filled with gems like one guy explaining as a compulsive whistler he got in trouble once for whistling a tune at a funeral.
Microfront ends: what, why and how?
webapps are not just glorified sets of templates do you know that, there is a lot of domain logic in there, as well as concurrency, transaction etc.

Yes PHP is very popular, so is Tiktok, if anything it's an indication of stupidity.
Why are the 'examples' on a programming language website text explanations, rather than code examples? This project could benefit from following the writers' rule of thumb: "show, don't tell".

On the first page they have only two lines of pretty trivial code which makes it hard to tell if I want to spend more time looking into this project. To make matters worse, the first place I'm exposed to actual code is on the second page of their documentation. Until then, it's all wall-o-text style pages.
Getting a raise that small with a promotion is a slap in the face.

Exactly this. Essentially the company is saying "We're giving you some additional responsibility, and as a reward we won't cut your salary."
Or say that vaccines confer major protection and the vaccinated should go about their normal lives.
> Moderation is not necessary to communication.

Every generation, I've seen this assertion. And every generation, it is tested and immediately fails.

Usenet had unmoderated channels. The better ones were moderated.

GameFAQs had LUE (post anything, life, universe and everything), but the memes / board invasions spread so much that GameFAQs was forced to shut it down. (Especially when said "memes" was posting sexually explicit images to children game boards)

4chan was mostly unmoderated. But Gamergate happened and the moderators decided to ban doxing and gamergate politics, so 8chan happened.

8chan became an ally of Gamergate and championed free speech. but then doxing and swatting got too serious, so the mods started banning people.

--------

If you make an unmoderated channel today, you're immediately going to draw in the filthiest individuals: the ones who want to swat and dox for fun. The "trolling community" is always looking for new hosts, because they keep getting banned from legitimate circles.

To control the doxers and swatters, you need to ban them from your server. This requires an identity protocol (NickServ, or some other username mechanism). That way, you ban the ones who keep doxing / swatting, and keep the rest of the crowd.
I would not want anybody to have their rights forcefully restricted under penalty of being locked up for an indefinite amount of time.

I would also not want the military to tell it's own citizens to stay in their houses and not be able to live their life because of a virus.
I'm just glad 32GB has so far been more than enough RAM for any system I've used.
> It was not really a trend, but rather an emergency measure that morphed into a desirable benefit.

Do you have data to support this? Anecdotally (from own experience and tech workers I know) I feel that remote work has been growing steadily over the past decade, with a an increase in job ads mentioning remote (even if they went out their way to say "office only") but I don't have data either way to back this up. It feels that long-term changes in tech as well as management culture were making remote more common in the long term, and the pandemic accelerated a trend (much like the shift in the movie industry from cinemas to home streaming).
Yes, currently, but they are in the process of being sold (along with rest of Time Warner Media) to Discovery Inc.
No, the evidence is very clear that recycling plastic into more plastic is the best option for minimizing carbon and energy use.

There's no benefit to storing carbon if you immediately turn round and extract fossil fuels to replace the carbon you just buried.

Even when we start making plastic at large scales from captured carbon, it's still not a good idea to bury that if you then need to go and make more of it.

Landfills are just generally not the best option and you'll probably find support for them traces back directly to fossil fuel interests since they very neatly line up with their incentive structure compared with the alternatives.
Yeah you are going to have to back up your arguments with more than "look at Isreal and Iceland". We have dealt with the flu using leaky vaccines for decades, how is this different?
The Bitcoin Energy Debate Is a Modern Reprise of the Gold Resource Cost Debate
I remember when technology solved real problems for real people. It wasn't that long ago. Now, we have this nonsense.
I really like this https://github.com/awslabs/aurora-snapshot-tool

It's a small and simple codebase, that implements a cross account DB backup capability on your AWS deployments.

I think it's an example of wonderfully written infrastructure python code, clear, concise and very easy to understand as a result.
I went a little crazy. I literally typed the whole book into cards, including ones like "prove a closed, bounded set of real numbers is compact." Then I would get a stack of scrap paper and spend maybe an hour a day writing down the answers.

Perhaps this was a reaction to my previous approach to learning, which completely shunned memorization.
> The german carrier Telekom allows you to take posession (add it to your customer account as a "contract owner") of a phone number with just the PUK and a one-time code sent to the phone number via SMS. I guess many other carriers use the same system.

Ah, very interesting. I was unaware of this usage of the PUK. If it's used for account ownership authentication, then absolutely carriers should be treating it way more securely.
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Bitcoin was completely and totally missed by HN and more broadly by Silicon Valley.

Only recently the SV/HN community is catching up and waking up to cryptocurrencies - and still hesitantly.
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Thanks for the tl;dr.

I love NPR, but this click-bait title rubs me the wrong way. Actually the whole article rubs me the wrong way. I wonder if Pacaso paid the writer and this is really just marketing disguised as news. Ugh, NPR, why?
This is a website of mostly software developers and people working in tech.

If you fall into that demographic, how do you avoid doing business with Apple? They're entrenched in the duopoly on desktop, the duopoly on mobile, and the duopoly on browsers.

Refusing to do business with Apple will only make you feel good about yourself, but it will significantly hurt your career prospects if you're a working developer, and ruin any hope of success if you're an entrepreneur trying to start or run a tech company.

For all intents and purposes, they're a monopoly. If you're a fan of the Hasbro game, you might disagree on the exact definition, but Apple (and peers) is unquestionably in a position where they're immune to market forces.

Capitalism doesn't work right when you have companies like that.
I understand how credit cards work. I also get a lot more out of that transaction fee than just a credit score, so I am OK with it. But my point was just that you don't have to pay interest, it wasn't really about any of that.
The same can be said for Android users. Are you really taking the snobby attitude that 'real' technical people would hack together their phone from parts and open source software?
Title of pitch deck: Uber for Timeshares
Would you know why? And on switches and routers you can surely turn this off... Not so on iOS.
How do people not realize this, even when it's been made so painfully obvious with their photo scanning debacle? There is *zero* privacy on closed source, proprietary, for-profit, shareholder-owned platforms. Zero, zip, zilch, nada. They own the platform and they own your behavior when you use their products.
I'd expect something like that from the current USSA government.
Old-school timeshare companies sometimes tried to organise "swaps", which somewhat solves the "every vacation at the same place" issue if it works, which, anecdotally, it almost never did. Still, it was a selling point.

I suppose nothing would stop you from doing something similar with Pacaso, but it seems they haven't got a first party solution yet. Which is amusing, because it is one place where some technology might help.
Control room at Iran's most notorious prison being shut down by hackers is
Providing jail as the alternative fits the definition of forced labour under the 1930 UN Convention on Forced Labour

"UN Convention No. 29 concerning forced or compulsory labour defines
‘forced or compulsory labour’ as ‘all work or service which is exacted from
any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said
person has not offered himself voluntarily’. "

See https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/ILO_Convention_29.pdf
Honestly, I hope we never get to that point on the consumer side.
It is a blind spot of knowledge. Sure you can make a script that does it. But most people can not do that. Heck just yesterday something in my hacked up system did something odd. It spit out an error that I will now have to research (probably find nothing) and then have to dig out the code on. Then spend several days probably reverse engineering some tech API that I have never seen before, in a style that will be different than what I am used to. But if I had bought a product that did the same thing. More than likely 50 other people would have the same issue and a few dozen work arounds. If those failed I could have a shot at just taking it to whoever sold it to me and saying 'fix it'. But as I hacked together something on my own. I own it, warts and all. I enjoy doing that but most people have zero idea where to even begin in fixing something like that. Buying something that 'just works' solves so many issues (and creates others).

Probably the biggest one that sticks out in my mind was when the iPad came out and all the tech boards like this were down on it. But it was what most people wanted to use a computer for. Most people did not want a computer. They wanted a media device. For many years the only way to get that was to get a computer. Now you can get that media device without most of the headaches of a computer.
"butbutbut people are getting rich off bitcoin so it has to be a sin somehow!"

I think that's the main driver of the "Bitcoin energy usage" horseshit.
It's all about getting more control over people at this point.

Society is reactive rather than proactive - I'm just wondering when the proverbial bear will be poked one too many times before people finally say 'enough is enough'.
They would likely fall afoul of EU right-to-repair laws.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Optimove for CRM journey mapping?
does anyone have experience with this tool? Interested in hearing what others think.
This is already the world we’re in with digital car keys that have been a thing since 2020. I still own my BMW which supports them.
> Because we live in the dumbest timeline, because they claim to be a tech company and not a timeshare company, this means they are now worth a billion dollars.

Well, we let the taxi service pretend to be not-a-taxi, and get away with it. We let the hotel service pretend to be not-a-hotel, and get away with it.

Since no one is enforcing any reasonable rule of law, it's only a matter of time until 100% of all businesses follow suit. "We're not a hospital, we're a healthcare sharing service". "We're not a restaurant, we're a meal sharing experience". etc.
Ask HN: Slap Excel in a Server?
I'm a developer at GRID [1]. GRID turns spreadsheets into interactive web documents, and we recently built a system which allows our users to effectively turn their spreadsheets into a web service and query it via a JSON API.

I recently tweeted [2], asking if some of my friends had ever re-implemented spreadsheet logic in code or otherwise wished they could've accessed spreadsheet values through an API. A few reached out and now I want to get a broader look at the problem we're solving.

To clarify what I mean by turning a spreadsheet into an API, let's take for example this Dog age calculator [3]. There's an underlying spreadsheet behind this web page with all the formulas for the calculator. Here's an example of how we can use our API to find out the dog age of a large 8 year old dog:

$ curl 'https://thesystem.grid.is/@grid_examples/dog-age-calculator-Yjk:Fsm0Rj2mtJVcKqzr7g' -d '{
"read": [ "J3" ],
"override": {
"G3": 8
}
}'

{
"data": {
"J3": {"value": 55}
}
}

The API is not live yet – this is just an example but it shows the request and the response. The request is doing a few things: changing the value of cell G3 (the age input cell) to 8, and then reading cell J3 which is the computed dog age for large dogs. The underlying Excel file is downloadable if anyone wants to look at it [3].

So my ask is this: Does HN relate? Do you ever wish you were able to turn a spreadsheet into an API instead of re-implementing it in code – and then query it from your server (or JS in browser)? Does the API make sense to you and do you think it would be useful? If not, how could we improve it?

Would love to hear your thoughts. Also, let me know if you’d like to try it out – we’re looking for a few users to give us feedback on the API itself.

[1]: https://grid.is

[2]: https://twitter.com/arnihermann/status/1425116225986834435

[3]: https://grid.is/@grid_examples/dog-age-calculator-Yjk:Fsm0Rj2mtJVcKqzr7g
> You on the other hand seem to have a "no pain, no gain" attitude to this

If solving climate change were pain-free we'd have done it already. I find it very concerning that there are so many people like you who seem to think it isn't worth doing anything that inconveniences them.
Since when is "the system" the thing that is supposed to win? To me, it seems more like the system is cheating the startup.

There's validity in working around or gaming systems so that a company has a chance of growing and thriving. The tactics used (contractors instead of employees, etc.) are perfectly legal. People are getting paid per an agreement, and they spend their income in their country/society, which disperses the benefits. A startup saddled with year (or two) long maternity leave and other such extreme requirements would make the risk too high.

These regulations create a regulatory capture situation where only large, established, or very well financed businesses can survive. Kudos to the agile and clever startups that find ways to make it, regardless. One should be on the side of the people, not the system.
The purpose of a credit score, is to show past payment history.

Current income, W2, working or not, all of this is a second factor, separately determined by the lender.

Web browsing habits are odd in either category.
Watch this get downvoted to prove his point.
> As fir other data, they don't gather it directly from the people about whom they keep files.

Sounds unethical.
Instantly reminds me of Wee Jock from Blackadder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5W5PtmNPKg
if you are not going to live in a home at least 150 days a year you shouldn’t be able to buy it and that’s final
More of a "if your a consumer that needs more than 1tb RAM, buy a server board" issue. The number of consumers that need that much memory are tiny and don't warrant a manufacturer making a board just for them.
I'm assuming that's what you use then? What kind of phone is it?
My greybeard anecdata:

I did exactly this in my early career and it worked great in small organizations. Mid to late career, I worked for a tech megacorp and was essentially forced to ladder climb because it was up or out. Eventually, hit a grade level that was oversaturated and got offered a package to leave on the 13th round of layoffs in my time there. My seagull manager at the time had no idea of how much organizational tribal knowledge they lost, but everyone my grade or lower who worked with me did.

I postulate that the size of the larger organization is inverse to the applicability of the "guru" strategy.
Haven't they just been talking about changing how credit scores are made and take it out of the hands of private parties and let the government handle it?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2021/07...
> Or maybe Tesla should not be allow to call it 'Autopilot' tm with small writing stating that Autopilot is not an autopilot.

I see this complaint frequently, and I find it confusing. The feature is clearly named after the 'autopilot' found on airliners, a system which is designed to do things like maintain heading, manage airspeed, and avoid collisions. Airliner autopilot should not be relied upon for every step of a flight without human oversight, but clearly an airliner with autopilot is safer than one without. And if a pilot engaged autopilot and stretched out for a nap, we wouldn't blame autopilot for any resulting catastrophe.

So, how is Tesla's autopilot meaningfully different from that? They don't call it 'self-driving', 'autonomous', or 'driverless', they've named it after a very similar existing technology.

Tesla deserves a lot of criticism, but this specific complaint strikes me as misplaced.
Maybe I should take another look! It sounds like a lot has changed. My experience, working on an XMPP client for an internal application, dates from 2011.
Using proceeds of the crime is considered money laundering, otherwise I could sell drugs, invest that money in stock and then get completely “white” money on how much the stock had soared.

How is Bitcoin different? If I buy a rare car from cocaine money does that mean that if they sell for more money than I paid for it I get the money back?
The ones with the power to decide or power to yield that power to another, as what already happens anywhere you go. You can't murder someone for slighting you, that would be intolerant in US law. Don't like it, yield power to change the law.
NPR tries too hard to come across as neutral, responsible journalists sometimes. Once in a while I'd like them to just call something bullshit outright. But I guess that's what got us to this age of incivility, so maybe NPR's way is better.
Right? Even suggesting that there might possibly be perverse incentives to prolong a state of emergency will raise ire and draw ban hammers.
I agree, it's not Calvinism.

It's American Conservatism. American conservatives fundamentally buy into the just-world hypothesis [0]. They believe that the world is so strongly a meritocracy (itself a dubious assertion) that it affects basically all aspects of life. It's why conservatives often champion "personal responsibility," while simultaneously excusing their own irresponsibility. They believe that when bad things happen to others, it's because they deserve it so they should be responsible for what they did. When bad things happen to them, it's just bad luck. That leads to cliches like "the only moral abortion is my abortion" and other such hypocritical nonsense.

I'm sure you can trace this idea back to one of the series of evangelical or fundamentalist movements in the United States, but personally I believe that it's almost always tied to the simple fact that many people manage to reach middle-age without having failed or suffered due to circumstances beyond their control while absorbing pro-American propaganda all their lives. It leads you to a mistaken understanding about how much power and control you have over your own life and about what the real causes of success are.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Ask HN: Reviews on Optimove?
reviews on optimove?
What we desperately need is for the tech giants and their mono/duopolies to be broken up, or for regulators to force them to make changes to their business in ways that allow for actual competition.

When that happens, the world might have more choices than just Google and Apple for smartphones, or Microsoft and Apple for desktop/laptops.
Or just use Firefox mobile...
Like something from Snow Crash.
There is in my opinion a difference between a car and a phone.

If a car fails, people can die. If a phone fails, it normally doesn't have a huge impact.

If a car disables itself, because the central electronics were messed with by laymans, not some repair shop, it is in my opinion totally okay, as it would otherwise endanger humans.

But for a phone/other non-critical electronics, there is in my opinion no reason why its functionality should be reduced, just because you did something harmless like unlocking the bootloader. (In this case, the camera could still make photos, just without the fancy patented/copyrighted algorithms)
How to sneak the Windows 95 credits screen into build without anybody noticing
They don't have any incentive to, in fact the opposite is true - they purposefully don't fix zero days so intel agencies can use them to spy on dissidents.
Everything you say is true.

But interventionism based on _your_ beliefs is a form of tyranny and usually stokes tensions which riles up support for your opponents ideology. It's not long lived.

All the things you say are things the EU struggles with Massively, and I'm not so naive to assume I have all the answers; but I have a hard time swallowing the idea that I know better than "Fundamentalist Muslims" or whatever else, because if that's the leadership they choose then unfortunately one way or the other I need to just let them get on with that.

Doesn't mean I agree.

You're right, though, that there are things like the human rights conventions, and the EU is quite good at not working with countries which do not ensure basic protections; but to some people (brexiteers, for a good example) this is also a form of tyranny.

You can't appeal to everyone, so you're basically imposing tyranny or allowing a tyranny of the majority in some form; as you so eloquently put it.
In that iMessage scenario, the family member has to explicitly approve sharing anything with the adult on the iCloud account. Nothing happens automatically.