skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hope is that this "techno-conservatism" would reflect and facilitate a mass movement which could then generate enough of a political and economic mandate to leverage us out of destructive applications of technology using existing systems of government. I feel like a lot of people, especially young people, are kind of already leaning this way. But I'm fairly apolitical myself, I don't want to start a revolution, y'know? If I run this up the flag pole and no one salutes, so be it.

"Techno-conservatism" isn't a political stance. Ecological harmony isn't a political goal, it's a prerequisite of any durable regime at all. The thing is living in harmony with nature is fun and economical so I would hope it's very popular once you've experienced it. (E.g. we have some hydrogen-powered buses here and the exhaust they put out is not smelly poison, it's actually refreshing! It has a delightful not-quite-aroma, it's moist and oxygenated. You only have to stand upwind of one once to realize that ICE vehicles are inferior.)

In the short-term, and on the personal scale, I'm imagining something like a neighborhood or small town as a kind of experimental zone or context. ( Check out Village Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes ) You're right that this wouldn't mitigate truly global issues like "forever chemicals" or global warming, but it's an improvement on what we're doing now. I think once there's a kind of "theme park" you can visit that shows what it's like to live well without messing up the environment it would really convince people to do it.
Highly recommend ClickUp
he is almost right, but you don't need to be a CEO to understand that

the cloud is just an infrastructure

be careful who you will trust and give your data

if you are a company/government, you better build your own cloud and not rely on these unstable/unreliable entities

i don't think github will be relevant within the next 10 years, they are loosing all their credibility with the gamification and people-ification of their platform

i personally self host everything, and i keep local backups, including my workspace, all local

i recommend everyone to do the same, and not give any power to these people, they will do as they please to achieve their goals, not yours!

they already scanned everything for their Copilot feature, with a hidden consent, imagine what they could do next for their own interests!

they already generate data/stats about you, your behavior, your taste (stars), and all is shared publicly, by default!

privacy and security is important when you take such claims about the cloud, and Github failed at both of them!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-attack...
Agreed, it’s like a big flashing neon sign that promises middle management a stage on which to act out all their worst impulses. It’s the exact opposite of “keep it simple and communicate with each other like humans.”
In what sense does this "power" Facebook? Do you mean it's used for most or some specific text editing components of Facebook?
Why nuclear weapons aren't getting bigger
The origin: why Porsche announced an SUV in 1998
This is the right answer. There are a level of people that exist as Senior+ people that anyone they've worked for or with would take in a heartbeat. They'd move mountains to have you.

Those people are not part of your talent pool if you put up barriers to entry for them. I understand those barriers exist to keep unethical people out, but that's just the trade off you have to accept with barriers in.

You're not going to get top class people.
I guess I was confused by your answer and thought I was asking a clarifying question.
Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
Yeah. They're looking for seniors, but they're treating them like juniors. Then they're surprised that they can't find any seniors.

You want actual seniors? Seniors have options. You have to be a place that seniors want to work, want more than they want to work somewhere else. Take home code assignments don't fit anywhere in that.
> After the advent of iTunes and Spotify, labels often argued that downloads and streams should be counted as sales.

I'm guessing this is still the case for many artists. How can they argue this at all? Who is the sale to? I doubt the record labels would say that I purchased a song after listening to it on a streaming service.
Unions and Mapbox is a very sore topic and now the subject of a NLRB lawsuit for firing the union organizers. https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/mapbox-sued-firing-union-...

But the union drive came far too late to help the larger problem. The big change happened in 2017 when Softbank invested $164M into MapBox. In retrospect it was far too much money with too many expectations. And with the ugly side effect of salting the earth for any other map startups. It only got worse in 2021 when MapBox's attempt to go public via a SPAC failed. They're plodding along now but it's hard to see what a good final outcome is going to be.
Show HN: Oblon – universal REST API server
Oblon is a web server that gives you the capabilities to store and retrieve any (valid) JSON data, using the standard REST API (see below). You can imagine Oblon to be one big JSON file that you can manipulate partially or at once. It doesn't have a schema and it can change its structure on the fly. All the data is persisted using a single SQLite database.

You can think of Oblon as local Firebase database (the original one) that is stored in SQLite (which makes it easy to backup, restore, administering, etc.

The easiest way to play with it is to use the docker image:

docker pull ghcr.io/vtashkov/oblon:latest

docker run -p 80:80 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -it --rm ghcr.io/vtashkov/oblon:latest

From there on, you can use the standard REST http methods to store and retrieve data - GET, PUT and DELETE are supported for now.

You can check out the whole documentation here https://vtashkov.github.io/oblon/

This is very early version, more like proof-of-concept. I would be very grateful if you provide me with any feedback, requests that will make Oblon useful for you and anything about it.
This is of course version for evaluation purposes only. In the future, if it proves itself worthy, my plans are to make it free for any development purposes and only ask for commercial license if it goes to commercial production.

Feel free to ask any questions or give any comments to me: vtashkov(at)gmail.com
Chiming in here:

I’ve been bitten as that employee before. I helped build a startup but my founders chose to not give us stock. We were then acquired and I got pretty much nothing. I felt that I helped build a significant portion of the company but was not granted a portion of that company.

If this employee is valuable you should compensate them. This should come with drawbacks such as sharing the on call rotation among other things.

Edit: I’m not saying that you shouldn’t feel conflicted here, but if this employee is worth making a “partner” and you can’t live without this employee then it might make sense.
Shout out to the programme manager at my old company. His attitude was "Use jira in the way that works for you". He could set up and modify workflows for me, he had good useful advice, and in total I probably spent 20 minutes a week dealing with jira. Which as a manager of a decent sized team I think is fairly good. As one of the comments on that site said "I'd rather use trello" I disagree, it was much better for having multiple views on things and by standardising across the company it was much easier to just get an informal view on what other teams were doing.

Most of the problems with jira are the people using it.
Yeah, I've yet to use something that doesn't make me sad and aggravated at the same time.

On my "hate" list: Jira, Asana, Zenhub &/or Github Issues, Trello.
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> Ex: I ask Apple for a short-lived token to attest to facebook.com or microsoft.com that I'm not a bad actor.

From a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751203
"Stop doing business with them" is not always a feasible option, or the cost is very high (more than many are willing to pay); that's the problem.
as long as someone is doing it
> People don't want mass housing, prisons, or industries in their neighborhood because of the increased risks (traffic, crime, pollution, etc.) and inconvenience, not just the effects on property values

LVT would force these people (on the margin) to move to less desirable areas since their tax bill will go up. When they people will buy their house and want higher density housing put it since it's cheaper than single family homes under LVT. Over time all the single family home wanters will be forced to live further from the city center/desirable areas as land value continues to rise due to development in the area.
>You know what causes obesity? Availability of food.

As discussed in the article, this fails to explain why there have been societies with almost no obesity and almost unlimited access to food (e.g. the Mbuti people of the Congo who get 80% of their calories from a copious supply of honey but have no documented cases of obesity, or rich people in developed countries prior to about 1980).

Death is only one part of the equation. I want to be healthy while I live.

>The toll from worrying can be much worse than what you're trying to avoid.

Absolutely. I don't do any of the things the series lists as their recommended ways to lose weight (even though I am overweight). I haven't tried the all-potato diet and I haven't moved to the top of a mountain. I just keep exercising and limiting my sugar intake. And what has happened is exactly what the series said would happen: I lost about 15 pounds and then leveled out. Which I'm fine with - all the evidence points to the fact that just losing 15 pounds does quite a bit for your health, and that's enough for me! I'm happy to focus the rest of my energy on living life and enjoying it.

But I think someone should be doing the research. Why are dollars going to weight loss PSA campaigns and studies showing that this or that diet might help people lose weight? These approaches haven't worked for decades and we could be funding research into some theories like chemical-mediated hunger.
Same. The Coway is very quiet, and it works rather well, as measured by the Dylos particle counter elsewhere in the room.
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I always use unique email as well. Just recently I started getting spam at newrelic@domain.com. It was easy to see where spam came from and add New Relic to the list of companies I’d not do business with.
< Tax land value, you’re punishing people for making land valuable.

No, quite the opposite. The tax is the same irrespective of the productivity of the land. If you make the land valuable, by making it productive, you've decreased the relative cost of the tax. That is the whole point of a LVT.

This is a huge problem where I live. Folks sit on these parcels of land that are taxed at super favorable rates compared to improved properties. This drives up the cost of existing land and makes building additional housing extremely expensive. Their land should be taxed the same rate as my land and they would likely sell as it no longer makes financial sense to hold onto such unproductive land.
I've got this setup to deal with cat litter dust. It works very well for that purpose and the filters are cheap (I get the cheapest one that's not see-through, <$10CAD I think).

That said, it's very loud even at the lowest setting. It's not something you want to share a room with. I use my home automation stuff to only run it when required, based on a motion detector at the litter boxes.
>The problem I have with the incessant Jira bitching is that I rarely feel that bitchers have a true understanding for the extreme difficulty of the organization-wide problem Jira is trying to solve.

This is a lot of hearsay which tends to devolve into a debate of "we absolute need this!" vs "no you don't, see X".

>Obviously some of the complaints (speed, stability) are very valid

I don't think people defending it fully grasp just how important speed and stability are, or at least live in a corporation where Jira was optimized better than the average corporation does. Given not everything is the fault of Jira, but when Jira is expected to be the place you go to all the time and it is that slow, it becomes very impactful to morale.

>"Jira is the worst project management tool, except for all the others".

This doesn't work until big corps actually try something different, but pretty much all of them push back on the mere idea of trying alternatives. If you can't invest a few months trying a different system, you can't judge it. And since those few months are seen as a "great risk", no manager is going to push the issue any further, even if Jira's costs per developer could easily run into the hundreds (or thousands, for 6-figures) a year on morale loss and time loss alone.

And this is the crux of the matter. Management likes concrete numbers. Management likes mimicking what other successful companies do. Management does not like fairly abstract things with great risks. Management does not like big risks with abstract rewards.
These people are pampered brats. Try being forced to document all your time and projects in Rally or Version1. You will beg to get Jira back. Software “engineers” are such divas. “I don’t play other people’s song.” As if they are some kind of celebrity.
Kind of cool. But none of these seem to address the real problems VR has. There's no VR content that is held back by the graphical fidelity atm. Aside from maybe porn.
Its like you can't be fired for buying Microsoft (as an IT purchase decision). You can't be fired for buying JIRA. JIRA makes everything, the most broken or dodgy processes look respectable. It keeps Managers and scrum masters busy. They have a toy to play with, and why not?, why should only devs have toys. I'm not saying I hate JIRA, or that it doesn't work. Its just that sometimes the tail wags the dog.
>Because it's really hard to kill off the market leader when the market leader is embedded into the core of how a company works.

eh. I've experienced a number of painful tool and platform shifts in my career that basically came down to "it's cheaper" so I don't buy that companies are unwilling. If someone provides the feature set that is some combination of cheaper and better, then the only thing you really need is a migration path (Jira import tool in this case), and you'll be able to make some sales. Make enough sales and you start looking popular and that can provide its own inertia. The fact that this has not happened is, to me, evidence that nobody has done it better so far.
> I've contacted a lawyer who works in the field, since I'm pretty sure preventing me from deleting my account is a violation of their TOS

If you're in the EU, it's also a violation of "the right to be forgotten" and you can contact your ICO.
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That’s optimistic.

You’re reframing tax-policy to shape landowner behavior towards your desired outcome on the presumption that this will be an improvement of the land by increasing the cost of owning it by fiat. Sin taxes exist for a similar reason and have similar problems.

Taxes should not be conceded as an instrument of power to reorient society into a form viewed by a subset of society as correct, but recognized as what they are sold as: a levy to provide revenue for an unprofitable but necessary organization (“the government”) to raise revenue in order to service its obligations to society. To the extent that this shapes behavior, it is as an unavoidable side effect. When you treat the side effect as the goal, you lose sight of the fact that regardless of reason, taxation is a taking of assets from its owners, and this is a moral compromise we tolerate in service of having a government at all.
You mean as hard as when Git obliterated every other VCS within the span of a few years? If products are better, they get adopted. How do you think every single company in the world started to develop for iOS between 2008 and 2010? When the upside is obvious and the path to transition is well-defined, there is very little friction.
Web3 sucks, yes. But that’s because it’s based on blockchain. Web5 won’t be.

Not all things crypto are about speculation and number go up. Many projects have added tokens for utility. THOSE projects are eventually going to be far better than their Web2 counterparts. By the people, not just for the people

IPFS team released Filecoin to let you store files in more than one “cloud” company like AWS or GCP or Azure.

MaidSAFE goes way further. They are building the ultimate in decentralized, uncensorable networks.

Jack Dorsey’s Web5 is using really good technologies like Microsoft’s ION (sidetree protovol) for identity, etc.

Okay and now for the part that will get me downvotes… I started two companies in 2010 and 2017 respectively, to build open source software and give it away on GitHub. I built them for Web2 ans Web3 to decentralize social networks, payment systems, voting, governance and more. Because communities need to run their own open source software, rather than relying on states and corporations. Otherwise our communications and transactions will be taking place on privately owned and centrally planned platforms.

If you want to know the details… click here:

https://qbix.com/ecosystem

https://intercoin.org/applications

PS: before downvoting me, actually look at this. It is not shilling any tokens. It is actually BUILT open source solutions, on github, that you can take and use today. If you don’t like something, at least comment and use your words before downvoting.
I don't use Jira. I'm aware of what it basically is. We're small, we use a pin board, 3x5 cards, and a drawer.

Do open source projects of any size use Jira? If not, do they use a basic knock off? The few not-so-big ones I've contributed to seem to get by without it, but maybe I just don't have enough exposure with these. If the open source world can be semi-productive without Jira, I think that's telling. The interested student can decide the details of what it's telling.
Weston Price (Dentist) travelled the world looking at indigenous people eating their traditional diet, and found they had very little tooth decay. Tooth decay starts up with the modern refined flour, refined sugar, diets. As well he found that they have very round wide mouths and not much teeth overcrowding that is so common today, and wide noses and nostrils, easy breathing through the nose. He put it down to nutrients in food, things like eating organ meats, around the time of Upton Sinclair, re-disovery of Vitamin C for scurvy and so on. e.g. https://elliottwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/westonpri...

More modern day dentist Dr John Mew suggests that wide, round dental arches with plenty of room for teeth comes from a lot of hard chewing; the tongue pressing up against the roof of the mouth to mash food also exerts an outward pressure which shapes children's mouths / faces to be wider, and that's missing with modern diets.

People elsewhere in this thread have brought up mouth breathing as a thing which dries the saliva and worsens tooth decay, that's affected by having narrow nostrils which are more difficult to breathe through, which could be affected by childhood nutrition and chewing?
I find it charming Zuckerberg actually seems to care about this stuff. He of course wants every human interaction to be monetizable by Facebook, total control of our dopamine channels, etc. but I think beyond that, deep down, he's just a nerd who wants to live in a VR dreamland to shut out the millions of people who call him a weird lizard.
Post the salary range. It's 2022, you can't just say "Benefits and salary are good " That is absolutely meaningless.

You're wanting ~6hrs investment (30 call, 1hr interview, and 4hr+ assignment) for an offer? NO thank you.

Why the scare quotes around "DevOps"? Is it DevOps or not? These words do mean things and matter.
I teach programming to complete beginners (adults) and I've experienced the exact opposite. For a beginner, the difficulty of learning a new language is really not to be underestimated. The new syntax, small differences in semantics here and there... it all adds up quickly and people get confused and overwhelmed.
Not going to read this rant because of time. But let me guess. Jira is a giant time waster. My main problem with Jira though is that it takes a lot of effort to configure it in good way. Jira is a piece of software that comes with plain horrible defaults.
Even then what? If the cycle continues where you’re continuously slaughtering and replenishing the animals for food and not letting them live their natural life, the argument that it is better at carbon capture is moot.
Your experience sucks but it's too simplistic to consider this malice/evil.

I think none of us fully understand the extreme levels of abuse a service like Insta (and several other services) have to deal with. It's abuse at scale and ever-changing, hence an endless cat and mouse game where non-transparent heuristics create false positives.

By the way, your method of verification (holding up a sign) is also common at porn sites. That's what my friend told me anyway.
My skepticism has nothing to do with how technically easy it would be. My skepticism comes from observing the behaviors of actual politicians. They're going to spend the money, not give it back, no matter how trivial giving it back would be.
Once a company takes VC funding or a buyout, or makes an IPO, any ethical promise they've ever made is null and void. Later when choices are made outside of their control, they wash their hands and say it's not their fault. But the founders break those promises at the time they take that money, when they willingly gave up their control. And the point of VC funding is always a buyout later, where all founder control will be lost anyway.

Once you take VC, the goal of the company is never to make the world better or empower their employees. The goal is now solely to make money, by any means it can. The funders will allow you to do that ethically, at first. When you're not making their return as fast as they'd like, which you never will, the ethics go out the window.
> They clearly want the rest of us to not expend the tiniest bit of energy to maintain any agency in the control of our own email, but why?

No one is telling you what to do, they're just saying that they didn't find it valuable for them personally. My experiences are similar.

You can do whatever you want with your email (...except send me spam...)
Blocks and Pages and Large Objects
> /r/onebag does have some good product recommendations but is somewhat skewed to young backpackers.

/r/onebag is skewed towards solving all your problems by buying something, and seems astroturfed to within an inch of its life.
My world view, summarized to the simplest term, is “incentives”. You can find places and times where people act altruistically. We all do it regularly. We most reliably act altruistically when it comes to our own families, with our children as the highest recipient of our altruism.

When you get beyond the immediate family, relying on altruism as the organizing principle starts to break down.

Societies that provide incentives for delivering value to other citizens - going to work, doing a job, becoming wealthy if you drastically improve society - will win long term over those that provide disincentives to hard work and providing value.

Web3 and crypto provide artificial scarcity to digital goods. This is an experiment in economics. I believe providing economic incentives, when properly aligned with the tasks desired, can result in a more efficient and successful internet. Relying solely on volunteers in any group has very rarely worked - even the largest non-profits have highly paid directors and legions of paid employees. This is not some revolutionary idea, other than the fact that digital goods can have artificial scarcity.