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Product looks great. I totally feel the need for new open-source-but-not-for-AWS-to-steal-my-product licenses; however I'm not sure about that vague license for database would work for you.

A “Database Service” is a commercial offering that
allows third parties (other than your employees and
contractors) to access the functionality of the
Licensed Work by creating tables whose schemas are
controlled by such third parties.

So, if as a service provider, I control the schemas can the customers query the data using your SQL? Can I just collect data, put them to database and proxy their SQL to DB? i.e I'm the co-founder of Resmo (https://www.resmo.com) where we let customers run SQL on their cloud/saas assets configuration, can I use yours? The current wording seems to let me because we don't let any customer to define their schema, resources schemas are defined by us, for now.
Underrated reasons to care about inequality
There's no value in thinking all day about how bananas are delicious. Before you can eat the banana, it has to be produced and shipped. That process does not even involve thinking that bananas are delicious, so that kind of thinking isn't abstracted in the production process, it's simply irrelevant.
I think Google has support for some things but not most. For example, if you are a Google Workspace (previously GSuite) customer, they do offer Live Chat and my experience was positive the last time I used it. Do they not offer similar support for GCloud ?
Climate change is the #2 reason I'm not having kids; I think it's unethical to bring children into a world doomed to war & famine. (The #1 reason is that I don't like being around children.) If you want folks to have more kids, you need to address the reasons they're not having them. As the OP of this thread and myself indicate, environmental concerns are a big reason.
We can have population growth and still solve the impending environmental disaster.

On top of that, a declining human population results is an increasing young:old ratio. Fewer younger working age people supporting an increasingly older population. Socially and economically that will be a disaster, which will make solving ecological issues significantly harder.
Comparing tax rates is notoriously detail driven but...

I earn a (healthy) 95k. I pay 35% in NI and Income tax. I'd pay another 9% in student loans if I wasn't lucky. So 44% total deductions

https://listentotaxman.com/?year=2022&taxregion=uk&age=0&tim...

In France I'd pay the exact same rate overall (95kGBP->112kEUR)

https://salaryaftertax.com/fr/salary-calculator

I think this sums up the UK: European style taxes, US Style public services.

Cynicism aside for a minute, I think we have a real issue in the UK with a diminishing tax base: fewer and fewer people contribute and they have to contribute more and more of their incomes and everyone gets less and less services.
If people who understand these issues don't procreate, then people who don't understand this will dominate and keep ruining earth into... ground?
Sorry. Can't speak to the situation across the pond.
Russian war crimes apologists are the worst. Nobody forced Russia to invade a sovereign country (or to consider itself the rightful owner of those lands for that matter), that's entirely their fault. And it was mind bogglingly stupid, as we can see a few months in, with the massive losses to their army and economy. It wasn't something to prepare for because it was unthinkable. It was still a huge risk to prepare for though.
People tend to forget Yugoslavia, which was really in the heart of Europe and killed about 150k people.

There is a lot of hyperbole about Ukraine, not least because of Russia but so far it is not intrinsically disruptive outside of Ukraine's (and Russia's) borders beyond the disruption to Ukraine's exports (e.g. wheat). The disruption to gas supplies on Europe is mostly self-inflicted and not an intrinsic consequence of the war.
In the U.S. falling back to standard time from daylight saving time is rough. Those days have 25 hours - and the interval from 1:00 - 2:00 repeats (you reach 2:00 and fallback to 1:00 and repeat the interval). Makes power scheduling difficult - which 1:00 - 2:00 interval are you talking about?

Also, the offsets between the timezones change. Eastern Daylight Time falls back from 2:00 to 1:00 Eastern Standard Time, which coincides with 1:00 for Central Daylight Time. So Eastern Time and Central Time are the same for one hour interval. Of course in the Spring you have the opposite problem - Central Time will be 2 hours behind Eastern Time for a one hour interval. So much for your interval time calculations! Also, the U.S. has changed the transition dates for the time change.

I'm so glad to be working on a system where I no longer have to worry about this crap!
I like Hype Machine a lot. I listen to a lot of new music - music by artists with no prior success. I am part of a small audience of music listeners. But consider if you want to make value in music, elevating the new artist is a goal.
Personally I prefer sequencer because that's what they were called back in the day. DAW to my British ears seems like a clunky Americanism that's sounds wrong both as D.A.W. and rhyming with door.
Weren't these all civil suits?
Caps on (housing) rent suppress development. Caps on rental profit (economic rent) suppress profiteering.
Safari / webkit has some technical limitations. For uBlock Orgin on webkit, Orion is supposed to be the better alternative - https://browser.kagi.com/
It's weird, eh?

Do you think it might be useful to post one of these threads a month later with the intent being for people to engage in a meta analysis of the discussion here, the intent of the delay being to establish a state of "cooler heads"? Something like forced/intentional mindfulness/abstraction?
SEO has become a crucial arrow in my quiver as a product builder. I thought I'd share the tools I use most often to monitor performance and grow my sites' traffic.
Once upon a time, I worked for a shop that did auto insurance. This involves handling a lot of fairly sensitive data about people and datasets about a lot of people, for reasons that boil down to it being incredibly useful data for actuarial purposes.

Bossware, or working machine monitoring software, endpoint monitoring, or whatever turned out to be a key part of making it possible for our data scientists to function. At all. It was the only way we could both protect the incredibly sensitive information about lots of people while allowing analysis work to proceed.

Aside: anyone who wants to talk about doing data analysis without access to the underlying data is cordially invited to explain how to do this to statisticians who only understand R and local Jupyter notebooks.

"But wait!" you protest, "Can't the business work just as well without that sensitive information?". That's a good question! The short answer is no. No, it cannot, and unfortunately there's a great deal of actuarial history behind this.

"But wait!" cry you, "Could you have not simply trusted them?". That's also an excellent question! To which the uncomfortable response runs roughly: how comfortable do you feel with "we trust them" as the primary security controls when some company has your data? Especially when that trust means you might not even know about a breach? How do you think a regulator concerned with privacy would look at "we trust them" as a security and privacy approach?

Unfortunately, I think some forms of bossware serve a purpose. Sometimes it's one of the few options available that enables trust beyond the directly interpersonal.
With all due respect to the author of this, this is not particularly strong reasoning for or against UBI. It is very myopic, shallow point of view a single implementation issue, without even discussing others.

However, it turns out that the very principle of UBI itself is the gravest danger to a civilized free society. UBI will work probably great in totalitarian setting, where individual human life is the last thing of value to the state itself.

People have to realize that with a right comes attached a duty. If someone else has a duty to secure my right to income, he is my slave so to speak. He has to create value/wealth and there must be force to transfer it to me. This FORCE is government. The natural tyranny of states using FORCE to redistribute wealth should be so scary to humans anywhere (more so in self-proclaimed free societies).

If someone can tackle this issue in real-world setting good on you. But even a moderate thought will convince anyone that as a whole to a society nothing comes as a right. Everything (wealth) has to be produced by someone. There is no automatic wealth in nature; poverty is the default condition of humanity.
They have microSD but not sure if that alone justifies price tag
In the US 1 & 2 happened in a big way certainly, but there were also large direct payments to people below a certain income along with significantly bumping up unemployment benefits (to the extent that many were making more unemployed than they were when they had jobs)
Money, jobs, IP, skills, influence. As I pointed out in another thread, Europe loses a lot of top IT/CS graduates to the US every year because they can earn 3x to 5x the money.
I guess this comes down to the balance between the marginal cost of offering an additional product line with a different firmware and the marginal revenue of winning the privacy first market.

Then there’s the constant problem with pay-to-avoid ads… the people who have the spare cash to pay are the ones the advertisers want most. Removing them from the target population lowers the overall value of the targetable group and reduces revenue for your ad-supported products.
I wonder how this would pair with Elixir & LiveView. My initial thought is that it would work together quite nicely.
Using Tauri for my most recent project, I have to say the Development experience was phenomenal.

Only downside that the article rightly points out us the knowledge of Rust, which was new to me.

Also Tauri has Android & iOS targets on its roadmap too.
Is there video for this?
I thought we declared debt to be irrelevant years ago? Why not create a company that buys all the toxic debt after people declare insolvency and then safe that company with tax dollars? Then feign surprise about the toxicity of the debt. Seems to be the goto strategy.
Yeah, I've thought before about how those track with the birth rate decline.
Inflation occurs when demand is greater than production. This means there is too much cash flowing around. By raising interest rates, you tighten the cash flow : It's harder to get cash from the banks, thus the demand will diminish, and the prices will lower.
Building list of startups who are willing talk to users
Certainly one hopes, although one also hopes that Putin is acting rationally and is advised by people who can speak truth to power.
How is the market not free? Apple is not even close to a monopoly in the laptop space
Ok, now prove that they are shitty so you can fire them.
> We're now seeing senior citizens get their Social Security garnished for student loan payments! Do you want to see people with a lifetime of student loan debt?

shrug. If you're old and not working anymore and have debts you can sell your shit to pay off the debts. If you don't have shit to sell then you're poor. I do agree that debts shouldn't be able to take your income below a certain livable level, but there's some level between liveable and full social security payments, then sure, let people who lived a life of debt drop to the lower bound. There is basically no upside to subsidizing these folks.

There's quite a lot of benefit to freeing young people from debt at the beginning so that they can build up wealth.

*I'm aware a 50 year old person is often not "old and not working anymore"
> We can have population growth and still solve the impending environmental disaster.

But will we?
you see what happens is without the skeeters, you dont have any food for the frogs, and without the frogs you lose the birds, and no birds means no cats and no cats means no pets and no pets means human suffering. or is there something else?
Often times people need to talk to someone to fully understand a project. If you're open to talking to others about your project on a video call I'd be happy to add you to this Project Conversations list here:

https://cold-acapella-1b7.notion.site/6edb2c9bfd204bab9a1879...

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And yet you are on round two of responses to it.
Show HN: VSCode Working Memory – Capture everything in a single text file
It's a dead simple VSCode extension based on Cal Newport's idea of a single text file productivity system.

Capture everything in a single markdown or text file. Specify the file and use shortcut to open it in new tab from any VSCode project/workspace.

Also, there's a quick capture option to append line to the top of the file without opening it.

That's it, nothing much. I have few simple ideas on how to extend this workflow without making, so any feedback or contribution is welcome.

Here's Cal Newport explaining the gist of the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MOxvedJXM&ab_channel=CalNew...
A few people mentioned that this has some Last.fm vibes. While that's true, here's my thoughts on how they differ and what prompted me to create Digs:

Last.fm mostly answers the question: "What I've been listening to mostly, this month?" whereas Digs.fm aims to answer the question: "Which album I discovered (i.e. listened for the first time) AND liked last month?".

This essentially comes down to the fact that Last.fm tracks "listens" of an album/track/artist, no matter if its the first time you're listening to it or the 1000th, where in Digs.fm _you_ (manually) track the _first listen of a release_.

Likewise, Digs aims to answer: "which album did my friend discovered and liked?" or "what album does my friend wants to listen to?". The premise is that, the fact that a certain person (which I know) found this interesting, is a good signal that I might be interested to that as well.

So, I'd say that, while they do share similarities, they're different tools that aim to tackle different needs. I myself was using Last.fm around 2008, then forgot about it until last year. I activated it, but I haven't looked at it ever since. I'd say it's a good tool to look at the yearly reports once or twice a year, but to me that was about it.

In contrast, I use Digs daily (I'm biased :P) to see what my friends discovered, add new albums to listen to my lists or pick something to listen from my "Want to Listen". Also, I love discussing about something that I listened or someone else listened (this is done by commenting on activity items).

Ultimately, I wanted a way to track and organize music discoveries (not listens), and make it so that I can easily share them with friends, and perhaps spark a discussion around those.

In fact, a few people asked for an integration with Last.fm, in which you could import the albums/artists from Last.fm in Digs, and add then manually add those that you want to a list.
So $200 x 3, + $100? It's 20 dollars more to get Apple's insurance than to just get it replaced!

Brutal!
Very cool… live queries are a game changer!

What’s the testing story? Do I need to connect to your servers in order to do e2e testing? Any plans to offer a mock server or anything like that?
Inflation is due to the amount of money (over $10 trillion? hard to find a solid number that doesn't end in bickering about small details) created by the US Federal Reserve, in no small part in order to pay for handouts to people in businesses.
No, 11. Took the last place I worked about 5 years to rollout a pretty good solution to a massive legacy set of servers. Though I gotta say, the super privileged automated certificate renewer thingy does seem like a real honey pot.
owning a company sure takes a lot of ... file a document
I agree but we already wage this never-ending tug of war against advertisements and "viruses", we don't need another one. But hey, off we go, all in the name of "employee productivity"
> Does it matter if he was literally an asset or not

Does what is actually true matter, at least plausibly, all things considered?
Maybe for you. But not for me or others.
Careful where you stick your nose.
A lot of wear items on cars have been hard to repair for a long time. If we're judging "right to repair" by how easy it is to replace, say, a clutch on a front-wheel-drive car, I think computers are already ahead.
Working part time would be the next logical step and it is in my plans as well. I have dependents though so Im still waiting for the next opportunity to do so.
> "Office 365 went from being an online version of Microsoft Office to being a bossware delivery-system."

I feel like a fool. I watch Microsoft like a hawk, and I didn't even know about this. Every time I think I'm too cynical about a FAANG company -- and Microsoft in particular -- I find that I haven't been nearly cynical enough.
Thirty years later, how a son helped nab his mother’s rapists
There are no more europeans coming in. Ye know, low wage and visa restrictions don't work when it comes to people moving in from high income economies.
Show HN: Your UI into a CMS
Hey all! After using some CMS and i18n libraries, I thought that the overall experience could be improved.

So I made Dynamite:
Make any website editable by your team incredibly fast. (Copywriting + Localization)

Would you like to use it? (waitlist on the website)
"Boss took big risks, so save that poop for when you get home."
Do you know who thegrayzone founders and editors are? Hint: they're not crazies, they're pro journos with classy reputations.
I'm all for privacy and I cringe at the idea of workplace surveillance of the type described. That said, this article is loaded with false comparisons and poor analogies and just doesn't make its point very well. In general, it confuses "The Bad Government want to intentionally surveil you" with "idiot corporations chasing profits incidentally surveil you and think you're enough of an idiot to swallow it".

> 20 years ago, if you were eating your dinner under the unblinking eye of a video-camera, it was because you were in a supermax prison.

Or a shopping mall. Or an airport. Or a convenience store. Or the lobby of a hotel. Or a bank. Or about a million other places.

> Now, thanks to "luxury surveillance," you can get the same experience in your middle-class home with your Google, Apple or Amazon "smart" camera. Those cameras climbed the curve, going from prisons to schools to workplaces to homes.

This is a fundamentally inaccurate comparison. Nobody is forcing anyone to get a "smart" camera. I don't own one and I never will. Mandatory surveillance at work or in public is not the same issue as mandatory surveillance in private. This also totally ignores the fact that people aren't buying surveillance devices because they surveil. They're buying them for other reasons. Also, there's no "Them" out in the world making this all happen. It's natural evolution as technologies evolve and change. There's no conspiracy, just a lot of not particularly bright ideas colliding at once.

What we should be talking about are all the forms of surveillance people don't opt into - abuse of the cameras on your phone, laptop, etc. The scary thing, to me, is not "what will this technology you chose to acquire do when working as intended" but "how will forces you can't control subvert the things you have for other reasons."
The price to drive an electric car has spiked recently.

We are in this shit because of Putins war (75% of the blame), Europes general hatred of having a military (15%, say), and finaly Biden not being willing to use military force directly to stop Russia.

We can't do anything about the first, it will take decades to solve the second, but if Biden was willing to take of the gloves, Donbas and Crimera + a good chunk of Southern Russia could be in Ukranian hands come spring.

Then we could open up for their gas fields and end the problem.

Russia will try to push the narrative that this will mean a direct confrontation between them and NATO, but having seen how they do in Ukraine, this hardly matters.

Yes Russia have nukes, and some of their rockets no doubt work, but this scenarios does not trigger their criteria for use of nukes.
Well, the child seat in the back seat is also in the way of conception of siblings, so there's both...
As you said, there are a lot of good languages, but not a single great one. Similarly there are multiple good databases, but not a single great one.
Inflation of university education is already terrible. What used to be a ticket up into middle class and beyond has become a way to get clerical work. Number of graduates across developed world has risen considerably in the past decades, but what kind of benefit it had?

From something special and extraordinary, university education became mundane, expected, requirement. Something you just have to do. Never mind if it's going to give you anything.

In all seriousness. How many graduates do you think society needs? Do we really need people to spend 4 years in school, just so they can sit behind desk and fill forms all day? I'm sorry I don't think we do. And this isn't a take from US btw, this is from Europe.
And yes, I am mostly talking about liberal arts.

At this point, the only thing the system works as is a buffer to keep youth from workforce.
Please quote the actual thing I said, 'value to society'. That is what countries are (should be) concerned with.

And so it seems to me perhaps Belgium has a fairly sensible approach, to fund actual technology development, rather than monopoly schemes based on extant technology.
This resonates with me. It’s beyond tedious to get the kids in and out of the car seats all the time, and needing to buy a larger car to fit more than two kids gave me significant pause. We eventually decided to have more kids, and the positives far outweigh the negatives for us, but to this day the hassle of loading and unloading the car to go places is the single biggest negative experience of raising children. It adds an extra 5-10 minutes on each end of every trip compared to adults just being able to get in and out on their own.
> I have resources and method to address this stuff for myself but I don't have any ideas to address it societally.

I'll give one 'hot take': women have gone to work, now both women and men are miserable.

It used to be that a man would go to work, sure work oftentimes isn't great, but you'd come home to a wife and kids who don't know that world, whom you've protected from the 101 harsh realities of life.

There'd be a balance. Man works hard, comes home, gets the reward, everyday. Woman works hard at home, gets to not be exposed to 101 harsh realities of life, feels fulfilled, seeing her children grow up.

Not anymore.

We're going extinct folks - because who the fuck wants to do anything after a few years in corporate America, knowing you're stuck for the next 40 years, without a heaven (religion is done), a peaceful home, a better future for your kids, a community to be a part of?

We've paperclip maximized our humanity in favor of more stuff, so much so that we now optimize stuff to be worse, so that it breaks, so that we buy it again, so that we get to make and sell more paperclips, increasing GDP. Oh my god, you people are fucking nuts!
That's just the concept of energy storage. And even if we lose a significant fraction it's often not an issue given how cheap solar is.
Love you man great software
> it's very clear how workplace surveillance tech will be used to harm workers

My takeaway is not just that that, but that it will be used to harm businesses as they train their employees to do the measured thing over and above the best thing for the company.

I suspect most people here could envision this as an extension of a "Lines of Code written" based performance metric and intuit the likely outcomes.