dekervin

I just want to say thank you.

I just sent you an email, you can see what I am hacking on in my bio!

The question that spring to mind is, when do you know if an information technology is more like the telephone or more like the fax. Also is there some clear consensus on the impact of the telephone had on the economy ?

Congrats on shipping! I dont know anything about this space, but I find the idea cool. Do you have an about page for the project somewhere on the web to get a quick overview ?

There was a span of 14 years between an implant allowi g control of an artficial hand, in 2005 , and an implant allowing speech synthesis from brain signals , in 2019 [0]. I am not sure the pace of innovation is accelerating drastically. (Edit: Sorry, I posted the wrong url in the previous version of my reply)

[0] https://roboticsbiz.com/the-history-of-brain-computer-interf...

Here is the evolution of the share of blue collar/white collar jobs [0] vs the evolution of fertility rate [1]. I am curious to hear your conclusions from that !

[0] https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1580...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Historical-Trend-in-US-T...

I have to say for a site that gather so much brain power in its comments, HN is so climate blind it's infuriating. The UK registered its highest temperature since records began and here, it's business as usual.

I am not sure we will go down tha t path, but I am really glad you provided that comment. It expanded my view of what is possible. I guess the experience your users expect allow you to use that method ? If you have more interesting details on how it works, I would love to hear them !

Interesting. Does that mean each user is its own chat room ? Will there be some drawbacks to that approach?

Thanks. What would be the best choice, in your opinion, between those FOSS solutions if the goal is to integrate them into an already existing app ? ( Pros / Cons ?)

I like your perspective. It reinforces and states more bluntly what were my thoughts on this topic.

But the app is partly a social commenting app, with reddit style comments. And for some other features, there are some one-on-one communications that need to happen. For now, those conversations happen out of band ( discord, ... ). Users that are out of the loop just miss out and even users that are in the discord room keep asking for in-app messages regularly. That's why now, it's on the todo list.

Since I spent a lot of time looking at "Who is hiring post" for fun anyway, I was looking for a way to make it productive and came up with a different idea [0].

I was wondering if you could detect the slow rise of a new technology and profit from it. Either by retraining or more directly, in the case of crypto, by trading on that info. I put together something, focused on a couple of crypto technologies and as luck would have it, it's still online !

[0] https://datum.alwaysdata.net/static/data-hnjob-trends/index....

Here is the most detailed explanation of the "plan" I could find online [1]. Let me know what you think of its feasability !

[1] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/hedge-fund-makes-short-wager-...

I read between the lines, that there was a play trying to short reserve assets of the entity behind tether or something.

Glad to see he is kind of fighting back. I am tired of the startup trope that somehow, blatant theft is a form of "flattery".

Interesting ! If I read your answer correctly, there was a time when German Army had more independent thinking than US Army. Is it common knowledge in military circles ? Did you always knew it or was there a time or a reason your worldview changed on that topic ? I am asking to compare with my "epiphany" experience.

I am taking advantage of this comment to ask a general question hoping to read some insights into it.

On different occasions after doing some casual war history reading, I ended up with the diffuse belief that the ability to delegate initiative to low ranking soldiers was one of the key attributes of the winning side ( for example during different israelo-arab wars ).

Then I stumbled upon a military evaluation of how the german army performed during WWII. It spent time stressing the point that german officers were constantly encouraged to show initiative and independant thinking, more so than other western european armies. Supposedly, it was a cultural trait dating back from the prussian army. It shattered my cliché view of the german army as first and foremost an organization built on discipline.

So here is my question: Is is possible there is a tendency/bias to simply view ourselves as more independant and any adversary we face as more "drone" like ? ( The same way ancient kingdoms would simply label their opponents as savages ? )

Wow ! Not even a hundred years has passed and we already have those far fetched self-serving delusions posing as historical analysis ? How about... cynically bleed out communists willingness to fight in one place, to deter any other place in south east asia to even think about charting an independant course ? It's as good as any other explanation IMHO.

Totally disagree with you. The parent you are referring to is framing the debate desingenously. Uber, and Uber insiders, are free to ponder all the intricacies and challenges of running Uber in its current form. As long as they recognize that drivers are not in practice independent contractors, with all ensuing legal consequences.

If they still insist on saying drivers are independant contractors, none of their whining about "tragedy of the commons" is anybody's business. Just provide information to market participants.

This is awesome !!! thanks a lot. Exactly what I had in mind :)

Thanks for the info. The [dead] tag doesn't show up for me, so I don't have any way to learn and correct my future behavior, if that's indeed the reason.

It's actually ironic in that case since I specifically chose what I thought was a reputable source as I didn't want the conversation to be derailed by stupid arguments veering into conspiracy territory; silly me :) .

I should update my prior on the reputation of that source.

(Edit: the original comment I replied to was a bit different, the structure changed while I was writing my reply)

Oh, thanks for that info. That's what I meant by things "I don't know that I don't know" :) . That reason didn't even cross my mind.

It would be useful if there was some kind of central place to learn about various "unexpected" behavior of HN, maybe something crowdsourced. I am just writing it down here since you have probably more experience !

I made a submission. Then I went outside on an errand and checked there to see if there was some comments. I couldn't find the post via search or in "new posts". Thinking of an error, I checked my profile without logging in and couldn't find the submission.

But when I came back home, I could still find the submission on my profile while logged in. I guess that's is some kind of shadow ban ?

Those are the right arguments if you want to defend the "market ideology". But "market ideology" is not the law of the land there. Tough luck.

As some said, the greatest trick christianity ever pulled...

What do you use in practice for multisig ?

I am working on https://datapeek.org , basically annotating online debates with data. I am open to collaborate, in particular with hackers with a taste for the business/marketing side of things. Email in my bio.

I am interested in discussing maths. You might want to add an email in your profile for contact. You can find mine there !

hey do you have any contact infos ? mine is in my profile !

It's so lopsided you'd think every hacker news reader moonlight as an engineer at a nuclear plant. I count 5 "insane" on that page already. German policies are insane, California is insane,... you get the drift.