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Most people in the West now buy things with credit cards and constantly use their phone. These are absolutely not identity providers, but they provide far more tracking in day-to-day life than an ID card would, with none of the actual benefits.

ID cards only facilitate a surveillance state, when they are monitored for every purpose... mobile phones and payment cards (even loyalty cards) already provide that.

UK taxes are based upon a (National Insurance) number, or at least contributions are, which is explicitly stated as 'not' being an identifier, and often has the same number used by multiple people.

There seem to be many ways that identity is handled that create massive technical debt, but very few that actually try to do it correctly for the actual benefit of citizens.

> That’s breaking their spirit but it’s essential for them to become adults

If being an adult, is a human with a 'broken spirit', that may well explain many of the problems with modern society.

> do a bunch of work you hate

How about we encourage people to use the skills and passions they have, rather than box them into conforming to the vision of the few ?

ORMs and query builders can also constrain the implementation from a performance and flexibility perspective though.

Your anecdote and reflections are all absolutely true in my experience, but I've found just as many problems with off-the-shelf ORMs.

The key is the clean boundaries/interfaces and keeping things simple - leaving the bridge intact so that your enemies may retreat.

This, absolutely.

There are already many people today who cannot tell the difference in realities, and likely many people who think they can but only succeed some of the time.

It's so pervasive that soon it will become the 'only' reality (online) and then it's too late. This is what the marketing people want, just like the sugar companies.

That's a good compromise, until you consider stalkers and/or Scientologists.

> in an era where status and success are highlighted by displaying what one buys and owns on social media

This is no different from the people who used to show off their rolex in the pub, or park their BMW on display thinking it was impressive.

The 'show' may have moved, but it's still the same people who gain the same amount of 'respect' that they ever did (not much).

Besides, I would guess that most professors are not so worried about their car (and in fact many may prefer a more sustainable mode of transport) as they are to their research and citations, and the advancement of their students.

It's also important to put as much thought into any synthetic key.

It's easy to just use an auto-generated sequence... but then you start having to export/import or otherwise merge data, and other manipulations that often use the primary key and find there are collisions everywhere. There can also be problems when needing to support multiple databases, or update versions.

UUIDs (or equivalent synthetic keys that are independent of the database itself) are often the best answer for this reason.

Having been bitten by sequences so many times in the past, I find them to often be more trouble than natural keys in the first place - just a lazy approach.

Luckily .NET is open source.

"Phase 2 never happens"

Employee 'rights' are often much stronger outside the USA and so whilst you potentially pay more, you can 'downscale' much quicker as well. Look where most of the tech layoffs happen.

> These questions apply to AI, as found in the following DocuSign products and features: CLM, CLM AI Extension, and eSignature (for select eSignature customers). It is also relevant for AI Labs services.

Not familiar with the product set of DocuSign, but how much of the general usage that people see is from CLM - is that the main product that is used ?

Nobody really knows what public sentiment is in the UK, because nobody is asking. They're all just telling the people what they 'want'.

The sample sizes for any polls are tiny, and the areas/people that are sampled are not comprehensive.

It's fairly likely that the people (or a majority of) want the Tories out, as all sides are suggesting that and it's about the only consensus we see.

Brexit was such a mess of misinformation and rushed voting, on something that the majority of people had no idea 'what' they were really voting for, that it should never have been taken as binding - and it probably wouldn't have been if the remain vote won.

At this point, it's unclear if the UK will start to even recover in the next 5 years, or just keep getting worse.

The 'future' likely doesn't have a browser in it at all.

What does it offer over Mastodon, and following hashtags as topics ?

So brains are required for multi-modality, but not actual 'intelligence' ?

(Herein everyone screams at my misuse of terms and tells me I'm wrong - which at least should help explain things)

I sense this may be the new AI benchmark soon.

I'm not saying at all this is AI (although at least some pictures may well be), but I can imagine youtube being filled with AI-generated content in a similar fashion going forward.

Question for HN: How much of this, with the correct prompts, could AI generate right now ?

script-kiddies, state actors, misconfigured botnets...

Motivation can often be like why everything is re-written: "Because we can" or just "Because it's there".

I'm not in the circle of these things, but history/news suggests that many are performed by those under the age of adult prosecution, or from countries that don't care, so there is minimal risk, and even when there is those involved are not the sort to believe they will get caught.

There seems to be no mention of cost/pricing anywhere. Perhaps it's visible once signed up, as I presume it's not free if it's making money.

Landlines are being taken away by 2025.

I was going to ask who Ackman was (yeah, I don't keep up with the twitterati) and I find he's someone who fits with Elon very well: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackma...

Good cop, bad cop

Think of a tool that you can say "Listen to all phone conversations and notify when someone talks about $TOPIC"

No remote is seriously disappointing, though not surprising considering JRM.

London-only says everything.

An armed population would not improve the UK government in any way.

I would even suggest that despite the USA having guns, their government is just as bad. I'm not sure that plans to develop a new airport runway would be 'stopped' by civilians turning up armed.

Personally, I think this is where Patreon (and similar) shine. Allows 'true fans' to support directly with a much smaller cut than traditional distribution/publishing mechanisms, whilst also not requiring long-term subscriptions.

If your content is in demand, you do well.

Really hoping this isn't a book telling you how to make money by self-publishing, or similar.

Self-publishing as discussed elsewhere, is certainly the way to go, otherwise those profits would have gone to the publishers.

...and then having it taken away immediately on first payment, for someone else to constantly make money in the future.

There are many problems here, that society has 'built in' from the dawn of the printing press, to move the control and power into the hands of the 'publishers' and control/censorship into the hands of the government.

As a programmer, I create. Then my employer takes my work and makes it theirs, with control and ownership (and profits) going forward. I could leave my job, open source my work for the good of society, but maybe not be paid. I could 'license' my own work, and rely on copyright.

Licensing is the core of the problems here - the fact that easily (enough) reproducible creations are expected to keep bringing in payment for work done just once. It doesn't happen with most trade skills. It doesn't happen for physical works of art.

Perhaps society needs to look at this concept of 'intellectual property' and realise it's just another mechanism for control and power, that has no good effect or benefit to society, only to the wealthy and powerful.

It would be really interesting to see how small it could stay whilst adding in support for OpenGL.

I agree that it's a wonderful page (although the :symbols confused me a bit), and I want to add that the simplicity of the page, size and lack of complex (almost any) Javascript harks back to how I remember the web when it started.

A clear and concise webpage that gets the message across perfectly without needing megabytes of 'content'.

Clearly also because very few of us are willing to spend thousands (tens of) in upgrading our heating to heatpumps...

It's unreal to witness the fall of 'so many' 'civilised' 'democracies' in real time (whilst living in one).