This person just shared (for free) tons of experience, knowledge and insight into thinking/problem-solving process, for others to enjoy and learn from - and your only comment is attack on them for "stealing" somehow, by not sending e.g. 300 WA messages, but instead kilobytes of HN content?
How much would you calculate was stolen this way? Based on which factors?
As a side note, those pesky "tech people" are most certainly not THE most paid profession, now or ever.
I wouldn’t be upset to see a disclaimer that this was done as a proof of a technical concept and not to save a buck.
For readers, I totally understand trying at once but it would be odd if e.g. someone I know who makes six figures told me they exploited this on every leg of their journey.
We wouldn’t want to fill our water cups with soda even if it only costs the restaurant a penny.
And I'm just surprised when people still react to what he does as "unbelievable", "illegal" etc... I get it, but it's weird how persistently people still try to frame Trump's actions into moral, legal, historical, cultural, responsibility or any other framework.
He is someone who was born into wealth in the worst way possible, and was never - ever - subject to any moral restrictions, material consequences, or requirements that depend on any positive qualities, effort or success.
In those conditions, his bullish way of behaving always got him what he wanted in the moment, without any downsides or counter-weight that would regulate it. Time after time, he was given proof - by us, the society - that there are no consequences, or they are just so unimpactful, and that he can continue doing what he does. There is no framework that he needed to adhere to.
He was then placed into practically the same position within the government - being able to do whatever he wants and benefits him (directly, or through benefitting his posse), and there will be no material consequences of any kind. If he comes up to any inconvenient restrictions put in place before, they can just be removed first.
And that's it, that's what he's been doing all along. He doesn't have any higher interests, any ulterior motivation, or ambitions - in every situation, he just uses it to get something for himself in that moment - even if openly solely to be able to brag that he did it - and he makes himself look big by lying or belittling others, and that's it. Just a very simple unrestricted narcissist, on grander scale.
Their behavior is quite simple to understand and predict. It's just that they can rarely be SO up there, so unrestricted, that people still seem to struggle to not try to tie him to norms and frameworks.
Sadly that's the conclusion I've had to come to recently. I wanted to have hope in my fellow Americans, just attributing their choices to being poorly informed or just foolish, but, no, they're just as mean and greedy as he is. They like watching people suffer, and now that they've had their first taste of cruelty, they want more, more, more. They'll be that way long after Trump is gone. They're just mean-spirited assholes. It sucks.
Their motivation seems clear from what they voted, and what they're cheering for - they want to be able to behave without consequences in the same way as well.
Blame others (dems, libs, immigrants, races, religions...) for everything that's wrong, screw the "government" whenever possible, "grab them by the ***", and treat others and the world in the same way Trump can.
It's the same in every autocracy - the leader is providing an outlet for the immoral / suppressed / forbidden thoughts, actions and feelings - they either live vicariously through him (even if they are worse off, but that's blamed on others), or can now do some of that stuff because of him.
The root cause of the current political environment is income inequality and endless funding for wars. The people who support Trump are losing the economic game and had no better representative. The reality is that both parties are owned by the investor class and support foreign funding for wars. Until we as a society figure out that the left vs right struggle is just a distraction from the investor vs labor struggle, we will never fix this problem. Note how everyone in this thread is blaming Trump and the conservative party when the Kamala and the liberal party would likely be doing the same thing, because they both support Israel and the IDF and cover up their war crimes.
All this stuff about trans rights and gun rights and freedom of speech and other random culture war issues are just a tool to keep the labor class divided. The root cause is wealth insecurity, it won’t automatically solve the other problems but it’ll turn down the temperature. I wish people would wake up to this and stop fighting their neighbors when they’re both on the same team.
I don't really understand why people still talk about impeachment.
It has been very clearly shown to be a futile formality that only makes the ones doing it look even more powerless and worthy of mockery in the eyes of the other side and their supporters.
In a bygone era, impeachment would rely on concepts of shame, responsibility and public duty - it would be unimaginable that person that was impeached does not step down from the position and likely from political foreground fully - from the moral and social weight of that consequence.
We've seen last 2 times how thoroughly that weight no longer exists in modern society/politics.
Without criminal responsibility, there is no responsibility left at all.
One thing I don't get fully is people that say "it's easier to write code" - we use n8n for workflow orchestration - a junior developer can put together some nodes to e.g. get data from an API, transform it (by writing code), prepare a CSV, send an email. In about an hour. You then have a workflow that you set to run every night at 2am, and that you can open, understand visually at a glance, modify, and continue running without any other actions required. All self-hosted on a small VM.
Alternative would be writing custom code, deploying it somewhere, setting it to run automatically on schedule somehow, and modifying it and redeploying through a dozen steps every time.
Of course there is docker and cron and deployment scripts - but all of that is not needed with n8n for these kinds of use-cases.
For me, that's the primary value of n8n - nodes themselves are nice-to-have shortcuts, some of the time. Maybe I'm not familiar with tools that make it easy to "just write code" and have everything else (deployment, orchestration etc) covered?
After some thinking, I've concluded that I'd actually like if there was a large collision that resulted in a chain reaction and took out most of the military and commercial satellites. It's obviously needed, in order for people to reassess their priorities, and whether additional garbage will be left with every mission.
(if we're imagining, without damage to ISS and scientific projects, of course)
If you find yourself rooting for the system to burn, it’s usually a sign the analysis stopped one layer too soon.
It’s tempting to think a big crash would finally wake people up, but that’s not how it works. When things fall apart, folks just rebuild the same broken setup, only shakier. Look at the Internet. It was supposed to change everything. And it did! Except we just ended up mostly reinventing the same old power structures we had before, just with different players. (There are some really good exceptions tho!)
The real move is to figure out what makes people change and get them to do to, before it all goes up in flames.
What priorities do you have in mind here? Let's say all commercial satellites explode: A bunch of people have to change internet or TV provider and a few percent of them are stuck without for a while. It gets harder to make calls in certain areas. Our maps update somewhat less often. What does that accomplish? What's being reassessed at the large scale?
It's quite wild to think how US wouldn't want access to their data on a plate, through AWS/GCP/Azure. You must not be aware of the last decade of news when it comes to US and security.
The US and South Korea are allies, and SK doesn't have much particular strategic value that I'm aware of? At least not anything they wouldn't already be sharing with the US?
Can you articulate what particular advantages the US would be pursuing by stealing SK secret data (assuming it was not protected sufficiently on AWS/GCP to prevent this, and assuming that platform security features have to be defeated to extract this data—this is a lot of risk from the US's side, to go after this data, if they are found out in this hypothetical, I might add, so "they would steal whatever just to have it" is doubtful to me).
The NSA phone-tapped Angela Merkel's phone while she was chancellor as well as her staff and the staff of her predecessor[1], despite the two countries also being close allies. "We are allies, why would they need to spy on us?" is therefore proveably not enough of a reason for the US to not spy on you (let's not forget that the NSA spies on the entire planet's internet communications).
The US also has a secret spy facility in Pine Gap that is believed to (among other things) spy on Australian communications, again despite both countries being very close allies. No Australians know what happens at Pine Gap, so maybe they just sit around knitting all day, but it seems somewhat unlikely.
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