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Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by joshuamorton »

easterncalculus wrote: post #205
cryptoz wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not going to "calm down radicalization" with phrases like "killing cancel culture" and suggesting that viewpoints you don't agree with on twitter/the platform as a whole as "unreasonable narcissists".

No one mentioned opposing viewpoints except you, and only to downplay real-world harassment as a mere difference of opinion. The radicalization occurring on Twitter is encouraging 'adults' to gang up on others (often children) and try to get their lives permanently ruined over ACTUAL differences of opinion, or for vastly disproportionate acts. So yes, we should use the word 'kill' when describing a force that destroy…

> You can express your opinion on Twitter without personal attacks and threats of harassment and violence. This should not be a fringe opinion.

I can. I expect that most people can as well. I don't however agree that any opinion should be expressed without consequence. If someone says "we should kill the Jews and reinstate the 3rd Reich", or "The place of blacks is subjugated below whites". This reveals how they see others, and making sure that their employer is acting based on compete information seems perfectly reasonable.

> The "narcissist" part is the need to do so for beneficial social points among those that do

Why are you ascribing nefarious motives to actions? Why is it clear that these people are acting in bad faith?

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by als0 »

majidmir wrote: post #215
jawns wrote: post #170

I hope this counts as weird enough ... PROBLEM: If time travelers from the future were to visit you, it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity. SOLUTION: Temporal passwords. At the start of each year, you devise a new password. You commit the password to memory, but you never write it down or divulge it to anyone until Dec. 31, when you submit it to the Temporal Password Registry, which publi…

How do you know they are not just good mind readers instead of time travelers?

Need passwords greater than 4095 characters :)

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by [deleted] »

fgdorais wrote: post #182
jawns wrote: post #170

I hope this counts as weird enough ... PROBLEM: If time travelers from the future were to visit you, it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity. SOLUTION: Temporal passwords. At the start of each year, you devise a new password. You commit the password to memory, but you never write it down or divulge it to anyone until Dec. 31, when you submit it to the Temporal Password Registry, which publi…

What if the visitors are from November of this year?

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Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by sings »

hermitcrab wrote: post #81

Writing a no-code drag-and-drop tools for transforming data (join, filter, reformat, reorder etc). The hardest bit is handling cascading changes to the column structure (e.g. removing and reordering columns) intuitively - particularly if they change the input file to one with less columns or differently ordered columns.

Love this idea. At one point a few years ago I was keen on creating a visual interface for lodash for non-coders. Watching nontechnical users try to navigate repetitive tasks is always hugely frustrating. Decided in the end that if they won’t use a spreadsheet they probably wouldn’t use a website.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by rsecora »

jawns wrote: post #170

I hope this counts as weird enough ... PROBLEM: If time travelers from the future were to visit you, it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity. SOLUTION: Temporal passwords. At the start of each year, you devise a new password. You commit the password to memory, but you never write it down or divulge it to anyone until Dec. 31, when you submit it to the Temporal Password Registry, which publi…

If the time Travelers came from the past instead of the future, the password sharing is useless.

maybe they have jump [1] from the past after doing a change that alter your present (their future) trying to fix the future (your present).

[1] https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/entertainment/back-...

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by Cerium »

amelius wrote: post #46
httpsterio wrote: post #11

I've been mulling over an idea that is essentially a combination of personal ID, secure digital authentication and online communications all baked into one. There's a EU directive instructing on how citizens should be able to identify online with eIDAS. In my country, you can use eIDAS to authenticate in basically any governmental agency portal, but you can't get any eIDAS enabled auth method as a citizen. The curren…

> throwaway addresses Unrelated but speaking of throwaway addresses, it would be cool to be able to create a throwaway postal address (which is then translated by the postal service), so online shops don't get your personal address information.

That would be a nice service that the postal service could charge for. Virtual po boxes that could be created or re-routed on demand. You would just have a one line address, and when the address is digitized it would be converted to the current address.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by chiefmcloud »

aiven wrote: post #191
chiefmcloud wrote: post #153

I’m working on a new way to talk online, with the goal of killing cancel culture, increasing understanding, and basically calming down current radicalization. Picture Reddit, but with the ability to anonymously share ideas with other people in your social circles. My theory is that most reasonable people stay off social media, so places like Twitter end up filled with unreasonable narcissists. At the same time, discu…

Are you trying to reinvent 4chan?

4chan is one idea about how people can talk online with total strangers. The conversations my friends and I have at the pub are very different from 4chan, but also very different from Facebook. Recording everything you say so it can be played back years later in a job interview changes things, and I would say not for the better. But our conversations also don’t sound at all like 4chan threads, where it seems like “ironic” idiots talking to idiot idiots.
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