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> After selling it briefly as a standalone product for $49.95, Apple started bundling it with every new Mac for about a decade. If your Mac came with System 6, 7, 8, or 9, you had HyperCard

The full story here is:

Bill Atkinson went on an LSD trip and had the idea for HyperCard (literally according to his own account), and wrote it. He gave it to Apple in return for the promise that they would bundle it with every Macintosh for free.

Eventually Apple realized that selling and giving away Macintosh software like MacWrite, MacDraw, etc, undercut their attempts at getting people to write software for the platform, so they spun off their software division as Claris, which coincided about the time of HyperCard 2.0 releasing, which became a paid Claris product. From then on, every Macintosh shipped with a copy of HyperCard Player, which just let you run stacks other people made but not author them yourself.

There were ways around the Player issue though. The copy of HyperCard on our family Mac somehow had the HyperCard application from 2.0, but the Home and other stacks from HyperCard 1, leading to me always being confused with reading any documentation, it took me literally years to realize what was going on (we didn't have AOL or anything back then, all I had were two HyperCard books from my uncle)

The last major update to HyperCard was in 1992, after which it was abandoned (but still sold, with no updates, for another decade)

There was an effort to rebuild HyperCard as a new interactivity layer for QuickTime 3.0 so that you could build multimedia applications and host them cross-platform on the web with the QuickTime plugin. This made it to an early alpha that was demoed at WWDC. Steve Jobs came back, and hated Bill Atkinson since he was a traitor who stayed at Apple instead of going to NeXT, so killed it.
You want widgets. But you don’t want the average user to slow down their computer with malware infested widgets. You don’t want to spend thanksgiving weekend disinfecting your aunt’s laptop of all the fun toolbars and cute widgets she installed.

So you set a good example. You don’t install frivolous widgets. You tell everybody never to install things that claim they will just make a cute animal appear on their desktop. And even though you know that this bouncy ball widget is safe and fun because you built it from the GitHub repo… you can’t install it because you can’t explain to average user why it’s okay for you to install the fun bouncy ball but they can’t install the kitten that chases a ball of string.

So we can’t have nice things, sorry.
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appreciate it! would love to hear your thoughts after using it
Nice. I also have a fondness for flip-dots. Started with Javascript controller for Hanover bus display (https://engineer.john-whittington.co.uk/2017/11/adventures-f...) and continued with the Alfa-Zeta modules following a commission to make the controller for a 256x56 one - 24 panels!

For that I used a Python module (https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/flipdot) and Python Flask/React based manager, with sequence info in a SQLlite db. Same outcome as your App with pre-loaded transitions and of course, Game of Life: https://engineer.john-whittington.co.uk/2020/04/game-of-life...

It's my project TODO list to make a FPGA based direct HDMI controller for the Alfa-Zeta modules since refresh rate of the on-board firmware leaves a little to be desired.
I fully believe we lost more than we gained from the breakup of AT&T - local access prices went up significantly, and while long distance rates declined, it did so roughly linearly with the decreasing cost of bandwidth.

In the end we pay about as much as we ever have in aggregate - but at a loss of all of the benefits the AT&T monopoly - subsidized general science research from the labs, a plethora of union jobs, and an overall loss of US manufacturing capacity.

My belief having working in the sector, anything that looks like a utility is better off as a tightly regulated monopoly than being open to the winds of competition.
From what I understand carbon comes from the soil as well as from the air, and it's supposed to be "stored" back into the soil by various means but our agriculture and more generally human activities tend to accelerate release of carbon from the soil and refrein the storing process. And that provokes a climate disimbalance.
There was a good video on the relation between carbon cycle and massive extinctions throuhout history (1h long) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTO2w0fbB4
Thanks a lot! SO many interesting recommendations in your comment. Yes, I agree that divergence is a very positive property right now, it might also allow for even more unexpected cross-pollinations and comparative studies as the pool of studies gets bigger.

Yes, I think I agree that just general non-determinism within such systems makes it impossible to "model" them. But, I believe regardless of how stochastic the behaviors are, there are certain properties that the systems might be optimising for. Long way to go for all of us.

Thanks again!
That is available in regular ComfyUI, though theirs does look very easy to use.

The neatest prompting tool idea I saw was one that used an LLM to do prompt refinement for the image, though the implementation I found was more antagonistic than helpful. It garbled my prompts into near-synonyms, giving me a basically equally crappy prompt but for a very different image.

The varied prompts are very neat too, where you give it a template string and a list of options to interpolate and it generates an image for each combo or random combos or etc. Very nice when you want to see the same image with different moods, lighting, backgrounds, etc.
Ubiquitous televisions and beer. Or smartphones and fentanyl in the 21st century.
+1 as well. Because the Aeron is so iconic, they seem to retain value much better, so they are expensive in the secondary market. Leaps are cheaper, but I personally think the Leap is a better chair.
> In Finland we don't have credit scores, instead we allow looking up defaults.

There is also the newly established The Positive credit register which contains list of all of your debts. Lenders must pull (started in April 2024) the information from there when they are making the decision to grant or deny the request. The report also contains your income for past 12 months (I assume those reported to Income Register). I'm not sure if there is regulation on if they actually need to use the data or not.
How does this compare to Decker ?

https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html
I like auctions. Cash the day of the sale.

Hopefully there is a provision for somebody to come along in advance and purchase the whole lot.

As is, where is, no warranties of any kind.

Ideally someone who has the wherewithal not to move it, can you imagine someone having that much financial ability and talent when it come to real estate too?

I always felt so disappointed when I had to pick up working surplus and move it straight to storage myself. There's so much real junk out there and it would be such a shame to let it become co-mingled.

Hopefully, bulk buyers will be able to make rescue bids after piecewise bids have been taken and totaled.

There's lots of individuals that could afford it, real billionaires and stuff, all it takes is the right stuff. The kind of guts most people just don't have, whether they are very well-heeled or not.

Regardless of how it's sold in the end, there will be some sum total dollar amount that it all amounts to.

And people will know whether Allen's work was respected well enough to be maintained as an intact collection representing a great man's life's work, or if it ended up dispersed in a way that is only fitting for things like Allen's great art collection. Art is a different kind of life's passion. Allen's long-term collection & preservation efforts are not as diminished when the less-interactive non-tech artworks are dispersed.

After the hammer comes down, people can then play armchair quarterback, to see which of their favorite billionaires can be rated as to whether or not people think they would have been able to afford keeping the museum going financially if they really wanted to.

Plus any high-rollers can be more or less compared to what percentage of their net worth some random (and not so random) youtubers are dedicating to preserving other rare milestone tech gear out of respect for other great technology pioneers.
They have sensors to do this. They also know how to cycle the cabin air completely from the Covid days.
To me, this seems like the way to reduce the carbon emissions the least, while pissing off the largest possible voter base. Also making the least fortunate suffer the most. Brilliant move, slowly clapping here.

Make a few decisions like this in a few years and voila, you get pissed off masses who won't suffer any more taxes or cancelled bbq dinners for your "libtard agenda" and another Trump-like fellow will rise. Meanwhile no one taxes private jets or yachts for carbon emissions. I guess their costs are not "externalized".
Where is the rent-seeking happening?
I saw some numbers about 30x and 10 years, but yeah it's definitely an externality that should be taxed.

But if we have two situations (A) where 1 tonne of fossil Co2 is added to the atmosphere, from e.g fossil fuel and (B) where 1 tonne of renewable methane is added, from e.g cows, it doesn't feel obvious to me how to compare them.

(A) will increase the Co2 PPM / have a GH effect for centuries, if not thousands of years. So on any human timescale it's essentially permanent. This has a pretty clear price in many tax frameworks.

(B) will have a 30x GH effect for 10 years.

What's the cost of externality (B) compared to (A)?
Shouldn't the farmer's get a credit for growing grasses that pull it out of the atmosphere?
This looks like something that could be useful. What is the reason that you use a desktop app for notifications? Most systems use integration with tools like Slack or Teams.
This tool is not really relevant to my line of work, but I do wonder: Why is the AI (Muse) not named the same as the product (Scene)?
This is a great Ask HN, I'm excited to read any input the community has to provide. To be totally honest though, I didn't realize Skype was still a separate service.

I'm not personally aware of any SIP / VOIP solution that would include specific Apps and such - love to know more!
Well, really it is an altruistic trait : I will contribute my best to improving circumstances regardless of reward. Of course this is honorable.

self sacrifice does not make someone a "sucker" by necessity
I mean, you put the US in the list with Russia and the Middle East. I suspect it was either unintentional or a bit of rhetorical flair, but that’s not a list we belong in, haha.

I get it, as I responded in the other comment the Germany and their EU partners share a fate. It’s definitely closer than EU/US. But the US/EU relationship is more like friendly competition than rivalry.
> As with everything in America

Who do you think the 7.5 million on SSI are, if not those people? We already have Basic Income scheme for people we deem unfit for doing any kind of work.

(Note this is different from the 7.3 million on SSDI, though people sometimes confuse the two, or simply don't know SSI exists)
But bundling exists everywhere. Why is Microsoft the only offender?

Like you pointed out with cable, if I want just Disney Kids on cable, I need to buy all of Disney's channels, including ABC, etc. This is because that's how the cable provider has to buy it from the networks.

Why aren't they being told they have to unbundled channels from each other? I can't pay per view sports games - they offer subscriptions that bundle the entire season. The NFL is the worst on this. Why can't I just pay a few bucks to watch one game?

It seems like if bundling Teams with Office is that big of a deal, then customers should stop using Office, and use a competitor, just like I avoid cable.
Hi HN community, author of the post here. Let me know please if you have any questions, comments, or feedback!
I've found Logseq the easiest tool for taking quick and journaled notes. Since outlining in plain/markdown text is really quick and I don't need to think on text formatting or organization, just write, and fold if I want to have focus on something (plus it's open source).

So I have a daily template like this:

- Meetings (where I take notes about my meetings)

- Tasks (where I set the daily tasks, if there are unfinished tasks I can move them to the next day, but the idea is to set tasks that can be done in the same day)

- Notes (any quick notes that doesn't deserve a full page, like quick annotations)

Then for more long text I use Notes.app or Bear.
He ruined Twitter with the intention of making a quick buck.

That he has failed does not make it incorrect to say that he did it for a quick buck.
Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software. Can't remember its name, but for example in the late 90s/early 00s I ran across an extension that gave dragged icons gravity and momentum, allowing the user to "throw" them around their desktop. No practical purpose, just fun.

Arguably the Kaleidoscope fits into this category too. While there were tame themes for it that did more tame things like make your Mac look like Windows/BeOS/NeXTSTEP/etc, many third party Kaleidoscope schemes skewed more whacky and fun than your average theme software. Ever wanted your desktop to look like a pair of jeans[0], a dwarven forge[1], 2D top-down space shooter[2], or cute cartoon jungle[3]? Kaleidoscope has you covered.

[0]: https://i.ibb.co/x1YsFqt/denim-scheme-dtdenimsit-vbpf.png
[1]: https://i.ibb.co/fdXKKV2/eritis-forge-2-eitrisforge2sit-p5vq...
[2]: https://i.ibb.co/TryF6VQ/boilerplatetm-boilerplatesit-vrao.p...
[3]: https://i.ibb.co/cCLYpKL/monkeyparadise-monkeyparadisesit-ss...
> less low fat vegetarian options

so... you eat less bread and feel better? surprise!
the regulators deserve considerably worse than a middle finger

https://teamster.org/2023/05/teamsters-halt-waymo-in-san-fra...
> In theory, a censor block is gonna come on an' the screen will say severely, "Public Policy Forbids This Service." You hafta have censor blocks or the kiddies will be askin' detailed questions about things they're too young to know. And there are other reasons. As you will see.

A Logic Named Joe, Murray Leinster, 1946.
… When computers didn’t all have permanent internet connections, which limited the damage it was possible to do by having a persistent executable running on someone’s computer.

There was little to no spyware or malware risk because this was a time when stealing CPU cycles couldn’t make you money, machines couldn’t be used to anonymously generate internet traffic, and exfiltrating captured data was essentially impossible.

As soon as all the computers went online, the frivolity had to stop.
I’m happy to have watched the Kerno team build to this point and am very excited to see how they continue to grow in this space!
Shame indeed.

That whole idea of “my opinion isn’t up for debate because it’s actually not my opinion — it’s a fact. And therefore there will be no discussion…”

It’s infiltrated so many other social spheres and I would argue it’s one of the top contributors to why were so polarized and divided today.
Wow. This is a really informative comment.

>While I agree that nitty gritty formalizations are important to grasp, it's been made clear that the formal sciences were often insufficient in facilitating insight on the type of complexity cyberneticians cared about -- especially that of process oriented circular causality, which often involved paradox and self-reference.

I wholeheartedly agree. Hence why I think we are dealing with an entirely new type of science, the basic principles and theorems are yet to be discovered.

Lots of interesting pointers and links throughout. Thanks again!
But the good news is that demand for oil and petrol will be decimated as well. More EVs mean less tons of petrols burned per vehicle per year. So there is that. The resource burden of ICE vehicles is ginormous. A small increase in recyclable resource use for EVs that allows for retiring most of those is completely worth it. A mere tripling suggests that that price is very low actually.
> A brave new world where the poor people eat artificial meat and crickets

Or, you know, vegetables.
I can't tell if you're being tongue-in-cheek or not here, but yes. For many reasons, we need to dramatically and quickly reduce industrial beef and dairy production. The effects it has on climate change, the water and land usage, and the effect it has on antibiotic resistance are all reasons we need to stop immediately. Of course, we won't because people are selfish and myopic, but we absolutely should.
I would say that it's thanks to rapid population growth that water usage per capita got lower.

They kept the same number of golf courts and enormous swimming pool, but increased their population.
Where are the performance spec sheets?
Congrats on your breakthroughs in writing laws.
Hi taubek! Everything we build is about streamlining the experiences we provide, from monitoring and troubleshooting to discovery (no need to wait for something to go wrong, right? ;)). We found such integrations (including native desktop notifications) to be lacking in terms of context presentation, interactivity and actionability. We know it's not the usual stuff... but that's kind of the point! Let us know your thoughts when you take it for a spin! :)
I dont disagree with that. Honestly, I think chat should just go away in favor of emails and meetings (and meeting minutes). I've had too much business knowledge disappear into the Slack or Teams void that I can never get back.
"no one taxes private jets or yachts for carbon emissions"

Canada does, it has a carbon tax on pretty much everything except fertilizer and heating fuel.

Broad based carbon taxes are the correct solution, but they're also the reason Trudeau is going to lose the next election.
We use Slack for text comms and Teams for video meetings. Seems like a decent balance, Slack video calls seems very unpolished compared to the Teams video experience.
Can you give some specific examples of how the Singapore gov't does this?
After 10 years of startups and 10 years of FAANG, I’m thinking of maybe going this route too - can one do it while primarily focussing on the work though? I’ve always had the impression that starting one's own company is an even mix of sales, accounting, and doing the actual job...
Everything is satire, if you're not the one on call.
That’s opening a can of worms. Fundamentally, the real number system is larger and weirder than “we” mostly think it is (and hence its extensions to higher dimensions). If you start trying to remove objects it easily becomes a game of whack-a-mole; some of your nice, intuitive definitions elsewhere become muddy. Colin alludes to this in the article (e.g. should all sets be measureable, etc.). If there were easy and satisfying fixes for this, it would have been sorted out long ago!

This isn’t just aesthetic. Although probability is one of the oldest areas of mathematical thought, dating back millennia, it took measure theory to put it on a really solid basis, several decades ago. These approaches are powerful and useful, but some of the corners are certainly counterintuitive.
Thanks @The_DaveG! We'll continue to strive and do our best to "wow"! :)
Maybe this tax is not good, it feels a bit too specific to me. However, if every country and leader took your position, actually tackling climate change would be hopeless, maybe it is.
Neighborhoods being separated by socioeconomic status is a phenomenon seen all over the world, probably for much of human history, so it seems like this is the most likely solution, absent a national wealth redistribution program (which would theoretically work due to immigration controls).
Gosh, is this the level of your understanding? Not everything in the energy-sector is about burning down something and getting electricity from the heat.

Coal is using in chemical processes for smelting, producing steel and other metals, creating concrete and other chemical compounds.

> If coal seems to be special/different, and not replaceable by other generation forms, why is the plan to get rid of it?

Because the plans are about replacing whole processes, fabrics, plants, devices, products... It's not as simple as just switching a cable or making a new contract with a new provider. You basically have to build a new house, and that's time-consuming and expensive.
so if you write a book you are allowed a pass , hmm, interesting

on the other hand, its not good marketing for the book if people dont like your actions or behavior
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – remove it immediately
> "tacit support for fascism"

Can you give an example that he's expressed?
> Really? You've never learned about chemical processes, heat, conversions of energy? Isn't this something you would learn in school?

[Edit: in another comment in this sub-thread.]

> Is that the same Canada who sold their uranium-mining or nuclear rod-productions to Russia?

No, this one:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McArthur_River_uranium_mine

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Lake_mine

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_River,_Ontario#Economy

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Canada
All three of the areas mentioned are so spammy and spam-adjacent that it made me curious if this whole post is just to tee-up a friendly recommendation.

OP's post history (8 comments but hundreds (thousands?) of submissions from their own domain) doesn't do much to dissuade me of that notion.
It's likely an attempt to kill off beef farming locally I'd say.

> "For example, farmers could change the feed they use."

Finding an alternative to already optimized feeding process will likely cost farmers more and the output be less, that cost is shifted on to the consumers.

But consumers will simply buy cheaper imported beef from Ireland, or even from Brazil where the meat production may be less stringent than inside EU.
> rich techies

nice, i love the creation of robotics jobs
Everyone can find their niche audience on Patreon and whatnot now, which means there's fewer incentives to guide people if they go off the rails. On the other hand, it also empowers people operating in smaller niches that have difficulty surviving otherwise, which is kind of neat.
By mechanical Turks for a few years.
And people who need spreadsheets are not the same as people who need documents as people who need slides etc.

Of course there is overlap, but there is also lots of overlap among those who need chat/meet and those who need slides.
We still use Chrome, don't we?
We don't offer any non-free-to-use checkpoints/LORAs on the platform out-of-the-box. If you wanted to import a model/lora to your own account from a CivitAI link you can do so, but we're at this point letting users do this under good faith that they have permission to use these models.

We also have face IP-adapter nodes in our app!

I would say there are a lot of more minor UX differences about our app than other offerings. One particular favorite of mine is the ability to switch between the Node Editor screen and the Playground screen using cmd+p.

We built this feature mainly bc the node editor isn't great for generating images, but it's awesome for dialing in the exact aesthetic you want with different nodes/settings. We built the Playground screen for generating images once you have a workflow you like.
Do you have a source for free falling wages? I’ve not heard of this problem and feel like this chart supports the opposite claim of steady growth.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/612519/average-annual-re...

I’m not even sure standard of living was remotely comparable to today on most metrics from interest rates to quality of life (especially for minority groups.) Sure cpi is up for specific categories, but cpi has spiked 2 - 3x today’s rates in recent history. So I’m curious what metric and source you have for this claim too.

Not meaning to discredit what you say, I am genuinely curious about any analysis you have!