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During my time with the Mac, from 1993 to 1997, I did virtually all of my dev on HyperCard. The exception was writing some "code resources" in C to access hardware functions.

Then I switched to Windows and used Visual Basic for too many years.

Today, Python. What's really happened is that I've walked away from the platform wars, and only use tools that run on any modern OS.

I've embraced Tkinter. What I've realized is that my main reason for needing to arrange GUI's by hand was to make efficient use of (by today's standards) tiny displays. My GUI's were never going to be liberating or beautiful because I'm not that good.

Now I can afford for my UI's to be less efficient of screen space, and Tkinter gets things good enough to be usable if expectations are realistic.
You dont need a nefarious scheme to have a market bubble.
They don't even need the AI navigation problems of delivery or military drones to be solved, just to be remote piloted along a given route. But all that solves is removing the risk to the human pilot and their weight - possibly being able to get closer to the fire. We still need to move volume of water to the target, and that means getting a lot of flying vehicles to the right location and time. There's been plenty of big area fires, but this is as bad as it gets in terms of population and assets exposed, so we need a lot of vehicles delivering water to a lot of locations simultaneously.

Being prepared for this scale of operation means either having specialty firefighting planes and drones in reserve, or having other vehicles - general purpose drones or cropdusters or, heck, a Globemaster with a big ballon full of water in its belly - that can be repurposed and sent to this emergency from all over. Airships would be nice for the volume, but they aren't exactly friendly to the turbulent conditions near a fire.
The article is talking about the relationship between insurance and housing prices. When insurance premiums go up, housing prices fall. When insurance is more difficult to get or not available at all, housing prices fall a lot.

> Assume a typical California home is worth $1 million and insuring it costs $5,000 annually. If the equivalent rent is $70,000, doubling the premium would reduce the house’s value by 7%

> State Farm cancelled most of its policies in Pacific Palisades last year; the median sale price there fell 16%

So, it follows that since the risk of natural disasters is increasing across the US, that insurance premiums will rise and thus home prices are inflated because they don’t account for that yet.
Seems like a company operating in the US according to US employment standards to me.

We’re free to increase our employment standards, we just have to outbid the American oligarchs for political power.

Did you know that there is actually no US federal requirement for lunch breaks or rest breaks?
I think it is a good idea to slow down on hydrogen as a fuel for cars for a while, because, unfortunately, it does not work well within our modern civilization. Even tiny amounts of elemental hydrogen can cause serious corrosion on certain alloys and induce steel based buildings to become brittle and possibly fall into pieces. Because of hydrogen’s near quantum nature, it is mostly a matter of when, rather than if such a gas would ever escape and create troubles. So if the tech ever took off we’d need to rebuild huge chunks of our major cities in the world very quickly; certainly doable, but much more complicated than simply adding the missing fuel stations.
I don’t think you can generalize anecdotes to apply to a nationality.
What do you imagine could happen?
Inflation is a way to raise taxes without actually raising taxes. Gov't just creates more money. Gov't pays its bills, people's spending power declines, same as if they were taxed.
Full-waveform inversion reveals diverse origins of lower mantle anomalies
This. Canada is between Europe and USA
Mostly blogspam.

AI is death for people whose primary skillset was being proficient in modern western hemisphere English grammar, because now you can input a few messy sentences and have it output grammatically perfect, if not stylistically perfect, English.
There's some of that, for sure, but isn't the issue that folks have been living in that area for ages? There's a lot of towns and areas that were founded 100 years ago when it either wasn't as bad of an idea, or we just didn't know how bad of an idea it was. It's not trivial to just go "yea, you all need to move to somewhere new".
The year is 2029. The LinkedIn/Meta merger has resulted in a 100% rate of LLM recruiter agents and applicant agents sending emails with keywords set not to display via the “color” CSS consuming all Internet bandwidth.

The survivors envy the dead: what few resources remain are devoted to an arms race between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk on building the tallest and most efficient phallus to nowhere.

The only way for anyone, wherever they were born, to be part of the rocket class is to apply for an H1B visa. The lowest rate of accepted applications is in East Palo Alto.

Surfer Zuck hasn’t been seen in decades.
For me it's a few things.

First, most/all new Smart TVs are doing automated content recognition, collecting and sharing details about what you watch with the manufacturer, which they sell and/or use to show you ads. My understanding is that most new Smart TVs are showing you ads regardless. I'm opposed to this on principle.

Second, at least the Smart TVs I've personally used (a couple of Vizio sets, a late-00s FHD Samsung, a mid-10s 4k LG) all have really slow and unpleasant UIs. The Vizio in particular was glacial, and I couldn't understand why the set owner even bought it (they were only streaming through built-in apps). I'm guessing newer and higher-end sets are fast, but I haven't used one myself.

And finally, I don't want an integrated device like this anyway, I would prefer to pair a really nice panel with a separate smart device (roku, apple tv, linux, whatever) so I can upgrade those independently. If I am buying a Smart TV with no intention of using the smarts, I feel like I'm either paying too much, or not getting as nice a panel as I otherwise could.
Never in my life have I heard this.
Yeah. Even if generative AI assisted workers are not as productive as their managers imagine, craven managers will still cut or refuse to hire staff and tell their employees to just use more AI to get work done.

I think many of us on Hacker News underestimate the depths to which middle tier managers will go to appease higher ups.

Even in the case where AI productivity is total fiction, that doesn't mean it won't have a huge impact on the workload given to a single worker.

All the way back to Pharaoh in the Bible when he is quoted as saying, 'They are relaxing! Let them make bricks without straw!'

Hiring reduction doesn't require an entirely real productivity boost.

It only requires the MBA and Management Consulting led perception that hiring fewer humans is now the smart thing to do!
Imagine Neil Postman living to see a generation for whom television is too demanding.
And Elon says they have run out of training data ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...
a) Nobody here is talking about unfounded things nor demanding anyone do anything.

b) There are not thousands of things to try. In fact in most cases there will be no options since you will need to be in a clinical trial, asking a Doctor to try something unproven and unethical or need substantial resources.
C-suite is a pretty huge salary expense. Seems like prime target for AI replacement.

And working for even a glorified clippy would be a better experience than some we’ve all probably encountered.
I should probably clarify.

Yes, the websites objectively suck. They suck in usability and also in design. But they also suck in content.

When you're an author looking for agents, you're basically looking for three things:

1. What genres/ages/categories are they interested in? (Or just as importantly, not interested in.)

2. What is their experience and track record?

3. What are their submission guidelines?

For many agent websites it's shockingly difficult to find this information. Even something as basic as whether an agent is open to submissions can be difficult to find. (Agents often close to online submissions, so whether or not you can submit is an important question!)

So we're really talking about a failure to think through, in a step-by-step way, what authors experience when they visit your website, what they want, and how to make that information actionable. It's "design" in the broader sense of that word, not so much the narrow sense.

The mechanical aspects of how to get content onto a page probably also interfere, to some extent, with making this all happen, but I think those are likely secondary issues to the issues of basic functionality and content.

But again, like I said: the incentives don't really align to make this a priority. That's the bottom line. If you get enough submissions then you have what you need, and you don't need to improve your submission experience at all. And the ratio of aspiring authors to available agents will always put this in agents' favor.
Does anyone know how this compares to: https://github.com/ximinng/SVGDreamer ?
I don't think that's an accurate framing. Businesses and employees are inherently in a relationship where they want pay to go in different directions, because they don't have the same shared interest. Exploitative labor practices are real, but it's not reasonable to argue that all lowering of labor costs is unfair, any more than it would be reasonable to argue that any employee getting his salary increased is unfair.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Elon has been pretty blatant about how he thinks Americans are lazy for not essentially living at work.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-chinese-workers
Future is i'm only buying TVs I can drop into dumb-mode and plug an AppleTV into... hate all these different TV OSes so much
What is a "security-related agent"? A robot guard?
Hydrogen is absolutely essential for our modern civilization. The world could not feed 8 billion people without artificial nitrogen fertilizer, which is produced with hydrogen (currently derived from fossil fuels). If the world annual hydrogen production were collected as a gas at atmospheric pressure and room temperature, it would occupy a volume of about 700 cubic kilometers. About 6% of world natural gas consumption is for making hydrogen.
My thinking is that maybe

* there aren't enough pilots

* pilots understandably don't want to fly too close to the fire

But a drone might be able to get away with carrying less water and do more of a targeted squirt.
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This is an oversimplification. One should of course take great care not to use generalizations to promote group-based hatred, but this is in addition to the fact that it would be naive (and impossibly restrictive) to declare nationality generalization forbidden. Nationalities, cultures, and many other set-formings of humans have salient features, on average, for better or worse.
>House prices are high because there's not enough supply in and around the jobs.

The median home price in Los Angeles tripled from 2010. The population in Los Angeles has declined since 2010.
Don't miss out on "The History Man", by Malcolm Bradbury, another campus novel that is as dark as it is funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man
And that person you pay fakes the numbers on your invoice, because everyone else does.
I think the problem is the way you are phrasing your argument implies the LLM is always wrong. Consider a simple prompt: "Write a hello world in Python."

Every LLM i've tested gets this correct. In my mind, it can't be both bullshit and correct.

I would argue that the amount of real bullshit returned from an LLM is correlated to the amount of bullshit you give it. Garbage in, garbage out.

In the end, its irrelevant if its a statistical engine or whatever semantics we want to use (glorified autocomplete). If it solved my problem in less time than I perceive I would have solved it without it, bullshit isn't the word I would use to describe the outputs.

In all fairness though, I do get some bullshit responses.
Mel Gibson was just on Joe Rogan talking about it

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1877525664040988721
The image has the label MAXAR at top right. I believe that company only does satellite imagery? Also articles that link to the image call it satellite data, eg:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/us/video/images-fire-before-a...
That's CEC working for you, nothing to do with a Smart TV. And you likely avoided the worst attributes by not connecting it to the internet.
My Apple TV always steals the input focus back from the Switch constantly. There is a specific order of turning things on that must be adhered in order to not accidentally disturb the Apple TV and awake it from it's slumber.

And there's key combinations on both Apple TV and Roku (rot in hell) that will occasionally trigger the LG WebOS UI to take over requiring fetching the LG remote from the bowels of the console to deactivate it.

God forbid someone slam a door while you're watching TV and it triggers the gyroscopic TV remote to wake up and put a hot pink mouse cursor on screen.
Just a reminder to people: if a company is monitoring for screenshots, you can take photos with your personal phone to send to journalists.
There’s oscillators out there that slowdown as they brownout. That would cause those symptoms. A lot of logic families have slower edges and longer delays too, not that there would be much asynchronous logic in a router.

Could also be affecting the analog circuitry more if the droop is too bad or its browning out. That could be loss of gain, SNR, etc.. that could cause packet loss and retransmissions
The idea of a stable ecosystem is a myth. Yes, in hundreds of thousands and millions of years the region will change dramatically. The difference between natural variability and instability is the rate of change. If left to the "natural" cycles and instability of the earth's climate, you would see gradual changes over tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years.

What people like you don't understand is that our man made climate change is 100 to 1000 times faster than anything nature has dealt (except say a meteor hitting the earth).

So yes, the climate has always been unstable over long periods, but never changed as quickly as we are changing it today. We are the meteor now.
Well I guess I’m not upgrading. Pause is the button I use the most
Supply and demand, yes. I have a loan at or below zero that you can't have, and if I sell the house I can't have it either. There is low supply available and high demand to keep them, which is tied to the house.

The summation of supply and demand for the materials and land as well as the financial products attached to them are all considerations. But the most notable recent supply change is those tied to monetary policy.

Zoning, codes, regulations and trades licensing have been the steadier hands on the noose but less so impulses on the accumulator. The truth is you can get around all of those if you pay cash ( I built an uninspected shithole to live in for $30k that is uninsurable and unloanable and i cant get a certificate of occupancy) but the main market is mortgagable properties tied to monetary policy.
When I think of smart TVs it's less about the kind of quality -of-life improvements you're describing and more about pushing users towards the in-TV apps and software to more effectively capture and sell usage data.

Though I do have a funny interaction with the former kind of "smart features" with my (otherwise wonderful) LG C1 and PS5 where if I start the PS5 first it takes too long to trigger the TV to turn on and gets confused and puts the PS5 back to sleep as soon as the TV wakes up and switches to the input. But honestly I think I get more amusement than frustration watching the two smart devices outsmart each other constantly.
I don't understand unreasonable positions like this.

Nobody is saying that people should stop "real" treatments or that diet must be the primary or sole focus for treatment. But given that a change of diet (a) costs nothing, (b) has no downsides, (c) potentially may work it seems strange not to do it.
The one thing I'm curious about with solid state batteries is if there's a path towards incremental improvements in power density like we've seen with lithium batteries?

It would be unfortunate if we get solid state batteries that have the great features that you describe but they're limited to 2x or so power density. Twice the power density opens a lot of doors for technology improvements and innovation but it's still limiting for really cool things like humanoid robotics and large scale battery powered aircraft.
Successful software career turned robotics (2015) here. After a crypto exit (unicorn) I committed 100% to robotics, driven by sheer boredom with software, nail-in-coffin typified by the perception of the crypto world's journey from utopian vision to sad elucidation of status quo slash enshrined large capital slash regulator interest. Also opportunity: had already learned Chinese, knew the domestic business environment, had a global outlook and felt this was a unique starting position.

The switch has been a very different run to most software people heading to robotics, because I did this without external capital in China where it is cheap and small amounts of money (relatively) are unreasonably effective due to higher iteration speeds and lower supply chain latencies and costs. Having thus learned a heap running industrial facility, including equipment selection, maintenance and integration plus managing cross-disciplinary teams across all aspects of mechanical, electronic, electrical and production/process engineering, we are about to raise for US-based go to market, with a target of outright purchase of a permanent R&D slash autonomous manufacturing facility in San Diego so we can punch holes in walls and get core process really humming.

If you are interested in multi-disciplinary design work spanning software, hardware and operations research (think "real life Factorio") please reach out. We have some interesting problems and seek to buid a US-based core of talented generalists with what we would hope is a PARC-style pragmatic engineering culture (whole problem in view) rather than corporate-style "fill in the blank" grind. Positive environmental outcomes such as avoidance of single use plastics are part of our values. Prospective early 2Q start. Email in profile.
The Samsung recipe AI totally reminds me of the silicon valley jian yang hot dog app episode. Lol
People know it’s bad but it’s addictive.
Corporations are driven by shareholders, through the board of directors, through the c-suite, which have a fiduciary obligation to maximise profits.
That's not really the dynamic. If director A used to oversee 3 teams, and she discovers that with AI she can now oversee 6 or 9 teams just as efficiently, she's not going to avoid doing it out solidarity with manager B who's looking for space to move up the ladder.
So to clarify the language -
>The days the office is closed are being made Work From Home days as opposed to days off, however — unless an individual team leader decides otherwise.

I would expect a good leader to decide otherwise, but who knows, maybe leaders deciding otherwise might get penalized.

So that means you have to work from home. BUT

if there are power outages / connectivity issues as there might be in a natural disaster they cannot work from home or if they are being evacuated then they cannot work from home, in these cases then they use their sick days. (but how - because they can't register those? Do they call in or something)

But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and

>This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for a sick child...

There is also some stuff about the manual not actually allowing anyone to use "natural disaster" as an excuse, but I guess that will be cleared up.
Computing, especially. It seemed we were headed for the direction shown in star trek, and instead we got ads and global surveillance.
Here in the product/research sense, which is the hardest bar to cross. Making it cheaper takes time but generally we have reduced cost of everything by orders of magnitude when manufacturing ramps up, and I don't think self driving hardware(sensors etc) would be any different.
The basic question for the next years is if hydrogen from fossil fuels makes sense. There's no other way to make enough hydrogen in the short term. In the long term I think that batteries will be better suited to use renewable electricity until we have a really huge surplus of it for most of the year to produce hydrogen. And then chemical processes that require hydrogen will be better consumers than transportation. Then gas turbines to stabilize the power grid. And if we still have lots of hydrogen left over we can think about using it for transportation. Not sure if we even reach that point.
IME the tests these tools write are complete shit and need to be rewritten by hand.
So you do bring up a very common line of thinking (and, I think, a common one that isn't expressed often in such topics).

Firstly, you seem to be conflating H1-B with obtaining a foreign contractor. That's an accounting burden, often comes with time zone issues, and does damage to a company's return-to-office agenda unless they are hired for something completely divorced from other teams. This puts the contractor in a considerable position as they can maneuver with effectively zero oversight. Great for the contractor, bad for the employer (at least the first time; after a rapport is established it could be fine).

If that's not what you meant, then the engineer(s) being hired are from a staffing agency or similar. But now you are at the behest of who the staffing agency pulls for local talent and their ability to retain said talent. Often, while incoming engineers can be vetted the employer doesn't have the latitude of choosing any engineer from the region and plucking them like they would s contractor or H1-B.

An H1-B gives the employer the best of all worlds at the cost of sponsorship. The employee works for them and has considerably less options as many companies do not sponsor H1-B visas, so they have less opportunities. Between the value of the US dollar and engineers being salaried much lower elsewhere you could likely pull an H1-B for half the price of a US engineer and in many cases they would still come out very well ahead. As well, by bringing them to the US you fix any time zone issues and RTO questions.

FWIW, I think a lot of US engineers tend to have a negative view on both being in-office AND having compensation reduced; I think most would be fine with a reduction in comp if it meant remote work - but most companies seem much more interested in maximum control AND minimal investment.
Executives are paid handsomely because of the value they bring to the company. Part of an executive's job is to meet with executives of other companies and make deals with executives of other companies. Those deals work, but they require the human element. Executives don't do their jet set lifestyle just for fun, they do it because human connection creates the best deals.

There is humans all around executives, they are in meetings with humans all the time, both inside and outside of the company. They even have humans to interact with computers for them because they are so busy interacting with other humans.

Where do you see executives being replaced?
I just opened the Waymo app and its service certainly doesn't extend to Sunnyvale. I just recently had an experience where I got a Waymo to drive me to a Caltrain station so I can actually get to Sunnyvale.