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How about banning the most deceptive practice that is advertising prices without taxes?

Wait, not being able to make a picture of yourself is pretty draconian? In this case, the world before smartphones was a living Hell on Earth.

And jet engines do not have any lower-tier market with underserved demand

They actually do. The segment of small jet-powered (military) drones is rapidly growing and isn't served by the big jet engine manufacturers.

Good point. I've found their website: https://www.x402.org/

We need standards and protocols, not another megacorp inserting itself between people. Micropayments should be part of the HTTP protocol.

Arguing without a common goal (objective) is always about personal beliefs (subjective).

It develops itself once you drink wine frequently enough.

It's not laziness. It's a shift of burden (bullshit checks) to the consumer. That burden is not trivial. It takes time and energy, so it's much better for the society when people don't have to do it often. LLMs (will) increase that burden by orders of magnitude as we're going to experience bullshittification of pretty much everything - entertainment, services, software, gadgets, science & research, healthcare, lawmaking, etc.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Benefits of being a billionaire are vastly overstated. To live a happy life, you don't need to be a billionaire.

Never use animation just for the sake of it. This article would not have existed had software designers stuck to this rule. All examples in the article use completely unnecessary animation.

"We collect everyone's data without paying a dime or respecting copyright, trained our models, but you can't train your models on our models that are trained on everyone's data collected without paying a dime or respecting copyright. We did a hard job stealing that all data and processing it, have some shame!"

Refuse. Reject. Rebel.

It's refreshing to see people doing something conceptually interesting outside of the LLM domain.

I don't see any problem with refunding the massive AI expenses. All the AI costs will be pushed down on consumers whether they need AI or not. Nobody will ask them. Everybody is so deeply hooked on SaaS and cloud and LLM providers that they have lost any bargaining power and will pay whatever prices the hyperscalers and SaaS platforms will tell them to pay. The prices have already been raising because "now it includes AI".

To pay back $3 trillion, 1 billion consumers will have to pay just $3000 each, or $83/mo monthly over 3 years, on average. Of course they will pay that and even more.

Yeah, what's the point in technically spending more time with kids if half of that time you stare at your mobile phone.

Let's not pretend that shareholders are innocent. They are happy with the quick buck the board gives them.

I don't see how customers are less important than developers.

While WASM Components haven't arrived yet, what's the current best framework for JS/WASM glue?

Apparently, shareholders want more profit.

Dehumanizing customers by making them talk to (or chat with) AI bots is OK and kinda cool.

Dehumanizing [potential] employees by making them talk to (or chat with) AI bots is NOT OK and kinda sucks.

Am I getting it right?

We are essentially offloading our moral responsibility to a black box that cannot be held accountable.

Do you have the same sentiment about self-driving cars?

One of the mistakes in viewing Russia/USSR is applying similar social/cultural patterns typical for the Western civilization. But they are a very different culture and mentality.

Their space achievements are an impressive proof of how far one can go in faking progress at scale by massive technology theft, enslavement, and violence. You can really achieve a lot this way! Rockets and nuclear devices have been designed by captured Nazi scientists and imprisoned engineers (later designs by home-grown engineers have been largely based on those designs). Key technologies were not invented but stolen, copied, and reverse-engineered. Factories designed and built by US design bureaus (before WW2). Cheap labour provided by enslaved peasants who didn't even have the freedom to move to a big city. Borders closed to prevent brain outflow. And lots lots of violence against their own people just for the sake of "looking like a global power".

And since it was always fake, no major technology went out of the USSR and became widespread globally such as computers, networks, internet, software stacks, protocols, etc. Nothing major and widely useful came out of the USSR or post-USSR Russia.

So what you see with Russia happening now, is just the bubble popping. Long due.

I think it makes sense. The EU is possible because the founding countries are of more or less similar size. You can't really make a fair balanced partnership with a country 10 times bigger, we've just learned that. So Canada joining the EU makes sense from a political perspective. Carney had a point when talked about "middle powers" in Davos.

From an economical perspective, it makes less sense because of, well, the Atlantic ocean. Nevertheless, Canada has what Europe needs - oil, LNG, minerals. To a certain extent, things can work out.

We were burned by Wise as well when they suddenly moved our business account to another partner bank in the US and that of course changed our account number. The account was registered in dozens of procurement systems of our enterprise customers and it took us several months and a lot of pain to resume receiving payments from those customers who kept sending them to the now wrong account. I can never imagine a "traditional" bank doing that.

After that, we transferred the bulk of our funds back to a "traditional" bank and now never use Wise as the main business account. We now use it mostly for operational expenses.

Wise still has something to learn about banking business.

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Montreal subway does not cover the entire region like Vancouver's skytrain.

It's not supposed to. The new REM train network (a few stations already in use) will cover the region. By 2027. Maybe.

REM will also go to YUL.

PS. Fun fact, REM is also driver-less just like the Skytrain.

This is what the Russian opposition promotes to circumvent the VPN ban: https://vpngen.org/

Warning: unpopular opinion that you won't like.

If the audience of HN were writers, singers, and artists, people who know what it's like when the fruits of your work are stolen and you barely make any money (I have friends like that), the sentiment would've been quite different. But software developers can't relate to this and that's why they are so pro-piracy. They get a paycheck every month or bi-weekly and never face a situation when their intellectual work is stolen against their will and offered to their employer for free and the employer now cuts the paycheck in half because why pay if you can get it for free.

I'm not saying the current situation with content consumption is ideal. Big corps have no shame in many ways. But sometimes both sides can be wrong. And this is exactly what I'm seeing here.

You won't believe it, but Excel users are actually surprised. As do users of many other applications.