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New comment by harimau777 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

harimau777 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:08:49 +0000

Who are you to say that they don't?

New comment by harimau777 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

harimau777 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:05:47 +0000

I think you missed the core of their question: What has actually gotten better in practical terms for the average American?

New comment by harimau777 in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

harimau777 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Something to keep in mind is that teaching Pinyin in schools is at least partially an attempt by the Chinese government to drive non-Mandarin dialects of Chinese extinct.

That's because Chinese characters are sred by all of the dialects of Chinese while Pinyin is based on the Mandarin pronunciation.

New comment by harimau777 in "Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard"

harimau777 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:38:58 +0000

While pardoning thanksgiving turkeys, president was bitten by one of the turkeys. Very bad omen.

New comment by harimau777 in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

harimau777 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:57:58 +0000

That seems like all the more reason to fight fire with fire. Right now its an existential fight so if MAGA can't be reasoned with then the only option is to fight back by ay means available.

New comment by harimau777 in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

harimau777 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:55:25 +0000

As for B. Yes definitely. That's a massive improvement over letting the Republicans be the arbiters for the rest of our lives.

New comment by harimau777 in "The dead economy theory"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:16:53 +0000

It's been true in the past for the generation that's living through the technical revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a very grim time to be a worker.

New comment by harimau777 in "The dead economy theory"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:57:45 +0000

Isn't there a big problem with people not being able to find partners? In that case it seems like people aren't getting the basic things that they want.

New comment by harimau777 in "The dead economy theory"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:52:35 +0000

I'm not sure I understand your point. Someone who attempted to support themselves by hand knitting sweaters almost certainly WOULD be impoverished. So doesn't that support what you are calling "doomers"?

New comment by harimau777 in "The dead economy theory"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:36:10 +0000

A couple of options off the top of my head: art, research, athletics, the humanities

New comment by harimau777 in "The dead economy theory"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:33:00 +0000

Historically that's not accurate. Automation eventually resulted in more jobs, but for the people actually living through the automation it was VERY bad.

New comment by harimau777 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

harimau777 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:28:49 +0000

That's easy to say if you aren't the one getting space junk dumped on you when a rocket explodes.

New comment by harimau777 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

harimau777 — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:49:48 +0000

I'd say that if anything AI generated ends up in the final product then it should be labeled as AI made. So using AI as a prototyping tool would be fine but using it either to generate the end product itself or using it to generate a script would require tagging.

New comment by harimau777 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

harimau777 — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:45:56 +0000

Maybe they could hand out lifetime bans to people who upload untagged AI music? Obviously that wouldn't eliminate the problem, but I could see it helping.

New comment by harimau777 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

harimau777 — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:43:26 +0000

Until AI companies pay for all the content that they stole, I think that is a reasonable response.

New comment by harimau777 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

harimau777 — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:42:40 +0000

Where would you look around?

Previously web search, YouTube, and Reddit would have been my go to but they have all been enshittified.

New comment by harimau777 in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

harimau777 — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:37 +0000

Yes, however, my point is that the vast majority of people working for non-profits do not receive that sort of recognition. So what does "social status" mean?

New comment by harimau777 in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

harimau777 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:34:06 +0000

Heck no! Working in tech is an absolute nightmare! The pay is excellent which is why people do it, but the actual work environment sucks. Agile and modern performance review culture means that you are constantly pressured to work faster and churn out more code to keep your job (quality of course is never a priority). The "shift left" movement means that more and more work (testing, infrastructure, product management) gets heaped on developers plates. The burnout rate is sky high.

Tech is an awful industry to live in. It just happens to be one of the few jobs in America that can reliably provide enough money for a decent quality of life. Whether you can actually enjoy that life is more up in the air.

New comment by harimau777 in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

harimau777 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:26:39 +0000

Sure, but happiness and fulfillment isn't status. Not because there's anything wrong with them but because that's not what "status" means.

New comment by harimau777 in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

harimau777 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:25:02 +0000

Can you explain what you mean by social/moral status? I haven't seen a big run of non-profit workers marrying movie stars or becoming Pope.