I'm not sure the "painting" of the umbrella added much benefit. Most of the tracking ability would be lost with any opaque head covering

Then I think you're missing the point. Any opaque head covering would not be enough to bring the drone in to capturing or sensor attacking distance. The point is to get the drone to close distance not to stop tracking.

"fill in the rest of the details" is the politest way I've ever seen this, and it really lames it up.

> It sucks. I miss feeling like my job was secure, ...

The wheel of industry rolls forward and crushes everyone underneath it

i've been advocating for developers to unionize for years, and there'd always be a big group saying "we don't need a union".

AI-based job displacement will do wonders for raising class consciousness when it's too late.

the best time to unionize is when you don't need a union.

Unions won't do anything for AI based job displacement though, because they don't need you, whether you're in a union or not. I see this going the same way as SAG for example, if AI video or film creation ever gets good enough where a single "director" can make an entire movie themselves with no actors.

Unions and indeed any bargaining organization only have leverage when their people are needed, but what happens when the people themselves are needed no longer?

Well, it’s all probably a moot point now because devs have lost leverage. But the union contracts can help bring some order to the layoff process - which employees get laid off and severance for the others.

It would've definitely helped to soften the blow. We can only blame the last generation of devs who did nothing. But if LLMs end up being as useful as claimed, nothing could halt that transition.

When dockworkers went on strikes in 2024, one of their demands was to forbid automation of their jobs. HN responded negatively. How the tables have turned now it is white collar jobs' turn on the chopping block!

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=41704618

Indeed, I always noticed the same hypocrisy as well, it's only a problem when it affects my livelihood right?

And do what, what buggy whip unions did?

The dynamics are different when the demand for the product dies off and there’s no money to pay salaries vs worker productivity increasing and you need fewer workers.

Replacing workers will be used to increase profit margins rather than lower prices because there’s no competition to force prices down thanks to monopolistic consolidation

The demand for the product (software engineers) dies off, therefore a union has no leverage.

Didn't save the U.S. auto industry and it isn't going to save the software industry either.

Progress is inevitable.

Is it? I mean in the end it is a political decision. We are used to infinite progress, infinite growth and infinite rationalization. But for what good? People have not become more free to pursuit their generic interests in Marx' sense but there's just more concentration in the hand of the capital while unemployment is growing. Weren't we better of to have less rationalization and have more meaningful work for people?

"Meaningful work" for work's sake, why? I have no desire to work in a farm or a factory when I can work from the peace of my own home without breaking my back. Not to mention the work that other people do too, like doctors and scientists, which directly positively impact my own life. If they were to say, let's not continue progressing, then that's not a world I'd want to live in.

It depends on what we define as progress. At times nuclear power was considered progress while it's no longer now (at least to that extent). Why couldn't we consider a society with less technology as progressive? Learning that less reliance on technology makes us more resilient as individuals and as a society. Obviously there are areas where we didn't want to downscale such as medical care. But there's a lot of technological progress that does not contribute much value to society in general but to concentrate wealth in the hand of a few people.

EDIT: also so-called "breaking your back" has the same effect as going to the gym. Sure I am aware that there are really back-breaking jobs and they should be helped by machines. But there's no rule to say that the helping machines need to to all of the work. A moderate amount of physical work is just beneficial to everyone.

This is a rose tinted glasses take. I guarantee if you took anyone from the past they'd want to live our lives today, and that's not to even say anything of being in a developing country today with lack of access to adequate supplies and medicine.

> also so-called "breaking your back" has the same effect as going to the gym

I can tell you've never worked a manual labor job in your life. The workload definitely does not have the same workload as just "going to the gym."

Don't they allow you to "Add to Dictionary" anymore :)

Reposting the main URL so that it does not disappear

https://watsi.org/universal-fund

Why is 11:30:30 not a perfect equilateral triangle. The "hours" spacing is a bit off

interesting question, near perfect triangles

  07:18:18 
  16:41:41 
  09:23:23 

but non of them are mathematically perfect triangles.

well 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 are

for a perfect triangle all three hands need equal distance from center. hours range 0 to 23, minutes and seconds 0 to 59, so you need

h(divided by) 23 to equal

m(divided by) 59 to equal

s(divided by) 59.

since 23 and 59 are both prime, bad luck.

But only if you end up doing the thing (and avoid analysis paralysis)

I like that the wind can change directions by setting the value to a negative number