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To what extent is our extended increase in work time related to societal desire to increase standards of living?

Cost of living is terribly high. How much is because we’re comparing different standards? Not all of it, I think, but some for sure.

We don’t think it’s ok to not have running water, electricity, education, sanitation, etc. we think it’s worth societal costs to provide public benefits like fire control, roads, law enforcement, zoning, etc.

I think it’s interesting to consider what makes it harder to live in the modern world that it takes more money to do it.

Re:What AI harnesses should learn from OAuth on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:01AM (#48093892)
I've been circling around the feeling of this problem for a while. We need a foundation of security for agents. And we have good examples of how to do delegation.
Re:The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:50PM (#48055601)
AI says many true things. That doesn’t mean I want to read someone else’s AI generated output. I want something in the article to show that the author spent more time writing than I will spend reading, and by a wide margin, or else I know they feel that my time is not valuable.
Re:From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:12PM (#48043119)
My biggest question, that I didn’t see answered, is how the transition comes to an end. If creds aren’t in your system, how well do they transfer? Does it require user involvement? What if they don’t fast enough? What about complex integrations like SSO, SCIM, and passkeys (which are domain scoped)?
Re:Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:12AM (#48021395)
Looking at the link, I see nothing that appears to be the explainer that the title suggests.
Re:All elementary functions from a single binary operator on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:20AM (#47750948)
I’d be really interested in an analysis of tau in light of this discovery. Would tau fit more naturally here than pi, as it does in other examples?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:00PM (#46953416)
I'm working on queueio (https://github.com/ryanhiebert/queueio), a background task runner for python that uses asyc function to communicate with the queueing system, but encourages using regular synchronous and blocking code for the actual work.

It fits the bill for me where function coloring provides something truly useful that you can't get without threading. Using Celery canvas to compose signatures is a great step, but the added power of being able to compose them in a more standard code flow is the killer feature that I wanted bad enough to write it myself.