As a developer the hype is over the top for sure, but for the average marketer or influencer I can see how it is warranted.
Now if there is a good way to deal with authentication and authorization piece without agents gone wild that would excite me as a dev a lot more at this point.
If you're talking very specifically about MCP, and not about tool calling more generally, and you're just sort of making the point that the standards aren't fully baked or ready for general use --- that you can't yet reliably plug any API into an agent like Claude Code you don't control, then sure. But MCP is the public face of tool calling, and for tool calling generally that's not a real problem: you can make your own arrangements in your own agents, which are truly simple to write.
I think as a developer, as opposed to an IT integrator or something like that, you should be the most excited about this situation.
In Spain, a private company has planted almost 1 million trees in one year as what I guess is in part a marketing effort[1]. Barcelona itself counts with 1.5 million of exemplars.
So yes, you are probably right. 60K in 25 years is a PR note.
Not disagreeing with you, but I also wanna make a small effort towards being less cynical.
Not knowing much about Nevada or Las Vegas politics, I'm sure the political environment in Spain, and specially in Barcelona, is very different. 60k trees in however many years (we don't know if they were mosty planted in the last 5) might be all that they could get, and this PR note is their attempt at bringing more attention and try to muster support for more.
That private company that planted 1 million trees is a massive corporation with tens of thousands of employees in Spain. I'd bet their budget, even for marketing stunts, is bigger than Clark County's.
Also, marketing stunts are not /just/ marketing stunts. Companies, specially huge ones, contain multitudes. I'm sure many of the folks pushing for this actually cared about planting trees.
You are absolutely right. I don’t have detailed knowledge about the internal administrative organization of U.S. states, and I simply assumed that a county housing a world-class city like Las Vegas would have a very large budget. Even if this initiative is primarily symbolic, it could still play a valuable role in shifting public perception about managing street temperatures.
beyond insuficient,perhaps a record in insuficiency
friends were tree planters durring college years,
"high ballers" who would clear more than $200/day
5¢ a tree, 4000+ trees a day, one woman I know did it for 10 seasons, and hurt her kicker foot after planting millions of trees.
It is the literal truth that a small tree planting crew could handle all of the worlds urban tree planting scheams in a very short time.
humanity has cut a lot of trillions of trees, there are (not enough) trillions left
urban tree planting is tokenistic set dressing for the political theater to come.
this is like a government anouncing funding
for 60000 bits of new code to be written over 25 years.
Story like this are perfect examples of how far from understanding the scale of human caused climate heating we are, and points to how bad things will get before anything substantive is done.
I believe we have more trees today then ever before.
That isn't all that matters though. We replant monocultures and harvest them. This isn't a good ecosystem. It's also a net negative on the environmental emissions(carbon sequestered).
The age of the forest, variety, etc all matter a lot.
I spend a lot of time in forests. The difference between a harvested in the last century and an old growth forest is very obvious. They are drastically different.
I'm breathing air polluted by Canadian forest fires as we speak. Maybe you aren't getting the point I'm trying to make?
Almost all issues discussed around here are complex and multifaceted but way too many comments display obstinate tunnel vision... You may want to think about that when you stop crying.
off the cuff, recent news about a satellite to count the worlds trees, mentioned current estimates in the trillions, and it would be way low to suggest that we have not cut 3/4 of the pre
bronze age forests.....read the epic of Gilgamesh,
and read about the timbers, still holding up the internal chamber in Jhosers pyramid and all of the storys of what north america looked like pre colinisation, and well..... the story of the world and all of the epic forsests that are gone now.....it's all there if you look(archeology,dendrocronology,general historical acounts,etc), humans cut them down , starting in earnest about 10000 years ago, the earliest wooden structure was(likely) shaped by humanitys ancestors more than 1000000* years ago, we kind of owe the trees a break eh!
* yes 6 zeros+, forget the exact reference, but one of the best hominim sites in africa, perhaps oldavi gorge?
Neither labor nor capital are free. If you want to donate yours, I'm sure they could plant a few extra trees. But those resources need to come from somewhere, and they aren't unlimited.
> Maybe if it wasnt suck by funding hyperinflated bogus military tech… there would trees.
US military spending for 2024 was approximately $850 billion. Let's say we put all of that money into one of those $1-per-tree charities. That is 850 billion trees taking up around 7.98 million km^2 at typical planting densities. This is about 2/3 of total US land area. Maybe we can get some more value for money at scale and plant 1.275 trillion trees covering the entire US land area instead.
Once all those trees are grown, they would absorb anywhere from 10kg-25kg of CO2 per year. That's about 12 to 31 gigatons per year for all of the US land area.
The world currently generates ~41 gigatons of CO2 per year.
The just-plant-trees "solution" doesn't really work.
> Do you really think Las Vegas is cash strapped so that they can't afford it?
I've been to Las Vegas a handful of times, and it's really striking how much poverty exists there.
To be clear, I'm European and even Los Angeles or San Francisco are dystopian from my perspective; but Las Vegas is much better at keeping it out of tourist areas and it goes unreported because of it. I don't know a single person in Las Vegas who is living the middle-class lifestyle comparable to my friends in New Jersey, Philly, LA or Seattle.
Statistics be damned, because likely there's massive inequality that's pushing those numbers up.
They are both free when you are the one who prints the money. Governments can definitely afford to plant trees, even though I agree that it won't solve the problem.
Printing money (monetary inflation) is essentially just a stealth tax on everyone who holds or earns dollars. I'm not opposed to increased government spending on mitigating climate change but let's be honest about it and budget for it properly rather than wrecking our currency.
Interestingly, that’s exactly where this mantra is false.
Printing money for projects that benefit the greater good does not create any inflation and costs barely anything to anyone.
Print 100 for no reason and give it to the economy and for sure you create inflation. Print 100 and plant a tree, you just have a tree and a worker who get paid for doing real work.
But everyone gets a tree.
Printing money shouldn’t be seen as a crime in the context of climate change. But it must only be directed towards everyone benefit like public infrastructure projects that will stay public forever.
Bonus : great infrastructure reduces a lot of other costs and boosts the economy.
Not agreeing with either side here, but, printing money and handing it to an investment class who then launders it through their companies, to acquire more assets vs printing money that goes into infrastructure, works projects, or R&D are wildly different.
Not all monetary inflation is the same, and the destination of the money and the work produced with it can actually have quite an impact on the true wider economic effects of that increased money supply.
To be very clear, I'm not saying monetary policy is magical, or that it doesn't cause inflation.
It has very little to do with "things you like" and a lot more to do with "utility to society accomplished with the policy" along with the velocity of that money afterwards in local economies (IE. a worker is more likely to buy, well, food and rent, education. A PPP loaned exec will buy assets, or another yacht)
Believe it or not, one of those can generate more widespread economic growth than the other, for the same amount of money printed
> They're identical from the perspective of creating inflation, even though they might have different outcomes
That will only hold true if you look at only the singular issue:
Printing money while not changing economic output increases it's availability and thus decreases it's purchasing power, which we call inflation.
However: if the money goes towards things like clean air and other infrastructure, there are suddenly less things you need to pay for (clean air, water, cooling in summer, cost of transportation become cheaper), which effectively leaves more money for you to spend on wants, offsetting the effect of inflation partially/fully.
Another effect is that correct public can increase overall value generated (think: "nice, with cheaper transportation my home sales business is now viable and contributes to the value/tax pool"), so the "new" money can become backed by real value, again offsetting the loss of spending power for the average Joe.
I agree that if you add more variables that counter the effect then the effect will be countered. But that seems tangential to whether you pay for something by printing more money vs another means. If you use another means you don't inflate the currency, and you decrease inflation, leading to a better outcome.
Spending on things like infrastructure or R&D might in theory increase productivity by more than it increases money supply, in which case it would not result in inflation.
It's not on "things they like" it's on productive output.
Because as long as the folks who buy your Countries bonds believe you are spending the money in a way that will eventually return on the investment, your bonds are still valuable and you con continue spending on projects.
> Printing money (monetary inflation) is essentially just a stealth tax on everyone who holds or earns dollars.
Of course it is. My point is someone doesn't need to donate labour or capital to make this happen. Governments, not people, should be the ones who are doing it.
Incompotent populist is certainly right for this group since none of his policies are actually for the population but for the very elite group he protects who stand to benefit the most from his policies.
I think the real reason is a Walmart heir put out an ad encouraging people to be civically responsible which Trump admin saw as defiance to him. Plus I assume they aren't bribing Trump like the tech bros are.
There are some automations I've setup that I never have issues with. Perhaps my most reliable being around lights. Not surprising the hue lights work the best. Also my hardwired locally controlled garage doors
There are some that if the power goes out I gotta log back in. Cloud is often a pain.
If it isn't on my dashboard I forget about it.
I've talked to professional installers or resellers and found similar issues with control 4 and other systems so it isn't a unique problem to Home Assistant.
This stuff gets ugly because of how complicated it is to setup, deal with multiple protocols,lack of standards or too many standards, unreliable devices, breaking changes with updates and more.
We are getting zero government regulations on AI, no punishment data breaches, and no human protections against wide scale abuse. The opposite is happening.
I suspect to see America in chaos from these disruptions in the very near future.
When all this happens you cannot help but see that populism will need to rise again from the ashes as a class warfare is under way as the article points out.
The current administration will consider any action against billionaires as domestic terrorism as witnessed with Tesla's recent boycotts despite this happening all around the world against American's richest companies. Much of America is in the denial phase right now but the writing is on the wall already.
I'm willing to bet most people don't want to work in factories again with Chinese conditions even as Secretary of Commerce Lutnick professes it so but the mega corporations demand the corporate security along with the obvious national security reasons for detaching from China.
As billionaires lust to take more of the pie without one ounce of support or laws or worker rights, against AI that enshittifies jobs and turns white collar work into a race towards the bottom, the populist class has no choice but to fight this head on.
As the government and businesses use AI to target the resistance as they take away rights, benefits, and standards of living you have to ask ourselves what side of history you want to be on because history shows these things tend to come to a massive clash. Power vs the people. Rights vs profits. Morality vs corruption.
We live in revolutionary times, thanks for the article share.
> The current administration will consider any action against billionaires as domestic terrorism as witnessed with Tesla's recent boycotts
Firebombing/damaging civilian cars and civilian buildings belonging to TESLA due to political ideologies is, by definition, terrorism. Regardless of which administration is in power, the law says you cannot do this so it is their job to stop it.
Don't call it a boycott when there's more to it than just not buying a car.
> populism will need to rise again from the ashes as a class warfare is under way as the article points out.
Good luck rallying the troops when half your cohorts are fascists, conservatives or Christians with a chip on their shoulder. Tech laborers don't have the leverage they think they do.
Debatable but irrelevant. You don't need too many people striking against essential services to grind entire cities to a halt. And that's how solidarity starts: locally.
Now will we do that? Seems doubtful. People long lost thst solidarity to begin with in lieu of this hyper individualistic digital scape.
So, name your "essential" digital services. Uber drivers start protesting and scabs are automatically hired at reciprocal rates. Self-conscious software engineers take a stand and get replaced by yes-men happy to subsume a six-figure salary to spy on users. Defense contractors start... oh who am I kidding, those places self-select for the least upstanding individuals.
You get the picture. You can't blame half these people either, most of them just want food on the table same as you or me. Relying on class consciousness to revolt against tyranny is like relying on a drogue chute to stop you 10ft from hitting the ground. It's fatalism predicated on the lie that things now are the worse than they've ever been.
I wasn't limiting myself to digital services in such statements. But sure. Software engineers get replaced and services stall for months in the meantime, if not years. That's the power workers hold if they can all stand up and push against corporate.
>You get the picture. You can't blame half these people either, most of them just want food on the table same as you or me.
I'm blaming everyone and no one at the same time. It's a prisoners dilemma, and if everyone struck for even a few days it'd be over in surprisingly quick cadence. The dock workers strike barely lasted 2 days, for instance.
But the alternatives make everyone lose out, and people are very risk avoidant, even if they boil in the pot as a result.
We have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc
It just depends on what you are after. You can completely drop the backend, apis, and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database. There is a row based permissions layer still here for security but you get the idea.
The client experience is important in our app and a backend just slows us down we have found.
>and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database
you might be able to drop a web router but pretending this is "completely drop[ping] the backend" is silly. Something is going to have to manage connections to the DB and you're not -- I seriously hope -- literally going to expose your DB socket to the wider Internet. Presumably you will have load balancing, DB replicas, and that sort of thing, as your scale increases.
This is setting aside just how complex managing a DB is. "completely drop the backend" except the most complicated part of it, sure. Minor details.
I assumed they meant a client side DB and then a wrapper that syncs it to some other storage, which wouldn't be terribly different than say a native application the relies on a cloud backed storage system.
Which is fine and cool for an app, but if you do something like this for say, a form for a doctor's office, I wish bad things upon you.
> We have been moving to localized cache stores and there aren't any client side loaders anymore outside of the initial cache generation. Think like Linear, Figma, etc.
It's been awhile since the populist has risen up and demanded the government actually do their jobs rather than get rich and catering to the rich coasting on the destruction of our privacies, rights, institutions, and freedoms.
The fact nearly zero legislation has been introduced to punish companies for violating the protection of our data with the bazillions of data leaks is telling of which master they serve.
Now if there is a good way to deal with authentication and authorization piece without agents gone wild that would excite me as a dev a lot more at this point.