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We live in a social climate where we can't even assert ourselves of someone's gender based on their name out of fear from a very local special interest group that has far reaches into public education system and this is another big reason why parents who can't afford private school opt for home schooling.

The fact that parent had to edit their comment and could not call a man a he answers the article's question very well.

Dylan was definitely on the cans. The demographic that drinks Bud Light that likes Dylan was definitely a minority as the overwhelming majority of its loyal consumers rejected it overnight.

I think its lazy to blame politics for a failed marketing campaign by creating some vilifying your own consumer base. We see the same pattern playing out in all aspects of products that have gone woke, games serving as the most recent example.

We live in a capitalist society and consumers will vote with their money and they cannot be forced to buy a product because the media and special interest groups decide to vilify and defame them publicly. This might work in a communist country but even then the effects are short lived.

if you cared about running a business and making money, you should know your customers well and not do anything to upset that demographic

this isn't ideology related its market driven reality in capitalist countries

has anybody suppressed anyone from making a fool of themselves?

why is a beer a platform for pushing some individual's personal choices?

why should it be used to push any sort of political messaging?

why shouldn't bud light owners reject a brand that pushes those political messages?

if you create a product and it doesn't target the consumer with the right messaging you dont get sales

> X has lost net users and Bluesky is gaining them

X grew by about 47% last year so im not sure what net loss you are talking about

Bluesky gained X users but that rate has now almost certainly slowed down

Many who publicly advertised they were quitting X for Bluesky are back on X as they don't get anywhere near the engagement they are used to.

Do you have specific excerpts from the book to push your claim that Paul Graham's writing identifies as a white supremacist?

Not sure why you are mentioning Project 2025 or the civil rights stuff, you lost us there.

Reddit? Not sure why you decided today is the day to move

i dont think the ppl expressing their outrage here realize the screenshot of their content is being amplified and shared on other platforms not because they agree with it but purely for comedy.

so steadfast is their view point as the only possible view that they cant imagine/realize many of us are laughing at them.

coupled with the discoverability of usernames connected to their other real world profiles and the virality of their comic, it probably is unwise to be labelled far-left or 'woke' in professional circles going forward.

by that same logic Bluesky should be overtaking X but it isn't

X is growing even bigger and has international reach which Bluesky doesn't

Top schools like ivy league in America exclusively discriminate against Asians and there was a lawsuit but its not being enforced.

This is a different issue that precedes DEI.

I disagree. DEI has nothing to do with an ancient empire.

I don't think a lot of HN users understand corporate speak.

When they announce they aren't hiring any more software engineers they are basically telling its own engineers to leave now or face cost cutting measures.

If you work at Salesforce, I would start putting out resumes now. The play seems to be to use the narrative "agents replaced our engineers, we cut %X of our team" as both a sales pitch and excuse for poor deliverables.

> What makes you say that “whatever HN thinks” does not have any bearing on what the President-elect will or will not do

because he doesn't read HN?

its no use. HN is pretty much on the same political spectrum as Reddit. Arguing with the far left ppl like archagon won't result in a debate based on facts but emotionally charged ideological conjecture as you experienced.

I wanted to use Hotwire but it felt like it was made for Rails as backend? This probably needs to be fixed because if the DX is as good as you say then its disservice to be tied to Rails.

Which leads to the appeal of HTMX. It promises no other dependence. It just does exactly what it advertised. I'm not sure whether your issues were due to implementation or specific known bugs in HTMX not covered.

I am curious to know more about Hotwire, I'm just worried about state management and this is greatly overlooked when it comes to adding application logic beyond just hydration of specific components on page.

So far I have not seen anything that competes with Sveltekit.

They were idolizing a serial criminal and was abusing drugs. He had fentanyl in his mouth from video evidence. This doesn't detract against racial crimes perpetrated by law enforcement but a movement pushing for that messaging should not rally behind a hardcore criminal.

There are also additional evidence that show BLM received funding from central sources and the leaders of that movement were all convicted of financial misconduct and fraud.

The BLM movement was used to start defund the police movement calling them pigs and letting crime run rampant.

This is the updated consensus from those in the center who have been watching both sides of the spectrum argue and try to detract facts from conjecture.

I think this is a very important point. The political wind have shifted to the right. Polymarket is already showing strong likelihood of Trump pardoning those involved in Jan 6.

I'm not really sure its helpful to discuss this polarized issue on HN however. If anything, whatever HN thinks has very little bearing on influencing US political scene, same reason Reddit was completely taken by surprise after creating an echo chamber to hear what they wanted to hear. I feel that similar political chambers are created on HN and its not useful.

whats apparent to me is that the people who will be reading this thread when they turn old enough to have a mobile phone or laptop will be like when the internet first came out and watching old people scoff and worry about both valid and invalid future problems.

the younger generation will not care much whether its generated by an AI or not. As long as its good and it hits their niche, they will not and should not care.

the implication and future predictooors dooming is also misplaced. in the sea of generative AI, imperfect, human produced content will end up becoming more valuable.

its like hand drawn anime by real humans vs computer assisted ones that mimic the style. younger generation don't even watch or care for the classics and they don't find the intrusion of computer graphics unholy like the rest of us old timers who appreciate and stopped watching it out of ideological differences. it wasn't the end of anime it actually increased the market size several thousand fold by lowering the barrier and cost of production (at the expense of upsetting the "luddites").

Exact same thing will play out across all consumable content. Even hardware.

This is actually a hilarious scenario. Anthropomorphize TTS with Indian accents to entrap the other AI agent into thinking they are a real human. DDOS their o1 API calls by soft jail breaking prompts using complex programming questions disguised as typical Microsoft support issues.

CodeBot: Word tables blank sometimes. Hmm.

SupportBot: What version? Try a repair.

CodeBot: Memory issue maybe? Bad alloc?

SupportBot: Rare. Repair is next.

CodeBot: Threading problem sar? Data races?

SupportBot: Try repair, new doc please sar.

Since I started using all flavors of Gemini 2.0 I haven't been back on Cursor

Gemini Exp 1206 and Gemini 2.0 Thinking Model exceed o1 in my experience and best part is that its free with insane context token size.

For agentic code experience RooCline is quite good but I actually do most of my work in ai studio and like to create the folders and files manually.

I almost think agentic code generation is the wrong step forward. Without knowledge transfer/learning involved during the code generation phase, you end up cornering yourself into unfixable/unknowable bugs.

You can see the examples on the linked site are quite simple. These are hardly real world use cases. Most of us aren't generating things from scratch but rather to gain understanding of systems being worked on by multiple people and very carefully inspecting and undertanding the output from GPT

This is why a lot of tools like Bolt, Lovable, Cursor, Windsurf will be toys aimed at people looking to use codegen as a toy rather than a tool. It will serve you better if you look at AI codegen as a knowledge transfer/explorer tool and an AI agent isn't wise imho.

is this written by a VC? seems quite egoistical with a few common stats known already to hedge risks of looking like an idiot

i love how quickly HN ignored this submission. I think the BS detection is stronger than ever

thanks for pointing this out. i knew not to get excited everytime something is posted on the frontpage.

interesting but not sure what the value add here is, it gives you a graph flow of all the API requests being made? and then the goal is to replay them?

aren't there github libraries that do this already?

very easy to build an aimbot. i think its entertaining but to be used as real captcha you need a variety of challenging games but at the risk of turning away many humans, which will ironically open up a market for more such decaptcha services

if you look at the NGO that receive government grants they have been doing quite a bit of renovation. Simply changing their brand from "homeless industrial complex" to "unhoused industrial complex" they can bank on slow bureaucracy and continue to pay themselves tech salary to perpetuate the exact same situation that ultimately provides no uplift.

There's a correlation between "sanctuary ciies" and NGOs that ultimately hire based on political ideology rather than pragmatic policies.

If you do not remove the drugs from the equation the overall situation will not improve. There's a big contrast between homeless population in Japan vs West Coast America and the obvious reason is access to drugs.

This is incredibly naive and curiously defensive.

If this was a feature on its own then it would not be popular.

Citing national security, some danger will justify its existence.

Apple alone does not control and dictate what goes in, once you reach their level of size and wealth that exceed even developed countries, you ultimately cannot be the controller of your destiny purely as a profit orientated corporation.

ex) Meta, Microsoft, Google

this reminds me of stackoverflow's vertical scaling with a fail over server.

drastically simplifies scaling when you are dealing with only one machine with huge amount of RAM and maximum cores.

I think the most you can get now is 192x2 cores and double digit TB of RAM

but more economical is proably 128x2 cores with single digit TB of RAM

its pretty insane how much traffic you can throw at a single machine like this espeically if you use optimized languages like Go or Rust to handle traffic.

there's still use for distributed computing but 99.8% of websites do not really need it.

hmmm another "unicorn" from vancouver that bites the dust, i remember one with an owl as mascot logo can't recall what they did or their names but many ppl from vancouver mentioned it while ago.

I wonder why that place can't compete with American cities, i think even Toronto /Montreal is more successful than Vancouver.

for one the low salary must be demoralizing on top of being one of the most expensive cities in the world.

have there been notable canadian startup unicorn that turned IPO or major acquisition (100x ROI and up?) other than Shopify?

seems like nobody can really compete with America when it comes to creating IPOs and billionaires.