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Their stock is up something like 1500% since IPO. I can't imagine most employees there feeling like they're undervalued with that sort of equity valuation.

Can you elaborate as to why your linked article would suggest nextjs to be a "circus"? If anything, DHH (founder of RoR) and his Looney-Tunes opinions are much closer to a circus sideshow than anything I've seen come out of Vercel.

I'll never forget this spot on NPR where they interviewed a machine learning engineer working on AI videos. The engineer was purely focused on how cool the technology is, how real it looks, etc.

The interviewer asked, "aren't you worried about this getting into the hands of the wrong people, and creating deepfakes for extortion and things like that?"

The engineer paused for a few seconds, and then said, "gosh I never even considered that." She created this monster and all she could think about was how neat it was technologically.

> can someone explain the difference between what alex jones said about sandy hook and what other people say about 9/11 being an inside job, hologram planes, fake this fake that etc

Those "other people" were also Alex Jones.

Alex Jones makes dozens of patently false claims per episode. Yet every once in a while, he will accidentally say something that can be associated with reality. People will latch onto those once-in-ten-thousand statements and say, "look! Alex Jones was actually right about x all along," while completely ignoring the veritable sea of misinformation he spouted along the way.

I don't want this garbage in anyone's "backyard", mine or not.

That decision should be left to the people who study and understand psychology, not laymen, podcast hosts, and politicians.

10 years ago it was Heroku and Ruby on Rails*

Thanks for this. So glad HN limits ninja edits after a certain period of time. So frustrating when I'm hunting for an answer on Reddit, and stumbling on a thread with a bunch of "thanks, that solved it" replies to a [deleted] post.

Every time they're discussed, I think of that scene of Homer bashing a weather station in the 70s[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/zexJJb9Lbas

There have been tons of great TV series over the last decade.

If the factories only employed 50 people, polluted the earth at a much higher scale, and were mainly used to product fake cat videos and scam dating profiles, then yes I would support banning them too.

Can't tell if this is a joke comment, or a "why does FB have thousands of engineers, I could code it in a weekend!"-style comment, modernized for the era of AI.

Cool! Heads up, you're probably running afoul of some TOS by hiding the map data attributions.

> If I know the javascript ecosystem, and I think I do

You think you do, but...

What colors were you seeing? It's light white text on a black background for me-- both super common and plenty readable.

Higher level languages that abstract assembly code are deterministic. AI, on the other hand, is not.

Oh wow, is this Curtis Yarvin's HN account?

Someone making an argument needs relevant experience/context to substantiate their argument. Just because the end opinion is "correct", doesn't mean they arrived there in a reasonable way.

Relevant: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/premise-data-confirms-sec...

Interesting. Seems similar to what Premise Data tried to do, and maybe would have succeeded had it not been for their slimeball CEO cratering their reputation https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...

I probably review about 1k LoC worth of PRs / day from my coworkers. It certainly doesn't take me 33 hours (!!) to do so, so I must be one of those rockstar 10x superhero ninja engineers I keep hearing about.

If you follow any of the programming subs on Reddit, especially the AI-oriented ones, there are a lot of people that at least claim to not code at all anymore-- 100% of their contributions are from prompts.

Curious how you came to that conclusion. Anecdotally, places where you can slur to your heart's content like /r/conservative seem far more inundated with bots than other areas of Reddit. I feel like that's really saying something too, because Reddit has a really bad bot problem overall.

Rarity of Pokemon cards is also fully controlled by the vendor, and it's of course very intentional.

I've seen people saying that about Meta/Facebook for a decade, but I still don't see any tangible damage to former employee's ability to get jobs. The OpenAI situation seems much closer to FB-scale politics than X though.

"The terrorists hate our freedoms."

This seems like a perfect opportunity for a revival of David Cross's standup career.

> Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump.

Huh? If anything, he'd try to put blame on "Antifa" and "the radical left."

Aiding Hegseth / The Heritage Foundation is not aiding the US. If anything, it's the exact opposite.

"Defending one's nation" and "capitulating to the people in charge like Hegseth" are very much not the same thing.