fullshark

This sounds like you miss the sense of community reddit used to have, I don't think that would have lasted forever, we were all so naive re: social media 10+ years ago.

My guess is every metric is just getting diluted by bot activity but there's enough real users buying crap to give their advertising positive returns.

You just need to find a smaller walled garden that can be tended, and not care deeply about having a massive audience and you can still find interesting conversation.

Just because businesses / wall street doesn't like something doesn't mean it's necessarily good for every day Americans. The tariff vision of on-shoring manufacturing and reliving the glory days of the post WW2 era was rooted in fantasy. The US simply cannot compete given its labor costs and actual manufacturing know-how.

Perhaps this is an overdue wakeup call, and a freak out is in order regarding this reality but unconstitutional tariffs alone were never going to solve this problem.

There's people with unhealthy relationships with both food and video games and I'm comfortable saying they suffer from addiction.

It means it's addictive

The Economics of content platforms already started destroying the internet. A lot of the reason the internet was so good for a long time was faith by creators that good content would win, that turned out to be false.

The legal profession is going to be very different in 10 years. Anyone considering law school today is crazy.

Analysis from a time before the birth control pill is pointless. It's an alien society.

Humans seek to understand phenomena and they use narratives to accomplish that. Accepting that there are multiple factors always involved and chaos reigns is disturbing.

This idea came from musk wanting to fold his X and xAI investments in with his (likely successful) spaceX IPO.

The intense race to dump the risk on the public and cash out (OpenAI ipo, Musk folding xAI into SpaceX for that IPO) is very telling.

Closest I guess is hiring of juniors is down, but it's possibly just due to a post COVID pullback being credited to AI.

I definitely think a lot of junior tasks are being replaced with AI, and companies are deciding it's not worth filling junior roles at least temporarily as a result.

One disturbing possibility is us laborers aren't as important we think we are.

Why would it ever be attractive to the other side?

As non-profits are known to do

He's not in the book or miniseries but the film adaptation gave him some arc iirc about doing something heroic on John Malkovich's planet to get the girl (Trillian). That all seems highly intentional based on the OP.

Yes the hope is that the institutions under attack can rebuild or be replaced by ones with better alignment with social good. There's a lot of disagreement about what that means and that's part of the chaos, but yes.

I definitely thought there were adults, who are basically gods when you are a child, that were in charge of or steering these institutions and they had principles and values beyond careerism and greed.

Go talk to any academic about how they view their field as a child versus today and it will illustrate what I'm talking about.

Sure I'm nostalgic for my own childish naivety, aren't we all?

What does the US gov't do in response? Wouldn't they throw globs of money at Intel and Nvidia?

Hacker news is good for one particular use case: reasonably informed discussion of technology industry news.

I don't view it as a community and every time a topic goes outside that space (e.g. society, culture, economics etc) I'm frequently horrified by some of the comments I see here.

I don’t really get why it’s a bad deal for GS or how “Apple outplayed them” based on that article. Just seems like a frayed partnership cause they didn’t hit their numbers.

And what does it say about traditional governance that it takes a someone like RFK to actually do anything about it.

Look at the incentives and you'll see it's not weird at all.

The "non-denial denial" seems like a denial to me if you take him at his word that he is unable (presumably due to legal reasons) to comment about a specific project.

There's a sweet spot they want to hit, where their internal scam ad reduction efforts do enough to make sure people don't leave in droves, and they are totally fine with the scam ads that make it through bringing in revenue.

The last thing they want is regulators forcing them to spend at least $X in resources to limit scam ads to some target and have it hurt their margins.

I actually think it's a narrative that should inspire public resistance, at least genuine public resistance, not sitting around and complaining online.

A lot of people believe in comforting justice narratives. The truth is there is no justice, there is only power, who has it, and how they wield it. That is what collectively drives civilization.

They should at least understand why they are getting paid and basic business logic instead of thinking they are above it because they are 10x or whatever. You are a cost center unless you are making that line go up.