>the traditional tech content that used to be posted here.
Most of the content was, is, and will be on the same level of quality as the average AI posts.
> Does any build startups here anymore?
Not in this climate
>One of the things I've always liked about HN was that it's a very open minded place.
It still is. On discussions of tech, plenty of people chime in with their own expertise and argue. On discussion of world events, the issue is that conservatives have been finally outed as just intrinsically bad people, and people are less tolerant of their bullshit.
> Is it just me?
Plenty of people feel the en-shitifcation of the world today, not just the internet. The smart people all knew the system was going to collapse, we just didn't know when or how. This is just the start of the collapse. Its only going to get worse from here on.
You realize your propaganda bullshit is very easy to spot, right?
Spout off a bunch of random disconnected facts, in hope that nobody fact checks them, hoping that people forget that pedofile who tried to coup the government is our President right now.
I'd love you to fact check them, but I'm a little puzzled why you didn't already. You appear to have just made unfounded claims about the accuracy of my claims with no counterpoints. Maybe you can fix that?
On chicken prices, I used the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [1]
On the fraudulent broadband scheme, I used Politico's coverage of the $42B fraud. [2]
On the EV scheme, Reuters covered this $7.5B scheme's many problems. [3]
I eagerly await your rebuttal of BLS, Politico and Reuters!
I hate to break it to, you but AI is not the reason why the numbers are down. AI makes everyone productive - for every engineer that is laid off due to AI from big tech, that person still has skills that when coupled with AI makes them eligible for slightly lower paying job.
The reason the numbers are down should be pretty obvious.
>You can add in the increasing B&O (revenue) taxes, payroll taxes, data center taxes, and the expansion of the extremely high sales taxes to things that effectively make Washington uncompetitive.
None of this matters. We have been hearing how California is doing the same shit for years and people are moving out in droves, but turns out California house prices are still high because people are staying there and its still a very good place to live and work on the average, despite way higher cost of living.
Basically, on the average, people don't have ability to think rationally into the future. Most people think only 1 level of cause and effect.
Right now, for the vast majority of people, global warming isn't a problem when your house has AC, your car has AC, your workplace has AC. When you are forced to do things that you see no direct effect of, it makes it seem less important, and its a self reinforcing cycle where you see other people not doing it and you wonder why you have to make your life harder.
People will start caring only when their direct lives are affected. So unfortunately, the only way to fix global warming is to let it get bad enough to where there is enough death and destruction for people to start paying attention.
The individual contributions from emissions are much smaller than industrial scale emissions. People can still do what you describe if we magically move all power production to solar/nuclear, and move to cleaner airplanes, and things would be headed in the right direction global warming wise.
Its not a dumb question. It seems like when it comes to these supposed high tech enterprise solutions, they spend so much churn in doing something that is very complex and impressive like investigating architecture performance when it comes to kernel level operations and figuring out the kernel specifics that are causing slowdowns. Instead they can put that talent into just writing software without containers that can just max out any EC2 instance in terms of delivering streamed content, and then you don't worry about why your containers are taking so long to load.
I have seen these comments quite a bit but they gloss over a major feature of a large company.
In a large company you can have thousands of developers just coding away at their features without worrying about how any of it runs. You can dislike that, but that's how that goes.
From a company perspective this is preferable as those developers are supposedly focussed on building the things that make the company money. It also allows you to hire people that might be good at that but have no idea how the deployment actually works or how to optimize that. Meanwhile with all code running sort of the same way, that makes the operations side easier.
When the company grows and you're dealing with thousands of people contributing code. These optimizations might save a lot of money/time. But those savings might be peanuts compared with every 10 devs coming up with their own deployment and the ops overhead of that.
No, you can autoscale EC2s. The point is that you should be able to run all your software without containers, which means that you aren't wasting cpu cycles with container overhead.
Depending on the EC2 instance it also may be cheaper to have a reserved EC2 instance sitting idle rather than paying for capacity reservation and spinning it up every day as the user count goes through its regular wave.
Until recently, antivax was largely a liberal form of anti-intellectualism. It was a reaction against large pharmaceutical companies.
It didn't really become a conservative position until COVID. It's mostly an anti-progressive thing, but builds on existing populist conservative anti-science attitudes. (Conservative doesn't always mean anti-science, but populist versions of it will inevitably tend that way.)
The problem is calling it anti-intellectualism implies that one can be conservative in "right" ways. And in modern times, being conservative in "right" ways means you are basically a liberal.
The whole idea of conservatism is that certain people in a population are going to have "non desirable" qualities, and the best thing would be if those people just "went away", but realistically you can't advocate for that, so you have to do mental gymnastics and say "those people should just work to become better, or get punished".
Most of the content was, is, and will be on the same level of quality as the average AI posts.
> Does any build startups here anymore?
Not in this climate
>One of the things I've always liked about HN was that it's a very open minded place.
It still is. On discussions of tech, plenty of people chime in with their own expertise and argue. On discussion of world events, the issue is that conservatives have been finally outed as just intrinsically bad people, and people are less tolerant of their bullshit.
> Is it just me?
Plenty of people feel the en-shitifcation of the world today, not just the internet. The smart people all knew the system was going to collapse, we just didn't know when or how. This is just the start of the collapse. Its only going to get worse from here on.
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