The downfall of Heroku should be studied, they had lightning in a bottle and blew it.
Salesforce acquired them and just let it die, baffling.
Downfall? The founders and VCs made tens of millions of dollars. That’s the success condition for them.
Readit NewsWhat's going to happen to all the millions of drivers who will lose their job overnight? In a country with 100 million guns, are we really sure we've thought this through?
OGEnthusiast commented on Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI? · Posted by u/Invictus0
The AI bubble is starting to burst.
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> Because no one believes these laws or bills or acts or whatever will be enforced.
Time will tell. Texas' sat on its biometric data act quite quietly then hammered meta with a $1.4B settlement 20 years after the bill's enactment. Once these laws are enacted, they lay quietly until someone has a big enough bone to pick with someone else. There are already many traumatic events occurring downstream from slapdash AI development.
> Texas' sat on its biometric data act quite quietly then hammered meta with a $1.4B settlement 20 years after the bill's enactment.
Sounds like ignoring it worked fine for them then.
This reads like LLM slop. The "carry trade blowing up" has been written about hundreds of time before, so it's not surprising it's so prevalent in LLM training data.
OGEnthusiast commented on Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative blog.codinghorror.com/lau... · Posted by u/d4ft
I would be too, but I can also see how someone in such a situation could feel depressed, hopeless, and neglected, particularly with the sheer amount of wealth other parts of their own country are producing.
Maybe they should try not voting for a fascist three times in the row if they expect sympathy from the "rest of their own country".
OGEnthusiast commented on Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative blog.codinghorror.com/lau... · Posted by u/d4ft
Why not rural Americans? When helping someone in my community, I don't first stop and analyze whether my time/money could be better allocated to maximize some sort of utilitarian loss function, I help them because they're there, need my help, and I'm able to help.
Rural Americans are responsible for the situation they're in.
> How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. could we build with the money we’re spending on pretraining models that we throw away next quarter?
It's about using the money for to build things that we actually need and that have more long term utility. No one expects someone with a 100M signing bonus at Meta to lay bricks, but that 100M could be used to buy a lot of bricks and pay a lot of brick layers to build hospitals.