Are there any differences from git, or tbh is there a project I can maybe contribute to on Radicle and learn from experience?
Can pitch in with helping out Windows support
Readit Newsminraws commented on A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble fluxus.io/article/a-hitch... · Posted by u/dreamfactored
Once there's a consensus around a bubble the bubble has already burst?
Not really I searched up some of articles from 1996/97 dot com was already a bubble in 97...
But it had minor 15-20% corrections but kept rising for another year or two after that...
Bubbles are driving by irrational beliefs. And they won't be irrational if we could understand them.
AI is surely a bubble but it can go on for another 3-4 years when something possibly unrelated to AI pops it.
minraws commented on Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok reddit.com/r/Teachers/com... · Posted by u/jruohonen
So you mean to say now good prompt engineering can get me good grades...
Well I guess as long as you have an idea which model your teacher uses you are golden.
minraws commented on OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation nytimes.com/2025/08/01/bu... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Firstly, the $200/m plan is at a loss, they'll make a profit on PAYG tokens, not plans.
Secondly, this is looking very risky: they are at the bottom of the value chain and eventually they'll be running on razor thin margins like all actors who are at the bottom of the value chain.
Anything they can offer is doable by their competitors (in Google's case, they can even do it cheaper due to ow ing the vertical which OpenAI doesn't own).
Their position in the value chain means they are in a precarious spot: any killer app for AI that comes along will be owned by a customer of OpenAI, and if OpenAI attempts to skim that value for itself that customer will simply switch to a new provider of which there are many, including, eventually, the customer themselves should they decide to self host.
Being an AI provider right now is a very risky proposition because any attempt to capture value can be immediate met with "we're switching to a competitor" or even the nuclear "fine, we'll self host an open model ourselves".
We'll know more only when we see what the killer app is, when it eventually comes.
I don't think they are at the bottom and that's the issue.
Nvidia is at the bottom or if we get charitable cloud providers.
They are the ones who would have the margins, from their rent seeking.
And to be frank other than consumers everyone else is at the fucking bottom..
Getting squeezed for user acquisition when the margins of the old and cheap internet software service don't exist.
minraws commented on US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/petethomas
That’s the point. It’s not crazy. Tariffs are regressive taxes. Rich people buy more stuff, sure, but as a percentage of their income they net out as beneficiaries of shifting taxes from income to spending. It’s totally rational if you want to increase taxes on the bottom 80% to subsidize the top 20% (and especially top 5%).
Personally I can understand tariffs on high end goods but taxes on low-end goods or raw materials is insane.
Any country doing it has hobbled it's industry for decades and some might prove that they don't work even if you keep these tariffs on for centuries...
But politicians will politic what can we do huh... Really feels like no side, opinion or thought of every day folks matters anywhere.
Uber operated at a loss for 9 years. They're now a profitable, market-winning business.
Amazon operated at a loss for 9 years, and barely turned a profit for over a decade longer than that. They're now one of the greatest businesses of all time.
Spotify operated at a loss for 17 years until becoming profitable. Tesla operated at a loss for 17 years before turning a profit. Palantir operated at a loss for 20 years before turning a profit.
And this was before the real age of Big Tech. Google has more cashflows they can burn than any of these companies ever raised, combined.
Those decades of 0 interest rate is now gone though. And if only 1 competitor will survive well like in all above sectors then sure it might feel fine now but almost a trillion dollars of private investment is waiting to sink.
> they cannot detain and torture you if you immediately get a court judge to grant bail or to toss the case.
First time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidheeq_Kappan
Not that I like the government of India, but that person was charged under Terrorism act of India not Income tax.
Patriot Act and it's variants in US, India, UK all of them can and likely do allow govts to do just about anything. I think other countries probably have similar issues.
It is sad, horrid and corrupt but that's the system we live in. Can't really do much about it other than try to protest or support repealing such laws.
I don't buy that the attack on Steam was just some Australian cult activist groups. This isn't one off event anyway. They're just a distraction.
What's urgently needed is payment neutrality, like net neutrality. It's absurd that the net was discussed more heavily and way earlier than cash.
Wasn't Crypto supposed to solve this like a decade ago? Genuinely curious, as a 20 something, software developer who never understood why we don't have decentralized/globally neutral payments/transactions systems like internet.
Though for most of my life internet has been getting more and more centralized. At least everything outside of China is centralized almost entirely in US these days.
Rather sad reality of things, but what can we do heh...
minraws commented on James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations astronomy.com/science/jam... · Posted by u/geox
Can we not stick to coding stuff I know you folks aren't making profits, but please try to think about the consequences dammit.
Edit: I don't like AI code but atleast it can't harm anyone if we have decent guardrails.