starfezzy (u/starfezzy)

starfezzy commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629

Workaccount2 · 7 months ago

Google works because of it's ad network and tracking. Everything Google does is a money furnace without a centralized ad network.

People may celebrate the break-up of google, but it will be short lived when they find that now everything they do on the internet that they used to do through google costs a monthly sub. Or is ad supported with zero tolerance for ad-blocking.

The reason competing with google is impossible is because people are deathly allergic to paying for things that they think are free. Vid.me sucked all the air out of the room for a few months in 2017 and was pulling tons of yotubers over. Then it went bankrupt because "People don't like subscriptions, people don't like ads."

starfezzy · 7 months ago

> People may celebrate the break-up of google, but it will be short lived

You know what will be short lived? The disruption itself. We're not talking about the death of Sol.

The most significant fact in all of this is that everything will stabilize and we'll all be fine (except the monopoly, which is the point). And when it's all said and done, we'll come out the other side better for it.

starfezzy commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629

0xbadcafebee · 7 months ago

I'm not sure people understand what the consequences of taking away Google's ad revenue is. If a large enough bank goes under, it takes out not just the bank, but huge sectors of the economy, affecting many more businesses and jobs. That's why the government bailed out the banks when they failed.

The same will happen when Google loses its ad revenue. Google is an ad company. By opening up all its trade secret data, it loses its advantage. That will make it lose its core revenue. The end result will be Google collapsing entirely within a few years. Then those component parts people are talking about "opening up" will be gone too.

Here's a small number of things that will die when Google dies. Can you imagine how the world will be affected when these go away?

  - Google Maps
  - Google Mail
  - Google Drive
  - Google Docs
  - Google Groups
  - Google Forms
  - Google Cloud
  - Google OAuth
  - Google Search
  - Google Analytics
  - Chrome
  - Android
  - Android Auto
  - Fitbit
  - Google Fi
  - Google Fiber
  - Google Flights
  - Google Translate
  - Google Pay
  - Waymo

In the best case, killing these will force consumers to move to Apple. You wanna talk monopoly? You haven't seen anything yet.

Apple has no alternative for much of the Business-focused products, so that will take considerable time for companies to adopt alternatives. But in the meantime, the world will become pretty broken for a lot of companies that depend on these tools. This will affect many more people than just Google's direct users. The whole web will shrink, and huge swaths of the worldwide economy will disappear. Businesses closing, lost jobs, shrinking economies, lack of services.

There are plenty of parties who want to see Google lose or take part of its businesses. But if it's not done extremely carefully, there's a very large stack of dominoes that are poised to fall.

starfezzy · 7 months ago

> That's why the government bailed out the banks when they failed.

Who's gonna tell him?

starfezzy commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx

beardedwizard · 7 months ago

But copilot is bundled and is free, and it's still losing to cursor

starfezzy · 7 months ago

In brand velocity maybe, but copilot is rapidly reaching feature parity with cursor and will invariably overtake it—while costing less to users.

Same with Google vs OpenAI. I tend to agree with the sentiment that I most frequently hear which is that OpenAI is the currently popular brand, but that can only carry them so far against what will eventually be a better offering for cheaper.

starfezzy commented on Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform app.getflowcode.io/playgr... · Posted by u/gabigrin

starfezzy · 8 months ago

The mobile site is pretty seriously broken in multiple places. This does not inspire confidence in the project.

One major breakage is that I can't watch the demo video on a modern device (S24U, firefox).

If I press play, the video comes up and begins playing with a massive play button over it. If I press the maximize button, the video goes away and it locks the view into a horizontal orientation centered on apparently some random part of the webpage.

Other broken parts made me think I hate Dark Reader installed (I don't), and the testimonials at the bottom overlap—maybe they're meant to be swiped through, but that doesn't work.

starfezzy commented on OpenAI releases image generation in the API openai.com/index/image-ge... · Posted by u/themanmaran

subroutine · 8 months ago

I ask, because according to MS...

"GPT-4o is now available as part of Azure OpenAI Service for Azure Government and included as part of this latest FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/IL5 Authorization."

...we have everything setup in Azure but are weary to start using with CUI. Our DoD contacts think it's good to go, but nobody wants to go on record as giving the go-ahead.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/azure-openai-fedramp...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/com...

starfezzy · 8 months ago

Have they given a reason for being hesitant? The whole point of IL4+ is that they handle CUI (and higher). The whole point of services provided for these levels is that they meet the requirements.

starfezzy commented on Visiting Us epic.com/visiting/... · Posted by u/tobr

hiAndrewQuinn · 8 months ago

My first post-college job! Nothing but good things to say about it, all my colleagues were whip smart at what they did. I especially liked the interview process, where I had to do a couple of standardized tests online to prove I was in the top x% of test takers. Given that I had to lock down a full time job as fast as possible after college it was a real time saver to just be able to demonstrate objective general competence like that and move right on to the interesting stuff.

starfezzy · 8 months ago

> take an IQ test, skip the BS, work with highly intelligent people

This is the way.

starfezzy commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon

PixelForg · 8 months ago

And thats exactly what I don't like, there's no good reason why the internet has to be like this. It's simple, just be the same online like how you'd be irl. Tired of all these people that would talk shit online but become weak irl.

Then again this is just my opinion, I don't like 4chan because of the mentioned reasons so I don't visit it. Nothing trollworthy about that.

starfezzy · 8 months ago

Oh I was just saying it came off as an uncle er troll because it's like a weak bait with a comical conclusion.

It's like saying "4chan would be great if they were more like reddit". But the entire point is to not be like reddit. HN is largely equivalent to reddit for this point—progressives who cant fathom the existence of intelligent people who reject frail sensibilities; who conclude out of such closed mindedness that anyone who rejects those sensibilities must be broken.

I think there's room for improvement in both places. I wouldn't go as far as to say that the value in the internet is that you can be exactly the way your are IRL. As someone who rejects a lot of ultra progressive stuff (most of what's astroturfed as "normal" by giga-progressives corporations that have taken over the internet and banned dissent for 15 years), I appreciate that I can at least feel a false sense of security sharing mentally sound ideas that have been recognized for thousands of years without having my life ruined.

starfezzy commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon

PixelForg · 8 months ago

My main problem with 4chan is how they talk, like the language they use. They really don't care about anyone's feelings and show a lack of empathy. Unfortunately this has been spreading to other social media as well.

Imagine how good a place it could have been if people over there talked like people on HN.

starfezzy · 8 months ago

3/10 troll

That's antithetical to many of the foundational rules of the internet, which are core to 4chan culture.

The whole point is that they don't let the fluctuating, weak-willed whims of normie sensibilities determine what's allowed.

starfezzy commented on The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-... · Posted by u/georgehill

ckrapu · 8 months ago

"It’s well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias—specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet."

Perhaps. Or, maybe, "leaning left" by the standards of Zuck et al. is more in alignment with the global population. It's a simpler explanation.

starfezzy · 8 months ago

Except for a some of the population of white countries right now, almost everyone in existence now and throughout the history of our species is and has been extraordinary more conservative—and racist—than western progressives. Even in white countries, progressivism being ascendant is a new trend after decades of propaganda and progressives controlling academia/entertainment/"news".

It genuinely boggles my mind that white progressives in the west think the rest of the world is like them.

starfezzy commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg

starfezzy · 8 months ago

EDIT: When I said "I've felt the same way", I meant about outlawing advertising. Propaganda in general should be allowed—especially the political kind. But consumerist propaganda (aka advertising) needs to be abolished.

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I've felt the same way. Some thoughts I had while reading:

> Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.

Rare to see someone else recognize this. Not all propaganda is malicious; all systematic spreading of ideas aimed at promoting a cause or influencing opinions is propaganda.

> Think about what's happened since 2016: Populists exploit ad marketplaces

This feels like calling out conservatives. Ironically, it's through relentless propaganda over a century that progressivism has become ascendant. We're reminded 24/7 from every mainstream institution, that what has historically been radically unpopular is ACTUALLY "normal" and "respectable". Indeed, it's only through such incessant propaganda that overwhelmingly unpopular trends have been able to take hold.

> what poisons our democracy is a liberating act in itself. An action against that blurry, “out-of-focus fascism”

What poisons our republic is progressives forgetting that they're ascendant and how they got there.