If you are "working" thrn why are you on HN?

On a side note, there are orgs where everything is done so poorly due to meetings - with no results nor impact. In such cases it is 8 hours of meetings and 4 hours of actual work

I like to be able to product plug and thought lead in AI related discussions, and sometimes my agent swarm is fully occupied and I have time to grab a cup of coffee and see what's going on.

What are the 10B companies from China that invented anything new btw?

That's why robots make so much traffic now. Those other companies are trying to get data.

Google theoretically has reddit access. I wonder if they have sort of an internet archive - data unpolutted by LLMs

On a side note, funny how all the companies seem to train on book archivr which they just downloaded from the internet

If you are senior leadership and you find that your org has some people do useless side projects for fun (and tons of money) what delivers no value, your job is to solve this problem by reassigning or firing them.

Facebook VR never needed a new OS in the first place. It needed actual VR.

Projects to land them a fat salary while delivering no value.

No wonder they used any means necessary (including HR) to defend their source of money.

They probably knew very well they are a net loss for the company.

Lots of big orgs have such crooks. It's a failure of management not to fire them.

If you want to build 3d glasses probably you should fpcus on 3d glassess and software for it.

Not some new OS so you can start making the glasses 2 years later.

Just like when you want to bake a cake, you dont start by designing an oven, or creating an universe from scratch

Getting stock in exchange of grants makes more sense than "pure" grants.

This stock can later be sold, to benefit the taxpayer.

that's not a grant. That's just buying stocks.

It's effectively a grant. The US government isn't buying existing shares. Intel is issuing new shares and selling them to the US government - so actual money is being transferred to Intel (and existing shares are being diluted as a result).

That's just buying stocks (at-the-market offering).

Nope.

When I buy stocks at market price, the company gets none of my money.

When the company issues new stocks and sells them, the company gets the money.

I think you're maybe unfamiliar with what an ATM offering is; try googling it.

Fair point. The key issue in the thread, which I think we both agree on, is that yes, the government is giving money to Intel.

"I can't believe it's not butter" product

Or as my brother and I called it, "Ick-bihn-buh" — enunciating the "ICBINB" acronym.

The proof-of-concept marketing name "I Can't Believe It's Not Salmon" illustrates the fundamental problem here. Can lab-grown salmon be labeled as just plain "salmon"? Can it reside in the meat department right next to farm-raised and wild-caught salmon fillets? Does it always have to be prepended with "cultivated"?

Wikipedia is so bad at simplest PR.

It should close itself before elections to burn the politicians that try to screw it.

It's a dangerous game to play, spending credibility to influence stuff.

Not that it's unthinkable or anything, but my impression is that people are not quite aware that it ain't free.

If wikipedia can show the Jimmy Wales banners, then sure it can go for the throat of some politicians.

It allready collects few hubdred million per year, spends like 10 on wikipedia itself and rest goes for political projects. They could do something useful for once.

(On a side note: all those money and they dont use it to track the cliques / country level actors across admins...)