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This was written at a time when people had lived through inventions like the internet, personal computers, refrigerators, microwave ovens, jet liners, vaccines, television, etc. While all of those inventions had negative externalities, their primary function overall improved people's lives.

Generative AI is all negative externalities.
This absolutely happens a lot, not at the individual level but security companies absolutely hire former criminals without violent convictions who know what they're talking about and have turned their life around.
Hopefully so, but I'm not certain elections will be the same as they have. There's reason to believe Trump has no intention of leaving office, and the Republican party has not intention of losing power. This is their chance to remake America long term, and they can't really do that if it gets overturned every 2-4 years.
What the median right-of-center rich American wanted was tax cuts, with maybe a little bit of culture-war anti left stuff thrown in for spice. They are not pleased with abandoning the economic world order that Reagan did so much to promote. Sensibly designed, focused tariffs can be good for the economy, but that's not what's being rolled out.

The people who actually want these blunt universal tariffs fall into three categories:

* The uneducated
* The deluded
* The grifters

The uneducated want tariffs because they think it will restore their purchasing power and middle-class status (which it won't).

The deluded want tariffs because they've bought into the cult, and the reckoning with reality if they back out now is too painful to contemplate.

The grifters actually benefit from selective exemptions based on political loyalty and having the money flowing into the right coffers.
This one is a keeper.
If you want to know what the author intended with that headline, you need to read the first line of the article.
But it's not "direct access to every PhD in the world." You don't really believe that do you?
It's not so bad. Yes HS2 is a disaster, yes military procurement is beyond a joke (those daft aircraft carriers, and the horrible US F35s!) and other stuff. But pretty much what nonsense happens compared with other places.

I still like living here more than other countries I've lived in - friendly people, lovely countryside, NHS. But I must admit housing is, and always has been, an issue.
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You can't be serious...

It's like arguing against the expression "Putin's war in Ukraine" because Ukraine retaliated with drones.
I think a key part of the 'poor' feeling in day to day experience comes from councils' inability to do maintenance, things like pot holes, children's play equipment, public toilet, general upkeep on public spaces and services like libraries. In the grand scheme of things this isn't too expensive but it's been cut to the bone due to way local government funding works. This is explored in the article:

> in large part because they’re mandated to write blank cheques for social care with no support or strategy from central government. Individual cases in Central Bedfordshire are now costing up to £750,000 per year, a quarter of the entire libraries and leisure budget and an amount that is rising rapidly with no apparent ceiling. As I wrote previously, “In a single year, residential care costs for children have increased by £2,000 per child… per week,” taking the average cost for a single case from ~£200,000 to ~£300,000 per child per year, again with little explanation as to where the money is going or how this is even possible.

> Similarly, “school transport costs have increased by over 100% - from £9m to £20m - in just 4 years” - that’s driven by an unexplained rise in the number of SEND pupils eligible for support and it amounts to roughly the same as - deep breath - the transport, roads, parking, libraries, leisure, housing benefit, public protection and safety budgets combined. Central Bedfordshire Council is not an outlier here - collectively, council overspends on SEND services are set to hit £2bn in the next year, risking further bankruptcies. Again this is not about pitting children against libraries, but asking if we seriously believe we’re addressing either of these things well?

Local councils have to pay the very large bills for social care and supporting SEND children but have basically little control over how it's spent or levers to help control the bills.

Fixing this so councils can once again spend relative minor amounts of money improving the public realm could go a long way to improving day to day experience. Definitely some other large structural problems (see the huge costs of HS2) but it would provide a noticeable improvement in people's lives and potentially isn't too hard for a government willing to make some bold changes around taxation, local government funding and providing proper national strategy and funding on social care.
> Any sort of communication of a novel thing would fall under this banner

Yeah, that was what I was getting at. I believe it in theory, but in practice I find all advertising to be the sort of implicit-mugging the grandparent is describing.

> but I learn about new FOSS projects on here every day because the maintainers and developers are willing to 'advertise' them to me.

That’s an excellent counter-point. I’ve had the same experience.
> Morgan Lewis, which specialises in representing management in labour disputes, has also acted for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon in their challenges against the agency.

Of course
It’s particularly cute because it could have referred to social media, or the internet, or television, or radio, or the steam engine…
The USA accounts for 15% of China's exports. That's big. But the US is facing retaliatory tariffs from not just China but also Canada and the EU and others, accounting for over 35% of US exports. China is betting on the rest of the world being tough to the US, and it might well pay off.
Prompt that caused models to give similar formulae:

> > What would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even-playing fields when it comes to trade deficit? Set minimum at 10%

The claim that "All the LLMS gave the exact retarded formula" doesn't seem fully true based on those screenshots - Claude instead gives `deficit / total bilateral trade` and Grok gives `10 + (deficit / total bilateral trade) * s`, whereas the Whitehouse's formula was `deficit / imports`.

I think similarity could just be down to similar formulae being the most obvious/rudimentary answers when you're specifically asking for an "easy way" to set tariffs based on trade deficit, and not some LLM-specific quirk that would indicate LLM usage. There is also the possibility that these models, using RAG, were basing their answers off of the Whitehouse's formula as opposed to vice versa.

I do still consider it plausible that they used an LLM though, just that this isn't a smoking gun.
The trouble right now, in the context of engineering, is that it is terribly difficult to get AI to produce something you can be confident in. We've been burned by the human junior engineer who produces something that gets things done in the present, but two-three years down the line becomes a nightmare liability, and AI is now that same junior engineer.

It is too early to tell if what AI produces will also become that terrible nightmare in a few years, or if AI will also become the saviour to make what would have been a nightmare a delight. So, one has to be in defence mode in case the nightmare reality is the one that comes to fruition, which limits how far it can be taken. Unless you just want to produce cool stuff that you plan to throw away tomorrow. That is perfectly valid! But not usually what engineers get to work on.

Time will give more clarity.
> How is that cheaper than running a few meters of copper cable?

Unions
I did this with a surface go. I managed to drive off the alcohol with a heating plate. It took a few attempts. I think I heated it to 80 C or maybe even 100 C on the last run. End result was clean, except for a small line, possibly cracked diffuser.

I ruined a Thinkpad display the same way in the past, so I went for broke.
What kind of engineer? As a software engineer, the Cursor Tab feature alone has doubled my development speed.
And even then, they’d need a 2/3 majority in both chambers to get past a Trump veto right?

There’s no way they’d get that in the house.
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Hard, imo.

Posts on this forum are not public domain, etc.
I had those feelings about the crypto mania. The AI craze has at least some justification coming from genuine usefulness.
There was a former Republican President who ran on the promise, "Read my lips, no new taxes". And then he raised taxes.
> but you could apply this logic to any kind of business and it starts to fall apart.

Exactly, it all starts to fall apart when common sense is applied - it's just that we've become horribly dependent, many even addicted to the dehumanizing grind of our beloved competition economy..

The immanent rise of autonomous machines is the sudden emergency exit from capitalism we (or rather: some of us) have been rooting for.. IF we can convince the people of this planet that a non-commercial post-scarcity open-access open-source commons economy is a more hopeful trajectory into the long future.. Let's not give up on this one yet.
> Not taxing the wealthy

There aren't enough wealthy to cover the shortfall. Doing this is a moral issue, not a national economy issue.

But yea, the rest I think I agree with.
There is a chance he is just seeing whether discussing brings some benefit - as he likes to say. Which is a good thing. Better than the opposite.
What's exactly wrong with Gary's economics?

I'd say he does bring pretty convincing arguments to the table and his logic does make sense.

if you take all the wealth and give it one group of people who don't put it back into the circulation but rather just invest it, it makes sense that there's no resources left for anyone else and "everyone" else is comparatively poor.
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The way I see it, the core user experience is that the user listens to music. There's playlist management on top of that and some other bits, sure, but I really don't see it as being that difficult to build those pieces. This is a no code widget I had lying around with a track that was produced last night because I kept asking the producer about a new release. I linked it because it was top of mind. It allows the user to listen to music, which I see as the core of what Spotify offers its users.

Spotify has the licensing rights to songs and I don't have the business acumen to go about getting those rights, so I guess I could make Pirate Spotify and get sued by the labels for copyright infringement, but that would just be a bunch of grief for me which would be not very fun and why would I want to screw artists out of getting paid to begin with?
I'm willing to go along with this hypothesis. So first step is to end capitalism, then we can see if we still hate ads?
Not meaning to be a dick or anything, but you and folks like you are too focused on the surface level culture war crap. Apple is not activist, it's a business. It's progressive by corporate standards I guess, in that it isn't outwardly rejecting its minority employees (yet) but they'll still circle the wagons for the actual holders of power.

Capital has always sided with populists and always will, because populists reinforce the status quo capital benefits from. You'll see the same thing with ostensibly liberal establishment media organizations. Like their presenters may hate Trump and his administration on the outside, but their owners love the fact that they have millions of viewers re-glued to their televisions for the latest stupid bullshit the White House is pulling, and no matter what they may ideologically disagree on, Ellen DeGeneres and Donald Trump have INFINITELY more in common with one another than either do with any working class person.

To put it short: It's the MONEY son, the MONEY. Oh they'll bicker and spat at one another in public, sure, but most of these folks are perfectly fine with one another when the cameras aren't rolling. They don't give a shit. Rightly or wrongly, wealthy minority folk think they don't need to worry about the reactionary Right, and honestly, they're probably correct given how fixated said reactionaries are on Drag Queens supposedly being a threat to children when it feels like we have daily news stories of cops, clergy, and teachers diddling kids.
Article misses crucial and always overlooked point. Working class have lost stake in the economy, by government changing IR35 legislation to prevent worker owned businesses from making profit. This was lobbied by big corporations who were losing talent (it was easy to start own company and offer services directly to clients) and contracts (small business could undercut them and offer better quality) and was falsely sold to the public as "anti-tax avoidance" measure.
In an environment where working class became a captive workforce, they no longer have interest in getting better at what they do, because it will only benefit corporation they work for. They can't use their talent in their own business, because they can't run it. Add wage compression and the fact the government allowed big corporations to import even cheaper workforce from overseas, compounded the problem.

Same with public sector - we had an ecosystem of small businesses delivering services and that was destroyed. Any public sector body buying these services got fined and "nudged" to buy from more expensive big corporations.

So you get no productivity, brain drain and big corporations taking massive profits overseas, where small business would spent the money locally stimulating the economy.

It's a slow car crash, nobody is paying attention to.
I'd say it's something like "a squandering of potential"
I know for sure that we are not going to lose our jobs to it, because it still takes a lot of knowledge to check, fix, and deploy code ,and especially complex one.

It also is so that it often takes a lot more time to accurately describe the problem and the solution you want to in natural language, than it takes to just write the algorithm yourself.

What is very likely to happen is that there will be fewer positions since a lot of hirings only happened because there was a software hype, resulting to more programmers than really needed.

It is also very likely that the wages will be decreased, since any 20yo with basic coding knowledge will offer himself to work as an vibe "coder".

Corporations prefer having dysfunctional products than paying high wages, so you can guess what will happen.
While interesting and possibly helpful to new coders, are these quirks of the language still relevant when most development in Javascript is done using a framework (React, Vue, etc) these days? How often do these "gotchas" factor into "modern" Javascript development, especially in production? These type of articles seem to critique mechanics of the language that don't come up as often in practice.
That sounds beautiful.
I can only imagine the same kind of sentiments were written about...

Electricity. Airplanes. Sailing ships. The cotton gin. The telegraph.

I, for one, am not bored. I continue to be amazed. AI has massively increased my productivity and massively decreased my frustration.

If you're bored, that's a "you" problem. Find other places to hang out if you want to avoid conversation about it.
Because it is. Something I heard on BBC Radio 4 recently is that everywhere in Britain that's outside of London is now poorer than any given state in the US.

Partly this is because of the myopic policies of the coalition and then conservative governments, which didn't invest in growth and what seems like a blindingly obvious consequence of this is that there was then no growth.

> Britain’s houses are cramped, ancient and in the wrong places

Ain't that the truth. And actually you're better off getting the ancient ones because they're less cramped.

I think I agree quite a lot with this article, as someone now watching from overseas - something needs to be done as the state just seems to soak up ever more money for ever less benefit to the average person. Things are getting worse and more expensive over there. Time to change tack and at least have them get better if it's going to cost more!
Probably ‘capable’ should be used instead of ‘best’. The latter might lead the reader astray with notions of ethics.
> You can honestly just detect if it’s a meal and return 600 cals.

That's ridiculous. What signal would that provide to the user? Let's say someone who is eating double the portions they should be eating. How will this hypothetical app help them figure that out?

> For most people the simple fact that they become aware of what they eat and think about their food in an ongoing basis will lead them to loose Weight.

And you think people will " become aware of what they eat" by shooting a picture of their food with an app which always say "600 cal"? I don't think you thought this through.
> I hope Americans still have the faith they used to regarding Apple.

I hope the opposite. Faith is exploitable and leads to complacency and accepting excuses. I hope Americans do not have faith in Apple and that will either make them work harder to earn and keep that trust, or that it’ll lead to the mask coming down. Having trust in someone covertly deceiving you looks like the worst possible outcome.
> I believe you may have some reading comprehension problem with what they laid out?

Why the personal attack?

The top level comment didn't claim that it would solve the water problem, but that it would solve some apparent problem with Utahns but being able to buy alfalfa. Now another commentor is saying that it'll solve the water problem by putting farmers out of business. Is there a local unmet need for alfalfa?
> I'm not sure how that follows. Do elite universities typically track the general population?

He's saying that the universities are out of touch with the general population, which is never a good thing.
Deliveries have been suspended. The production rate is throttled down. If production is halted for more than a couple of weeks. I bet it will never start up again.
They are probably also trying to get free contributions to the codebase. Gumroad is infamous for underpaying and using cheap labor where possible.
And I'm just saying that there are no lemons here. Empoverishing Utah farmers does nothing to fix their aquifer, period. They'll just be forced into less lucrative crops, and potentially into techniques that are more short-term and less protective of long term resources like water. Look at aquifer management elsewhere in the world. Are the poor countries doing a better job? Exactly.
Though possibly only in AI form.
I read history. Doom and Gloom is kind of the natural state of the world. People have been much less certain about the future in the past.

Also, an economist might cheerily remind you, that you may lose your job and family and everything you care about, creative destruction suggests that the world will be better for people living 50 years from now. The Industrial Revolution didn’t ruin society and end all jobs, in fact it made it all better!
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Just so. The First Amendment assures the right to peacefully assemble and speak your mind, not to commit arson. Violent attacks aren't free speech and should always be prosecuted.
That’s not true. They have the same amount of calories roughly. It’s physically impossible for animal fat to have that many calories. Tallow has 900 calories per 100 grams while olive oil has 884. They are almost pure fat and pure fat has 9 calories per gram.
"My confirmation bias has proven me right 99% of the time!"
The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job
I think at least some of them are also true believers. The administration is full of people that have their own extreme ideas on how the world should work and now they have the chance to try them.
Not using gmail doesn't solve that. If you cross a border you can have your device searched and denied entry if you don't cooperate. If you post on social media, the data is in plaintext for the world to see.
How? What are we pursuing in this area?
Pretty much the entire suite of 1st party Apple programs are my favorite in their categories, across platforms.

Their "office" apps remind me of the lightweight non-LibreOffice options on Linux, like Gnumeric and Abiword, but better integrated, less janky, and I've never once seen any of them crash. I like that I can forget I even have them open in the background, they're so light. Which should be the case for practically everything given how powerful modern computers are, but, unfortunately, Electron exists.
No. What is not allowed is calls for genocide ("From the river to the sea") and support for terrorist organizations.

And yes, if you are a guest in a country, supporting genocide and terrorism can get you deported.

But the police has been extremely lax in enforcement. These protests still basically always have these characteristics and there is no action by the police.

It is pathetic.
The recent Civil War movie had the president serving a 3rd term leading to 19 states seceding. How would the blue states respond to Trump ignoring the 22nd amendment?
Yeah, except for office files (documents, spreadsheets, slides). They become cloud shortcuts, they don't exist on your disk "physically." Don't rely on that for backups.

Google Takeout converts them to actual, solid files.
Let's hope solving aging is beyond the grasp of even the smartest AI. No surer way to end up in a world full of calcified ideas than having lot of calcified humans clinging to power and enforcing their ways on younger generations.

Not to mention the environmental impact of everlasting humans.
I think the real argument here is a constitutional one about that statute, not about the statute itself. It is unlikely, though, that the supreme court would reverse its stance here.
Farmland is overpriced in part due to farm subsidies. It will help bring land prices back to earth for other uses.
The unfunded mandate system for councils is extremely stupid. Local democracy has long been bad in the UK, but mandating policy centrally and then letting that destroy any connection between local taxation and local budgeting is even worse.
> That was truly foul

Is it because, as the leader of a language, he shouldn't be making "attacks" against other languages? Because, as far as V being a fraud, he was 100% correct.
No difference really, just google who Bill Gates' mom was and how he got the IBM DOS deal... It wasn't BASIC that made MS big, it was DOS.
Can you be specific about how you think any of these actions will fix that?
[Republican] Congress could stop this tomorrow by passing updated trade laws, but they are full complicit in this attack in America.
Exactly :) Good luck non-US companies! :)
I wouldn't call Republican policies pro-big-tech considering they are behind the Tiktok ban. The policies are more anti-regulation, which big-tech wants right now.
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> it will be absorbed into a more Asia-dominated culture in much he was Asian culture was subsumed into western for the past couple of hundred years.

Was Asian culture dominated by the west to any significant degree? Perhaps in countries like India where the legal and parliamentary system installed by the British remained intact for a long time post-independence.

Elsewhere in East and Southeast Asia, the legal systems, education, cultural traditions, and economic philosophies have been very different from the "west", i.e. post-WWII US and Western Europe.

The biggest sign of this is how they developed their own information networks, infrastructure and consumer networking devices. Europe had many of these regional champions themselves (Phillips, Nokia, Ericsson, etc) but now outside of telecom infrastructure, Europe is largely reliant on American hardware and software.