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There is great anxiety about AI replacing jobs.

It's always the business owner who replaces workers. Let's not anthropomorphize a bunch of graphics cards

I see an economic and social problem:

Freedom as in freedom of private property can only be guaranteed by the State. The State watches over its own population and makes sure that private property, i.e. capital and work, is made productive, so people go to work, businesses make profits, and everybody pays taxes. Taxes are the State's prime source of income.

When all these million of private interests collide, which they are bound to do, the State provides a jurisdictional system that has to decide between those private interests and the State's own interests.

E.g.: If a business owner refuses access to medical patents or to lower prices and safe potentially people's lives, the State has to decide between that immediate interest and its own interests, which is protecting private capital, as its source of income. Since I'm in Germany: In the emission scandal Volkswagen didn't just physically harm people, VW violated the private property of millions of customers. Despite that, the German State sided with Volkswagen the larger capital and did nothing. During Corona, the German State refused to open patents for a limited time to help safe people's lives in poor countries. Doing so would've violated the interest of private capital, so it refused. In contrast, if I as an individual refuse to help somebody in an emergency, the State would either fine me or put me in jail. In this case, people's lives become the State's prime interests, because they are also the State's source of income, as a productive workforce.

The Bundeswehr needs human supplies

My family is from Ramallah so my wish to die for someone's greater cause is somewhat constrained.

Sweet AIPAC money

there is also ZIO Prelude and ZIO schema...

“We don’t have any control over where things get rendered in the menu bar,” said one Tailscale engineer, who asked to go nameless so as to share their honest opinion. “You just say, ‘I want to be a menu bar app.’ They shove it up there, and that’s it, you end up where you end up.”

said one Tailscale engineer, who asked to go nameless

Fear in a free society? There’s no contradiction here. A free society doesn't create a fearless society. Because freedom is the freedom to amass property. If you are not in that class of capital owners your fear is justified. Class society.

I believe it is up to the free individual to make that decision. I'm not saving the slave ship when I'm treated like one.

ps: There are 8 billion people on this planet, and I've never had any serious issues with any of them, much less a reason to start a war. Governments are always the cause of everyone's misery. Beware of yours!

Nothing but Love for China.

She supports Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Genocide of the Palestinians

Geizhals is associated with the Heise Verlag

Afaik, Heise Verlag is the owner of Geizhals

the 18th century nation-state model has always been open to fascism.

Example: Object Algebra pattern represents data types ("nouns") as functions.

- Whoever is paying you is your customer, no matter what alternative word we use for it. If you're an employee, your customer is your "employer." If you're being acquired, your customer is your "acquirer."

That is none-sens.

If that were true, all profits would go to the customers. No, you are hired because the company and its owners can extract the profits from your work. Laying you off could mean nothing to customers, but even more profits to them.

Make America Great Again != Make Americans Great Again

big difference

1,000 billion euros allocated for social welfare

No, the money is definitely not meant for social programs, neither for affordable housing.

On the contrary, the debt brake was introduced to justify cutting social spending after the 2008 banking crash.

Social spending is still limited, debt financed military spending however is unlimited.

The money will go into fortifying bridges, roads for Truppentransporte, programs to protect civilians from disasters, emergencies, and armed conflicts. Military Keynesianism.

The political class is now debating ways to increase pressure on the population.. higher VAT, deregulate working hours, dropping public holidays, re-activate mandatory military service etc.

that simplifies the works of others..... for non-Physicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson.

xD

That's not the only issue. They want a guarantee that the model wasn't trained on copyrighted material.

I can't ask the candidate not to jump, and then complain that he didn't.

I thought domain modelling through types is considered standard in functional programming?

(see for example Scott Wlaschin)

Last I checked, employees are the ones doing the work!

By that logic, there wouldn't be any profits at all. All should go to the workers.

communists and anarchists have been dominating the ad industry for decades :p

There is too much morally infused overinterpretation of Capitalism going on. Owners and workers have diametrically opposite interests which no law or moral judgment could put aside.

What one party perceives as a fair wage is nothing but profit dilution for the other side.

Remember, the only purpose of a business is - given money - to make more money. If you can't help them with that, either by being dirt cheap or have some marketable skill, you're literally useless and part of the Capitalist overpopulation... a class people who serve no use in the accumulation process.

And yet sports fans around the world complain about companies turning their favorite sports past time into a soulless business opportunity where everything including the fans themselves counts as a commodity, has a price and a number.

Everybody is in it for the money.... especially companies.

don't put yourself on some moral Pedestal.

Better stop moralizing capitalism. AI is simply another tool, and like all the tools that came before, its #1 purpose is to generate profits for the owners.

There's no counterbalance or consolidation of power that wouldn't go in accordance with the rules of a capitalist society, which necessarily includes the social class divide. Between those owning everything and those who sell their labor to survive.

Ugly or not, that is exactly what capitalism is supposed to be doing.

That's the thing, though. Gooby is just a means to an end; the ultimate end goal of your company is to write software that is useful to people and makes money. For the zealots, however, Gooby is the end in and of itself.

So, where's the difference? One doesn't care about what they sell as longs it makes them money, the other as long they have fun.

I use llama for anything that falls under an NDA clause, e.g. data by which the client could be identified. Like asking it analyze existing code/algorithms, to document functions or parse data is done only locally.

if the local model got stuck I try to abstract the problem and present gpt with the general case (e.g. given 2 columns A,B, find... )

Bots are great time savers when learning new technology and for doing tedious tasks. For example, I'm learning Rust and using a combination of GPT-4, local llama3, and Codeium helped me to write more Rust-like code. They can generate schema definitions from sample XML data that I use in Spark, and generally help me write better and idiomatic PySpark/Spark queries. Afterward, you wouldn't be able to tell whether the code was written by someone with years of Spark/Python/Rust experience or a noob like myself. As long as you're fluent in some related tech stack (like Scala, SQL), I find bots can get you there quickly. They also work best when combined with TDD / test-first. I get decent results when I let the bot focus on smaller aspects. When I'm unsure or the code has issues, I take it to the other Bot to find alternative solutions. This way, I can quickly get an idea of what you can do in the language, including lesser-used features. Finally I get unit tests and documentation for free.

Lisp's primordial sin is the fact that it is FP. US cooperations never supported FP (see Microsoft and F#). FP is largely a European phenomenon.

A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years with the need for charging or maintenance.

Shoudn't it be: "without" the need for charging or maintenance. ??