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Sounds like the solution is just hire more judges instead

It would be hilarious if the Europeans got everyone visas and gave some kind of tax benefit to Anthropic and poached the entire company.

This is such a braindead move. Western AI companies short-term greed will just let Chinese companies win. If I were google, I'd just throttle or release a heavily cached version of their API for OpenClaw and automatically detect and direct openclaw usage to this model. Personally, Anthropic and Google's recent moves are just making me go all-in on self-hosted AI.

Clearly you are not a visible minority subject to random and unjust harassment. The TSA and most airport security measures are ineffective job programs that do little to help improve security and waste taxpayer dollars. Sources: [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa... [2] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-19-374

lol no way trump would let the UK extradite a US CEO.

All work (in-office or remote) is inherently transactional. If I am in an office, I have to pretend to have genuine social interactions with people. Social bonds made between colleagues have will happen organically. No in-office mandatory fun.

The further I go into my career, the more see the it the opposite way. I think business people are overvalued compared with most software engineers. If software engineers take the time to learn the "business", they can build their own companies that eclipse those started by the typical MBAs who view engineers as "pampered and coddled" cost centers. I think after the bubble pops, we'll see new companies that led by engineers and creatives conducting orchestras of AI that will allow them end the need for the typical corporate business people.

Depends on what kind of app you have, if it is multimedia heavy or needs a lot of native capabilities, it's better to use react-native.

Idk why Amazon employees aren't unionizing over this. A major AWS outage due to striking employees could hit them where it hurts and make Amazon's management realize how stupid they are to consider this policy change.

I've always said people should be able to directly allocate where their taxes go within the government expenditures, or be able to file an objection based on religious or philosophical beliefs to having their tax dollars fund morally objectionable things. I would be much happier to pay taxes if they went to funding schools, infrastructure, NASA, emergency management, poverty relief and other useful things instead of putting undocumented immigrants who could be productive members of society in concentration camps or bombing brown people. Furthermore, I am happy to fund particular defense initiatives like supporting Ukraine, but I want a line item veto on unproductive or morally repugnant things the government does.

We really need to eliminate all these special powers afforded to judges, police and other government officials. They are civil servants and need to remember whatever authority they have is granted by the people and exists only to serve the community. Sadly, most of the people in government don't seem to realize this fact of public office / civil service in any democratic society.

That's wild that we have to deal with AML/KYC buying a few dollars of crypto but a multimillion dollar real estate translation just goes through without the government sniffing its nose into things. Just goes to show you how unfair the system is towards the little guy.

ISPs got a ton of free money from the government to set up internet infrastructure and have been milking taxpayer money without improving access significantly or reducing costs. They can accept it or get nationalized imo

Currently, I am focused on Mandarin Chinese, LLMs. I would like re-learn math up through undergrad discrete math too and develop an understanding of the Linux kernel.

What can be done as an ordinary people to abolish this system? I firmly believe these types of systems are gross violations of the 1st amendment

I am fully in favor of the US reducing its military. Sadly, fascists, racist and religious fundamentalists won't stop violating the rights of other people, fueling the American military industrial complex.

Immigration is not what is killing standards of living. Do you have any proof of discrimination against Americans in H1B heavy companies? I am pretty skeptical given the lottery nature of HB1 and the number of racist politicians who would love to amplify this narrative if even with dubious evidence of such discrimination

Anybody else feeling the only way to have any measure of freedom in your life these days is to run your own business? I would rather be a the whim of customers than some manager.

That sounds very cruel to the many accidental Americans out there, should the US have banned Boris Johnson [1] from ever entering the US just because of his place of birth? The more intelligent option for all countries would be to make citizenship performance based, if you live and contribute to a certain society, you ought to be considered part of it instead of current system of nonsense.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/boris-johns...

If Elon hates immigrants so much. He can go back to South Africa.

In places like the bay area with a housing crisis and limited space to expand, the state should seize office buildings (remote work is the future and would help alleviate the shortage while new housing is developed) by eminent domain and set up a scheme like Singapore's HDB system [1] to develop affordable housing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Development_Board

I want to like Kagi but their pricing structure is crazy overpriced imo. If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches maybe, but their offerings don't come anywhere near GPT-4 in terms of value in my experience.

I don't understand why we aren't building nuclear-powered desalinization plants? I am sure the upfront investment is costly, but they seem like an ideal solution if you can get over the "Nuclear scary" aspect for the general public.

As a US citizen, it is ridiculous that the Federal government is allowed to steal my money (via taxes) to actively kneecap the economy without any kind realistic recourse. Free borders & free markets make a country rich, this kind of nonsense is morally unconscionable and economic suicide.

"In reality, society only works when there's a power hierarchy; it's the natural order of things. The more you equally distribute power amongst people, the more dysfunctional/less orderly/more bureaucratic society becomes." That's a pretty bold claim to make without and real evidence, perhaps humans have been conditioned to operate within a power hierarchy and attempts to realize a just society without a centralized authority holding monopoly on violence is simply due to material conditions being such that people cannot transition to a free lifestyle without a power hierarchy. Communism/Anarchist societies based on voluntary association are possible if humans are healed from the collective mental trauma of generations of systematic oppression by the power hungry oppressing them under the guise of Hobbesian necessity or sheer selfish personal interest. TLDR: Don't assume Hobbes without first providing an actual argument against Rousseau.

This kind of thinking is dangerous as it allows the management class to force all workers back into the office. Forcing workers into the office discriminates against employees with families, disabilities and non neurotypical folks who might be more effective WFH. Go to technical meetups, cultivate good conversations with your colleagues on Slack, generally make sure you have a life outside of work that give you meaningful social interactions (hobbies, sports, clubs, etc) but before you complain about remote work. Being forced to sit in a office with a bunch of people is very ineffective and prevents companies from hiring the best folks they can. Work is not meant to be a social venue, you can make friends with coworkers but you need to cultivate meaningful social relations beyond work. It is unhealthy and selfish to force other people back into the office just so you can have friends with you in the same location while you work. One thing to try if you really need social interactions while working might be to get together with other remote workers at the same coworking space once in a while. I would also suggest also looking into having random coffee syncups with your remote colleagues in order to build a meaningful rapport with them.

I really don't see much leadership from C-Level execs at big companies. Frankly, none of them seem to be worth the millions of dollars in compensation they demand. Frankly when you look at Meta's blunders, you can make the case most big tech companies would be better run if they were democratically led with the workers voting on which strategic initiatives to run like a coop.

It's time to unionize the tech sector. Can you imagine how industrial action (shutting down APIs) could cripple a fortune 500 company. Sadly people don't act in their best interest. Execs and capitalists only hold power as long as we give them power.

"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." I do not think you can quantitatively assess the value a single person brings to an organization. Even so-called "cost centers" enable the revenue generating aspects of the organization. These metrics also fail to account for specialized subject matter experts who may be only needed in very unique situations but otherwise can have lots of downtime. Moreover, organizations waste millions of dollars a year on vanity projects and resume driven development by middle management, yet I don't see machine learning being used to identify when competing divisions or factions of managers are wasting time and resources on trying to elevate themselves and their own ideas. If companies legitimately want to understand the value a person brings to an organization, they to have an empathetic, servent-leader manager who takes the time to understand the work each person does within the organization through observation and conversation. These poorly thought through metrics do more harm than good, you'll wind up with crappy products or services as employees focus on gaming metrics as opposed to actually delivering value.

Agreed, I am planning on moving overseas because of how horrific our healthcare system is, I can go to Vietnam, Thailand, or any number "developing" countries and receive better care at their private clinics than in the USA. If the US wants to operate on a market system for healthcare, give me a better product. And with respect to experimental treatments, Singapore and Japan have advanced medical technology and treatments at a fraction of the price. The US system manages to have the worst of single payer and market systems while providing none of the benefits of either approach.