Images are there for docker now, but pecl has decided to have issues . ARGH

While I absolutely believe in climate change, I DO think that there are people out there talking about it as fanatically as the most MAGA Trump worshiper talks about Trump. We have to be careful to not let the most fringe element of any issue become the de facto voice of the issue because media, both social and otherwise, profits on drama.

Even before AI, there was a serious hiring problem in the United States. Companies seem hell bent on not hiring full time employees at a livable wage. I don't blame the technology, but I do blame the greed of business owners and investors.

While its easy to look at the big picture and long term and say everything will all work out, there are so many individuals who are being hurt because of layoffs, reduced hiring, etc. My team is stressed out because they feel an axe hanging over their heads because private equity has declared no more hiring US developers. It's either AI or outsourcing. We should try to be empathetic because real people are losing their livelihoods and the long term isn't going to help them one bit.

It's a globalization problem that countries have a hard time creating policy against. Countries don't have the enforcement power that they used to. The best we have come up with is using our own markets as leverage. In a hundred years I imagine wealth and income will look much more uniform across the world. Unfortunately, right now, we are stuck competing with people who can earn much less than people in the US. Now we have to worry about this AI disaster waiting to happen because countries have no real power to stop it. They say it looks like AI won't destroy jobs, but I think really we are just watching the various legs on a table be kicked out. It will still stand until it doesn't.

In the long term the sun will go red giant and all life on earth will die.

In the short term I still need to eat, and tech integration that takes 20 years in the economy might leave me totally fucked!

And yet all sorts of people are advocating for using Chinese LLMs because they are less expensive. It seems like a very risky move to save a few dollars.

It'd be interesting to know how much of that is truly organic support versus what the CCP pushes out across the internet as agitation/propaganda.

Are they cheaper? They are open-weight, so in theory, they are cheaper to run and do with them as you wish.

The problem is that they come from a place with a long and storied history of attacking digital assets in the US and the West in general.

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It kind of makes sense because gasoline taxes help fund road projects. Of course, if you live in a state like Pennsylvania, there's not much evidence of real improvements to the pothole infested roads.

On-topic: tire taxes already go into a Federal cleanup fund, increasing those makes sense.

Off-topic: Metal doesn’t do well in that region,

you expect better from road-materials?

When in PA/NY and others near the Lakes, I regularly see newer rusted cars,

rusted-out newer satellite dishes…

PennDOT is possibly one of the best in the country.

Your expectations for the physical shape of the roads and their materials are absurd,

given the chronic, sustained WEEKS of humidity, precipitation/snow in the region.

Have you been to Europe? I just returned from Paris where it rained and hailed last week. The roads are pristine. Same in London.

Good luck getting Pennsylvanians to spend over £300 million per year, per city, on roads, like London does.

That should scale.

More serious, on topic reply:

The combination heat and humidity during Summer is the differentiating factor. Worse than London etc.

You can rebuild the road twice a year, still gonna crack.

It can be done was my point. Our taxes go elsewhere though.

>You can rebuild the road twice a year, still gonna crack.

Rebuild or patch potholes? It's been over 2 decades since I've been to Philly and Pittsburg, not sure how things are now. I lived in the tri-state area for 15 years until '05. Never saw anything approaching rebuilding, just mickey mouse patching (Brooklyn, NJ, Manhattan).

I disagree - at least for the near future. If companies stop outsourcing to poorer countries, they'll be hit now. If so many Americans lose their jobs that nobody has money to buy anything, that will affect poorer countries too. It's not the technology of AI that's necessarily causing the problems. It's the greed of all the shareholders and business owners laying off everybody in favor of automation. This has been building up for years - even before AI. The quest to replace human jobs with gig economy workers and automation is also a relevant factor.

I am not sure where that "Americans lose their jobs" claim is coming from, Job statistics are freely available, US has historical low unemployment now (for many reasons, but nevertheless) and all that doom and gloom about AI eats the world jobs has little support from data.

It comes from watching Linked In and talking to people in real life. Again, I don't think it's AI eating the jobs. I think it's greed that's eating jobs.

Conventional wisdom always used to be that China would never compete with the US because they were rote learners and we were more creative. I'd say that is no longer the case. China has been doing a LOT of interesting things. I joke with my son that given the state of the US lately, I'd almost rather move to China.

Whereas in China, and in a lot of other countries around the world, when they talk about moving to the US they are completely serious about it. They are actually highly concerned with what specific options they have for getting some kind of visa to the United States, they are genuinely upset with the recent US policy changes that have made it harder for foreigners to get such visas.

That conventional wisdom is pretty racist bro, which neoliberal convinced you otherwise?

I've used Kagi for a couple of years now. I decided I didn't want to be the product anymore, and try to pay for the tools I really use.