This scares me. I showed my little daughter a video of Lions, a pet robot, and she fell in love with it. I wonder how people are building tech so we basically start interacting with artificial friends, pets and lovers. And because of it we start living even more isolated than we already are (online) and dependent on products offered by tech giants which are just simulating affection and taking advantage of our loneliness, stress etc.

After China surpasses and start leading in most critical tech industries, the US economy and dollar dominance will simply fall apart (as it may be happening with the AI bubble right now). Why trading for dollars when you can simply import every critical tech, with superior performance and cheaper cost, from Chinese markets?

It makes sense why the US is becoming desperate and willing to wage wars and implement trading chaos to try to disrupt supply chains in order to slow down Chinese progress. But all this effort will lead to nothing as China is always one step ahead of the US.

Wow, that’s a lot of effort

Good to know… I don’t use Python very often, so I’m always a bit oblivious of the recent changes. I’m mainly a Java developer (or Kotlin, when the employer is generous and let me pick the language). In this regard, JVM ecosystem seems to be a bit less chaotic. Maven and Gradle approach seem to be less of a mess than what I find in other ecosystems. The main issues on this ecosystem are some widespreadly used behemoths like Spring framework and Java EE, which often encapsulate and integrate other libraries in all sorts of creative ways and which can cause a big dependency hell if devs don’t consider carefully their choices.

By the way, which is the better tool for virtual envs in Python, nowadays? Pipenv or venv?

I agree from a technical perspective. For political actors, on the other hand, they use the publicity of these security flaws to smear OSS from executives, policy makers and the general public.

Just FYI, I’ve worked on a big Brazilian state owned tech company and I heard multiple times from top executives sponsored by politicians of how closed source is better for security because the flaws aren’t apparent, or because only employees of said company could touch the code base. We devs all knew that was all bullshit, but they use this kind of justification to the wide public in order to justify their shady business deals.

I think Python has a better overall philosophy with the batteries included concept. It’s good to have a comprehensive set of libraries which don’t need to rely so much in third party libraries, or where these third-party project solve very specific problems and are well known. Node.js ecosystem, on the other hand, is a huge mess…

I mean bad PR for open source because those issues are happening more and more frequently. And the widespread use of open source means more good and bad actors are posting their codes in GitHub and most of people who use it aren’t aware of all the issues.

This is very bad PR for Node.js and open source in general.

Kind of. Nvidia is investing money in Open AI, Open AI is investing in datacenters (Microsoft, Oracle) and those datacenters are buying Nvidia chips. It’s a round-trip. I’m not even sure if Nvidia is making a lot of money.

It is click bait. And like other hype pseudo scientific magazines, they exaggerate things a bit. But if you have interest and knowledge in the area, you can read the paper in Nature magazine.

You can read the paper. It has been published in nature magazine. Note that their experiment is about doing matrix inversion with a 16x16 matrix. I think the whole thing is still experimental. Even so, it’s remarcable, it’s a specialized hardware to do a specific kind of computation which is much faster and energy efficient.

What the hell China won’t do anymore? Analog chips? I didn’t think I’d live to see this. It’s a great breakthrough in analog chip design .

Why does it have a lot of Ukrainian people? Is this coincidence?

China becoming the world’s factory is exactly one of the things socialism is about: the development of productive forces. Go read The German Ideology.

Secondly, what the hell is “Free Press”? Have you ever spent 5 minutes thinking what is it about? Have you ever thought about whose interests the “Free Press” serve and if the interests that drive Western government policy aren’t the same?

Third of all, the things you are stating are things repeated over and over by the US press, US pop culture, US propagandists, US backed NGOs? Have you ever questioned the sources you use to criticize other non-aligned governments or do you just take those sources at face value?

Many of us, including me, have been an idiotic liberal such as yourself. We all learned to critically question our own beliefs, developed a critical attitude towards information, about the true meaning of “freedom” (which for you is a meaningless word - try to define what is freedom and how you are actually free?), something you never done in your life before. If you don’t engage with any of your previous past beliefs critically, how do expect any people here to engage you seriously, without thinking you are some sort of parrot spewing all kinds of ideological common (non)sense?

McCarthyism is back in full force. It reminds me a lot of the Brazilian military dictatorship where the mere denunciation of someone being a commie could get the person detained and maybe disappear entirely. Neighbors were denouncing other neighbors they had a disagreement with. And the same happened with co-workers.

What I would say to my US comrades is to keep the head down and try not to bring too much suspicion. This is specially true in times of social media. However the way things are happening in the US what I see is that probably we’ll see the genocidal imperialist logic applied inside US borders or maybe a civil war will break out.

Witch is fine. Why not conjure a big curse to the people who came up with IPv6 addresses? Let them have piss in their blood and rotten teeth for the rest of their lives.

Although I do believe there will be an impact in all industries (especially the creative industry), much of what these investors and C-Suites are doing is just a bluff to attract more capital and investment. They know that AI is not profitable yet, and they need massive investments to keep the wheel spinning. Sam Altman, for example, is preaching about the AI apocalypse since before GPT 2.0. AI is the newest capitalist hyped Ponzi scheme.

It’s not a simple matter of choice. Most people aren’t invested into open source, they just want to get by and do their mundane things. Most people aren’t even aware of all the privacy stuff or abusive practices of big business, it’s usually some more outspoken tech savvy person that decides to expose what the big corps are doing. So using open source is not a choice, like you would be just choosing your preferred cereal brand, but both a technical and political act. And most people are just into the system, they aren’t aware of all malicious things around them.

Not only that, but also when companies feel threatened, they start imposing new technical and legal restrictions to make using OSS harder. Since they have more control over the whole production supply chain of devices, they have more cost effective options and even partnership with hardware vendors to make using OSS very hard or impossible.

At some point, investors will start pulling their capital. They won’t need 10 companies doing the same thing, so they will choose a few of them and crash the ones running behind.

I share the same view. The problem of AI does not come from the technology itself, but by the fact that it is a tool that uses work from other people to build the model without compensating them, while at the same time it offers opportunity for companies to exploit other people more. If the world were to be socialist, Generative AI would be just another tool to reduce work.

I won’t be surprised if AI ends up so expensive that they will cost more than actual developers. But as experience has shown, C-Suites prefer expensive and bloated tech than providing developers autonomy, good salaries and good career plans. They see us just as rebellious cogs in the machine.