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The West has unfortunately a track record of being very soft on foreign death squads. We did the same thing when Russian and Iranian death squads killed people in Europe:

- Complain

- Expel diplomats

- Sanction a few regime-aligned individuals

It is actually a surprising that Russia is not the manufacturing capital of the world. They have super-cheap energy, Soviet-era high-quality STEM education, and 50 million cheap workers from Caucasus, Siberia, Far East Russia, and the Central Asian countries.

I think we in the West need to get better at creating excitement about manufacturing.

The two biggest wind turbine manufacturers in the world, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Gamesa, are located here in Denmark. It is definitely possible to do manufacturing in high income developed countries.

>to India and China

You probably mean just China. India's manufacturing output is less than 1/10th of China's manufacturing output.

TIL Sam Altman became the CEO of OpenAI because he is good at verbally patting billionaires on the back.

Building large-scale C++ projects has become less of an issue because of CMake slowly becoming the default build tool.

There is no way it implements the entire RV32I base profile. Maybe it only implements the instructions that are relevant for CS students taking a computer architecture class. That is typically what these breadboard CPUs implement.

Even LLMs would be better off with a clear unambiguous syntax to define human laws and rules.

What makes you think they will do that? Especially considering that Russia's source of soft power in the developing world is their willingness to sell offensive weapons without asking ESG questions.

How are you going to hold all the permanent members of the UN Security Council responsible for this? They all have companies and organizations operating in this space.

Apple is ridiculously far ahead of the competition in terms of performance per watt.

Unity is used by many mobile game studios in the developing world who don't follow Western accounting practices. It would have been hard or impossible to get proper Unreal-like revenue sharing out of them.

The correct move would have been to ignore them but instead Unity chose to shoot their other users and themselves in the foot.

>I cannot wait for our Western Empire to fall.

Funny how both the far-right and far-left are hoping this will happen.

The overall message seem to be that we should let taxpayer funded universities run themselves with little government intervention. The article blames government interventionism on neoliberalism/capitalism because neoliberalism/capitalism doesn't like unemployable university graduates.

Here in Denmark we had a university like that a few decades ago. It briefly turned into a communist commune. However to continue to attract students they had to slowly moderate and open up. Today they are a normal university. A few of their ideas like group project oriented education was ahead of its time.

Also in recent times the biggest DDoS attacks are done by Linux-based botnets. Typically the botnet operators use SSH brute forcing to infect everything from IoT devices to big servers.

However Linux is not to blame that it's used in idiotic IoT and server configurations.

>Wall Street finance shenanigans that's purely devoted to creating money out of thin air or skimming (especially HFT)

Society is so damn lucky that techbros are politically irrelevant.

Advanced manufacturing, R&D, and high quality STEM education are three sides of the same coin. Shenzhen is the manufacturing capital of world because all three is tightly integrated.

Probably more descriptive to call it an ActivityPub instance that implements the Mastodon API.

Still very cool.

Isn't that the June 2023 inflation numbers? How do they include increased natural gas prices doing winter months?

Pro-Russian right-wing parties in Europe are blaming inflation on our sanctions on Russia. If that was the case Hungary and Austria would not be the the countries that are worst affected by inflation.

Funny how the two most pro-Russian EU countries, Hungary and Austria, are the ones suffering the worst inflation despite continuing to trade with Russia.

The only parts of the countries doing well are Budapest and Vienna that are both controlled by opposition parties.

I think one of the main causes of rapid decline is the openai/evals repo that OpenAI is using the crowdsource the "safety" neutering of GPT-4.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenai%2Fevals+safety+OR+...

Contributors in return get access to the 32K token version of GPT-4. This incentivize people to make up a ton of bullshit safety related evals.

Any source for that claim?

Not just tech workers. 24 year old non-technical product managers at FAANG companies are demanding $190,000 salaries.

As a European I wish more FAANG companies started hiring software engineers remotely. The only American companies that have offered me remote jobs with FAANG tier salaries were cryptobro startups.

>John Carmack, Guido, Rich Hickey, Donald Knuth wanted a job, they would first have to leet code like everyone else

I think it's funny that you listed people who develop game engines, programming languages, and write algorithm and data structures textbooks.

Literally the people who could do the LeetCode algorithms and data structures problems in their sleep because it's actually relevant for their job.

>Cost per launch: Over US$2 billion excluding development (estimate)

There must be a cheaper way to do that.

The people who read a financial newspaper probably still have a lot of their networth tied up to their real-estate.

They seem to have something in the works: https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/en-US/

I don't understand their refusal to make games that will make them money and showcase Unity's capabilities.

The only reason Unreal engine has so favorable license conditions is because Epic Games earn billions from Fortnite and Epic Games Store.

No, but when multiple bigger European countries and the EU starts fining them things start to add up.