Most people are smart from within the narrow confines of their own interests and beyond that simply don't give a shit. People conflate "intelligence" and values all the time.
Most tech isn't "Anti worker". What determines pro/anti worker are laws and government policies that reciprocate with the cultural norms we adopt. At the moment, money in U.S. politics is the most anti-worker phenomena I can think of. The ultra wealthy have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and how our lives are ordered. The only power working people seem to have is the ability to impose consequences via rogue guerilla acts of protest and violence (Luigi Mangion) . Hopefully, AI is a Frankenstein monster the public learns to wield to facilitate more of these "consequences" and upend the monopoly the super wealthy have on policy incentives and change the way politics is funded for good. It's a new world and a Hawaiian or New Zealand doomsday bunker isn't going make a difference.
Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing.
If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.
There’s many other comparisons where the government comes out ahead when you balance quality of what’s done vs cost. The overhead of the social security administration is far lower than other pensions, and that’s with everyone else piggybacking backing off your SSN. Some of this is scale but economies of scale only go so far.
Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done.
One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated.
And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)
No natural monopolies should ever be privatized and there's no reason to have more than one entity collecting weather data. Also, this has been one of the best and most reliable services provided by the government, no one ever bothers thinking about the weather because its always there and it is also very right.
Maybe they were just too good and now everyone thinks this is easy and every single other country works like this with weather service. I'm in florida and I know i'm fucked this hurricane season.
I feel like there's important context here, such as this company was founded before Trump entered office, and the government weather balloons were so inefficient that a private company thought they could compete with free data.
Government weather data is exactly the kind of thing that should be private.
I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the ones they like to a landing page as a collection to read later. Many of the sites I like don't have the conventional RSS "structure" so I have to modify my main parser and adapt it to the outliers. I'm curious, how do you adapt to feeds that don't fit the conventional RSS structure? I was thinking of just using an LLM to automate it as I keep using Claude AI to expedite the process.
Do you mean they technically have RSS, but they’re using slightly different fields? E.g. summary instead of description?
I’m using FastRSS[^0] with some lightweight pattern matching to convert them to an internal model. I get error notifications for mismatches, and just push a new pattern match to handle the outlier.
Longer term it could be interesting to get an LLM to write some Lua to parse JIT.
This site is a cess pool of libertarian axioms and nit picks by people that believe they are the next Mark Zuckerberg. Anything remotely critical of capitalism is piled on. It's their culture.
Travel to a secluded part oft he world with plenty of sunshine. Bury a time capsule containing a Rasberry pi with a long antenna and solar panel sticking out of the ground behind a big pile of shrubbery.
