I'm not sure there is any amount of money that I'd accept to engineer a product that involved looking at thousands of photos of unflushed toilets.

Your suggestion is logical, but I don't think you considered industrial use. That smelter or fertilizer factory will get impacted as well...distribution centers, even ice hockey rinks. Lots of industries use a lot of electricity...it's just they provide actual value, unlike this AI Rush. Most of these are the backbone of your local economy. Not everyone can be an engineer at a big tech company...someone has to make raw materials, houses, grow your food, etc

In my view, the AI bubble is a cancer we just have to accept and accommodate. TMK, investing in electrical infrastructure is not a bad idea. There's no way to separate pointless computation, like bitcoin or most LLMs, vs legit cloud computing, which we want to encourage. And as many have pointed out, once investors realize LLMs are not going to provide the value promised, all that cloud computing capacity can just be repurposed for technology growth that I would consider much more practical. Once the bubble pops...once all the servers bought are obsolete....you still have an upgraded grid and distribution system to support EVs or whatever technology increases our electricity consumption in the future.

The story here is that local suppliers need to step up to make demand. The answer is to shame them, not the customers who want to buy electricity.

This "researcher" doesn't seem to know what end-to-end encryption is, or why what the manufacturer says is true. Their blog says that "[t]he term is generally used for applications that allow some kind of communication between users", but that's not true. The most common type of end-to-end encryption is HTTPS, typically between the user and a web server.

Also, they offer an AI powered service to analyse your output, and state that they use the data for further training. That is well within both expectations of what an AI powered service will be doing, and what their privacy policy says they will do.

I dislike how privacy is treated as a premium product, and how many companies feel entitled to our data, this case is nothing special at all.

They are probably hoping that developers start releasing ARM native versions once Steam Machine sales start to take off. This will be aimed at older games where the developer is unlikely to go back and rebuild for ARM, and performance isn't too critical.

Better headlines:

"Your next car just got shittier"

"White House vows to win war on your lungs"

More BS American Propaganda. I'm American and it doesn't work on me; boy does it work on my peers! Gullible idiots; should be obvious to foreigners by now.

BYD is not subsidized into beating American cars!

#1 cost for an American car is the healthcare of their employees! BYD? "Free" healthcare. We both get "free" roads. We both have government helping the power companies; they just do that better than we do too. We are screwing alternatives, they are #1; we are building super subsidized nuclear power which is the most expensive too. They treat more as infrastructure than we do and they don't need to fight for decades to finally pass an infrastructure law. Infrastructure is important and Americans probably don't even know what that is outside the bill Biden passed with that in the name. We are on track to privatize the post office, Medicare (already over half done) and just before the big collapse, we'll privatize social security. China subsidizes their postal service; like every sane nation did; in the USA it was subsidized for over 200 years... now we let them pay interest on debt and if you haven't noticed, there are a ton of tiny delivery companies working with them now as postage went up a lot... it's not inflation.

The free market would kill the American auto industry. Not that the cost of living wouldn't make labor impact prices; but right now, it's the worlds most expensive healthcare mess making them worse; as far as quality, China caught up - they just have less quality control, regulation, etc. but they probably can do better manufacturing than we remember how to do; if surpassed. or soon will.

Exon is making a move to expand plastics. Whatever that means. I suppose PLA will be banned next?

Long ago, Japan kicked their ass. Foreign companies beat American laziness. Long ago, new laws protected American auto companies and harmed foreign ones in the market with the deal essentially being, cars can be imported with tariff or somewhat made here without. I don't remember the details but it also helped spawn fake car companies under a parent company. TRUCKS were functionally banned which weren't a big deal to the foreign companies plus they made more profit... a chunk of that profit is LOANS which is also their business, because we've got to push people into debt too! As a result, SUVs were invented as a technical truck that is a car. They promoted the hell out of what made them money and was protected by the government to keep the industry afloat. They even found a way to make women want SUVs, I remember reading about that (it was fear,) and demote mini-vans.

Did they use the time to invest in catching up? No, not really, just wanted to keep going short term. Another bailout or protection law would save them next time. Now they only have old movies promoting them to some foreign fools and the rest of the planet doesn't want their crap-mobiles.

if they win they become God-Kings who's slightest whim is made real to the limits of human civilization.

If they lose they just go to their graves insanely wealthy.

There is a *very* small chance they get thrown out of a window or poisoned by a Stalin or a Mao, but it's very, very unlikely. They have their own private armies to protect them.

one of Toyota's executives said that every model would be offered as a hybrid in about a decade. That might happen after three decades.

Really? The only ones available without a hybrid option that I can see are the GR 86 rwd coupe and the GR Supra.

We could include the GR Corolla and Hatchback Corolla if you don't consider them "Corollas."

But I was told the opposite:

"We were ahead of them by a mile, by 10 miles, on the internal combustion engine. They went into EVs, and then they convinced the Western world to go into EVs and play their game," the freshman Republican lawmaker from Ohio said during an auto industry conference. "That was just irrational, dumb policy."...

"I pushed back on the premise that EV somehow is about innovation," he said. "Electric vehicles were around in 1910. It's not like this is new technology."

Here's a guy working hard to ensure the US not only loses the global competition for auto production, but becomes the last bastion of tailpipe emissions.

It'll be about 3-5 years but more or less.

That's how long analysts think the AI build out will last. It's why nobody is building more capacity.

the reason gas prices have been stable is we keep pushing for more fuel economy keeping demand down. EVs help some too, but the huge push for fuel economy is why the national average is only $3/gallon.

I'm saying that those people aren't going down without a fight, and they'll kill a lot of the people who try to kill them.

When the violence starts we all get dragged into it. Nobody gets to sit back and watch the 'parasites' get taken out to their amusement. It doesn't work like that.

Although about 30-40% of the country seems to think it does.

Since 1980 were taken by automation not outsourcing. Google it.

The Trump administration is heavily pushing even more automation.

His commerce Secretary has already admitted that even if tariffs magically brought the factories back the jobs wouldn't come with them because they would be automated.

We are going to have to do something about this. In the very near future, in the life of most of the people reading this, about a quarter of the population is going to be rendered completely useless. We will not have any useful work they are capable of doing.

We are not going to give them money to sit around playing Xbox and getting drunk on Friday night. Nobody is going to tolerate going to work for 40 to 60 hours a week when somebody else doesn't have to. It won't feel Fair and it will make people very angry.

At the same time we are talking about 30 to 40 million people we just have no use for. It's too many to stick in work camps or to kill.

We are going to have a huge conflict between the people who still need to do work and the people who there is no useful work to do. And there is no magical super job that's going to come along and employ them. Read the history on the two industrial revolutions, we had massive amounts of technological unemployment during both of them that your high school history books glossed over. We had 25% unemployment in the lead up to world war II.

I don't know what the solution is. I think what's going to happen is we're going to have another world war and it's going to go nuclear possibly ending the species. But if there's a third option we better figure it out and fast.

The billionaires have decided we're going to have feudalism and are working on dismantling capitalism so that they know longer depend on consumers and employees for their wealth and prestige and power. They are creating a world where they do not need you to buy their products. So they already have a solution to the problem it's just their solution doesn't include you.