I'm not sure where you get the "almost no support cost". The article I read about the Chinese factory said that the robots were just about all being replaces (by newer models) after only a year.

In this case Trump is more a symptom than a cause. Local policing is more of a state level, or even city level, affair. But, yeah, it's a related event.

And remember, you should expect people to act in ways that make their job easier. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's what you should expect, no matter what the rules say.

That's possible, but you didn't cite your source for the statistic. And I think it quite unlikely, so, for me, you really need decent evidence rather than just a claim.

I'm having a bit of trouble working up any sympathy, as the saying goes.

What do you mean "disproven"? Are you saying that mirrors don't reflect, that it won't be cost effective, or what?

Years back I was interviewing people for a coding position. We went through the standard tech stuff and then did a bit of project to see how they thought. We said (this is circa 2009'ish I think) - imagine you're on a team creating a new phone. You don't have time to test all the functions, so which would be your top two functions to ensure working?

All a bit Kobayashi Maru - obviously you can't release a phone testing only two functions, but we wanted to see what they'd prioritise. The very best answer we received was this one: "I would make sure it has the ability to call emergency services." Their thinking was that this was likely the most critical feature of a phone for both a user, and also for the manufacturer to avoid being sued. Absolutely great answer.

And yet here we are, with the post above. Taking the thinking of this interviewee - the ability to work with emergency services is important for general society, for the user of the vehicle (so they don't get in trouble) and for the manufacture of the vehicle (so they don't get fined/sued/both). Absolutely critical.

Agreed. My Dad was a surgeon too but one thing has become blatantly obvious just from the experiences of family members in 2 states in the U.S.. 1) Nurse practitioners tend to be the front line, not doctors, and 2) there is an extremely significant disparity between the diagnostic quality and offered outcomes when you compare one of the absolute top doctors in his field who handles a given type of surgery repeatedly, to basically anyone else.

If robots can in any way safely and reliably assist so that the knowledge and efforts of doctors with the best experience can be spread more widely that would have a massive impact. Also, surgical techniques have advanced massively in the past 20 years, and robots are here to stay in that area.

They've got a lot more components to their system...and the tooling isn't all software. As for software, IIUC, they're using a different multi-processing library. Making the weights compatible doesn't make the entire system compatible.

The FSB is certainly getting a good ROI on their investment in Trump.

IIUC, the Chinese strategy is to come up with a cheaper collection of tools, including models, that are incompatible with the standard US tooling, and convince other countries to use their version instead. The US government seems to be actively pushing to make that strategy work. (E.g. abruptly cutting off access to models with no warning or explanation.)

Most FOSS software starts small, and easy to learn, and if it's going to grow, it grows with a community of developers that understand the software. This? Unless it's pretty small and compact, that's unlikely. And those who are going to develop using it probably need a company behind them. (Plausibly one with a good legal staff.)

To be fair, BOTH voices felt off. Both the phone voice and the actress voice. But the actress voice sounded faker than the phone.

I don't think of that a "misogynistic", but definitely a stereotype..and a rather unrealistic one. But, I suppose, if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.

PFAS is used in packaging like to-go containers and caps for spaghetti sauce jars among other things, so PFAS in food is very real

IIUC, Meta sells compute to Anthropic. That's not "not finding a use".