The "screen" he's using in the video is called a stencil. They're made out out of thin stainless steel. These days they're pretty easy to come by, even for the hobbyist.[0]
Yes, I thought this was pretty common now. I do it every time as it hardly adds any cost.
It’s also worth looking at the costs for SMT assembly. Companies like JLC are amazingly cheap for fully assembled boards (provided you stick to their standard parts catalog).
I was almost going to do that for one of my projects, I got my design right on time for chip crisis to start....
But yeah, even for something like 10 boards the prices for assembly has become pretty reasonable, especially if you design for the parts they have in stock.
The workers have made clear they prefer OpenAI's offer.
We could tell the workers that we know what's best for them. Sitting here in my rich country with my six-figured job, I'm supposed to tell the workers they're wrong, they should have taken my offer instead?
It's a terrible incentive that helping people a little bit will get you criticism while helping not at all earns you no criticism. In fact, as non-helpers we get to sit and sanctimoniously criticize the people actually doing something.
Poverty and inequality are terrible. OpenAI should be ashamed that they just made it marginally better for some folks in Kenya instead of solving this massive problem in its entirety that has nothing to do with their company. /s
Why is that an OpenAI problem? It’s something the Kenyan government needs to solve. I fail to see why every company needs to subscribe to an SJW mindset.
They paid decent wages by Kenyan standards it seems. They did not force, exploit or abuse the workers.
Yes, some money is better than none. That is exactly why it is better. They are literally doing something whereas you are probably doing nothing (or much less than what they are doing).
"But these days the human cost is just another cost" - this is where I think you, "key_stroker", and the GP, "brookst", might agree on something, in my opinion.
If someone agrees with your premise that "these days the human cost is just another cost", then it seems logical that a newspaper editor/author will shape the headline about economic suffering, instead of mental suffering.
By adding more information to the headline about "$2 per hour", it might make the discussion more confusing by much of the comments discussing the economic part. BUT, a clickbait-y title might increase the reach of the article.
I don't think the GP is speaking to Kenyans wearing Indian-manufactured clothes -- I think that they're pointing out the hypocrisy in Time readers (and its authors) who live in highly-developed countries, wearing clothing made by low-wage workers, who are just looking for any reason to criticize OpenAI, without applying that same criticism to themselves.
Ah yeah, the classic “in order to criticize a thing, you must first criticize and root out every possible worse thing.”
People have no way of knowing where the things they buy come from or how to source things ethically unless people write articles like this and push for higher standards when they see an opportunity.
It’s one thing to protect genuinely well-meaning people who can’t meet a purity standard, but OpenAI has a track record of dishonesty (starting with their name).
> People have no way of knowing where the things they buy come from
I don't know about other places and maybe I'm an outlier but I check everything for where it's produced / manufactured. Most if not all items in the US are required to have where the item was produced/manufactured. Some may say "Manufactured in the US with globally sourced material" makes it harder to pin down where each of the components originated from. Clothes and other items the country of origin is on the tag.
