Exactly,

Early in career when you have a moderate or high income (if lucky) you don't have assets to fall back to if you lose the ability to work. It is not only about your family left behind, it could be yourself left in a wheelchair or coma.

However mid-career you either have those assets, or your company already provides a cheaper life insurance option (or sometimes even free) for 2x you salary for 10 years, or similar terms.

Then you don't need that personal life insurance anymore.

It is simple.

First, I had not realized Fishbowl went onto requiring full names in the first place. Haven't used them in a while, so maybe time to delete that one as well.

But what is Glassdoor thinking? And what will this policy serve?

When Google did something similarly stupid back in the day (remember Buzz?) they were sued for privacy violations and had to pay and accept a very long (still ongoing) outside oversight of their practices.

And this is on an area that is pretty sensitive. If Feds don't sue them (very busy trying catch their Moby Dick), one such person who lost a job, or job offer, due to retaliation will definitely will. And since humans are petty, and negative reviews will lead to multiple such cases, I could even see a large class action against them.

If somehow they were lucky to avoid pubic and private lawsuits, it will be obvious to all users to never upload data on the platform. And employer data voluntarily uploaded in anonymous setting is their bread and butter. Without it, there is no reason to go do (broken) Glassdoor anymore. In fact, I think http://levels.fyi/ was already eating their lunch, now they will just starve much faster.

Gotta admit that europeans are doing much better with their regulatory bodies than us.

Okay, most people will not like this, but FTC has been wasting a lot of time and effort on Microsoft's gaming merger with ABK. However in that time frame EU's Vestager was able to secure concessions and guarantees in that very same merger (no blocking of third part clouds, no "exclusive" Call of Duty for ~10 years). Yet FTC has nothing to show except multiple humiliating court losses.

FTC should stop wasting our tax dollars, and really look at this practice. It is not only hurting EU cloud providers, it is affecting this side of the pond as well.

I read so many accounts here in the States that were negatively affected by Broadcom.

They are literally using the monopoly power to squeeze the market. Probably like no other in the past. Cancelling existing contracts, ending existing support promises, massively jacking up prices, selecting "winners" as customers, laying off relations with resellers, and the list of terrible stuff goes on...

Why do we have the anti-trust laws in the first place?

True. We don't even know what to do with it.

Yes, there are Mars plans, which may or may not materialize soon. However in the meantime, the interior volume is literally as big as the International Space Station itself. Instead of sending 3 to 5 astronauts at a time to the existing ISS, we can furnish one Starship for a 6 months extended mission and carry all the science from scratch. And this is only scratching the surface (pun intended).

I am really looking forward to what the near future will bring in terms of space exploration. And it will get much faster, very soon.

Like SVB taking on too much money, young "investors" running into crypto, the troubled Hertz tried to ride the new "Tesla" bandwagon. The problem was, they did not prepare themselves to do it.

As others suggested, they expected to rent these to rideshare (Uber) crowd, which makes sense. However there was not enough demand for them. Nor not enough demand when they moved the vehicles to regular customers.

Worse? They did not properly prepare for the EV needs, like destination chargers at their rental locations, nor they tried to adopt existing business practices. The "full tank" on return with gas is not a big issue, as most fuel meters lie and give some slack at the top. With EVs, they give an exact value. They could have easily solved this by saying "return with 80% charge", and then they would have their own chargers (again) on standby to help. No, they have to continue to milk, which led to their downfall.

My fear is, other rental companies might read this incorrectly, and react too much against future EV adoption. Hopefully they will have smarter management.

Their popularity seems to have been their downfall. In the past air "BNB" meant, the hosts took care of their home, and were possibly nearby, or had someone close to do it for themselves.

Now it has become an industry. People took mortgages, which they could not otherwise pay, and lent their homes to larger companies like Vacasa. It is good to have professional services for listings, photographs, and cleaning. But the security aspect (the guest stole all the china and messed up the place!) needs a more local touch.

That is why hotels made a comeback. After all airbnb options became "just another hotel with more rules and higher prices"

I had an Android TV with similar dilemma. An online firmware update failed, and it basically became ewaste.

Okay, there are a few more steps in between. However it would not boot to the OS, and even HDMI ports were not usable. Since the device is no longer supported by the manufacturer, there was no way to fix that said firmware.

The end result it literally throwing it to the garbage (for city large item pickup).

All these devices have to have a fallback, but no, they will never do something positive for the consumers for no financial gain.

From what I read, 2.4 million is based on how much they estimated the defense costs could be.

Basically emulation is legal in the USA (at least the last time I checked), but Nintendo argued since they used decryption keys for games, they are aiding in DMCA circumvention. If, BIG if, these guys had financial backing with them, they could go to court, and defend their case. That would once and for all shut Nintendo down (who am I kidding, they would continue to bully small companies).

However due to the way our courts work, Yuzu would be long bankrupt with lawyer fees, before they could even get a positive judgement.

Thanks for the link.

Their code seems to be MIT licensed, and the model is still in early access / limited:

The model is intended for research purposes for now. Possible research areas and tasks include

However, yes this is good.

(Unlike for example the recent "open" Google model, which requires so many strings, we should call it "shared source")

And that is why folks open source is really important.

Take a look at this gallery for models:
https://civitai.com/

These are all (?) derivatives of the famous "Stable Diffusion" and its versions. The results are photorealistic, and you can run this on your machine, or a free cloud account. And, yes, they are also diverse, without sacrificing any particular group.

Unfortunately this might be our current limit, though. Training completely new versions of these models take literally millions of dollar, and the newest one from stability.ai "Stable Cascade" does not seem to be open.

One more thing:
https://aligned.substack.com/p...

"Aligning" the models with your restrictions have great costs on multiple fronts. What we see here today is one of them. Generally dumbing down (lobotomizing) their capabilities is another major one.

So, it really makes sense to push for more open, more accessible AI.

Not sure about the prices over there, but I gave both pro and non-pro examples.

This gen:
16 core Ryzen 7950X = $500, or $31.25 per core
24 core Threadripper 7960X = $1500, or $62.50 per core
24 core Threadripper Pro 7965WX = $2600, or $108 per core

Yes, TR is 2x per core for non-pro, and more than 3x per core for the pro version. (They changed one thing though, there is no more 16 core TR, fully separating the segments).

You are might. I might have mixed 32 threads with 32 cores.

Nevertheless, 16 core, old gen TR is already 2x of the regular Ryzen:
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryz... ($1050 vs $550)

I could not find a current gen 16 core, there was a 24 core one:
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryz...

And again still does not scale linearly.

And to add insult, the 16 core Ryzen is faster than 16 core TR (though old gen):
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...

It might have been true when you built your system, I will not dispute that.

However "this gen" ThreadRipper "non-pro" 32 core is... wait for it... $2500:
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryz...

The "pro" one is at the "reasonable" price of only $3,900:
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryz...

(You could buy an entire prebuilt brand name workstations for this price in previous generations).

Whereas the 32 core Ryzen is $550:
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-795...

But... Chrome OS is Linux, and it even has a usable Linux subsystem (essentially Debian running in a container) that integrates well with the rest of the UI.

Yes, it is centered around a web browser. But if you ignore that layer, it is essentially an "immutable" minimalistic Linux distribution, with container/vm support to run more software. Anything from VS Code to Steam runs more or less without issues (for the latter I think hardware needs some support for graphics acceleration forwarding).

(Technical details here: https://www.chromium.org/chrom...)

In any case, this is not bad news.

Yes,

The same exact thing came up during Microsoft / Activision discussions. The enforcement agency (FTC) decided to hold the internal court date at pretty much after the merger deal deadline. One may dislike Microsoft or not, but can easily see the intentional delayed justice is not justice at all.

(For those who are interested, what happened was Microsoft got approval from pretty much in every other country, and then forced FTC's hand by saying "we will close over", which finally got them a Federal, not internal court appearance, almost two years later).

Yes, "corporations are people" do not sound right, but if even the largest corporations are subject to injustice (and yes not having access to a fair trial is injustice), how can the "little man" defend against the power of the government? How can you find monies to fight in a closed appointed court system for years, whereas the bureaucrats will eventually deny your request anyway?