Here in San Jose CA, we have a development called "Communications Hill" which is a big mound of asbestos. https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home... In our infinite wisdom we decided the best course of action would be to scrape the foliage and topsoil off to build homes! The dust and asbestos that's kicked up rains all over south San Jose.

I'm just a year younger than you. Come to the Federal government, specifically the VA. It's nice here, not nearly the grind, we do things slow and methodically for safety. Age is just a number. You would be shocked that we actually have WFH, and halfway decent pay in Silicon Valley with the new SSR tables. Someone of your caliber would probably come in as a GS-13. After spending a lifetime at startups I wish I would have made this move moons ago.

> the site's editor-in-chief told Slashdot. "We need to get Google to reindex the new site ASAP."

There was a time when Google would have been paying attention to the ACM's longstanding plans, and would have had the reindexing available almost immediately.

These findings would be more useful if they could identify exactly what properties or ingredients are the key problems. I wonder how much of the signal actually comes down to sugar/salt/fat content - and to what extent "processing" is kind of a red herring?

People who lack time, money, and/or a place to cook are going to continue to gravitate towards cheap, fast, shelf-stable food, so knowing where the health problems are coming from is important.

For myself, I try to eat somewhat healthy, but some of the stuff I eat specifically for health is "mega-processed". Like, sometimes I have protein bars. They have good "stats", and I feel like they've helped me reach goals in turns of gaining muscle and losing weight over the years... but they're absolutely unnatural goo-bars. Are they killing me somehow? Because of some ingredient? Because they came from a lab? Because they were extruded and molded? Really?

These guys are luddites up until the point where technology can make them have strength over other warlords in the region, then it's "Let's get an AI SAM system from China!"

I want to like Julia, but one problem for me is that whenever I look up Julia implementations of standard data science workflows, I end up with dozens of links to worthless Medium.com articles. (Usually they are paywalled as well).

The contrast with R and its tradition of thorough documentation (and blogging ecosystem) is stark.

I realize the link spam is partially just the standard problem with Google since 2018 or so. To its credit, TFA has links to LWN.net. But the lack of substantive coverage remains a barrier.

Bard/Gemini has been demonstrated to edit user prompts to include "diversity" language in the prompt before the AI engine receives the prompt.

For example, wrote a prompt for "draw a picture of a fantasy medieval festival with people dancing and celebrating", the response was "Sure, here's a picture of a fantasy medieval festival with people of various genders and ethnicities dancing and celebrating."

There are other examples of Bard rewriting prompts to inject specific races and genders. That isn't training data, that's Google intentionally adding a pre-parser and rewrite engine to steer the results away from the customer's prompt.

China though has the resources to create lithium batteries. They're the only superpower that seems to be making headway with Afghanistan (who supposedly has crazy amounts of the stuff) and they've already indebted Africa for cobolt.

Japan and China HATE each other big time. So maybe Japan's push here has more to do with energy independence from China more than anything else.

in favor of Hydrogen. 200x the energy density of our best lithium battery. That's 200x less weight. Yes we lose a little carbon cracking H2O into Hydrogen, but you just can't get around the economy savings of not having to drag around an extra 2000 lbs of battery when you only need 10lbs of Hydrogen. Not counting the tanks, but those are hollow until filled and return to a hollow state as fuel is used. Not to mention there are lots of lightweight composite tanks these days.

Finally this firmly gets us out of China's and Saudi Arabia's pocket. Anywhere we can run water and electricity, we can crack H2O and compress it.

Someone told me this is routine for Cisco, that they've been laying off folks this time of year since 2008. I don't want to believe them, does anyone know if there's a table showing the number of layoffs per year?

So let's say humans end up depleting oil, and the only way to get diesel is these machines connected to unlimited power supplies (say... fusion) to start sucking all the carbon out of the atmosphere. Will we get giant bugs as a result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apples to oranges.

Extensive training is for the systems unique to the F-35. I can be trained to drive a car, step into any car and drive it since the interface is fairly universal.

We don't need military grade for driving. It's unlikely anyone driving will experience over 1g unless they're in an accident or trying to avoid one. They're not dropping bombs. I do think though that there will need to be some regulation on these devices when driving, a driving mode like most google phones have. I wouldn't want someone binge watching Netflix while behind the wheel for instance. I do see a lot of good potential though for enhancing safety.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

The F-35 helmet utilizes cameras mounted around the aircraft to create a virtual invisible jet for the pilot. The pilot can look down at the floor of the aircraft, and see the ground below. They can look behind themselves, and not see a headrest.

I think there is some room for headsets to make driving safer. Glass cockpit, virtual instruments and rear view mirrors, augmented reality for night vision and things we don't have at all, like cues to switch lanes to avoid potholes or other obstructions in the road.

~20 million (for the Quest II) wouldn't be a great console launch, but it's comparable to the original XBox (24 million) or Gamecube (20 million). Those may have been disappointing consoles for those companies, but they were hardly "farts in the wind".