How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Perhaps not but I've a lot of experience using "AI" (although I prefer the term machine learning) for analysis it can and does do stupid things from time to time. In my case that results in some obviously wrong physics results but my code is not in control of a state-of-the-art, fully armed fighter jet.

Exactly how would this apply given that they were protesting _at_ the employer's premises and disrupting other employees who were trying to work there? It seems very reasonable to me that if you turn up at your place of employment and use your access to that place to disrupt the normal business of your employer by staging a sit-in that you should get fired for doing so.

After all, if these people really believed in what they were protesting then the honourable thing to do would be to resign from Google first, like government ministers do when they have a strong moral or ethical objections to the actions of the government of which they are part. Yes, it's a tough decision to make with financial repercussions but if you are not willing to do that then what you have is a preference not a strong moral objection.

Which is utterly baffling. Even more regrettably, it seems almost all free-software advocates I have known are mindlessly following along instead of rejecting such absurdly invasive Big-Brother brain-damaged computers under the euphemisim of "smart something."

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

I suspect the people who will be most shocked will be those who hold the copyright on the original works that the AI was trained on and is very likely to be partially regurgitating given an output as long as a book.

I mean, maybe you should just not work for a company that has a mission of making a profit providing services or goods to a cause or group you fundamentally disagree with?

Personally, I feel like in most cases, you're better off just taking your paycheck to do the work someone is paying you to do. Most larger companies are involved in such a wide variety of things, you can sleep well at night knowing your employer accomplished as much "good" as "evil". (I remember all the people worked up about Monsanto, for example. Many refused to work for them because they thought they were "killing the planet" with products like RoundUp and genetically engineered seeds. The company was eventually sold to Bayer, who changed their name. But they're still basically the same company as ever. Fact is, there are countless positive benefits from products they sold, as well as a laundry list of negatives. Gonna find that with just about ANY company selling chemicals.)

If I'm against Communist China, should I refuse to buy things from any company using manufacturing over there? If so, I'm gonna have to get rid of 80% of the things in my house....

Not even anywhere remotely near a fair comparison!

Chromebooks are bottom of the barrel. They're designed to be as cheap to replace as possible, because many are just handed out to students in schools who had to buy mass quantities of them to distribute. They're also generally only going to run the specific applications included or designated for them. So if they can do that at anything resembling an "adequate" speed, they're going to call it "good enough". Even if it does way too much disk swapping due to running out of RAM? They don't care at that price point. Use it until the SSD burns out. It'll make it through a school year or two and that's all it needs to really do.

Mac laptops, by contrast, are generally considered high-end and premium.

I was over in the MacRumors message forums recently, where a big debate broke out about the hardware specs. It seems like a whole lot of "Mac faithful" believe it's about "more consumer choice" for Apple to offer these lower-spec options.

I strongly disagree. From the perspective of someone who has done I.T. support for decades? It's a disservice to customers to sell computers that are gimped by a lack of system resources. Sure, you can find all these use-cases where "8GB is enough RAM" or where a "128GB SSD is enough mass storage". So what? Bottom line is, the consumer just paid a good chunk of change for a computer that should be able to handle a large number of tasks that it's crippled at performing, simply due to the resource constraints. That not only limits its resale value for the original buyer, but often forces them to upgrade needlessly early if their needs change and they find themselves wanting to do something new with the computer.

Another thing I've observed with the Macs with less RAM is, they'll do an "okay" job running some applications, only because the SSD is fast -- but the OS is doing a lot of disk swapping at that point. That means they're putting a lot of premature wear on it, and it's usually soldered in on the Macs. So if it dies, that means the computer is going to need to be sent in someplace for service (likely a whole new logic board).

With Apple already charging a premium price for their computers? They really should equip all of them with at least 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. Better to have that and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

Yes but Google is not congress and they were not passing a law. That's the problem with the US constitution, unlike moden constitutions that define rights and hence stop anyone who tries to take them away, the US constitution only limits the US government and in today's world large companies often have as much influence on our lives as governments. That being said if you start publicly denouncing your employer it is absolutely reasonable for them to fire you.

The important question is what does the AI in charge of the armed aircraft think it means? One misinterpretation or hallucination and there are going to be a lot of very angry former pet owners.

At launch it was the most expensive stock to short on the whole market. One of the fin sites did a cost breakdown.

I like their business model but wow, the claws EU allowed Apple to have are quite something.

Hopefully businesses can offer different versions of their app to each set of 999,999 customers Especially hobby projects.