Your comment doesn't really make sense here. DEI is meant to monitor and encourage equal representation at all levels of employment and opportunity. That still doesn't exist. You also are attempting to erase the historical context of why it doesn't exist. Eliminating DEI just encourages inequality to continue.

Not really. The assumption is that there should be no racial or gender bias. That means at various levels of employment and opportunity we should see the same ethnic and gender ratios. DEI never accomplished that, because racial and gender exclusion has dominated so long that white men have vastly more wealth, connections and power and they continue to hire or give opportunities to those most like them.

DEI *can't* and won't fix that imbalance, but it slightly shifted from the balance to reduce the extremity of it where institutions were large enough for someone to be paying attention. Mediocre white men who had expectations of better careers blame DEI when they don't achieve what they felt entitled to. However, what has really happened is a multi-decade process of wage stagnation, not DEI. Fewer and fewer people are achieving the quality of life they expect at an accelerating rate across all ethnic groups, racial and gender backgrounds. You need to look up in the hierarchy to see who to blame, not down.

I'm starting to pore over these manifestos too

They already have solutions for spam removal and moderation. You could learn more about their project before criticizing something you don't understand.

I'm a little confused what has really been accomplished here. Did he train his own speech to text model? Otherwise, it seems like he packaged up his favorite settings and called it a distribution. I've been using Linux since 1994. I don't love or hate systemd. I don't think new users are going to care about that. It doesn't spy on users and you can audit the code yourself. So, this just seems like a customization for a guy with strong opinions on what seem like random things.

FAKE denialism. You just want YOUR kind of people protected at a rate of 10:10000000 to one.

They will be wiping the blood from their tear stained eyes with $1000 bills.

Apple is very likely suing for "skills and knowledge" rather than trade secrets. It's very hard to prove the difference. Unified memory is, for example, common knowledge. How to implement it in a real chip is 'skills and knowledge', but to be honest, even in 2000 my digital circuits and design teachers were talking about the benefits of cache locality and s-ram over SDRAM. Apple is suing over what could VERY easily be argued is simply 'knowledge' and not 'trade secrets', because nothing they've done is particularly 'secret', it was just so expensive no one thought it was realistic.

That might not be the case. They might be giving employees a REASON to jump ship. They might have ideas they're holding onto or working on, that they don't want to get sued for and don't want to be forced to give to Apple.

OpenAI may not think of it as hiring thieves, but buying trade secrets. It's quite an intellectual grey area, because it's impossible to really decide if the knowledge in someone's brain or in their notes belongs to their previous employer or not. You gain skills and knowledge at each company you work at. Employees are not single use items. Non-competes have mostly been determined to be non-enforceable without compensation. If Apple wasn't able to keep their critical employees from jumping ship, then that's really on Apple for not recognizing or being willing to retain their employees at market price. This is part of the brutality of capitalism and sometimes it cuts both ways.

I'd bet it becomes even less visible. I find black mosquitoes almost impossible to see without a contrasting background. I can't imagine how you'd see them if they were moving in a circular motion at 25 rpm. Humans are remarkably bad at telling if something is 50 or even 75% dimmer. If this were spinning at 25 rpm you'd be dealing with something 4% dimmer if it was non-emissive. Whereas if it's white you see an actual change in color, which humans are really good at.

Just use a 1D camera and get a panoramic image. A 1D camera would be capable of extremely high frames per second with inexpensive hardware.

Axios dug its grave by shoveling out totally fabricated news to help insiders game the stock market.

Lately, I've been finding myself deleting the internet from my life. I think AI has some amazing uses, but the thing I really need less of is the strip mall. Google searches have completely fallen apart. Google's AI answers are still hallucinations most of the time. The one thing Google still does well is the thing I wish it would stop doing, which is indexing people's private information. Other search engines are far more respectful of people's privacy.

Honestly, Google's search results are horrid as well. Search any news story, the first 100 links will be the EXACT same text mixed with 100 different forms of advertising bulletin boards.