They use TSMC as does every other fabless chip designer, which for consumer chips right now is everyone who isn't Intel. But TSMC has fabs in Arizona, so even though they're a Taiwanese corporation the chips are still being made in the U.S. The CPU/SoC isn't the hard part of this, it's everything else. It's not that it can't be done here, but that it can't be done at the same low cost because not even fresh off the boat immigrant labor would work for the low wages that the Chinese workers are earning.

It's also a little telling though. Presumably these same employees were okay with (otherwise they would have quit, no) a lot of the scummy or deplorable things Google has been doing over the years. Perhaps this was the proverbial back-breaking straw, but I'd not automatically hold these employees up as models of morality. I'd wager that if anyone really did I to their reasoning that it comes down to the U.S. military having ties with Israel. I could be completely wrong on that, but I think the odds I'd get on such a wager would be closer to even than some would be comfortable admitting.

I'm surprised that the human editors haven't been replaced with an AI bot already. An LLM can certainly spit out summaries that few will read just as well as a human editor. It could probably do a good enough job pulling stories from user submissions or other big tech stories. I'll bet it could even do a better job negotiating rates for Slashvertisement and could even be cajoled into finding non-paywalled links. If the AI editors posted and interacted with the posters it would probably increase user engagement as well.

You can still browse them, but a few of them may be defaced for a while.

Also, rewrites are expensive and often introduce a new set of bugs in the process. They usually break a lot of third party add-ons or other custom modules as well. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing a new CMS in a more modern language (I'm surprised the rust cult hasn't pounced all over this to be honest) but most people are happy using what they already have because it's easier or less expensive to continue using it. There are plenty of systems still running ancient COBOL code and will probably still be doing so long after we're all gone.

They're probably laughing at the same people who said that the constitution was just a piece of paper when it came to their second amendment rights trying to argue that any of the other amendments have any more power now that they find themselves beneath the foot of the government. Anyone who thought eroding the strength of constitutional rights just because they didn't like guns should have considered that they were slowly slitting their own throats.

Does it matter what the authorities claim to be looking for?

The answer should always be "Do you have a warrant?" followed by invoking your right not to answer any of their questions.

You may still be arrested even if you've done nothing wrong, but your attorney will have a much easier time getting charges dismissed (and filing suit against the authorities for civil rights violations) if you don't willingly give the authorities anything with which they might convict you.

I'm curious how you can have a system that simultaneously permits and bans private ownership. What Europe has is a capitalist society with high taxes to provide numerous public services at no additional expense to its citizens. Even though most European countries have public healthcare, it's still possible to purchase private health insurance. A socialist economy wouldn't even have money because there would be nothing one could purchase with it. I suppose a capitalist system doesn't technically need it and could barter, but it would quickly create something akin to money to facilitate exchange of goods and services. Needless to say the two models cannot exist together so the idea that capitalist socialism exists at all is ludicrous.

The reality is that most actual systems (even ones proclaiming to be socialist) are some minimal amount of capitalistic as necessary to function with varying degrees of government control of how free the markets are. Collective ownership doesn't scale well beyond the level of a tribe or other small community.

Data centers are the perfect customer for nuclear power. The data center wants to draw a relatively fixed amount of power around the clock and nuclear is great at delivering exactly that. Nuclear is less efficient if it needs to ramp up and down, especially if some other plants are given preferential treatment.

Outside of geothermal, there's no good alternative for this kind of use case that doesn't need to rely on massive battery storage to balance out generation with demand or that doesn't need to transmit the power from elsewhere and spike the prices there.

That was my thought as well. What stops a contractor from using AI beyond possible damage to their reputation and lack of potential future work? There's always someone willing to cheat and perhaps even someone that specifically asked the AI to insert some new, hard to detect exploit or vulnerability that can either be sold or used to ensure future work. Surely the LLMs have ingested entries from years of the underhanded C contest into their training data and can produce code that will pass most smell tests.

Maybe I'm overly paranoid here, but unless these contractors were heavily vetted, I would not be confident about the these fixes.

What advantage does Uber gain from this? When self-driving cars become ubiquitous, Uber will have no competitive advantage other than brand recognition over any other company that can enter the market without having shouldered any of the costs of developing shitty self-driving capabilities that these vehicles currently exhibit.

The only way Uber remains profitable is if they get to the goal first and no one else can cross the line before going out of business. I don't see them being able to do that, much less winning the race. They're still not even close to covering all of the money invested into the company over the years, let alone returning a profit on it. In ten years we'll be reading about some Chinese or Saudi conglomerate purchasing them for the brand after they've gone bankrupt.

What was special about that hill? Most hills look like a tit and most castles or forts were built on top of hills or other elevated geographical features when available.

That's certainly an interesting notion, but it's further complicated by whether or not everyone involved is in public or not. Even in the states you've mentioned there's no prohibition against recording in public and in many cases there's a lot of case law (e.g., paparazzi in California) supporting the right to do so.

Maybe the technology could become good enough to handle these problems automatically, but ultimately the responsibility would fall on the individual owners and they would be liable for violating any state laws.

Unfortunately, consumers in general were more excited by flashy new features that were of marginal utility as opposed to faster, more efficient operating systems so companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and many others devoted the developer time and effort towards an ever expanding feature set than towards improvements under the hood. Those still do happen, but for whatever reason customers don't view those changes as a compelling enough upgrade.

Now that the free ride Moore's law was providing for so long has effectively ended (regardless of whether transistor counts can still increase exponentially, the cost of doing so to the end consumer is also growing exponentially now as well when traditionally it was only linear leading to some amount of computational power or memory capacity become cheaper with time) the developers have to start pruning back the bloat. It's hard to add more bells and whistles when the previous bloat has already filled up memory.

Cut him some slack. If the best job he could land was with B**X, it's hardly fair to expect that he has the kind of journalistic chops to work at a respected publication like the National Enquirer.

For some reason the above paragraph triggered the Lameness filter, which I haven't seen in a long time. I'm rather curious as to what caused it to trip, but I'd like to think some ancient script has as low of an opinion of the editors as we all do. Apparently adding to the length didn't do it, but after censoring the company which must not be named there were no problems. At least they know that they're lame.