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electrek.co 5mo ago

Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

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pubs.acs.org 7mo ago

Field Trials of Enhanced Rock Weathering CO2 Removal

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www.technologyreview.com 11mo ago

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

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www.economist.com 1y ago

America's economic data are becoming murkier

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www.businessinsider.com 1y ago

US Navy aircraft carrier in the Red Sea loses a third Super Hornet

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gist.github.com 1y ago

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

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www.wired.com 1y ago

The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects

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www.courtlistener.com 1y ago

Apple's emergency motion to intervene in Chrome antitrust remedy

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www.google.com 1y ago

Michael Phelps is 14 feet tall

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Silicon Valley Investors' Plans for a New City Put on Hold

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apnews.com 2y ago

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI

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emp.lbl.gov 2y ago

Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection

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www.kqed.org 2y ago

Waymo Wants to Expand Service in 22 Bay Area Cities

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www150.statcan.gc.ca 2y ago

Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

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www.medrxiv.org 2y ago

Assessment and Characterization of Covid-19 Related Cognitive Decline

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netflixtechblog.medium.com 2y ago

Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul

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slate.com 3y ago

How many times a day do cars crash into buildings?

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docs.cpuc.ca.gov 3y ago

CPUC approves Waymo expansion over city’s objections [pdf]

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cosmosmagazine.com 3y ago

Antarctica’s sea ice growth is at record lows

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drive.google.com 3y ago

San Francisco objects to expansion of Waymo One

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twitter.com 3y ago

France bans flights between cities linked by trains

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engrxiv.org 3y ago

Normalizing Crash Risk of Partially Automated Vehicles

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www.fastcompany.com 3y ago

The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

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www.sfmta.com 3y ago

San Francisco objects to expansion of Cruise AVs [pdf]

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www.washingtonpost.com 3y ago

The tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk

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gizmodo.com 3y ago

Silicon Valley's Push into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

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gist.github.com 4y ago

Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car

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cloud.google.com 4y ago

Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available ML hub

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arxiv.org 4y ago

Learning Branch Probabilities in Compiler from Datacenter Workloads

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www.reuters.com 4y ago

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline

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Adjudicating whether an individual is eligible to vote is not and has never been the domain of any federal agency. It is categorically none of their business. The only federal intervention in elections that the Constitution permits is for the executive branch, traditionally through the Department of Justice, to ensure that states are not improperly preventing voters from voting, via the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments.

People don't like google

I only wanted to clarify that you must have implied that this statement applies among people who don't like Google, but whatever their reasons, those people are few. In aggregate, Google has a strong reputation and is one of the most well-liked businesses on Earth. It is on par with Cheerios. Disliking Google for "creepy stalker" reasons is not a mainstream thing.

Yeah those are pretty weird questions. I suggest you may have been spending too much time online. If you ever come across someone marketing property as the ultimate in Libertarian dirt, I would carefully investigate what liberties have been taken with it prior (dumping out New Jersey sewage trains, for example).

It's nice to have a better UX the the USDA WSS offers, but I feel that this hides too much information. If I click, I am getting soil information at a point, but that might be a minor component and doesn't tell me about the overall area of interest. Also, as a Californian I feel that is irrelevant bordering on useless to display the non-irrigated capability class, as everyone irrigates. Looking at a parcel I am intimately familiar with, it is "4 of 8" but it is class 1 irrigated farmland, prime land of high value.

Users are complicit. Why did this user install the update? Were they suffering from an issue it supposedly solves? My six-year-old Honda has never had a software update, and in any case "OTA" updates can only be initiated by the user.

Well, it's odd in that they do this sideways financial performance while also from time to time dropping a state-of-the-art microprocessor, like a real tech giant.

You could also see that it's odd in that most companies from 100 years ago simply don't exist. The perfectly flat trajectory bordering on fade-out is uncommon. The median 100-year-old tech company is Sperry, not IBM.

I think it made sense on its own terms. They retrenched into the business where they are actually differentiated. It is notable that IBM net margins have been ~15% at best for decades. It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth. It is the butt of jokes but also a top 100 company by many measures.

The Army should just shell that place, but Elon's crimes are not mainstream data center projects. I don't think we should allow someone to just set up a gas pipeline and open the valve, but I also apply this logic proportionally to major polluters like cars and airplanes and non-IT grid loads that rely on fossil fuel generators.

Obviously you're welcome to whatever beliefs comfort you, but most data centers that are anywhere near anyone are not related to AI, largely because AI applications are not very sensitive to latency and don't need to be near users. The specific one in Hayward I mentioned is advertised for corporate IT, as is another one in Pittsburg (California).

Anyway the projects should not be adjudicated based on what happens inside. They should be judged on whether they pollute and make noise.

It's extremely easy to see in Silicon Valley. Go to the planning meetings of Hayward, where recently a handful of activists with a history of opposing everything came to oppose a long-planned data center that did their EIR and interconnect request back in 2023. In 2024, local journalist described the data center as "beautiful" and the mayor called it "an incredible space". But now, activists show up to denounce it as a Satanic outpost, because they got whipped into a frenzy on Facebook.

I mean, you conformed to the norms and customs of horsepaste quackery, and in that sense you "did it right". However, the science here is a little off-point. Ivermectin had observable benefits in some localities during the pandemic. In all likelihood, everyone who walks into a hospital for any reason in those countries should be given Ivermectin, because they all have undiagnosed parasites.

Yeah I got this last week and I felt like I got hit by a bus 12 hours later. The pharmacist claimed the second dose is worse. But getting the disease is no picnic at all. I had it in my 20s and it was like someone kept stabbing me in the eye, all day long for a week.