Technology
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For too long, our government has been subsidizing the manufacturing of critical technologies in China and other countries.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/113850
> “Taxpayer-funded innovations should benefit American workers and industry, not our foreign adversaries. For far too long, we’ve allowed American breakthroughs to be offshored to nations like China and Russia – this legislation will bring those abuses to an end,” said Senator Vance. “It’s common sense: products developed with American taxpayer dollars should be manufactured by American workers on American soil.” > > “When taxpayer dollars are used to fund innovation, American companies and workers are the ones who should be reaping the benefits,” said Senator Baldwin. “By building on the progress we’ve made to manufacture more products in the USA, the Invent Here, Make Here Act ensures cutting-edge American innovation is also American-made, strengthening our manufacturing sector and our domestic supply chains, and supporting American jobs.”
- www.engadget.com The Reddit blackout is already forcing unexpected changes | Engadget
It’s now clear that the Reddit blackout will have a significant impact on the platform, but perhaps not in the way its organizers intended..
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Improving The Problem of Naming (Files)?
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/109997
> I've seen in programming that apparently naming things like variables or files is hard (?). So that could be a topic of discussion. I'm not sure if it's felt that hard, to me. > > I have encountered a lot of problems with downloading files with irregular filenames, and then I can't find them, though. I'm guessing maybe that's on me to manually put the filename in whenever I download these things, but I guess sometimes I might just click "save" and the name of the file is not like a description of the file and it makes it difficult to find them when searching for them. > > Now on the other hand, sometimes people don't want the files labeled so that people find them easily, so that's another issue too. > > I've also wondered if a motion could be made to get more websites to automatically update certain filenames with titles of the page; for example, say a book on archive.org is gibberish, and you could select an option to automatically set that filename to the title of the page which would presumably be the name of the book. > > Has anyone encountered either of these issues of trying to figure out how to name files, or of downloading files with lots of random names that might have a tendency to get lost without them being labeled as they are downloaded?
- www.inverse.com Toyota’s Pitch to EV Skeptics Is Fake Engine Noise and Simulated Gear Shifting
Toyota is trying to appeal to lovers of ICE cars with a system that mimics shifting gears and engine noise.
- www.theverge.com Intel is officially killing off the “i” in Core i7 — as it goes Ultra
So long, Intel Core i7 — hello, Core and Core Ultra.
- www.theverge.com Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs
It’s time to consider an SSD upgrade for your PC game storage
- www.theverge.com Computer says no. - The Verge
The spreading AI tools in hospitals are making it harder for nurses to do their jobs well:
- www.theverge.com Sonos lays off 7 percent of employees as demand cools for its speakers
The cuts are expected to affect around 130 people.
- www.theverge.com How to start a smart home using Amazon Alexa
A convenient, cheap, and cheerful smart home assistant.
- www.theverge.com Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
A Reddit result in Google might take you to a private page now
- www.theverge.com How to start a smart home using Apple Home
Apple Home’s ease of use and interconnected ecosystem are ideal for those who want simplicity.
- www.theverge.com Anker’s new Solix home solar battery system is a modular version of Tesla’s Powerwall
Anker’s going from making laptop adapters to charging your whole home.
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VanillaOS: Beginner-Friendly Distro
vanillaos.org Vanilla OSVanilla OS is an Immutable Linux-based distribution which aims to provide a vanilla GNOME experience.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/90729
> I saw a vid pop up about how this distro could be the "end of distro hopping", by which I think they have a simple installer and can run lots of software > > (Ubuntu based currently, moving to Debian eventually as a base)
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Vinod Khosla on how AI will ‘free humanity from the need to work’
www.semafor.com Vinod Khosla on how AI will ‘free humanity from the need to work’ | SemaforOpenAI’s first VC investor lays out a utopian vision of artificial intelligence but also says the transition will be messy and people will be hurt along the way.
A: By 2014, it was clear to me most media would be generated by an AI. In our 2017 fundraising deck, we used the term “synthetic media” — which is now DALL-E.
Five years ago we invested in this company called Splash in Australia. This sounds ridiculous, especially five years ago, but the founder said to me, ‘I want a top 10 music hit, produced by me, composed by AI, the instruments by AI, sung by an AI. No humans touching the music.’
It sounds inconceivable, but I could see why AI would generate media. There was a term called style transfer. You take a photograph. Can I turn it into Picasso’s style? Could you do my portrait in the Mona Lisa style? This idea of transferring the style from an artist or a painter, it was highly probable it would evolve to more and more capability.
Q: Transformer models (the models used to create DALL-E and ChatGPT) hadn’t even been invented yet.
A: But new models were being invented all the time. Which ones would be a quantum jump? I didn't know, but I did know the following: The best talent out of every university was going into AI. And AI was making quantum leaps.
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A: Sam was looking for other ways. He cared about the mission and what AI could do for humanity.
It was clear it was going to become expensive and you needed a lot more money. Google could afford to do it. And the Chinese could afford to do it.
Q: In other words, you saw this as a geopolitical issue, too? A: I’ve always thought it’s a huge geopolitical issue. In 25 years, 80% of all jobs will be capable of being done by an AI.
This large transformation is the opportunity to free humanity from the need to work. People will work when they want to work on what they want to work on. That's a utopian vision. But getting from here to that utopia is really disruptive and it is terrible to be the disrupted one. So you have to have empathy for whoever's being disrupted. And the transition is very messy. It hurts people, hurts lives, destroys lives.
Q: If China develops AI first, what is the world that we end up living in?
A: Whoever wins the technology race in 20 years is up for grabs. The Chinese Communist Party’s most recent five-year plan commits to dominance in AI.
These are asymmetric technologies. A country like Rwanda can't afford to have their own AI. Even Brazil can't afford to have their own AI. Whether Western values win the technology race and hence the economic race will determine what political philosophy is dominant on the planet.
It's higher stakes than a war or a cyber war, and that bothers me. I do want us to be sensitive to the fact that a couple of these technologies — AI being a dominant one and I think fusion is like that — will determine whether in 2050 we are looking at Western values increasing in the world or Chinese values increasing.
They have a very different political philosophy. I'm not critiquing their philosophy. I just don't want it to win.
Q: That’s a critique in itself I guess. You've also talked about the need for fundamental research. Typically that's a government role. What role do the VCs play versus the government in this race?
A: Fundamental research is important. Germany has some of the best research. Cambridge in the UK is great at research. In Japan, there's really good research. They've not been able to commercialize it and turn it into societal impact [at the same rate that you see in the U.S.].
Pat Brown [Founder of Impossible Foods] took a bicycle from Stanford, came to our office, and said: “I want to change animal husbandry on the planet.” We worked with him on starting the whole thing that is now called plant proteins. That is the venture community’s traditional role.
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'Dumbphone' fans disconnect in face of smartphone dominance
www.breitbart.com 'Dumbphone' fans disconnect in face of smartphone dominance - BreitbartShunning his smartphone for a "dumb" one changed the way Jose Briones engages with the world -- and he likes it that way. The 27-year-old Colorado
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Battery Free Electronic Devices?
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/september/now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices/
Example implementing principles: ENGAGE - the battery-free gaming console https://github.com/tudssl/engage
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Accessible-Coconut – Linux Distribution for Visually Impaired People
www.debugpoint.com Accessible-Coconut - Linux for Visually Impaired People [Review]Accessible-Coconut Review: A Linux Distribution for Visually Impaired People who wants a pre-configured distro for their needs.
This topic interests me for helping those who have visual impairment or blindness, as well as being prepared for the possibility of having such a condition when older myself, as well as the interesting experience of computing blindfolded.
Any better distros you'd recommend for blind computer usage?
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Professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.
old.reddit.com My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...
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X7 | Announcements
t.me X7 Finance | AnnouncementsImportant announcements regarding the whole X7 Finance Ecosystem Main group: https://t.me/x7m105portal Twitter: https://twitter.com/X7_Finance Xchange_Alerts: T.me/xchange_alerts
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/82968
> Here is an interesting twist. The X7 development team are anonymous and only communicate with the community through blockchain messages. The community then copy those blockchain messages into this Telegram channel for easy viewing. > > It made me feel uneasy at first, but the dev team seem to be delivering and by being anonymous they cannot be pressured into censorship or privacy breaches. > > Has anybody else heard of a set up like this?
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Tips For Cleaning Electronics?
Do you have personal tips on how to clean electronics?
Should you rubbing alcohol to clean sensitive electronic parts?
Do you have compressed air or an electric compressed air duster or recommendations on tools to acquire?
What other tips would it be valuable for people to know?
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Messed up the update to 0.17
For anyone wondering I am @[email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/746345
> Hello, > > I tried to update my instance but I forgot to read the release notes and used ansible to update. Of course it failed. After the update I decided to check what is new and I realized my mistake. I tried to run the postgress update script but it fails with the message > >
> Error response from daemon: Container {container hash} is restarting, wait until the container is running >
> > The logs say that the db hasn't been updated. > > I don't know what else to upload here to help troubleshooting. Thanks in advance!