They’re already building in India, so that’s a maturity/scaling issue.

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The downstream impact of what you’re describing here is of a magnitude far greater than any additional compensation mileage would make up for from an employee standpoint — mileage is $.625/mile, that’s a few grand per year for most employees.

Let’s say all companies are required to pay a mileage stipend. Immediately:

• Admin costs have risen — we now need to calculate distance from the office, account for employee moving homes, logic to account for PTO, etc. Think the company is just going to eat those?

• Companies put in distance radius from the office as an auto-filter in job apps. Live 31 miles away instead of 29? Too bad, you just got auto-screened out and your resume never even hits the recruiter’s inbox.

• Housing market have you feeling down now? Get ready, because now you have to live within x miles to be considered for jobs. Awesome! You got an extra $5k in mileage for the year! Now you get to pay an extra 150% for your home!

• Run a small business in a rural location? Good for you! You now get to pay double the mileage that employers in bigger cities have to pay, because you can’t put a mileage radius cap on because your hiring pool of candidates is far smaller. And you get to do all of these new admin duties manually, because you can’t afford some fancy software to handle it. No worries! We’ll put in a caveat that small employers are exempt or pay less mileage, the little guys always win the lobbying wars after all!

• Your company is comprised of all positions that allow for only in person work (factories, hospitals, schools, etc). Too bad, you now get to pay these people to drive to your place of work. What’s that you say, we put in a caveat that positions that require in person work are exempt from paying mileage — cool, that works. Oh, what’s that, my software devs are now required to take out the trash each day, so of course they’re required to be in person, don’t need to pay that mileage now I guess!

• No worries, there will be plenty of companies that will take advantage of these new rules and use them as a competitive advantage. They’ll pay extra mileage and not mess with job duties so the employee will be able to choose the best ones — and we’re literally right back to where we are now.

It’s full circle, employees will choose the best places to work based upon their own needs. Hate in office work, and willing to sacrifice pay to get a WFH gig — cool. Cash is king to you and you’re willing to commute 3 hours each way to make it happen — also cool.

All we’re doing here is adding a ton of unneeded governmental controls that will eventually just benefit larger orgs that can absorb these costs, inevitably providing them additional power to lobby away the very rules that were put in place to begin with.

The answer to this is as simple as it’s always been — you vote with your actions. Don’t like an employer’s rules — don’t work there. Don’t like a business’s morals, practices, etc. — don’t give them your business. Enough people feel a certain way and you’ll see change, if not, sounds like your vote lost. Figure out how to move forward in life, not everyone has the same worldview and values and it’s up to you to figure out how to adapt.

The police acting as if they are above the law? Say it ain't so Joe.

Having worked both at TI and in the chip industry I can say with confidence that Chinas interests in Taiwan have changed significantly since Taiwan started making microprocessors. China wants the money more than the traditional ownership.

Pun intended?

That guy was a kook. FYI. They’re holding their model back because it cannabilizes their ad business when you get what you need and leave.

They don’t want you to find correct answers fast. They want you to linger and consume ads. Releasing a powerful model cannabilizes their business. L

because using bigger models will cost more and also make responses significantly slower. I thought its clear they want to announce the release during their IO event though it looks like it will happen sooner (based on the podcast)

Eh, it's free of charge.

i have seen one that is "yellow" by using red and green led in reverse with 50Hz AC .. when you move your eyes the yellow separates into red and green dots.. bit like the rainbow effect in older dlp projectors.

Electric motors are the superior traction technology, the energy density of batteries is the issue. Finding motors that put out 10kw/kg is not hard, those are gas turbine numbers.

Legislators are the worst.

They're different in about every way imaginable.

All data collection should be illegal without explicit concent, and must be made clear and obvious

Police think laws don’t apply to them. Far too often they’re right

> Twitter believes the source of the leak could be an engineer that left the San Francisco office at some point last year.

Well, that narrows it down.

The supplies require specialized machinery and skills not easy to replicate.

I had an old strand of LED Christmas lights that would give me some weird vertigo feeling every time I saw them in motion. It's a delicate balance, for sure

Ho got it, my bad.
Got heated up for no reason

I’d say it’s significant, as a milestone. These things can have psychological importance that are independent of engineering. But I agree that’s no reason to stop accelerating the renewables transition.

If it does get implemented in the US though, I have a feeling it wouldn’t last long before being struck down by the US Supreme Court

i wonder why they didnt put more effort into scaling and security beforehand like how would they not think that many people would want to use it

There can be only one!

Oh, I'm saying that no one should have to go into the office