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'Ask'ing isn't at issue here. The question is whether the library should bear any liability if it declines to act as a fact checker for every book on its shelves.

In the case where you got your preference you'd mostly see controversial books disappear from the shelves. The business they bring wouldn't be worth a lawsuit.

You probably don't believe a library or book store should be sued if they sell a book with defamatory content, so why do you think Google should be here?

The connection between wrongdoing by Google is even more attenuated here, since Google is mostly an indexer, with limited curation.

The article doesn't do a great job of explaining the legal issues or what the current status is. Can anyone here do a better job? Can any Canadian request links be taken down?

This is misinformation. You owe this tax even if you do not claim any R&D tax credit.

https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/articles/tax/2023/sec...

I have pretty extensive experience in this domain.

Personally, I found there is a application complexity ceiling above which LabView was not viable. It is pretty great for rapid data collection and analysis, and it is well integrated with a variety of hardware. But once there is a few things going on at once the "backplane" abstraction becomes unhelpful.

So many vendors provide python libs these days, and python plotting is good enough in these that it is harder to justify LV.

A recall a number of news items from a few years ago which talked about how some olive oil vendors were adulterating their products with other oils. If this phenomenon could be better understood maybe there would be a rapid, optical/spectroscopic way to characterize olive oil purity.

Man, this takes me back.

I remember trying to help a friend with their PHP assignment in college (~2001). I had only ever worked with C, C++, and java in my classes and I just remember being was confused as hell since I couldn't understand why PHP worked the way it did.

I'm telling you what the argument is. Not endorsing it. That's why its in quotes.

I'd be interested to see the data for unis showing their costs are lower. I doubt it.

For private companies, and an SBIR ,you have to establish an indirect rate based on your actual costs. The rate is the ratio of all indirect costs for the company vs the direct costs for the project (salary times the % of the person's time). It's a bit of work the first time you have to do it.

I'd be surprised if the NSF lets the uni just put whatever they want down and it isn't based on submitted budget data.

This a decent write up. The SBIR budgets wind up looking similar.

I can see how the indirect costs ("overhead") seem like ripoff to a professor, but even if you are running a private business having an indirect cost rate of 50% is considered low-to-normal. At least where I am: rent, utilities, cleaning, bathrooms, etc... are just expensive.

"This thing is inherently too risky/dangerous to use ... like firing a gun off into the air"

In the SF Chron article it says the #'s for San Francisco are:

2019 = 41

2020 = 48

2021 = 56

2022 = 56

If you can't discuss the facts in a civil manner I am not going to discuss the issue with you any further.

This is wrong. The 56-year low was 2019. 2021,2022 up about >30% from that. Oakland and Vallejo increases even more horrible.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/crime-homicides-...

https://sfist.com/2023/01/03/sf-sees-exact-same-number-of-ho...

We are the customers. Of COURSE its appropriate to give feedback on what parts of the product we like/don't like.

The assertion that, because they put ads in, that it is the business-optimal thing to do is weird.

I don't see how this is a criticism of async. You have two options:

1) Use Task.Run and await its result whenever you need it.

2) make a blocking call; same as if async wasn't available.

How does having option 1 make the situation worse?

async/await are great:

* pull based -> you don't need to worry so much about rate-limiting like you do with events

* works well when needing to pull over slow communications (serial, remotes)

It's important to have ConfigureAwait(true) (the default) any time you need the continuation to be on the same thread. This is used/needed for many UI frameworks (WPF), which is why it is the default. Otherwise you should use (false) for performance reasons.

They are not interested in selling to anything other than drug/life sciences. See my comment above.

I just put in a request to talk to them. Got a call back from a sales rep.

I explained the my application was remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope).

The sales rep says they are only interested in selling life sciences /drug companies. So I would recommend against anyone contacting them who want to use this for general purpose AR.

Synology has an app which will automatically back up your photos to the NAS/server (only when on WiFi). I haven't been able to find an alternative to this on Android, have you? (photosync looks good but seems to only work for iOS last I checked).

What left out there similar to this?

I want to provide remote instruction and see through a user's eyes to help them fix/debug hardware. 2D AR is good enough.

Hololens is winding down. What's the next best thing?

I hate how the internet age has conditioned customers to expect less.

There is no way a non-internet business would cut off a client of 4-years without actually talking (phone) to them.

His argument presupposes further AI progress, the opposite of blocking it.

Can someone point out some person/groups of any prominence who are making the argument against AI progress because of to job losses?

(AI risk is an entirely separate issue)

This might solve a big mystery for me.

When I first set up my company's website it was hosted at GoDaddy. Totally static site. It got 'hacked' one day, with new php files and redirecting users to some nonsense. This was August 2016. The ftp server had a very long, random password. I changed it again after this.

It happened *again* March 2017, though different files were added. After this I moved my site to Digital Ocean.

I never found out how this happened.

Does anyone know how long this has been going on? The article didn't give a definitive start date.

A 3U case can support full height cards. Anyone have a favorite 3U rackmount PC case?

The only I've used and like goes out of stock regularly though.

People assuming these are all balloons:

please explain why they shutting down airspace without a statement. If they think its a balloon, why not just say 'radar detected a probable balloon and we are shutting down airspace while it is being investigated.'

Why was the incident over Alaska described as a metal cylinder or whatever if its another probably balloon? This doesn't make much sense.

I don't find the article very reputable, as they make statements like this:

   Even when data are publicly available their use can breach what we call textual integrity. This is a fundamental principle in legal discussions of privacy. It requires that individuals’ information is not revealed outside of the context in which it was originally produced.

First, if you click the associated link link there isn't any indication this is a widely accepted view ('fundamental principle'). I'd never call myself an expert but I've never heard of this.

Second, the way I read this is that they are trying to analogize scarping the web to feed it into ChatGPT to someone following you movements in public recording it all.

Even if you believe in their legal theory of privacy is right, wouldn't Google would be far larger offender than ChatGPT?

I'm an employer, but my opinion would be the same regardless.

The script is something like this:

Person1: Arg! This thing!

Person2: What ya working on?

Person1: <...> is giving me trouble.

Person1 then figures it out while trying to explain it, or Person2 has a helpful idea. Happens multiple times a week. If you were working at home you wouldn't even know you were missing out on this interaction.

Also, WFH is also just too distracting if you have a family/roommates etc...

I'm sure there are plenty of jobs where regular, informal face to fact interaction didn't help me solve problems faster, but not in my line of work.

I have some interaction with Federal employees too. They have been out of the office for a long time. You now have more a problem getting a hold of someone who is nominally 'at their desk'. I don't know why this is, but its a fact.

Its so big you could fit a large fan on it and just run it at absurdly low speed. No way you are going to hear it unless you are a mouse and i'm sure you'd get a lot more performance.