but Project Prometheus has already hired 100 employees, poaching several from firms like OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.

I think that one problem with all this spending is that there are only so many people with relevant experience in the area. If wages are high enough, the market will send more over time, but that isn’t instantaneous.

/r/Europe used to have a “no title editorialization” rule. There might be some sense to having it here as well.

Maybe it’s a bad translation of something that approximates “junk food” in French?

The head of Swiss chemicals producer Clariant said the company would expand capacity in China and warned of “more production shifting away from Europe” because of the continent’s higher energy and labour costs.

I can believe high labor costs in Switzerland, but Switzerland is a country that I think of when I think of having a ton of hydropower, like Norway and Austria. I wouldn’t have thought that they’d be impacted much by fossil fuel transition. Might be that they’re selling hydropower to neighbors or something.

https://euenergy.live/country.php?a2=CH

According to this, it actually has fairly expensive electricity.

Despite its abundant hydropower resources, Switzerland’s electricity prices remain among the highest in Europe, causing distress for both residential and commercial consumers.

The drivers behind these elevated costs are multifaceted, encompassing renewable energy investments, energy market price fluctuations, and emissions reduction regulations.

the Lunar Lake option is a high perf single core CPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lake

According to this, all Lunar Lake CPUs have 4 performance and 4 economy cores; none have a single core.

I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

I carry a ~300 Wh power bank with my laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D62PMB3R

They also have a less-elaborate, smaller, lighter, less-expensive ~200 Wh model that’s probably more actually-practical:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Generator-Traveling-Emergencies/dp/B0D62P85ZR

Note that you can’t take anything over 100 Wh on a flight in the US. I also have a 100 Wh power bank that I keep around for flights.

At this juncture, I would like to point out that the display name of OP is “Billy472”, but that his actual account name is “Vova@lemmy.sdf.org”, which is a Russian short form of “Vladimir”.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/Vova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir

Vladimir (Russian: Влади́мир, Bulgarian: Владими́р, pre-1918 orthography: Владиміръ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings.

In Russian, shortened and endeared versions of the name are Volodya (and variants with diminutive suffixes: Volod’ka, Volodyen’ka, Volodechka etc.), Vova (and diminutives: Vovka, Vovochka, etc.), Vovchik, Vovan.

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What that means to someone is up to them. Some users on here do not like the US at all, for example, and they might be delighted to be using a Serbian company instead of a US company. That’s not my position, but I’ve no doubt that it’s a perspective for some. I have mentioned Kagi in the past favorably, and simply want people to understand, as best as I can, what using Kagi entails.

EDIT: For users who might be in the US, though, and not familiar with the political structure in Europe today, while Serbia is in Europe, it is not — presently — in the EU, and isn’t subject to the kind of data privacy laws or legal/judicial regimen that one might expect of companies in the EU.

That’s fair – it necessarily extends trust, and at the least you’d want them to be liable for false advertising.

I did go digging directly as a result of your comment, and I did find that it looks like Kagi operates at least in part, if not in whole, from Serbia. They have a San Francisco mailing address…but it’s just basically a mailbox.

For me, at least, that’s a concern; I’ve posted here on the matter to make others aware. I don’t know if it’d be enough to stop me from using them, but it certainly does make me reconsider how much weight I’d be willing to place on statements the company makes about its privacy policy, and what their practical legal liability is if they’re making inaccurate statements about their privacy practices.

I’m more upset I didn’t think of it first.

Maybe nobody’s done Muhammad and Buddha yet.

https://biblehub.com/q/was_jesus_omniscient.htm

Omniscience refers to the ability to know all things-past, present, and future-completely and without limitation.

Conclusion

Scripture consistently presents Jesus as fully God and fully man, possessing all divine attributes, including omniscience.

I suppose that establishes it. Jesus is presumably also fluent in Cockney rhyming slang.

Jesus very probably did exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus

I don’t know if the historicity of any of the other figures listed has been established. I mean, Jesus had a mother, for example, but I don’t know if there’s any reason to believe that she was anything like Mary as the Bible describes her.

I’d guess that most of the Biblical figures with established historical existence are gonna be major figures like Pontius Pilate.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures_identified_in_extra-biblical_sources

Chat With Jesus, Mary, The Apostles — And Even Satan

Most of those people were likely illiterate, and wouldn’t have been able to write the chat messages. You’re gonna get about as much out of Jesus on the other end of a chat program as you would a cat walking across the keyboard.

They have a no-log, no-profile policy, which is why I use them.

Can anyone here convince me it’s worth the price?

Depends on what you want from them and your financial situation.

For me, yeah, it is. I want to pay a service fee and not deal with ads or someone logging, profiling, and trying to figure out how to monetize my searches. For me, the $10/mo for unlimited searches tier is what I want. I’m principally concerned about privacy.

I don’t really take much advantage of most of the extra stuff they do other than the Threadiverse (they call it “Fediverse Forums”) search lens and sometimes their Usenet search engine. Maybe this effort to suppress AI-generated spam websites will be nice, but have to see what happens, as I expect that the SEO crowd creating spam websites will also aim to adapt if it becomes sufficiently impactful to their bottom line.

If one of their extra features particularly fits your use case (say, the ability to fiddle with website priorities or blacklist or pin them in your search results) that might be valuable to you, but I can’t speak as to that. I’ve seen people on here say that they really like that, but I don’t use that functionality. Or the ability to easily download images in results from their image search if you’re on mobile and are hitting something like pinterest, which is obnoxious on Google Images. Search bangs. Depends on what features you use and what each is worth to you.

I haven’t used them for all the intervening time, but archive.org has the website clearly running in November 2020 as a “privacy-respecting search engine” with accounts, albeit no dog logo yet. Maybe for some time prior to that, but the archive.org crawler got a “desktop not supported yet” error for some time prior to that (which…hmm…makes me think that it might be useful for archive.org to also archive the mobile versions of websites, though in most cases the content is probably largely the same). WP has them founded in 2018.

They’re obviously a lot younger than, say, Google, but they’ve also been running for longer than a year.

It shows up for me in the UI. I imagine that it works, and if it doesn’t, it’ll be debugged.

I think that the bigger question is whether the rate of spam website creation will outpace the rate of human flagging of them.

Kagi’s process involves humans. I bet that the spam website stuff runs autonomously.

I actually think that, while it’s maybe a fun topic for idle conversation…it doesn’t have a huge impact in the way traditional console pricing normally does.

With a traditional console, what the console vendor chooses to do on hardware is what you get. Maybe, as with Microsoft on the Xbox Series X/Series S, you get a high and low end model, but that’s as much choice as you get. All the games are made for that hardware, and whether the platform lives and dies depends on it.

But…that’s not really true of the Steam Machine. It’s just another PC, albeit preconfigured for Steam and HTPC-oriented. If you want to get a lower-end PC or a higher-end PC, you have the option of getting one and plugging it into a TV and running the same games on it and save some money or with a bit more visual bling. The games for PCs are already more or less written to scale up and down with hardware.

And it’s not like Valve’s platform is gonna live or die based on the Steam Machine the way a traditional console generation is, where success of a hardware console is high-stakes for the manufacturer and the players in successfully getting a game library going. I’d guess that it might help Valve make strategic inroads into gaming in the living room. But even if it completely bombs, Valve is gonna keep right on selling games to people to run on PCs (and the Deck) and their huge game library isn’t going anywhere.

I didn’t follow that story, but if it was over some suit over bone chips, I’d donlt think that it’d be analogous. Normally, “boneless wings” are less-desirable than regular wings. Boneless wings are just reconstituted chicken, so you can use scraps and stuff for them. It’s kind of like the relationship between steak and hamburger.

But with hamburger, you can occasionally have a bone chip make it in.

That’s in contrast to a window seat, where a window seat is often considered to be preferable, and someone not getting one would feel like they’re being mislead as to the actual value of what they’re getting.

Like, I wouldn’t expect truth-in-advertising issues to come up with boneless chicken; you wouldn’t likely wouldn’t get boneless chicken wings because of an aversion to bone or something, where that’s your main goal.

kagis

Yeah:

https://apnews.com/article/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ohio-supreme-court-231002ea50d8157aeadf093223d539f8

It doesn’t sound like it’s a false advertising case with the chicken, but a product safety one.