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Comment Re:America is a 25% functional unemployment (Score 2) 187

by CAIMLAS (#66368668) Attached to: US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program

From my math, once you account for inflation, Silicon Valley (and broader tech industry) compensation has declined about 23-30% since 2000, relative to the national average. I know multiple companies where it's basically been flat since 2012, particularly for support roles - $90-100k then is only making $105-110k now in the same roles (with some of the same people, granted, but also new blood).

Considering how many foreigners from specific countries I see in places like Omaha, NE, I'm pretty sure it's not just a problem in Silicon Valley.

Comment Re: Excellent Move (Score 0) 187

by CAIMLAS (#66368420) Attached to: US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program

How was it not fraud?

H1B is/was intended for worker shortages: for roles you couldn't fill domestically. It was not supposed to decrease the wage of the role, but (in theory) keep it at parity. It was always a ruse, but that was the premise.

If you're firing people and then hiring others at a fraction of the pay, you're literally abusing it. You've applied under false premise. That's fraud.

Comment So? (Score 1) 210

by CAIMLAS (#66368226) Attached to: Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds

"The study was conducted with 189 people."

And what was the distribution of men and women in that sample? Because that's a very important criteria.

I promise you the results would be significantly different with all-male vs all-female groups, and depend heavily on the attractiveness of the 'male' or 'female' AI persona (assuming it had visuals).

Comment Especially since they curate the low relevance. (Score 1) 137

by couchslug (#66367640) Attached to: Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A

There has never been an explanation of the motive for enshittifying Slashdot. It would be far more profitable with quality moderation.

It's as if Slashdot's owners hate money. While I respect the desire to do less work, even AI would be an improvement. Nerds wanting news and stuff that matters are a very large market.

Comment Might be a decent platform for proof-of-concept (Score 1) 80

by DrMrLordX (#66367280) Attached to: Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts

Making and commercializing games with this toolset sounds like it may be the next RPGMaker (only more generalized to multiple genres). Lots of crap with recycled assets being schlepped at low prices. Hopefully there will be appropriate watermarks to keep such garbage from clogging up online stores.

That being said, producing simplified proofs-of-concept could be accomplished with this toolset. Designers/teams with actual talent could produce something better with non-AI assets.

Comment Re:80 million daily users + 5 billion annually (Score 1) 80

by DrMrLordX (#66367270) Attached to: Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts

Roblox is falling off:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexerto.com%2Froblox...

Won't be long before the new generation looks at it as being stale and boring. Which is pretty much how anyone in the adult world sees it. Not sure what will replace it but Roblox will fade away eventually.

Submission + - First Nuclear Clocks Start Ticking in Vienna and Beijing (phys.org)

Submitted by necro81
necro81 writes: Two groups, one in Vienna and one in Beijing, have successfully demonstrated the world's first nuclear clocks. Standard atomic clocks, like the caesium clocks that define the second, operate by observing the transition of electrons between different orbits about the nucleus. The resulting radiation is usually in the microwave range, and can produce clocks accurate to one second in 100 billion years.

Nuclear clocks go a step further, and probe energy transitions within the nucleus itself. Nuclei can arrange their protons and neutrons into different configurations, called isomers. The isomer with the lowest energy is the one usually found; higher-energy ones are only metastable and decay quickly. Usually it takes serious energy — x-rays and gamma rays — to excite a nucleus into a higher-energy arrangement. It so happens that thorium-229 can be excited using UV light with a wavelength of 148 nm — just within the capabilities of some exotic lasers.

It's still been quite a challenge. For one thing, Th-229 is not found in nature; it must be extracted from the decay chain of uranium-235. The Beijing team used just a microgram mixed in a crystal of calcium fluoride.

Although these prototype nuclear clocks are not yet more accurate than existing atomic clocks (one second in millions, rather than billions, of years), they show the way towards what may be possible. Because the energy transition is in the nucleus, rather than the electron cloud, it is less susceptible to outside disturbances like magnetic fields. And the fundamental frequency is much higher (five orders of magnitude), which should yield more precise timing. This development could lead to smaller and more reliable time standards across the world (and solar system).

Submission + - UK vegetables 20-50% less nutritious than in the 1960s (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'The nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has fallen by up to 50pc since the Sixties because of declining soil quality, according to a new study.

'The study found that many crops had lost 20pc to 50pc of several key nutrients.

'Will Summers, a senior associate at the firm, said: “For 60 years we’ve measured food security in calories and tonnes per hectare.

'“On those measures we’ve done remarkably well. But we’ve been quietly hollowing out what’s inside our food.”

'The decrease in nutrient and vitamin value is thought to be down to declining soil quality and crops being selectively bred for their ability to grow quickly, rather than there being any focus on their health benefits.'

Comment Re:Change business/school/etc. hours (Score 2) 279

Stop changing the clocks twice per year, but if there are reasons to set opening or closing times earlier or later, I am all for it. Sunlight at whatever-oclock isn't bright enough? Then start school at whatever-thirty or other appropriate time.

Sure, you could just change the time that school starts for the few months of winter. And the parents who need to get their kids ready for school and/or drop them off at school can change what time they show up for work. And since the workers are showing up at a different time, businesses can change what hours they're open. And since these changes all have to happen on the same day, you'll need someone to decide what days the time changes should happen.

Congratulations, you've just invented Daylight Saving Time, just with everyone needing to remember new start times instead of changing the clocks.

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