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Companies with more than $1 billion gross revenue or more than 500 employees would be scheduled to increase their minimum pay to $25/hour by 2031, while smaller employers would be on a longer timeline to reach $25/hour by 2038.

AKA no instant price shock

To ensure wages don’t lag again in the following years, the bill also requires the minimum wage to automatically grow each year to reach the equivalent of two-thirds the national median hourly wage.

This isn't adjusted to inflation, but the median national hourly wage tends to reflect a very similar trend to inflation as measured by the CPI, but lags behind a bit. If the base minimum wage was raised like this, it would bring that stat much more on par with inflation, if not higher than it as it stands now.

It also eliminates the subminimum wage, which is paid to tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities.

FINALLY! Just because you receive tips, are younger, or have a disability, you shouldn't be paid less than someone else if you've still gotten hired to do the job. You might be familiar with the tipped subminimum wage, which is where, if you receive tips from your job, instead of the $7.25/hr minimum wage, you can get paid as low as $2.13/hr as long as your tips make up the difference to bring you to at least $7.25.

This is one reason why so many places want you to tip now. The person doesn't get extra money, you just subsidize their employer paying them less out of their pocket.

...buuuuuuuuuut there's also a lowered minimum wage for disabled people... with literally no actual minimum. It's why one Goodwill was at one point paying a guy $0.22/hr:

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/06/21/some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour.html

If I didn't know how screwed up America is, I'd assume that had to be satire, but nope, it's real. Subminimum wages being abolished is great.

They don't use local models yet, at least not for their existing AI chatbot sidebar feature. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

When you use a chatbot, you are agreeing to that provider’s privacy policies and terms of use. Each chatbot provider has their own terms of use and privacy policies. View the privacy policies and terms for providers in Firefox.

Some chatbots are more privacy-respecting than others.

Yep, also owned by archive.today. As is archive.is, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn.

Same here. I get the nostalgia factor, and that tactile buttons can feel nice, but other than that I feel like it's just a one-size-fits-all solution that doesn't necessarily work well. Instead of a quick tap, you have to actually press on each button, which slows down typing. You can't resize, recolor, or reformat your keyboard to fit your needs better, there's no split keyboard functionality for landscape mode, etc. Plus it's just more mechanical failure points and areas that dust and gunk can get stuck in.

You won't get anywhere if you end up having to use their devices. If you're able to bring and use your own, just use it how you normally would. Maybe throw on a VPN while you're at it though, (assuming you have to use their Wi-Fi network) since a lot of these institutions use filters on the router level, but if all they see is a stream of arbitrary traffic from your device to a VPN company's server, they won't get much info or blocking ability.

Hence why this article is about them leaving the openly Nazi billionaire's platform while remaining on other platforms that are mainstream and still provide a lot of reach :)

3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic

Entirely depends on your use case. 99% of the time it won't matter to most people with a 3D printer.

If I'm making a Gridfinity setup for my desk, it doesn't matter if it's injection molded, it sits in my desk and doesn't come into contact with any food or liquids and isn't put under high stress. If I'm making attachments for my IKEA Skadis board, it doesn't matter if they're injection molded, nothing I'm putting on them needs highly scratch-resistant plastic or marginally heavier weight capacity. If I'm making replacement mounting for a bar on an item I own to make it more convenient to use, it doesn't need injection molding to work just as effectively as an injection molded part, it's holding a few grams of weight pulled by gravity and has no other stresses or contact with food or liquids.

Injection molding is only necessary if:

• You need a more food-safe part without layer lines
• You need a part that is absolutely as strong as it physically can be with that plastic material, even if it will only be slightly stronger than the 3D-printed part's layer bonds
• You need to mass produce an item at scale very quickly, and have the upfront demand to cover the very high cost of tooling, custom molds, (thousands of dollars per individual mold) logistics, etc.

If I wanted molds made for all the things I've printed to have them injection molded instead, I'd be in debt hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

Not a single thing I've printed would have been cheaper, truly better quality (unless I had simply picked a badly made design in the first place), or more usable if it was injection molded, and I've been printing things regularly for the past 8 years.

For anyone who has a Ring camera, wants to get rid of it, but still wants a doorbell camera for security/convenience reasons, I'll point out that Ecobee has a fairly good rating on Mozilla's Privacy Not Included page where they review products for their privacy.

E2EE transmission of video from the camera to your phone when streaming, on-device processing of video feeds, auto-deletes any cloud footage when people uninstall the app (so non-technical users who think uninstalling an app deletes their data will actually get that benefit), only saves clips when actual motion is detected, first line of their privacy policy is "Your personal information and data belong to you", and their subscription is 100% optional.

Only real privacy concern is that if you choose to integrate yours with Alexa, it might get some data from that, but that's optional. The main downside is just that they only have a wired option for outdoor setups, but they do have an indoor one that doesn't require any kind of hookup directly into wires in your wall.

As always though, if you have the technical ability to set something up yourself that runs only on your local network, do it.

The main problem is that LLMs are pulling from those sources too. An LLM often won't distinguish between highly reputable sources and any random page that has enough relevant keywords, as it's not actually capable of picking its own sources carefully and analyzing each one's legitimacy, at least not without a ton of time and computing power that would make it unusable for most quick queries.

I can't speak for the original poster, but I also use Kagi and I sometimes use the AI assistant, mostly just for quick simple questions to save time when I know most articles on it are gonna have a lot of filler, but it's been reliable for other more complex questions too. (I just would rather not rely on it too heavily since I know the cognitive debt effects of LLMs are quite real.)

It's almost always quite accurate. Kagi's search indexing is miles ahead of any other search I've tried in the past (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, StartPage, Qwant, SearXNG) so the AI naturally pulls better sources than the others as a result of the underlying index. There's a reason I pay Kagi 10 bucks a month for search results I could otherwise get on DuckDuckGo. It's just that good.

I will say though, on more complex questions with regard to like, very specific topics, such as a particular random programming library, specific statistics you'd only find from a government PDF somewhere with an obscure name, etc, it does tend to get it wrong. In my experience, it actually doesn't hallucinate, as in if you check the sources there will be the information there... just not actually answering that question. (e.g. if you ask it about a stat and it pulls up reddit, but the stat is actually very obscure, it might accidentally pull a number from a comment about something entirely different than the stat you were looking for)

In my experience, DuckDuckGo's assistant was extremely likely to do this, even on more well-known topics, at a much higher frequency. Same with Google's Gemini summaries.

To be fair though, I think if you really, really use LLMs sparingly and with intention and an understanding of how relatively well known the topic is you're searching for, you can avoid most hallucinations.

according to every cunt on YouTube who got paid to review one. Props to Bambu for understanding how to market bullshit to 3D printer customers.

Speaking from over a dedcade of 3D printing experience, this is kind of a ridiculous point.

Bambu's printers are easier to set up out of the box than most other brands, tend to have less ongoing troubleshooting, has a more clean and easily accessible mobile app, and the print quality is also just better in some instances. Plus, their cost is incredible.

My first 3D printer was an easy to set up out of the box, no tinkering required, and it had horrible print quality, could only use one color at a time, and the bed adhesion was awful. I upgraded to a Creality printer, and it promptly permanently scratched the glass bed, and refused to ever level properly even with the addition of an auto-leveling module made by Creality themselves. (then made a squeaking noise I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to solve)

I got an A1 Mini, and while it has had its problems with various different troubleshooting steps I've had to do, most of the troubleshooting was either costless, covered under warranty, or cheap relative to the cost of replacement parts for a similar fix on other printers. The print quality is flawless, it's cheap, it can switch colors, it supports basically every material of filament easily with no tinkering, the nozzle is incredibly easy to switch, and the bed adhesion is way better.

That's not to say other brands don't have better offerings now, but I think it's kind of ridiculous to claim Bambu's printers are bad. They're cheap, reliable, easily accessible to newbies, and produce good quality prints at the same time.

Same issue here, also stuck at exactly 97%.

I think it would be ideal if everyone could be afforded the flexibility they need in their own lives for whatever they might wish to do, but I don’t think this take is a very good one. The reason parents are often given these benefits is because there is an understanding that there is a literal human being’s life on the line, and that this person cares incredibly strongly about that child. I might care a lot about an event I want to go to, but when it comes down to it, any boss would probably pick making sure a parent can pick their kid up from school over me being able to go a concert or something. If everyone had a kid tomorrow, you’d probably see a lot of these benefits not be offered as freely, considering how businesses would simply just be understaffed to handle that much demand for flexibility, skipping certain hours, schedule changes, etc. All that said though, there is still room for benefits and additional flexibility to be afforded to workers… if corporations are willing to spend extra money on more staff, better accommodations like not requiring in-office work when the work only requires being on a computer all day, stuff like that.

Feels to me like this is AI assisted but not entirely AI generated. Lyrics’ timing is a bit off and the sounds of the instruments blend together in a sort of odd way, but it doesn’t feel like what you typically see from something pumped straight out of an AI model in its entirety. I hope I’m wrong, since it is genuinely a fun animated video and is the general sort of style of music I like, but I don’t want to support someone using generative AI to displace people who put actual effort into making their music.