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The lede is that Thomson Reuters is selling voter data to ICE.

The callout is real, and I am glad you pushed back.

You might have unaddressed writing trauma. Just because the abstract isn't dogshit, doesn't mean it isn't templatized mad sloplibs. The numbers, the framing, the wins; itz giving people hives.

No outs, we need a controlled vocabulary.

Firefox ESR in Debian12, won't start. 140.12.0esr (64-bit)

This is the entirety of the log message.

    [chrome-demo] chrome assets + engine wasm ready
    [gecko] warning: unsupported syscall: __syscall_madvise
    [gecko] embed-xul: main() on the app pthread (PROXY_TO_PTHREAD)
    [gecko] embed-xul: GECKO_GL_PASSTHROUGH=0
    [gecko] embed-xul: GECKO_COARSE_CLOCK=1
    [gecko] [libxul] abort: Assertion failed
    [gecko] Aborted(Assertion failed)

How about if it doesn't say RENT, it means you own it and first sale doctrine applies. We can't let them weasel and wordsmith their way out of things.

I too came from vinyl hiss and found only cold hard silence.

I had it refuse OpenCL code that had nothing to do with anything, just slightly advanced cellular automata.

Claude now hijacks your mouse in tmux!

Yeah, I use tmux all day. Technically great, but the UX for tmux smux.

You end up having to wrap everything in adapter scripts because it is so verbose as well as so unmemorable, along with that, it has no built in help, not even -h

Thank you for supplying all that info. I wasn't implying your app did anything nefarious, just the kinds of things I would like to see on an App Nutrition label. That is cool that you wrote it in .NET, any hiccups with that stack? I did some MacDev using Lua like 15 years ago, it worked out pretty well.

Could be pulling in webkit. 9MB doesn't mean it isn't based on a web renderer. It would be awesome if software came with a nutrition label. IO, does it phone home, memory safety, does it use web renderer, memory usage, etc.

> Since monitoring task performance and adapting behavior accordingly are central to metacognition, we posit that mod- els capable of accurately judging their own performance are better positioned to improve it. We operationalize this idea via two novel mechanisms: reinforcement learning with metacognitive feedback (RLMF), a paradigm to refine completion rankings during preference optimization based on the quality of a model’s self- judgments of performance, and metacognitive data selection, which uses similar self-judgments to identify high-value training examples, outperforming naive active learning.

Nice find, it looks like the Zachtronics gang is back at it with https://coincidence.games/

And that they are using Klei as their publisher, who happens to be the same publisher behind Fretless. So much nerdy wholesomeness in one place!

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/klei

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2429050/Fretless__The_Wra... minidocumentary by Rob Scallon on the making of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3USobO6qRHE

A couple of other interesting Python compiler projects recently..

https://github.com/Nonannet/copapy uses copy and patch, discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972392

Single-pass SSA bytecode compiler and threaded-code stack VM for a sandboxed Python subset https://github.com/dylan-sutton-chavez/edge-python

These tics are fairly easy to remove via hooks and prompts, but once the codebase is infected, it is 10x as much work to get the agents to stop.

I'd love to see DCs scaled with renewables, they would throttle down and run slower at night. The abstraction that power is available at whatever rate you want it is an expensive myth at scale.

I defer plugging in my electric car until 10am so I know that my neighbors solar arrays are charging my car.

In Seattle, every watt saved is water saved since we are blessed with hydro.

The thing that is off putting about how he uses rhetoric is that it feels like and-you deflection (tu quoque).

> Claim that a data center is using 1000x as much water as a city of 88,000 people, where it’s actually using about 0.22x as much water as the city, and only 3% of the municipal water system the city relies on. She’s off by a factor of 4500. This is the single largest error in any popular book that I’ve found on my own, and to my knowledge I’m the first person to notice it.

Yeah, she might be wrong. But a data center also using 1/5th of the water consumption of an 88k person city should still be what are debating. We also have a base rate fallacy, we don't know know how well or how poorly they are using water. Nearly all criticisms of AI data center criticisms boil (no pun intended) down to yeah, but what about almonds or rice or xyz. That isn't a healthy way to adjust how we talk about data center water consumption.

It is a classic debate tactic. Someone makes an argument, then buttresses that argument with a number. You attack the number, pretending that you didn't just correct the number, but also invalidate the original argument. We shouldn't be using these tactics to talk about the tragedy of the commons.

I worked for a hyperscaler, I poked around a bit about water usage both internally and externally and it wasn't good. There was little to no thought other than, "we can pay X to have water delivered, doesn't matter if it sourced responsibly." (to glibly paraphrase, company policy is to never write the honest part down)

Look at how hard Google fought to not have water data released in The Dalles Oregon for their DC there. Many DCs are supplied by water that is meant for humans, sourced from aquifers that took hundreds of thousands of years to fill, that are being depleted faster than they are filled, already.

I think AI is powerful tool, but we still can't give DC expansion a pass.

Dean pulled a sweet Dungeon Master move in "accepting her resignation." She should have made them fire her, esp for ostensibly doing the job she was hired to do.

How do you know this doesn't suffer from Gell-Mann Amnesia? The first version had so many glaring errors that have been "corrected" (removed), and I don't have the energy to comb through this one.

I am highly skeptical of layperson debunking like this.

Neat, good site to build your funnel.

When you are racist pos and want everyone to know.

Not signing up if there isn't even a hero animation showing what it does.

I am sure you have seen MNCA (Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata) https://youtu.be/CYa-o-_eE0Y?t=41

and their continuous counterpart Lenia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3zeHyWakw

Ok, nerd sniped.

> The Margolus neighborhood — how partitioning the grid makes a rule reversible.

This reminds me of the https://www.youtube.com/@T2TileProject https://t2tile.com/

Spoiler, GP is now three and a half.

STL is famous for having a large number of folks shooting guns into the air on New Years. So much so that there are warnings to not go outside. Stay safe.

It really should be read in the SML/NJ as God Intended.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/whichver.html

https://www.smlnj.org/

Hooks are for doing AoP style wrapping of your interactions with the harness. Type /hook on the console see what is available. Have CC analyze your session and suggest converting part of your workflow to a hook, and then have it test it.

This is nice. The controls could use some normalization, but all in all, very crisp. Esp for a non-chrome browser on linux on an ancient cpu.

I would pay you 14.67 for your repo and session logs.

Every major technology advancement is followed by an economic bubble. Bubbles are economic, they are triggered by a landgrab following a technologic discontinuity.

Also, there are thousands of X11 servers in the training set, you could one-shot them at this point. Setup an RL loop and you can have it even work.