They’re a lobbyist for giant publishers. They work really hard to prevent regulating loot boxes/gambling, console jailbreaking, and are behind pretty much any evil thing the industry does. If they were in the EU, they’d no doubt fight against the stop killing games initiative too.

Fuck the ESA

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. By “the commenter” do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?

Also,

For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward

What’s a “negative reward”? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don’t believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.

But even if it wasn’t, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn’t print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of “simulated progress” was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).

I hate that normies are going to read this and come away with the impression that Claude really is a sentient being that thinks and behaves like a human, even doing relatable things like pretending to work and fessing up when confronted.

This response from the model is not a reflection of what actually happened. It wasn’t simulating progress because it underestimated the work, it just hit some unremarkable condition that resulted in it halting generation (it’s pointless to speculate why without internal access, as these chatbot apps aren’t even real LLMs, they’re a big mashup of multiple models and more traditional non-ML tools/algorithms).

When given a new prompt from the user (“what’s taking so long?”) it just produced some statistically plausible text given the context of the chat, the question, and the system prompt Anthropic added to give it some flavor. I don’t doubt that system prompt includes instructions like “you are a sentient being” in order to produce misleading crap like this response to get people to think AI is sentient, and feed the hype train that’s pumping up their stock price.

/end-rant

De Moraes said Bolsonaro’s tampering with his monitor fed his suspicions that he would attempt to flee the country in “the confusion that would be caused by a demonstration organized by his son," according to The Associated Press.

Looks like it’s time for another arrest

It’s incredible, and unique in that nobody else is really making those types of games, and it has AAA-tier production values.

There’s no “simple fundamental flaw” in AI that people don’t know about. It bothers me when people who have never thought about x in their life think about x once, make an obvious observation, and then go off acting like nobody else is smart enough to have made that observation. It’s narcissism. It’s annoying.

Please prove me wrong though. I would love to see this grift come crashing down all because you saw something that nobody else saw.

How common was cocaine in 1950s France?

Two of them just look like dog food

I recently (a few months ago) built a new high-end server for my homelab, and bought 512GB of DDR4 ECC RAM for around $510. I just looked it up, and those exact same modules are around $2.5k to $3.5k for the same amount. That’s more than I paid for the entire machine.

I’ve seen this joke done hundreds of times on TV and in movies growing up, but never experienced it myself. I have pretty much always lived in the suburbs in homes with their own water heaters, yet I still have yet to experience this phenomenon.

I don’t doubt that it’s possible, but the conditions to “trigger” it are probably very specific to regions where film makers and comic artists live.

It means you’re not a man, you pussy!

…it also implies that “being a man” is not determined by your birth, but rather by your decisions and lifestyle, and that everyone is in fact gender fluid and able to change their gender at any time.

So basically, toxic masculinity is actually woke as fuck

I don’t like this. Flatpaks are a huge step forward, but Fedora Flatpaks are two steps back. I’m not at all convinced by his arguments here or in the rejected proposal.

The only potential benefit that might make sense is that they will contain the same Fedora-specific patches found in the fedora RPMs… Except that is exactly the type of thing Flatpaks were supposed to prevent! Neither users nor developers want a middle man adding or removing features for their software. It has historically been one of the biggest pain points for migrating to Linux as a user, or supporting it as a developer. It was necessary in the past for compatibility reasons, but Flatpaks fixed that. Now, developers can publish one Flatpak that will work on all distros, and users don’t have to wonder if they’ll be able to use some app or not, or whether it will work… Unless they’re on Fedora

But I don’t like this post nor the wording in the proposal. He doesn’t actually outline why he wants this to go through. I’m not claiming any tinfoil hat conspiracy behind the scenes, it’s just his argument is not well articulated. If someone wants to use an app with Fedora-specific patches for some reason, they can layer the RPM on top of their Atomic distro. There’s no reason to add uncertainty and confuse users by turning those into flatpaks.

If you already know cron and are too lazy to learn something new, then use cron with the knowledge that it’s a personal failure and not a real technical decision… Otherwise, use systemd timers.

I know nothing about what it takes to develop a laptop. Are these issues (BIOS updates, virtualization support, USB4 support, etc) something the laptop manufacturer needs to develop solutions for in-house? Wouldn’t that be the job of Qualcomm? Or are Tuxedo saying that these things aren’t supported on the Linux side yet? Qualcomm claimed to be contributing to the kernel last year, so idk if that just hasn’t happened yet or if they just lied.

Either way this is disappointing, but understandable. There’s no sense in working to release a laptop with previous-gen hardware that’s not going to be competitive.

uses Facebook

Boomer, or Gen X?

The White House?

More devs need to start doing AGPL with other licenses available for a licensing fee. Or better yet, price it based on revenue with the LGPL/GPL/Apache version free for orgs under $1bn annual revenue, and everyone else has to pay up.

The OSI was a mistake. They were wrong, Stallman was right. How long until open source devs finally accept this?

You can’t spell “INCEL” without “C”

TIL about bat! Looks awesome!