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McGovern is not someone to hold up, but that's not the quote. It was: "I would only argue that senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does awaiting until every la…

It adds npm as a dependency, to a go build? It changes the contributor email? to install random npm packages?! in /tmp?! in post_install()??! With a new random contributor email???…

Exactly, these hacks really stand out to me, and used odd patterns (like .install files that just had 2-3 line post_install functions) etc.

Right, the PKGBUILD only helps you review if you're installing what you intend to - not verifying if what you're installing contains any hacks. This hack in particular added random…

> isn’t that also the case for every browser extension, VSCode extension, nuget package, Cargo crate, python package, npm package Yes, and all of those have supply chain hacks in t…

emacsclient + codex has been a game changer. I probably add or change a feature in emacs once a day, or every other day. I've been using emacs for some insane amount of time, maybe…

> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this…

Please reread (or.. read) the paper. They do not make that mistake, specifically section 7.1. A reward function (R) may be hackable by a model's response, but when asked to confess…

You are thinking in terms of utility, instead of organizational power. Which is fine - but misses why the meeting behavior continues imo.

While I have several disagreements with this deck, there are two large ones: 1. In my experience, a lot of teams don't have long enough meetings to avoid the litany of small meetin…

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Math notation is high context, so it's great to just ask llm's to print out the low context version in something like lisp where I can read and decompose it quickly.

As of this morning, they should be. My app sent me a notification today.

attention required: 10 minute video > 10 second short When the written word took over with the printing press, the same concern was levied. The amount of attention required to list…

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... a lot isn't even close though. The US is at 120.5 guns per 100 civilians, and Canada is at 34.5 I think being ~4x the ratio of guns per capita, (and 30x the total!) has to do s…

There is a big matrix of risk/reward for any DC location. You bet Meta asked for incentives, but sometimes a guarantee of future power capacity, fast permitting, or ideal locations…

I have little to no evidence that there is sensible behavior and knowledge around software on personal computers. The biggest difference these days is most folks don't even use a p…

While Yann has built many things with git-annex, we should be clear that the creator of git-annex is relatively singular, Joey Hess.

Everyone has similar agreements with local power grids, and pretty much all DC operators respond to demand reduction calls from the grid. It's extremely rare for a DC to put an ent…

I should write a lot more, but the two paths I see are: B.O.O. and Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. B.O.O.: Background, Objective, Overview. Basically, a history lesson for how you got …

You have to be more specific about the "bad situation" imo. A lot of crime gets blamed on all kinds of causes, but with a cause so vague all kinds of counterfactuals can be listed …

SF uses flock cameras as well[0][1]. I am curious if merely by having a published policy, larger cities have less scrutiny in the actual use by federal law enforcement - though lik…

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Nowadays a problem is the subscriptions are all multiplexed through apple, google, and amazon. I used to religiously use things like ynab, but now I need to find ways to export my …