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  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • Yeah, the conventional ones still draw a good chunk of power, and they're not clean but they're not dirty. Same as how a grocery store isn't good for the environment but you're not looking at them first for places to clean.

    They tend to be boring, and are usually not a public thing but just something owned by a company to house their computers. The only reason I know about the ones near me is I used to work at one and people would move jobs to or from other ones. (As an aside, a datacenter is a great place to nap if you like white noise).

    For a sense of scale:

    This is the site of an open AI data center. The yellow square is about 1 square mile and mostly encompasses the area they plan to/have filled.

    That angle shows more build out.

    This photo has two normal data centers in it. The yellow square is also about 1 square mile. I've highlighted the data centers in red. One is to the left of the square near the middle, and the other is down from the right side near the big piles of what looks like rocks. (Spoilers: it's rocks. They make asphalt). The sprawling complex in the upper right is a refrigerated grocery store distribution complex. The middle on the other side of the block from the asphalt is a coal power plant.

    Of the things in this picture, I'm most upset about the giant freeway interchange. Coal is shit, but it's a modern plant so it's not belching soot, just co2, and the utility is phasing it out anyway. The grocery traffic is mostly dead except between the hours of midnight and 7am when they do restocks.I can hear the freeway if I go outside.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • I think the part you're missing is that 1) it's my community too 2) they're not talking about AI data centers, or new data centers or anything like that, they're petitioning to ban all data centers, and 3) we have multiple data centers in the city already that no one complained about until AI data centers became a thing people felt concerned about.

    There's a major difference between the 2 square mile hyper scale AI data center that requires a nuclear reactor and a full water treatment plant to cool and the 2 acre data center that's air cooled and has no more ground pollution than any other parking lot and essentially a warehouse.The state government has two in the city, at least, for processing electronic tax records, applications and hosting service sites. We have a few national insurance companies that need to process all the things they process. A research university, and a web hosting company round out the list of ones I know about.

    This is my entire point about why sometimes it's really necessary to point out that what someone is referring to is only a small part of what the words they're using describe. The language being imprecise doesn't matter until someone proposes a law outlawing chemicals, shuttering all data centers, or banning AI.

    LLMs are problematic. My fancy rice maker isn't.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • I take your point. :)

    It's worth mentioning in my opinion though, because if someone were to say "we should ban chemicals" it'd be worthwhile to point out what that actually means.

    I don't actually think the broadness of the category is intentionally abused, it's just that it's an incredibly common thing to remove anything from the AI category that's explicable.

    I feel slightly more hanlons razor about it since there's people in my city talking about and petitioning on the popular notion of banning all data centers from the state, and how it would be awful if s data center came here. I know what they mean, but it's not what they're trying to get the law to do, and our city already has six data centers I know of off the top of my head. The language drift is fine, but when it starts to conflate with policy it's another issue.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • A conservative guess would be around 60 people.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi

    You can click around and see the bug reports they're working on. There are a few, to say the least.

    https://www.firefox.com/en-US/releases/

    This is a way to see what's in each release. The ones on the left are major releases and tend to have bigger features, and the others tend to be bug fixes.

    Web browsers start with core functionality that's very complex. Then you tack on that they're being used for things like banking, and managing the critical details of people's lives. That means security galore, which is hard and constant. Then you have ad people, who are also something that's hard to defend against.Then there's the constant flood of new features you have to implement to keep up with Google.

    Chrome has 1,000 to 4,000 people working on it. Mozzila employs about 700 to work on firefox, with maybe 1,000 additional open source developers.

    My initial guess was very wrong.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • It's less a vague umbrella and more an academic category. It just feels odd to call it vague in the same way you wouldn't call "chemistry" vague, despite it having applications ranging from hand soap to toxic waste.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • Yeah, ocr is a type of AI. The big advantage of modern techniques is that it can factor in context a bit better. It's the same principle but a different mechanism for how you know a red hexagon with S__P on it says stop, even if the sign is dented, a letter fully fell off, it's raining and dark.

    It also means it's sometimes wildly inaccurate, like in cases where it's just so much more likely that it said something else. Like how on a bright sunny day, with perfect clarity, and a crisp new sign with extra good visuals, you'll hit the breaks for a sign that's a red hexagon that says §¥¢¶. It's just very unlikely that that would coincidentally be on a red hexagon near the road, so it's more likely you saw wrong and it was actually the normal thing.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • That's not them being authoritative for the information, that's them being a consumer of the information. There's a difference.

    A store needs to see my drivers license to sell me alcohol. That doesn't mean that the receipt is proof I'm allowed to drive. If I get pulled over I can't give it to a cop to prove I have a license because the store isn't an authoritative source for that information, despite having an integration with the state I'd verification service.

    This is just how paperwork works. You can search for this information yourself if you don't believe me. A social security name change is not proof of citizenship.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • And you're missing the point that other people are making: the SSA is not responsible for knowing your citizenship status, and so documents from them don't establish citizenship.

    That they know it has nothing to do with anything. They're not an authoritative source, so they can't be used for that purpose.You're thinking like it's an evidentiary chain. A requires B, therefore proof of A implies B.It's not though: it's a list of valid documents from a list of valid sources.

    And all that's moot because you can get an SSA name change or a real id without meeting the criteria to vote, so even if it was a proof A wouldn't imply B.

  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • Fire stations are everywhere, staffed by trustworthy people, who inevitably also have medical training. Additionally they aren't scary like the police are.They're the people you call if you need help.

    You can surrender an infant at a hospital too, as well as a police station, but fire stations are just more frequent.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • That's still not proof of citizenship. The SSA is not in charge of tracking citizenship, so a document from them doesn't work for that purpose.

    As you said yourself, non-citizens can get social security cards. Changing your name in that circumstance is hardly proof of citizenship.

  • Extremely Normal

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  • Sure. That's not mutually incompatible with preferring the least terrible option to the most terrible though.

    People view it as "Democrats don't deserve to win because they didn't have a good enough candidate", when they should be viewing it as "Democrats didn't field the candidate I deserve, but I still deserve better than the Republican".

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • And also the source of the term "grandfathered in".

    The law was typically along the lines of "literacy test or your grandfather could vote".

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • But that's not proof of citizenship, which is what the bill requires.

  • Welppp

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  • They have enough money that money doesn't matter. Making people for whom money does matter have less gives them more power.

    They don't want to be rich in a developed capitalist country, they want to be lords in a feudal society. The average quality of life plummeting doesn't matter as long as the highest remains the same and they get more power.

  • Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension

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  • We can do both!

  • Laffy Taffy

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  • Got the process backwards. The early flavoring was designed by finding something with a strong scent or flavor and then labeling it as whatever they thought it was closest to or would sell best.

    Less "finally, this tastes like banana" and more "I bet no one will complain if I call this banana".

  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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  • A big part of that is that other countries view to medical staff as a fixed cost. They're not reflected in the "bill", much like how you don't get billed by the fire department. They're simply paid to be there, and costs for treatment are more reflective of the cost of the treatment.

  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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  • It's complicated, because it's American healthcare.

    The hospital charges $200k. The insurance agrees to pay a negotiated discounted rate of $100k. $75k goes to the various insurance plans of the doctors and hospital. $15k goes to the people providing care and materials costs (everything is itemized, so then $50 aspirin you see is because it includes the time of the pharmacy tech who got the order, entered it into the system and checked for interactions, the tech who filled the order, the pharmacist who had to sign off on it, and the nurse who carried it to the patient.). $10k goes to the hospital as profit.The insurance then makes the patient pay their $5000 deductible, which is what you pay before the insurance you pay for pays for anything, then the patient pays their $2500 coinsurance, which is what you pay after the insurance you pay for starts to pay for things but they only pay for half. After that the insurance covers it. The "perk" is that having met your deductible and coinsurance costs you likely have to pay little or nothing for care for the rest of the calendar year, making January to most financially responsible time to have a medical emergency.

    In terms of actual "cost", I think the biggest difference is the itemization of everything. Universal healthcare is intrinsically more cost efficient, but it still has to pay doctors and nurses. When that cost is viewed as part of the cost of running a hospital as opposed to part of the service "charged" to the patient it can bring the "list price" down a lot. You end up with the price of a broken arm being the cost to treat a broken arm, not then cost to treat a broken arm and have everyone involved show up and your share of building the hospital room, and the cost of the janitor cleaning the room.

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