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vor 24 Tagendiscuss

The feedback from the VC crowd is that the historical 5 year startup timeline is down to 18 months these days. That means finding PMF, funding rounds, hiring and scaling to $25 mil/year. That's the VC playbook changer which has them all worried about businesses which don't go all in for AI.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Define easily. There is an approach that apparently works and is based on spectral analysis of the images.

https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

His RISKS Digest should be required reading for anybody studying computer and software engineering. RIP Peter.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

It's partly the weight that made the 11" MacBook Air great:

  MacBook Air: 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs)
  MacBook Neo: 1.23 kg (2.70 lbs)

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Thomas Wake: "Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!"

Ephraim Winslow: "Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'."

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

See also: Clarkson's Farm [0], for some of the messy reality of running an actual modern farm in England (though edited for entertainment value). I suspect the current AIs are not quite up to doing this - but I firmly beleive it's only a matter of time.

[0]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

You could mod the game with more varied events, which were of course AI generated to begin with. Bit of an inception scenario where AI plays an AI modded game.

The other option is to have an AI play another AI which is working as an antagonist, trying to make the player fail. More global plagues! More scheming underlings! More questionable choices for relaxation! Bit of an arms race there.

Honestly I prefer Crusader Kings II if for no other reason that the UI is just so brilliantly insanely obtuse while also being very good looking.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I'll go further. Ignore the Perl specific bits and Conway's "Perl Best Practices" is one of the best general programming books ever written.

It has so many great pieces of advice that apply to any programming task, everything from naming variables, to testing, error handling, code organization, documentation, etc, etc. Ultimately, for timeless advice on programming as a profession the language is immaterial.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Global rollout of security code on a timeframe of seconds is part of Cloudflare's value proposition.

In this case they got unlucky with an incident before they finished work on planned changes from the last incident.

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

My armchair is equally comfy, and I have an actual paper to point to:

Jaxley: Differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics [1]

They basically created sofware to simulate real neurons and ran some realistic models to replicate typical AI learning tasks:

"The model had nine different channels in the apical and basal dendrite, the soma, and the axon [39], with a total of 19 free parameters, including maximal channel conductances and dynamics of the calcium pumps."

So yeah, real neurons are a bit more complex then ReLU or Sigmoid.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.21.608979v2....

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I'll second that recommendation. One of the more interesting videos is AI creating utopian and dystopian worlds in Minecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnQvdypW_I

Invokes shades of Iain M. Banks' "Surface Detail" Culture novel, where virtual Hells are a major plot point.

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

More discussion on Ubuntu forums

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/problem-with-updates-error-fa...

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

The worst part is that they marked the incident as resolved after 32 minutes, but didn't mention that mirrors for the packages on security.ubuntu.com have huge queues. OK fine, we can wait until the mirrors sync and you can choose another mirror to do your update - eventually. You can also work around this while updating Ubuntu 24.04 by manually installing the deb file it wants.

But wait, there's more! You can't install new instances of Ubuntu 24.04.2 because the installer connects to security.ubuntu.com by default (probably for good reasons) and will bail out while formatting and writing the disk when it gets 500 Internal Server Error from security.ubuntu.com for a specific deb file. There's no option around it that I'm aware of if you're doing an install connected to the network. I'm told that things should work if you try to install without networking connected. But that's not working for me, possibly due to some drivers it needs to pull for my hardware that are not in the default installer.

Ran into this while trying to install a fresh instance on an old mac hardware.

All in all, not a good look for Canonical, especially given how long this is taking to resolve and the lack of any status indication that this is still a problem. Lots of people are being bitten by this in the last 24 hours.

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

Liquid Sky soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UxwohjhHw&list=PL9F0ACA601...

Synth genius. I actually have it on vinyl.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Back in the 80s I worked for a computer manufacturer in the Valley designing chips and doing all the other fun stuff involved with creating and bringing up a new machine. When people asked me what I did for a living I told them to read "The Soul of a New Machine" - that was my job. Kidder really captured exactly what it was like to create those beasts, with all the ups and downs of computer engineering in that era. Different coast, different (much bigger) computer, but the process was exactly the same. Perfect historical snapshot.

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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Excellent response, thank you. Answers all my questions.

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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

The idea and functionality looks good. Some quick friendly feedback:

For production I would want to run this in Docker in some sort of a portable fashion.

Looking at the documentation it seems that you have to manually enter the password when you start up step-ca. That's not really going to work for automated setups. You need to be able to inject secrets from environment variables, or these days, Kubernetes secrets.

There's also the issue of backing up your CA secrets, e.g. if your step-ca process dies and you want to restart it somewhere else. That may be out of scope for step-ca though and handled through some other process, which is fine.

Might be good to add some documentation on how to set this up in a high availability fashion so it is not a single point of failure.

I do like the relative simplicity of this compared to all the other CA solutions out there. Good luck and thanks for the work.

Submissions

Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World

Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

The Ridiculous Engineering of the Most Important Machine [video]

The Continuous Tensor Abstraction: Where Indices Are Real

Ubuntu installs failing for more than 24 hours due to security.ubuntu.com down

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