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> I found Watchtower, but polling just struck me as the Wrong Answer. Both too much overhead to keep pinging for the latest builds, and too slow to actually download the latest build. So I took some hints from Watchtower as to what I needed to do (mount the docker sock as a volume) and wrote a tiny Go server that, when pinged with a shared secret, would cause it to run `docker compose up -d --pull always`.

Is the code for this public? I had the same desire when setting up the server for my personal project but as you mentioned I eventually decided it was OK to just poll every two minutes and I would rather work on the project than on configuring docker. What I would like though is cleaning up the older images that are no longer needed.
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Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter.

The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate.

The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris.

This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024
I might sound unbelievable for our fast-paced world of the west but there are centuries old shops in japan that still manufacture the same products with the same methods, not only in Japan but in various parts of the world, excellence wasn’t born after computers.
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While I understand that logic, I also find it a bit distasteful. Law enforcement shouldn't tolerate crimes being committed on its watch any longer than necessary.

Of course, the exact meaning of "necessary" is the problem. We can probably all agree that letting a serial murderer kill more people in order to have more evidence against him would be an absolute abomination. But the situation is not that clear with white-collar crime, especially the sort of crime where the harm is not immediately obvious.

Maybe the fact that the FBI could wait that long before pouncing indicates that this sort of betting is, in fact, a victimless crime.
I would assume stress disorders is a blanket that includes things like bipolar disorder, which has real proven sometimes-catastrophic health impacts

PTSD is serious too.
Does that include going extinct?
It’s unfortunate for people that have legit disabilities that the system is abused in this way :(
It's one thing to design a crash-only system, and a quite different to design a system that crashes all the time but paper over it with a cloud orchestration layer later.
Similarly, I would love if videos/blurays/streams/etc had a way to adjust volumes separate from each other. So many movies have such loud music and quiet dialog. So I'm constantly adjusting the volume between different scenes.
This comment is great: I imagine it's what a therapist would do, but therapy is ultimately time-limited and clinical.

Also note that if you are aware enough to be able to introspect (and not in physical danger to self), using ChatGPT for this purpose works really well. You can talk about whatever, and the fact that you're not exposing yourself to another person can help those who are more reserved. Its advice is actually pretty sensible, non-clichéd, and fairly tailored to your situation.
Without being the conspiracy fool. I think there is a lot of biased information on British news outlets. It is certainly not the worst one. That award goes to the Daily Express.
And he called another very-much-living one dead. Father of the year, for sure.
>Anyone else notice that CNN dialed down the hyperbole right around the time it became obvious Orange Man was going to win again?

"The cannibal has come out of his lair"

"The Corsican Ogre has landed at Golf Juan"

"The Tiger has arrived at Gap"

"The monster has spent the night at Grenoble"

"The Tyrant has crossed Lyon"

"The usurper has been seen 60 leagues from the capital"

"Bonaparte is advancing with great strides, but will never enter Paris"

"Napoleon will be under our ramparts tomorrow"

"The Emperor has arrived at Fontainbleu"

"His Imperial & Royal Majesty has made his entry into the Tuileries yesterday, amid his faithful subjects."
> If a private company could make these kinds of things, what benefit would they get by not selling it to a government?

They could play countries off each other to gain soft power over policy that affects other investments, ones easier to leverage that selling weapons. “That’s a nice military you got there, it’d be a shame if China/Taiwan/Israel/Iran/NK/Russia/USA had this one weird trick to obsolete it.”

It’d be even more impactful if it changed the nuclear MAD game, because the company could hide behind the risk of escalation. Don’t sell to any one nuclear power so that the others don’t immediately start nuclear war to preempt the new technology.

This is all ridiculously speculative but if humans managed to make a flying craft as fast and maneuverable as UFO witnesses say they are, missile defense and the end of MAD is my first thought.
Someone suggested sharing this gallery into this thread https://mathemalchemy.org/2022/01/19/mathematical-connection...
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Because an enterprising businessperson has no idea how to run a kitchen.

Recipes are in many ways the least important part of what a chef provides. They're not secrets. If there's a "secret ingredient" it's that they're using more butter and salt than you'd use at home.

What a chef provides is a process. They get the ingredients ordered, at the quality level they want for a price they're willing to pay. They ensure that the ingredients show up, in the amounts needed, without waste and without falling short -- and have backup plans. They staff the kitchen, and ensure that they have all prepared their stations before service begins. They train the expediter to ensure that all of the food comes out together, without things waiting under the warmer.

The chef also provides a menu, which is more important than the recipes. It has something for every guest, and every item can be finished before the guest gets impatient.

It's not impossible for a business guy to hire a top-notch executive chef to do that work, but the business guy cannot do it. It requires years in the kitchen to know what factors are important. It requires a deep understanding of the culture of kitchen workers, and how to get the best out of them. It would require an enormous staff to do that properly, and training them extremely well.

You can see this at work at a place like The Cheesecake Factory. It's hardly great food, but it's reliably good. The menu is enormous, on par with a dozen restaurants at once. It can be done. You're just not going to do it Silicon Valley style, learning as you go.
The software to do this doesn't exist. We have some software to assess the "epilepsy-safety" of a given piece of media, but it's proprietary and afaik not realtime.

There was a bounty to make an open-source replacement, but I've lost my link. I've still got the WCAG info sheet, though: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/three-flashes-or... if anyone wants to have a go. (I'd suggest making a standalone application, plus something that works with GStreamer.)
The flash on these SoCs is usually designed to be programmed once at the factory, and then perhaps the occasional firmware update. Endurance is in the ~100 cycles range.
It's also odd that there seems to be a large overlap of autistic, disabled, queer or trans, anime fans with far left politics (add in the requisite bluesky/mastodon account). It doesn't necessarily mean anything - but that kind of union of disparate things always sets of some skepticism alarms for me around social contagion or general mental illness that makes me distrust the argument as presented, like there's some detail being left out in pursuit of some partisan goal.

I also just have an allergic reaction to people calling others *ist at this point too, espeically when trying to leverage some policy against them.
Apparently they have totaled ~$1.7B in funding according to Bloomberg:

> Lore’s startup also raised $250 million in equity investment, bringing the total amount of capital it’s secured to $1.7 billion
Twitter was a public company so basically the shareholders decided to sell it when a good deal came up.
Elon Musk doesn't build rockets either - but it's fair to associate him with SpaceX progress. We rightly blame the top guy when stuff goes pear shaped, and we should be willing to let them get some credit when it goes well.
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I haven’t muted anything on Bluesky but I have been careful to never follow anybody who talks about #uspol in their first few posts, or their own or somebody else’s gender identity, “fascists”, etc. Also I always hit “less like this” on divisive politics. My “Discover” feed had 1 divisive politics post out of 20, my “Following” feed had 4 out of 20. Gotta prune my following list a little.
To be fair, Social Media is just like the "Letters to the Editor" section, except the social media company is the publisher and is the one doing the filtering.
Have you ever asked for a disability accommodation from a US employer?

Its already very common that such accommodation requests get filed with associated medical paperwork from a medical professional outlining why the accommodation is what the person needs. That alone should be more than enough[0]

Secondly, why don't we simply trust adults to make decisions about how to manage their conditions, especially if there is no demonstrable issue with how they work with their team and their work is up to standard.

[0]: Its been some time since I haven't simply produced such paperwork to go along with a request, but if you don't produce it upfront if I recall correctly employers reserve the right to ask for more information, which typically boils down to getting associated paperwork from a medical professional
Because Mastodon and the entire Fediverse is infested with the most rabid sort of users that even Twitter couldn't stomach and has turned a blind eye to this fact? I mean, there's a reason why they keep getting brought up over and over and people continually nope out of signing up over there. They've got a demographic problem, they refuse to acknowledge it, and it's killing growth. Why would any media outlet want to participate knowing that?
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The weird phrasing "not made by any government" makes me think exactly the opposite. Whoever said it is probably being vague enough to tell the truth, we just don't know exactly what that truth means.
> If a private company could make these kinds of things, what benefit would they get by not selling it to a government?

Hedge fund stock market bullshit. You know, the kind that has people track movements of various CEOs, or buy aerial/satellite images of parking lots, and stuff.

That would be my main guess. As for "monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe" specifically, I'd look at PMCs and data brokers, but there's probably many more scenarios I'm failing to imagine right now.

EDIT: Also, to channel my inner Matt Levine: securities fraud?
> Maybe I'm out of the loop here, where did the Guardian try to undermine the free flow of information?

"given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism"

Disturbing to who? far-right compared to what point of reference? Which theories are conspiracy and which are legit? What is the definition of racism , who are racist people and why is it a bad thing?

Discussion about any of the above points happen in a "free" environment in which all parties can express their views.
Entertainment is becoming more and more "in your face" harmful as technology evolves.

From night-clubs that move high-power lasers around blinding people, concerts with sound-walls that people have to use ear protectors to get close, events with closed-loop air-conditioning that poison (and contaminate, but the trend on that is unclear) people by not taking enough outside air, to whoever invented that safer fireworks can be used close to people. And yeah, the strobo and UV lights.

Governments aren't rushing to fix optional activities, so yeah, expect all of those to get worse.
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There were countless natural experiments available from teams that had differing levels of in-person attendance; as well as teams that either were or were not colocated, and teams that took steps (or didn't) to align their in-person appearances.

After all, there _were_ teams that never pivoted to WFH.
>He hits women.

That'd be a neat trick, given that he's been dead for four years.

Does he jump out of his grave to do that?
Why not? Yes, we did send out probes...and where are we with them?
"If Von Neumann self-replicating probes are possible" That's a big if. Where is proof of these probes that you speak of?
Also avoids the "Hmmm, I can't think of something more interesting or productive to do, let's scroll through $streaming_service and find something that might interest me"
Read Mearsheimer's paper again. Nuclear deterrent is far cheaper than equivalent conventional deterrent. A country under existential threat will find means, one way or another, to fund it.
Right, but that's kind of my point: someone else gets to do the filtering and they can't stand it.
that doesn't look official and doesn't have a verified url. some random person just put up a bot
Cautionary tale of letting a cult take over a political party, I guess
What’s the wildest conspiracy you’ve heard?
I’ve actually been thinking a lot about how LLM need to bridge the gap to symbolic reasoning and was very much waiting for something like this in theory…but this ain’t it.

Looking forward to a more serious effort.
I could be mistaken but to think that Russia would broadcast that they have something on Trump, that he owes them, defies common sense. If they really did then it would be entirely to their advantage to keep that between him and them. It is far more likely coming from the imagination of a propagandist.

You might think I'm wrong but I've been right ever since I gave up on the mainstream media. You should try looking at everything as if you've been lied to for 8 years, because you have been.
Assuming they all can travel near light speed and considering time dilation, all interstellar civilizations will meet each other "from our perspective" somewhere a trillion years from now.
That is them stating their opinion.

That is not them "undermining the free flow of information".

>Discussion about any of the above points happen in a "free" environment in which all parties can express their views.

You are free to discuss the article on twitter, or, as you are already doing, here. The Guardian isn't stopping you.
Satan can be reasoned with.
> The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris.

Isn’t The Guardian a UK publication?
There were some teams that never stopped coming to the office, due to sensitive aspects of their work.

And there's a boatload of data from centralized project management and ticketing systems, as well as centralized source repositories.

The data was absolutely available for data-driven arguments.
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The key here is that it always included "IBM" in some way. "IBM-compatible" or "IBM PC", or "IBM clone" or something along those lines. "PC" without reference to IBM was not specifically tied to the Wintel ecosystem, at least outside of Mac user circles, until comparatively recently.
Sadly, zero repercussions. Who will sue them? Individuals cannot, the process of law is long and requires substantial money. Government is difficult enough to get involved, and will soon lack resources to intervene or impose fines.
And from a slightly different angle, it's pretty amusing to watch all the people that were shocked that a platform could be so partisan as to consider suppressing a story allegedly involving a foreign power trying to swing an election totally not bothered as Twitter's new CEO runs Trump PACs whilst accounts running Harris fundraisers find themselves mysteriously blocked.

Things I haven't heard on the internet: "I was truly hoping that Musk would bring about free speech and political neutrality so now I'm pretty disappointed at the outcome"...
Twitter could make itself real interesting if it took "community notes" web-wide. So many attempts at this have tried and failed, but Elon may just have the itch, audience, and disposable money to do it. Would also necessitate forking a special browser, since there would be no way to support web page comments in a first-class way in stock mobile browsers.
> No css preprocessors or js pipeline, no virtual/docker environment.

Where can I sign up? Only somewhat joking. Does anyone still remember how fast things could be when we weren't waiting for multiple layers of build processes and container deployments?
Thats also assuming Von Neumann probes don't replicate wrong like DNA as it clones, etc. Too many variables for it too be feasible
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Intel also outsources to TSMC, I believe for most consumer chips, so not really very different from AMD. And I guess the trump tariffs would be mainly aimed at China not to CPUs made in Taiwan.

You may be referring to Intel future plans to use their own factories again with 18A, but I had the impression from the tech press that 18A volume will not be so great until 2026 (assuming things go well).

Besides that, Intel is not known for selling chips cheaply, so I would expect them to also increase prices if tariffs force their competitors to do so.
No matter how sophisticated the vast numbers of cameras are in our world nothing can ever get a clear picture ….. ever.

Military bases and equipment with presumably the most sophisticated camera systems.

Says it all.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this question, i.e. “where and how do you meet people IRL,” and it’s equal parts interesting and deeply maddening to me that nobody I can find seems to have an actual good answer to it. Even the featured article, while it does acknowledge the issue and the common somewhat-answers to it you’ll often see repeated like the pickleball thing, it doesn’t have a clear conclusion as to what is to be done. ‘Get out there,’ of course, and be personable and willing to strike up conversations with people when the time seems right, but that really only makes it so that you’re able to take advantage of the chance encounters when they happen to come your way. Necessary, but not sufficient.

I just find it strange that there can be an apparent need in such a vital part of human existence and yet nobody has figured out what to actually do.
I too love Quanta. It's funded by an extremely wealthy math guy as a public service; they have the luxury of affording excellent journalists who all seem to me to have graduate degrees in the area they cover, but have not lost the power of communication in exchange. Just a very nice gift to the world.
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Boebert came off clownish but if you heard that somewhere taken out of context she wasn't seriously claiming the earth was flat. It was a joke she was trying to make a point with albeit a poor one that it was neither the time or place for.
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Yes

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I wonder what will come of all the creative technologists out there, trying to raise money to do "Watermarking" or "Human Authenticity Badge," when Meta will just do all the hard parts for free: both the technology of robust watermarking, and building an insurmountable social media network that can adopt it unilaterally.
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No, we don’t need to compute e very often; it’s value is pretty well known. The article is just showing off Raku (or Perl 6 as it was then known) by writing a small program of moderate complexity that still manages to show off some of Raku’s interesting features. Computing approximations of e is merely an interesting exercise; it’s not the point.

The question that justinator asked was what good uses Raku’s indefinite series have. This article points out that different ways of approximating e grow at different rates, so it is appropriate to associate a different range of trial values with each of those methods. Dörrie's bounds uses powers of 10 as shown. Others use powers of 2. Newton’s method uses sequential trial values, since it grows really fast:

#| Newton's series
assess -> \k=0..∞ { sum (0..k)»!»⁻¹ }

And several methods compute approximations in a single step, so they don’t take a trial value at all:

#| Castellano's coincidence
assess { (π⁴ + π⁵) ** ⅙ }

#| Sabey's digits
assess { (1+2**(-3×(4+5)))**(.6×.7+8⁹) }

#| Piskorowski's eight 9s
assess { (9/9 + 9**-9**9) ** 9**9**9 }

These are a lot of fun, but of course they can also be profound:

#| From Euler's Identity
assess { (-1+0i) ** (π×i)⁻¹ }

For those who are interested, the article shows off a lot of obvious syntactic features like superscripts and hyperoperators, but there are also things like classes and roles and new operators as well. It really is a nice tour.
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> If Von Neumann self-replicating probes are possible, doesn't that solve both distance/speed of light/time scale objection and imply probes should be here by now?

We should've been seeing progressively more of them then, perhaps already been eaten by them.
> I have seen many fans, in the face of being told the reason for these changes, say that it doesn’t matter because they aren’t personally epileptic. This is, as you might understand, incredibly personally frustrating, and yes, very ableist. In saying this, these fans claim that disabled people do not have a right to feel safe when watching their favorite series, and that their wellbeing doesn’t matter in comparison to a few brighter shots of teenagers using their magic powers to punch each other.

I don't get it. Why is it bad wanting to see the unsafe version for yourself?

> Over 2500 fans signed a change.org petition asking Crunchyroll to take down this edited, safe, version of the series and instead upload an unedited version that was true to the original vision—even if it had the potential to cause seizures.

That's not how I read the petition in question. People are asking to get access to the original that they know exist. I can't find a paragraph that demands deletion of the edited safe version.

>> As fans, we implore Crunchyroll to try to acquire an uncut version of the simulcast as we are paying good money each month for the services they provide.