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I would really love to have a third possibility in the mobile space, especially one as privacy- and user-focused as Purism, but I'm not convinced I'll have the same breadth of experience that I have on Android. Reading through their FAQ[0] and their app list[1], it just seems like they haven't worked hard enough to achieve "app parity" with Android or iOS.

I get that in some ways that's a non-goal, but when I consider my usage patterns, I just don't see myself being able to replace my Android phone with something like this. There's no replacement for my banking apps, things like Uber/Lyft or Postmates, streaming video/music services, etc. The web experiences for most of these are either nonexistent or just generally terrible.

I think in some ways we've gone too far with the current dominant platforms for a third party to emerge for common usage, or even usage by fairly technical people who rely on mainstream apps. A third player would need to have deep pockets and a ton of industry and financial connections to get a viable alternative to Google/Apple Pay working, for example (and the FAQ says the first phone model won't even have NFC). Do you think Chase, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Vanguard, Robinhood, Schwab, ETrade, etc. are all going to write new apps for a new platform, or make their mobile web experiences good enough to act as a substitute? I really doubt it.

There's a FAQ entry about making it possible to run Android apps on PureOS, but it didn't feel like that's much of a priority for them. And it's unclear whether many of these sorts of apps would even run: for example, I expect apps like Google Pay and some banking apps have some hard-to-emulate checks in place that ensure they're running on a conformant, non-rooted Android device. Even if there are workarounds for these sorts of things, it doesn't seem like it'd be safe to rely on those workarounds to not stop working at an inconvenient time.

If they truly believe they can build a sustainable business with a super-low-volume product that only caters to an incredibly niche audience, then that's great, and I genuinely wish them the best of luck. But I fear that any third-party, open platform that ignores mainstream use-cases will just become more and more marginalized over time to the point that they won't even be a viable option for their intended audience. Or, at least, their users will have to have a second device that they use to interact with everything their Librem phone can't talk to.

[0] https://puri.sm/faq/ (scroll down to the "Librem Phone" section)

[1] https://tracker.pureos.net/w/pureos/mobile_optimized_apps/ -- which shows that the stock email app is unusable, and the calendar is usable but the UI doesn't fit on the screen properly.
Why would you read the press release at all? Do you expect a company to not do what's in their own financial self-interest? Look, I love nVidia. I only buy nVidia GPUs and I adore their devices like the SHIELD TV, handheld, tablet, even the Tegra Note 7. Even I can see that they're not just buying ARM on a whim. They intend to make that money back. Them using ARM to make that money is good for absolutely nobody except nVidia themselves.
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> You should compare yourself now with your past self six years ago: are you a better person now?

Kinda? I had more potential then, I could have done Facebook after sophomore year and had my career set for life. Instead I failed that interview and my career has been treading water because I had to join Amazon out of undergrad.

Its apparent that I"m not good at these things...the problem is my happiness and financial security are related to them and I'm not doing well!
Because of this transaction? I’m sure this deal will have absolutely no impact on apple’s deal with ARM.

Apple could of course Afford to invest in RISC-V (and surely has played with it internally) but they have enough control of their future under the current arrangement that it will be a long long time before they feel any need to switch — 15 years at least.
If we can turn mass into energy, why can’t we turn energy into mass?
My experience of acquisitions is that sweet songs are sung to calm the horses. Then the next financial quarter comes around and the truck from the glue factory arrives.

If you take at face value anything from a press release, earnings call or investor relations website, then I would like to take a moment to share with you the prospectus of Brooklyn Bridge LLC.
I suspect you'll be waiting for quite a long time, if not forever.
I fly out. If they're going to make a completely unreal scenario, I'll use a completely unreal solution :)
Won't matter. The CCP won't approve the sale, and Tik Tok already said the algorithms are not part of any deal.
Trump will eventually have to just order it blocked in the US, and we all know how that strategy ended for Russia attempting to block Telegram . . .
That was unexpected. What Larry will do with it? Sell Oracle to teenagers?

What an irony given Oracle's own roots in USA's espionage agencies.
I think the main issue is this:

The US views Chinese social media apps as being able to spread criticism (and most likely propaganda) and the US can’t do likewise in China, so they’ll just not let Chinese social media companies operate in the US until that changes.

There will be 0 official, influential Chinese social media companies operating in the US on a permanent basis until the CCP let’s US social media companies operate in China. This has bipartisan support.
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You have to understand two things

- as Mark Kastner said "these prizes are a lagging indicator. They show us what we were doing right decades ago"

- Much of the research that lead Joachim Frank, a German born chemist, to win the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2017 took place in Europe and it was based on base research that took place outside of the US.
The trio who was appointed was formed by Jacques Dubochet from Switzerland, Richard Henderson from Scotland and Frank from Germany.
Frank was affiliated with US institutions when he was nominated, hence the prize has been claimed by US.
They are basically buying Nobel prize winners post facto.
That's hilarious, really. In my experience if you want to kill a company have Oracle acquire it. (that may be a bit too cynical)
It might pretty much work today, perhaps with a few config file changes.
Please simply die

You first.
and this would be killer for intel
Yeah we would, it’s call the Linux desktop.
So? It's still less disputes. Nobody should be taking namespaces such as "http" for example. The namespaces represent who people are, not what the package does.
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Is being able to read at the minimum level comparable to programming?

Do you seriously expect 99% of the population to be able to understand something as simple as the demonstration of Euclid's theorem? And yet any programming is more complicated than that, and more analogous.
Disappointing for the biologists, exciting for the chemists or maybe geologists, I suppose.
There is no such thing as tit for a tat in a civilisation with rule of law. Either USA had privacy laws that forbid Tik Tok from participating in USA marketplace or USA doesn’t have rule of law and operates under some form of dictatorship.
> Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

This deceit was the fundamental legal premise of the forced sale.

Of course it's bullshit. But even though it failed to win, Microsoft was a willing and active participant in the bullshit from day one, and can’t really call the game out now without acknowledging it's willful collaboration in the deceit when it held the potential for profit.

Plus, it would anger the petulant and corrupt executive who they are currently counting on favoring them and opposing Google in other executive actions, and they don't want to risk losing favor on that.
I’m looking forward to your white paper and demo of this increasing either usability or battery life without sacrificing the other.
I doubt they will move all of the talent to the USA. I mean California is nice and all but I think a lot of Brits are happy to stay in Cambridge.
A certain genre of apps, especially eg. digital audio workstations, manage to do this and also have a sizeable userbase. Ableton Live is an example here. It seems especially sensible if your design does actually have a bunch of controls you need custom rendering for.

Honestly, don't let these comments get you down. It's important to act strategically of course, so it doesn't make sense to over-invest in an idea succeeding. But it makes sense to do scoped experiments / proof-of-concepts. I don't think we're "done" with UI framework architecture design, people need to keep trying new things in the space. And I also don't think only Apple (eg. SwiftUI) and Google (eg. Flutter) are allowed to work on these things and we need to accept their gifts from above. Some times, a good quality here is almost not believing that something is too hard to do (while obviously also informing oneself about as much existing work there has been as possible to incorporate it into the experiments).
So, this is a bit “out there” but something I’ve considered for a while is:

1) NASA scientists published a paper that showed just how difficult it would be to find evidence of a past, advanced civilization on Earth.

2) There was, if I understand correctly, a window of time where Venus was potentially inhabitable.

So, the idea I’ve wondered is: is it possible that Venus had, at one point, an advanced civilization that triggered a runaway greenhouse effect?
Can anyone point me who would be competing with Nvidia in AI Market ?
>Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

Everyone who believes Facebook was used to influence the 2016 election should believe TikTok poses a similar threat. I'd agree that the threat is overblown, but many serious people, in good faith, seriously believe it.
Almost everything reflects light. The discussion is on why it can be used as a mirror.
So you acknowledge that in the event of a brain transfer, two versions of your consciousness will exist, and that the "original" one will be lost, but it's fine because neither would be able to tell (ie. the original will be "going to sleep", and the copy will be "waking up")?
Pray tell which goalpost did I move?

And your only argument so far has been "Smartphones don't respect user freedom because we don't expect them to. We don't expect them to because they don't.", with a dash of the freedom-security false dichotomy thrown in.

I hope you'll forgive me if I'm not convinced.
ARM and Apple go way back (Apple was one of the three original consortium members who founded ARM). I am sure they pay a flat fee and have freedom to do whatever they like (probably other than sub licensing).

Owning ARM would make no sense for them as they would gain no IP but would have to deal with antitrust which would force them to continue licensing the ip to others, which is not a business they are in.

If ARM vanished tomorrow I doubt it would affect apple’s business at all.
An interesting model here is Evernote which has the option of storing your notebooks in the cloud or locally.
So you clearly picked the wrong tool for the job and spent an obscene amount of effort hacking around your tool instead of picking a better one.
A lot of creepy older men use TikTok to hit on underage girls [1], inevitably the long tail chat histories and browsing behaviors will provide ample blackmail material on future politicians, judges, and military members.

[1]: ask your nieces, daughters, or young female friends, about their experience if they ever set their Instagram or tiktok to public.
I don’t think we can say that with any confidence.
Could you implement something like this in pine phone? I’m not a programmer but if it’s easy as you say, I’m excited!
The ultimate rabbit hole. :-) For me it ended up being a good reminder of web design through the years. Even found a real life <marquee> tag.
Looks like they decided to sell to Oracle instead.

I wonder if this is Microsoft's way of saying, "It still won't be safe under Oracle".
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> This isn't going to do good things for anyone who doesn't own a lot of Nvidia stock.

If it makes you feel any better, studies of acquisitions show that most of them are duds and destroy acquirer shareholder value.
- RE:First: selection/aggregation-centric-only -- see my comment on irregularity. If there is little compute, CPU vs GPU is moot (go tiny ARM..), but as soon as there is, the scope of vectorizable compute is ever-increasing. In my world, we do a lot of graph + ML + string, which are all now GPU-friendly. They were all iffy when I first started with GPUs. Feel free to throw up examples you're skeptical of. The list is shrinking, it's pretty wild..

- RE:Gap, sort of. Ultimately, it's still typically there though, in three important ways. The set of interesting compute that needs that CPU arch there is increasingly small relative to workloads ("super-speculative thread execution on highly branchy..."). Multi-core CPU vs. single GPU is more 2-10X for most tuned code: most 100X claims are apples/oranges b/c of that. When you get beyond those workloads, 100X becomes real again for multi-GPU / multi-node b/c of the bandwidth. Yeah, your real-time font library might still win out on CPU SIMD, but you have to dig for stuff like that, while the more data/compute, the more this stuff matters & gets easier.

- RE:scale, storing 10PB in CPU RAM is also expensive, so we're back to streaming... and thus back to where GPUs increasingly win. Even if you could afford that in CPU RAM, you can probably afford making that accessible to the GPUs too, and then save not just on the hw, but the power (which becomes the dominant cost.) Your example of large-scale & real-time spatiotemporal data seems very much leaning towards GPU, all the way from ETL to analytics to ML. It's still hard to write that GPU code as the frameworks are all nascent, so I wouldn't fault anyone for doing CPU on production systems here for another few years.

-- RE:real-time: writing is on the wall, mostly around (again) getting the unnecessary CPU bandwidth bottleneck out of the way in HW, and (harder), the efforts to use that in SW.
Get in a pool at the deep end with some floaties and some iron ankle weights. Add floaties and weights until you are at equilibrium at your neck line. Hold your breath and add some weights slowly to your hands until exactly when you start to sink. Drown, but include a request in your will to have them remove your head at autopsy. Have a friend, loved one, or coroner weigh it.
For the people in this thread gleefully calculating the absurd energies required to achieve miniscule thrusts, please remember two things:

1) The version in the lab and the device that would actually be used for satellite production are very different. The lab version is not designed for efficiency. It's designed to be easy to manufacture and test, using simple, well-characterised technologies. For one, a production design would use a superconducting cavity for much better efficiencies, easily 100 to 10,000x better.

2) Miniscule propellentless thrusts are still useful with solar power. Satellite stationkeeping is largely limited by the finite propellent capacity onboard. Even Xenon plasma thrusters, the most efficient currently available, run out of fuel eventually.

Now, I'm not saying the EmDrive works, I'm just pointing out that it's a distraction talking about the efficiency or utility of a "benchtop experiment".
THIS THIS THIS.

Oracle is a greedy leech on the world and tech in general. Tiktok has something they want to use to sue other companies. Oracle knows almost no other way to do business.
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A bit off topic but how much of data science work requires this probability/statistics knowledge on the job? I've heard you basically need a PhD to do modelling and "real" data science
Thanks for the feedback. Actually, there is a video further down the page, in the preview section, but it’s probably getting a little lost there. Will make sense to move it to the top.
Well it seems to be normal to judge without reading in 2020 and customize your news yourself. Time will tell...
Oracle becomes a trusted tech partner of Bytedance:

“ByteDance started opening data centers in India and the US in 2019. This may be strictly for internal purposes, but its possible they plan to launch a cloud hosting service. ByteDance acquired Terark in 2019 which allows databases to run 200x faster by reading compressed data at 50% of the cost. If they launch an external service, the selling point could be faster processing and access to some of ByteDance’s AI tech.

A cloud service combined with enterprise software (and eventually a phone or other hardware) would take a page out of Microsoft’s approach of bundling multiple products and selling them top down through the C- Suite.”

https://turner.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-tiktok-and-underst...
No, but they are running on hardware they've carefully selected that does not require any non-free software or binary blobs to operate, and they include hardware kill switches for all the sensors and radios so if you still don't completely trust this "third party" hardware, you can at least shut it off and only turn it on when you really need to use it.

At some point you do, unfortunately, have to compromise, because expecting a small, privacy-focused upstart to do their own silicon design and run their own fabs is just not reasonable.
Hard to imagine a civilization advanced enough to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect and yet not having achieved a space program with all that energy usage.

EDIT: Venesian satellites would have been detected, if that's not clear.
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The world is not black and white.
There's no reason for malware to do this, though. It's like putting reinforcing your back door so people can't kick it in while leaving the front door with a pickable lock.
> That would give them plenty of opportunity to learn the connection between boats and food.

The second half of the article is far more revealing, it details the state of the relationship between fishing, tourism and orcas in the Straits of Gibraltar - painting a particularly stark picture of the impact humans have had on obliterating their primary food source and dominating that area with noisy boats, their dwindling population and direct harm caused by fishing nets and hooks as they struggle to survive by picking fish from the nets instead.

If accurate it seems far more likely any animal capable of drawing a relationships between boats and other events would make the reverse relationship you are suggesting (boats steal all their food, hurt them directly, kill their young)... If I were an Orca I'd find it hard to believe I wouldn't be knocking over smaller boats out of desperation as their local population has almost vanished (30 adults last estimate).

Perhaps I'm wrong and their ability to reason on larger scales of time and space are not sufficient, but i'm pretty sure they are smart enough to know a boat is not edible - shaking humans off for food seems like a stretch but possible given they are pretty much starving, i will give you that.
Hail overlord of social media moderation Larry Ellison.

First posssttttt
"combatting disinformation"

I.e., US govt doesn't want a popular social network that is not under its control.
> Weeks later, China issued new regulations that would essentially bar TikTok from transferring its technology to a foreign buyer without explicit permission from the Chinese government.

> The Chinese regulations helped scuttle the effort by Microsoft, which said the only way it could both protect the privacy of TikTok users in the United States and prevent Beijing from using the app as a venue for disinformation was to take over the computer source code underlying the app, and the algorithms that determine what videos are seen by the 100 million Americans who use it each month.

This makes it clear that China has ties to Oracle management in some form or another, or Oracle wouldn't be the last man standing. This is going to be a shitshow.
Utopian days of the internet? Where a bug in a prank can spread a worm that takes down most of the known internet?
The same security mindset that allowed for the utopian days is not only long gone, it could survive in an age where my banking and medical info is online.
Amidst all the hand-wringing: RISC-V is at least a decade away (at current pace + ARM’s own example). But what if Google bought AMD and put TPUs on the die?
+1 on rclone - one of my favorite tools in the toolbox.

With sufficient --transfers and --checkers values you can easily saturate 10-20 gigabit/second links, so with a handful of machines you can transfer 25TB in about an hour, no engineers required.

Worth noting that rclone also supports many other storage providers or even plain SSH, so it pretty much obsoletes rsync. It also has many other nifty features useful outside of the "sync files" use case.
> Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

I think they are in the sense that they're collecting massive amounts of user data about their users and I believe they wouldn't hesitate to share that data with the Chinese government if asked.

On the flip side, I also think their threat to our national security is being made a bigger deal than it actually is by politicians who have an anti-Chinese agenda and companies who see an easy way to cripple a competitor.
Hail overlord of social media moderation Larry Ellison.

First posssttttt.
Hardly sleeping, they have a fraction of the revenue and profit of NVidia and Intel. Revenue was half of Nvidia, profit was 5% of NVidia. Intel is even bigger. They only have so much in the way of R&D money.
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Plain text of the article for those behind paywall:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/llacb47/2beb750b56bc98a5d...
Sure, just something that can generate a terawatt of power.
The law underlying this deal isn't a privacy law but a national security law that allows the President to force the sale of foreign-owned assets that pose a security risk. It's mainly intended to deal with war, near/imminent war, and quasiwar situations where the assets are active tools of opposing belligerent, and, even if this is technically within the letter of the law (about which there has been serious questions raised), it's seems clearly outside of the intended application and to be very likely premised on a bad-faith determination that is an abuse of power. But the Republicans in the Senate have already signalled a lack of willingness to hold the President to account for any abuse of power no matter how flagrant, so everything that isn't forcibly constrained by something other than the risk of impeachment is, de facto, licensed until the Senate and/or President are changed.
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Yes. They’re saying the reason the Houston Chinese embassy was closed down out of nowhere was they were using TikTok data to target/provoke protestors via TikTok in regards to George Floyd protests. People were intentionally targeted to further fan the flames of unrest in this country.

It’s also been speculated that TikTok is using the data they get from the US to train their facial recognition and AI tools better.
Nah there definitely is. There is no rule of law regarding international deals besides what can be enforced with violence or the threat of violence. That’s why, for example, the EU has different trade rules for different countries, protection mechanisms for domestic products and industries, etc.

Why is the UK working on a deal? Shouldn’t the EU provide the same deal to all countries? Nah. It’s “tit-for-tat”.