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Defending Google's right to choose who to do business with - for (with certain notable exceptions involving protected classes of individuals) any purpose, no matter how petty, is not excusing Google for being capricious. It's recognizing that the norms of civil society mean that there are certain times when you need to just hold your nose and acknowledge that someone gets to do something you don't like, because the cure would be worse than the disease.

If there's a problem here, it's that Google has grown to be so powerful. Nobody was ever concerned about Lifeway Christian Bookstores being extremely selective in whose products they would carry, for reasons that many would consider quite discriminator. Why? Because Lifeway has lots of competitors, and no effective way to compel people to only buy books from them.
The covers are so amazing. I can imagine a story with each one. I’d love to see an anthology series on Netflix based on the covers alone.
I understood there was a difference between "I hope they all * of *" and "I will * them"

The first example "someone take this" is indirect. Edit: upon reflection this could be a direct threat if the person saying it might make it happen by their influence alone. Like a mob leader saying "someone take out this trash"

The second example is even more indirect. Doesn't say he would do it. Doesn't say anyone else would do it. Doesn't even say what it is. A threat yes, but a veiled threat.

The third example is more of the same. Like saying "I hope you choke on it!" isn't a threat.
It is very easy to understand the situation if you look at specific people and their motivations.

We have a large group of people who are deeply insecure and unsatisfied with their lives. Their jobs price them out of property ownership, they have near zero chance of retirement and very faint perspectives in starting families. All those problems would go away with the raise of the purchasing power of their salary, but the corporate world has found a cheaper solution. People are told to follow their feelings, "bring entire themselves at work", etc. Instead of paying them more, we let it slide when they blow their steam off at someone they don't like. It keeps them busy and it costs zero on the balance sheet. A much better alternative to unionizing or starting competing co-ops, right?

In long-term, this creates a massive divide in the society. Conservative-minded people that are happy with what they have find this childish. Emotional people feel that conservatives have some unfair advantage and try to attack them for it. The recent election is just a good indicator of the divide, since the conservative vs. emotional groups clearly have opposing opinions about it. The corporations are simply supporting the side that costs the less to them, it's business and nothing personal.

In a longer term, it looks like the death of American Dream. You are no longer expected to achieve wealth and financial independence through hard work, and then do what YOU want. Instead, the role model is to dedicate your energy to endless bashing of your peers from the opposing political camp, while the corporations grab an unprecedented share of the economy.
Here are a couple:

Facebook could have 100 times more violent content than parler, but it would be a much smaller percentage of content because Facebook is 1000000 times bigger. It's that simple really. Banning Parler is more efficient.

Also, Parler went out and sold itself as somewhere this was allowed, protected and encouraged. Facebook didn't, quite the opposite in fact.
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Personally I like 5e, but I know what you mean.

I think part of it is just us getting older. DnD is one thing when you’re a bunch of 12 year olds eating cheetos in a basement, and it’s something else when you’re a bunch of 30-somethings with families and jobs carving 4 hours out of a Sunday afternoon. It helps to have a more well-defined and approachable game.

That said, the 5e material does feel much more narrowly focused on creating “adventures” rather than creating a world. Like the 3e books had rules for buying a castle and hiring guards for it. Even if no one really did that, just its presence in the book indicated possibilities outside of “run this printed campaign set in the forgotten realms”.
Time to dust off those old game CDs and test them with Wine 6. Don't forget to leave reports in WineHQ AppDB.
This is an interesting concept. Are there any implementations of this?
But the military didn't make the decision to go to war in WWII. Hitler did. The German military was hesitant about the idea.
I'm sure it does. Maybe it is unreasonable to expect a blog to be readable on a 2 years old browser, but it looks like it took some serious effort this time.
Yes, I am against jail for non-violent crimes. I'm open to modern non-medieval ideas even for violent crimes. I don't have the answers there, but I wish there were more people caring about this. So far it seems to be only the far left (I don't consider that an insult) and anarcho-capitalists, but I wish more people that fall into the middle somewhere (like myself) would think about this. Usually people don't think about stuff that affects strangers all that much until it affects them or a loved one. That's a people problem in general and I don't know how to solve it either.
I loved developing all kinds of command line and UI tools for Windows, so I might be a little biased, but I found the Linux equivalents..well..not as easy and straightforward to say the least. But, there is countless posts here passionately defending and stating otherwise, that I don't even know if I should bring it up in a discussion.

What do you think?
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For too long information security has been a blocker instead of an accelerator. My nightmare scenario was a few years ago when we had to halt all production work for 6 months while we met with endless lawyers and CPAs to try and explain how our entire infrastructure was built. Developers hated it, product hated it, marketing hated it, maybe the CPAs loved it?

I've seen huge deals fall through because of failing to get compliance fast enough, or basic security missteps (how many articles about turning on MFA do we need?) lead to major incidents. And don't even get me started on consultants and spreadsheets. I have stories to share...

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Shows what I know. I only ever heard the expression "dire wolf" in a Grateful Dead song.
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That is a fair question/comment. In my original comment "Limit use of automated content moderation only for easy to solve cases like child pornography." . It is reasonable to extent that list beyond just child pornography. I did not intend to give impression than this list is exhaustive.

In case of spam - Emails do show you spam emails, just hide them behind a spam folder. So instead of outright removal, it is possible to use similar techniques. And let users decide whether they ever want to see spam comments.
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This is actually a good idea. Apple does this on macOS with File Vault: "WARNING: You will need your login password or a recovery key to access your data. ... If you forget both your password and recovery key, the data will be lost."

They could put a clear warning on the iCloud screen as well. However, there is a large market for the iPhone in non-tech savvy people, especially old people, who may not understand fully what this decision means.
Is it no longer possible to set a separate password by reformatting the disk in Recovery to one of the "Encrypted" options before (re-)installing to that volume?

That's how I set up multiple passwords for FDE on a recent hackintosh build, but I don't have an M1 and this wasn't Big Sur, so maybe I'm missing something obvious that has changed lately and I'm way off-base.

It had to manually be done in that order though, otherwise it defaulted to the user account password for FDE.
I can resonate with this one, in addition I often catch myself taking others' tasks just to keep my mind busy.
While this may very well be the simplest piece of software that makes money, I have a conceptual bone to pick:

If you spend money to make a point, the recipient does mean something.
The comments below raise some good points, I'm not going to argue against that. Still, it is remarkable the difference in the Ivy and Public reading lists no? The structure of most societies and power hierarchy I think is still very much in that Hobbesian legacy. As a note, I didn't read Imagined Communities, I will have to take a look. We read the classic counterpoint, Rousseau.

I didn't mean this to sound anti-elitist (after all, I went to those very same institutions and still run in that world), but nonetheless there is a huge disparity in the opportunities available and where students end up coming out of these places. That their reading lists differ so much from the majority of college students is something worth investigating, at the very least to see what can be improved in any educational trajectory.
> In reality it is the same laptop ddr ram that other machines have

LPDDR4 is more well known for cell phones than laptops actually. I think it shows the stagnation of the laptop market (and DDR4) that LPDDR4 is really catching up (and then some). Or maybe... because cell phones are more widespread these days, cell phones just naturally get the better tech?

On the other hand, M1 is pretty wide. Apple clearly is tackling the memory bottleneck very strongly in its design.

DDR5 is going to be the next major step forward for desktops/laptops.

> 2. But in this case I believe they are talking about the CPU and GPU both being able to freely access the same ram, as compared to a setup where you have a discrete GPU with it's own ram, where data must first be copied to the GPU ram for the GPU to do something with it. In some workloads this can be an inferior approach, in others it can be superior, as the GPU's ram is faster. The M1 model again isn't unique, as its similar to how game consoles work, I believe.

More than just the "same RAM", but probably even shares the same last-level cache. Both AMD's chips and Intel's iGPUs share the cache with its CPU/GPU hybrid architectures.

However: it seems like on-core SIMD units (aka: AVX or ARM NEON / SVE) are even lower latency, since those share L1 cache.

Any situation where you need low latency but SIMD, it makes more sense to use AVX / SVE than even waiting for L3 cache to talk to the iGPU. Any situation where you need massive parallelism, a dedicated 3090 is more useful.

Its going to be tough to figure out a good use of iGPUs: they're being squeezed on the latency front (by things like A64Fx: 512-bit ARM SIMD, as well as AVX512 on the Intel side), and also squeezed by the bandwidth front (by classic GPUs)
+1. I generally say that data scientists bring an amazing skillet to the table, but companies can only leverage 10% of it.
Fair enough, but it only tells you how each system performs under anomalously bad events (I don't think this is a "true test"). And to my earlier point, when you're making 80% more than you would in Europe, you can save a lot of money to float you through hard times. Notably, I still don't think you'd be particularly well-off in Europe--European worker protection rights don't help if your company goes under, and you won't have a cushy savings account. I'm guessing unemployment is a bit better than in the US, and obviously healthcare will be better, but on balance I don't think your average SWE would be any better off. Of course, this doesn't extrapolate beyond the upper-middle-class and above; poorer Americans are almost certainly worse-off than their European counterparts (and I want to see that remedied).
As usual, no one bothered to properly archive it and people took screenshots instead. So unfortunately, neither archive.today nor wayback machine has it and the last capture before that was in 2016. But even Snopes confirms it, if you don't want to take my word for it.
This theory implies a level of coordination and agreement that the US Government is simply not capable of. The group most interested in such backups (intelligence) does not coordinate with the regulatory committees, and even if they did such an agreement wouldn’t be disclosable to the public and wouldn’t hold up if demands for regulation got hot.

The most likely reason we haven’t seen antitrust action is more boring: it’s hard, our politicians are old and don’t even use email, and they’ve been consumed with more pressing matters.
I don't know that I think it was right to kick out Parler, but it seems like there's a "if you lie down with dogs, then you get up with fleas" element to this. Parler targeted a toxic demographic and their brand became toxic.
This point should be upvoted more. Decentralized moderation means decentralized pain. You can run standard philosophic thought experiments about "utility monsters" but at the end of the day a lot of online content causes real harm, not just to the direct victims but to the spectators. We'd need something like decentralized therapy in tandem with this type of moderation for it to even be considered remotely ethical, and even then I'm very skeptical.
I don't think it's inaccurate; the IC pays the data providers (presumably for implementation/overhead) for receiving the FAA702 (PRISM/FISA) data.

Which data is picked by the US government, and no warrant is required. Apple provided data on 30,000+ users to the US government without a warrant in 2019, per their own transparency report.

If they received money for the program, they are indeed "selling user data to [the] US government".
Aren't you worried that your judgement of other people's personalities and what they think is important to them could be needlessly harmful?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but what gives you the right to tell other people what's important to them, given the vastly different set of life experiences everyone has?

Maybe if someone was throwing their life away to addiction, but an otherwise functioning and happy person doesn't seem like someone who wants to hear what you think of their life, and would seemingly prefer to just be called by the identifier they've chosen and then otherwise left alone by you.
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> and last I checked, Trump was not on Parler was he? Infact, that was the big issue - Trump not moving to Parler or Gab while calling out Twitter.

This is a legitimate criticism even for people on the right about Trump. He knew these Tech Giants were questionable about uneven censorship, he’s been complaining about it for years.

So why in the hell wasn’t he posting to gab, parlor, bitchute, streamable, all the “alternatives” first, then the tech giants on automatically on delay? Someone could have EASILY set that up for him.

The media for the past four years set around salivating for the next Trump tweet. They would’ve had to say Parler, Gab, whatever. They would’ve had to show the logos. They would’ve had to make it more about the words in the platform.

You could be a diehard Trump supporter, and realize that this is largely his fault for not being smart about how his message got out. I really think he thought he was above censorship, they wouldn’t DARE... I guess he was right, just until until he lost power.
I am familiar with that concept. Good luck arguing that aws, google play, or the app store is an essential utility.
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What makes you think that was the promise? I would say the promise has been to replace code with data, and to build things with data that would be practically impossible to build with code.

"Garbage in, garbage out" has been the mantra for a long time. Sure, there are tools and techniques to deal with not-so-good data, but those are add-ons, not a core part of the value proposition of ML.
The other thing I'd emphasize here is dealing with "state". Data is effectively state.

As application engineers build increasingly "stateless" code (e.g. pure functions, serverless deployments, etc), that state gets pushed elsewhere. Someone has to manage the queues, file versions/locations, logs, databases, configurations and so on. That is all "data".

State management is a tricky problem even in a single-threaded application. It's doubly so in distributed systems, where state can be inconsistent between all the moving pieces. This is the source of endless data integrity issues. I think data engineering is a great way to get some exposure to all of this.
Or they should never allow military gear to be advertised at all given its main customers.
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Yes, but you know it afterwards. It's the overkill solution to a (probably) very small problem.
Either we legislate big tech or big tech will drive/own the process that creates legislation (arguably the latter is already happening).
How is that argument? The people advertising and selling are not the people buying and using them. It's different people.
My bad. =)

But anyway, I do agree that there is a problem here, in that some corporations have way too much power. I would argue that the solution is that those corporations need to be regulated and broken up into smaller parts.

So, I think we need to do something about amazon, but in this case, we also needed to do something about parler, and now amazon did that for us.

The zuckerberg example: I would argue that in that scenario, it would be (at least) equally obvious that said regulations where needed. The difference would be that in that scenario, I would argue that zuckerberg was abusing his power, but with what's happening now, I don't think that amazon is abusing their power, (because I think that amazons reason is a valid one), but I still think that they shouldn't have that much power.

I'm a bit tired, but hopefully I'm still making some sense.
Genuine question: why is there so much pure teeming hatred for data scientists in this comment thread? Almost every comment comes off as full of snark and vitriol against data scientists.
"Have a government backdoor to screen capture?" would probably be the least disruptive for two assumptions:

1. They can only see what you're currently doing, not see everything you have ever done, which I assume because:

2. They can't record everyone forever as storage would be insane, and right now, a backdoor to encryption avoids that issue by just using the company's storage.

(Assuming a "NSA style wiretap" operation and not a court-ordered surveillance)
Parler’s chief policy officer contends that they were (1) actively hiring content moderators (to augment their jury system) and (2) working with Amazon to get AWS AI facilities so they could implement automated moderation. These programs were in progress right up until the site went down.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r4vm
So is China: https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-...

> As such, China began an initiative to build its own processors back in the early 80's that eventually evolved into the "Made in China 2025" campaign that has the goal of producing 70% of the chips used in China by 2025.
It’s doublespeak to say “I saw no calls for violence when I was on platform” and then to say “of course there was calls for violence on the platform, they are on every platform”.

Which is it? Facebook optimizes for engagement.. Parler optimizes for free speech.

Why did Parler optimize for free speech? Is it because some of the members were being banned from the other platforms for extremism?

Did Parler gain network effect because of those certain members moving over to the platform?

You have to think deeper about the whys here.
Plenty of people still interested but the community is small. It's far from dead or forgotten. 9front is updated on a near daily basis.
You'll appreciate that the current proposal on the table for DC statehood leaves a "Capital District" consisting of the National Mall and surrounding federal buildings (including the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court), and only turns the rest of DC into a state. See the map at the bottom of https://statehood.dc.gov/page/resource-center .

If you haven't been to DC or looked closely at a map, it might surprise you that the vast majority of it is an ordinary city with residences and shops and schools, and the seat of federal government is a pretty small area. I didn't actually realize that until poking at a map and talking with friends who have lived in DC - I had the impression that DC was already small and most non-federal stuff was across the border in Virginia or Maryland, but that isn't actually true. DC is larger in area than SF!

(Also, federal districts like DC are relatively rare: most other countries don't have them. The hypothesis may not have changed since the founding, but we have a couple of centuries of experimental data now. Even the UN has buildings in Manhattan that are part of Manhattan and the US and not a separate UN exclave - I can and do bike down First Avenue, with UN buildings on both sides, without going through a border crossing.)
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Man, you get to see all the cool ads. The first three ads on my feed this morning are for the internet provider I already use and two different pneumonia medications targeted at people 20-25 years older than me.

I guess my life is more boring than I thought or the Facebook containers on my computer and phone do a really good job of keeping FB in the dark.
> ML jobs are well paid, but they are NOT fun. No one understands ML devops & the infra needs to enable tight experimentation loops. Existing observability and telemetry systems are wildly bad for model training, reproducibility or any form of online or semi-online learning. As an ML engineer you’ll have to take on huge workloads of devops, infra, tooling, data munging. I’ve seen more than a few brilliant ML engineers burnout and quit because of this.

Can I cry? I feel so understood right now.

I love my job in ML, the subject matter is fun, but there is so such a huge burden of expectations on a team's titular data scientist. It is exciting in a 'mid 90s during the web revolution' sort of wild-west way, but you also have the cynicism of the mature Software field. A good ML engineer is worth their weight in gold.

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I also wrote this in a pseudo-fictional dystopian sense. A 'If I was an ML pessimist' take on the the state of things.

The other comments made to the parent I originally posted, are great counter arguments. (2012-14: Alexnet, 14-16: Deep LSTMs, 16-18: Resnet,M-RCNN,Yolo 18-20: Tranformers, 2020+: Alphafold,GPT3,CLIP, et al.) Deep learning has been improving pretty linearly over the last decade. If I was looking at it in a naively statistical sense, then ML will actually be able to match the rising supply of ML scientists with a rising demand. That's the optimistic take though. In that case it will actually feel like being a programmer in the 90s, in that a couple pivots can propel you to multi millionaire.