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First, Parler would still be up if they followed AWS's terms of service.

Second, they've already found a new host (https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956315632/after-booted-by-big...), yet they announced they'll still likely go offline because that host can't provide all the engineering talent Parler relied on. They just need built up their teams and do the work to develop their internal infrastructure. They don't need to become a billion dollar company to do that.
> I would not be surprised to hear a people in zero-gun households are now seeking to acquire their first one

This happened all summer when the crowd that paid big bucks to live in inner suburbs realized that the peaceful protests were uncomfortably close.

>And urbanites represent a huge untapped market for guns and tactical gear

Minorities are a far bigger untapped market demographic.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but it used to be a crime to say you wanted to (or were going to?) kill the president. This is actually why there's a song titled "kill the president" on the first offspring album.

I wonder, regardless of what Twitter will do, what the law is in the case of this tweet? In any case, saying you want to kill anybody is a bad idea. We should place a greater expectation for good behavior on the president of the united states as compared to any random moron on Twitter.

I'm not really talking about what Twitter should do here, though. Rather, as a general matter, the president of the united states should be held to a higher standard than most of us.
> Parler users wandering around the Capital sucking on their soda pops are different than those wanted by the FBI for breaching the building…

No, assuming that they exist at all (which seems unlikely given the nature of the incident: peaceful people interested in just “wandering around…sucking on their soda pops” don’t tend to casually hang around riots involving violent clashes with the police, use of chemical irritants on both sides, gunfire, etc.) they aren’t, except to the extent that some of the former may not have been identified yet and moved into the latter category.

Anyone who illegally entered the building and is identified is being charged.
I have a Fitbit 3 that is awful for synching with my iPhone. Not sure if it's just me or the SW is a pile of pooh. I'm not really sure if this change will help Fitbit or me.
>Why should this be treated any differently?

Being as how Twitter isn't shutdown for the same offense, I'm also curious as to why Parler was "treated differently"?

Political pressure, period.
Flatpaks, nope. At least nothing I could notice.

Snaps, yes definitely, but mostly when there is a UI involved.

I tend to prefer Flatpaks for apps with a UI.

Snaps would have been good for CLI apps if Canonical would just give it a rest already, and allow them to be decentralized and stop pushing them so hard as if that would make us use them.

So while I do sometimes use snap packages, I'd prefer not to.
I don’t mind reading both sides but sometimes the other side has no merit. Most recently, the election fraud claims were produced out of thin air, and reading the court proceedings showed that.

Anyways, as far as news sources go, I’ve been pretty happy with Reuters.
Probably similar APIs within the mobile operating systems, too.
> And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol.

Great success?

1. People there still buy a lot, even at expensive prices.

2. I have never seen so much heavy consumption and problems in Southern Europe than what I saw living in Finland.

3. I had never seen people brewing their own wine in their flat in my country (not counting real wine in farms when I was a kid, of course). Youngsters wouldn't even use berries like their elders, but just sugar & yeast (bearing the suiting name of 'kilju').

4. You could sometimes illicitly buy moonshine alcohol from a car trunk on a car park, in plastic water bottles. Classy.

5. Anecdote: I remember vodka was smuggled from Russia in timber lorries (trunks were hollowed out and filled with bottles) :-D
Well, that's embarrassing. Thanks for educating me. I don't know how it didn't click that out of all the CNS depressants I know, only the one (Rohypnol) isn't found pleasant by people (within some dose range). Turns out I was wrong.

I remembered years ago reading, and recognizing as BS, some policeman's story about a bust of GHB dealers, implying there were no recreational uses, and that it must be intended for date-rape. Yet somehow I still believed some TV scare report in high school that having Rohypnol without a prescription could only mean it was intended for date-rape.

On a side note, I did know of recreational chloroform use. My dad is a retired anesthesiologist, and our family kind of adopted one of his closest work friends, a much older nurse anesthitist, as a surrogate third grandmother. In the old days, after a long surgical case, she would often drive home pleasantly buzzed from second-hand chloroform inhalation. In the old days, the nurse anesthetist would sit right over the patient with a stopwatch and an eye dropper full of chloroform, adding a few drops to gauze over the patient's mouth every time the patient's pulse got a bit fast.
I don't think MobileNetV2 is designed to train on GPUs - according to this https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gpus-vs-cpus-for-depl... MobileNetV2 gets bigger gains from GPUs vs several CPUs than ResNet. You could argue the batch size doesn't fully use the V100 but these comparisons are tricky and this looks like fairly normal training to me.

It's pretty surprising to me that an M1 performs anywhere near a V100 on model training and I guess the most striking thing is the energy efficiency of the M1.
Intel is not just about CPU's.

Intel is ABSOLUTELY just about CPUs. I can’t think of a single thing that they produce that I would ever pay them money for other than CPUs, especially if they aren’t relevant in the CPU world anymore. Intel has tried to get into so many other markets over the years, but the company’s culture and the nature of their high margin, high R&D business made it impossible to compete in those other markets.

Intel's productions nodes might be behind TSMC's but they are still quite valuable, not all chips need 5nm processes. Heck we could say most chips don't need it.

That’s a very different market with very different margins. If they shrank so much that they became like Maxim or something, then that’s really not much different than going out of business altogether.
I don't have WSJ, so I'm not sure: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-struggles-survival-amazo...

Chance's are, they're probably not paying people to ban political content, since they can get their users to do that for free.
It's hideous. What the fuck is wrong with people?
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I recently read "Innovator'd dilemma', and Intel came to my mind immediately. They are big, so they don't bother with low-margin markets. That allows small companies to start stealing market on the lowest margin products, while Intel keep showing awesome balance sheets as they flee from those markets.

Mobile? No, thanks, those are peanuts. Cheap/home PCs? Nah, either. PC builders very sensitive to prices? The don't want them. And slowly they are being sweetly cornered in the top market of the very expensive servers with very juicy margins, but feeling how the small dogs keep bitting up. Suddenly ARM wants to build for cheap servers, and AMD has a chip that also fights for that top market.
Dynamic frequency selection isn't hard if you decide not to use that spectrum. Even without the radar spectrum, 5GHz spectrum is fairly unused.
> novel data analysis methods

Many "data scientists" (not all, but many) have little to no ability to do anything other than apply "recipes" of algorithms or classification methods or logistic regressions, etc. Asking them to develop a "novel" method would be fruitless. Asking them to clean and scrub the source data set is like telling an amateur pie-baker the store was out of pie crusts, you'll have to make your own from scratch -- it's not going to happen, they just don't have that skill, the instructions on the box don't account for that possibility. As soon as the task diverges from the simple step 1, step 2, step 3 that they were originally taught, you realize they have very little ability to adapt. YMMV of course.
I think the point is that these skills are not trivial to build up over time
It couldn't be great if it wasn't awkward
PlayOnLinux and Lutris are very great platforms to see how/which games work on specific architecture (with setup scripts to easily duplicate that).
I disagree on your first paragraph, but that's less critical than my disagreement with your second and third. Don't you think that some personal engagement could help bring that parallel universe — and yours — back into sync with reality? You say the algorithms chip away at our ability to have conversations, but I see the opposite: real life has a stronger effect on people's perceptions of truth than on-line bubbles, and can help reassert reality.
That seems to be what they are suggesting by making the "free" box in the 3rd column span both the "free" and "free/basic" tiers of the previous columns.

Unless they plan to make those modules paid which were previously free, which I doubt
Maybe prediction markets could help with this. If it were possible, on a neutral platform, to bet on topics like "would Trump serve a second term if people stormed the Capitol," then people could get an aggregated opinion that didn't just come from their own echo chamber.
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Thanks for creating Elixir. Before using it and going through the website and docs I thought it would be good but once I started to use it, I discovered it is excellent.
Moderators don't just need incentives. They need therapy and support and monitoring and breaks and ideally, pre-vetting for strong mental health and no pre-existing bees in their bonnet.

I worry that just making it a way to earn bitcoins risks it becoming one more way for poor people to scrape together pennies at the cost of giving themselves PTSD.
The truth of the matter is that all wars are the result of economic incentives. As a Greek i can assure you that almost all the wars of Greece to everyone else, and of Romans, were the result of gaining profit. Just like slavery stopped because of education, and educated capitalists with well trained human workers amount to thousand of times more wealth than any amount of slaves, the same holds for wars. We live in a low-war environment because invading in another country and stealing fridges and cars is just unprofitable.

With the current technology, computer, genetics, and just the sheer creativity of the human mind, any country can contribute to the world trade, and start making bricks from sand using bacteria, any amount of food if they plant pine trees or palm trees which they both have an edible and highly nutritious bark, poison free too. The bark of these trees diminish the thirst so humans need a lot less water, contrary to, say producing livestock for meat. It is not economically viable any more, to create an educated and highly productive population, just to send them killed in a moments notice.

I am all about occasionally suspending the peace for a war, for one philosophical reason. The only truth in the world, is death. Someone can bribe a basketball team to lose, but not an army. No one dies for money. When one male kills another in a fight, we all know the dead gave it all to stay alive. When there is too much unhealthy peace in place, people start believing in lies.

That recent covid hysteria, i think it proves me right.
There is no relevant law that would require Facebook or Parler to do any moderation because of Section 230, right?
Fostering insurrection for profit is, I am pretty sure, illegal. And I'm pretty sure a prison or worse offense.
You might as well buy Marty Cagan's famous books on Product Management, starting with this one: Inspired - How to create tech products customers love ( https://amzn.to/3nF4Z81 )

It's critically important that you understand what the title of "Product Manager" means within your company, because the title varies greatly from one company to the next. Some companies treat product managers like mini-CEOs with significant control over their department. Other companies treat product managers as glorified Jira ticket pushers who are along for the ride. Best to understand what your company expects at the start, and then slowly push them in a direction that aligns your goals (deliver good product) with your control (who listens to you?).

Your wins might not be remembers, but your losses certainly will. To counteract this, work on tracking each of your initiatives and their ultimate success or failure. Keep this in your back pocket in case you end up being blamed for failures that weren't necessarily your fault.

Networking within the company is critical. You probably won't have direct authority over the people who will be accomplishing the work you need to reach your goals, so you'd better become as persuasive as possible.

The tough thing about management advice, of any form, is that the best advice is often unpopular with the general internet population. Most product management bloggers err on the side of not stepping on any toes or angering any readers, which means most of the best advice will be harder to find. Prepare to make some unpopular decisions and stick with it through objections. If you're managing a product for the average consumer, be prepared to push back against a lot of request from your techie engineers to make the product more complicated or to cater to features that only 1% of your most technical audience will use.
Seems accurate, at least until increasingly extractive trading (which externalizes almost all costs), leads to the collapse of the ecological systems underneath it. Then we're back to good old fashioned war-war :/
I'm a little dubious about that, given the limited space to maneuver your body for a swing inside a car. Still, better than nothing.
If you search Twitter for the Samsung username, it seems a lot of their other posts were made by iPhone as well. Although at this point, it's not easy to tell if this is more meme material than historical.
You can argue anything you like, black is white, the sky isn't blue, corporate exceptions mean it isn't "open at all" - but it clearly is at least more open then other than totally closed designs. If open means total freedom, including selling on at a lower margin; then yes, people might do express that freedom and undercut you - I can't see any way around that by definition, but I also don't see it as a problem - what's value is lost exactly?

I think what is a problem is that people can't use a subset of you design to make their own stuff. Maybe the solution to that is a common library of totally free design-pattern, but that still requires integration into a finished product?

> Allow your competitors to use your design ... they just must contribute back improvements.

won't this just lead to trivial improvements? perhaps a bug bounty, or similar, would be better? or even licensing the original design for either a set fee, or a %?
That's not even an ESR version - forget pages breaking, running Firefox 61 in 2021 is a security nightmare.
Sorry, but this comment betrays a lack of understanding about the very functioning of North American media.

There is no real world scenario in which they can be lumped as one group. Even individual outlets carry such a variety of voices that you cannot pin one on any given outlet.

The organizations that are lumped into the "MSM" branding opponents to a free press like to throw around are just large organizations.

Remember, "the medium is the message": you cannot extricate one article from the entirety of content published by a given outlet any more than you can exalt one article as being the sum of any outlet on its own. For example, a muffin recipe[0] is as much the New York Times as an opinion commentary on the potential problematic nature of social media, yet you cannot say that the NYT is only one or the other.

Because an outlet published an article that one might contend is responsible for a situation (rather than commentary on a situation), and that content has commonalities with content from other outlets does not mean there is any other practical association—only thematic.

Secondly, calling it all "fake news and propaganda" really belies any rational discussion of the subject... it's like saying all computers are killing machines because they've been used in war.

[0] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2868-jordan-marshs-blueb...
There's a reason why the draft let people pay someone else to take their place - if the wealthy thought they would find themselves in the trenches too then we would never send forces overseas.
Would you mind telling us if knowing all this is related to your work or if you've cared to learn it just for fun or something?

(Totally understand if you don't want to.)
>Universities now have special administrators dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. These are someone's livelihoods and also sources of power. Will the incumbents simply say "there is no more interest in identity politics, our task is done, we made ourselves redundant"?

This isn't an empty argument, I'll grant. It extends to yellow "journalists" (from OANN to CTH), political campaign staff (divided country = more spending on politics), social media companies, and others. Division is profitable.

But lots of awful things are profitable. There are always stakeholders in whatever enterprise is polluting the water, the air, or the discourse. You deal with it by offering them progressively worse compromises and hoping that, over time, the frogs will jump out of the pot.
But back in the old days, you still had the same thing. Find a list of the names of local newspapers. Look at the names of them. Notice how many have "Democrat" in the name. Most (all?) of those were papers that took an explicit editorial stance in favor of the Democratic Party. There were some explicitly Republican papers as well, but I think these were fewer in number.

That is, when you were getting your news from a newspaper, you could still live in a filter bubble...
Maybe, maybe not.

Rewriting history doesn't just mean hiding undesirable facts, it can also include perpetuating false histories - Consider Kim Jong Il's famous round of golf.

The holocaust may have happened, but there's no reason a genocide attributed to the enemy couldn't be invented and written in the history books of any particular nation.

Once you carve out a category of thing, recreating that thing is as easy as adding to that category; or in this case (banning falsehoods), expanding the list.
True. The title of the article could be 'Facebook Has Been Showing Relevant Ads Next To "Insurrection" Posts'.
Hmm...interesting. I'm not sure how the data reflects things like a core curriculum (where I read a lot of these) which is a general requirement...or maybe looks at the classes themselves which may be in one department or another. This could be further confused with common requirements being taught by professors in different fields, and so their syllabi might be classified differently? Curious.

Edit: the best way to investigate would be if it is all weighted by number of students or something, though that might be tough to do.
Thanks :) I started reading the original DDD several years ago, but bailed out due to quite how dense it is, hopefully this summary will be a little more approachable.
So, obvious question, how then does iCloud keychain (still) work?

I mean, is everything iCloud compromised, all the time, everywhere? That kinda flattens Apples privacy claims.
But the harm is categorical. Cheap heroin might reduce the impact of crime/family issues, but what about the health of individuals? We'd be back to people wasting away in crack dens.

> Overdoses are prevented because they can happen in safe places where people will notice

what kind of places? If you become so addicted that overdose is likely, where would you be welcome?
Making something illegal doesn't mean it automatically becomes socially acceptable; piss-stained street drunks don't attract lots of caretakers.

It feels like your assuming that people will be able to manage their addictions, and remain functional - I'm not sure this is realistic. Even mildly addictive substances can really wreck peoples ability to function.

Can you provide a source that suggests: "tobacco is more addictive [than heroin]"?
Do people with PhDs in biostatistics earn significantly more than programmers? I honestly know nothing about the market for biostatisticians, but my impression was that advanced degrees in the natural sciences don't really pay that well compared to software engineers, especially given that they're much more educated.
>The list of prior work that influenced Apple, or any tech company, is usually far too long to list.

Agreed, but that doesn't mean we should default to "Apple was the first" simply because we can't wrap our heads around the pre-iPhone days.
> I don't think it makes sense to completely write off demand for something because you don't understand the appeal

Just because we've hit a point where enough people in the country want a platform to share their Nancy Pelosi torture fetish erotica doesn't mean there needs to be a platform to do so. I don't see why anyone should care about who is "hungry" for that.
Interesting. I got the impression from the recent announcement that Grafana Labs had something of a revenue sharing model with the new AWS managed offering of Grafana. Given that, I wouldn't think the SSPL restrictions would be as important.
Just be warned that embedded video and audio is not supported in these ebooks. Both the books I tried have embedded content. The message I see is this: “Video content is not available in this format.”
I would love a tablet for reading PDFs, like literally just mirror my phone instead of even processing anything on it
> the kind of nasty emdemic racism that seems all too prevalent in the US barely exists any more

Let's be clear, the US has problems, but make no mistake, the US in comparison to Europe and Asia has far less of these problems, despite whatever impressions you get of prevalence. There are acts of overt racism and xenophobia that, even if viewed with disdain and acknowledged with an apologetic tone from the enlightened parts of European society, are nonetheless permissible in public outside the US. Things that, in the US by contrast, would be considered unthinkable that they even even happen, until the evidence is put in front of you, and then the reaction is pretty much universal shock to American eyes and ears no matter where they are on the PC/anti-PC spectrum. (Shocking even to ardent racists, who would instead be thinking, "How are they able to get away with this?")

When you hear of commotion across the ocean, think if the US as being an intensely self-critical bodybuilder, or a programmer trying to ruthlessly root out all of the vestiges and latent effects of old bugs.
Yeah that’s as good as saying that since you can use Tor in China, it’s really not censorship because you DO have alternatives.
How can you say that it's inefficient? The reason we do this today is precisely because of how efficient it is.

Cows eat grass, turn into huge balloons of meat, and feed lots of people. They take almost no maintenance.

I can't think of a more efficient way to feed people.
> your fellow Floridians.

I’m not the Floridian. I replied to your post because I thought you were overlooking how much federal law impacts daily life.
We have got similar requests couple of times and its in the pipeline. Currently focused on the comparison of 1000s of metrics/training runs. It's a serious challenge both on the Ui and on the storage end.

Inviting you to the Aim [slack channel](https://slack.aimstack.io/).
We would love to learn more about such use cases and why they are important.