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I think what's happening here is selection bias. The people who proudly have no Meta accounts are replying to each other saying "me too". The hundreds of others who were reading did not reply.
Many streaming services have ads in their lowest tier now. Paramount is the first I can think of.
To stay within the protection of Earth's magnetosphere, habitable stations are put in low earth orbit. Low earth orbit entails atmospheric drag, and bigger stations have more drag as well as larger propellent requirements to boost.
Blue checkmarks are not just about verification and extra features. They’re a status symbol. They mean you are cool and notable enough to deserve one according the shadowy and mysterious Twitter checkmark committee. If they become a commodity that anyone with a little money can buy, they lose a big part of their appeal to the average person.
And they're paying it through microtransactions. Most populations follow a power distribution like that, not just gaming. The most loyal customers spend way more than the tail. They don't spend it all at once usually, it's over many transactions. But they are still the group you target.
This phenomenon is true in all lines of business not just gaming, and it's due to loyal customers who keep coming back (regardless whether it's a premium purchase or not), not single large ticket purchases...

Sports have super fans that come to every game
Airlines have business travelers
Etc etc.

https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-a-whale-2917364

^ This term does not come from gaming.
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Even if the cost to launch would be way cheaper, that weigth allowance would be used for useful stuff like laundry machines, more "sterile" modules as you call them for more research, and potentially for industrial applications like factories to build low-gravity-only components and low gravity biomedical applications.

Your vision is useful for tourism and little else.
That’s great - thank you.
> Because democratic society requires us to agree on basic facts in order to function.

> - who got more votes in the last US presidential election

The Democrats delegitimized the outcome of the 2016 election, the Republicans the 2020, and yet we still have a functioning democracy. We're even about to have a round of elections in a few days!

> - whether global warming is real

Seriously?
My TikTok feed is mostly stand up comics and absurd sketches from American 20-somethings. I think characterizing TT as “internal communication infrastructure” is a massive stretch.

That said, I could see the argument that what TT chooses to censor or uprank is a kind of soft power that could influence American attitudes over time. But I’m not sure this is any more significant than say, Chinese influence on what Disney chooses to include or not include in their films.
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Instead they skip the hardware and root their Android devices. Many people would run another mobile OS on their iOS devices if the process was easier.
It could be something with a large fuel tank that can be adjusted in capacity so that it will be 100% of whatever Falcon can offer for the target orbit.
It's pretty well-known for traditional television broadcasts, right? Shows are edited and even scripted specifically to provide the right amount of slots for ads.
Can you go to China and travel freely? Can you even own a business there as a foreigner? How many foreigners received a citizenship?
Netflix has ad-tier coming for $7/month. HBO Max costs like $16/month. I get ads for Hulu, but that costs only $.99/month on Black Friday deal. I'm paying $80/year for Disney, and I think Apple is still charging only $5/month. So....I don't know, $8 doesn't feel that ridiculously out of line priced.

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-ad-supported-tier-price...
Well, then I have no idea why you asked your previous question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> I do think it's missing some important output redirection functionality. You can workaround by using "complete" but that feels non-ideal.

Yeah, this is a very fair criticism. We're working on it :)
>you tend to get ones that people like rather than random noise.

And you have to consider that your idea of and tastes in "art" may be quite different from mine. People actually buy and display canvas with random bullshit colors or simple shapes or even lines on them that to me, is not art in the pure sense but is instead just the output of a lazy person marketed to dweebs who need something different for their living rooms.

Back to the original discussion - if your earlier point is valid, I don't agree myself, then the only one who owns any art, product, process, etc is the one who designed that model that can be used to create it even if the model was created years after the thing they created. None of the people who actually created the product or process, etc own anything as a result of their efforts. That is wrong.

It is a bit hand-wavey and bullshit mystic like the dumbass marketing used by some sculptors who claim they didn't really do anything except remove all the wood, stone, clay, etc that was hiding the sculpture they created. It was always right there carefully concealed in the tree trunk and anyone who dinked around with that trunk would've ended up creating the same sculpture under that logic. LOL. Jesus put it there, I'm only the guy picked to uncover it.

>Are there real, "good" images that Stable Diffusion assigns very low probability such that generating them is no better than sampling from the "random pixel machine"?

That depends on your definition of "good". Do you mean "good enough" that an observer will see a resemblance or is it something else? I would think that the output from any model will always have an upper limit to what it can reproduce that is related to the properties of the combined inputs to the model. With more inputs one should see higher precision outputs. Like you say though, Stable Diffusion probably designates some outputs as near zero probability because the input set supports that conclusion for the requested output.
He’s saying the price is bullshit, not that he can’t afford it. To him, it offers basically no value. While him being on Twitter does offer Twitter value.

He’s probably right, although it doesn’t generalize to most celebrities who do have a vested interest in paying to promote themselves.
falcon heavy was always this awkward middle child relative to F9 and Starship. Like iirc it was announced pretty close to F9 blk5 going to production, but very late, and then the starship concept took off and consumed resources and attention. The moment starship is operational then FH is cancelled I bet. I bet F9 hangs around even after Starship is operational however.
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>Salary range $60-250K

Surely this is a typo, or else why post a range this vague?
> Another thing I have seen people pushing here lately is tailscale

Came here to mention Tailscale. OP said: 'And most of them appear to be operating outside of my country's legal jurisdiction (the U.S.)'

Tailscale is Canadian though, so is that within OP's scope?
Why does any price make no sense?

"If you're not paying for the product, you're the product."

Though to truly resolve this, they need 0 ads, not 50% fewer.
Their status page is green [1] I am able to access it through some of the nitter proxies and also able to log in.

Some countries report different IP addresses but maybe that is normal. Maybe they do DNS routing vs anycast. [2]

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[2] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/?#A/twitter.com
Artists don't generally try to OWN styles or prevent others from using them. They are the result of years of training, adapting, etc. They put their own spin on it. It's effectively a brand of that artist, and it's generally beholden to a sort of "honor" code that you'll likely get called out for breaching if you're flagrantly trying to pass it off as your own.

The core issue illustrating this is when people use an artist name in a prompt. If these models did not exist, if you wanted something in that style, you would likely be reaching out to that individual, or asking someone else to try to emulate someone. In that instance, the emulation is generally accountable. In these instances, there is no accountability towards the algorithm, as it's not making creative choices, to say nothing of moral or ethical ones. That was done by the individuals with venture-capital backing, using research loopholes to fund the legally questionable scraping of this data in the first place, which in some instances, violates the EULAs of the sites they were scraped from.

At the end of the day, these artists, styles, etc. would not exist without the artists who had no say in their "democratizing art".
He has to maximize profit. Otherwise he won't be able to pay that debt. It is not like he has a choice there, he took on huge debt and even maximized profit might not be enough.
This is interesting. I have increasingly looked at Twitter as a business tool. This will push me further in that direction. It will make less sense to just hop on and drop hot takes without any purpose. I think I like it.

That said, this doesn't really say "Global Town Hall".
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I'd also say that $8 a month is a great price to astroturf for a month. Also why is the idea of Twitter monthly even sensible? Who plans their Twitter identity as a power user month to month? Why is it not just $100 a year?
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The USA requiring China to invent something on their own rather than Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V the USA's work is helping them grow up. It's a long-term win-win. We don't "blame" parents for asking their children to grow up into independent adults, nor should countries enable codependent behavior.
Because applied category theory stops at translating everything into boxes and arrows. There's no "applied Yoneda lemma."
A shell is pretty much what you described. More accurately it’s a program for interacting with the operating system, and it usually ships with a scripting language, and Utility programs. Hence the conflation.

If you’re using Windows Terminal, you’re using a sort of predecessor to Powershell (somebody please correct me on this), if you’re using terminal on Linux, you’re most likely using bash. Enter ps -p $$ at your Linux terminal to find out (which shell you’re using).

> Useful for compiling programs, running Python scripts, and executing CLI-based programs

Yeah, so from here, it’s possible to automate those commands, if you wanted to. In windows you’re talking about .Bat or .Ps1 files. Shells are the language you use to write those scripts, and they typically ship with access to some useful (file/text oriented) commands.

The only problem is these shells were invented in the 80s 90s, and have awful conventions that make some people miserable enough that they go and write a new shell that tosses previous conventions out the window. And IMO they did a great job.
AIUI the registers and operations with them should be 32bit for RV32I.

The bus is up to you... should you want a 8bit data bus and 16 bit address bus, I don't think the spec cares.

This is akin to 68020 (32bit ISA) vs 68000 (still 32bit ISA) or 68008 (still 32bit ISA).
Perhaps, finally, the persistent over emphasis on the expensive yet empty production value will give way to content composed of moral catch-22's and the richly described personalities enduring such situations, what is traditionally considered story first film making. No gloss is necessary when the story is strong.
I don't have an answer for that since I'm not an expert with the protocol and I've really only used the microblogging/"Twitter-like" aspect of it. But at least in terms of that, the front ends are compatible with each other when it comes to sending and receiving messages.
There are a lot of edits deleted from the edit history so that is suspicious. however the changed text was in the description of the featured article which is on the homepage of the app. As far as I know a editor has to custom set them (as they are often slightly diffrent than the actual beginning of the article). So perhaps your thought about editor creds might make sense

edit: to clarify the reason I think it might be a app hack of some type is this text did not appear on the featured article from the browser version of Wikipedia
Likely because it'll become a political football, as everything these days does. "Biden took away your TikToks!" "Here's 23 articles about sad influencers who lost their accounts!"
This is nowhere near as severe as Heartbleed. That's why it's not considered Critical (and also why it hasn't been given a special name.)
No average person cares about having a blue-tick; you have to several standard deviations away from the mean to care already.
I’m confused. Does $8 get you a blue check or no?

If it does, $8/mo for a blue check and reply priority seems like a pretty good deal for all those people impersonating Elon musk to run crypto scams
But every streaming service* has to pay for content, either license or create - on Twitter, the users generate the content. In my mind the costs to acquire content are much lower for twitter. They have other technological challenges, some similar, some dissimilar to video streamers, but content wise, Twitter doesn't pay for anything.

* Youtube premium has a mix of user content and licenced content but doesn't have ads (other than live reads which don't count here)
It's funny how when some other country blocks access to eg. facebook, we're immediately talking about how undemocratic that is, how people should protest, etc.

I'm not sure what data exactly tiktok collects, but i'm pretty sure it's not a lot more than what facebook does.
As you say, it is a job category that has existed for a long time. (In addition to examples already given, other specific titles off the top of my head spanning centuries: cigarette girls, playboy bunnies, bar girls, steak ladies, brand ambassadors, spokespersons, sign spinners, spokesmodels, …) As long as marketing has existed these jobs have also existed, they've just always before been typically given extremely specific names, often (especially in old fashioned ones) so specific even to specific genders.

I think it actually is useful to have a generic term for this as well across that multi-century spectrum of too specifically named and niched sub-jobs. It makes a useful lens to even better describe our own history. ("What's a cigarette girl? Well in the height of Big Tobacco the Tobacco companies would pay ladies, generally pretty ones, to be influencers selling cigarettes at other businesses such as a bars. Many of these influencers were not employees of the bars, they were more directly contractors for the Tobacco companies.")

I even think that the generic sense of revulsion many have to the specific word "influencer" is actually a useful part of that, too. These jobs were never pretty. Many were designed to be in the background marketing things to people like bad magic tricks designed to misdirect slight bits of money. Influencers are not necessarily a bad thing, and those are sometimes useful jobs in their own little ways, but having the generic term itself be a little revulsive is maybe a great reminder that they aren't always our (parasocial) friends, either, and are still trying to sell us stuff at the end of the day.

(A lot of people assumed cigarette girls worked for the bars or restaurants they found them in, when really that was a direct marketing arm of the cigarette companies. Alcohol companies to this day also hire a lot of "brand ambassadors" the now gender neutral, PC term that they prefer over "influencer", though "bar girls" was also a name for that not even that many decades back, and these influencers do the exact same thing: there are people in bars selling you alcohol, with the permission of the bar owners, of course, but employed by the marketing arms of the alcohol companies. Because they aren't bar employees they are legally "allowed" to often "get more personal" and sometimes don't even pretend to be "on the clock" working. Even more fun, some of these "brand ambassadors" for alchohol are only barely paid in like product because these "brand ambassadors" are doing it "on their own" "for fun" like a rewards program and multi-level marketing had a baby that decided selling alcohol to already drunk people was a perfect business model, which is also a fun way to skirt labor laws if you can get it and maybe not obvious with a title like "brand ambassador" but a bit easier to suspect if you call it "influencer".)
Linkedin has the CVs -- the content i ve seen there is laughable. Twitter can be compared to Wordpress, in which people invest time in making an online presence and following. But it seems easy for them to leave twitter and take their audience too - and many people do it with substack etc. I think introducing payments will change the dynamics of their crowd, which is basically a mob.
The US also imprisons vast quantities of people and forces them to work. We are also heavily dependent on China economically and any US administration would lose a lot of support from the business class if they started mandating economic decoupling.
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> Many businesses are seeing real, measurable impacts from NN based software that would be impossible without it.

Citation needed. Decision trees are still state of the art.
Isn't Gaia's business model to charge for access to the maps we've already paid for with our taxes (such as USGS topographic quads)? So one shouldn't have stellar expectations over their acquisition.
People underestimate the power of TikTok to influence opinion.

Strangely, TikTok makes up a large part of the "information diet" for a lot of people. It's tough to find a great analog from 1930, but I think the postal service analogy is in the ballpark.
The status quo is that you need to be a Lord to get the blue check.

This makes it available to anyone who is able to get a Netflix subscription.

It goes from a status symbol to a commodity. The Lords will hate it because it makes it available to the peasants.
Must be nice having presidents be your salesman
Shells are a combination of programming language, user interface, and standard library. The programming language and stdlib aspects are just like Python or Rust, but with a different focus:

- Terseness. I can very realistically type hundreds, if not thousands, of commands per day. Extra words or punctuation marks add up quickly.

- Shells are focused on executing things right now, as opposed to most other languages where the output is an abstract program to be run multiple times. This means using literals more often than variables, for example, which is why unquoted words in Bash are strings (except the first word of a command, because terseness is more important than consistency).

- They have more interactive features, such as warnings and prompts. Powershell detects if you're missing required params and prompts you one by one, for example.

- The purpose of a shell is to enable interactivity with OS primitives, be they Linux's files/processes or Windows' objects.

- Because most commands are typed interactively and only run once, glue code is especially painful and wasteful to write. So these languages pick a simple data structure for all function communication, and stick with it (e.g. Powershell's typed objects, Bash's newline separated strings, Lua's everything-is-a-table).

- Quality-of-life features. For example, Bash aliases (e.g. `alias wget='wget -c '`) are a pretty good idea that is non-trivial in other programming languages.

- Easy to plug stuff into other stuff. I don't mean just piping, but also things like temporary files via Bash's process substitution `<()`.
Fair enough. Neither are available in the UK.

My thinking was based on YouTube Premium, Apple TV, Netflix (currently), 4oD, Disney+, etc.
The lotto is a tax on the poor. If you are any way mathematically minded, you can calculate the odds and compare it with getting struck by lightning on the top of Mount Everest or being abducted by a UFO. The folly of the lotto still amazes me.
No, being an ethical company they shouldn't actively hinder it. Linux people will give the necessary effort to support it.

No manufacturer ever openly supported Linux in their consumer systems, and never supported Linux in their professional lines (ThinkPad, Compaq NX, EliteBook, XPS, etc.) openly, to not sour their relations with Microsoft.

Linux happened to work by miracle because of well laid out hardware and high quality BIOS implementations. In fact, they were vetting the hardware/software to be compatible with Linux, but never acknowledged it.

Microsoft is trying to close that hole by forcing secure boot and retiring 3rd party CA.
Correct, which is odd that Elon responded to him, "How about 8?"
Every generation has its hysterics about the thing ruining the children. No matter how much you ban things, teenagers aren’t going to have the mindset of people in their 30s, but for some reason some folks just can’t see this and will keep trying over and over and over. TikTok, Rap, MTV, Rock Music, Jazz, marijuana… etc. etc. etc. are not the reason your teenager doesn’t think like you.
Is it possible to host a site on a Chinese or Russian internet such that it is impossible to be taken down by Western forces?