skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from Bloomberg's coverage of the story:

"President Donald Trump plans to announce a decision ordering Bytedance to divest its U.S. ownership of TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. has been investigating potential national security risks due to the Chinese company’s control of the app. Trump’s decision could be announced as soon as Friday, said the people."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/microsoft...

Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok in U.S.
I don't have confidence about scans in general against novel attacks. Scans are effective against the threat model of off-the-shelf attacks, not a threat model of highly motivated, highly-skilled attackers capable of inserting subtle defects anywhere in a giant codebase.
I agree that "art" isn't some kind of a uplifted thing.

Certain pieces of art are uplifting. Art itself is just human expression.
I find the idea of a "guarantee of a good life" very strange, and super myopic. There are no guarantees in life, everything is probabilistic. Based on other people's outcomes you can do your best to infer which decisions increase the likelihood of your desired outcome. Want to be rich? I can't guarantee that -- though I would say give what other self-made rich people did a go: move somewhere where you're in the path of money, with other like-minded people.
OOP is so nebulous that there's no reason to critique it.
As I understand it, Sweden did have a response to Covid that involved a massive increase in working at home and with those who felt vulnerable engaging in social distancing. So the cases tended to involve nursing homes and essential workers.

So it seems like they've found up with "herd immunity" relative to the defensive measures that were taken. Which is to say they don't have unconditional herd immunity. If they get Covid slowly down to a very rare rate (and Covid is decline there quite slowly[1]) and normal activity returns, one or another "super-spread events" could reignite the epidemic in a similar fashion to other places where it's been eliminated currently though with the relative immunity perhaps slowing it a little.

[1] https://cv19info.live/sweden/
Look at new cases in log scale. Sweden's cases have declined but extremely slooooowly. 23 deaths a couple of days ago where the high was 172. That a low rate of decline which indicates Covid will be there quite a while.
I think the common theme in your examples is that in these situations other parties bend to Nvidia's demands. Nvidia has no problem with other parties bending to their demands. But when another company or organization requires Nvidia to bend to their demands, things go awry almost without exception.

EDIT - for added detail:

> - nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards

Most (all?) of which bend to Nvidia's demands because Nvidia's been extremely successful in getting end users to want their chips, making the Nvidia chip a selling point.

> - nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology

IBM bends to Nvidia's demands so POWER can remain a relevant HPC platform.

> - nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully

Microsoft is the only significant OS vendor with which Nvidia collaborates successfully. It's true - but for the longest time Nvidia would have been out of business if they didn't. I will concede this point, but I don't find this is enough to paint a different picture.

> - nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it

Mellanox bent over to Nvidia's demands to such an extent that they were acquired.

> - nvidia collaborates with ARM today...

Collaboration in what sense? My impression is that Nvidia and ARM have a plain passive customer/supplier relationship today.

> The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...

Nvidia is humongously behind their competitors Intel and AMD in open source contribution while having a large amount more R&D in graphics. They are terrible at open source compared to the "industry standard" of their market, and only partake as far as it serves their short term needs.

They are perfectly entitled to behave this way, by the way. But Nvidia's open source track record is only more evidence is that they don't understand how to work in an open ecosystem, not less.

> You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don't open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).

The "whataboutism" is valid but completely irrelevant here. I would also not appreciate Apple buying ARM.

> For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.

Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM, Motorola, Samsung (SoCs) and PowerVR for technology strategy reasons, not relationship reasons. Apple had no reason to part ways with Nvidia for technical reasons (especially considering they went to AMD instead), but did so because of the terrible relationship they built.
I wonder what the ownership transfer of a multi-billion dollar app looks like?

Like, what emails, button clicks, phone calls, etc, is involved in changing the ownership of the iOS app from one party to another? Presumably it's a different process from like, a toy app with zero downloads?
I had the same thought: he's doing OOP without using the "class" keyword. Well-written C code is actually very object-oriented this way, it just doesn't take advantage of the syntactic sugar of C++.
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've always been curious how much it costs Rammstein to do their shows. Their most recent tour took ~60 hours per stop to set up the stage and equipment brought in by a convoy of 18 wheelers. Then they have a bunch of complicated pyrotechnics, crazy amounts of lights, costumes, props, gigantic screens, and they perform in the largest venues available. The amount of resources and people it requires is staggering to me.
We'll gonna have tiktok based video portfolio for interview.
Company valuation usually involves more tangible things, like revenue and profits, or at least expected revenues. "Importance" can vanish really fast.
You desire to LIVE ‘according to Nature’? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, ‘living according to Nature,’ means actually the same as ‘living according to life’—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature ‘according to the Stoa,’ and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise— and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves—Stoicism is selftyranny—Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? ... But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to ‘creation of the world,’ the will to the causa prima.
> but it is effectively debited at the end of the month only. So you have to pay in full at the end of the month.

In the US, you've described "Charge Cards." Some of the cards American Express offers are charge cards. (I don't know of other vendors with such cards.)
My initial thought was that the bitcoin move was a red herring. DMs associated with the compromised accounts could be very well worth much more than $100k.
There's a lot of variables in play. It may be 20x less deadly in a specific scenario, but change that scenario slightly and some other variable may explode in influence.
I'm not so sure.. I'm an introvert and a loner, so I often feel a bias against these kind of assertions. I want to be able to continue being a loner, feel good about it, exhibit resilience and self-reliance in a way that leaves me satisfied with my days, and invested in my intentions.

I don't have a lot of friends, but I have a few. I'm divorced, but I have a great kid and am still actively intertwined, familial-y speaking, with my ex-.

I wouldn't be able to say how all this affects my EOL quality and vitality, but I'm almost 50 and I don't feel diminished or negatively impacted by my life decisions or lifestyle yet.

I'm not "lonely" but I work to make sure I'm "alone" a good amount. I feel the urge to get social about once every 3 months and I can usually make it happen. I have a few places in the world where I travel, have friends, and can be super-social for a few weeks at a time.

If not determined by a lower bound, I wonder if they meant it qualitatively as we all quantitatively.
I have been reading through the comments and I am very curious about a few things -

1. What "bullshit" degrees people are talking about? Are they the liberal arts studies? If so, as a society do we not see value in the fine arts? Expertise in music, language, anthropology, history, etc do not necessarily lead to a well-paying job.. but they give intellectually satisfaction in and of itself.

2. IMHO, the pay you are likely to earn should never be a judge of value of a degree. A degree gives you an opportunity to learn something in depth. As long as you are able to reach that, the degree is valuable. The sad part of being in US (and other places) is that the depth is not valued. Trying college fees to ability to earn is an incorrect optimization.

3. If I were a poet, an author or a painter, do you think I should expect that I will be able to pursue my passion on a nominal pay (maybe as a teacher/tutor, basic income from government etc)? Most of the "golden age of civilizations" had this property. When everyone needs to fight for survival, that reflects poorly on the state of things and it is more of a dog eat dog world.
>Softbank overpay for Arm

Grossly so. They paid like 45 percent above what the stock was trading at the time.
Even without physical media, I'd rather pay for a copy of the music I can "own" (I.e. like a physical CD) from Bandcamp as the revenue the artist gets is _significantly_ higher than a dozen streams of the same album on Spotify.

At the end of the day, I want the artist to continue producing music, and prefer to find a channel by which they get the most revenue.

IMHO Bandcamp is one of the best things to happen to the music industry in the last decade. Love it!
I totally understand your point about the environment.

Given that I only fill my car once every 14 days, and only use 1 single glove for the hand touching the handle, I'm not overly concerned about the generated waste. Even if every American did this during the pandemic it would be dwarfed by the number of gloves used by hospitals even before covid.

I certainly agree that plastic waste is a major issue, and I'll certainly re-evaluate my current method when we aren't mid pandemic, but I'm confident there's simpler ways to reduce plastic waste in more meaningful amounts. I'm pretty sure that I've removed more unnecessary packaging plastic from purchased goods in the past month then gloves I've personally used total this year (I dabble with stuff you want to wear gloves with).
You're forgetting the outdoorsy profile picture, who will build roughly to spec in half the time using last years tooling. The client will be happy, the code will be maintainable, but whenever something goes wrong they'll be hiking.
On social networks... I think we may see a resurgence of community bulletin boards online... more focused on subject of interest than over region/locality.

For all the flack that Facebook gets, you may also be surprised to find some very specific interest groups, I wish they had not removed the live messenger chat for groups specifically though..
>The core design of OOP is to wrap mutable state behind methods which control that mutation.

That is the mechanism for immutability that is traditionally provided. It is easy to opt out of that protection.

Java and C# are getting records. They're a convenience but are in no way opposed or counter to OOP.
What in God's name are you doing to my chickens???
It's moderately humorous that we have congressional antitrust hearings going on against Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

Meanwhile the largest company in the world by Q1 2020 market cap, a company that was found to be in violation of the antitrust act in the past, a company which now owns the most popular social network for business is about to acquire a significant part of the fastest growing social media platform.
I think people in general are pretty OK with the data hiding part of encapsulation. Scattering application state across objects as part of encapsulation, and polymorphism and inheritance are the source of a lot of debate though. Bob Nystrom wrote the best description of the polymorphism vs. pattern matching tension I've ever read [1], and I think problems w/ inheritance are all pretty well known (method resolution, programmers becoming taxonomists, etc.)

[1]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/representing-code.html#the-...
He has enough to buy politicians.
Absolutely agree. I've been playing music for basically my whole life, and am now, finally working on producing my first record of solo singer-songwriter material.

Every time I thought I've been "close" over the past 18 months it turned out I still had so, so far left to go. My "scope" is creeping, sure, but it turns out there's so, so, so much work in-between "recording & mixing one voice & one guitar" and "having a really well arranged song with just the right musical details" etc.

I've done a bunch of big, original projects in tech over the years, but I've never worked as hard at anything in my life as I have on this music.

And I'm still barely scratching the surface of where I want my music to go long term, and I know that the closer I get to recording the music that's in my head, the more ambitious my future records will be.
The lesson here is that the power lies with those who who have relationships with consumers. That distribution channel is quite possibly the single most valuable asset one can possess today. Kylie Jenner is ridiculously rich not because she has amazing products (I mean I don't know much about cosmetics but I can't believe they're 10x better than the next thing out there), but rather because she has direct access to a large audience and understood what that audience would be willing to buy.

This is really just a form of vertical integration/cutting out the middleman. Why sell ad space to companies who will use it to sell goods to consumers when you can instead just sell goods directly to those consumers?

The means of production used to be the most important thing - now it's the means of distribution.
At some point someone is paying for the fraud, and it's not the bank, it's the merchant, that increase slightly the price to account for that, so in the end you pay for it. Same for cashback.
> without even being able to read the notes

Most pop/rock musicians historically have played (and composed) by ear without notation or formal music theory.

It's only in the past 20 years or so that large numbers of pop/rock musicians went to music school.

Even so, virtually all pop/rock is composed by ear today, even for music school graduates. Typically composers start by humming or singing a melody, "transcribe" that to an instrument by ear, and then embellish that further if they know music theory.

You can see from above why most pop music consists of the same 4 chords, with the addition of audience/gatekeeper familiarity (don't mess with a formula that works.)
> Is the return worth the cost?

That's for consumers to decide.

> how many people are educated on what [privacy] actually means?

Are 99% of consumers suffering any actual harm? They see better personalized ads, and yes, people are mostly aware of how internet ads "follow" you because we've all shopped for something and then seen a billion ads for it.

There are absolutely scary areas of privacy. Worries that your info will be used to determine insurance rates is addressed by legislation, so not a problem. And if you have real reasons for anonymity (civil rights, protests, politics, corporate, etc.) then you're already presumably educated on that and taking anti-tracking measures already.

But for the vast majority of people, their educated decision is to use free services in exchange for personalized ads. They see it as a deal or else they wouldn't be doing it.
I agree with this. There's definitely way more available today, and in many more niche genres than there was available in the 70s and 80s. Arguably there is also a higher proportion of trash because of the ease of entry, but because the fanbases can be so segmented people can find stuff they really like that's more geared toward their specific tastes. Plus, there are greater search tools than before, like Spotify.
Yeah Target is perhaps the least bad among the 'milk and sweaters' crowd. It seems like it's mostly there for impulse buys and/or video games.
DoE unveils blueprint for quantum internet in event at University of Chicago
Only 17 and his life is ruined... what a shame all around. A total embarrassment to Twitter, luck to the US that it seems that it wasn't foreign actors, and technical skills that probably could have been put to better use to eventually make that money legitimately instead all goes down the drain, and possibly money never returned (?) to those scammed.
I think what he is really saying is : if you want to make money, you have to be on the clock, produce every month,week, day. Welcome to the newest rat race addition (which works wonders for creativity /s )

Just as we are pivoting away from unsustainable energy, we need to pivot away from unsustainable value structures. We have the tech, we have the brainpower, now we need the will to work on that.
It's only free if you forget opportunity cost. Lots of people working behind cash registers with 4 year degrees would have been much happier going to trade schools and being well on their way to being small business owners/co-owners.

There's no doubt that not having crippling debt is much better than having crippling debt. However, we have this cultural idea that being on the road to taking partial owneship of a small skilled labor business is inferior to being in a dead-end job with a 4-year degree. I fear that an over-emphasis on opening access to 4-year degrees implicitly reinforces this idea of 4-year degrees being universally better and that tradespeople have somehow settled for second-best, even if they have more income, a better work-life balance, and are providing absolutely essential services.
> In 1952 [Wallace] published Where I Was Wrong, in which he declared the Soviet Union to be "utterly evil".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace

Also:

> Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
It means they're tracking US visitors in ways intrusive enough to be illegal in Europe, yes.
Crush might be a strong word, but here's some benchmarks from AnandTech that show ARM (AWS Graviton2) beating Intel and AMD chips in memory bandwidth.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...

The thing is, that's not "ARM" it's "ARM as implemented by AWS", they get to choose how many memory channels to add etc.
But that's work, that needs to happen. That's why Ek is saying that you can't just "release and forget for the next 4 years".
You can listen to the songs on bandcamp before buying it.
Einstein himself would approve this philosophy. As he once said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

Still, finding the simplest-possible solution to complex problems is often challenging in itself, especially considering what is "simple" or "intuitive" can be highly subjective. Engineers are often uncomfortable thinking about these problems because the domain is shifted somewhat away from the realm of logic machines and towards psychology and UX, in which they have little to no education or experience.
$365 for a keyboard? Not sure I really need something like this for that price.
Tech workers are able to work from home. The great news is that they can sit in front of a screen and type away in any state and still be just as productive - few can boast that!
Funny how Americans see this. I would trust Tiktok less the second it became US owned. We think software and businesses from Russia and PRC does bad things. We know US owned does. It is mindbaffling to me how anyone could believe the risks are lower with US owned software. Snowden's leaks was a complete failure for the common American. They have learned nothing at all. Good old red scare still works way better than facts.
>I guess anything makes sense to a company that paid $26 billion USD for LinkedIn.

Is there data to support that this was overvalued? Not personally a big fan of LinkedIn, but it seemed like probably a good long-term buy for Microsoft.
The 2020 new version of tv-shop channels.
And guess what Windows does suffer from shitty apps giving you blue screens. Battery isn't as much of a concern on PC but it's absolutely critical on mobile.
What value does Microsoft get out of this?

Looks like a desperate deal pushed by TikTok to get rid of "Chinese spyware" tag.

The deal makes no absolute sense.
Why do you think universities still give lectures, as the (contemporary) material has been available in written form for a few hundred years? Thousands of professionals, most of them smart and well-intentioned, have had these choices since the advent of cheap printing. Yet lectures today would be recognizable to the ancient Greeks. Why?
Almost all hashmaps hide the internal references/pointers to the backing arrays. That's implementation state just like any other internal data. It's just so mundane, well executed and common that you forget it exists.
Yeah. Increasing number of entrepreneurs here prefer to incorporate and operate their companies in other countries and sell there.
Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack
Companies can sometimes act as VC firms and make acquisitions purely as an investment, a growth engine they can use for their core businesses.
I was recently introduced to the best article on forgiveness (and some politics) here the other day:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GLMFmFvXGyAcG25ni/i-can-tole....

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
by Scott Alexander