skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The delete is the hard part.

Correct.

> you're sort of stuck with lifecycle policies, which would take a day or so to clear out the old bucket

I've had delete jobs run for a month per bucket. We're talking terabytes per bucket, but even so.
If I'm not mistaken, don't Mint Mobile and Google Fi both use T-Mobile infrastructure in the US?
Some rainbow diffraction I guess. It has been a long time since I've used a CD https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cd
Just so people don't miss this, it's about some scientists who spent several years looking for abiotic forms of phosphine synthesis, couldn't find any that could produce significant amounts, and concluded that phosphine is a really good biosignature.
At least when I look into bucket replication (a long time ago, I don't think it was GA at the time), the sync operation only affected _new_ keys, not existing keys, so it wouldn't have worked for this purpose.
It definitely wasn't, it lacked a lot of features of IE Dev toolbar, as far as I remember. Took a few years before it was better, MS let the Dev toolbar drift for a while, and Firebug overtook it. They also didn't promote the toolbar much, which meant a lot of people thought firebug was a revolutionary idea. I seem to remember, and could be wrong as it's a long time ago now, that IE Dev Toolbar's JavaScript support was much better.

Then Chrome came out and most people switched to that, partially as the Dev tools were great, although, again, initially lacked some features so I tended to use a mix of both for about a year. But Google iterated fast and firebug got clunky.
GAAP is an accounting set of rules, EPS is Earning per Share. Basically means they think it will increase their gross margin and EPS but you can't sue them if it does not.
Right, so that is OP's point. Either you trust Apple to do notorization, or you disable signature checks by turning off Gatekeeper.

(Or you let specific apps through Gatekeeper, or you go even further and turn off SIP... there are a lot of in-between states, but they fall somewhere on the spectrum between "trust Apple" and "don't verify trust". There's no "trust Mozilla" option.)
How did you square this goal with nearly every election expert (I'm talking academics here, not politicians) being against using more technology in elections?
Did you ever consider what that idea meant in practice?

People have actively done a great deal of selective breeding of various animals and plant species and the results aren’t a strict improvement over the original wild animals. Agriculture has become about maintaining plants and animals which can’t compete with wild plants on their own.

DNA doesn’t come with an easy score card nor are children clones. Someone with a significant positive mutation should objectively score very highly on such metrics, but good luck find out about that. Further, disease resistance for unknown diseases is incredibly important making genetic diversity critical not just maximizing some specific ideal template. Pushed to the limit, a significant risk from widespread genetic engineering is extinction.

PS: Even just the biological version of this based on physical attractiveness has significant downsides such as excessively large breasts.
Microsoft failed at smartphones because they didn’t offer a compelling unique benefits to the marketplace.

Why not add the missing features you need to Pinephone? It just requires writing software. I’m not going to blow smoke up your arse and tell you that you are going to find a large market, but you could make something compelling and unique to a large enough audience to fund through a Patreon or Kickstarter.

What I will tell you that while every entrepreneurial activity I’ve started has not succeeded, (in fact most have failed), I’ve learned valuable things from every single one. It is one of the greatest ways to learn new technologies, markets and skills.
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Rustup is the way to install rust and cargo.
It looks like a cool game. A short video on the page might be helpful (like the one in the blog post).
EPS -> earnings per share

Non-GAAP -> doesn’t follow generaly accepted accounting practices. There are alternative accounting methods. GAAP is very US-centric (not good or bad, just stating a fact).
Consider one of NVidia's rivals: AMD, who uses an ARM chip in their EPYC line of chips as a security co-processor. Does anyone expect NVidia to "play fair" with such a rival?

ARM as an independent company, has been profoundly "neutral", allowing many companies to benefit from the ARM instruction set. It has been run very well: slightly profitable and an incremental value to all parties involved (be you Apple's iPhone, NVidia's Tegra (aka Nintendo Switch chip), AMD's EPYC, Qualcomm's Snapdragon, numerous hard drive companies, etc. etc.). All in all, ARM's reach has been because of its well-made business decisions that have been fair to all parties involved.

NVidia, despite all their technical achievements, is known to play hardball from a business perspective. I don't think anyone expects NVidia to remain "neutral" or "fair".
The British should never have allowed foreign ownership of their core tech
Any lawyers around who could discuss how enforceable this kind of thing is(n't)? I'd assume at the least it's treated like a contract of adhesion -- what about how it's handled compared to verbal contracts?
So taking your example, the government could not use Windows unless Microsoft decides to open-source it? You realise how much infrastructure of the government runs on Windows right? And not just the operating system itself, but large parts of the software on top, you'd basically have to spend, I don't know dozens of billions to port it all to open-source software, just so you get the source code? Mind you that open-source software is not free, Redhat charges you money just the same for enterprise software

I don't think that's a reasonable use of taxpayer money.
There's a lot of talk about the great filter this, and the great filter that. Even if life is abundant, what gives you the impression that civilization level intelligence would be? Out of all the species that ever roamed the earth, only a single one has reached this point. Perhaps it's an absolutely incredible fluke or glitch in our biology that is one in a [insert astronomical number].

It's tempting to think something in the lines of "oh but if it happened here in our little shitty solar system, it can't be very special". But that's more or less the anthropic principle.
Mint Mobile is an MVNO that runs on the T-Mobile network. Google Fi is also an MVNO, but it runs on T-Mobile, Sprint, and the regional US Cellular. Since T-Mobile merged with Sprint, the coverage of Mint Mobile and Google Fi will eventually be similar once T-Mobile converts the Sprint towers, which is in progress.

If you live in an area where T-Mobile is weaker (rural areas or areas outside of metropolitan areas), AT&T and Verizon will provide more consistent coverage than both Google Fi and Mint. AT&T is GSM-based and will work on the Librem 5 and the PinePhone. Verizon is CDMA-based and might not fully work on these phones.

AT&T Prepaid is currently offering an unlimited plan with 22GB of unthrottled 5G and 4G data for $50/month plus tax with monthly billing. There is also an offer for 8GB of 4G data for $25/month plus tax with annual billing.

https://www.att.com/prepaid
We need some data points from non-developers now.
How does this spite Apple?
The development of multicellular life is unlikely to be the great filter. According to Wikipedia, "Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 25 times in eukaryotes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#Occurre...

Evolution of eukaryotes from prokaryotes is a more plausible bottleneck. (Disclaimer: I am not an expert on any of this.)
Agreed, I regularly sync with servers that have >1M files and rclone makes the whole thing a joy. Used it once with S3 and it performed admirably there as well.
Would it? Seems to me we have no idea how rare it is. For all we know it might be quite common.
Eeek.
My gut reaction to think is.. could we have less powerful conglomerates.. please?
This isn't going to do good things for anyone who doesn't own a lot of Nvidia stock.

This is going to do especially bad things for anyone who needs to buy a cell phone or the SoC that powers one. There's no real alternative to ARM-based phone SoCs. Given Nvidia's business practices, any manufacturer who doesn't already have a perpetual ARM license should expect to have to pay a lot more money into Jensen Huang's retirement fund going forward. These costs will be passed on to consumers and will also provide an avenue for perpetual license holders to raise their consumer prices to match.
I don't think they're being as coy as the phrasing "in a way accusing" suggests. This is a very direct accusation that Bytedance is not on board with changes for privacy, security, etc.
If you are moving it across data-centers (Availability Zones) it won't be possible to do it purely 'symbolically'..
You might just need to pay attention to the right things. Genetics is making steady progress and promises to revolutionize almost everything. Machine learning seems to be applicable to most things and if only suffering from a lack of optimization. The road to space is opening and we’re about to find out just how many new technologies will be made possible with unlimited solar power, microgravity, and untapped resources.
TikTok Enterprise (tm)
You must have been popular in school. I grew up playing with rubik's cube and tavern puzzles. Programming interviews are designed to find people like me.
>You're free to do with your device as you please

They're not obliged, but there is a good market opportunity to cater (significantly) more to powerusers.
Which is dumb. 80% of error messages are likely something they are perfectly equiped to handle.
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The tech may have advanced due to the insatiable hunger of machine learning, but the weak competition has meant pricing has not decreased as much as it should have or could have, only enough to move more GPUs. (nvidia biggest competitor are the GPUs they manufactured two years earlier).
Talking points from the founders of Arm & Nvidia: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-...

> Huang told me that first thing that the combined company will do is to, “bring NVIDIA technology through Arm’s vast network.” So I’d expect NVIDIA GPU and NPU IP to become available quickly to smartphone, tablet, TV and automobile SoC providers as quickly as possible.

> Arm CEO Simon Segars framed it well when he told me, “We're moving into a world where software doesn't just run in one place. Your application today might run in the cloud, it might run on your phone, and there might be some embedded application running on a device, but I think increasingly and with the rollout of 5g and with some of the technologies that Jensen was just talking about this kind of application will become spread across all of those places. Delivering that and managing that there's a huge task to do."

> Huang ... “We're about to enter a phase, where we're going to create an internet that is thousands of times bigger than the internet that we enjoy today. A lot of people don't realize this. And so, so we would like to create a computing company for this age of AI.”
What a death sentence for ARM right there and the start of a starvation in a new microprocessor winter. I guess we now have to wait for RISC-V to catch up.

Aside from that, ARM was one of the only actual tech companies the UK could talk about on the so-called "world stage", that has survived more than 2 decades. But instead, they continue to sell themselves and their businesses to the US instead of vice versa.

In 2011, I thought that they would learn the lessons and warnings highlighted from Eric Schmidt about the UK creating long standing tech companies like FAANMG. [0] I had high hopes for them to learn from this, but after 2016 with Softbank and now this, it is just typical.

ARM will certainly be more expensive after this and will certainly be even more closed-source, since their Mali GPUs drivers were already as closed as Nvidia's GPUs. This is a terrible outcome I have seen but from Nvidia's perspective, it makes sense. From a FOSS perspective, ARM is dead, long live RISC-V.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/26/eric-schm...
On the bright side, this could end up being a big boost for RISC-V.
I would guess they do have higher margins since they are mostly selling licenses and not actual hardware.

This article is old, but suggests a 48% operating margin: https://asia.nikkei.com/NAR/Articles/ARM-posts-strong-profit...
No, what everyone thinks will happen is a pretend open ARM architecture and Nvidia CPUs dominating. Nvidia isn’t going to license the best GPU features they start adding.

It’s an excellent deal for NVIDIA of course, I’m certain they intend to make the chips they produce much faster than the ones they license (if they even ever release another open design) to the point where buying CPUs from Nvidia might be they only game in town. We’ll have to see but this is what I expect to happen.
What do you mean by "it"? If you're saying the Internet was the great unknown, that doesn't seem to disagree with extra88 at all. The method of discovery -- the Internet = the great unknown -- is incidental to the fact that infidelity was going on .
I should be clear my interest is theoretical. I haven't run into any practical issues with "crates.io" and it's been working great for me.

I think the way Go and ES Modules (Deno / browsers) represent module naming and resolution by URLs has some nice benefits:

* decentralized module hosting

* could be extended beyond HTTP / Git (ie. import modules via "ipfs://")

* re-uses existing web infrastructure for namespace ownership (ie. via DNS)

* possibility of hosting backend and frontend modules for multiple languages in a single HTTP registry

However, I do see some important tradeoffs to that approach:

* modules may become unresolvable from their original URL (link rot)

* cannot guarantee immutability at the original URL

* semver support becomes a concern of the registry, and some registries may not support it (ie. the logic to resolve "https://example.com/my-module/1.x.x/lib.rs")

* more difficult to discover (browse and search) all available modules

I see some proposed solutions to the tradeoffs:

* proxies and dep lockfiles of file hashes to help prevent link rot and immutability

* possibility for open source registry implementations with built-in semver support

* central index of modules which can be searched / browsed, if modules are submitted to it

However, those solutions don't guarantee fixes for every tradeoff.

I'd be very interested in learning more about the costs / benefits of the various approaches and the Rust team's discussions on modules. I really appreciate the team's thorough approach to design decisions, as it's manifested into a really cleanly-designed language.

Thanks!
AI training is moving away from CUDA and toward TPUs anyway. DGX clusters can't keep up.
This is likely explanation why Oracle was able to acquire TikTok's operation, despite the fact it does not seem to be a good fit at all: https://www.businessinsider.com/look-inside-president-trump-...
Why do you think Nvidia cares about Arm? Probably the "access" into a lot of industries?
There's been really just one danger and that is East coast Democrats.

The cost, taxes, hard-to-control fires, and energy issues have all been made worse by their policies.
Yeah, it probably depends on the audience somewhat. I know other developers who have avoided Catalina up til now (and I was one myself, until I got a new MacBook late last year), so that’s in the back of my mind as I’m thinking about making a tool for devs.
The US govt can't protect the chip manufacturers from malicious actors. It takes an obscene number of people with the right culture and expertise to have a company that can secure its chip platforms. Even then, the chips and associated software has to be sold to specific trusted customers.
> they just don’t care about teachers

I think you mean, they don’t care about students? Because that’s truly who is hurt here.
Probably around that by default, maybe a bit more:
https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
https://www.howtogeek.com/681662/35-mac-text-editing-keyboar...

But all of them need to work, along with system-wide custom ones.

Text substitution is also an issue.
It depends on who you are. Are you a Larry David or are you a Mila Kunis?
conversely it takes literally two seconds to Control-Shift-M and check smaller resolutions, and it takes even less time if you don't code pixel sizes, something that a CSS developer in 2020 should never, ever do
Oracle Is Said to Gain Advantage in Deal for TikTok in U.S.
would that affect the value of Raspberry Pi and other budget devices?
The law is for crimes or civil matters not petty grudges implied by score.

You might have a score to settle with a (former) friend for sleeping with your sibling as a breach in etiquette but that isn't a matter for the law. Score is too expansice a term. Apply it in politicians context and the abuses become horrifying as in "we testified before congress that the bill was an ill considered mess so now face retaliation". Allowing that strong arming is not justice.
Solar mega-projects around the world
Just take anybody who'd qualify for military service. This isn't about some hyperspecific slice of the population.
> I bet they'd make a completely custom ISA if they could. Heck, maybe they plan to some day, and that's why they're calling the new Mac processors "Apple Silicon".

That was my first thought.

I'd be surprised if Apple wasn't already working on this.
The company who was part of the creation of ARM and has a perpetual license to its IP? Tell me how.
And Nvidia's GPUs now include the same type of hardware that TPUs have, so there's no reason to believe that TPUs will win out over GPUs.
There's more than just food energy, though. Lots of things that we rely on for modern civilization and survival are finite -- the most obvious being petroleum / gas and various minerals + metals. Additionally, retrieving these resources is extremely environmentally destructive in ways which take centuries or millennia to recover from (we've already extracted the locations where getting at this stuff was easy and less destructive). It's a lose/lose situation.
This has been out there in the news for well over a month, I guess I don't understand why Apple didn't try to make a bid for ARM? Or why Apple didn't try to set up some sort of independent holding company or consortium to buy ARM. They definitely have the money and clout to have done something like that.
> The lawyer is a reputable source.

Johnnie Cochran also said OJ wasn’t guilty.....
Oracle chosen to acquire TikTok US
It seems like they're focused on politics, since that's what gets them paid. If school choice comes around, they'll probably change their priorities.
Once they were sold to SoftBank ARM had no more control over its destiny. You're saying that they're repeating the pattern, but they had no choice in this today. This was SoftBank's decision as the owner of ARM.
Why not just teleport to where you want to be?
Where did you get this from? AFAIK GPT-3 (for example) was trained on a GPU cluster, not TPUs.
Perhaps not. I mean AMD and soon Intel basically compete with themselves by pushing advances in both discrete GPU and APU at the same time, one negating the need for the other.

I'm not claiming I'm right and you're wrong, of course. I just think it's unfair to make negative assumptions at this point, so wanted to paint a possible good thing.
What’s great here is that this means it’s potentially a profound and important scientific observation either way! Obviously one is a bit more profound than the other, but nevertheless.
Exactly. My 8 year old is online and he has at least 8 apps he is responsible for checking or turning in work. And none of them talk to each other but clearly the district signed up for a bunch of different things
And have such malware figure out the threshold, and throttle themselves just slightly under it.
No to make a better ARM chip, with awesome graphics/AI, not licence the design and take all the mobile CPU profits for 5-10 years?
The problem with Cuties is our society
So basically if you want to serve the USA market, you have to give up the shares of your company to ruling class of USA? This is eerily similar to how communist China operates.
I love this, I was amongst early engineers on CUDA (compilers).

NVIDIA was so well run, but boxed into a smaller graphics card market - ATI and it were forced into low margins since they were made replaceable by OpenGL and DirectX standards. For the standard fans - they resulted a wealth transfer from NVIDIA to Apple etc. and reduced capital available for R&D.

NVIDIA was constantly attacked by a much bigger Intel (which changed interfaces to kill products and was made to pay by a court)

Through innovation, developing new technologies (CUDA) they increased market cap, and have used that to buy Arm/Mellanox.

I love the story of the underdog run by a founder, innovating it’s way to getting into new markets against harsh competition. Win for capitalism!
No, momentum is simply outright conserved in the same way that energy is conserved. There are the two simplest to derive conservation laws, stemming from spatial symmetry (momentum) and time symmetry (energy).

These relationships are derivable via Noether's theorem, one of the most foundational results in physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
Oracle needs cloud wins. I doubt they care about the actual functionality of TikTok. (Other than its Trump-annoyance functionality that is enabling this whole transaction, of course.)
That's... disappointing. While Amazon may be the reigning modern incarnation of evil, Oracle has held that title for longer.
The hypothesis also makes a huge assumption: that if intelligent civilizations were common, they would be detectable by us. The radio waves emitted by our own civilization don't go that far (compared to the distance between stars) before becoming nearly indistinguishable from background noise.
You are correct that it means they expect margins to increase. One possibility is that ARM has higher margins as you mentioned. Another is that they are making some assumptions about how much they can reduce certain expenses by, and once you factor in those savings, margins go up.
I think this is driven by partly embedded applications and more directly by the datacenter.

Nvidia already own the parallel compute/ML part of the datacenter and the Mellanox acquisition had brought the ability to compete in the networking part of the datacenter - but they were missing CPU IP, for tasks that aren't well matched to the GPU. This plugs that hole. They are in control of a complete data-center solution now.
I guess Apple have a perpetual ARM ISA license. They haven’t used the CPU designs from ARM for many years.
Your points on the actual details of what how cellphones work is exactly right, but it’s trivial to calculate location from those values. My point was that your phone is not powering up any additional hardware, or doing anything extra in software to burn battery life to estimate your location, the information is already there. The phones application processor is already monitoring them if only to keep your radio strength meter display accurate.

And Google should encourage you to keep GPS on if they do a good job managing its power usage. Users aren’t always going to know when the app they are using is going to work better with more precise location data. This is a user friendly feature.

Circling back around, the author is still wrong that allowing installed apps to run unrestricted background network processes is anything like the OS carefully managing location accesses to minimize power usage.