skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to Linux just to support the 0.000001% of users

Because Windows users don't ever want to write iOS apps? Particularly game devs, who are primarily using Windows computers to develop games because Windows PC is their largest market? None of those people would like to develop iOS games without switching to an entirely new OS?

> Not sure what you want from Apple here

Open up their SDK to the point where communities like Linux can realistically set up their own build tools or emulators. Don't sue people who are providing iPhone emulator access[0]; instead create code/SDK licensing opportunities for companies to ship these environments to customers/developers without running afoul of copyright laws.

I lose sympathy for companies claiming "this is too hard", when they're going out of their way to make the problem harder for other people to solve.

I don't know why we're pretending that there's anyone at Apple thinking, "wow, I'd love to make it easy for Windows/Linux devs to target iOS, but it's just too hard for me to engineer." We know that's not really happening, we know that Apple's management is very happy to force developers to buy Macs, we know that's a status quo that Apple has every incentive to reinforce at every opportunity.

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/16/apples-corellium-lawsuit-...
“Hunger” by Knut Hamsun
This comment will be unpopular.

But, I and most people I've talked to have been waiting years for this prediction to materialize. We'd all love it here if we could enjoy all that California has to offer with fewer transplants around.

And I'll add, if you've extracted your wealth off the back of California and it's people, it's only fair you pay back some of that to the state if you do decide to just take the money and run.
I want to like their phone, but this will be a lot like using Linux on the desktop in the 90s. Software won’t be available and it will get in the way of anything productive I need to do.
Amazing how creative people can be when faced with little resources and an important problem. This is one of the few pieces of content that is truly able to wow me.

Now it needs to go viral for all the other teachers. Maybe a site will emerge from this where teachers can share best practices, and everyone can benefit from some of the creations.
And what percentage of the New York Times editorial board is Democrats? I would still call the Times a non-partisan paper (albeit one with liberal leanings).

A somewhat old (2000) Hoover Institution article notes that 1/4 of its Fellows are Democrats. I would be shocked if 1/4 of the Times editorial Board was Republicans. Or really if even one person on the Times editorial Board was a Republican.
> Revenue was half of Nvidia, profit was 5% of NVidia.

For operating income it's 25%, for net income it's 18%; not 5%.

Last four quarters operating income for AMD: $884 million

Last four quarters operating income for Nvidia: $3.5 billion

This speaks to the dramatic improvement in AMD's operating condition over the last several years. For contrast, in fiscal 2016 AMD's operating income was negative $382 million. Op income has increased by over 300% in just ~2 1/2 years. Increasingly AMD is no longer a profit lightweight.
> The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

(emphasis mine) Okay, what am I missing? That looks like exactly the same statement.
Sounds like everyone is rallying around RISC-V. What does this mean for MIPS?

"ARM was probably what sank MIPS" - saagarjha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24402107
If I'm buying Cuban singles, I get it cut in the shop at the counter and check the draw to see if it's plugged. There are great non-Cubans, just not the fake brand ones, imo. The Avo Domaine is one of my all time favourites, and any Ashton maduro is my go-to when I'm stateside. I haven't had a Davidoff that I remembered well enough to get another of, and for that price, it should have been more memorable. It's a very individual thing. Given how recklessly dangerous it is to smoke anything at all, I keep it to a few high end ones as an occasional treat, as if I'm going to be giving myself cancer, it had better be the fancy cancer.
Their market performance is a relatively recent development. R&D has a lead time.
Capital being more abundant than mild weathered land is bullish for the state, no?
Some apps can stream to a browser over LAN.
I understand why any marketplace-based system would need real time data but why would any of "growth group, finance, communications, legal" require real-time data to do their jobs?
This vibes with other things I've read/heard, about the key to success being networks. If you've got a large enough network, someone in your network knows someone who really cares about the work you're doing, if it really is that awesome.

And, like the article says, you don't know exactly who that is. So you should be showing your work regularly to people, in search of the right audience, a parallel concept to finding product market fit.
There’s nothing stopping there from being several great filters.
The quarter helping to hold down the CD may also contribute by blocking overhead inbound interference.
Apple would not get antitrust approval (iPhone maker controls all android chips????). So that’s why.
> Other countries had relatively brief shut downs,

And if the US had actually ever done a shutdown right (or, on a smaller scale, if the few states that did do that on a state level had the legal and practical ability to impose the kind of travel restrictions against the rest of the US that almost every country in the world has against the US because of COVID), it (or those states, in the smaller scale case) might have started to recover after a relatively brief shutdown.
Why this author is taking a stand against Amazon’s audiobook
I think it can be a mixture of both. People who don't have the drive, goodwill, and skills (i.e. incompetance) to take on extra work will sometimes willfully ignore problems (i.e. malice). This only increases in an environment where demand is locked in for whatever reason. And it gets even worse when replacing the supply is hamstrung by bureaucracy.
They mention using information from data breaches obtained from the dark web in their profiles, but this doesn't really sound all that different than what a shady us based data broker would offer. I guess because they're associated with china's military its supposed to be more sinister?
This reminds me a bit of a wing-man situation not working. "Donald tried to hook us up on a date, but she wasn't interested."
Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp
Conversely, I'm sitting at a computer for the majority of my waking hours. My productivity happens there.

For a phone, having calls/texts, web access (and most "apps" of any importance have a web version), calculator, clock/alarm, camera, and weather info is fine. I don't need tons of applications installed on it anyway; I have my real computer for that. I don't lose any convenience to go to a more security-minded phone.

And besides, it's nice to be actually away from the computer when you're away from it, instead of having the phone being a constantly nagging ball and chain of your entire digital life. It's got to be socially & mentally healthier, too.
“Irony” or “makes complete sense?”
Not a single member of the NY Times editorial board ever worked in the White House (except as a reporter), worked as a full-time political operative, or the like. They’re all career journalists and scholars. It’s not remotely comparable to the Hoover Institution.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/opinion/editorialbo...
Flexyforce – Cloud based supplier management
Python didn't screw up. They ticked the "major" version number. That's what the 3 in the number is:

major.minor.revision: https://semver.org/

They ticked the version at the right spot, which means it's (edit: not) backwards compatible.
The Hoover Institution is aligned with the Republican Party. It has been since it was named after Herbert Hoover, a Republican president. Like the Nixon library, it exists primarily to redeem the reputation of its namesake.

(For those who need a refresher, Hoover's policies nearly destroyed America during the Great Depression and he spent the rest of his life trying to convince the world that unrestrained free markets and supply side economics was the cure all for everything.
You make it sound like it is uncommon for a think tank to publish research that helps its backers and allies. “The example of the day” (provided by NPR?) is just one small feature of a much larger landscape.
Great sounding theory, but not how it works. ; )

In other words, one can use phrases like that in response to anything, whether it's true or not ;).
But is it really a huge reputational win? Us geeks know that Tiktok's scale is huge, but your average bank is not going to be terribly impressed that Oracle is now hosting an app still widely viewed as some random frivolous teen twerk thing.
Can't you also just join the Zoom/Meet/Whatev from your phone?
If you read any account of the history of the KGB and GRU (obviously the west does it too), so-called Active Measures are their bread and butter. It would be bizarre if they weren't trying to influence countries via social media
Aaaaaand it's dead.
Official app support for teachers:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1502489790

https://www.playosmo.com/blog/introducing-osmo-projector/

https://twitter.com/PlayOsmo/status/1241152565083090947
It's less me, and more the experience of myself, my close friends and professional colleagues. But as with everything, I would assume it's a mix of both.
There’s a difference with having a contract with a department and being best buddies with an autocrat wannabe. Who then signs an executive order and invokes national security on very shaky grounds to force a sale.

Still, I’m not saying that the $10B DoD contract and the way they tortured the process to avoid giving it to Amazon did not stink as well. Or that Amazon as a company is fine. There can be more than one festering carcass in a swamp.
Probably a leak from one of the embargoed reporters is more likely, if it's true. Obviously we'll find out soon. But if the Earthsky.org story a fake, he certainly did a vastly better job producing the fake than he did self aggrandizing off of it.
Starting with a hypothesis (conclusion) is pretty standard, otherwise you are just poking around blindly.

The current "strategies" have only been sustainable because our economies had grown enough to sustain the blow, for now. Many countries don't have that luxury and eventually the West will feel it as well.

The strategies are based on a hope that a meaningful vaccine can be found in a timely fashion, and that is no where near guaranteed. So no matter which way you slice it it's all gambling with our lives.
> >being forced to improvise with limited to no support from communities, schools, or governments.

> Everyone is trying to figure out how to continue life during this pandemic. Why would you expect all levels to have this figured out?

There's a big difference between, on one hand, complaining "why haven't communities, schools, and governments figured this all out?", which would be a ridiculous complaint and which no-one is making; and, on the other hand, observing that communities, schools, and governments have collectively thrown up their hands and declared that it's all the teacher's responsibility, which is a real and justified complaint.
Understanding How Gaussian Blur Works
Official app for students\teachers https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1502489790
When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 Billion, did you expect Oracle to burn Solaris to the ground, and turn their back on MySQL's open source philosophy? Then sue Google for billions of dollars over the Java / Android thing?

Or more recently, when Facebook bought Oculus for $2 Billion, did you expect Facebook to betraying the customer's trust and start pushing Facebook logins?

The Oculus / Facebook login thin just happened weeks ago. Companies betraying the promises they made to their core audience is like... bread-and-butter at this point (and seems to almost always happen after an acquisition play). We know Facebook's modus operandi, and even if its worse for Oculus, we know that Facebook will do what Facebook does.

Similarly, we know NVidia's modus operandi. NVidia is trying to make a datacenter play and create a vertical company for high-end supercomputers. Such a strategy means that NVidia will NOT play nice with their rivals: Intel or AMD. (And the Mellanox acquisition is just icing on the cake now).

NVidia will absolutely leverage ARM to gain dominance in the datacenter. That's the entire point of this purchase.

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There's a story about scorpions and swimming with one on your back. I'm sure you've heard of it before. Just because its necessary for the scorpion's survival doesn't mean it is safe to trust the scorpion.
I'd say they have been successful with a lot of their acquisitions: BEA, PeopleSoft, Seibel, and many more. Also, I think they have been a better steward of Java than Solaris had been since Java 6.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/
I realize politics is frowned on here, and there is much I'd like to say yet won't, but do take a look at https://articlesofunity.org/.
"The state also intends to make this [wealth tax] law follow you for up to a decade should you leave."

I'm not up on the current law, but this is how the IRS used to treat people over a certain net worth who renounced their US citizenship. The IRS would assume these individuals did it for tax evasion purposes and continue to tax them for 10 years afterwards.
Yeah and doesn't California have Silicon Valley and Hollywood? Wake me up when Google and Universal leave California.
And now you need additional software, need to switch between screens, constantly check which feed students see, etc.
https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html

You mean this Weyland "support"?
Really? You get 2x perf per dollar with Ampere. That’s not good enough on the pricing front?
They're using a really common anti-tax argumentation tactic. Instead of establishing a causal link between the 966 business that left and the corporate tax rate by doing a study they've simply called 2 people and quoted them in the article about why they left. So what about the other 964 business owners? Why don't they call those people and ask them too? The fact is they have no idea why those people left, and they have no idea why the other 13,000 businesses left. And they say nothing about new businesses being created.

The rest of the article is some cherry-picked facts about how much it costs to start a business. But no explanation as to why that's unreasonable other than that it's more than any other US state.

The only article about "Regulations" is a Cato Institute ranking. The Cato Institute works tirelessly to eliminate anything that they see as impeding businesses. But some regulations are good. Just because California ranks highest in regulation doesn't mean anything. It's just a smoke screen to convince us there's a problem.

I'm left to conclude the author has no idea what they're talking about.
Has anyone actually ever used their cloud offering? I assume it's awful, but I've never even looked at it.
> I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube or Facebook video.

Do you have any evidence of this happening? I've never heard of pro-US censorship before on any of these platforms (or any social media platform..)
And still, how many businesses did California lose in 2018 and 2019? Less than 800 total. So out of the 40 million people that live here, 0.001% chose to leave every year.

I assume a business would have more than 1 employee?
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. But It Didn't Protect a Source
not strange

- TikTok ruined Trumps rally

- Facebook is threatened by TikTok growth in US

- Zuck testifies before congress, pointing fingers at China and companies like TikTok

- Zuck met Trump, shaked hands under the table

- Trump asks TikTok to sell

- to Oracle.... best US company to curb TikTok growth

- Facebook does nothing about Trump posts

- Profit for Trump, less competitor for Zuck

- Things probably staged. What is one reason TikTok "chooses" Oracle over Microsoft?

edit: formatting
No, it’s not uncommon at all. There is a whole industry of billionaire-funded GOP “think tanks” whose business is laundering bullshit. It still reflects very poorly on Stanford though.
Ian Murdock, one of the creators of debian even resigned once sun was acquired by Oracle.
A lot of this discussion is thinking about government procurement, and yes absolutely, custom software that the government commissions should be OSS unless national security prevents it, and in that case, they and not the contractors should retain the copyright.

But there’s another issue: government should approach funding OSS like funding scientific or medical research. If you want to cure cancer, you find a government grant, write up a proposal, get your proposal scored, and if all goes well get to conduct your research. The exact same process should apply for OSS.
My favourite humans see money as a means to an end.
They do make one good point in this essay -- the $800 annual corporate fee is ridiculous. It's completely out of line with other states.

It's not high enough to get me to move, but still. At the very least it should be waived if your profits are less than $800.
except you'd still be on the hook for the monthly cost for the useless bucket full of data
How can the government pass a law that is a felony?
First you shield your spacecraft with a gravity shielding device so it's not affected by earth gravity anymore. Then, even an emdrive's tiny propulsion output should be able to push your spacecraft all the way to space, powered with a clean cold fusion reactor. It's all imaginary though, but a man can dream...
Nvidia does not publish drivers, only binary blobs.

You generally have to wrap those and use them while not being foss-compatible.
Real CDs don't look like clip art CDs. 90% of the images for "mirror" don't have reflections either.
Only, that's not actually deletion, nor would it have helped their business requirement:

> It is a 3rd party application that puts data into that origin bucket. They needed the bucket to be empty before the new version gets activated. And they wouldn't use another bucket. Something out of our control
I'm definitely one of those who treat it like a filesystem :') . I'd love to hear a different point of view. Would you feel ok to share thoughts on how I could be thinking of s3 to fully appreciate the right way of using it?
It's pretty easy for trump to have someone else ghost write his tweets; that' won't work for his tiktok videos...
Regarding the MySQL forks, what is the story? Do you mean MariaDB, or some other fork that I'm not aware of? Honestly I'm surprised at how MySQL managed to survive... Among all those other products that you mentioned, I would have thought it would be the first to die, because some people at Oracle might see it as a competitor of Oracle DB.
On a per capita basis, California's GDP is not remarkable and is significantly worse than some other States. Having a large economy is a function of having a large population, it doesn't imply an exceptionally productive economy.

I'm a native Californian but I've never understood the odd "fifth largest economy!" flag waving given that it is a product of population size. The "doing something right" may not be the thing you are trying to imply.
> this exists for Canadian residents who want to move out of the country

Not that I'm aware of. We hired a big fancy consulting company to figure out the tax laws when we moved from Canada to the US. We found that it does exist for US Citizens though. If a US citizen leaves the US, they will (basically) never get a lower tax rate because they will always owe the difference back to the US government. This is to prevent people from pretending to move to tax haven countries while still basically living in the US.
It's a right-wing ideological propaganda mill; it's “non-partisan” in the trivial sense that, like most “think tanks”, it has no formal control by a political party, and in the slightly more substantive (but also directly opposed to what most people try to communicate by “non-partisan” in terms of political bias) sense that, also like most ideological propaganda mills, it is devoted to an ideology much narrower than the big-tent views of either of the US’s major parties, which are both somewhat opportunistically shifting coalitions.
Oracle acquired two of our customers. Within 2 years they were both dead. Meanwhile every other company in the same industry was thriving.

Oracle is where things go to die.

RIP TikTok.
The Trump admin is strongly suspected of handing the JEDI contract of Microsoft and Oracle was one of the plaintiffs suing over bias.
You just agreed with my original point that outsourcing identity to DNS/TLS is a good practice!
But when they do opine on political, social, and economical issues you can be sure they're not going to be siding with The Nation.
Wait Oracle doesn't have open floor plans?

I guess I'll be polishing my resume.
Given the world-wide adoption of their app on smart phones, I'd say you're mistaken.
no that means something right happened decades ago and its still coasting off that.
She's getting a surprisingly high-quality reflection from that CD. I would have thought a CD wouldn't have had enough specularity, or created too much distortion to achieve that kind of quality.

The only downside appears to be that you have to angle the CD, in order to reflect the keyboard plane into the webcam, which means the captured image can only be viewed at an angle.

It'd be nice to have some live, post-processing to fix some issues like this. You could apply a perspective transformation to rotate the image to a head-on view, and maybe increase the contrast between black and white.
It's worse than Yahoo acquiring Tumblr. And that killed Tumblr. How much of TikTok is porn right now?
I'm not sure what you mean. I think so, but beside the point. I was replying to the idea that California government "must be doing something right," which is untrue.
Their flagship database was outstanding 20 years ago.

Today..not worth the price tag. And if you do pay the price tag, you're going to need some high priced DBAs to baby it along.

To your list I would add that with Hudson they achieved such an own-goal that all anyone knows is the renamed fork, Jenkins. (Which I believe was named after Leeroy Jenkins...)
We're going to find many, many more of these.

See also: https://www.amazon.com/America-Before-Earths-Lost-Civilizati...
I don't know where all of this misinformation is coming from or why, but, as someone who has spent the last year programming TPUs to do all kinds of things that a GPU can't do, this isn't true.

Are we going to simply say "Nu uh" at each other, or do you want to throw down some specific examples so I can show you how mistaken they are?
The problem was Ruby, not Java.
7% of reporters identify as Republicans versus 28% identify as Democrats.[1]

If we're going to play the "this source is biased" with every article published on HN, then we're going to see a lot of "people should know this paper has a Democratic bias".

[1]https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/survey-7-percen...
Thanks for the numbers. I’ve never lived somewhere cold enough to make it noticeably more expensive to stay at home all day, but now you’ve got me wondering if the cost of WFH would be more noticeable if I had air conditioning. I’m sure the cost is also significant for normal people who don’t consider a desktop computer and fast home internet a basic utility.