skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how do you define a US company? In a globalized world it is very difficult to pin point a company to a country, so the headquarter is one way to defined it. Though it is not going to prevent the US to impose sanction to whoever they want.
"China will grow old before it gets rich" and it's way too late to change

china can enforce "3 children per household" anytime
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See zoom moving to Oracle cloud a few months ago.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/zoom-selects-o...
Migrating Your Wordpress Blog to Frontity
Not by default, but the pdfx package enables this, Peter Selinger has a nice guide: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/
I made the mistake of applying the hourly schedule to my personal life and it's horrible.

I had to always update my calendar seems things never go as planned. I also was having anxiety even in my off days since I feel that I have to "hit" the schedules planned out in my calendar.
> Now, every reference-implementation ARM processor manufactured will fund GeForce desktop products, datacenter/enterprise, etc as well.

That's like throwing pennies onto a pile of gold. NVIDIA makes billions of yearly revenue. ARM makes ~300 million. NVIDIA revenue is 60% of a GPU price. ARM margins in IoT/embedded/phone chips are thin-to-non-existent. If anything, NVIDIA will need to cut GPU spending to push ARM to the moon. And the announcement already suggest that this will happen.
Exercise just doesn't register as stress to me, although you could call it stress.

For me, stress is about negative outcomes.
That's exactly right. Anybody who has been at a moderately successful startup knows all too well the step where a Chinese company will approach you to "partner"[0] into the Chinese market

[0] Where "partner" means - setup a local JP we control and give us your IP and you will own a "share" (but good luck with the local courts when things go wrong!)
Adding to the other answers: Phosphine is highly reactive and will not last long. In other words, something is producing it.
and also discovery of the secret their link to CCP.
What's unique about this is the US government is telling them to sell it to a US company. It would have been normal to just outright ban it for security reasons the sell it or get ban part is the scary part.
It's not automatic, but also not that difficult to support

https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/#3
This gets brought up a lot, but what it reflects is the exhaustion of mine deposits more than anything else. The UK steel industry's locations were determined by the availability of coal and iron ore, because they are bulky and heavy and more expensive to ship than finished steel. UK iron mining ended in the 80s and the remaining steel mills work on imported ore.

> "Domestic metal extraction is currently restrict-ed to three locations: a small gold mine near Omagh in Northern Ireland; the Cavendish Mill in the Southern Pennine Orefield (SPO) in Derbyshire where about 1200 tonnes of smelter-grade lead sulfide is extracted per annum as a by-product of fluorspar mining; and a major new tungsten mine at Hemerdon near Plymouth where the first deliveries of tungsten concentrate took place in the third quarter of 2015. This mine will be one of the largest pro-ducers of tungsten in the West when it reaches full production."

(BGS mineral planning factsheet 2015)

The tungsten mine is a classic mining story, it seems to have gone in and out of business depending on market fluctuations: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/new-owne...

It's also really sparse: "Exploration by Amax in the early 1980s identified a resource of 42 million tonnes at 0.18% WO3 (tungsten trioxide) and 0.025% Sn (tin)." (BGS)
I pretty much only access said website in Firefox with the extension that puts it in a jail. The mobile app is useless for anything but posting photos of the kids for the grandparents and aunts to see.

Same app implements seriously dark patterns to get users to install their messenger app. Said chat works in the desktop web browser but not a mobile browser. I shall never install it on my phone. Mobile presents as if you have pending messages even when you don't (inbox empty on the web version).
I mean that's not really the argument. Most people own a TV. I've quite literally never seen an Alexa in real life.
One of abiotic ways to explain this is that some complex and intelligent Venus lifeform is artificially making it to use it for something :)
Could be a nice one for UK regulators to hold over the world, need some ammo for those various trade negotiations that are on going/up coming.

The US have exercised the same form of economic warfare (and when that fails actual warfare) for decades now, might as well take a turn.
We support ever more people not working. That means workers have to work harder for a smaller share. So workers suffer long term stress. So more of them drop out of work and the problem gets worse...
Xender is more popular than Play store near where I live
In retrospect however this move made total sense. When they will start deploying custom silicon next year every application that run on Catalina will be able to run on the new ARM Macs.

From Apple perspective it's way better that Catalina take all the blame and not the new products and the technology they are betting on for the next decade.

Also developers that care about MacOS platform were even more incentivized to finally upgrade to 64-bits after the 10+ years deprecation warning so that more Apps will be ready on day one for custom silicon.
It'll be a real test of China as we watch how this tech blockade plays out. 60s China would starve all the peasants to make a point. If 2020 China manages to avoid that rookie blunder, it is difficult to see how the knowledge transfer will be stopped. The US is reliant on bullying to make this work - that is not a strategically dominant position, to say the least.

Particularly looking at the Soviets, it is remarkable how often the US's serious adversaries in the last century choose to disembowel themselves. It is a great game to see which government fails beyond recovery first.
Yeah, last time I did the numbers it would consume every tree in the UK in six months. It's both greenwashing and better than burning coal.
What we observe right now is the beginning of AI tech wars. I hope it will stay cold and will boost new peaceful applications.
When it comes to population control and China, there's no such thing as "it's way too late to change."

China can enforce mandatory population growth easily enough (anyone wanting a marriage license must produce a child within 6 months, if not, the marriage is annulled), and if that is on the 10-15 year time horizon, they can easily allow cloning technology be used on humans for the short term.
UK's biggest pension fund begins fossil fuels divestment:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/29/national...
Most of these companies would kill for an opportunity to enter China.

I don't know what the latest is [0], but 5 years back following these laws meant you'd have to be a standard domestic company which a non-citizen cannot incorporate or own.

[0] China has a tendency of introducing new mechanisms giving impression of potential for more access that never pan out.
Back in the day AWS was promised unprecedented terms in a Shanghai free trade zone. Was supposed to have access to unfiltered connections. None of that has ever happened and "AWS China" is now just a cloud service operated by Chinese companies under the AWS brand.

Even YC fell for this with their China operation now being 100% China-run leeching off their brand. Though I don't know if anything was being promised to them.
There was an RNG on the i810 chipset ~20 years or so ago and several VIA chips had onboard RNGs as well.

Modern chips ranging from the one in the Raspberry Pi to Intel CPUs have them too.
> If liability does not exist outside of government then there is nothing for the government to limit, it would just be called liability, not limited liability.

No,the premise is wrong. Government existed, and created liability, before government also created liability, so when government created limited liability, liability did exist to limit, even though that existence was not independent of government.

> It is limited liability because liability existed before the government

No, it 's called limited liability because liability existed before the limitation, not because liability existed before government.

Just like the FISA limits on government surveillance are called limits on government surveillance because government surveillance existed before FISA, but not because government surveillance existed before government.
Thanks.

But, reading the comments on the pine64 forum you posted, it doesn't sound that functional.

Just last month, they are talking about a non-working camera, and that its unreliable at making calls.

It still sounds like the best option to me, is to go for a dumb phone, and leave the more complex stuff for a desktop or laptop.
SQL Server, KDB+, MemSQL, Kinetica, etc.
That's normalized scientific notation, nothing wrong with 10E9. This is also allowed in several programming languages such as python.
They have good quality audio and low latency with Apple stuff.
When the company gets big / popular enough, they have to choose between 2 candidates for the same position. All these policies will then go away.
Nvidia could have bought a world-class CPU architects team, and build their own ARM or RISC-V chips (NVIDIA has an infinite ARM license already).
.. yet. The exploration has so far been met with hostility from locals, but Ineos have been pushing to do it. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/28/ineos-looks...

A personal bugbear though, we should be working much harder to reduce or eliminate flaring: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-5...
Microsoft, Oracle Lose Bids for TikTok, According to China State TV
Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
For those who have seen the film on Netflix already; what are your thoughts? I am especially interested in hearing from people involved in any algorithm-driven platforms.

This is the first time I have seen such coherent, powerful and accessible explanation on the mechanics of algorithms and negative consequences of social media, and I wonder if this film can be the push that non-technical people need to take a step back and maybe even delete their accounts.

Anecdotally, it was my non-technical, Instagram-loving partner who saw this film first and recommended it to me. She re-watched it with me and is now asking serious questions about the platform and her continued use of it. She can't be the only one.

What will the cultural impact of this movie be?
>Being able to block ARM reference designs etc.... has a huge impact on the United States' ability to block China's technological ambitions.

Practically speaking, aren't ARM designs so widely used among the major chip manufacturers that Chinese companies/agencies are likely to have copies of important stuff anyway?

Or does the implementation of ARM designs work somehow more proprietarily (or opaquely?) than just the customers receiving files full of chip designs?

Because I imagine that the prohibition against being able to use ARM is really only meaningful to legal and royalty-paying law-abiding customers. If a rogue agent has the designs already, what's to stop them from using them?

I'd be curious to know how ARM protects the designs from just being copied, or what the mechanism here is. Or maybe their designs are useless without the supporting software, etc. ? ARM's value is the licensing of the designs and that they hold patents/copyrights, not the absolute knowledge of the designs -- is that right? Are their designs themselves that hard to copy?
US is officially behaving like a banana republic, note the "officially":
Trump Lends Support To Billionaire Donor Larry Ellison As He Backs Oracle's Bid For TikTok https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/08/19/trump-l...
This is the first time I’ve heard of kindergarten being less time in school than any of the other grades. I went 30+ years ago, and never heard of anyone going for half a day.
US energy use is very high for a number of reasons and energy use will tend to drive CO2 emissions. If you just use electricity (we'll get to that) you can maybe make an order of magnitude difference and maybe if you work very hard, which we need to, two orders of magnitude but that's all you can hope for. That's from 1kg/kWh which is roughly where coal power is, to 100g/kWh and then (very hard) to 10g/kWh with power sources that produce CO2 mainly during construction then amortized over their lifetime.

So if you start out using many times more energy than other countries per capita, you'll struggle to equal them on CO2 emissions even if that's a core policy goal.

The low population density in much of the US drives increased energy usage. I will walk to the nearby grocery store in a few minutes to buy my week's groceries, many Americans will drive, perhaps as much as an hour, to buy their groceries, it's not as though eating is optional. And this low density also forces bad energy source choices (e.g. using wood fires to keep warm seems pretty reasonable when there is no mains electricity out where you live even though of course it's very inefficient)

But to be fair consumerism does not help. Americans have been somewhat resistant to energy efficiency technologies that took off elsewhere, consumption is a sign of wealth and success and so efficiency is in that sense "bad". The entire city of Las Vegas is clearly a terrible idea from an energy efficiency point of view, why would you build a city in a desert?
Although on the surface it appears that this is a major change, brought about by COVID-19 and remote working, it is however not the full story. Google already owns several buildings in Dublin, it is in the process of refurbishing one and constructing an 8 building campus. The building that they have turned down was only ever supposed to be a stop-gap measure while awaiting the completion of the other work.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0912/1164713-work-from...
Actually, I wonder how 80 million active users would take it if one day their app stopped working, because Trump wanted it, a few days or weeks before the elections. It might not skew votes too much, but 80 million is a lot of people.
Pakistan, Nigeria, and a host of other countries have large populations.

Education and wealth matter a lot. If China can spread this out, then we'll be talking. As it stands, their educated middle class is very concentrated.
> The reality today still is that you can’t have greatly useful tools and it’s super powerful functionality separated from where and how it’s data is stored. Until that is separation comes all these security and privacy issues can’t be solved at its root.

Not sure what you mean here, sounds very vague. The operating system? PureOS is endorsed by the FSF. Cloud storage? Purism does not force into it and you can use Nextcloud.

> business model that supports sustainable monetization of such tools so business can continue to provide such tools.

One of the goals of Purism is to influence the phone industry.

> development of standards and tool that allow vendor agnostic data portability that still are as powerful as google sheets or say maps or keynote etc

GNU/Linux with its packages?

> pervasiveness of such tools as if only a small population of users are using those tools they are not very useful

Yes, we need open standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard. Do you imply that until everything is an open standard, we cannot have a GNU/Linux phone?
> Oh, how they dare argue with WALTER BRIGHT. The hubris!

With all due respect, but if someone says something invalid, the fact that they have authority on a subject does not mean that we should agree.

As far as I understand the article (And I'm not the great Walter Bright, so I may be wrong) - the author states that "void foo(char a[..])" is better syntax than "void foo(size_t s, char a[])" but does not provide any arguments for it. Furthermore, the author initially fails to mention that there has been an attempt to fix the array-to-pointer-decay issue, when discussing "C's Biggest Mistake".

So, yeah, the author may be right that this has been C's biggest mistake. I don't know whether that is true or not, I do not have his experience. It is certainly true that this mistake would be high on rankings of all mistakes that C did. Still, the initial "sleight of hand" move followed by unsubstantiated argument leads to a post with the quality similar to that of a twitter post. Maybe even worse, since, you know, it's posted on a place other than twitter, so we are actually talking about it as if it was something serious.
Like the server market; high bandwidth, always on and likely running and endpoint for z mobile service.
Gas is cheap because there isn't demand for it, energy generation has one of the most inelastic supply curves under a decade of any industry.

If the UK was still producing steel at the level it was in 1960 it would require up to 10% of the total current electricity production to meed the demand of the sector [1] [2]. That's just one industry.

The UK's electricity demand has fallen over 20% since the peak in 2000 [3].

The other reason why coal is no longer a good deal for the UK is that Thatcher wanted to crush organized labour in the mines, managed to do it and then found that trying to import coal from Australia was a losing proposition.

Had British industry not been stabbed in the back by the Tories we'd be looking at new plants which would be a mix on coal and gas and maybe if the greens could have been kept at bay nuclear, but old plants will still be open because they could make money.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph240/martelaro1/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom

[3] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-primary-energy-use-i...
How would any of that make payment in shares beneficial compared to cash payment?
That's the name of the legal entity. The actual name, if memory serves, is "X, the moonshot factory".
> On the x86 front, when AMD was desperate for cash a few years ago they setup joint ventures with China (THATIC and Hygon) and were transferring AMD's then current-generation Zen 1 architecture to China.

That's not even the whole truth.
The version of Zen 1 they exported had to be nerfed in several ways in order to be given the OK for export.

Performance is much worse than comparable Zen 1 CPUs.

See https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-c...
> Everybody does it, but I still think that businesses fundraising for political activity should basically be regarded as corruption.

Right. So perhaps Mike Bloomberg is corrupt then. Oh dear.

Supporting evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/mike-bloombe...

You can also see how using 'guilt by association' here makes no sense with Oracle if we keep thinking that 'Bloomberg LP is supporting Biden.'
That applies to most Chinese diaspora then.
Sideloading is totally possible. It is just ordinary customers don't have the right to do so.
That site phrases it as "US-origin dual-use goods".

It's not enough to have a foreign HQ, but if you have a separate development organization abroad and a clear delineation between their technology and your US-developed technology, this seems very workable.
Only slightly related, but she also helped develop shark repellent for the US government:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
PDF is tied to page layout. PDF is a way to digitally describe something that's intended to be printed to paper, on a sheet of a certain size.

And as a format, it's much more sane than, say, Word or Excel.

Even if the focus on "where do I put this glyph" means the original text isn't in there by default.
Well, the US government certainly thinks the Chinese government is interested.
Doesn't have the tactile feedback of pencil and paper.

Needs additional software and mental overhead to get the sketches on screen.
Technology can help. Good, proven technology. Facial recognition tech is not ready for prime time.

Too often we've seen the legal system use flimsy evidence, and comb the earth for experts who'll back up the flimsy evidence. Then years later the city is paying someone for their wrongful conviction.

I don't want to be the person whose life is turned upside-down, and unable to pay legal fees all because of some flawed facial recognition.

When facial recognition is reliable, then we need to talk about privacy and access to the data and how it's used.

I can already imagine what'll happen. Government entities like, law enforcement, will have to jump through hoops to get warrants and prove they have a good reason to access the data. However, private entities like grocery stores, marijuana dispensaries and car washes won't need a good reason. They'll use it for marketing, and making money allowing 3rd parties to access the data.

I'm not cool with any of that.
> Their growth is slowing, they've got major structural issues internally,

Those exact words has been making the headlines in the newspapers since 1989 at least, every single year, and yet here we are today, at the point where the US is willing to dismantle half of the global trade only to stop China from accessing whatever useful technology it still has not bought in the West.
> What's unique about this is the US government is telling them to sell it to a US company

This is exactly what China does to foreign companies who wish to operate in China. The US is simply pursuing a model of reciprocal trade protections and tariffs.
Most of the Ivy League schools already implement a lottery, because even with the absurd requirements for entry they can't differentiate the qualified candidates well enough to make a determination given the limited number of acceptance slots and high number of applicants.

You have to keep mind those schools are extremely tiny compared to the highly rated state schools in California, Texas, and Florida.