skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what this means for NVIDIA's recent RISC-V efforts [1]. Apparently they've been aiming to ship (or already have been shipping?) RISC-V microcontrollers on their GPUs for some time .

[1] https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tue1345pm-NVIDI...
I agree, just don't make it into something stupid like GPL.

Also just because you've released the source after it doesn't make more secure, valuable or whatever. It should be developed in public to begin with.
I did say “relatively”. As in relative to when 11 year olds were mining coal.. but you’re right, in absolute terms there’s no such thing as egalitarian capitalism, and even during the period I talked about it required 90% tax rates on the super wealthy.
Have you read the press release at all? It's too early to judge this now.
ARM will stay in Cambridge and Nvidia wants to invest in this place.
it's nice to have different groups working on both, it hopefully paves the way for a phone which will have both.
Interestingly, don't most poor parts of the world have some such stereotype? Like, if you Google any of the following you'll get exactly what you expect from any of these (they clearly espouse identical beliefs):

* https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=jugaad%20enginee...

* https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=hillbilly%20engi...

* https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=mexican%20engine...

Though I couldn't find an equivalent 'Brazilian' or 'Somali' so I wonder what the terms are in those places or if they have no such terms, what they do instead.

I think it's just what you get when you constrain resources but tooling gives you a great boost and safety is less costly.
It's looking like Oracle (of which Larry Ellison recently proclaimed his support of Trump) is now the front runner: https://twitter.com/jolingkent/status/1305290263632343040

Edit: "Oracle Wins Bidding for TikTok in U.S., After Microsoft Proposal Rejected" https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-...
Can’t we just shoot one of these into space and see if it moves? We’d need only a few days to generate any appreciable thrust and prove or disprove the theory.
My prediction: Oracle couldn’t care less about TikTok as an entity, but wants their IP so they can sue everyone else who has a recommendation engine. No, it won’t make any sense, but much of that organization’s moves are inscrutable to me.
Where did everyone go? I wanna work with people who do stuff like this.
It's worth noting that the "misinformation" cited by Facebook regards the attribution of the fires to particular groups, and that they are not disputing that some of the fires may have been intentional. They are not claiming that all of the fires are natural, or that people have not been arrested for arson, just that those arrested are not shown to be associated with the particular groups that are being accused. This page has details on six individuals who have in fact been arrested for setting recent West Coast fires: https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/09/signs-in-oregon-fire-zone....
Yikes. I miss Unix and rsync
चलता है? (Not a native speaker, learning, just curious) as in walk/do/operate something? The attitude being (having read जुगाड़ means lifehack/bodge) just do it quick and dirty, don't worry if it's 'right'/high-quality sort of thing?

(I don't mean any offence, please don't take it that way, just trying to understand the terms and attitude ypu refer to.)
Agree, Nvidia’s track record on opening things up is pretty bad. They are very good at business though!
Keep moving those goalposts. At least you learned a little bit more about how your phone works.
Not sure why you are throwing accusations of burying the question. Any post 3-4 comments deep will look 'buried' on HN.

I didn't down-vote the Question but I did choose not to answer it because it's a "Gotcha" question. Different users have different preferences on what they want out of their device or OS. Sure you can come up with a laundry list of features that exist on platform X or Y but it doesn't really answer the issue, because any given user will have their specific preference values for each, and talking about them starts pointless discussions of how one can approximate the same functionality on some other platform.

I can speak for my personal preference. I don't use iPhones so I will speak for Macbooks, but the idea is the same.

I like Macbooks for the quality of their touchpad (best in the market), their general look and feel (they don't feel plasticky), I like some UX polishes MacOS has, and I am a programer so I like that MacOS is a UNIX-based OS because I spend a lot of my time on the terminal.

Note that most or none of these have to do with Apple's software choices (such as locking down their OS much more compared to Windows) and in the future, if Apple makes MacOS closer to iOS in terms of their vice grip on what can and can't run on it, it will effectively be adding features that I not only don't appreciate, but actively find annoying. They are NOT what I own a Macbook for.
RISC-V still seems too ad-hoc to me, and really new. Hard to say where it'd go for now.

I know momentum is currently towards ARM over POWER, but... OpenPOWER is certainly a thing, and has IBM / Red Hat support. IBM may be expensive, but they already were proven "fair partners" in the OpenPOWER initiative and largely supportive of OSS / Free Software.
Please see my reply to Razengan
Android worked on x86 and MIPS in the past, it could presumably be ported to work with RISC-V
Netflix doesn’t have commercial breaks, but that doesn’t mean it won’t have ads
...and isn't jugaad more a reaction to Gandhi-era command economy/license Raj, when imports were heavily restricted, shoddy goods had no competition and getting anything done through official channels took forever?
Lots of software commissioned by Italian govt is open sourced: https://developers.italia.it/en/
Yes I am sure a 17 year old believed that he had to protect the defenseless police.

Isn’t that called vigilantism?

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...

> In another video recorded before the shootings, a teen who appears to be Rittenhouse describes himself as a member of a local militia that was effectively protecting businesses in Kenosha.

A third video again shows the teen armed with a gun and strolling among what appear to be uniformed police officers.
Oracle Funny-Clock-Sound Personal Video Suite for Youth Management (Single-Core License)
Ah sorry, I thought by "not a subscription" you just meant free.

What you're saying makes sense and is definitely something worth thinking about. We do take security very seriously, of course, but I understand your concern about data still living in the cloud.
Former top Boeing 737 Max officials defend design process
Sending stuff to space isn't cheap.
It's a marketing piece, but I don't see anything terribly wrong with what they wrote. I also don't think you have to be that hardcore about it to want your phone to work like this.
https://archive.vn/MVYB5
It's the only way to avoid large companies turning it into their own projects and selling that for a large markup, with very little benefit to the taxpayer and some extra user freedom infringement sprinkled on top.

Even something like LGPL allows taking freedoms from users and it could be blatantly seen from the Polish eDowod software issue (that's still ongoing).
Experience, for one. TPUs are dominating MLPerf benchmarks. That kind of performance can't be dismissed so easily.

GPT-2 was trained on TPUs. (There are explicit references to TPUs in the source code: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/0574c5708b094bfa0b0f6df...)

GPT-3 was trained on a GPU cluster probably because of Microsoft's billion-dollar Azure cloud credit investment, not because it was the best choice.
Fun problem. Without replication, here's how I would do it.

A pipeline: S3 list worker(s) (see below for optiizations) -> SQS -> aws lambda (s3 sync) -> SQS -> aws lambda (s3 delete of original key).

Now the secret: to make it really go vrrooom you need to sufficiently parallelize the list operations. For this enable S3 storage analytics on the bucket to get a manifest of all of the files a few days beforehand. Use that list to partition the prefix/key space evenly into 20 or 30 (or 100, or 200) workers each with start and end key prefix.

With SQS, you can make sure the sync and delete actions succeed, and with lambda they'll run in a serverless fashion as fast as you can feed the queues.

Amazon will absolutely throttle you when making a lot of requests. Reach out to them ahead of time. Make your lambda code robust, so that a failure is idempotent lean into the retries.
At least in the US only about 25% of the population qualifies for military services. But, I doubt that’s a 1:1 match for what you’re looking for.
>long standing tech companies like FAANMG

why are people going out of their ways to avoid the obvious and intuitive "FAGMAN" acronym?
TikTok is about the furthest you would look for something to pass off as novel. If they were buying some decrepit social network precursor which no one ever used or can recall, that might still make more sense under this hypothesis. As it is, I’m sure Oracle already owns IP pertaining to recommendation engines that even predates TikTok’s existence!
(Single-Thread License. They don’t want people ripping them off with multithreaded CPUs.)
It's not too early to judge, because this has been in the news for a while and people have had the time to do an analysis of what it means for Nvidia to buy ARM. The press release doesn't add much to that analysis. We've seen a ton of press releases go by for acquisitions and they're always full of sunshine... at the moment, I'm thinking of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, but that's just one example. The typical pattern for acquisitions is that a tech company will acquire another tech company because they can extract more value from the acquired company's IP compared to the value the acquired company would have by itself, and you can extract a lot of value from an IP while you slash development budgets. Not saying that's going to happen, but it's a common pattern in acquisitions.

I think it's enough to know what Nvidia is, how they operate, and what their general strategies are.

Not saying I agree with the analysis... but I am not that optimistic.
Diamond Worlds
Except no other animal harnesses the power of oil to make machines that can wipe out hundreds of thousands of square km of ecosystems (on land and sea) in a single day.
Since nothing has been proven or disproven yet, we’re really in no different position that before all the experiments began. Might as well spend that money now to end it.
Corporations say these types of things with every acquisition. It might be true initially and superficially, but that's all.
So far it’s only been communist Chinese companies that have had to go through this (to my knowledge) in recent times. Tit for tat and al that. Maybe if China let Facebook, Twitter, etc operate then we wouldn’t have this problem.
The key difference between a TPU and a GPU is that a TPU has a CPU. It's an entire computer, not just a piece of hardware. Is nVidia moving in that direction?
Yes. It'd have been reasonable to block sales to non eu parties for national security reasons.

Now arm is yet another US company.
That's so...odd. When I think Oracle, I think old suits selling boring old tech. Not 12 year olds twerking and/or pretending to be killed at Auschwitz(yes, a real trend).
Not really. Phosphine is broken down by UV light so having it be concentrated higher in the atmosphere, where it's exposed to more UV light, would be difficult to explain via transport from a lower altitude source.
Because it has an offensive slur in it
The problem is more that AMD is sleeping in regard of GPU AI and good software interfaces.
The next Apple machine I am going to buy will be using RISC-V cores.
Wouldn’t that much energy melt whatever you are bouncing it around in?
> Research scientists […] submitted a paper to the peer-reviewed academic journal Astrology […]

Someone might want to very quickly correct that to "Astrobiology". This whole presentation, of going from a tweet to a Quora Q&A obviously posted by the same person, is a bit weird.
So can we now buy people's TikTok viewing data along with their credit card purchasing data that Oracle already sells?
> We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests

Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

> combatting disinformation

There you have 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. That's why they want to get rid of it.
I don’t think “being able to acquire” an organization or operations requires a “good fit,” but the reason for wanting to would.
For what it’s worth Microsoft regularly shares the source code for Windows with the American government.
> Typing 'exit' or 'quit' both result in messages that make it clear that the interpreter knows what you want to do but won't comply out of spite.

The interpreter knows no such thing. Both quit and exit are regular python objects that implement a __repr__ method, both of which return a string that inform the user how to exit. The __repr__ method could have implemented exit, but that would have been poor form (and create issues with tooling), set bad precedent, and go against python coding guidelines.

Ctrl-C giving a keyboard exception rather than exiting is a good thing, as it is far more likely that you are trying to terminate a long running statement, or exit out of sub code block, than trying to kill the interpreter process. This is also the standard behavior of almost any interpreter you care to name (irb, node, clisp, shell). This is because the interpreters try to mimic unix shell semantics (CTRL-D also kills your shell), since they are, after all, shells.
Yes this is marketing, but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad. We should support competition in this industry, and any kind of attempts they put forth to market themselves. Especially for things that "hackers" care about.

There isn't enough competition. Don't try to ruin it for the little guys.
Because Typescript is one of the best languages we have today and has major advantages over all others mentioned? I write (or have written, in the case of Go) all 4 professionally.

- a vast ecosystem all based on async IO, sidestepping the colored function problem, as opposed to the clusterfuck that is Python’s asyncio ecosystem

- a powerful and expressive structural typing system that allows you to make illegal states unrepresentable in many cases, similar to Rust, as opposed to the language of interface{} and if err != nil

- I feel silly comparing it to Rust because the Venn diagram of what problems these 2 languages are appropriate for looks like 2 disjoint circles to me. Yes, technically you could write your backends in Rust, and your competitor using Node will launch their MVP 2 years before you do.
That's not the problem, the problem is that I can define a system-wide shortcut from System Preferences and it really is system-wide... unless you don't use the native framework, in which case I'm out of luck.

There are an infinity of little things like this. macOS is powerfully integrated across the platform and you either play ball with it or you don't.

One that's pretty important is accessibility. You're leaving the blind, vision-impaired, and paralyzed users out in the cold, because macOS has a fairly complete system for all those users to make use of the operating system. But it won't work for an app that isn't native.
Doesn’t this need regulatory approval from the USA and Japan? (Not that the USA would look a gift horse in the mouth, of course.)
Autocorrect has been particularly difficult this week.
Bye bye ARM Mali =(
Because smoking is no longer acceptable
She didn’t witness anything, if that makes a difference. She is claiming her husband witnessed something.

Also, even if her claim is true, there is no evidence that the people involved had any affiliation with antifa or proud boys.
If you don’t need all the falcon’s fuel, you don’t need nearly as much thrust either.
I’m not convinced this is a death sentence for ARM. I doubt nVidia spent $40b on a company with the intention of killing it’s golden goose business model. The contractual agreements might change, but ARM wasn’t exactly giving their IP away for free before this move.
What I Learnt from Benchmarking Http4k, Ktor (Kotlin) and Actix (Rust) μservices
I have many of the same reasons as others have outlined already and also have some specialized equipment at the office that is a hassle to work with remotely.
> So taking your example, the government could not use Windows unless Microsoft decides to open-source it?

Incorrect. The government could use Windows, even closed sourced. That is why I pointed out the "custom made" part you again missed. The open-source mandate would only apply to new software, written specifically for the government.
Yep, I agree with him that we're likely to find bacterial type life all over the place where there's water. At least if we can travel to places. But 'complex life' is going to be beyond scarce.

Though it's quite possible that if there is something on Venus or Mars it's Earth-origined, since conditions here 4 billion years ago look better for abiogenesis.
I believe Uber's revenue grew at that pace.
A quote in the Alfie Kohn article linked in TFA is, although anecdotal, particularly damning of DI:

> Reporters for the New York Times and Education Week visited Direct Instruction (DI) classrooms — in North Carolina and Texas, respectively — and coincidentally published their accounts in the same month, June 1998. The Education Week reporter found that sixth-grade students, successfully trained to do well on the main standardized test used in Texas, couldn’t explain what was going on in the book they were reading or even what the title meant. Apparently, she concluded, “mastering reading skills does not guarantee comprehension.” The Times reporter had been told by the for-profit company running a DI-style school that all of their kindergartners had been trained to read. “All you have to remember” as a teacher, he was told, “is that you can’t go off the script.” But when the reporter showed the children “something basic they’d never seen,” they couldn’t make heads or tails of it. A regimented drill-and-skill approach had trained them to “read” only what had been on the teachers’ script.[7]
I see this going a few ways for different players:

The perpetual architecture license folks that make their own cores like Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Fujitsu (I think they needed this for the A64FX, right?) will be fine, and may just fork off on the ARMv8.3 spec, adding a few instructions here or there. Apple especially will be fine as they can get code into LLVM for whatever "Apple Silicon" evolves into over time.

The smaller vendors that license core designs (like the A5x and A7x series, etc.) like Allwinner, Rockchip, and Broadcom are probably in a worse state - nVidia could cut them off from any new designs. I'd be scrambling for an alternative if I were any of these companies.

Long term, it really depends on how nVidia acts - they could release low end cores with no license fees to try to fend off RISC-V, but that hasn't been overly successful when tried earlier with the SPARC and Power architectures. Best case scenario, they keep all the perpetual architecture people happy and architecturally coherent, and release some interesting datacenter chips, leaving the low end (and low margin) to 3rd parties.

Hopefully they'll also try to mend fences with the open source community, or at least avoid repeating past offenses.
People should be fighting to join their favorite Silicon Valley FANMAG. Some would prefer the Bill Gates FANMAG, others Jeff Bezos...
It’s certainly cheaper than funding the research and the cost to send stuff to space has gone down and continues to go down
Almost anyone can walk, not everyone can climb mount Everest, or even a much smaller mountain face. Bad analogies are bad.
Nvidia might have been an underdog once, but they are now the world's largest chipmaker, even surpassing Intel.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/312528-nvidia-overtake...
Lost on the way to 4chan?
I don't seem a Wacom providing $100 of extra value compared with a working solution that is free.
Congratulations! Your post made me do something that almost never happens -- I went and read an article that I otherwise had no intention of reading :)

So here is a data point, it is only one, but it is mine: I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my pre-ordered Librem 5. My motivation is almost entirely computing freedom, and a desire to support that concept in phones. I don't expect this phone to be polished enough to become my daily-driver. I don't expect that the cost/performance is going to look attractive. But I strongly believe in computing freedom, and I am willing to buy an overpriced phone in order to support and encourage the concept. Putting up money in a way that matters, and helping to demonstrate that a market exists, instead of merely talking about it.

Fear is not a motivator for me. A desire for privacy is somewhat. I would estimate my freedom/privacy/fear breakdown as 85/15/0%.

So to GP's post, is the article fear-mongering/FUD? IMHO, nah, just marketing blather designed to resonate with the kind of person that will give them money. Is whole-house alarm system marketing material fear-mongering? Also a matter of opinion and circumstance.

As I said, for me it is about computing freedom. I don't think I am a hard-core Stallmanite. But I have been around long enough that I did CS homeworks on punch cards, and my friends and I all had to solder together our first personal computers because everything available came in kit form back then. I used to think RMS was pretty far out there. But from my perspective looking back over the years, I have to admit "RMS was right" more often than I like too.
What cloud provider does TikTok use now?
I would love OpenPOWER to succeed. I just don't see the 48 pin QFP version that costs < $1 and powers billions of gizmos. For me the ARM ecosystem's biggest win is that it scales from really small (M0/M0+) to really usefully big (A78) and has many points between those two architectures.

I don't see OpenPOWER going there, but I can easily see RISC-V going there. So, for the moment, that is the horse I'm betting on.
I think the last four or so years have proven without a doubt that command of social media gives immense power to threaten the national security of others.

I have no thoughts on if they are a threat right now, but I think they are a very interesting and possibly powerful piece on the board for the future.
That's just speculation. Recall that Microsoft was rejected by TikTok leaving Oracle as the sole contender.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/technology/tiktok-microso...
No that's pretty much the ideal selection. Non-fat people who aren't too far below average IQ. They should have more kids. With better high school phys ed we could bump up the fraction quite a bit.

Really just anybody who can hold down a marriage. This won't hurt disease resistance.
Netflix really doesn’t belong in the same category as the others. It’s big but not as big, and it isn’t a sprawling conglomerate. Clearly “FAGMA” is the best acronym.
Whataboutism. There's a lot of non-militaristic software that could be FOSS.
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protomolecule is winning, as expected
They just bought ARM for 40$billion. I think they want to integrate CPU,GPU and high speed networks