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That's not what everyone thinks.

NVIDIA already has an CPU architect team building their own ARM CPUs with an unlimited ARM license.

ARM doesn't give NVIDIA a world-class CPU team like apple's, amazon's or fujitsu. ARM own cores are "meh" at best. Buying such a team, would also have been much cheaper than 40b$.

Mobile ARM chips are meh, but nvidia doesn't have GPUs for that segment, and their current architectures probably don't work well there. The only ARM chips that are ok-ish are embedded/IoT at < 1W power envelope. It would probably take nvidia 10 years to develop GPUs for that segment, the margins on that segment are razor thin (0.10$ is the cost of a full SoC on that segment), and it is unclear whether applications on that segment need GPUs (your toaster certainly does not).

The UK appears to require huge R&D investments in ARM to allow the sale. And ARMs bottom line is 300million $/year in revenue, which is peanuts for nvidia.

So if anything, ARM has a lot to win here with nvidia pumping in money like crazy to try to improve ARM's CPU offering. Yet this all seem super-risky because at the segments ARM is competing at, RISC-V competes as well, and without royalties. It is hard to compete against something that's free, even if it is slightly less good. And chances are that over the next 10 years RISC-V will have much better cores (NVIDIA themselves started replacing ARM cores with RISC-V cores in their GPUs years ago already...).

Either way, the claim that it is obvious to everybody what the 3D-chess being played here is false. To me this looks like a bad buy for nvidia. They could have paid 1 billion for a world class CPU team and just continue to license ARM and/or switch to RISC-V chips. Instead they are spending 40 billion in a company that makes 300 million a year, makes meh-cpus, is heavily regulated in the UK and the world, has problems with China due to being in the West, have to invest in the UK which is leaving the EU in a couple of weeks, etc.
> 50's predictions of rocket belts and nuclear powered cars come to mind.

These are different kind of predictions. Rocket belts could work, but they don't make economic sense and there's a strong safety argument against it. It's the same reason we don't have flying cars either.

Nuclear-powered cars could have worked; the failure wasn't predicting technology or its feasibility, but that nobody figured out humanity will collectively go insane and irrationally refuse to develop use of nuclear energy.

Dyson spheres are a pretty obvious thing to do - every star is a free, self-maintaining fusion generator that just wastes almost 100% of its output. So the argument is really that when a civilization's need for energy gets larger than what can be supplied by burning whatever stuff they have on their planet, the next obvious step is their star. Barring some magic tech breakthroughs like pulling energy from "subspace" or whatever, you have a rather solid argument that's essentially: "as long as life is not limited from growing, it will eventually start blotting out the sun it orbits".
Because it is amazing? Intellectually I know all about Moore's law, but having a supercomputer in your pocket still feels like science fiction in reality. There's no reason to push that feeling away.
There is an ongoing fight between ARM China and ARM HQ, and the CEO of ARM China simply refused to accept her dismissal. [1] I guess this is a political point (and I'm sorry), but it might be that ARM China simply refuses to acknowledge US sanctions in the future.

> At this point, if I was China, I would invest heavily in RISC-V based cores, and openly release highly competitive designs.

That's actually exactly what they are doing![2] Alibaba claims to have developed the most powerful RISC-V processor up to date [3] and Huawei has long been rumoured to be working on their own design.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Arm-China-asks-B...

[2] https://cntechpost.com/2020/07/25/risc-v-processor-designed-...

[3] https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/08/21/alibaba-on-the-bleed...
ByteDance not to sell TikTok's US operations to Microsoft or Oracle
You make it sound as if the USA has a high standard from any of those topics.

Its national security concerns keep violating laws and even the constitution. Or, take violating laws abroad and numerous international treaties. It doesn't fully implement something as basic as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Or, just take what Amnesty International reported already years ago about all US states violating the country's international obligations regarding accountability for police violence. As for weapons proliferation, that has to be the biggest joke of them all. It blatantly makes false claims about other countries, only to have a justification for unilateral withdrawal from treaties and expand nuclear weapon productions. Or, just take the countless wars it has started around the globe, both to make a killing on weapons sales and cynically use them as testing grounds for new weapons.

But indeed, none of all that is relevant in this particular case. Even thought the deal is bad news for a number of other reasons. Maybe first and foremost because it is a US company getting its hands on foreign assets. nVidea certainly knows how to evade taxes, so who knows how much of the deal money actually shouldn't be theirs in the first place.
Apparently they tried to take this into account but this couldn't explain nearly as much as is discovered in the atmosphere.
How much did people spend on it?
What benefits it gives?
Who is to say ARM was “owned in the UK” prior to the SoftBank acquisition?

Prior to that it was a publicly traded company, presumably with a diverse array of international shareholders.
Doing a sample recovery from Mars's surface is very hard at this point. It should be much easier to do a sample recovery from Venus's high atmosphere, shouldn't it? Is there anything planned to that effect?
Speaking as an Android user, the usefulness of the eco-system is undeniable and leaving that is too much friction for most, even for those who do care about privacy.

I think in addition to the focus on hardware, one approach should be to provide the tools to the users for more control. Provide a rooted phone by default. Add tools that let me see what my phone is doing behind the scenes. Give me option to turn-off some of the things I don't like (e.g. an app is sending analytics to some domain, let me turn that part off without turning off the whole app in a relatively simple way). Help with planned obsolence by providing updates etc and so on.

Basically give back some control of jail/castle to the users without asking them to leave it completely.

Edit: one more thing, please add NFC. Going back to carrying boatload of cards again is not an option.
where is that quoted from?
Cambridge University fully committed to a full-remote year of teaching back in May. At the time this seemed slightly radical, but really they just gave everyone (students, teachers and administrators) a full 5 months to PLAN around a DECISION.

Meanwhile, other universities like KCL and LSE were still playing "wait and see" until even a few weeks ago.

Even if Cambridge were wrong, and everything is all well and good and we'll be home by Christmas it'll be easier and cheaper to revert back to normal than the clusterfuck that will be going on in places stuck in limbo/denial.

As anyone with some experience knows - trying to plan during instability or planning for two eventualities is basically impossible and a whole bunch of institutions AND countries have pissed away the past 6 months.

Kudos to Cambridge for showing some strong leadership.
I am sooo incredibly hyped, this is it, it has to be life, no other paths to phosphine without life are known on that scale

Also, it is probably panspermia from Eartg too!! Call me dull, but I see 0 chance what so ever that it developed natively. If it were Mars I would have believed it developed naturally... Here? Venus???!!! Panspermia all the way
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> another so called 'report' directly contradicting the entire matter of selling to Oracle.

Not selling isn't a contradiction. The earlier story was that Oracle would become a US tech partner who host TikTok, not that they would own it.
China has one of the world's largest populations, they also have an authoritarian government that can implement policies to increase birth rate.

Long term China is fine. Europe not so much.. US even less so.
how do you think US companies break into china?

the chinese government forces them to "sell" (i.e. "partner" where the partner is given significant concessions that would never happen without the chinese government's protection, including ownership over IP).

honestly, if one views the US in a trade war with china, then there is a concept of "national security" (in a wide view of the term, I'd agree not the traditional view in the US, but probably closer to how china views the term) to allowing chinese companies access to the US market that are not reciprocated in China.

heck, the fact that they want to "partner" is probably indicative of how the chinese view the issue. i.e. US companies have to have a chinese "partner" to enter china, so to do the same in the US, they seek out a US partner.
Agreed. It's the same irony around the fears of Huawei's 5G, whilst the entire world IT is run on operating systems owned by US companies. I can't remember the last time China tried to assassinate a country leader in South America, or a country which has been bombed by Chinese drones, or a WikiLeaks document which proved that China is spying on the entire world. On the other hand... I genuinely can't remember a single year where the US didn't bomb a country..
Sure they do, they add nitrogen back to the soil that the plants extracted from the soil.
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I think the hardest thing about Dota is delayed feedback on the decisions you make. And while you wait for the feedback you make dozen different decisions affecting outcome of the first. Not only that your opponents are also making decisions.

But the craziest thing to me is the skill gap between different divisions. Tier 1 teams will massacre tier 2 teams to the point of game being a stomp. In chess you expect top players to win but not completely outrun their opponents.
Roughly speaking that's correct. The GPL isn't hostile to paid means of distributing a program, but it's hostile to distributing binaries while deliberately obstructing access to source-code. [0]

An aside in the interests of precision: the GPL doesn't force 'everyone' to publish their source. If your fork is private and is never distributed at all, you aren't obligated to make your source-code available, and you don't even need to tell anyone you have your own fork. The Affero GPL licence differs from the standard GPL, on this point.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMon...
The reaction to it was even more unfortunate
There are many consultancy bureaus that don't visit. You need to have a face to face (end 80s/beginning 90s there were telephone calls, but indeed you would not get it cross the line like that) meeting(s). I still do that now. But after you discussed basically the ideas, you can go home to build the software. They don't accept that from freelancers sometimes in NL or DE either, but from 'serious companies' they do. I have not had any case where I had to sit in the office; sure, visit once per few months, but that's it. And driving/train-ing/plane-ing that is a small price to pay (company pays ofcourse).
The point is Japan is stagnating. Between 1980 and 2020 Japan averaged 0.41% GDP growth per year. Meanwhile most of the world did much better. In relative terms, Japan was a far more important player in 1980 than it is today.

It may be hard to believe, but the same will inevitably happen to China, and it's near-impossible to change because the damage has already been done. It's the inevitable legacy of enforcing Deng Xiaoping's One Child Policy for 35 years.
> but server-ARM doesn't sound like a focus.

ARM doesn't have good server CPU IP. Graviton, A64FX, etc. belong to other companies.
Other countries have "daycare" style unstructured environments for children up to age 7 though, which would encompass US kindergarten age.
Note, however, that it has an extremely large period which is a need for some specific applications (but I do agree that, for most use cases, it should be avoided).
It's also an attempt to not give reasons to the British government to red-light the acquisition. If you read the BBC, lots of British personalities (including the founders of Acorn and ARM themselves) have been extremely critical about the whole deal and are vehemently lobbying the UK government in order to stop it and bring back the company into British hands. If they let slip that they considered moving even a single job out of the UK, they would have basically confirmed what everybody was saying. Probably the UK government won't do anything because due to Brexit they desperately need trade deals and new partners, so they need to lick the US's arse and avoid angering Donald Trump, but still, it wouldn't be wise nevertheless.
> I can see nVidia replacing Mali smartphone GPUs in low to mid-end Exynos SoCs and the like.

Replacing these with what? What nvidia gpus can operate at that power envelope ?
I suppose that depends on how exactly you define side-loading. I'll go ahead and clarify that I meant having a platform-sanctioned method of bypassing the default app store and instead downloading and installing third-party apps from the internet. But I think you could probably tell that from the context of the sentence.
It is a concern but until Trump the school of thought was that the right of free enterprise should be preserved and free markets will take care of it eventually, so other US friendly countries(EU especially) introduced data protection regulations instead of outright banning of having a country's communications pass through other country systems.

Now that the USA is no longer pushing for global open markets but champions protectionism, you can be sure that other countries are itching to ban US companies.

If the TikTok ban materialises, you can be sure that all other countries will follow and an era of global US internet companies will come to an end. Maybe giants like FB or Google will be able to set up local versions and keep their markets but there will be no longer companies that were started by few young people that grew to be global products because due to "national security" they will have to set up legal entities in each country and have their business&tech tuned for each markets regulations. Some will require you to keep certain data and give it to the government or else... others will prefer to have their cronies run this and will make sure that you won't succeed in that market.

You thought GDPR is too restrictive? That was actually an attempt to keep global free market alive when fixing the associated national security risks but since USA seems to be choosing the Chinese approach of banning companies instead of regulating them, you can expect that GDPR will loose relevance as EU & others will also look into banning foreign internet companies.

The annoying cookie pop-up might not made internet businesses change their behaviour but it definitely built an awareness that companies are tracking you. Now it will be quite easy to convince the population that for national security reasons FB/Google and others should be banned, and look even the USA is not allowing foreigners why should we? If the USA is banning apps and websites, obviously we can do it too without becoming totalitarian dictatorships like China, Russia, Cuba or DPRK.

I am baffled why the USA choose to trash its global leader position here.
> wouldn't want to be in a small boat or kayak near orcas.

orcas aren't one species
Aye. But then, every time you want to create a new address, you have to go into your email admin/preferences/whatever and add that new email address as another alias. It soon ends up being a lot of work, so the tendency is [or was when I foolishly tried it] to just tick the "catch-all" box –with spam avalanche results.
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This is wonderful:

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Facebook was banned in China following the Urumqi riots in Xinjiang. Facebook was partially used to organize the protest, and then refused to cooperate with law enforcement on apprehending the organizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Facebook#China
Shipping counterfeit products through customs with a misleading box that is then removed prior to sale is a common ploy. And one that CBP is aware of. The box means absolutely nothing here.
At a guess I think exports would be the issue. As soon as products containing unlicensed chips leave the country, they could be seized.
Like this? https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
If Whitehouse is pressuring TikTok to sell US TikTok to US company does that mean US citizens will have it's own TikTok ?
Data doesn’t really support that idea. Billionaires for example have significantly more kids than average. At the reverse in poor communities healthy intelligent men statistically have more children than average.

It’s a political talking point that the poor and uneducated have more children but things are never that simple and that’s not genetic fitness. Poor countries for example don’t really translate to genetic factors. Further, poor mothers don’t mean poor fathers.

At the extreme end, people with severe mental or physical disorders are vastly less likely to have children.
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If Oracle really acquires TikTok's US operations what will be business model of TikTok? I guess not advertising because Oracle criticized Google's adverting business model by buying billboards that said “Internet companies betrayed you”, internet companies "sold your most sensitive and personal information for $125 billion in advertising revenue last year.” [1]

[1]https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/06/oracle-v...
There are several concerns that gets left unanswered when people describe biomass as CO2 neutral. First is that modern growing of crops involve fertilizers, pumped fresh water, tractors/machineery, and transportation (biomass can not be compressed for easier shipping). The second issue is that in order to grow crops you need to clear out existing biomass in order to replace it with the crop used for biomass. Third people like to first talk about using it for carbon capture and green compensation for coal, oil and gas, only to later burn the same biomass under a CO2 neutral label.

Combined it make for a rather risky strategy for stopping climate change.
But if the naive Verge reporter had been working at CBP then the boxes would have worked to do their job of getting the copycat items past customs.
Whew, Microsoft really escaped something there. I don’t think tiktok would have been a good fit for microsoft.

They are an even worse fit for oracle.
> What makes you confident China will be the world's top market?

There are 1.4 BILLION people in China. Even if in a few decades the entire world has a similar GDP per capita, China will top the list.

It might sound weird to our modern ears. But China has always been this planet's top economy until Europe found America and then 'found' Africa.
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i guess i watched too many tv shows where investors think anything below 50% ROI is low
> We have a dictionary in PDF form

The file contains a copyright notice by the Summer Institute for Linguistics. That might cause legal trouble, although if the Australian government can host the PDF without repercussions, you'll probably fly under the radar.

> I'm currently manually transcribing it all into YAML

The scan looks relatively clean, so I think it should be possible to speed this up massively using OCR.

> Also, for anyone who works in this space, any resource recommendations or tips for writing a translation engine.

I don't work in this space, but I know about Apertium https://www.apertium.org/ , a framework for writing rule-based translation engines. As for machine-learning approaches, some are simple enough to be used as tutorials for ML frameworks, e.g. https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/seq2seq_translati... Note that this tutorial uses data from Tatoeba https://tatoeba.org/eng/ , which currently only has a single sentence in an Australian Aboriginal language, Noongar: https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show_all_in/nys/und For languages that are not closely related, you'll need much more training data. (A friend of mine tried to make it work for English-Korean with a few thousand sentences, but failed.)
The same might apply to China but by then they'll have a far larger economy than the US's.

What should not be forgotten is that Japan's population is only 1/3 of the US's, that it has extremely limited land resources, and that it is very developed (see GDP per capita). None of these apply to China.

If China had the same GDP per capita as Japan then its economy would be 12x larger than Japan's and 2.6x times larger than the US's.

China is still relatively poor per capita and thus still has a huge margin before reaching a peak, even if breakneck growth cannot be maintained.
It's sad that we are even looking to what stance tech companies have on human rights issues. The government should have sanctioned China severely already, tariffs, you name it.
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RISC-V is dominated by American companies. They could be a part of sanctions as well.

I think the Chinese will continue with ARM short term and then create a Chinese-dominated alternative.

From an operating systems point of view I would go for an intermediate language (similar to .NET or Java bytecode) that I also could do some on-the-fly verification of and only have very little compiled for the actual cpu (at least beyond dedicated embedded systems).

Being forced to redo the full stack from processors to end-user OS and cloud services gives a possibility to let go of a lot legacy and pursue some ideas that have been "cutting-edge research" in CS for years.