skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Swedish-speaking Finn, I can confirm that a culture can end up on the decline even if there's powerful legal backing to preserving it (including forcing the remaining ~90% of the population to learning Swedish in school). Incidentally, I'd say there's a large correlation with English being more and more accepted in Finnish society, but I suspect the actual root cause simply is that cultural production is mainly taking place in the first language (Finnish) and that it leaves less for the others.

The same would happen if you managed to get the entire EU to agree to switch to one single language (remember, it's likely that it would be French or German instead of English). As a result of pushing adoption of the new first language, it would mean increased cultural output in that language, and a reduced output for the others. After a while, the differences will start showing.

I've lived in Denmark for quite a few years and I agree that people in Copenhagen and the other larger cities wouldn't notice that much of a difference to begin with, but remember that this would mean a cultural shift that will take multiple generations. Ask the German speakers in southern Jutland in another 24 years, and compare how their culture thrives compared to how they did before the war and you will probably have a pretty decent view on how the situation would be for many, many of EU's minorities 100 years after the switch to a single European first language.
Supporting evidence: https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-billionaire-larry-ell...

Everybody does it, but I still think that businesses fundraising for political activity should basically be regarded as corruption.
What is the notion of social interaction? What do you mean by normal and healthy? I disagree that the scenario you laid out is necessarily true. It is possible though, yes.

I curate my friends list and often prune connections I have drifted away from. The friends I keep on FB are people I want to continue to be friends with. Because people were on my friends list and I saw them online in my periphery, I was more comfortable reaching out to them when I visited their cities after many years. Granted, there are some people who were, and will remain casual acquaintances - but having or not having them in my feed has no effect on me that I can tell.

So I do not think being able to keep tabs is an argument for passive consumption of people. Indeed, it has helped me actively reconnect. I do not agree that using FB is delegating an ever increasing portion of my social existence to the "black-box of the Zuckertron". I do not use FB as a substitute for people I can connect with in person. I also think you are mis-characterizing my argument under the influence of your feelings about FB.
How much of this difference comes from most Americans travelling to and from work in a car every single day?

The average American pollutes several transatlantic flights per year on commuting alone.
I don't agree with that conclusion that it just works. I'd argue that it doesn't work and gives the false illusion of things working right or well.

There's a lot to unpack there.

Another way to describe it is that software and hardware are only becoming increasingly complex. What are the total amount of people that understand this complexity end to end? That is a very small elite. Given anything goes wrong like infrastructure or some unknown unknown event then the entire idea of "Just Works" is going to be surely broken. This is a huge attack vector to humanity.
> I was hoping for a technology-focused discussion here

Your comment is geopolitical. So I replied accordingly. Technology does not live in a bubble. What is happening is a geopolitical struggle, and when you mention the US barring Arm from Chinese companies or issues with SMIC, this is geopolitical, not purely technology and trying to restrict the discussion purely to technology would be missing the big picture (hence my comment on having a long term plan).

China is far from its peak. When Chinese GDP is 4x the US's GDP then sure, but we're far from that.

I don't understand the demographics argument. China's population is 4x the US's. Global population needs to stabilise (and is bery slowly getting there). To think that the US can simply compete with China (and India) through population growth is bonkers.
"The very structures, processes which keep the lights on, our economies running and our governments functioning create the conditions which remove people from experiencing nature, the unexpected joy of boredom and developing strong social and community bonds."

This reminded me of Maker's Schedule vs Manager's Schedule and how this is largely a result of packing our calendars into hour to hour increments Monday - Friday stuck in this rotisserie motion. Empty your calendar and see how you can experience "the unexpected joy of boredom" and randomness – maybe you'll visit the beach tomorrow and still get more done in a half day than you do in a week.

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ARM will still be a separate legal entity. Nvidea is a corporation, afterall.
Definitely not. There's probably no shortage of people promiting their own culture's demise either.
1. Apple removed the headphone jack.
2. Apple stopped giving out dongles in the box.
3. Apple limited others' ability to compete by including proprietary chips in iphone and airpods.
4. Apple marketed airpods as a status symbol.
5. People bought into the hype.

Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in the market on every single metric, but still command a premium price.
Yes, it’s a given you need to understand what the different techniques are doing and when to apply them, but rarely to the level of depth expected in these white-board interviews that are often just thinly-disguised ways to grill and belittle nervous candidates.

If I could redo my twenties, I would tell myself to choose some topic I cared about, find publicly available data on that topic, and just start exploring the dataset with basic pivot tables and graphs. Ideally write up what you found and publish it somewhere. As you find interesting things in your data you'll naturally start asking more questions and you'll learn modeling techniques as a function of those questions and writing about will help you become a clear communicator (this matters far more than technical knowledge)
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And note that the $12B is also owned by Nvidia's shareholders (they own the company which owns the cash), so they're paying for that too.

It's just different forms of shareholder assets being traded for other assets, by the shareholders (or rather, their majority vote).
Which is interesting, because the US regularly enforces their own law outside its own borders.
On android or at least pixels, go in to the app switcher mode and with the app still on screen, copy the text. This uses OCR to copy and you can even copy text from screenshots.
Isn't there supposed to be Tic Tac Toe included on the bottom white one? Could have dire consequences if it's left out...
You're right about that. It looks like some PinePhone users are reporting success with Verizon while others are not. Your mileage may vary.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9150

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_APN_Settings#Ver...

Some Librem 5 users suggest activating the Verizon SIM card in an Android phone or iPhone, and then moving the activated SIM card to the Librem 5:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/cjjcdv/well_librem_...

GSM-based networks still seem to be the more reliable option for Linux phones, but it's good to see that Verizon might also be compatible with some effort.
Why, of course, it's been there for almost 8 years already in Intel processors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND
I agree that paying in new shares doesn't make the acquisition free. But the value of shares is an expectation of future cash flows. If that expectation is currently on the high side for Nvidia and on the low side for Arm then paying in shares makes the acquisition cheaper for Nvidia than paying cash.

Nvidia is essentially telling us that they think their shares are currently richly valued. I agree with that.
I would be open to this. Are the phones any good?

I did buy the red hat tablet a few years ago, but found I didn't use it. Maybe I didn't like the form (a tablet).
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> Those are both several orders of magnitude away from the quantities needed to produce effects observable at interstellar distances. (...) our detection methods aren't yet up to the challenge. Basic information theory suggests that they may never be.

Not really true. There are more signs of life than just radio waves. One - like in the article - is chemistry. Planets that seem to be very far from chemical equilibrium are objects of interest, as this may imply there is a complex system that's actively fighting entropy. I.e. life. For instance, aliens with powerful telescopes and good understanding of geology could conclude Earth has life on it by observing it keeps a surprising amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, where it should have already oxidized everything instead.
Just like GM operating in China is not transferring any IP, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Monza_(China) being manufactured under SAIC-GM, a forced joint venture between GM and Chinese state-owned SAIC Motor is fine and dandy.
"Opening" things to facilitate the flow of information is necessary to reduce to costs of increasing complexity. It is the best tool we have to hold off the collapse of our increasingly complex society (as hypothesized by Joseph Tainter) which would come from the ever growing costs and shrinking returns that come from additional complexity.

Now also need open (transparent, accountable) government and industry.
Not sure why you’d think Facebook isn’t a national security concern for other countries. I mean in China they outright banned Facebook, and EU have ordered Facebook (and others) to restrict data sent from EU to US.

The only thing unique about this case is the fact that USA might ban the app, which is fair considering China does the same to US tech companies.
Unless we give up and conclude that some countries will remain poor and under-developed for ever, the benchmark is population (and natural resources).

The US are particularly powerful because they are both developed and have a large population. Same for Germany in Europe.

Based on that, I don't see why China and India should remain behind the US, even if there'll of course be bumps in the road.
Philip K Dick once wrote a letter to the FBI to inform them that Stansilaw Lem was not a person, but in fact a committee of communist writers.
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Quite a lot of them have actually been demolished. Drax, the big one, did switch to biomass. Coal consumption on the UK grid is now zero most of the time.
It might be lack of circulation. In past I had problems with my feet being always sweaty for some reason.

Later down the line I started doing cold showers and also a a avoiding gluten and dairy for periods of time ( a month of two at a time). This all seems to have fixed the problem it seems.
Would it be fair to say 'Twitter and Facebook are associated with the Democrats given the censorship and bias against right-leaning accounts?' It wouldn't.

This is how silly this guilt by association fallacy is when you associate one's views with the entire views of the company because the chairman is a 'Trump supporter'.

Now you have another so called 'report' directly contradicting the entire matter of selling to Oracle. [0] An official statement only confirms or denies these 'reports'.

We only know of Microsoft's official statement and not Oracle's or Bytedance's so spreading such 'rumours' or so called 'direct sources' tells us that we should wait for official statements rather than jumping into ultimate conclusions.

[0] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-14/ByteDance-rejects-Micr...
Existential dread is not used in the sense of Existentialism but in the sense of existence.

So rather than:

Existentialism -> dread it is instead

existence -> dread
Apple could transition in 10 years to RISC-V, just like how they transitioned 10 years ago to x86, 10 years before to PPC, 10 years before to .........
Well, that I did not know. But I'll take it as the exception that proves the rule if only one language copied it.
This is similar to the solution I found for showing hands and face in a piano lesson. I spent a long time trying to get two cameras working. First by composing the video streams with ffmpeg or gstreamer and then by screen sharing a application which showed a second video. But in all cases the synchronisation was really bad.

Then I realised a mirror composes two images really well :)

Later I used transparent perspex with lighting (peppers ghost) as the mirror so the laptop screen on the piano is visible.

It is described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Qp8iHre9o&t=1s
Stupidity. Venus looks about like what Earth will look like in a couple centuries if we do nothing about the climate problem.
Not necessarily. They could just prefer to be diversified. It can be rational to take a loss of value in the pursuit of diversification (depends on the portfolios of the stakeholders).

They could also think their shares are valued accurately but believe the benefits of synthesis would increase the value.
Facebook has been banned in China since 2009. (11 years ago)
Another link for A2 documentation is:
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....

Also, following on from A2, Composita introduces a component architecture to allow managed memory without GC, and contextless switches:

http://concurrency.ch/Content/publications/Blaeser_Component...

IMHO better than Rust, and I'd love to see this style of memory management paired with a minimal lisp eg.
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so we can build more deterministic high-level structures
You will always be able to decode it, today running VM or just Chrome with head on a box is simple way to bypass these techniques most of the time.

Even if DRM on video output becomes common(HDMI has them unlike VGA), Ultimately video protocols have to emit analog signal they will have to render to photons your eye can see, CAM rippers use this. It will be possible always to decode.[1] [2]

[1] Until neuralink kind of tech becomes mainstream and every content owner requires the interface to consume the content, and the interface can biologically authenticate the user .

[2] They can trace a CAM ripper, basis unique IDs embedded watermark etc, but they can never "stop" them from actually ripping, they can only block/penalize the legal source the rip originated from.
Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds really interesting based on some YouTube comments. Just ordered it used from the UK, first time I'll be watching an actual DVD since... years. I think I do have a DVD drive somewhere in storage.
If you only look at cash flows, you'll have to make arbitrary judgement what constitutes bribery and dependence and what does not. For example: are state-funded media companies independent or do they serve the government? What about state-subsidized media companies? What about the German model, where the state sets the height, helps with the collection, but doesn't directly fund the media companies (they're funded via a totally-not-a-tax "fee" that applies to every household, whether it has the ability to consume the media products or not)?

Political donations aren't going to a person, they're going to their campaign, so they can't just pocket the money and write a thank-you-note.

There's also a very benign reading of political donations: you give to a candidate because you expect them to be the best for the country, and what's best for the country is usually good for you as well, ergo you benefit. If there's a stated and clear quid pro quo, it's bribery, but otherwise: meh.

In this case, as far as I understand, it wasn't Trump that made the decision who TikTok would be sold to, he just decided it had to be an American company.
I know its cliche to blame the administration but let us be honest here. The Department of Education has rarely been a productive resource with regards to educating in the United States. It has been around since only 1979 and for the most part been just another means for the Administrative branch of the US Government to extend its reach; effectively passing regulations and such without Congressional need. These tend to take the form of "significant guidance letters" and are used as a club to change rules on threat of losing Federal dollars.

The current budget is 81 billion dollars. We have spent more than a trillion on that department since its founding only to see little to no improvements.

If you want to see where most local school systems get in trouble simply look at the lavishness expended on new schools appearances instead of focusing on the needs of students. Where the teacher to non teacher ratio can be upside down yet all funded under the education banner.

The DOE isn't the problem you think it is, it is however nearly entirely useless and like other recently created "Departments" are a means to expand the power of one branch of government at the expense of others.
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> they outright banned Facebook

For a different (and more stupid) reason though. It's not like CCP banned Facebook for sending home data, they banned Facebook for not being able to comply to censorship requirements.

iCloud would be a better example here.
also tetpdf (paid) works really well (used it for extracting transactions from account statement pdfs) (demo works for 2-3 pages). I actually used a combination of tabula and tetpdf.
>> If you don't and just storm in talking about something something neural nets, they'll see it as a waste of time, won't bother explaining nuances

>> Another major point is specifying the metrics. The real world metrics, not AUC or F1 scores. You need collaboration to get there, too.

>> you need their help getting data, and their expertise to understand it.

All this x100. And it's made worse as this humility isn't taught in schools and rarely asked in data science interviews
As mentioned elsewhere it makes his donor and friend Larry Ellison get some currently-hot business. I mean there are always pretty clear reasons why business people send money directly to politicians
Only because Facebook does not follow China’s censorship and data storage laws.
Arbitrary as in, without technical reasons.

An open architecture, and business model based on partnership doesn't really synchronize with vendor locking your products for increased profits.
Running on AWS and having control of the CI/CD pipeline are two different things. We don't expect Oracle to conduct espionage.
My comment might be read as 'Nothing will EVER compare to nuclear'.
While in fact what I meant was 'CURRENTLY nothing scientifically viable compares to nuclear.'

I do have high hopes about fusion and molten salt thorium is also up there as something I'd like to be further explored.

But currently nothing up and coming seems to compare to nuclear.

I just did a quick skim of the wikipedia page of that 'hydrino' stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power#Criticis....

I'm not an expert, but reading those criticisms makes me think this is nothing more than a money grab scheme without delivering anything usable for the past 30 years.

Also, this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24423103
> Are the phones any good?

Very much depends on what you need and how reliably they must be for you. The software is not as reliable as in iPhone, but it is improving every month.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411681

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11205
It's reasonable to think that One Plus could be found to be infringing on Apple's trademarks or design patents, but that would have to be decided in court. It's rather strange that customs could decide that some product clearly labelled with one trademark (and an established one at that) are counterfeits of another.
transitioning to Jax (and by extension, Pytorch)

Wait, what? Why would transition to Jax imply transition to Pytorch?
Japan has a massive elderly population, and it's still a highly developed country. If China gets stuck in the middle-income trap it will be due to its institutions, not demographics.
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> ”And to make things even worse, emissions from aviation and shipping are not attributed to any specific country.”

Why not divide the emissions from air and shipping routes between the origin and destination countries?

Slightly more complex for shipping, perhaps, where ships may stop and load/unload cargo at multiple points along a route.

And it would be unfair to penalise countries with large ports when much of the cargo they handle is being shipped onward to other destinations.

But I’m sure these issues could be figured out.
That's so fitting!

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Brian Eno and Danny Hillis discussed "The Long Now, Now" at a Long Now Foundation seminar in 2010:

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Brian Eno, Steward Brand, and Alexander Rose discuss "Long Finance" at a Long Now Foundation seminar in 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31wDsZtKYMc
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Maybe you don't understand the system but as you have described it is working as intended. Recycling is a meme. The point of a deposit system is that you return your bottles so that they can be disposed of properly. Maybe it is too difficult for you to understand but lots of people would litter without the deposit. There is no cultist conspiracy theory behind the deposit program.
Actually I don't believe that's the real reason. I think Facebook would be more than happy to co-operate.

For China, the problem with Facebook isn't control or censorship, but rather providing protectionism for their own brands, i.e. WeChat.
Dang are you just going to allow baseless opinions without any substantiation? I've noticed any comment in favor of trumps specific policies gets flagged and I wonder what you do about those flaggers. If you're going to suppress discourse this place will become reddit.com
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ARM, Nvidia, RISC-V, Intel
As an engineer who later did an MBA, I found b-school to be a great melting pot for people from different backgrounds. Granted your situation is different, but your uni might be a great place. Depending on what you mean by "non-technical", you might want to seek out alumni who are successful salespeople or marketers etc. Good luck!