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> The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

Seriously? There were plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Microsoft "back in the day". Less of them now, but hating Microsoft in the 90s and 00s was not "without reason".
It's more likely that Oracle's flagship DB has been 'certified' in some way. Even if such certification is developed by Larry's own lobbyists on his dime.

Not that certification is bad generally. Just that it often becomes a tool if regulatory capture.
This is a weirdly aggressive reply. I don't "read Google's blogpost," I use TPUs daily. As for MLPerf benchmarks, you can see for yourself here: https://mlperf.org/training-results-0-6 TPUs are far ahead of competitors. All of these training results are openly available, and you can run them yourself. (I did.)

For MLPerf 0.7, it's true that Google's software isn't available to the public yet. That's because they're in the middle of transitioning to Jax (and by extension, Pytorch). Once that transition is complete, and available to the public, you'll probably be learning TPU programming one way or another, since there's no other practical way to e.g. train a GAN on millions of photos.

You'd think people would be happy that there are realistic alternatives to nVidia's monopoly for AI training, rather than rushing to defend them...
For a nation that so unwisely overspends on other foolish things, and not enough nor intelligently on education, thus leaving school districts lacking in the basics - which require teachers to hack their way through classes...yes, i can imagine the author(s) might assume that such an audience might need extra help in understanding.

Disclaimer: I'm an American and while i'm often proud of my country, i acknowledge how awful our collective priorities have become with education in general suffering from it...and at the risk of sounding political (apologies)...Neither of the 2 major political parties seems to have the answer. <sigh>
A language better at parallellism. Elixir or go are both easy to pick up.
They saw an article about Heterogeneous ARM cores in smartphones and just couldn't help themselves.
Another thing to keep in mind: these tectonic plates are heavy. Like unimaginably heavy. They can be thousands of miles wide and tens of miles thick and are as dense as rock. They exert huge pressure on that soft sludgey core, which is incidentally being heated by a low-level nuclear furnace in the center of the Earth. So the plates are more like a lid on a boiling pot that is foaming over. They're all getting jostled by insanely powerful pressure from underneath. Every once in a while a pimple appears and goes kaboom.
Is the situation better with Mali? This seems something that might actually improve with Nvidia. I was under the impression that ARM GPUs are currently heavily locked down anyway (in terms of open source drivers). Nvidia would presumably still be locked down, but maybe we'd have more uniform cross platform interfaces like CUDA.
I think this makes sense. Oracle isn't really acquiring TikTok, just its "US Operations". They presumably won't be responsible for developing algorithms, the app, or the backend, and will instead be running the service and hosting all of the data generated in the United States. Looked at this way, it's more like an unusually deep relationship with a cloud services provider than a buyout, and a huge win of business and reputation for Oracle Cloud.
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Who needs to block it? And why is it a clean case?
You mean single-threat license?
> This is a bit inaccurate; first because the App Store has a spotty record of stopping malware from reaching your phone

Spotty relative to what? The App Store hasn’t had a 100% perfect record, but it’s pretty darn close to it. I really can’t think of any other software distribution channels for general purpose computing devices (including the open web) that have had a better security track record than the App Store
I think the biggest concern is NVIDIA's stance against OSS.
why is there a scrollbar on orbitalindex?
This is one of those comments that I think there should be a wall of fame for it to be displayed. Another one I'm reminded of is this one[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8279606
NVIDIA’s hardware works on x86, PowerPC, and ARM platforms.

Many of their AI libraries/tools are in fact open source.

They stand to be a force that could propel ARM’s strength in data center and desktop computing. For some reason you’re okay with the current x86 duopoly held by AMD and Intel, both who have their own destiny over CPUs and GPUs.

The HN crowd is incredibly biased against certain companies. Why not look at some of the potential bright sides to this for a more nuanced and balanced opinion?
This is because Nvidia screwed apple (from Apple’s POV) years ago with some bad GPUs to the point where Apple flat out refuses to source Nvidia parts. I don’t know the internal details of course just the public ones so can’t say if Apple is being petty or if Nvidia burned the bridge while the problem was unfolding.

Given that the CEO was the supply chain guy at the time I suspect the latter, as I’d imagine he’d be more dispassionate than Jobs.

In any case I seriously doubt nvidia could, much less would benefit from cancelling Apple’s agreement.
It is probably there are more disposable PHP projects than Python ones, meaning that the PHP code base is more frequently replenished with new projects that usually start with the latest version of PHP.
Ok, guess I'll take your word for it, I don't remember when I started with firebug exactly - probably not a super-early adopter though, I tend to let things mature for a bit before using.
> Less of them now, but hating Microsoft in the 90s and 00s was not "without reason".

Never said that, read what I said again.
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Because there's no other intelligent life out there.

You know that. But it bears mention, for others following along, that rampant artificial intelligence or similar does not count as a great filter candidate, because it would be just as visible as the life it's replacing.

That doesn't leave a lot of fast-acting filters that could still be in our future, to be honest. Nuclear war? Sure, but we've avoided it too long for that to be a good one either.
There's a huge number of synergies that this deal provides.

(a) NVIDIA becomes a full-fledged full-stack house, they have both CPU and GPU now. They can now compete with AMD and Intel on equal terms. That has huge implications in the datacenter.

(b) GeForce becomes the reference implementation of the GPU, ARM processors now directly fund NVIDIA's desktop/datacenter R&D in the same way consoles and Samsung SOCs fund Radeon's R&D. CUDA can be used anywhere on any platform easily.

(c) Acqui-hire for CPU development talent. NVIDIA's efforts in this area have not been very good to date. Now they have an entire team that is experienced in developing ARM and can aim the direction of development where they want.

Basically there's a reason that NVIDIA was willing to pay more than anyone else for this property. And (Softbank's) Son desperately needed a big financial win to show his investors that he's not a fucking idiot for paying $32b for ARM and to make up for his other recent losses.
Who knows what tool they have used to create those models ?
And a very weird Quora at that. They posits that gravity waves keep these organisms in the atmosphere. And then goes on to mention that viruses that cause disease may be coming from space.
It is less about them intentionally killing it and more about their culture and attitude killing it.
Wait, you don't believe Tik Tok is a national security threat? Are we living in different worlds? Handing over content control to an arm's length foreign government controlled company of our youngest minds isn't a national security risk?
If life is out there, why aren't there signs?

For the same reason the large dinosaurs died out. Life as we know it operates best within fairly narrow mass scales and energy level ranges. Those are both several orders of magnitude away from the quantities needed to produce effects observable at interstellar distances.

The universe should be teeming with life but isn't.

We currently have no good evidence that it is. That doesn't mean it isn't, just that our detection methods aren't yet up to the challenge. Basic information theory suggests that they may never be. Advanced civilizations will use coherent EM radiation for a limited time only. The radiation they do generate in the long term probably won't be wasted by letting it escape isotropically into space.

Also, at some point they may come to understand that drawing attention to themselves isn't a good survival strategy. A civilization that is advanced enough for us to observe is also advanced enough to hide from us.
Standards may help commoditize the more fundamental parts. It was the government that created ASCII and SQL after all. At least back when they cared about competition.
I don’t find it credible that governments are extremely interested in tik tok data.
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Can you add more context and links, and more info about these claims?
> Consider one of NVidia's rivals: AMD, who uses an ARM chip in their EPYC line of chips as a security co-processor. Does anyone expect NVidia to "play fair" with such a rival?

Yes, absolutely.

NVIDIA's not going to burn the ARM ecosystem to the ground. They just paid $40 billion for it. And they only had $11b of cash on hand, they really overpaid for it (because SoftBank desperately needed a big win to cover for their other recent losses).

Now: will everybody (including AMD) probably be paying more for their ARM IP from now on? Yes.
My partner graduated as a primary school teacher at the end of last year, and this pandemic bs has caused her to not have a single day of work since March or April. Casual days were just starting to pick up but after lockdown there has been no casual work at all.
> This makes it clear that China has ties to Oracle management in some form or another

Oracle also has ties to Trump. This stinks.
This sounds good to me, is that offer US customers only?
That made me lol in a bathroom cubicle.
Excellent write up and reverse engineering. Amazing to see this level of detail for an iconic chip
What is stopping us from producing a larger scale model with 10~100x the performance? Presumably the effect should scale in some fashion with the dimensions & power levels. I would expect a larger magnitude effect could make it easier to identify the cause(s).
Seems like killing tiktok would be the perfect way to turn out the youth vote.
Look at their AI/CUDA documentation and associated githubs. Many of their tools and libraries are open source.

Tell me, what other AI platform works with x86 and PowerPC and ARM? Currently NVIDIA’s GPUs do.
I think the number of developers who would rather not buy a $1000+ machine just so they can develop an app for this system is much greater.

I for one am one of them.

Also the annual $99 fee only adds insult to injury.
Lol with the italics awful and your “seems to me” angle
I always have the same problem with novice developers too --

"Hi"

?

"I have an error"

What error?

"It won't compile"

Whats the error message?

"Function lib.X not found"

Did you import the library?

"No"

Import it

"It worked"

Most everyone seems to be trained to ignore error messages, regardless of background. Expecting them to go the next step and google the error is a lost cause, regardless of background. Even 5yr devs sometimes need to be taught this... I'm still not clear why, but it feels like people are being trained to use computers this way -- i just can't figure out when, why and who's doing this mis-training
No, that is pretty much accurate. Their flagship database is outstanding, worth every penny, the one to beat. However everything else they touch just wilts and dies. They don’t just have a black thumb, they have eleven of them. They killed Sun, Solaris, libdb (remember sleepycat software?), Java, and would have killed mysql if it didn’t fork. They are the bane of anyone looking for a job that encounters their horrid candidate management software. Forget COVID, murder hornets, and global warming - my nightmare is that one day Richard Hipp retires or falls ill and Oracle takes over SQLite.
I’m sure Trump is thrilled about this since Larry Ellison is a Trump supporter who fund raises for him.
By selling those they are becoming a tax payer. You are basically arguing that there's limited amount of pie and we can't create more...
You're looking for Germany and Suse Linux.
Government can be modeled as a stationary bandit. Unfortunately, California's may have over-extracted in recent years, and it only looks to get worse from here.
Why does Java call the latest version 15?
they are shipping like every 2 months
They probably didn't want the app to survive and be competitive in the US. They didn't want a company capable of nurturing it and expanding it to buy it (Microsoft). They were contemplating just killing, at least this way they get a pay out.
Yes, we know that.
The ones I say explicitly say that you're signature acknowledges that you've read the policy. You have to ask to see it before signing. It feels skeevy to me to be sure but honestly it's not all that different from signing something you have been given but still haven't read.

Edit to add: also, I've seen this in more places than just health care.
> I know I couldn't do something that wasn't absolutely novel because the marketing chops aren't there.

You actually need more marketing chops if you're doing something absolutely novel.
FWIW Apple isn't even listed on RISC-V's membership page:

https://riscv.org/membership/members/

While some like Google and Alibaba are listed as platinum founding members.
>So taking your example, the government could not use Windows unless Microsoft decides to open-source it?

No, that's a strawman.
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It’s be quite a bit easier to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect at 0.74 AU.

In addition, besides needing a boost to maintain orbit (solar panels that function for 750 million years?) some forces have acted to slow and reverse Venus’ rotation and it is hard to imagine satellites wouldn’t be significantly affected over long time scales.

A space program isn’t necessarily a natural consequence of CO2 production anyway. That might be especially true for creatures who don’t have the benefit of a moon.
The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years.

This acquisition can be seen as a beacon of nvidia's past struggle against the market and the competitors.

For whatever happened, nvidia innovated to their success, and had enabled possibly the biggest tech boom so far through deep learning. Might be one day everyone claimed nvidia to be the "most important company" on earth.
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Hyperbole is how you get upvotes. No one really reacts to wishy-washy answers, it's the "OMG world is ending" provocative stuff that gets people engaged.
> I imagine that everyone will agree it's way too dangerous to bring a sample back to Earth for analysis

There’s always the ISS.
Fifth largest economy in the world. We must be doing something right.
Absolutely. If they can tweak the algo to hide the CCP critical videos, while promoting any US critical one, regardless the merit of the information, coupled to reach and spread, that's information warfare.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
There must be something else thats blocking your way. I did a round of interviews with top notch distributed systems teams that deal with the kind of scale youre describing. All FANGs or similar ranked companies, with 400-600k / year offers. I have no experience in backend programming of distributed systems and every interview I started with "I don't know much about DS: Ive only read a couple books, but here's how I'd solve this problem". Got offers from every company, some chased me for a few months after. Perhaps the trick here was my credentials (in an unrelated field), ability to bullshit my way thru and the skill to be likeable, which is really finding something in common with interviewers.
This recommendation algo bit looks unnecessarily hyped up, it is not as if they have cracked a new superior recommendation method. From an article that was posted few days back, it seemed like collaborative filtering with more signals being collected about engagement. Didn't look like something which say FB or Snap won't be able to do.
Current US intelligence officials [1] are among those serious people who seriously believe that social media is being used to influence American elections.

[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-election-interference...
The way I threat model is I use a tool I developed and a conversation with PMs and devs/architects to determine each thing we're protecting, the current state of what we plan to use to protect it, who we're actually protecting it from, and the tech stack it depends on.

It creates a bunch of visualizations that everyone up and down the chain can understand quickly, which update dynamically as we add new security features, and which reflect complete tracability of the technical reality from an engineering perspective, along with a gap analysis that product, security, engineering, compliance, and security can reason about. The side effect is a visual security architecture, and an objective attack surface for your post-controls like VAs and pen-tests.

Then the tool automatically generates epics and stories that import into Jira so we can build security controls as features and manage them in iteration planning and standups.

Just this week I put a 50 page architecture doc through it in about an hour and provided an agency director with a concrete security posture that demonstrated how it had lots of controls for prevention, but none to detect or respond to the threats we actually cared about, and that this should be the substance of their conversation with the vendor.

If you want to know why you should threat model, I'm also using it to support the sales org at a new security product company by modelling the security of target customers' products and showing how their authN product fills gaps it illustrates in the customer's products, and I use it personally for fast modelling attack surfaces on gigs. One client called it the "Deloitte killer," because it does in a couple hours what big-5 consultancies take weeks and $50k to do. That's generous, as people hire those companies for compliance and not to build better products. My tool is not a product because it alienates other security and compliance people, and product/project people mostly care about having them onside. My personality probably doesn't help either. :)

IMO, STRIDE is bike shedding. Real threats are counter-cases to your product's business model.
yeah, there's a huge difference between "emotional" and "emotional without reason." operating in bad faith will indeed make people emotional, but for a very good reason.
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Have you seen the anti-US sentiment being stoked on TikTok among our nation's zoomers?

"All buildings matter" and "all days in September matter" are just two recent memes from the past month.

TikTok is doing a lot of harm to our national image. Zoomers that I know don't think it's important for the US to have a lead in tech and that we commit atrocities worse than China.

It's pretty alarming that we're being manipulated whereas China and Russia are impenetrable.

Social media in the hands of state actors may be one of the greatest dangers to democracy yet.
There are good points on both sides; as a Linux user, I feel the effects of their proprietary drivers and uncooperative approach, while I can also appreciate that they've managed to work with the Gnome and KDE project to have some support under Wayland, and the contributions they've made to the
machine learning communities. Ad a whole, I do think that the former outweighs the latter, and loath the acquisition, but do think that the resources they're packing will bring ARM to new heights for the majority users.
...in some countries like the USA, India, Nigeria... Typically governments find education a good area to invest in (including two of the three counties I used as examples).
>I love Postgres but it really does not do what Oracle does

Right, Postgres doesn't have aggressive salespeople trying to convince key decisionmakers in your enterprise to switch away from Oracle.
> The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube or Facebook video

What critique of the US government would be banned on those platforms?
Really depends on the type of cold email. If an investment banker cold emails me with a “hot deal” I delete immediately. If a founder sends me a template email in a space I clearly dont invest, I delete. If a dev sends me an email with interesting insight or project and the ask is an easy to answer question, I’ll respond. Might go out of my way and chat if I’m impressed.
Silicon Valley letting this happen without even complaining a little: very disturbing.
Some proportion of civilizations would develop to the point that their signals are detectable to us (this is a parameter in the Drake equation). Since we haven't detected anyone, there must be some problem in reaching that point.
> Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

I don't have enough information to know whether it's a threat, but yes, I think it's reasonable to be concerned.
>The state also intends to make this [wealth tax] law follow you for up to a decade should you leave. Clever politicians? Maybe, but just how will they convince other states to cooperate once you relocate? Not to mention whether this future provision is constitutional.

Holy smokes, politicians are trying to extract a state wealth tax on individuals after they leave the state? Am I reading this correctly?
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Yes I wonder the same thing about the sentiment against nvidia. It’s be helpful if there were some wiki about things they’ve killed or instances they’ve acted against foss systems.
Ah, this is so handy!

It explains why some Economics degrees have a course on Cybernetics.
It’s not just that. Now the Trump administration has control of the world’s best propaganda tool. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/technology/oracle-tiktok-...
For some arcane reason, my CS degree had a course in Cybernetics and Systems Theory (which is weird because it is not taught in any other degree in my country, and it is taught by one professor that happened to study Cybernetics in the 60s in East Germany). It is possibly the one course that changed my perception about things, interactions and feedback loops, and it still piques my curiosity.
I always find it amusing when a policy thinktank founded by Herbert Hoover wants to dispense advice on how to build a strong economy.

Welcome to California. While we have plenty of problems, fundamentally, if your company can’t cut it here and decides to relocate to Texas, that’s not an indictment of California. It’s weak companies fleeing to a place where the government is more willing to subsidize their operations at the expense of their residents.