skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in CA rather than Texas because I expect the state to take some of the wealth we create with the common infrastructure we’ve built like excellent public education etc and reinvest it in our communities.

That’s why so many companies chose to be here and have their highest paid positions here too.

Other communities in other states are welcome to bend over backwards to enthusiastically attract our tablescraps and feel like it’s a win to their communities to have them. But they don’t get to expect to be taken seriously if they tell us to change how we run our state to be more like them.
You are basing your opinion on last year MLPerf and some stuff that may or may not be available in the future. MLPerf 0.7 "available" category has been ghosted by google.

Pointing this out is not aggressive.
SAP is on the same scale as Oracle and makes about as much sense.
Not sure what you mean, functions can take multiple return values as arguments just fine: https://play.golang.org/p/l7s7i-QyRnM
It is not uncommon for some (or all) of the PDF content to actually be a scan. In these cases, there is no text data to extract directly, so we have to resort to OCR techniques.

I've also seen a similar situation, but in some ways quite the opposite --- where all the text was simply vector graphics. In the limited time I had, OCR worked quite well, but I wonder if it would've been faster to recognise the vector shapes directly rather than going through a rasterisation and then traditional bitmap OCR.
This is a fantastic idea - the only thing missing (that I see) is that Oracle would need to see the source code and verify that the checksum of the apps built from that code matches the downloads from the Google Play Store and App Store.

Otherwise the guarantee that no data is being sent to China is not airtight. Oracle could audit the app every time it gets an update and watch network traffic, but this would miss anything sent by code activated remotely after the fact. It wouldn't work for long, but the US government will look for any reason to deny this deal. I don't think Oracle will audit the app constantly anyway. Come to think of it, that could apply to the source code too, if the malicious code was extremely well hidden.
Democrats like Chuck Schumer wanted to force the sale and asset transfer of TikTok too.
Not just developer machines e.g. the Nintendo Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 and run FreeBSD. Lots of game consoles do, you don't have to worry about the GPL.
> The HN crowd is incredibly biased against certain companies.

No kidding, regarding the HN crowd. -- every time I post a comment criticizing Apple's monopoly and policies I get downvoted to oblivion, and I'd say that some of the things they do e.g. on the Apple store and proprietary hardware/software combinations are far more egregious than anything Nvidia has ever done. The HN algorithm basically encourages an echo chamber of people who gang up and downvote/flag others who don't agree with the gang opinion.

(Psst ... If you see this comment disappear after a while, it's probably because the same Apple fanboys found this comment and decided to hammer it down again.)
This article reminded me of Ferren Alet's work at MIT. I think it's been clear that feedback loops are important for certain types of intelligence for a long time. And its exciting to see things like lots of feedback loops and modularity being emphasized more in neural networks research.
"October 26, 2017"

I'm not coming out and saying it's gotten significantly better, but that is a three year old article and Nvidia-wayland does work on KDE and Gnome.
For all the armchair California tax policy critics on this website, there are shockingly few people citing Prop 15 in the fall as a positive indicator of the state’s future.
> Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have?

Ah, but therein lies the genius of the purchase.

In 40 years, the current TikTok userbase will be technology-hating, risk-adverse VPs -- a prime Oracle demographic.

They're just getting in early.
keto, low carb and carnivore diets are known for helping with brain fog. By experience, fasting is the best for that.
I agree with you in principle but the benefits here go beyond disproving one device. The engineering and experimental design required to disprove this design will no doubt have applications beyond the EM drive.
Kilopower
I hope the stonks go up
The same principal applies. If you make it too costly to do business, business will leave. That or a company from somewhere else will use less taxes and regulations as a competitive advantage.

They'll even take losses like shutting down factories.

> ~700 or so commercial entities leaving CA

It will get worse. It's a trend.

> Texas

Cheaper housing, less homelessness, less expenses.
Perhaps possible Venus' very thick atmosphere shielded it from UV? Or a large pocket of it was recently released due to gelogic activity. Just spitballing, I don't know enough about phosphine chem to know if that's feasible.
You're not wrong, but most of HN threads are like this. 80% of comments are low information, Dunning-Kruger effect in action. But among that, there are still some useful gems, so despite what you said, HN is still worth it. If you fold the first two top level comments, the rest have some useful , informed perspective.

I don't see this as having that much of an impact on any short to medium term. ARM has too much intricate business dependencies and contracts nVidia can't just get out of.

My speculation is that nVidia might be what it takes to push arm to overcome the final huddle into more general purpose and server cpu, and achieve that pipedream of a single binary/ISA running everywhere. Humanity would be better off if a single ISA does become truly universal. Whether business/technology politics will allow that to happen and whether nVidia has enough understanding and the shrewdness to pull that off is to be seen.
It's definitely nice to have the actual cards, though they're quite expensive.

But you can get a feel for the idea online, eg https://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/

This site used to have some really funky color combinations that were inspiring all on their won, but unfortunately it's a little bland now.
The concept of the metasystem transition has inspired me for a long time. In almost a spiritual sense. Because it just is such a powerful event. I imagine someday brain computer interfaces or general AI could give rise to a metasystem transition. Hopefully it won't turn out like those Star Trek episodes.
Controlled burns need to come back with much more regularity and aggressive practices. Hard to do when many of these areas are close to suburbs. Even as late as the early 2000's I remember many controlled burns happening in Southern California, but it obviously wasn't enough because vast areas would still burn every few years. Now it's seemingly every year or even multiple times a year. We're never going to catch up with prevention unless we actively burn/cut vast swathes of land... Like probably hundreds of thousands of acres. It's probably naive to think that will happen in a short enough timespan to actually impact current conditions, though we can hope.
Apple is an ARM founder. You can bet your boots they made sure they were safe through the history of ARM's existence and sale to Softbank in the first place. No one can cite the deep magic to them, they were there when it was written.
California’s government is overly optimized to protect the environment in the short term, which, per this point, may be a good trade.
Add it to the pile
Amphora – open-source tools for selling data in your apps
Please tell that to the entire world, where the only other “standard” document format is Office '97 or OOXML.

Given that PDFs support fillable forms, scripts, video, 3D objects; it is a massive error that at no point did anyone think to have some plain text equivalent field or something like that. It would be pretty darn simple for most generating applications to produce one of those.

Yes, I know it was largely meant as a preprint/graphics format, but clearly it hasn't been just that for a long time.
I'd bet good money that this team was tired, when they read the docs/googled as well.
I've been running two accounts on my Android phone for a while.

And I'm on the second account.

It really doesn't work perfect, I can't hotpot for instance, I have to swap to the initial account.

But I don't see the phone as my castle, more the second instance.

Same diff perhaps. I do know when I handed it to someone to view something I though I really need a button to mute all the notifications while it's in their hands.
The notion that the maintainer if Linux has a narrow focus role that isn't capable of advocating and serving the broader community is belied by the fact that Linux has grown from being a niche hobbyist platform to the de facto cloud standard OS.
It only makes sense to demand them to give this away for free if you consider them a hardware company and a hardware company only.

Look at them as a solutions company and the first question to answer is: why is it fine for companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe etc and any other software company to profit from closed software yet a company should be ostracized for it as soon as hardware becomes part of the deal?

Nvidia invested 15 years in developing and promoting a vast set of GPU compute libraries and tools. AMD has only paid lip service and to this day treats it as an ugly stepchild, they don't even bother anymore to support consumer architectures. Nvidia is IMO totally justified to reap the rewards of what they've created.
Cool idea, I did have a little trouble with dead domains, but nothing to drastic.

Also, I love the visual design on your landing page.
This should not be a surprise. If you want to monkey around with the codebase and the algorithm, which company is easier to dupe? Microsoft or Oracle?
This probably means that the CPP will still continue to gather the data, despite this "ownership" change.
Before we get too excited, we already know phosphine is in Jupiter's atmosphere, and Jupiter is an awfully unlikely candidate for life. So the claim that it can only be produced in the lab and by microbes strikes me as already implausible, even if we don't know exactly why there's phosphine in Jupiter's atmosphere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#CITERE...
That’s awesome! Thank you!
How likely would it be that terrestrial immune systems evolved to fight Venusian microbes?
Right, they will audit the source code but have no IP rights to it, is my guess.

Also they will probably take over responsibility for the Play and App Store accounts and be responsible for pushing the new versions (after audit).
The Omnibus podcast had a great episode about it: https://www.omnibusproject.com/194
By default, you'd have to do something to touch the keys. But AWS support is more than happy to fire off a full init for a new replication if you ask them.
I'm reminded of this recent development:

https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-...

Discussed here on HN, with the top comment being a copy and paste of Palmer Lucky's acknowledgement that the early critics turned out to be correct:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201306

Different situation, different companies, but if you "follow the money" you'll never be too far wrong.
I don’t know what planet you live in, but we are entering the fifth decade of the Hoover Institution’s ideas being so widely recognized as effective that countries in Western Europe have been undoing their previous approaches at top-down governance to implement decentralized free market ones. Sweden has partially privatized its social security and has cut corporate tax rates to 21%. Denmark has gotten rid of its communications regulator. Macron is preaching Hoover-Institution style reform to a sclerotic France. (Heck it’s been so popular in Europe that the US is falling behind in deregulation and privatization, such as with the Post Office.) Meanwhile, we are entering the fourth decade of the “New Democrat” party in the United States, which had to wholesale adopt small government ideas from Republicans in order to remain electorally relevant.

It’s traditionally left wing economic ideas that have been soundly repudiated over the last five decades. A return to left-wing economics was just soundly rejected again in the US (Sanders) and the U.K. (Corbyn).
You are just starting to feel that now?
Why didn’t they bid?
This is an absolutely ridiculous lack of scholarship. There's a good reason why HN prefers primary sources, and the moderators often replace links to secondary sources with the primary source. This particular submission has, at best, FOURTH HAND information (assuming that the Dallas Business Journal did not do original research).
Why would I assume they want their presence to remain hidden?
That doesn't help if you want the data to be gone instead of hidden.
My oblique strategies deck is my most prized desk doodad. I don’t reach for it often but I never regret when I do.
I wish there was a way to overlay all major cities.
My money is currently tied up in ocean front property in Arizona.
Well, there you go. For one TensorFlow is not a generic framework like cuda is, so you lose a whole bunch of the configurability you have with cuda. So, for example, even though there is an FFT raw function, there doesn't appear to be a way to do more complicated FFTs, such as an overlap-save. This is trivial to do on a GPU, and is built into the library. The raw functions it provides is not direct access to the hardware and memory subsystem. It's a set of raw functions that is a small subset of the total problem space. And certainly if you are saying that running something on a TPU's CPU cores are in any way going to compete with a gpu, then I don't know what to tell you.

You did not give an example of something GPUs can't do. all you said was that TPUs are faster for a specific function in your case.
"Because NVIDIA" is blatantly false.

CUDA support for docker containers is provided through the open source Nvidia-Docker project maintained by Nvidia[1]. If anything this is a great argument for NVIDIAs usage of open source.

Searching that project's issues shows that Nvidia-Docker support on MacOS is blocked by the VM used by Docker for Mac(xhyve) not supporting PCI passthrough, which is required for any containers to use host GPU resources.[2]

xhyve has an issue for PCI passthrough, updated a few months ago, which notes that the APIs provided by Apple through DriverKit are insufficient for this use case[3]

So your comment should really say "Because Apple"

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

[2] https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/issues/101#issuecomm...

[3] https://github.com/machyve/xhyve/issues/108#issuecomment-616...
Report Urges Urgent Action from Financial Regulators to Address Climate Change
> If you make it too costly to do business, business will leave.

They’ve been saying that for 30 years and the numbers have not significantly changed.

> That or a company from somewhere else will use less taxes and regulations as a competitive advantage.
> They'll even take losses like shutting down factories.

Companies based here are some of the most profitable in the world. Your statements are pure fantasy unanchored to any facts.

> Cheaper housing, less homelessness, less expenses.

If as many people wanted to live in California as want to live in Texas, it would be cheaper to live here too.

In addition, the average California household also makes more, by a not insignificant percentage.
Thanks! I don't have very much experience with web design, but I did my best.
If you are want to extract tabular data from a text-based PDF. Check out the Tabula project: https://tabula.technology/

The core is tabula-java, and there are bindings for R in tabulizer, Node.js in tabula-js, and Python in tabula-py.
The FS32R274VCK2VMM appears to be the cheapest in this series; Digi-Key have it for $30, NXP has it for "$13 @ 10K". This is for a 200MHz part.

https://www.nxp.com/part/FS32R274VCK2VMM

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/nxp-usa-inc/FS32R2...

The two related devkits list for $529 and $4,123:
https://www.digikey.com/products/en/development-boards-kits-...

--

Those processors make quite a few reference to an "e200", which I think is the CPU architecture. I discovered that Digi-Key lists quite a few variants of this under Core Processor; and checking the datasheets of some random results suggests that they are indeed Power architecture parts.

https://www.digikey.com/products/en/integrated-circuits-ics/...

The cheapest option appears to be the $2.67@1000, up-to-48MHz SPC560D40L1B3E0X with 256KB ECC RAM.

Selecting everything >100MHz finds the $7.10@1000 SPC560D40L1B3E0X, an up-to-120MHz part that adds 1MB flash (128KB ECC RAM).

Restricting to >=200MHz finds the $13.32@500 SPC5742PK1AMLQ9R has which has dual cores at 200MHz, 384KB ECC RAM and 2.5MB flash, and notes core lock-step.

--

After discovering the purpose of the "view prices at" field, the landscape changes somewhat.

https://www.digikey.com/products/en/integrated-circuits-ics/...

The SPC574S64E3CEFAR (https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/spc574s64e3.pdf)
is 140MHz, has 1.5MB code + 64KB data flash and 96KB+32KB data RAM, and is available for $14.61 per 1ea.

The SPC5744PFK1AMLQ9 (https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/MPC5744P.pdf) is $20.55@1, 200MHz, 2.5MB ECC flash, 384KB ECC RAM, and has two cores that support lockstep.

The MPC5125YVN400 (https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/product-brief/MPC5125PB.pdf) is $29.72@1, 400MHz, supports DDR2@200MHz (only has 32KB onboard (S)RAM), and supports external flash. (I wonder if you could boot Linux on this thing?)
Ask HN: Share an interesting article you’ve read recently
Can you share an interesting article you’ve read recently?

Tech, startups, lesson would be nice.
> Let's not speculate on how evacuation can be handled in a regulation-compliant way.

If we're going to make a valid comparison between different systems then we have to compare them under the same regulatory regime. A lot of the costs of real-world subway systems are down to regulatory requirements, so comparing an imaginary system that's exempt from those regulatory requirements is going to be very biased.

> I don't really understand what you mean by maintenance of the system used for diverting from the main lane - it's essentially the same thing as an exit ramp from a highway, but much shorter since the reliability of the automated driver is a built-in design factor.

Highways try to avoid having exit ramps in tunnels, because fundamentally you're creating the possibility of a vehicle crashing into the pointy bit (or at best a blank wall). If you're relying purely on automated steering to avoid that, inevitably sooner or later a pod is going to hit it, if only through mechanical failure of the steering system.

> Regarding the size of the underground station - why not make it on the surface? You can have much steeper ramps in an automated, controlled system, if for example de-icing is guaranteed near the surface with dedicated heaters, the quality and grip of the tires is controlled etc. Essentially, any down-town parking can be transformed in a very large station by dedicating o few hundred m^2 for these ramps.

That doesn't solve the problem - the reason tunnelling is expensive in these areas is because land is expensive there. Parking has an absurdly small capacity compared to transit. Even bus stations just can't unload enough people quickly enough in the space available in truly dense city centres, and this pod system is going to need a lot more space per person than a bus station.
I'm a TPU user and I'd be interested to see a specific example of something that can be done on TPU but not GPU.

Perhaps I'm just not experienced enough with the programming model, but I've found them to be strictly less flexible/more tricky than GPUs, especially for things like conditional execution, multiple graphs, variable size inputs and custom ops.
You're on HN.

If it's not growing explosively - it's dead.

Do I really need a "/s" here?
In other threads folks are chatting about how awesome rclone is.
That is correct. I am a Black student who was academically qualified and did not get into Princeton. This had nothing to do with race.

But before 1946 Princeton specifically excluded Blacks as a matter of policy. Harvard and Yale did not. Blacks who could have gone to Princeton if that policy were not in place might have kids that would otherwise benefit from legacy admission. Princeton has a history of systemic racism whose effects are still felt today.
Agreed, upvotes are a failed experiment, especially for comments.
Ok, potentially stupid question, but isn't "life" just such a "pathway"? Meaning an organism already assumes a complex system of chemical reactions, and then some other chain to produce phosphine? So is it really hard to believe that if "our understanding of rocky planets" already assumes something as complex as life is possible, then something less complex than life (but still possibly quite complex) which produces phosphine is also possible?
The Pandemic Has Parents Fleeing from Schools–Maybe Forever
Sounds more like a F-MANGA. Gates goes Super Saiyan while Bezos builds a mechwarrior army.
What's the point of pretending that people don't know you will get downvoted for holding an unpopular opinion? It's tautological.
Tldr, text can be encoded as plaintext, image or binary.
Hahaha! Has Oracle ever run a B2C product in their existence? Or anything ad supported? Or anything at all that you don't buy with a contract?

I can't see any scenario where this ends well. Reminds me of Dyson's electric car ambitions. Or the time I considered living in a van, I was quite drunk that day.
The AutoSTIG Open Source Security Tool Suite
> 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.

Name one.
I don’t know. Netsuite, while a very complicated piece of software, has thrived under Oracle. It’s one of the most powerful ERPs in existence.
While it still has issues, I have pretty good luck using pdftotext, then in the cases where the output isn't quite right, adding the --layout or --table options.
When the first two cases in my city were reported there was a swirl of questions related to where those people had been and who they had been in contact with. There were no answers. We weren't going to do contact tracing or take any measures to contain this thing. That was the eye-opening moment for me.

We've had 6 months to prepare and instead we spent the summer arguing about masks. Incredible to look back on the lack of leadership and planning at all levels.

Never in my life have I been so disappointed with the people around me.
Interesting, I've never heard of this; thanks for sharing!
Haven't looked at the rest of your posts, but if this gets flagged, it's probably from this:

[Edit: I disagree with my past self of having put this comment here. This is something that if one feels that they notice, they should probably comment on. Leaving it here for clarity's sake]

> The HN algorithm basically encourages an echo chamber of people who gang up and downvote/flag others who don't agree with the gang opinion.

or this:

> (Psst ... If you see this comment disappear after a while, it's probably because the same Apple fanboys found this comment and decided to hammer it down again.)

than this:

> criticizing Apple's monopoly and policies

Source: Have criticized Apple without having been downvoted and flagged.
It will have to out-pace the DRM tech that will stop you capturing pixels from pdfs deemed "protected"
Here’s some photos of my personal deck, which I have owned for 10 years. https://imgur.com/a/vTNsN5b
I always figured it was based on a rounding error in the simulation.