skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If changing X you could bump up the fraction then your selecting for background not DNA.

People with asthma, vision problems, and ADHD etc can still serve. The current criteria are mostly about effective soldiers after minimal training not some test of genetic fitness.
That's because they did it in the worst possible way.

AWS has built in tools to do this in the background where they take care of everything for you.
It is an “extra charge”. Don’t you pay for every gigabyte of data that you use? It’s all bundled with T-Mobile. What’s the advantage of that over just getting another sim while you’re out of the country? Especially now with e-Sims being a thing.
> Does anyone have insight on how Oracle envisions the TikTok brand and userbase adding value to the rest of the company?

Sure. The answer is that there is no such significant added value to Oracle, specifically, but TikTok itself will end up selling for bargain basement prices, meaning that added value isn't necessary for an acquisition to make sense.
Android still works on x86-64; indeed there are quite a few actively maintained x86-64 Android ports that are used, both on bare metal PCs and virtualized, for various purposes.

The problem is that there are no x86 SoCs that are sufficiently power efficient to be battery-life competitive with ARM SoCs in phones.
There are many videos critical of US foreign policy on YouTube. The collateral murder video is on YouTube.
“There is no such thing as tit for a tat in a civilisation with rule of law.”

That’s not a general principle of which I’m aware. Plenty of countries have rules like “we treat you how you treat us”. Nothing about that is inherently incompatible with the rule of law.
100% this.

Unfortunately people still think very teleologically, as if nature works in a progressive fashion towards some structured end; this tendency is deep in western thought all the way back to Plato (and probably beyond), and it's all over science fiction.
> There is every chance that everyone will learn to use a small set of fundamentally composable digital tools in the future. That's programming

That's not, unless you stretch the meaning of the word far into meaningless. But if you insist on doing so, then yes, most people should be able to "compose digital tools" for a small enough number of digital tools and a wide enough meaning of "compose." Although, on second thought, it appears so many people had issues with "programming a VCR" back in the day, and that wasn't anywhere close to my meaning of "programming."

So let me rephrase it, "there is no chance everyone or even majority could become a minimally proficient user of a minimally useful programming language for novel tasks beyond a sequential list of actions."
Err, that's because x86 architecture is backwards compatible; not because the language those binaries were originally written in is.
Also, they’re dying. Earth is probably less noisy now that 50 years ago.
Klainerman said that “to promote excellence in research and teaching, major American universities have to develop policies that are blind to considerations of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, socio-economic class and any other factor not relevant to intellectual achievement.”

Here is the problem with that logic. To say now in 2020 that the school should be colorblind does nothing to address the systemic racism that existed for hundreds of years. Princeton did not accept black students until after WWII[1], so several generations of blacks were denied entrance, despite being academically qualified. Their children and grandchildren are therefore denied the benefits of legacy admission (which currently runs at about 30% acceptance vs 5.8% for regular applicants[2]). In this example being colorblind still hurts some students (or helps others, if you see it that way) solely based on the color of their skin.

1. https://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/2010/10/black-alumni-lo...
2. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/college-legacy/#:~:t....
So you’re saying OEMs take no efforts to optimize for battery life. That’s kind of an extreme position to take. We know they are working on battery life because updates have extended battery life in deployed assets.
On the other hand, stars are extremely wasteful. A technological civilization will, eventually, encase their sun in an energy extracting Dyson swarm. So why isn't the sky full of dim uniform-distribution infrared blobs?
https://www.nearmap.com/ was another one that google looked at, before buying the other mob that became maps.google.com. They are also Australian.

It depends what you mean by successful I guess, but nearmap fits my definition of successful. Far better more and detailed maps that google, sold to people who needs such things rather than being used as platform to sell advertising.

In the beginning they used to have an honour system that allowed everyone to view their maps for free. They merely requested people who used it commercially to to purchase access. I gather that didn't work out, or maybe it was just a way of ensuring everybody knew about their product as there is no free access now. but while it was free it was great for checking when roof gutters needed cleaning, comparing flood levels and that sort of thing.
That's nasty Nvidia, very nasty. But on the other hand might be it will be a motivation for everyone to use ARM less.

I quite expect AMD for example to drop ARM chips from their hardware. Others should also follow suit. Nvidia is an awful steward for ARM.
What are you even talking about? Do you live in the real world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

Tit for tat is the strategy used across the globe and throughout history because it works.
Don't think for a second that IT professionals are any better.

You have no idea how many times I've seen the RDP certificate warning: "Click here to never show this again."

Nope, no. Nobody but me ticks that checkbox. NOBODY. It's infuriating.

That, and the VMware vSphere first-time tab that "explains what a cluster is". Click here to close and never show again.

Nope. Every time I look over the shoulder of a dedicated, full-time, VMware-certificate ESXi cluster administrator... there it is. The certificate warning. The first-time popup. Every time.
Do you think Facebook or Twitter are threats to national security?
Because so many of Google's acquisitions have ended up doing well...
They need to block this deal. A real clean case.
ByteDance has said publicly that they won't be selling their algorithm (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-13/bytedance...) -- so there's no IP angle here. What is Oracle really getting out of the deal?
Did China just get access to Oracle and Oracle Cloud?
One of Euclid's axioms is that parallel lines do not intersect. This is true on a plane, so Euclidean's axioms describe planar geometry. In non-euclidian geometry you relax this requirement, giving rise to things like hyperbolic spaces and elliptical spaces.
Not sure what OP is going on about though, as this doesn't seem particularly on topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry
I could see apple being the next in line of basically failed VLIW ISAs - the cost/benefit doesn't really add up to completely redesign, prove, implement, and support a new ISA unless it was worth it technologically.

If they could pull it off I would be very impressed.
Weren’t UIKit and AppKit before that closed source?
I think a possibility is that Oracle want to increase their competition with Amazon, Microsoft and Google, all of whom own massive consumer properties and/or social networks.
Sure, but you still shouldn't have to manually squeeze it through public HTTP APIs
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Indeed, looking right now at https://rioslab.org/.
They can pass the user data to the US government.
It is phenomenally good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21451713
Quite likely; we’re pretty closely related to those, and multiple species viruses show up all the time. It would be more surprising, though, to find a virus which was pathogenic to, say, both us and archaea, and any Venus life is probably more different to us than archaea are.

A bacteria analogue is possibly more of a risk; those can be less fussy.
syshum's post is definitely cynical, but I can see it being true in the sense that companies are not likely to make moves which lower their share price, even if they think it is ultimately good for the consumer, if they know consumers will think it is a net loss for them. For example, it may be possible to raise the security level of their devices 100 fold, but if it causes their products to cost 10x as much, no consumer will feel it is worth the price, and so the product will not sell and their stock prices will fall, even if it's ultimately in the consumer's interest.
What is Amazon's license for ARM like to make graviton processors?
And Intel's revenue remains 700% larger than Nvidia's
It is frankly amazing AMD can keep up at all.
Maybe? But somehow I don't think they'll be able to capitalize on it because Intel.
love the armchair CEO perspectives that NVIDIA spent $40b only to flush the whole ARM ecosystem right down the drain, that's definitely a rational thing to do, right?

Jensen's not an idiot, how many OG 90s tech CEOs are still at the helm of the company they founded? Any severely negative moves towards their customers just drives them into RISC-V and they know that.

Yes, ARM customers will be paying more for their ARM IP. No, NVIDIA is not going to burn ARM to the ground.
Not quite 48-pin QFP chips, but 257-pin embedded is still smaller than Rasp. Pi. (Just searched what NXP's newest Power-chip is, and its a S32R274: 2MB 257-pin BGA. Definitely "embedded" size, but not as small as Cortex-M0)

To be honest, I don't think that NVidia/ARM will screw over their Cortex-M0 or Cortex-M0+ customers over. I'm more worried about the higher-end, whether or not NVidia will "play nice" with its bigger rivals (Apple, Intel, AMD) in the datacenter.
> (that may be a bit too cynical)

"You actually don't need to be open-minded about Oracle, you are wasting the openness of your mind [...] As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle."

- Bryan Cantrill, https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2046
Unless there are physics involved we aren't aware of.
Well that's one way to discreetly kill it
They aren't getting the IP.
> And when my child runs "🇨🇦"[::-1] in Python 3, I'll still have to give them The Unicode Talk

What were you expecting to get when doing reverse on 🇨🇦? The flag symbol is encoded using regional indicator symbol letters: C, A. When you reverse it you get regional indicator symbol letters A, C which represents Ascension Island. In python2 you get a total garbage.

The flag representation is not part of unicode, unicode only specifies that you can encode country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and it is up to the application how to present it.
The parent comment is just a super low effort HN trope. Company everybody hates does something so you have to dream up some silly reason that it fits into the existing narrative about them.

There is literally no reason to think this could possibly happen, apart from “Oracle is bad and they do bad IP lawsuits”. Tik Tok doesn’t have any novel IP that could support a theory like this, and Oracle isn’t even getting any IP in this deal.
Books that introduce one to the rigorous mathematical way of thinking. There are free and leisurely ones like Book of Proof by Richard Hammack.

https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
I think even passively collected behavioral data (rather than, say, an active psyop-style intervention on social media) poses a threat, as it can be leveraged elsewhere.
Well Facebook has to be happy at least. Oracle has to be the company least likely to run TikTok well.
No one thinks this has to do with the relationship between the US President and Oracle? Amazon is throwing a fit because they weren’t chosen to be the Pentagons cloud provider. Now this. It’s favoritism.
No, they just revealed that they already had access.
It’s time to move on from community consensus
The locations this was observed was more Earthlike parts of Venus in terms of pressure and temperature according to the article.
From a quora post by the same author of the tweets:

> Astronomers will think of all the ways to justify Phosphine without life and I welcome that. Please do, because we are at the end of our possibilities to show abiotic processes that can make Phosphine

> there very well could be an abiotic source but that alone would be an amazing discovery. However we must deploy Occam’s Razor and suggest the simplest explanation and the evidence suggests the simple explanation is biological sources, life.

Wouldn't a better announcement be "Phosphine detected in Venus atmosphere". Maybe it's compelling evidence for life, but claiming "Signs of Life Detected" seems a bit premature, no?

And from the link on the author's Twitter bio:

> Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.

Not exactly who I thought would be announcing the discovery of life beyond our planet.
no they are not. Go read recent MLPerf results more carefully and not Google’s blogpost.
NVIDIA won 8/8 benchmarks for publicly available SW/HW combo. Also 8/8 on per chip performance.
Google did show better results with some “research” system which is not available to anyone other then them yet.
“Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.”
I think that's right. I made this comment on a related thread but didn't put 2+2 together. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24465275
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yeah.. lots of head scratching when I saw that announcement.
Apple and Nvidia don't seem to see eye to eye. Nvidia doesn't support macs (CUDA support was pulled a year or two ago) and apples don't include Nvidia cards.

This could change.
Softbank has some losses of it’s own to make up, so that’s not very surprising.
A wacom provides a ton of value that you can't just get on pen and paper. The ability to have infinite space in teaching is extremely useful.
It seems to me that if Apple felt that Nvidia would limit them, they could have outbid them for ARM! So I think you are correct.
Crackpot who doesn't understand the basics (not to be rude). Unlike energy, momentum is a vector quantity. A system can't disperse momentum "in all directions" because the net effect will cancel out. A bomb that has net momentum 0 still has net momentum 0 after it's been exploded.
Seeing their market performance I have no doubt they could get capital for R&D
There are kludges everywhere, but few companies make kludges part of their core values, except Jugaad apparently.
धन्यवाद, I'm learning Hindi and was just curious about what it actually meant. 'Makes it out to be some amazing cultural thing' is I suppose quite common (or substitute 'amazing' for anything broad) - 'curry' is an obvious example, it presumably comes from कढ़ी, in turn from the leaf/herb, which is one very specific (very delicious, IMO) dish, yet used over here like it just means (Indian) food.

I digress. I can see why it's useful to cling to a term to discuss a phenomenon or even a non-unique idea in the context of a particular place, but really, imagine (as a non-Indian) reading this with <country> in place for 'India', and Agile (or something) for 'jugaad'. Egh. I'm all for intercultural learning or whatever, but as part of that we surely have to look at what's 'a thing' to learn and what isn't.
ROFL. Why not wait for the upcoming Josephson junction memristors, while you're at it?
Are they acquiring TikTok US, or as some places reported, are they just a "trusted tech partner", aka they will probably host the data.
Your link has nothing to do with recommendation engines? Perhaps you pasted the wrong one?
ROCm is their product for compute and it still can't run on their latest NAVI cards which have been out for over a year while CUDA works on every nvidia card on day one.
One of the (many) synergies in this acquisition is that it's also an acqui-hire for CPU development talent. NVIDIA's efforts in that area have not gone very smoothly. They aren't going to fire all the engineers they just bought.
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What alternative would you have proposed?
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You seem pretty confident of this, share your numbers.
You are essentially arguing against “innocent until proven guilty” and implying it’s okay for a global corporation to take a public stance against a minor before his court case is even finished. Deleting only the content suggesting he might be innocent will significantly affect public opinion, regardless of the final outcome of the case. If it turns out he is innocent then this is going to be the Nicholas Sandmann situation all over again.
Another option (although requires more tech) is to use the camera from a mobile phone connected to the computer via USB. Requires app + USB cable + "drivers" installed on the host computer.

My teacher friend recommended DroidCamX (paid) but the drivers are windows only so I wasn't able to use that.

I instead tested with Iriun https://iriun.com/ and it worked OK with my newer phone (the older phone I wanted to use had trouble with autofocus... though maybe that's because of the way I have it suspended from a desk lamp).

It lags a little, but overall usable.
We also know that our solar system has exactly the right conditions needed for life.
What's more human than wanting to make as much money as possible for the least amount of work?
Probably worth a second look at this RISC desktop thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118642
> hundreds of experts working to prevent it

Every major operating system has this regardless of whether they force you to download software through one marketplace. You're not less-secure if you use two marketplaces as long as both those marketplaces are kept secure. iOS is kept secure independently of the App Store as well.
The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

Oracle's latest acquisition [0] by is a consumer video creation company called sauce.video [1]

It could be that Oracle is looking for a new challenge in video technology to demonstrate the capabilities of their cloud services, even Zoom chosen them for their infrastructure [2].

[0] https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/

[1] https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/sauce-video/

[2] https://www.oracle.com/customers/zoom.html
Oracle must have made the most concessions of control to ByteDance. Oracle gets a popular brand, data, and a strong entry into social networks.
After 750 million years? I doubt any of ours will be detectable after that time, at least not without a very careful search (which hasn’t been done for speculative Venusian ones).
Ultimately I feel that this deal is so skeezy and coated in the slime of Trumpist corruption that I wanted it to go to the worst possible company and it looks like this happened.
Colorless is one of his worst books IMO. I would recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World or Kafka on the Shore.
I would say the possible threat is more than FB is assumed to have been responsible for, whether it is true or not is a different story.

While FB's perceived threat was(is?) targeting of users on behavioral models, for misinformation campaigns. Tiktok's goes beyond this, with a state actor pushing its propaganda with active blessing of the platform itself and curbing dissent against itself. Considering how we have seen companies self censor for CCP, I wouldn't say the curbing dissent thing is far fetched.

On a similar note, I used to consider SCMP reporting of high standard different from Xinhua/CGTN and free from interference as it was based in HK. But lately I have seen them publish stories to push CCP agenda without proper fact checking.
HN being hyperbolic and anti-NVIDIA as usual. I think this is a great thing. Finally a competitor to the AMD-Intel x86 duopoly. I imagine the focus will first be on improving ARM’s data center offerings but eventually I’m hoping to see consumer-facing parts available sometime as well.
I've found the Mac Mini to be Apple's best hardware; more upgradable than the typical MBP, and much more reasonably priced. (I also never use any laptop I use as a laptop; I find the ergonomics of laptops unbearable).

But I also enjoy OSX and haven't experienced many of the downsides commonly mentioned on HN, so YMMV.
I can say #1 has significantly impacted Swift feature adoption and SwiftUI conversion. SwiftUI 2 for example, the first really useable one IMO, requires iOS14 as your projects minimum.
But then this is evidence that whether it’s an American company or Chinese company has little import on its ability to subvert elections.
It is not that simple to block. There are numerous standardised JavaScript APIs that allow websites to measure the size of rendered text.
Oracle has a "Data Management Platform" (perhaps a bit better known as BlueKai), which they might consider augmenting with stuff coming out of TikTok.
Oh whoops, I picked the tweet next to this one: https://twitter.com/business/status/1305179144171421708.
This is NVIDIA's "xbox one/PS4" moment. AMD has deals with console manufacturers, their clients pay for a huge amount of R&D that gets ported back into AMD's desktop graphics architecture. Even if AMD doesn't make basically anything on the consoles themselves, it's a huge win for their R&D.

Now, every reference-implementation ARM processor manufactured will fund GeForce desktop products, datacenter/enterprise, etc as well.

NVIDIA definitely needs something like this in the face of the new Samsung deal, as well as AMD's pre-existing console deals.
Google, Habana (Intel), AMD in a year or two, Amazon in few years
Right. Just like the pioneer anomaly it warrants investigation just in case if there is something going on we haven’t predicted. Even if it is eventually explained by a mundane process it’s still probably worth the refinement of techniques used to detect why it’s happening. If for no other reason there’s the risk of more film flam technologies making similar claims with no way to disprove them.
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As far back as 15 years ago, Oracle had the reputation of being the company where people would come to work, close their office door, and then work on a second job or side project in peace and quiet. Oracle was/is powered by zero innovation and all enterprise sales.

I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny, but I couldn't think of a company more effective to dismantle TikTok than Oracle.
Would they still be detectable? Or could they capture enough energy that the stars would be barely noticeable, like trying to find a brown dwarf?
चलता है literally means walks/moves/works. But in this context it means tolerating mediocrity and not complaining about it. GP is alluding to this widespread mindset.
OH THANK GOD THAT MICROSOFT DIDN'T WIN.

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Or MAGA: Microsoft Apple Google (Alphabet) Amazon. $1 trillion dollar club.
I have a ryzen 9 desktop that I use for gaming and programming. Apple offers nothing in the desktop space which covers my needs. So I either buy a less powerful version of my current computer or don't develop for iOS.