skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicholas Carr wrote in Los Angeles Review of Books:

Seeking to keep the true nature of its work from the public, it adopted what its CEO at the time, Eric Schmidt, called a “hiding strategy” — a kind of corporate omerta backed up by stringent nondisclosure agreements. Page and Brin further shielded themselves from outside oversight by establishing a stock structure that guaranteed their power could never be challenged, neither by investors nor by directors. As one Google executive quoted by Zuboff put it, “Larry [Page] opposed any path that would reveal our technological secrets or stir the privacy pot and endanger our ability to gather data.”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-ho...
By your metric, nearly every newspaper is a “left-wing ideological propaganda mill.” (My litmus test for that is whether the publication will credulously print the demonstrable untruth that “schools are underfunded” or “teachers are underpaid”).
> Over the last 10 years California consistently has the largest economy of all 50 states.

haha... that's not even a very good statistic... it has the 5th largest economy of all nations in the world.
Linux will soon be a real-time OS, the RT patchset is going to be fully merged in the next one or two releases.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/830660/43f429fb1159435a/
And if you don't renounce your US citizenship, you pay the difference in tax savings to the US government forever, even if you don't live here anymore. Top of this page:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-c...
i just get this on loop when i start my shell now

`-bash: [-1]: bad array subscript`

but cool idea!
Are you advocating censorship? So much for the tolerant right!
In our district some teachers were trying to do this until my wife reminded them they can run webex on their cell phone...
Sad the district spent a lot of time and money on owl webcams to follow the presenter but nothing to cover the basic class room ops.
I have the box of these received as a gift sitting on my desk!
Surprisingly - they have a working driver for FreeBSD. Never had an issue with it - and the performance is fantastic. As far back as early 2000's I remember installing proprietary nvidia drivers on Linux and playing UT2004.

Maybe Nintendo/Sony uses Nvidia cards on their developer machines? I imagine FreeBSD drivers aren't simply altruism on their part.

On the other hand, stagnation on other fronts:

- Nouveau (tried recently) is basically unusable on Ubuntu. As in the mouse/keyboard locks every 6 seconds.

- Proprietary drivers won't work with wayland

And since their stuff isn't open, the community can't do much to push Nouveau forward.
Many various reasons for this but one perspective I am curious about is how much this is actually a defensive move against Intel, because nVidia knows Intel is busy developing dedicated graphics via Xe, and if nVidia just allows that to continue they are going to find themselves simultaneously competing with and dependent on a vendor that owns the whole stack that their platform depends on. It is not a place I would want to be, even accounting for how incompetent Intel seems to have been for the last 10 years.

Edit: yes I meant nVidia not AMD!
The P-Value Pledge
One thing about Oracle, either it prints money for Ellison or it ceases to exist. I suspect tiktok will be no more in about 2 years.
I do find it egregious, but it's not that unique... the federal government does the same thing if a US Citizen moves out of the country:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-c...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Creating a Premier Company for the Age of AI
Thanks! Yeah it's probably nothing in the long term even without the baby. I guess I'm just a bit over anxious about not learning anything new.
Even perpetual license to future IP?
S and C corps, and LLCs, regardless of business activity, as well as limited partnerships, but not general partnerships or sole proprietors.
>Then why force them to sell to a US company specifically. Why wasn't Germany or any EU company with strong privacy laws allowed to buy them?

There is no one outside the US with both the tech skills and the cash to buy something the size of TikTok. Heck, there are very few in the US (adding the third requirement of no antitrust concerns).

If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place.
>On a per capita basis, California's GDP is not remarkable and is significantly worse than some other States

Per capita its still the 5th(6th if you include DC) highest and 30% more than the median state.

I think people reference the fifth largest economy factoid because it also speaks to how Californian has several large industries from tech to agriculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
I think the problem is the people you know are idiots, not that TikTok is spreading antiAmerican propaganda. I’ve also seen QAnon propaganda and anti-Biden conspiracy theories on TikTok - the problem is that children are stupid. Maybe you should educate the ones you know instead of placing the blame on an app?
What about the CDN that TikTok uses in Fastly? Will it be replaced by Oracle?
They might, just like Apple do. But then their forty billion dollar investment would stagnate and be eaten by riscv, which is probably what they are hoping to avoid.
Impressive speculation: your theory is the most compelling in seeing here
You can also hire local Linux enthusiasts to create an in-house support team. That keeps the money for the support costs within the local economy and potentially they could even give back to the open source projects and represent your local interests within the open source community.
There have been a few very large companies who have moved their headquarters out of state. From what I can remember, McKesson (top 3 drug distributor), Schwab.

Of course they are headquarters, not the entire companies, so it's still only a few thousand.

Regardless, I don't think California is hurting for companies. At least not right now.
Thanks. Yeah first time and guess I'm greatly underestimating the energy required to take care of a new born.
Is the FreeBDD driver open source? Also, somehow I was under the impression they stopped maintaining the FreeBSD driver. Is that correct?
Can't it be both? I think it's both.
So does Node?

The joke stopped aging well after ECMAScript updated the spec for String with a padStart function, among many other improvements to the String type.
> enslavement of children, poisoning and maiming of workers

> Individuals are already prohibited from doing those things via criminal law. If

> Yes, criminal labor laws adopted as part of broader regulation of labor practices.

You're seriously saying that slavery, poisoning, and battery would be legal if not for labor laws?
I assumed you meant "single family home", but yes, you can find sub-$1M apartments.
You're right. We should ban gender reveals.
It depends on what you mean by "just fine." If you mean "maintain its population," then maybe yes. But I'd say that's exceptionally low criteria for "just fine." It's also a phrasing that dismisses the opportunity cost of having California's efficiency be raised to that of other states, and so seems disingenuous.

But even now, California's population is stagnant [0], and most likely currently shrinking. So, no, it likely cannot continue and be just fine.

[0] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/population-shrinks-in-cal...
Doesn't Tesla alone moving from CA to TX refute that considering they could probably afford to operate anywhere they want?
Two things I think: it ultimately doesn't matter, because the key differentiator between RDBMS selection is the management system, not the query system

And second is that RDBMS's are historically closed-source enterprise tooling -- the vendors themselves have little interest rocking the boat, and there's not much freedom for the community to inject a new language into the system (except as ad-hoc, wonky transpilers, or framework wrappers like ORMs)
Just look at the sourcing of this report: The number cited comes from the random blog of a Texas real estate company, citing a random (paywalled) newspaper. That's barely the quality of work of a really lazy high school student.
Thanks man. Geez that's tough...yeah I asked the wrong question :(
If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place. It's mainland China that concerns people and governments.
> Their flagship database was outstanding 20 years ago.

Agreed. Having worked with and delivered some great solutions with Oracle DB in the 2000's, I've been telling people since at least 2010, that Oracle used to be the answer to the question, "which enterprise database?", but now is the answer to "which is the one vendor I should avoid at all costs?"
And Microsoft has a pretty successful consumer products division -- not the cash cow that enterprise sales are to them, but they do have consumer products. Including the Xbox division, which targets a lot of the market that TikTok does. Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have?
When I was at Oracle I had a private locking office with a window with a mountain view as an intern.
I assume you also call out the "absolute and obvious bias" when you agree with the conclusions of an article?
Guessing the NYTimes has less than 3 people on its board that would be put on trial for war crimes at the ICC if the US didn’t forbid it, which isn’t something an org with Yoo, Kissinger, and Rumsfeld can say.
You're actually underestimating the agricultural output of California, it's the most agriculturally productive place (mainly Central Valley I believe) in the history of civilization.
The GPL doesn't prevent large companies from selling software. Mobile phone vendors sell Linux based Android devices all the time and Linux is GPL.
The US income tax was only supposed to be applied during war time for the wealthy. Now it applies to everyone.

If this does pass expect it to effect most people with some assets in the state in a decade.
Okay, so you agree that 1 is an odd number. Is it such a leap that 2 is also an odd number?

Your two statements are entirely independent.
"Hello Fellow Students!"
Thanks. This is a bit terrifying...and that's just the beginning.
Actually on a per capita GDP, California is 8th, 5th if you look at current rather real. Hey, we're right behind Wyoming and North Dakota. Shudder the thought. However, we're 7th in per capita income with Wyoming and North Dakota nowhere to be seen. Sounds like some states have an income distribution problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

I'm also a native California, born, bred and educated, and I've seen this U-Haul trucks headed for the border tripe every few years, this one from Stanford's (notoriously conservative) Hoover Institute. It's the usual right wing nonsense.
VCs actually don't do that, though. VCs invest earlier and usually for a smaller, non controlling stake.

PEs do the buy complete company, often through an LBO, "restructure", flip for a profit.
Thanks for making this point so clearly.

Linked within the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24465005
It’s a pretty emotionally-charged area. I worked for a Japanese camera manufacturer (one of their top ones), and had an up-close-and-personal relationship with the way they designed the UX of their devices. They have tremendous respect for their users, who often wrap their entire careers around the equipment. The company would often do things like make an angle just a tiny bit steeper in the handgrip; which would necessitate a great deal of re-engineering the internals, because users would report issues with the grip.

But I allowed myself to read your article, colored by my own emotional cant, and I should know better. I can get a bit grumpy about what I consider the ham-handed approach to usability, practiced these days.
I spent most of this afternoon tying to get cuda in docker to work on my Mac for a machine learning use case. It doesn’t. Because nvidia
> Oracle was/is powered by zero innovation and all enterprise sales.

Oracle has one of the last couple of proper industrial research labs left in the industry.

It regularly publishes at the top venues in multiple fields and funds a lot of academics.
There are a lot of different reasons I hate Oracle, but the biggest one is their lawsuit with Google over Android.
What if they just stop investing and build elsewhere?
Is Oracle evil? I thought they were just shrewd business people and not stewards of OSS. I know they have a terrible history in open source but what are some of the evil act’s they’ve done?

Just genuinely curious. I’m a dev that’s only been around the last decade or so. Wasn’t around when they gained prominence.
Were it a serious enough threat to their ARM license, they'd find a way to buy ARM and keep it independent.
Companies are plentiful and as the fifth largest economy in the world we don’t have to fight like pigeons over our cast offs like other states do. In the time that ~700 commercial entities left, how many more do you think were created here?

Housing here is a legitimate problem but the companies that flee to Texas because of lower taxes aren’t worth keeping.
There's someone with a nickname similar to yours (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NYCJosh) that after reading the article, updated wikipedia's plastic recycling article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling#Deception_of.... I would like to thank him.
I've enjoyed Innovative Whackpack and the series [0]. While I can't say it has given me any "breakthroughs", it is a fun exercise to do when you are otherwise stressed out :)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Innovative-Whack-Pack-Roger-Oech/dp/1...
Depending on what part of TikTok Oracle runs this may actually be a good arrangement that works well for both companies.

If Oracle has anything to do with the app itself or its functionality then TikTok will not do well. But if Oracle just manages the data and cloud operations then this may indeed work out well for both companies. Oracle is competent when it comes to data and cloud. That's their core business after all.
"Rule of law"? This is international relations. What "laws" do you speak of?
Its not that angle - imagine being able to turn down anything that is not flattering to him and turn up anything that is unflattering to Joe Biden.

This is the real risk.
So the success is based on population? What does that have to do with the natural resources/geography mentioned in the previous comment?
Thanks. I read the other comments and apparently I need to concentrate on taking care of the baby.
This article seems to have the common failing that it never really gets past page 2 of Bloom's paper.

Bloom's paper is mostly cited in the intelligent tutoring systems world for it's title and first page (the identification of the problem, which was summarising two of his students' results), but the majority of the paper is spent analysing other interventions, such as improving instructional materials, home environment and peer group, enhancing cues and participation, etc to see how close they can get to matching tutoring.

The bigger issue with trying to use the numbers from Bloom's paper today is that "effect size" assumes the control groups are similar. Bloom's studies were in US high schools in the early 1980s. Most ITS papers are on university students or interventions that are also supported with extra staff time and training. They're often on different subjects, with different levels of support in the base class, differently motivated students, different home environments, different teaching styles, etc, but we expect the results between studies to be comparable. I doubt even modern US high schools are like US high schools of the 1970s and 1980s. The control group for Bloom's studies no longer exists.

To give an extreme example of this problem - that control groups in education are not at all similar - when I was doing my PhD on AI in education, I was doing it at a university that gives "supervisions" (small group tutoring) to all its students. So if I were to have tried an "effect size" study on anything I built, my control group would have been equivalent to Bloom's intervention group (in that they did receive small group tutoring) not his control group.

When I was doing my PhD, I had a little informal tea-time quip which was that the flip side of effect size analysis is everything control groups "don't do" if they're to be comparable. Bloom finds classroom morale has a 0.6 sigma effect, so should we take it that the base is that our studies should take place in classes with bad morale? Assigning homework has a 0.3 sigma effect, so presumably control groups don't do that (let alone mark it because that has a 0.8 sigma effect)?
Womp womp..
They have the most generous free tier. 2 free VM's each with 50 GB of storage and 2 free autonomous Oracle databases with 20 GB of storage.
I think your answer is right there at the end. They want a cut.
> It’s like installing a metal back door and front door, bolting them, and also locking your windows.

Except Apple hasn't done that, they have just reinforced the back door and left the front door (which has periodically been picked) open. As it stands now it mostly just exists to annoy jailbreakers.
You and I might have a different experience of California

Housing is actually very available and inexpensive in the inland areas, which are fast-growing (Inland Empire, Antelope Valley, etc.). Cheap housing in places like Palm Springs, plus the influx of coastal money has put a LOT of children of landscapers and restaurant workers, and hotel workers, etc. through the California public university system.

California is a sanctuary state with an excellent community college system, so the children of those disadvantaged minorities have a definite shot of transferring to a school like Berkeley, or even a Cal State, which offers an excellent education at a reasonable (in a relative sense) price.

The economy in the mountains is BOOMING right now, as that coastal wealth funnels into a myriad of small businesses.
> I will point out deleting that much data from harddrives isn't a fast operation either

Dropping a btrfs subvolume or snapshot is pretty fast. ditto for zfs.
> If there was a big enough market for python 2 it would have been forked and maintained by a separate entity.

Perhaps some chose instead move to other languages.
Well that doesn’t mean much, the White House could have signaled to ByteDance on the DL that they’d torpedo any non-Oracle deal... who knows, banning a single company from operating domestically without any immediate proven national security threat is unprecedented, the president just does whatever he feels like.
This is a possibility but we’ll have to see what the paper makes of this, if anything. It may depend on knowing more about the motion of the atmosphere. It was also an unexpectedly large amount of phosphine apparently, more than would normally be stable at that altitude (so it’s definitely being renewed).

But again, this is just a string of tweets—hard to say anything without the paper!
Probably because 'Cybernetics' has a way cooler ring to it than 'Control Systems'.
You can use the same trick to make a touch screen for any laptop with a webcam! https://github.com/bijection/sistine

The mirror system isn't quite as macgyvered though :)
> The perpetual architecture license folks that make their own cores like Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Fujitsu (I think they needed this for the A64FX, right?) will be fine

There is one thing they would need to worry about though, which is that if the rest of the market moves to RISC-V or x64 or whatever else, it's not implausible that someone might at some point make a processor which is superior to the ones those companies make in-house. If it's the same architecture, you just buy them or license the design and put them in your devices. If it's not, you're stuck between suffering an architecture transition that your competitors have already put behind them or sticking with your uncompetitive in-house designs using the old architecture that nobody else wants anymore.

Their best move might be to forget about the architecture license and make the switch to something else with the rest of the market.
> "All buildings matter" and "all days in September matter" are just two recent memes from the past month.

What do you think these mean? I'm confused at how you would read those words and think that it has anything to do with "national image".
I wonder if they are using synthetic aperture radar to do this too?
I do wonder to what degree these methods promote creativity just by breaking you out of your normal thought cycles (which may be stuck in a nonproductive spinloop)
The way I am reading this is that Microsoft put some many security restrictions in place that they would be eliminated.

Me thinks this was all a massive gambit to win the JEDI deal, hobble Oracle with a turd, and then pull out.
How does AMD enter into this? Did you mean Nvidia?
I don't think that true, but if it was, that would be even worse since every single reporter for the NYTimes would have to tow the Democratic line. Thank god it's not that bad (they still will have a right-leaning opinion column once a month or so).
Let’s keep letting our forest take care of itself naturally, let’s also build there, seems to be working great. I’m sure more solar panels and Tesla’s will fix the problem. Larry Ellison seems to be doing alright donating his Tesla funds to Trump while pushing electric vehicle usage and the state burns.

Dumb hypocrisy. I’m sick of these false narratives and bullshit causes. If we’re going to tackle problems in this state we need to actually do it. Not pretend we did and glorify the attempt then brag to others about how great we are. What a joke.
It seems as though the whole reason that Oracle is getting this and not Microsoft is that Microsoft insisted on getting the recommendation engine in the deal and ByteDance said no -- not exclusively, mind you, at all. Oracle won't be able to do what you're saying.
> In 2018 California had 954,000 businesses

> there are nearly 4 million small businesses in the state

I only glanced through the references but I didn't notice anything which would show me why there's such a large discrepancy there. What am I missing?
Thanks. Read the other comments and get the gist...
Wildfires in Siberia have burned down an area larger than Greece

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-sibera-russia-burned-...
Show HN: Ambient soundscapes inspired by night-time cities
At-home testing developed in an era before ubiquity of smart phones technology
Apple let a jailbreak app on the App Store once: https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/29/reddit-jailbreak-dribbble-cli.... And Charlie Miller got his developer account revoked because he showed it was easy to get malware past App Store review. In general, it's trivial to get things that break the rules past the review team; I think almost every large app is probably doing it to some extent.
Samsung, Qualcomm, and MediaTek all currently just use off the shelf A5x & A7x cores in their SoCs. Unless that part of the company is losing money I don't expect nVidia to cut that off. Especially since that's likely a key part of why nVidia acquired ARM in the first place - I can't imagine they care about the Mali team(s) or IP.
For a hobbyist, the free tier is amazing. 2 micro instances free forever.
IIRC are several forks of MySQL other than MariaDB, such as Percona.
Me? I voted for Obama both times, wanted Bernie to win the Democratic nomination both times, and will be voting for Biden this time around, albeit reluctantly.