skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more to elections than just the tabulators.

Maps, databases, candidate filings, calendars, ballot production, voter guides, signature management, poll books, reports, ballot tracking, translation services, etc.

Since the collapse of the touchscreen business, the new business model is rent seeking on steroids. Charging jurisdictions per unit prices for every single one of those tasks and artifacts. Every voter every election, whether the voter cast a ballot or not.

On the stump, I explained that "citizen owned software" applies to both the intellectual property and the business model.
Cold fusion maybe?
The notarization process does not scan for the use of private APIs. That only happens if you submit an app to App Store.
> On a per capita basis, California's GDP is not remarkable, and is significantly worse than some other States.

It's #5 among states, a little over 7% behind #1 Massachusetts, and over 20% ahead of the US as a whole, and over double #50 Mississippi.

> Having a large economy is a function of having a large population, it doesn't imply an exceptionally productive economy.

California has both a large population and, on a per capita basis, an exceptionally productive economy among US states. It's true it's abstractly possible for the former to substitute for the latter in aggregate output measures, but that's not really the case for CA.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-rea...
Sorry, I should have put it in my original reply. If you search for where it asks for an implementation of the standard deviation, you'll see that it asks for an implementation including Bessel's correction (using N-1 instead of N for the normalization, used to correct for the one degree of freedom lost by the calculation of the mean). However, when you look at the answer, provided, you'll notice that it divides by N, and does not provide 'NaN' for the condition N=1, as was asked.
It will ( don't know about success ) and the Chinese will benefit from it because they are already doubling down on RISC-V because they tried but could not become relevant with x86.
Thanks. Wow five years is a lot of time...
Fastest company to reach $100m ARR [1]:

Slack - 3 years
Twilio - ~5 years
ServiceNow - 6 years
Shopify - 7 years

[1] https://www.bvp.com/bvp-nasdaq-emerging-cloud-index
I agree that Apple wont do RISC-V but you don't need to be a member to us it.
Or Jensen believes that smart, convergent IoT is at a tipping point, and this is a bet on that.

Not all fashionable words are devoid of meaning.
Jugaad does not necessarily paint a shoddy or half-baked picture. May be look at it in terms of a solution to a problem in unique ways by using material and resources available at one's disposal intelligently and more environmentally friendly.

May be instead of Taj Mahal or Konark Temple (beautiful and aesthetic still vanity projects) look at living root bridge [1], a solution to a problem in environmentally friendly way. Some will call it Jugaad and some may call it innovation.

On exploitation it may sound harsh but the biggest exploiters of Indians are Indian. If you go by present circumstances situation is dire with no player left in telecom but one, no player left in banking but few, no player left in retail but one, soon no player will be left in energy with the sale of assets to specific private individuals and the list can go on. It will be nice to follow Kabir's "बुरा जो देखन में चला!" before blaming outsiders do introspection.

India's caste system and discriminatory practices are to blame for its exploitation by its own people and outsiders.

Look at India's financial reforms all back pedaled and thriving banking sector is now marred by non performing assets (NPA) and loans restructured out to make balance sheet look good. Strike of demonetization took away the oxygen out of everyone especially small to medium guys and pumped it into selected few large corporates. Draconian laws of FCRA, use of ED for personal vendetta, non thoughtful reforms and taxes on foreign investment sucked the remaining oxygen.

India's strength is it's unity in diversity and tolerance and whenever it's attacked like it is now by its own people it will suffer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_root_bridge
I checked MLPerf website, and it looks like A100 is outperforming TPUv3, and is also more capable (there does not seem to be a working implementation of RL for Go on TPU).

To be fair, TPUv4 is not out yet, and it might catch up using the latest processes (7nm TSMC or 8nm Samsung).

https://mlperf.org/training-results-0-7
Quite. Nvidia will be able to make a single chip CPU, GPU and Infiniband. Plus they'll score some people that know about cache coherency from Arm. We can see the future datacentre starting to form...
I think my comment was pretty clear. You did not define what you meant by California being "just fine," so I said:

> It depends on what you mean by "just fine." If you mean "maintain its population,"

If you mean something else, you should say what you mean.
This nonsense pundit piece is talking about ~700 or so commercial entities leaving CA. This is a state where that number of corporate entities is a rounding error. I’m shocked the number isn’t higher. We are a long way from Detroit and have an industrial base more diverse than a small handful of powerhouse companies in a specific sector. We also have invested in creating infrastructure for innovation to a level where it isn’t an accident when things happen here.

I think using Detroit as a scare tactic to encourage desperate policies to retain companies in a state that’s lousy with them is a pretty far cry from reality.

> It seems like people in Texas on average are doing better than California.

How do you figure?
On the other hand, if Nvidia wants ARM to succeed (and why else would they acquire it?), they can be a source of more competition in the CPU market.

I don't really see how this deal makes the CPU market worse -- wasn't the ARM market for mobile devices basically dominated by Qualcomm for years? Plus, the other existing ARM licensees don't seem to be impacted. On the other hand, I do see a lot of potential if Nvidia is serious about innovating in the CPU space.
Amazing. When was that?
This comment reminds me of the scene from Interstellar where the school teacher is telling us that Neil Armstrong never went to the moon.
(Written for another post regarding the same topic, copied here)

Oracle purchasing a stake in ByteDance, and maybe handling US operations? It sounds like one of those deals which will end up as a loss in a few years and a write-down. The first comparison that comes to mind is the Tumblr sale, when Yahoo wrote-down $712 million, although the companies are quite different. However, the similarity is the culture difference between the parent and subsidiary companies - Yahoo couldn't figure out how to turn Tumblr profitable as they had no successful examples prior, as far as I remember. Oracle and TikTok could not be more different: Oracle is a cold cloud technology supplier with no business advertising to teens.

If Oracle wishes to only be the cloud partner holding US data (a possibility mentioned in the article) it's possible that it could work out, but whether it is possible is dependent on politics and potentially who is elected as the next President.
Universities/colleges are about to be disrupted and ironically the tech sector is helping this with online learning. My guess is half of them will go away in the next few decades.

Business can and will move.

Sure the port is nice. I'm not sure how many jobs are tied to that thou?
Hardware solution: $1 plastic cutting board
There could easily be more than one AI, competing for Earth's resources.
Yes really. Performance that is cleverly hampered by RAM (and driver licensing) on the low end from an ML perspective. The only reason they can do this is because of lack of competition. The performance of 3000 series cards could be dramatically improved for large models at a modest increase in price if RAM was doubled.

It really is possible to be critical of a monopoly without disparaging the product itself. It is when a true competitor arises that we see the monopolist's true capabilities (see Intel and AMD).
Who is going to pay the $100? The school district that can't afford to buy supplies for students to have a functional classroom, or the poorly paid teacher who has to buy supplies to have a functional classroom.
The federal budget is hundreds of tiktoks. and where would the money even go?
It’s wasteful to spend the power to broadcast up into the sky when no viewers are up there; more focused directional transmitters, more sensitive receivers which allow lower power signals, more information sent over cable and fibre optic and undersea transmission lines and point-to-point satellite, more microwave and laser links compared to spam-everywhere radio broadcasts.
They did. The proprietary NVIDIA driver is required on FreeBSD as well. The FreeBSD community just doesn't care about this.
Wake me up when Tesla moves their management and engineering out of CA rather than just writing snotty tweets on the Internet.

Feel free to scroll through yourself: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search#/?country=-1&city=-1

Not only are most of the US based jobs on Tesla’s site still located in CA, most of the better paid higher qualification jobs are too.

(Their headquarters remains in CA too.)
My I suggest Lunchclub, "Curated 1:1 professional connections."

https://lunchclub.ai/
More hype. The lustrous sheen of Node is wearing thin after years of parading.

On a technical level, they're trying to fix a bunch of mistakes made in Node. And build it on Rust which will hopefully mean less vulnerabilities.

Kinda miffed they gave up on Typescript though
2013. They’re still in the same offices though.

They paid for an apartment and car as well!

It’s a great place to be, actually.
I very much agree. The whole situation is just crossing fingers and hoping things will go away as a replacement for pragmatism in the face of no good options. Complete failure of leadership at every single level.
"linus went on a hyperbolic rant" isn't sufficient evidence for anything.

linus is a hyperbolic jerk (as he admitted himself for a few months before resuming his hyperbolic ways) who is increasingly out of touch with anything outside the direct sphere of his projects. Like his misguided and completely unnecessary rants about ZFS or AVX.

if there are technical merits to discuss you can post those instead of just appealing to linus' hyperbole.

(I won't even say "appeal to authority" because that's not what you're appealing to. You're literally appealing to his middle finger.)
ByteDance drops TikTok's U.S. sale, to partner with Oracle
I think if they didn't have an agenda, at least with this specific topic, they would have included data on other states to compare to.
Or Zoom is going through them so the US government can spy more conveniently.

"You are not allowed to spy on our citizens like that."

"Well, someone has to spy on them."

"You're right, we'll do it."

"OK, just don't interfere with OUR spying/propaganda programs and you can have all the US data for your own purposes."

"Deal."
> What I still don't fully understand is why people want to write non-webpage software in JavaScript, a language designed to run in web pages. Why not Python or Go or Rust or literally anything else?

I would say familiarity is a big one. Lots of people now learn JavaScript first, and once you know it well, having to re-learn a whole other language might seem like a big hurdle that if you can avoid seems like a good proposition.

Another one is this new concept of "full stack". While most JS code in browser and in server won't work as is, there's still a lot of overlap. So you can have subsets of code that you can copy/paste from your front-end into your backend and vice versa.

This also means that as a dev, if you want to do backend and frontend work, you only need to learn one language, that's 50% less effort on your part than having to learn two languages :p

Something else that kind of happened as a lucky accident is that JavaScript was designed for event driven programming mostly, due to it being used as a language to handle user events on webpages for interactivity. Now it turns out that the problem of managing interactive user interfaces is highly concurrent in nature. At the same time, it happened that most backend code needed to scale horizontally, which meant that it too needed to become highly concurrent. This was the innovation brought by NodeJS to the backend. It was one of the first run-time for backend that was designed exclusively in an event driven model, which actually allowed it to scale quite well for non CPU intensive workloads. In that sense NodeJS was a pioneer on the back end side as well, and other runtimes are just catching up.

Finally, writing an optimized runtime for any language is a huge endeavour. It requires lots of dev work and effort, which is quite expensive. Since web browsers make a ton of money and are backed by the richest companies around, and they care a lot about the performance of JavaScript in their browsers, there's actually an immense amount of investment made to the JS interpreter and virtual machines to have it be as efficient and optimized as can be. In practice it means that there exists JS VMs that outperform all of Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and almost all other dynamic programming language interpreter/VM out there. There's not many things that can rival that, you've got Go, JDK, .Net, GCC, and the Rust compiler maybe. The former because they've also had ton of money poured into them, and the latter because its entire language design and everything targets performance. Also you've got OCaml, Haskell, CommonLisp and Scheme runtimes of yore that might rival it due to how long they've had dedicated researchers and volunteers contribute. In any case, it means JS VMs are quite competitive performance wise.
India has only been independent since 1943.
Not a single member of the NYT board of directors ever worked in the White House or worked as a full-time political operative either.

They’re a mix of people from the journalism industry and people who had senior management roles in other kinds of businesses: some lawyers, some finance people, etc.

https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/

I certainly have problems with the NYT. It is generally pro-corporate and pro-establishment. It is under strong pressure to accept bullshit at face value, and often succumbs (e.g. in the run up to the Iraq War). It tends far too strongly towards nonsensical “bothsidesism”

There are also a lot of excellent journalists working there, and they do a lot of important work. So it’s a mixed bag.
I was using 2019 numbers rather than last 4 quarters. I also talked about revenue and profit, not operating anything.

AMD 2019 Revenue: $6.73b [1]
NVIDIA 2019 Revenue: $11.72b [2]

Roughly half, as I said.

AMD 2019 Profit (as earnings per share): $0.30 [1]
NVIDIA 2019 Profit (as earnings per share): $6.63 [2]

4.52%, rounds to 5%, as I said.

However, you still proved my point. Lightweight or not, they do not, and have not had the amount of money available compared to NVidia and Intel. It's growing, they'll be able to continue to invest, and they have an advantage in the CPU space that should last for another year or two, giving them a great influx of cash, and their focus on Zen 2 really paid off allowing them greater cash flow to focus on GPUs as well.

[1] https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/930/amd...
[2] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
Itanuim deserved its fiery death and resurrection doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It's a dead end architecture, and humanity gained (by freeing up valuable engineering power to other more useful endeavors) when it died.
It’s both incompetence and complete cowardice in the face of an extreme challenge.
I happened to have a HD Webcam from years ago. I plugged that into my wife's laptop, use the default windows Webcam software...And then share screen.

I rigged up a stand so she can slide papers in and out.
What does this change for STM32 and many other such low power MCUs? They're pretty ubiquitous in electornics.
ZOOM Inc cloud partner is oracle. Oracle increasingly seems to be a bridge between US and China.
My source was the Hoover Institution's website...

Perhaps you should do some research before defending an ideological propaganda organization that has spent decades promoting economic theories that have been shown not to work.

For this particular opinion piece, they're including data from two economic downturns while excluding the growth period between them.
PDF is so bad for representing text that when you tell people about it, they think you're trolling or wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24112836
Because if emdrive works where science says it shouldn't be possible then it becomes difficult to predict it's characteristics.
> You (well, at least I) can't actually down vote immediate replies to your own comments.

Yeah good point. Was just unusual that that comment was downvoted (twice?) long after the submission had left the front page, but not the adjacent one where I say basically the same thing. Seemed targeted.

> I wonder what our leadership would make of the book "Turn the ship around". I'm not sure how they'd go about defining responsibility - it seems to be all about passing the buck and CMA.

Not aware of the book, but leaders of democracies are as accountable as much as their citizenry makes them.
We are all hostages of the clouds!
I’d also assume that if a Venusian civilization was capable of releasing satellites, they also likely generated an abundance of space junk which, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, would completely tear apart any trace of these satellites.
Apple is why you can't use Nvidia hardware on a Mac, not Nvidia. Apple has exclusive control over the drivers. Nvidia can't release updates or fix things on Mac OS.

I'm all for railing on the shitty things Nvidia does do, but no reason to add some made up ones onto the pile.
Wrote an article on the EmDrive some years back and have a little more insight on it than the average bear.

Good to see the Dresden group is still plunking away after all these years. Other than Eagleworks and a group in China, they were early leaders on verifying the concept.

The law of conservation of momentum was created before quantum mechanics was discovered. Let's assume there's a base medium in which all energy (that is, mass) is embedded. Furthermore, let's assume there's a way to interface with this medium. The EmDrive works if one allows mass (that is, energy) to be transferred into this base medium. Momentum is conserved because the mass/energy is transferred to the all-encompassing medium. This medium is the same medium which enables quantum entanglement.

In theory, the quantum vacuum and surrounding phenomena provides that medium. Frankly, I feel the classical interpretation of CoM is insufficient to explain the workings of the EmDrive. The article uses the phrase "a physics violation," but a more accurate statement is "a high-school level physics violation."

How big of a deal is the EmDrive? It's an EM-wave-to-thrust device. Take a moment and consider the significance of such a device. Satellites could remain in space effectively forever, because solar panels continuously source the "propellant". Build one strong enough to counter Earth's gravity, and you get the hovercraft. As long as you have access to electricity, you can generate thrust.

The article also mentions Salvatore Pais and his patents. His story took off after one particular Hacker News post and a comment on that post. You can read the full comment at the link below, but here's the most important points:

"Whether or not the named inventor was a crank, and whether or not the invention was equally frivolous, this was a patent prosecuted by a Navy attorney, vouched for by the Navy CTO, and pushed through under atypical circumstances, in a public forum.

What's even more intriguing is that, if the Navy wanted, it could obtain the patent under a secrecy order that would keep it from the public's eyes until it was declassified.

Knowing all this, now ask yourself why this impossible sounding patent issued in a public forum with high-level brass support under tax payer dollars."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763445

My gut tells me the EmDrive works. Time will tell, of course.
Configuring OpenIKED VPNs for StrongSwan Clients
Oracle reportedly wins TikTok after Microsoft’s bid rejected
What would Nvidia have a monopoly on?

For that matter, what does Intel have a monopoly on today?

There is more competition in the CPU market this year than there has been for a long time. Things are getting better, not worse.
It's not just Zoomers.

A significant number of my fellow American, Millennial friends want to see China overtake us in all areas including economic and military.

Partly because they believe we need to be punished, and partly because it shocks boomers.
California is a tremendously diverse state. For the wealth of the Bay, we also have the poverty of the Imperial Valley and San Bernardino.

It makes California a true melting-pot, and the externalities of the wealthy areas serve as an engine to bring people up out of poverty in those other areas. You can grow up as the child of a dirt-poor undocumented farmworker, attend a California Community College, and transfer to a world-class public university.

Not exactly that sequence of events, but this congressman is kind of an illustration of that arc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Ruiz_(politician)
Nvidia's "Blob" approach does have an advantage when it comes to supporting random OSes.

It's less of a driver and more of an operating system. Basically self-contained with all the support libraries it needs. Super easy to port to a new operating system and any driver improvement work on all OSes.

But the approach also has many downsides. It's big. It ignores all the native stuff (like linux's GEM interface).

It also has random issues with locking up the entire system. Like if you are debugging a process with the linux drivers, a breakpoint or a pause in the wrong place can deadlock the system.