skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so awesome. Didn't know about this until your comment. Thanks so much for sharing. I love how bill lets users use his photographs for the postcards.

I've dabbled with releasing a text-to-postcard service but standard 4x6 prints have kept me pretty busy. I'm doing a postcard experiment of sorts: I commissioned my brother-in-law to create unique monthly art and we're adding a free blank postcard in each shipment. My dog Yoda was the subject in July: https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9qMA-FMVo/
>The word cybernetics comes from the greek κυβερνήτης (kybernḗtēs) which means a pilot, governor, someone who steers.

TIL that's also where Kubernetes comes from.
We now have 400 paying subscribers
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> The Hoover Foundation isn’t exactly unbiased.

What does that mean? They’re a non-partisan think tank. They certainly have a free market point of view, but every source has a point of view.
This looks great! I use Evernote Web Clipper but spend a lot of time adding context/information/screenshots manually, this would save me a ton of time. I requested access to Rumin and will definitely try swapping this into my workflow.
Well, it is an article on education!
It wouldn't have been good if any of the people who could actually afford to buy ARM did so.

Would you rather have TSMC in control of ARM? Maybe have access to new architectures bundled with a mandate that you have to build them on TSMC's processes?

How about Samsung? All of the fab ownership concerns of TSMC plus they also make basically any tech product you care to name, so all the integration concerns of NVIDIA.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Key-Apple-suppli...

Microsoft? Oracle? None of the companies who could have afforded to pay what Son wanted for Softbank were any better than NVIDIA.

There are a lot of good things that will come out of this as well. NVIDIA is a vibrant company compared to a lot of the others.
Storm in a teacup over a stupid vines app. Really.
A bigger concern is that they would hoard future cores and not license them.
Yes, most of the team were laid off, along with most of the team maintaining MDN
I guess I am asking a systems question. I am asking if it is worth researching what a more open or fully open economy would do for the overall rate of innovation.

If we found that it was better to be more open, we could find a way to slowly transition to a more open economy. After transition, you would know someone else may duplicate your work, and you would invest appropriately. You might invest less but you would also benefit more directly from everyone else's investment, so it is non obvious if you would be better or worse off.

"Open source hardware is also really good at allowing whoever can produce something cheapest to capture all the profits."

Please name specific companies to back up this claim. Open hardware companies that succeed despite clones are Arduino, Prusa Research, Sparkfun, Adafruit...

Certainly the rules would be different in an open economy, and so we would have to transition with care. But I think there is a chance that an open economy would have a higher rate of overall innovation. If that were true, the implications for humanity would be staggering. We can duplicate information for free, and so we can duplicate some forms of value for free. But I have never seen an economic theory that leverages this obvious feature of computerized information to produce more value.
Hmm. I don’t seem to recall them trying? If a German (or EU) company wanted to buy that probably would have went through if it was the best deal.

But naturally they don’t want to offend China so why take the risk when you can try to play both sides as long as possible?
Never assume malice where incompetence would suffice. I've found it to be generally true that when people don't know how to solve a problem, they will ignore it. This would have been a great time to bring in consultants on remote work. A nationally organized program would have been ideal so you could benefit from scale in doing sessions, and avoid patchwork solutions.

Too bad our DoE is completely dysfunctional, led by a person who likely prefers it not to exist, a pattern for this administration.
At leas the pentagon deal was government related. Why the hell is the government putting it's nose up private deals like this and also asking for a cut?
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This is such a misleading essay. AB 2088 (to tax net worth over $30 million at 0.4%) was a gut-and-replace two weeks before the end of the session which never even got a vote in committee.[1] It hardly reflects the will of the Assembly, much less a serious attempt to change California law.

The other parts of the essay do a bait-and-switch between noting that some businesses are leaving and implying that it’s the over-regulated business environment —- but if you drill down it’s really motivated by the state income tax. Which, yes, is high and can be significant especially on the sorts of people that are successful at running their own business, which is to say high earners.

And still, how many businesses did California lose in 2018 and 2019? Less than 800 total. So out of the 40 million people that live here, 0.001% chose to leave every year. Even if that’s a net number (which the author doesn’t clarify) it doesn’t rise to the level of something policy makers should care about.

One would think economists writing at the Hoover Institute would be more rigorous about their facts and argument, and not just whine in print and get it published.

[1]https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.x...
Sounds like they should increase taxes in California to encourage businesses to move to other states.
Isn’t the state of emergency about powers to require someone to stay in their house / ‘castle’?

What rules has the state declared over what one can do in their castle?

The rules appear to be specifically about when, why and what you can do when “leaving” your castle. Which has always been the case.
I always thought it interesting that Liu was tacitly saying that new breakthroughs in physics can only be done in places like CERN with a LHC-like project. Humans couldn't make theoretical breakthroughs anymore.
Not quite. The ideal situation is to not have to raise money, by being default alive: http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html

Just because you don't have to raise money doesn't mean you never do. Sometimes founders who are running a profitable business and don't need investors will nonetheless choose to raise money because someone offers it on very good terms and they believe they can use it to grow faster.
Well in this case, ByteDance was the one that rejected the Microsoft/Walmart deal. Not the US President.

'ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.' [0]

[0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/13/microsoft-statem...
Like what company? No European company would make that acquisition. Europe doesn't even have any tech companies that are remotely as large as American tech.
"blatantly one-sided"

Not really surprising.

This article is from the Hoover Institution[1], which has:

- Condoleezza Rice as its director

- John Yoo (torture apologist for the Bush Jr administration) as a Visiting Fellow

- Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld as Distinguished Visiting Fellows

and which bought its Policy Review publication from The Heritage Foundation[2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover.org

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
I'm always curious in these things how they will cherry pick the data to achieve their narrative.

In 2018 California had 954,000 businesses[1] according to the Census bureau. If we take the "13,000 have left between 2009 and 2016" (why stop there?) that would represent nearly 1.4%. However the Hoover Institute doesn't actually tell you if they were "small business" or "regular businesses".

That can be important because there are nearly 4 million small businesses in the state[2] and a departure is a departure, small, medium, or large. If use 3.9 million as the total number of businesses that is just .3%.

Every year people argue "California taxes too much, businesses are leaving in droves" but that isn't supported by actual business license data nor employment data. Over the last 10 years California consistently has the largest economy of all 50 states.

Nobody likes taxes, and I personally don't like misleading articles.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA

[2] https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-...
Most tech acquisitions are fairly bland - they often maintain their separate ways for several years with a bit of integration. Others satisfy a political purpose or serve to stifle competition.

However, given the momentum of Nvidia these past several years alongside the massive adoption and evolution of ARM, this is probably going to be the most interesting acquisition to watch over the next few years.
California has a monopoly on the entire mild-weathered west coast of the United States. Its government is permitted to be less effective and less efficient because people are willing to pay extra for its natural geography.
I’ve heard from Canadian friends that this exists for Canadian residents who want to move out of the country. At an almost confiscatory rate too.

But as I note in another comment, AB 2088 didn’t even get a vote in committee so it’s hardly a serious policy proposal at this point. The author is building straw men and knocking them down at a furious rate.
In my opinion, 'business person' is not the right word.

You need someone who has the right network, and/or can network, and/or can comfortably network. While still contributing as a co-founder.

Usually extraverts are good at this. If you're an introvert, you could still do it, but chances are you spent most of your life avoiding and/or wanting to avoid other folks.
So what should the US do when China does not allow some US companies to operate in China?
TikTok might very well be helping spread this sentiment, but this generation has lived their entire lives in the post-9/11 era and all of the attendant fear culture, American quasi-imperialism, Snowden disclosures, etc. We invaded Afghanistan as they were starting to be born, almost 2 decades later this very weekend we're negotiating with the Taliban, again, for peace. Is it really that difficult to believe that a good chunk of them might have ended up with politics that reject a hegemonic US that hasn't seemed to do much for them, while still carrying on foreign entanglements that stem from an event they don't even remember?
I have to agree that this advice is awful too, unfortunately.

As an engineer for an early-stage startup you daily work and value add - shipping things and invest into deep engineering work, would not be very well aligned with networking and relationship building that would be beneficial to start on your own.

Another interesting idea to consider - as a FAANG engineer you would be able to angel invest already (or fairly soon). That would be a productive (quite expensive though) way to meet more people interested in the same things as you do.
Tell that to Mediterranean countries.
Maybe so. It seems like that will be the case given that TikTok will be on Oracle's infrastructure as part of the deal. So there's one thing at least.

> Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research, told TechCrunch Oracle’s scoop of TikTok “will add plenty of load to their infrastructure service.”

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/13/oracle-wins-bid-to-buy-tik...
Linus famously gave them the middle-finger.
I will point out deleting that much data from harddrives isn't a fast operation either if you were storing it on drive. Same for tape.

Sure you can destructively destroy the drives. But you could also just use KMS on the S3 bucket object and then toss the key and close the buckets. Gonezo.
smic and Huawei better be prepared to have to dump arm asap
Oh wow, Genesis is very similar, and much better done. You're totally right that this isn't special.

I think the Lucid environment and models are much higher detail, but that's probably the reason why Genesis runs in the browser and Lucid is streamed as video. And the streaming makes the experience awful.

My guess for what happened is the team built a demo for fancy VR sales kiosks that run a 2080 Ti, and porting it to the web was an afterthought.

Given that the CEO is also the CTO, and the page is an important part of the sales process, I'd go as far as to consider it a minor red flag.

They should put underglow options behind the Kanomi code :)
> Success is due to nice weather.

If by that you mean a combination of soil and climate suitable for some of the most productive agriculture in North America, that's true.

Otherwise it's more a series of other industries, starting with extractive (1849 wasn't known for a “nice weather rush”) but more recently mostly creative & technological.

> Now that that's gone, well...

It wasn't gone during the long drought, and it's not now.
$40 billion is a real valuation though, as opposed to WeWork’s.
LinkedIn and Github are not TikTok :)
This is the most likely possibility, but it's tantalizing nonetheless.

I wonder if lightning could produce phosphene? There if lightning on Venus in sulfuric acid clouds with a similar strength to Earth. https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/venus-20071...

On the off chance it is life, it might be a relative. Earth and Venus are close enough together for asteroid impacts to throw debris to each other. And bacteria is strangely resistant to the conditions of outer space. See the panspermia hypothesis.
I wonder how the deal is structured with respect to employee stock compensation. I was negotiating with them late last year and most of the comp was going to be in funny-money of the bytedance variety, which is both highly illiquid and hilariously valued. If US tiktok employees get converted to shares of Oracle, that's a substantial upgrade. Of course, they work for Oracle now, but still.
With:

1. The largest public university system in the country (Cal State - 3rd largest on the planet)

2. The absolutely massive UC research machine

3. An established, inexpensive feeder system with the California Community Colleges (hello social mobility)

4. Plenty of world-class private universities (Cal Tech, Stanford, Claremont Colleges, Deep Springs)

5. Access to the Cali-Baja industrial cluster (California has a LOT of manufacturing, it's just in the other California)

6. Some insane levels of cultural diversity (many folks from different cultures can feel at home here - more so than say, Oklahoma)

7. Over 7 medical schools

8. Relatively cheap land in the fast-growing Inland Empire and the Antelope Valley (all it needs is a dash of HSR)

9. Massive agriculture in the San Fernando Valley

10. A massive aerospace industry (Antelope Valley - Skunkworks, etc.)

11. The port of Los Angeles is the largest port in the country followed by the second largest port in the country ....Long Beach, 9th largest is Oakland.

12. The San Diego biotech cluster with its ties to UCSD (Celera, which produced the first draft sequence of the human genome was up north in Alameda, California)

California is an economic machine with infrastructure no other state in the country can come close to.
Dr. Atlas had some bad judgment getting involved with the Trump administration, which has a unique ability to snap defeat from the jaws of victory. But you’re misrepresenting his policy recommendation, which is actually not that different than what has been tried in other countries:

> Dr. Scott Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an accomplished physician, and a scholar of public health. For several weeks, Dr. Atlas has been making the case in print and in other media that we as a society have overreacted in imposing draconian restrictions on movement, gatherings, schools, sports, and other activities. He is not a COVID-19 denier—he believes the virus is a real threat and should be managed as such. But, as Dr. Atlas argues, there are some age groups and activities that are subject to very low risk. The one-size-fits-all approach we are currently using is overly authoritarian, inefficient, and not based in science. Dr. Atlas’s prescription includes more protection for people in nursing homes, two weeks of strict self-isolation for those with mild symptoms, and most importantly, the opening of all K–12 schools.

Other countries had relatively brief shut downs, and had targeted reopenings based on risk profile. Schools have been reopened in Europe since May: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/reopen-schoo...

His view is probably the correct one, at least if anybody was competent enough to implement it. We should isolate high risk patients, quarantine the sick (real quarantine, like they do in Asia, not just “go home and infect your family” we do here), and let everyone else get herd immunity.
All of my posts critical of the CCP get heavily downvoted before eventually climbing back into the positive. They're usually not countered with an argument, or if they are, they're usually nuanced and appreciate that this is a complex issue.

Too much nationalism is dangerous, but I fear we've slipped into a state of disaffection that will cause us to lose the lead.

I think there is a lot at risk if China's tech sector and export industry eclipses the West. Our jobs, standard of living, and strong democracy might be eroded.

Not everyone in America has the same experience or opportunity. But I felt like we were getting better. I can't see that progress continuing in a world dominated by a totalitarian regime.

Covid, extreme partisanship, and the growing threat of China make the future seem bleaker than it did half a decade ago.
As I understand it, the most visible stuff would be TV signal and over the horizon radar. TV signals have gotten less powerful, over the horizon radar is less of a big deal than it used to be. In another 50 years, will terrestrial TV, or any high power terrestrial radio, be a thing at all?
Honestly I would take that oracle job described above in a heartbeat
> > The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

> Seriously? There were plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Microsoft "back in the day".

That validates the second half of the comparison as much as it contradicts the first.
I wonder what the this means for Apple and their move to ARM for their macbooks. End of 2019 Apple and NVIDIA broke up their cooperation on CUDA. Both these companies are very tight on their hardware. Apple must've known this was happening but I guess they weren't willing to pay more than 40B for this risky joint venture they're bound to go into.

Anyone has a proper analysis on the ramifications of this acquisition for Apple's future in ARM?
Everyone Wants to Crack Down on China – Except Silicon Valley
A TPU is a chip you cannot program. It's purpose built and can't run the fraction of the type of workloads that a GPU can.
encrypt all objects. Wipe bucket? just toss key and delete bucket, done.

Use generated bucket names not fancy bucket names, buckets are cows not pets.
Ha, good catch! I'm a big fan of The Office. That said, the name of the blog is more about me reminding myself not to take myself too seriously :)
Can we,for once, hear the opinions of people in the chip industry and not the same tired posts from software folks? NVIDIA Bad! Ok, we get it. Do you have anything more insightful than that?

I'm starting to feel like social media based on upvotes is a utter waste of time. Echo chambers and groupthink. People commenting on things they barely know anything about and getting validation from others who don't know anything. I'd rather pay for insightful commentary and discussion. I feel like reddit going downhill has pushed a new group of users to HN and it's sending it down the tube. Maybe it's time for me to stop participating and get back to work.
Condoleeza Rice its director, John Yoo is a Visiting Fellow, Donald Rumsfeld, Ed Meese, and Henry Kissinger are Distinguished Visiting Fellows.

Non-partisan? Come on.
California contributes more in taxes than it gets back in federal spending.

Kansas, et al, owe their continued solvency to California's continued generosity.
He does seem like a bit of a "character." But maybe he had a webscraper that just happened to catch the premature post, and is just trying to self-aggrandize on a real scoop? Nasawatch [0] is saying that several sources have confirmed it to them...

[0]: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2020/09/phosphine-detec.html
Except the front door doesn’t have a pickable lock, and this is just one of many overlapping security mechanisms. It’s like installing a metal back door and front door, bolting them, and also locking your windows.

Just because the windows can be broken more easily by an invader doesn’t mean there isn’t also value in the other steps you took.
Do you think you would be less critical if you agreed with it?
My instincts are telling me this is smoke and mirrors to rationalize a $40E9 deal. The only part of that that computes at all is the GPU integration, and that only works if NVIDIA doesn't terrorize Arm licencees. The rest is buzzwords.
Here's what I am guessing it is:

- Bytedance retains some ownership and control of the app and the algorithms

- Oracle runs the entire back end on their infrastructure

- Oracle guarantees to the US government that no data is going back to China (because they control the release of the app and control the back end)

- This satisfies the USA's (supposed) national security concerns and also satisfies China because TikTok is not actually being "sold" to a US company.
I mean a lot of these people also sit on different boards of many hip western US tech startups. I don't think most of these people are actively involved in partisan politics anymore.
And he just happened to have a big quora write up ready? And he happened to get the video a day early too?