skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet Black students are better represented than non-Jewish White students. Princeton vs US demographics (in %), from most to least represented:

Princeton US ratio
Asian 20.9 5.3 3.94
Jewish 8.0 2.15 3.72
Black 7.7 12.7 0.61
White 34.7 59.3 0.58
Latino 9.5 17.6 0.54

Sources:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews (using average of 2.15%)

https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-unive...

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university...
Which of the companies in your portfolio have successfully done this? I.e. reach profitability early on then not raise future funding rounds?
> I wonder if there's any point of even living most days.

This means you're valuing the wrongs things w/ the wrong weights. Compensation is to help you live more comfortably. If your pursuit of it is making you less comfortable (than the compensation received) you're doing it wrong.
Yes they are very serious. But good luck getting any states to go along with that. It's a crazy amount of lawsuits awaiting to happen. Instead they should address why people are leaving.. Maybe.. just Maybe.. it's the knee jerk policies being put in place that will do more economic harm than good.
I mean, for every 20-30 kids, there’s also an adult trying to educate them. Everyone’s fucked in the situation, and all you need to do is follow the money to understand the motivations. For example, my wife has to take real time attendance on a zoom call every morning in a 30 minute window, when everything else can be asynchronous. Why? Because schools are funded by attendance of the students, and they couldn’t be bothered to think of an alternative way to handle things.
Wow, the absolute and obvious bias in that article, not to mention the comments. Is there a more neutral source, or at least a source that isn’t so blatantly one-sided?
That’s not totally crazy. You probably couldn’t have earned that wealth in another state, so why shouldn’t California take its cut?
In Golang, interfaces are used to circumvent that feature. There is no inheritance, instead Gophers use interfaces in code to share functionality between structs.
"working solution that is free"

With this ingenious level of analysis we'd still be banging rocks together to make fire.

Aside from ethics, a class of kids represents millions of future earnings and GDP, this warrants serious approach and best tools money can buy.

Instead education is still stuck in 18th century and we have to put up with ridiculius aruments about petty expences.
Nah, all that Microsoft is trying to imply is that Oracle doesn’t give a shit about security engineering, and that the goofy geopolitical business alone does nothing for users. It’s plausible.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24464933
Because they already did with the taxes that already exist?
Oracle Cloud? No seriously, that's actually a thing!
Microservice Architecture, a non-introductory introduction
That would be the concept of an "income tax".
nice weather and nature that’s burning?
Missing from the article is any discussion of control theory. In my view cybernetics essentially morphed into modern day control theory, there are many examples of very broad ideas in cybernetics being made specific and rigorous in controls. For example the good regulator theorem became the internal model principle. I encourage anyone interested in learning more about this brand of cybernetics to pick up a control or dynamical systems textbook, researchers have definitely not been idle in this area!
You would think that with 9,000 relocations, this article would come in with stronger evidence than a posturing wealth tax with no path to approval (and essentially abandoned), and a San Diego business that happened to relocate to Austin after being acquired by an Austin-based business.

California has many issues between tax policy and regulation by mob approval, but this is a very weak argument.
Unsurprising take from a Republican mouth piece.

The figure they give is 766 for 2018-2019, far from “thousands” (which comes from their figure of 13,000 between 2009-2016). The sources they cite don’t even agree with these numbers. Everything after the first sentence is just an unsubstantiated rant.

Now I need to wash my brain.
The Hoover Foundation isn’t exactly unbiased. The thousands comes from the “2009 to 2016” period. No mention of how many businesses were created. Nor comps of other states.

I believe that lots of people wish they could move their business out of state. I also believe many don’t because they actually like it here, it’s access to a ton of well off customers with cash to burn, and while they grumble about the regulatory burden it also creates quite a nicer place to live. I’m sure the latter comment will get lots of attention as there’s innumerable people who are sick of California. I’m looking at moving back after 6 years away.
39 million people also places it at #37 in population if it were a country.

Throw in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, piggy-backing off the US as a whole, and having a beautiful coastline and great social culture. What do you expect?

I do everything I can to minimize my involvement with California for my businesses.
I can't really be surprised that a place with high cost of living and a focus on helping people over businesses is going to have high taxes for both those people and those businesses.

While some businesses aren't tied the are and will leave, most of them are making money from people in that area and need to stay there. If enough of those businesses leave, I'm sure the government will start to cater to them again, balancing things out again.
I know they use Fastly CDN
The OP said nothing about being ok with the x86 duopoly.

Its possible to dislike two things at once, its also possible to be wary of new developments that give much more market power to a notoriously uncooperative and closed company.
Something doesn't add up here: This is sourced by a guy on twitter (@BrianRoemmele) who AFAICT doesn't have expertise in the area. Now go read his Quora on this: https://www.quora.com/Was-life-discovered-in-the-clouds-of-V... It gets quite bizarre:

"We should also not rule out far more complex life from the observations of Phosphine. It is quite possible we will observe life as large as a Whale on Earth quite happy suspended in the gravity waves of Venus." WTAF?

Also, how did the video in his tweet somehow become available a day early as well as the Earth&Sky article. Something doesn't smell right here. The explanation is that the Earth & Sky article was put up early by mistake and pulled.. and this guy happened to find it. Another explanation could be that an article was written to look like an Earth & Sky article and put on a google drive... and that he got a couple of friends to make the short video on the MIT campus. Otherwise how does that video somehow appear today, a day early as well as the article?
They're doing the deal as part of a consortium, Oracle is getting TikTok's cloud hosting in the US market (at least). Assuming TikTok doesn't fade in the next few years, it'll substantially increase the size of Oracle's cloud business and they can use it as a marketing point.

It suggests that Oracle's cloud business has such dire traction that they can't acquire prominent customers for it any other way than to directly buy part of them. It also speaks to that Ellison & Co. view the cloud shift as a terminal threat for Oracle, one that is getting worse by the day, and that if they don't succeed at building up their cloud business, they will erode and die (and they're right).

Oracle stayed in the game in the last round through massive consolidation, buying up the competition one after another (eg Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc). They'll try the same thing this time around as their organic efforts have largely failed; we'll see how much success they have given they're far outgunned this time around (and running from much further behind).
Not totally off the wall, given that states already will pursue you about income tax that you owe if you leave the state. If the tax were framed as accruing an obligation that is paid off in installments over the next 10 years, then presumably it would pass muster than an individual would owe for the next 9 years after having spent a year in California, even if they then went elsewhere.

I don't know how such a tax would be written that it didn't somehow overlap though. Perhaps imposing a yearly tax that is "0.4% of wealth each year over the next 10 years" but capping the total applicable wealth tax payable each year to "0.4%"? This would be a really weird looking law...
The reason for the purchase appears simple: They believe there is money to be made.

Of course that would rely on good execution.
Success is due to nice weather. Now that that's gone, well...
It's good that they open sourced that stuff, but the main problem is that CUDA itself is closed source and vendor locked to nvidia's hardware.
I thought there was a rule against politics here.
You’re probably right based on the amount of downvotes you’re getting. I don’t use TikTok or much in the way of social media, but if you’re saying it’s true, with a reasonable conjecture and you’re getting downvoted I think the probability of you being correct is increased.

It’s not so much that you actually are right, but that you’re exposing a contrarian idea that doesn’t align with either CCP apologists or certain leftists in the US, so they’ll try to silence comments like yours (and mine) to make it appear that they aren’t popular or worth discussing.

(you’ll see a subsequent increase in downvotes for me too for expressing interest).
There's low power inference from Intel (Movidius) and Google (Coral Edge TPU). Nvidia doesn't really have anything below the Jetson Nano. I think there are a smattering of other low power cores out there (also dedicated chips in phones). TPUs are used on the high performance end and there are also companies like Graphcore who do insane things in silicon. Also niche HPC products like Intel Knight's Landing (Xeon Phi) which is designed for heterogeneous compute.

There isn't a huge amount of competition in the consumer/midrange sector. Nvidia has almost total market domination here. Really we just need a credible cross platform solution that could open up gpgpu on AMD. I'm surprised Apple isn't pushing this more, as they heavily use ML on-device and to actually train anything you need Nvidia hardware (eg try buying a Macbook for local deep learning training using only apple approved bits, it's hard!). Maybe they'll bring out their own training silicon at some point.

Also you need to make a distinction between training and inference hardware. Nvidia absolutely dominate model training, but inference is comparably simpler to implement and there is more competition there - often you don't even need dedicated hardware beyond a cpu.
Umm what, java supports threads what's the deal :)
Tangential, but when I hear about all these insane "start-up du jour" valuations, does anyone else feel like $40B isn't a lot of a hardware company sur as ARM?
Setting a good objective function is pretty hard. In this context of consumer goods, it is at the intersection of three difficult problems:

- equivalent to incentivising salespeople, which is known to be very difficult, as short term incentives often are in opposition to long term ones

- distinguishing and dealing with spammers, robots and crawlers

- and setting up a stable reinforcement learning behaviour even for the short term, which is tough even without the first two problems

For these reasons, naturally business partners, designers, and others will be very curious how the bandit affects the customer experience.

Many years ago to solve this I made a system that would emit a list of (suboptimal) rules to exploit the opportunities learnt from small A-B test groups (like an epsilon greedy contextual bandit). These rules were reviewed by relevant stakeholders and then explicitly deployed to production as a configuration change, which allows for manual consideration of issues in the three above areas that are hard to automate.
What does this mean (if anything) for engineer salaries 1) in CA and 2) elsewhere in the country?

edit: VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/vmware-tw...
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard has been around on iOS since 2010. $1 to get a 4x6 print mailed anywhere in USA or Canada.

Yes, the Bill Atkinson from the original Macintosh team. He’s also been a photographer for decades and presumably used his printing knowledge to get the meatspace logistics set up.
In term of cutting edge tech, They have their own GPUs, CPUs from ARM, Networking from Mellanox, so I'd say they're pretty much set to build a kick ass TPU.
> piggy-backing off the US as a whole

The US as a whole net extracts from California; the piggy-backing goes the other way.
Every company at this level has ties to the executive branch, and much more. Remember last year when the DoD wrote Microsoft a $10 billion check?
Could've been PicPlum: https://web.archive.org/web/20120108183334/https://www.picpl...
> I had to join Amazon out of undergrad.

You're suffering for a lack of perspective or gratitude. If you're a millennial, realize that you were probably told that you could do anything (and thusly everything), and the effort it would take was trivialized... Both are incorrect. You most likely can do 1 thing super well and it's going to be a shit ton of work if you want to compete against those equally competent.
I'm sure it would make you less nervous (which is why I tell them), but would it actually help? Either the role is above your skill level, and it won't matter how you answer the questions, or it isn't and doing your best will be good enough.

Either way, there's no need to be nervous. IMO, you should focus on just answering the questions as best you can.
What did you expect? The Hoover institution is a fundamentalist think tank and their analysis is written entirely to pitch lower taxes and less regulation as always being the right thing. In short, they are living up to the level of brilliance of the economic policies of their founder.
>Oracle is set to be announced as TikTok’s “trusted tech partner” in the U.S., and the deal is likely not to be structured as an outright sale, the person said.

Bytedance isn’t actually selling TikTok, and the White House gets its win.
>US claims that the Chinese can insert snooping tech in their hardware, which is of course true.

Huawei have been caught doing this (e.g. with the African Union HQ where they set everything up). This very much isn't true for a lot of Huawei equipment, though, where the source code is loaded manually, Huawei are very willing to allow manual inspection and the equipment forms part of the "dumb" routing infrastructure rather than the clever bits (where hacks would be easier to hide).

Trump wants everything gone, though. This is more an economic war than it is a spying war. National security simply provides a very convenient excuse to sell domestically and an automatic exemption from WTO rules.
this is just false
The Hoover Institution is really a stain on Stanford’s reputation. Full of pseudo-scholars who start with their conclusions and then hunt around for cherry-picked evidence, but don’t spend too much effort worrying about the details, and never bother to admit when they were wrong. It’s fitting that Condoleeza “we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” Rice is now the director.

The example of the day is Scott Atlas, Trump’s new darling “anti-Fauci” who (without any particular expertise in epidemiology or public health, and without any kind of convincing evidence or reasoning) has concluded that we should just give up against Covid19, and disclaim any responsibility for the results.
One must assume either the aliens aren't there, or that the idea is not worth it for reasons we haven't discovered yet. Maybe planetside fusion power is just more efficient. Maybe they can harvest energy from black holes or something.
Phosphine might be detected on Venus
Talk to anyone who got RSUs while working for a company in CA and then moved somewhere else (Seattle in particular is popular). CA wants their chunk of flesh no matter what.
I think at such shallow angles it's the plastic surface that becomes reflective, not the metal layer with the pits and grooves. Hence the lack of diffraction (and hence why it works with my black PSX disc).
An ancient nuclear reactor burnt beneath Africa nearly two billion years ago
OpenPOWER is pretty awesome but would be nowhere near as awesome as an OpenItanium. IMHO, Itanium was always mismarketed and misoptimized. It made a pretty good server processor, but not so good that enterprises were willing to migrate 40 year old software to run on it.

In mobile form, it would have made a large leap in both performance and battery life. And it would have been a fairly easy market to break into: the average life of a mobile device is a few years, not a few decades. Recompilation and redistribution of software is the status quo.
Access to Big Retailers Inventory
I am searching for accessing real-time inventory and pricing from big retailers, like Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc. Some companies are doing this like Brickseek, but not sure how they do it. Can anyone help?
Oracle boots out Microsoft and wins bid for TikTok, reports say
It's Hotel California: "You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave!"
It's very bizarre. What could Oracle possibly gain from TikTok from a business perspective? It seems so far away from their core business. MySQL, SUN, I kind of understand, but TikTok? Why didn't say Google or Amazon make a bid?
Not a dupe! This article includes interviews with both CEOs of ARM and NVIDIA, including statements not found in other articles.

I feel that the dupe brush is a bit too wide in some cases, glossing over the subtle, constructive, and thus notable and legitimate differences between multiple articles on the same subject. There is no one definitive article on subjects that are newsworthy, as the last word hasn't even been written yet, but critical commentary can still be conducted in the interim.

This deal, for example, hasn't yet met regulatory approval. I hope it does, because this will be a big win for consumers and for competition in many devices and industries.
Not for me. Finding life from elsewhere than Earth would be by far the most significant scientific discovery in human history. (Again, just a personal opinion; I have no objective argument to back it up).
> > they just don’t care about teachers

> I think you mean, they don’t care about students? Because that’s truly who is hurt here.

It is true in some transitive sense that the people making these decisions don't care about students, but insisting on that phrasing seems either hostile to, or at least minimising of the importance of and impact on, teachers.

The school or district administration's role is to care for the students, yes, but (at least in the classroom) they do that indirectly, by choosing, training, and equipping skilled and qualified teachers.

An administration who is showing contempt for its teachers is thus, indirectly, showing contempt for its students; but it's directly showing contempt for its teachers, and cutting them out of the story says that the harm they experience is not important. Teachers already are, like so many essential workers, expected to do their job endlessly without any commensurate reward; what is the point of denying the harm (for example, by saying or implying that they aren't truly hurt) that is done to them when they are not given even the basic tools to translate their passion for teaching and care for their students into commensurate results?

(I would also be opposed to someone responding to claims of harm to the students by saying "why not focus on the teachers?—they're the ones who are truly hurt." There's no monopoly on suffering; we can acknowledge one group's suffering without pretending that they're the only ones.)
Frankly, I don't give a shit about the national interest of the US or the national interest of China. As a user of tiktok, I enjoy the content and I will be saddened if it shuts down. We like to think of our country as our team, and to root for it in international struggles, but the reality is that it's the average consumer that gets harmed by these power struggles between nations. These economic proxy wars are just as much of a racket as conventional wars, and the sooner we stop allowing the few to rule the many, and play out their egoic power struggles with our lives, the better.
Can confirm, just spun up Bliss OS on my Surface Book. Not at all the smoothest experience I've ever had using an Android tablet, but it's nice.
>We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups.

I don't get how Facebook can say with certainty this is misinformation? It's information that hasn't been verified. There is an important difference.
Artificial intelligence would necessarily have different physical needs than biological life. We can expect even our own AI to be a bit alien to our ways of thinking. Alien created AI would be completely alien to us. With different needs and different motivations, what evidence do we even look for, and if it is pervasive, how do we know we aren’t looking right at it?
I call this quality (perhaps the opposite of the one in the article), "considerate design". Has the creator of this tool, directory layout, documentation, source code tree, help function, key-shortcut, or whatever, been considerate of the context in which this function or feature is being used and what state of mind the user is likely to be in at the moment of use?
I have wrote a perl module for this official IANA TLD database, please review it:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::IANA::TLD

Thanks.
>I think the main issue is this:
>The US views Chinese social media apps as being able to spread criticism (and most likely propaganda) and the US can’t do likewise in China, so they’ll just not let Chinese social media companies operate in the US until that changes.

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?
It's not evidence of anything because it's possible Facebook's ability to subvert elections could have been even more damaging if it were controlled directly by a foreign power.
Larry Ellison supports Trump and has raised funds in the past for him. Oracle also has hired lobbyists who were classmates of Pompeo or are related to advisors to Trump.

That may reduce the head scratching about how Oracle got its hand on TikTok. As to the other hand scratching of why, well, my guess is that it's selling for cheap enough that it doesn't matter and orcale wants to have a consumer product similar to the league of FAANG.
> I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny

You're not wrong - it is a little funny.

But on the other hand, they have been running LinkedIn (and Github!) pretty successfully, so it's not that ridiculous.
I can't believe MS dropped the ball so bad in the mobile space. It would be nice to have a third ecosystem to rival Apple and Google. With a huge install base for both Windows and Xbox, HOW do you eff that up? sigh
> There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube or Facebook video. That's why they want to get rid of it.

Videos such as? Seems to me that the kind of videos banned on Youtube, Twitter or Facebook aren't really the ones that are really critical of the US government, especially the executive branch.
You know how the tobacco companies work?

From a purely capitalistic standpoint, it's fine to kill off some of your customer base if you make more money from the remainder. If it can work for tobacco, you believe that Nvidia is will to kill off some of its customers if they can get the remainder to pay more.