skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If we're not leasing a phone

But that, unfortunately seems to be the thinking behind most companies these days...that consumers don't own their phones, among other things, in fact most manufacturers seem to want to get onto thr bandwagon, they lease right to use them.

I'm fully in agreement with you though. Phones and most end consumer devices should not be treated as leased devices.

I may need to pay for a service to fully use said device, mobile data, wifi, etc. But those services should not be locked into one provider and should be seperate from the manufacturers.

Limits on repairs and modification should be few and a void warranty should be the steepest penalty. Modifying or repairing a device should not be grounds to have that device bricked at the whims of a manufacturer.
I gave you an example of something you can't do, which is an overlap-save FFT, and you ignored that completely. Please implement it, or show me any example of someone implementing any custom FFT that's not a simple, standard, batched FFT. I'll take any example of implementing any type of signal processing pipeline on TPU, such as a 5G radio.

Your last sentence is pretty funny: a GPU can't do certain workloads because one it can do is too slow for you. Yet it remains a fact that TPU cannot do certain workloads without offloading to the CPU (making it orders of magnitude slower), and that's somehow okay? It seems where this discussion is going is you pointed to a TensorFlow library that may or may not offload to a TPU, and it probably doesn't. But even that library is incomplete to implement things like a 5G LDPC decoder.
The (supposed) author of the article retweeted this : https://twitter.com/chrislintott/status/1301188211952291841

So, I suppose we'll find out tomorrow.
I knew it was too good to be true.
This reminds me of when Yahoo! bought Tumblr.
The spy satellite or fighter jet software doesn't have to be on Github, but it also doesn't have to be locked up in the vaults @ Boeing or Northrup Grumman, and only accessed or improved at a huge fee by a rent-seeking corporation, who will discharge developers who are experts, and for another obnoxious fee only offer to retrain them, if they happen to still have access to the source code that might have been lost in that fire years ago.
Excellent, can't wait for Jensen to pull out a Cortex A-78 TI from his oven next year. /s
You say that, but: Nvidia's "blob" driver doesn't have CUDA, NVENC/NVDEC, nor DDC I2C support on FreeBSD — despite all of this functionality being specific to Nvidia's own hardware, and the support being present in the Linux blob, which runs on a relatively similar platform.

If the only differing bits were the portability framework, this would just be a matter of adding missing support. But it isn't — the FreeBSD object file Nvidia publishes lacks the internal symbols used by the Linux driver.
> The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years.

Not correct Mellanox was bought for $7B.
I had to transfer 50TB+ to a new bucket with several rules based on the file metadata. Scanned all the file names, put them in a queue, then ran a custom C# program on several of the largest instances to process the queue. Maxed out CPU and bandwidth and it worked great.

I don't recommend Ruby for anything beyond the simplest websites. Don't try to make it perform, just use a better language that can handle the performance you need.
Well, historically they were one and the same: for the OS and for development. However with that setup, problems arise if the developer wants / needs to use libraries or frameworks that conflict with what the OS needs or offers.

Part of the reason that containers have become so popular / useful is isolation of the OS and "infrastructure" from the development or production space.
> Since its taxpayers money, any custom made software for gov MUST be FOSS or we can equally abandon any logic whatsoever

For the federal government, it would make more sense for it to be public domain (not subject to copyright), the same as federal works generally.

State government works are generally.copyright by the state just as if the state were a private actor, with no particular mandated licensing scheme, so arguably the same ought to be true of software.

OTOH, for software used in automating state administration, the source code is arguably a form of documentation of process that ought to be disclosable under sunshine laws even if the software isn't licensed in a way that allows use other than informational reference.
because the government is run like a shady real estate company from the 80s, the president's term for the cut was quite literally, 'key money'
Yeah, "wind" seems like it could explain much here.
I'm going to bet that sentiment has been around for a lot longer than that, likely even before the gold rush and dust bowl migrations.

I think what is new are these tireless and never ending threats of leaving. It's like, ok, go already - sheesh.
You could port scan the entire IPV4 address space(minus all reserved addresses), send a GET request to everyone that responds, filter for valid HTML. It would take no more than 5 hours on a shitty PC, a lot less if you get a small aws instance.
Such a great idea! Reminds me of the internet before bubbles a la physically printed indexes and yahoo directories.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464532
> Humanity would be better off of a single ISA does become truly universal.

This is an interesting thought. I think I would agree with this in the CPU world of the last 20-30 years, but it makes me wonder a few things. Might a universal ISA eliminate major pieces of competitive advantage for chip makers, and/or stall innovation? It does feel like non-vector instructions are somewhat settled, but vector instructions haven't yet, and GPUs are changing rapidly (take NVIDIA's Tensor cores and ray tracing cores for example). With Moore's law coming to an end, a lot of people are talking about special purpose chips more and more, TPUs being a pretty obvious example, and as nice as it might be to settle on a universal ISA, it seems like we're all about to start seeing larger differences more frequently, no?

> 80% of comments are low information, Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

I really liked all of your comment except this. I have a specific but humble request aside from the negative commentary & assumption about behavior. Please consider erasing the term "Dunning-Kruger effect" from your mind. It is being used here incorrectly, and it is very widely misunderstood and abused. There is no such effect. The experiments in the paper do not show what was claimed, the paper absolutely does not support the popular notion that confidence is a sign of incompetence. (Please read the actual paper -- the experiments demonstrated a positive correlation between confidence and competence!) There have been some very wonderful analyses of how wrong the Dunning-Kruger paper was, yet most people only seem to remember the (incorrect) summary that confidence is a sign of incompetence.

https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...
From the documentation.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...

> For example, if a plug-in employs deep integration with the host executable via C function pointer overrides, or uses a JavaScript engine for custom workflows, the host executable must declare the Allow Unsigned Executable Memory Entitlement or Allow Execution of JIT-compiled Code Entitlement, respectively. In some cases, a plug-in fails to even load if the host executable lacks the proper entitlement.

This is the best documentation I could find with a quick Google search. But basically, if you can use C function pointers, you can call anything you want and there is no way that an automated scan can detect it with the right level of indirection.

I also couldn’t find anything from the official documentation about not being able to code sign anything that uses private APIs.

But even simpler for apps that don’t actually get manually reviewed, it’s really easy to bypass.

https://medium.com/swlh/calling-ios-and-macos-hidden-api-in-...

Even if they did do something like scan for text strings in PerformSelector, that’s also easy to obfuscate.
Thanks! I wouldn't say you need to know the right person really, but you do need to be the right fit - which is a pretty odd fit. I think it would be a bad job for example for someone who was not ok with the work uncertainty as it's pure consulting. But if you are someone with high level (VP, manager, or C-suite) tech experience, strong people skills, and can write, and you think it would fit you, feel free to find me on linked-in and get in touch. We need more folks right now! :-)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/163239/en...

The latest FreeBSD driver is 450.66, published 2020-8-18. Supports RTX 20xx, GTX 16xx, GTX 10xx, and older.
probably not because it's basically a Pyrrhic victory long-term. It'll drastically increase the chances of Facebook facing those issues in other countries, which would be devastating to the global business model of US software firms, and Facebook might get regulators attention again if the only significant competitor dies. I think Zuckerberg even said as much.
https://archive.is/55ZvG
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Its telling that Gates never seriously inspects the source of HIS wealth. Also, Pikkety's r > G is essentially the labor theory of value rebranded.
> Are you asking what's CIA/NSA friendly about smearing news publications which are critical of thr CIA/NSA?

No, I'm asking what is CIA/NSA friendly about the WaPo article mentioned. The only news publications smeared in that article are RT and Sputnik, and they weren't smeared because they were criticial of the CIA/NSA but because they were spreading fake news.
And the problem with that is that the screen reader tools are $1200, because of the huge associated R&D costs and incredibly small target market.

The sad thing is that the very complexity required to implement a screen reader is soley because of the technical nightmare information accessibility currently is.

It's reasonable to think that "if only" everything could be made ubiquitous and everyone (= developers) could become collectively aware of these accessibility considerations, maybe there would be a shift towards greater semanticity.

Thing is, though, that NVDA is open source, and iOS has put a built-in free screen-reader in the hands of every iPhone user... and not much has changed.

So it's basically one of those technologies forever stuck in the "initial surge of moonshot R&D to break new ground and realign status quo" phase. :(
Not exactly what you asked for, but I have a personal subreddit where I collect interesting links: https://www.reddit.com/r/sonyasupposedly/
Ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24464933.
What software is the current leader in OCR solutions?
https://semiwiki.com/ip/287846-tears-in-the-rain-arm-and-chi...

Does this mean Nvidia will have to deal with the hot mess at China ARM?
Qualcomm used to design their own cores up until the last generation or two, but you're right they use the reference designs now.

EDIT: correction, make that the last generation or four (oops, time flies)
I'm fairly moderate, maybe even becoming a bit conservative in my old (hah) age, but even I agree that inequality is causing problems. And all the economists with their Friedman-esque theories didn't properly anticipate how angry this issue can make people. I guess the 2nd order effects of the free market 50-75 years into a stable and wealthy evolved society were too far ahead to realize.

We need to address it for our own self-preservation or it may become one of those issues that dooms what has been a good system.

I have to see the problems of inequality manifesting in concrete ways, because otherwise the concept of it isn't a priori bad to me. As people create wealth (a good thing), just the fact that others haven't managed to isn't a problem to me. That is inevitable and happens with any system. But when it gets to this level, it is causing problems:

-- Wealth accumulation allowing people to buy 2nd homes or more (esp. investment homes), in really expensive places partly with speculative goals, which makes it harder for not just the poor, but everyone in general, especially young people, to afford housing (and not even talking ownership, but rentals)

-- the ability of people with wealth to choose to back symbolic causes with money, at little cost to them but with great cost to the targets of those causes. It cuts both ways mind you, so don't be so glad to embrace this point. I think of the (admittedly mundane) example of people donating $10k to random people on crowdfund sites to buy tents for the homeless because of the symbolism of it, that then litter the streets of other people's cities.

-- Related to that, the political discourse becoming more mirroring of the economic situation, in that people's attention gets focused on (and distracted by) the growing extremes of society. It's hard to resist. They dominate the headlines and discussion. Political opinions of the ultrawealthy and their companies, rare but attention-getting exceptions to the norm. On the more silly end, people's dumb luxo-rich envy feeds on instagram making people upset and setting unrealistic expectations...

-- And finally, vague but real: the new serfdom/perpetual servitude that people with bad education, or back luck early in life are condemned to because they can't do anything to dig out of a $15/hour job serving relatively rich people who are angry at the shoddy level of customer service these days... I actively see this in people I employ.

It's a problem. Not to say we need to abandon capitalism, and not to say that any of the current solutions out there would fix it in ways without unintended consequences. But it is a problem needing attention and some smart solutions put forth that can get people to realize it's our own necks on the line if we don't.
> 30 years and the numbers have not significantly changed.

"How did you lose all the money?" "Slow at first, then very quickly."

> Companies based here are some of the most profitable in the world.

Cat's out of the bag. Most of the tools needed to form companies that are ridiculously profitable are online for anyone in the world to use (AWS). If they're not, the cloud providers are working tirelessly to put them there.

California was the hotbed of innovation due to concentrations of learning from higher institutions in tech. That's all distributed now.

> If as many people wanted to live in California as want to live in Texas, it would be cheaper to live here too.

Don't underestimate the crippling effects of powerful NIMBY's, over burdensome regulations and the CCC to dramatically increase cost. http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/03/another-california...

Also, Texas' population is increasing faster than California. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/05/22/texas-la...

2045 is when California loses it's title: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/07/texas-could-have-a-hig...

> the average California household also makes more

And get less: https://taxfoundation.org/real-value-100-each-state-2016

Which is why you now see a huge migration of middle class leaving.
It makes sense when you realise the building is in the shape of a giant pentagram.
The chart shows the distribution of "10,000 dice rolls," yet each potential value, 1-6, has between 6000 and 7000 hits, indicating the true number of rolls to be between 36,000 and 42,000.
It’s not cynicism that he’s interfering when it’s obvious - literally Trump making statements on his Twitter. As for the money into his pocket; no need, the reasoning for Trump is that it makes his voters like him (since they dislike China), which gets him reelected.
What need does Apple have with ARMs R&D going forward? They have their own chip designers, build tools, etc.?

True about frenemies the entire time that Apple was suing Samsung, it was using Samsung to manufacture many of its components.
Thank you for replying.

It's a shame any airing of concerns about capitalism per se trigger people so much. We need to air our concerns about the world in order to discuss and hopefully solve them together.

Your reply helped do that. I'm immediately convinced. OF course, socialism is just as much a machine too. So it's not the system, the problem is scale and 'overpopulation' relative to our evolutionary adaptation. Something for me to think about.

I appreciate the correction.
hmm, have you figured out what the jitter is from? is that from Python maybe?
If you're capable of doing EW, which is basically Black Magic as far as tech is concerned, support for an ISA won't be that much of an issue.
I was pointed to this by Naomi Wu:

This maybe something that local hacker spaces could pump out:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4588215
That is precisely why it is tragic.
Aside from Navi support, which has already been mentioned, what would you like to see?
any idea why that is the case?
Many of the sites understandably timeout or can't be resolved, or are just "under construction" or parking pages. However, I did come across this Japanese site: http://mottainou.com/

For some reason the topic, design, and color scheme makes me very nostalgic.
More recently, Bill and Melinda created a useful report on this - "Examining Inequality" [1].

The biggest take away: "Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor", which has been discussed on HN too [2].

[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2019-repo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993456
The core observation is that organisms with an ability to model the Universe, even if imprecisely and in a tiny space-time neighborhood, increases the chances of survival. See the ubiqutous living beings with a nervous system. The hypothesis is that increased precision and/or size of the prediction bubble is correlated with survival fitness, which, in the limit, gives raise to beings with a God-like ability to predict the Universe. It's a relatively simple inductive argument.
> Turns out, much how working with human names is difficult due to numerous edge cases and incorrect assumptions

I think a good interview question would be, given a list of full names, return each person’s first name. It’s a great little problem where you can show meaningful progress in less than a minute, but you could also work on it full time for decades.
You can run basically any C program on a CUDA core even those requiring malloc. It may not be efficient but you can do it. Google themselves call GPUs general purpose and TPUs domain specific. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/w...
Because the data he presents and his argument is a good one and your logic is shete.

His argument is that dynastic wealth doesn’t persist in the United States. If it did, then wealth would STILL have accreted to renters even if most of the wealth was created since the 50s.

Furthermore you didn’t bother reading or noticing that he is in favor of an estate tax.
What's amazing is that some teams assume the same operation will be more performant in the cloud, despite being wrapped in layers of HTTP-based API abstractions.

I have worked with such developers, whose thoughts have been --- for lack of a better word --- clouded by marketing.
This is off topic and breaks the site guidelines. Would you please review them and stick to the rules?

This sort of $BigCo metaflamewar in which each side accuses HN of being shills for the opposite side is incredibly repetitive and tedious. It's also a cognitive bias; everyone feels like the community (and the moderators for that matter) is biased against whatever view they favor.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The real power differential is between citizens and the government. It's easy to think the government makes no mistakes when you don't experience any of the changes.

Maybe instead of feeling proud that millions have lost opportunity, it would be better to create legislation that actually does improve their lives for once.
No mention of providing for the basics of existence. Of course it's an economic post by someone far removed from such concerns beyond advocating for policy from their extremely high tower built on inequality.

The pitchforks wouldn't be sharpened nearly as often if the basic humanities in first world nations were minimally guaranteed: food, water, shelter, medical care.

But the US isn't really a first world country. It seems to be straddling the boundary with the old second world, particularly the USSR: military power projection, effectively a single party with respect to the politically connected/rich, vast inequality, functional contempt for the common man despite propaganda.

It does have food on the shelves, unless the paper thin warehousing of the modern supply chain is disrupted.
PDF is very good for what it was designed to do, which is to represent pages for printing. It is not so good for use cases where parsing the text is more important than preserving layout.
I love used tabula and recommend Camelot over it. The Camelot folks even put together a head to head comparison page (on their website) that shows their results consistently coming out ahead of Tabula.

My other complaint with Tabula is total lack of metadata. It’s impossible to know even what page of the PDF the tables are located on! You either have to extract one page at a time or you just get a data frame with no idea which table is located on which page.
Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds
Most examples cited in this article seem like problems of faith, in that they concern matters that individual Deplorables cannot (practically) observe themselves. Or of "misplaced" faith, in the case of Jesus, demons and ghosts.

Which is not too surprising - people have gotten screwed by faith forever: Uncritical belief of the Church, the State, the salesman or prophet, etc. often leads to the believers' exploitation for the basest of ends.

Which is not to say that killing bullshit once and for all is impossible or an unworthy goal, but it's high effort and messy.
That doesn't answer the question of what a TPU can do that a GPU can't. I think the OP means impossible for the GPU, not just slower.
Perhaps the children's audit problems can be overlooked if they would like to purchase some nearly-usable HR management or accountancy software at this time.
Looks like the article Google archive has gone down.

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There have been rumors it was Venus related on twitter for a few days now.

Journalists got the release early and several of them tweeted out hints.

But I guess we will find out for sure on the 14th.
Be it handwritten or printed text, by far, Microsoft's Azure OCR is best in recognizing text.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't we already see censoring of any references to the Tiananmen Square massacre on Tik Tok back in July?
Zoom is not a Chinese company. Its founder and CEO happens to be Chinese, and they have operations in China, but the company was founded, incorporated, and initially exclusively operated in the U.S.
> If the only differing bits were the portability framework, this would just be a matter of adding missing support. But it isn't — the FreeBSD object file Nvidia publishes lacks the internal symbols used by the Linux driver.

In fact it is. For Linux and FreeBSD Nvidia distributes exactly the same blob for compilation into nvidia.ko; the blobs for nvidia-modeset.ko are slightly different. (Don't take my word for it, download both drivers and compare kernel/nvidia/nv-kernel.o_binary with src/nvidia/nv-kernel.o.) Nothing is locked in the closed source part.