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Blog on Optimization for ML
Hi all,

I am writing a blog (https://alexshtf.github.io) on optimization for ML. I would like it not to be 'yet another explanation on SGD', so I write about other more interesting stuff. The idea is to share advanced optimization topics with the ML community in an accessible manner.

The first series is about the stochastic proximal point method, its strengths, and it's Python implementation.

I hope you enjoy! Please share your feedback.
Niche hobby communities do this all the time.

The mechanical keyboard community wouldn't exist without group buys, they rely on them to hit minimum order quantities from producers of custom keycaps, PCBs, and other manufactured items. These are then shipped to proxy vendors around the world who do last-mile shipping to end users.

Homebrew clubs also put in wholesale orders for raw materials like yeast, grain, and hops. These are usually more localized given the large volumes involved, and involve a physical meetup where the goods are repackaged and distributed to the buyers.

I daresay there are more groups like this (home bakers maybe?) but they're largely invisible outside their own circles.
Looks like it doesn't come with the ultra wideband/UWB U1 chip, so this might impact future "AirTags" compatibility.
Terminology can go either way, but is it such a good idea what gcc actually does?
So solve it for the 101st time, but better. Everything is broken and nothing works. So, build something that isn't broken and does work.

I just found out yesterday that AWS Amplify doesn't have a manual deploy button. It's only job is to build and deploy an app and there is nowhere on Amplify itself where you can press a button and kick off a build! Junk like this is everywhere now. It's a golden opportunity for people who know what they're doing.
I abandoned the flagship phones due to pricing. I love shiny new tech but the pricing for flagships have become absurd. I'm not throwing down $700 to $1000 every couple years.

So I stuck with my old Nexus 5x for way too long until the Pixel 3a came out. The 3a was all I really wanted, reasonable size (although I could go for it being smaller) and good camera... and a reasonable price (I got it for $200).

Personally with privacy concerns and such... if Apple had a good offering in the $300 or maybe 400 range. I might go a round with them.
When you have teenagers, these are the models you look for. I'll probably by a few.
"Popular design"? On the contrary. As an iPhone SE owner, this is exactly the form factor that fans of the iPhone 4/5 series (like me) rejected as being too large.
It doesn't have a notch, but the screen doesn't go edge to edge. I will take the notch any day, if that eliminates the top and bottom blocks.
$399 iPhone? Weird! I always thought Apple stayed out of that pricerange to keep the iPhone line a "prestige" purchase (especially given how little time the "c" lasted for). I suppose that's why this model has such an iPod-esque visual design, so that outside observers don't misconstrue the people using these with their "luxury" users.

It's good to see more downward pressure coming from flagship phones lately, imo. It's a great analog to the Pixel "a" models and an overall smartphone trend that I'm very positive about!
It was a pun, I'm sure.
That strikes me as odd because I've found that nearly every company of a certain size has a programming team these days.

You might have to change tech stacks and rebrand yourself to appeal more to enterprisey jobs, but that's more of an issue of marketing than anything else. It will be a small transition, but once you do that you'll be fine.
80% of the way to a iPhone 11 Pro for 40% of the price.
As someone who also works on physics models in their spare time — the computational hurdles are real.

Best of luck!
I mean great, but $40/mo is $480/yr, which is more than cost of the SE which will last you for several years.

The SE is budget. $40/mo is not budget by any yardstick.
Yeah, its level of support for different languages definitely varies. For TypeScript it feels like a paid IDE. For Rust and Clojure it works quite admirably, since it's the most prominent free (graphical) option for each. For Python, it's... underwhelming. That's too bad about Rails, but I also can't say I'm super surprised.
Why I use tools like Docker and Flatpak
How well is faceid doing with people wearing loose masks?
There was actually a surplus of food in the 1930s, but farmers decided to burn their crops instead of selling it at a discount. Kind of like the current situation with oil: a massive supply glut.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/21/do-farm-sub...
Or that they don't run real Android but some lagging downstream vendor-specific bloatware...
I was introduced to the demoscene via Future Crew's (Finnish) Second Reality. It made my computer do things I didn't know it could do.

That also coincided with my introduction to the Gravis Ultrasound (GUS), a sound card with (patch-based) MIDI capabilities vastly superior to Sound Blaster 16's tinny FM synthesis output at the time, and which was extremely popular among demo programmers.

Growing up, I had this notion that all the best (close-to-the-metal) programmers in the world were either Danes, Russians or Finns. Every Linux boot screen back in the day displayed the name "Hannu Savolainen". And SSH I've always associated with "Tatu Ylönen".
Nope: https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/
Same. I want the latest tech, and you can't beat 0% financing.
This was the use case I was really hoping for, also. I've been back and forth with various employers over the years, depending on their requirements - Windows only (it works for Java), Cygwin, VMware Workstation with Linux VMs, MacBook, Linux on the hardware, etc.

WSL1 was unusable as there was no way to run IntelliJ or Eclipse on Windows, and have it work on large projects sitting in the WSL filesystem - the file IO was way too slow, and the instantaneous feedback you expect from Jetbrains products just wouldn't work.

VMs on Windows would work, but again only if you were developing 100% in the Linux VM, IDE included, and just used Windows for Office and whatever else was required. But at that point, you still had to deal with all the Linux issues like ugly fonts and broken plugins, with all the problems of slow VM file IO.

Cygwin also similar to WSL1 - just wouldn't work for anything that required real Linux underneath.

Linux direct on the laptop works, but with all the same problems that have been around for 20 years and never seem to get fixed - broken multi-monitors, ACPI issues, driver support for Nvidia, video conferencing being too slow or unsupported, no MS Office, etc. I just don't have the time or motivation to spend hours every week babysitting a Linux laptop.

Macbooks are definitely the way to go, I'm just worried that my employer will balk at the cost of the new $3K 16" MBPs next upgrade cycle.
TLDR: Some alleviation of symptom severity in patients not receiving antivirals, overall no real outcome benefit, way more adverse effects.

Not a slam-dunk in either direction.
I think this depends on how full the plane is.

Moving a few people probably doesn't cause an issue if the rest of the plane is completely empty.

If you move 20 people from the right side to the left side of the plane this will probably have some kind of effect.

On smaller regional aircraft they sometimes ask people to move seats to the other side or back to front.
My guess is it might stick around on lower end iPads for a bit. That and Macs which don't even have face id yet.

Even if it comes to higher end Macs it will probably be absent from lower end ones.
That, and they're one of the few products that people can still consume easily right now. So I suspect it'd still be worth it for them to increase advertising even if the ads were priced normally, but now that they're super cheap, it's an absolute no-brainer.
I've been repairing an old iPhone SE for quite a while now, holding out for Apple to listen to customers like me saying "I want a decent phone that fits in my pocket." This makes me so happy, just like when I held onto a 2015 macbook pro until they went back to a "regular" keyboard.
I am a die-hard SE owner, so I guess this is something, but...

Camera is sticking out.

Edges are over-bevelled.

But at least they kept Touch ID.
It's not you, the article was written by someone that doesn't understand what they're trying to report on and is repeating facts they've been told are pertinent. Can't blame the reader for being confused.
This is not a small phone. It's almost the same size as the Google Pixel 4 which has a 5.7" display.

SE: 5.45" x 2.65"
Pixel: 5.79" x 2.71"
You mean like intrinsics? Sure.
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If you put some parens around the query you can get a nicer and still pep8 compliant formatting

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11920726
I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.

It drives me up the wall that I simply cannot find a reasonably competent phone (i.e. mid/upper range from the past 4 years) which is not absolutely fucking huge. It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, but the only standard.
A company I used to work for has spent 30 years trying to migrate FORTRAN code to C. I was not involved in the project, so I don't know the details, but the gist of what I was told is that there are edge cases where FORTRAN stomps C in every performance metric. So you can make decent progress for a while, but you'll eventually hit a major roadblock that halts progress.
Fingerprint Sensor = works with covid masks!
Is it possible to submit replies via Fediverse or mail? Asking since I do not have a Twitter account and do not want to create one.
Every IDE is alien when you come into it. It took me ages to get used to Eclipse, and even then I greatly enjoyed jumping ship to IntelliJ. Visual Studio deeply irritated me with its different key bindings and editor behaviour to Borland IDEs, I ended up writing a bunch of VBA macros to take care of some of the more subtle differences, until VS stopped integrating VBA!
Nah, I'm with you as well. Rounded edges? Thanks, hate 'em.

If anyone knows of a case for the soap-phones that restores more of a hard edge so I can grip it with more confidence....
Why not just use Istio and Knative? Also Project contour can do the same as an api Gateway. What's the difference?
I think this is excellent timing.

Those due for upgrading their phones while being wary of the current state of the economy and their own cash flow situation, can just going for this phone, and not bother about upgrading for an another 3-4 years.

Also a great way for Apple to widen their funnel for first time iPhone / Apple customers!
Plus redstone is much easier to read than elisp
Yes new terminal is awesome. I can open tabs for git bash, powershell, and WSL in one window.
You've got it exactly right. A print edition is worth a lot more to them in advertising revenue than the digital edition, so it costs less to the customer, even when you factor in the additional cost of printing and distribution. All those local advertising circulars are biiiiig business.
Yes carbon fiber its an amazing material for lightness and robustness, but we cannot see a way to innovate there with the usual separate parts and its needed cables. ArduBee its without a single wire, ready to fly, apart the motors wires. This in particular for micro drone is really a weakness in terms of flight time and aerodynamics.
Most developers also just know certain stacks in-depth (e.g., Python + Django / Angular + Javascript). Yes, these technologies enable someone to solve a bigger variety of problems, but it doesn't mean they are then more worth to the market than you. It always depends on what the market wants.

Github profiles matter less than you think because it is hard to tell what the person did themselves and what is a fork. Recruiters and hiring managers I work with look at an online profile for roughly 10 seconds to see if you use certain technologies, that is it. I elaborate on this at length in "Coderfit: All you need to know for your programming career" https://gumroad.com/l/cdrft/
This is about the same size as a 5.5" Android phone.
A while ago I quit buying new models and switched to refurbished ones. The 7 I had did more or less what its predecessor did (car services, chat, remote camera control) and the one I have now (X or Xs?) does more or less what the 7 did.

I can afford the newer ones, but I don't see the value relative to the four-figure cost.
Apple is shifting to a service revenue model with things like Apple TV+. I suspect they're realizing that to reproduce their iTunes monopoly they're going to need iPhones to be as ubiquitous as iPods.
NY Times isn't independent either. They were long and famously a mouthpiece for the US Federal government's war machine.

Most papers aren't independent.
Businesses are intrinsically amoral. While humans may have different moral goods, companies only have to make money and, as such, need not concern themselves with petty human morality.
This is what I want! Call me paranoid but I really don't want a phone with face ID; I want a button.
The Dual SIM with eSIM is a nice touch - is this the first iPhone to get it?
what's the point of wanting this feature when it is not going to be a focus for many apps since this feature is not available in newer phones?
the original iPhone SE was a 4" screen. this new SE is the same as the 6/7/8
I was really shocked to learn how common this is.

Credentialism and lack of integrity are rampant throughout the economy. It's soul crushing to see it.

An example that springs to mind is (I believe a YC alum) [1]. CEO is quoted as saying, "The more data we have on what happens over the next few days is going to really accelerate our ability to retrain our AI systems and then help all of you accurately understand tenant risk moving forward into this new world."

A serious modeller would be able to forecast what happens over the next few days. That the company wasn't able to do so strongly suggests to me that the "AI system" didn't have macro factors to shock and that scenario analysis was not part of the system. To a trained eye, that can be a red flag for sloppy modelling (and therefore hype).

[1] https://www.qpbriefing.com/2020/04/06/unconscionable-landlor...
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> It's not like an essential that we can't live without

For $399, you can buy a device with the computing power of a networked workstation within a lifetime of memory. That lets you dial into e.g. VoIP calls, answer e-mail, manage your calendar and interact with workflow apps.

Put another way, this could be seen as a substitute for a laptop for some users. That's absolutely essential.
That 80% is arguable. But probably 90%+ of the people buying the SE wouldn't have bought the 11 Pro anyway.
> It's not like an essential that we can't live without.

it's not? sure seems like it is to me. And if you have to get a new one, maybe it's nice that there's a cheaper one newly on the market?
Did the court order include an “essential” / “not essential” categorization of the ~ 44 million items in Amazon’s catalog? They say they’ll take 7 days to comply with the court order. That means they have to accurately categorize 6 million catalog items each day.

Even if they had the perfect list the court is requiring, they still need to somehow stop inflows of non-essential items from overfilling their warehouses. The court has ordered them not to clear the warehouse space by simply selling them, as they normally would. Instead, they have to establish some new process (ship the items back?) while deliberately lowering the staffing levels of their warehouses and distribution centers.

They already did a rough first pass of all of these things, and have been incrementally improving.

This court ruling specifically rejected their current course of action. There’s no way they’ll be able to do significantly better in a 24 hour window.
I'm not znpy so I don't know why they don't like containers.

But I prefer profiles myself, as I have different extensions in different profiles and I get the two completely separate instances of Firefox, while containers are just separate tabs instead.

I don't think containers are awful though, they are just less useful for my use case than profiles.
> It's a great analog to the Pixel "a" models

I think it's a direct response to that pressure.

If GOOG designs Pixels w/Exynos chips (per recent rumors), they'll likely be cheaper than the Snapdragon ones. That will put even more downward pressure on these prices.
Sure but they aren’t immune to the fact that absolute revenue for both them and the sites hosting the ads falls in proportion which is the point even if they keep price/ad fixed.
The difference comes in the meaning behind words like 'harassing'- when the police here harass the homeless it's shining a light on them and telling them to get moving, not usually a kick or a poke in the ribs.

Of course there are other issues in the US, mostly centered around race, where we don't look that good...
Multiple rumors sources are converging on the theory that the new iPhones will have the iPad Pro design, e.g. [0]

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/13/bloomberg-iphone-12-to-featur...
I currently use the xz2 compact and am happy with it, but I'm not sure what I'll do when it dies.
>Personally with privacy concerns and such...

Fortunately google phones usually have a pretty thriving aftermarket community. You will usually find LineageOS supported for many years.
> A13

Well, found my new iOS test phone.
Could you please list them? I don't see any modern Android phone of the size iphone 5. All androids are huge, even compared with iphone 8.
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover

Wonder if they still work for the Times?
Maybe if we rewarded the journalists behind the investigations more than the newspaper itself, they could all bandy together and create something that only does investigative journalism.
The trick is to let Django handle the file names. Django's static support can do this very well.

I hope to get the post out somewhere this week!
I work with SharePoint professionally and it's incredibly frustrating. If I'm trying to find out which list a document was uploaded to, it could be in 3+ locations. Much of my time with SP has been spent figuring out where stuff is and WHY it was uploaded there in the first place.
The higher priced phones have always been a status symbol. This won't change that for most of their target market IMO.
Is it?? My kids aren't teenagers yet but if they were I wouldn't be buying them $400 phones.
Same thing could be said about iphones, they make decent hardware, the problem is that they run ios.
fake.
I also love this tweet from him

>Jesus shit, you guys love my failure. follow me to see more of my unfortunate life and ily all
Hilarious. I wouldn't have expected that ever to happen.

So much talent in the Finish scene and they were so good at advertizing their accomplishments in a way that was energizing to fellow nerds.

It was the biggest reason I ended up getting so deep into computer graphics -- I wanted to be as "cool" as they were. How else could you be "cool" by sitting at your computer BBS chatting all night doing math and algorithms? Such an awesome time.

I know that mrdoob of three.js also got into coding via the demoscene.

(My old 1990's era demo scene stuff: https://benhouston3d.com/#High_School-Era_and_Earlier_Projec... https://hornet.scene.org/cgi-bin/scene-search.cgi?search=Azu... )
Ask HN: Symantec VIP 2FA ( Alternatives? Backups?)
I now have three (3) services that use Symantec VIP for 2FA.

Unlike the usual OTP, services using Symantec OTP are bootstrapped by using the ID of a phone generated by the Symantec VIP app. That ID supposedly is unique per device. A user furnishes that unique ID via some means to the service using Symantec VIP for 2FA.

The login flow with 2FA enabled matches the flow with the other OTP software.

It seems there's no way to backup Symantec VIP data which means that it is linked to a single device. Two of the three services using it for 2FA upon suggested that should a user lose device used to do 2FA then a user should simply call CS and add request to link the account to a code generated by a new 2FA device(!).
Even better, get out of the private sector (if you can). I'm very happy with what I'm contributing to the world at the BBC, and I'm paid 'well enough'.
This is horrifying.

Conversations soon became impossible. Lee started chattering in repetitive, unceasing loops. He would tell Kristin: “We met at Cloudflare. We got engaged in Rome. We got married in Maui, Hawaii.” He repeated it hundreds of times a day. Then the loops got shorter, more cryptic. He spoke fewer sentences, instead muttering sequences of numbers or letters.

At the same time, given the flashes of lucidity pointed out in this article, you have to wonder if others talking about his condition so much might make him feel like a walking corpse when those hit.
Curious, how do you get jobs/contracts around these examples? My understanding is that most of these industries already have the talent they need (or have a preferred supplier they work with).
As a current iPhone SE user, here's my assessment:

Pros:

* Feature set in terms of processor, camera, etc., is exactly what I want

* Continued presence of Touch ID is a huge plus, I don't like Face ID

* Price point is, admittedly, fantastic

Cons:

* Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable

* Form factor is, candidly, still too big for my tiny hands

* Color schemes aren't as nice as the SE's (can I contribute to COVID-19 research without getting a bright red phone?)

I will be considering this phone, but skeptically. Would be ideal for me to be able to physically hold one before buying, but not sure that'll be possible (maybe I can borrow somebody's iPhone 8).
Yes. Me likey!!! THESE ARE GONNA SELL LIKE HOTCAKES!!!
Yet again. Predicted by the Simpsons; Tomacco https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Tomacco
Fucking christ. This is what capitalism does to the brain.
I always wondered if Bloomberg dropped their rates would they make more money. They have appeal outside of people who work in the industry but at $35/m its a very hard hard sell to these people. For that price i could pick up WSJ($20/m),NY times($5/m), and Economist($10/m).
One of the local stores here in northern NJ has started doing that as well. They are doing the same with facial tissues.

Smaller stores are likely more agile in this respect, because they don't need to rely on the items having bar codes and entries in their central inventory system. That's what tends to hamstring large, centralized retailers.
Thank you for your feedback and sorry for your disappointment.

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The new iPhone 12 Pro is supposed to have a smaller screen than the 11 Pro and have squared sides, which basically means it will be shaped like the original SE, have a full screen, and the best cameras. Except for the price, the exact phone you want will probably be out later this year.
Tangential: the scroll performance on hardware-accelerated Chrome for the landing page is absolutely atrocious on a Xeon v6 running past full frequency (3.6GHz, so not in energy-saving mode). I would have expected better of Apple. \shrug\