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> Apparently when war starts iPhones will be more important than oil, steel, jets, and ships. Or does China build those for the US military as well?

Sure, the US military has maintained low-volume domestic manufacturing capability in those areas to meet peacetime military demand.

However, you mentioned WWII. Did the US fight that with just its preexisting military-allocated production capacity? It did not. You had jukebox companies drafted into making rifles and car companies into building tanks and airplanes. Electronics are key to most modern military equipment, and guess who has the spare manufacturing capacity in that area now?

> Also, ICBMs fly both ways. But while nobody decides to press the "End Game" button, the US with its self sufficient continent can weather more punches than any other country in any conceivable conventional war scenario.

Attacks with long-range conventional missiles are also a distinct possibility.

You also used that word "self-sufficient" again. The issue here is contemporary Western politico-economic dogma has abandoned the idea of self-sufficiency in favor of interdependence and free trade. China, has not done that, and appears to have deliberate industrial policy with the goal of modernized self-sufficiency. IIRC, its main imports are raw materials, which it may still be able to obtain through trade (e.g. Russian oil and gas) or military capture in a hot war.
i.e. Dominic Cummings
I believe experience and knowledge in a creative endeavor that makes it easier to critique (self or otherwise) is what Ira Glass means by taste.
> It's generally easy to find what you're looking for, but you're always "figuring it out"; it's hard to pin things down as having a concrete, spatial location. You never quite have a stable notion of "where you are". I don't know how else to describe it.

You took what I couldn't articulate and perfectly described it.. thank you!

After not being able to "get" the layout of Discord after multple uses, it made me wonder if I was the wrong age group of the platform for not "getting it."
Who cares about the label? The internals of the drive makes the quality or lack thereof.
Very true.

Yet another possibility that I think has a place in this nuance conversation is adapting existing code with changes. It's interesting that we don't culturally today have an accepted way of doing copying + adaptation, but over most of the history of computing it has been very common. It has the obvious downsides of not easily getting improvements and bug fixes of later versions of the upstream code, and rightly is passed over in most cases, but in some cases it's still a win.
If airlines are heavily monopolized it's never shown on their statement of financial position, like, ever.
Your own landing page takes 5.8!!!! seconds to load and makes 32 request: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/201020_Di60_34c239a225fda...

The question should be: Why don't we create a website builder focused in web performance?
This answer is completely grounded in fact, so I vouched for it. Even without the bank card number itself, many places used tokenized versions of the card number for tracking purposes.
Depends on how they split it up, but this could be very bad for consumers. One of the plans is to spin off Chrome which sounds like a total disaster for web standards. Probably go with an obnoxious monetization scheme beyond licensing Google search if that didn't work out for the smaller Mozilla team.
‘Do the Work’ is the Ultimate Lifehack – The productivity secret you don’t get
I think they do this so that if you organize a meeting via zoom it appears in your calendar.
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN, so please make your substantive points without that, or name-calling.

And please don't post in the flamewar style to HN generally. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ROFL, amazing, they actually flat out lied about the Android situation.

In this post, they show a screenshot of stock Android with no Google search bar visible.

Except you can't remove the Google search bar in stock Android 11 unless you switch to a custom launcher:

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/73306757?hl=en

Edit: Correction, they show a screenshot specifically of a Samsung phone, which presumably is customized by Samsung. In effect, this is lying by omission, as they present that experience as though it's a universal Google product experience--they even precede those screenshots with the phrase "Look how easy it is to add a different search app or widget on Android."--when in fact it's specifically not supported in Google's own stock version of Android.
3310 already moon-grade in terms of solidity. 20 years of field tests.
Just the opposite, because more people know C than Julia.
I've been using Retool very seriously over the past few months. It's definitely helpful to iterate on some UI ideas and prototype. Once you want to do anything complicated that involves any sort of logic, it becomes very clunky since you're trying to write JS in a tiny web-based code editor box. Refractors (e.g. changing a variable name or deleting a query) is kind of a nightmare since I can't just search for it's usage. I also wish it had support for a lightweight DB out of box instead of requiring one to always be present. Finally, it seems components have kind of inconsistent capabilities, like being able to trigger a query on certain events that you would expect, which limits their usefulness.

Overall I'd say it's helpful but has a ways to go before being a useful replacement for most internal app use cases. It's certainly promising though and hopefully this round of investment helps round off some of these rough spots in the product.
Is this much more of a concern than closed source applications that use open DNS but use pinned certs to connect to the resolved host?
That's a different issue, though. Today, booting into macOS is similar to booting into a BSD with securelevel=1 enabled, or into Linux with SELinux set up not to allow modifying files in /bin or such.
It's notable that the 3B1B guy is contributing to that class.
Figma is better for pure design and has great built in collaboration too.

But I can see how Pitch can provide value to a whole lot of founders who might prefer not to reach for their design tools..
google captcha can also be bypassed trivially. thats the irony. see, ex: busta
Yep.

I doubt not Google has a very competent legal team.
Because julia is a better language. Numpy is written in C, why use python when you can use C?
I did this about 10 years ago using a Canopus that I bought used on eBay. I've also loaned it out to other to do the same. It worked fine. I never edited the resulting digital movies. It's easy enough to just skip around.

Next project is to digitize my grandfather's Super-8 film from the 1970s.
Please keep this kind of flamewar off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This sounds like exactly what the grandfather post (by wasdfff) was discussing. A competitor advertised their product based on the keywords you searched for.

You didn't buy their product, but Google helped them get your gaze briefly.

What is search but a list of adverts associated with your keywords?
I think the functionality of Julia's sparse arrays is mostly on par with scipy.sparse, it's just a bit rough around some edges still, and spread out into non-base packages (e.g. into IterativeSolvers.jl, ARPACK.jl, MUMPS(*).jl etc) of various maturity. Having the sparse arrays built-in might (hopefully) lead to a large ecosystem of interoperable sparse packages, but as with much of the Julia ecosystem this is still a work in progress.

Personally, working on sparse eigensolvers, my only complaint is that IterativeSolvers.jl is still somewhat lacking (though the ARPACK.jl bindings are more comparable to what scipy does), but otherwise cannot imagine going back to python for this kind of low-level numerical research. Having code run comparably to fortran speed (barring some memory annoyances) is huge for working on numerical algorithms.
I mean that's what a default route is supposed to mean, right? That this machine can route to any address. It might not get there because of a firewall, or because nothing is at a given address but you're at least claiming to know what to do with a packet destined for anywhere.
They do, what's your point.
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from what i known of the contracts foxconn would need to return the subsidies if they fail the even higher target numbers in the next years, and they don't just get the money, it is in escrow for years, and those multi-billion sums are figures calculated against decades ... i mean i know of Trumps pump&dump deals and everyone wants this whole thing to match some simple scam with foxcon on the evil side, but this doesn't look like the corporation is benefiting at all from failure. That's why i asked if this is a tariffs thing, if they get benefits on some other track, because it looks like they are loosing big for even trying to invest in the USA.
Google does a bunch of things that are less than ideal. What this complaint alleges doesn't seem to be one of those things.

Here's Google's response: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/respo...
> x5 speedup seems unrealistic.
I see x4 speedup https://speed.pypy.org
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
I think there are legitimate things worth investigating Google for. And other big tech companies too.

But right now? Just before an election? Hand it off to career DoJ people and let them bring it some time next year.
Isn't this lock-in partly what the US Digital Services was meant to overcome?
Our firewall guy thinks Palo Alto firewalls are really good and I don't dispute that they are. But I may just show him this tomorrow morning as, another perspective never hurts.
Hack 3
I think what Glass misses in the grandparent post is that this analytical/critical ability is not innate, but acquired along with the performance skill, and at times the analytical ability gets ahead of the skill.

Many years ago, when I was in a youth choir and we were practicing a lot for a festival, I asked our director why we sounded worse at each practice. His explanation was that we actually sounded better, but that our analytical abilities developed even quicker than our singing skills.
That's correct.

> Trademark owners have a duty to police their mark. This applies to all types of marks – brand names, slogans, color, product shapes, or even a smell. The cost of dropping the ball on this duty can range from a bar on future enforcement of your rights against a particular company to a complete loss of all trademark rights. As a practical business reality, the value of marks that are not policed and their associated goodwill are always in danger.

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Tor operates over the Internet.

Did you mean to compare Tor to the World Wide Web?
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Here's another one:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m...

It is a search for "express-http-proxy" "logging" but at leat I got maybe one relevant result and a bunch of wildly unrelated ones, despite doublequotes.
The problem is that you wouldn't have to 'hack the server', at least for Matrix, given anyone can run a server - so all it would take is for one server in the room to be vulnerable to a social or technical attack (e.g. a nosey sysadmin).

If an escrow public key has been mixed into the e2ee encryption, then all it takes is for the private key to be leaked (e.g. for a price on a dark market) and the nosey sysadmin can go and break the encryption of all its users.

The same goes for a centralised service too (c.f. the twitter hack) - while it might be less likely given the smaller attack envelope, it's a much bigger prize.
I think you're overestimating how many Python developers are willing to write and compile C. Debugging gets more difficult across two languages. Shipping binaries with a Python package correctly can be a hassle too (what about -march=native performance).
You can't make an appointment at the california DMV without using google services. it's very common not to be able to rent an apartment without using google services.

I stopped using my health care providers website because every single page has a google/doubleclick link on it - even viewing test results from my doctor.
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The concept of optima is heavily dependent upon constraints on dimensionality.

If you're surrounded by walls at a 3D coordinate (walls in this sense is usually something akin to an a priori constraint on step size, which itself is the upper and lower bounds of the imposed delta introduced to the current step to try to find a new direction to go in numerical gradient descent), but you can arbitrarily "jump" 4 dimensionally, and there exists a point in the fourth dimensional space where your 3 dimensional space is no longer constrained from moving in the lower 3 dimensions again, you've essentially "avoided" a local optima, because your optimization function can continue to shift to find something better.

At least this holds if we're talking gradient descent, where the definition of an optima for a function is a point wherein any numerical deviation within your error tolerance always ends up converging to the same point.

If you take that same technique and apply it to higher dimensional spaces, the more dimensions you have, the less likely (in theory) your model is from getting stuck.

I know for a fact this doesn't always hold though, as almost every GPT2/3 model I come across I can still manage to get it snarled in predictive loops, where it does nothing but suggest the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again, indicating a locally maximal optima for the predictor.

One of my favorite way to trip them up is generally some variant of "I once heard a story from a man who heard it from a man, who heard it from a man,... usually it sets it up for the loop. Sometimes you need to massage it a bit, but it's generally pretty easy to lead the predictor into a loop.

If you really want to blow the theory there are no higher dimensionality optima though, just look at other people. If there were not higher dimensional optima, why do bad habits exist, and get converged on so readily that we actively have to discourage, label, or avoid them?

The fact is that for a general function simulator, the trick isn't not falling victim to higher dimensional optima, but learning to recognize what and when you can safely tolerate some, and when you can't, because you really can't avoid the damn things in a resource or physically constrained problem space.
> and what functionality would the paid version of firefox have?

Maybe it's what it _doesn't_ have. No ads for Pocket/VPN/whatever. Maybe it comes with DDG as the default search engine. Or maybe it's pre-configured with a set of tested privacy-focused extensions.

Pro-privacy advocates might be in the minority, but it's a growing and generally vociferous minority. Mozilla's VPN offering suggests they see privacy as a market. FF is still by far their most popular offering; so I'm simply wondering why there's been no effort I'm aware of to explore the intersection of FF, privacy and revenue.

Recognising Google would most likey challenge that.
That's an interesting scenario. Let's say Google is banned from buying search engine defaults. Then Mozilla would no longer be able to sell the Firefox default to Google.

Sure, they could sell it to someone else, but without the biggest player bidding up the price, it'd probably sell for a fraction of what it does today -- which could be devastating to Mozilla, given that almost all of their funding comes from the search deal. What would that do to competition in the browser space?
Ask HN: Group Contest to Motivate Engineers
We occasionally do contests for engineers such as lines of code contributed to an effort, bug bounties (internal), and other things. What are some other ideas that you have used. They can be everyone against each other, or a team goal, or ... What are your thoughts?
captchas are incresibly pervasive. if you havent seen them google probably has your dna.
What's the pricing on a Tidbyt?
That makes sense and explains why it's unlikely to have local minimas, but I don't get the "no minimal at all" argument. Why no global minimas at all, just because of high dimensionality?
I did read that section, but it's not immediately clear to me that those two things are causally related. Yes, Luxxotica cut Oakley out of their stores and Oakley stock lost a lot of value. But, Luxxotica bought Oakley 6 years later. Where's the link exactly? Did Oakley's stock continue to decline? Was there shareholder demand to sell?

I was in the US Army in the time surrounding the purchase. The amount of Oakley product that was purchased by both the government and individual soldiers should have been enough to keep Oakley afloat all on its own.
GOOG should run their antitrust case mostly with AI
Exactly! I returned my last Pixel because the Google search bar was unremovable.

This was the case for Android 10 as well.
The Animal School
The questions is if a stronger case would see the light of day in the next four years with a change in administration. Maybe Barr thinks the answer is no.
PC is much more than Windows, please stop using these terms interchangeably.
I was wrong. I must have rememberd an early draft or the translation layer
But isn’t the good scaling due to using variational inference rather than full MCMC? Turing has VI too.
Don't worry, your instincts are correct. The only time a comma should follow a conjunction is if there is an interrupting phrase that breaks up the sentence. Example:
"He's a nice guy but, to be honest, he smells like a hippopotamus."
> YouTube is a monopoly.

Maybe in the most narrow of definitions. IG/FB and Tiktok are huge competitors in the video space, Tiktok being the dominant platform if you focus on short form video.
A Pandemic Tale: How a Simple Algorithm Brought a Business Back from Lockdown
Can someone explain why these have such value? What systems cannot handle IPV6 yet?
Yeah, I tried a few combinations of dominant-baseline and text-anchor attributes, but couldn't find a combination that works for all emojis. I need to find SVG set of emojis to fix this problem instead of using them as a simple text. I'll look into this in the next version.
How the Venus flytrap “remembers” when it captures prey
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24835277.
""how practically any company will behave when offered poorly designed subsidies""

No, it's not at all - again - these cases are not that common.
I mean, sure, but why not add additional measures forever, right?

I read the "whitepaper" on the LISEP website. They don't even bother comparing their custom measure to U6 which is the broadest rate internationally recognised and collected by the BLS. Literally, no mention. If your thesis is "current measures of unemployment" are not adequate and you want to convince people of that, you should really include what those measures actually are or you will look like a crank.
Did Wayland start being good recently? Its glacial progress is one of the reasons I switched to macs a few years ago.
First sabre-toothed cat genome reveals a lethal long-distance hunter
I would say his "elements" song holds that spot:

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
The experience is night and day compared to what it was.

Old Microsoft still rears its ugly head, I guess much to the annoyance of everyone in the company who tries - and succeeds - in making money in honest ways, but the difference is still enormous.
> but I don't get the "no minimal at all" argument.

That's just wrong, no need to think about it. Only unbounded loss functions don't have minima, but using such a loss function would not make sense.
Yeah the initial page looked very thin, but this linked one has a tiny bit more info:

https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/ti...

Still I'm a bit skeptical ... his reasons for why others failed and he will succeed is not that convincing.
>Yes, I use pcmanfm on Linux and the spacebar will open the file in the default program.

That's not what QuickLook does. It allows the user to get a "quick look" at a file without launching a default application. Also, in macOS you get access to QuickLook from inside any application's Open dialog. That's a huge time saver when you have similar files and just need to see which one before doing a full open. Think large image files that you want to place in a layout.
MapReduce, GFS and Bigtable are the foundations of big data today.
> reality is that "unemployment" is a highly visible metric.

Is it though? The photos of queues for jobs and unemployment benefits is something of the distant past. Find out that a different measure makes the rate 3x higher came as news to me.
That's right. I'll populate the dropdown with all fonts that coming from Google Fonts API. I'll add this to my todo list.
Mine doesn’t.
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> no need for a foundation

Moonquakes do seem to occur, and although they're not as damaging as earthquakes I wonder if they're still something that engineers need to worry about.
Not to sound dismissive but I remember when that was true of Python (vis-a-vis Perl and some other things). My recollection of discussions on forums when it was starting to gain mindshare were arguments largely about the aesthetics of the syntax.

Numerical computing is something where there's always been something that works. Before Python it was C and Fortran.

The problem people ran into is that when everything is wrapped around low-level libraries for speed, you eventually run into the catch 22 of using the slower language that you prefer for clarity, or the faster one that makes it acceptable performance-wise.

In other words, with Python, to get the performance you would have got in C or Fortran, you have to code in C or Fortran. Then you're not using Python anymore. The idea (in theory, and a lot in practice) with Julia (or Nim, or other LLVM-targeting languages) is that you don't have this penalty.

So in that sense Julia is providing something that isn't working in Python or Matlab.

I think Julia's not quite what it's cracked up to be, but mostly it is, and I'd probably prefer working with it over Python or Matlab for numerical stuff.
Stripe builds business ecosystems in the market it operates
Because it's a PITA sometimes to use c++. It's easy to accidentally go out of bounds on stuff.

I've arguably got a lot more experience doing scientific programming in c++ and FORTAN, than I do in python. Yet for quick prototyping where performance is almost never an issue, I still elect to use python because it lets me wrap my head around the problem faster. I spend less time fixing stupid errors and thinking about coding and more problem thinking about the problem I really need to solve.

Julia might be even better, I've heard good things, I've just never used it though. In the scientific computing and data science world that I deal with, I'd say at least 95% of the time there's never a need to jump from a hacked together prototype to a more production level product.
ReLU networks are piecewise linear.
This really isn't about trusting Apple, this is about trusting Little Snitch. I don't think it would be a good decision to allow any app to control your firewall, but I should be able to say "this app should be allowed to because I trust it."
Not my experience lately with Seagate Nytro Enterprise SSD's, had a few of them fail completely within the first few months of use. No warning just disappeared and no longer recognized on the bus.

Would love to see failure rates on SSD brands.
The John Snow Memorandum