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My feeling is that this whole silliness will backfire spectacularly! Huawei will develop their own OS. It's hard but not impossible. Who cares if there's buy-in from the entire developer community...nowadays people don't use apps that much anyways. Apps are just another way of consumption. Most apps can probably be replaced with webviews with little lost of functionality. I don't know enough about the technical difficulties they'll have in developing a brand new os, but it's been done multiple times. In any case, this sux for all parties.
Let's be honest, if Huawei (sponsored by the Chinese government) creates their own open/shared OS together with other Chinese manufacturers, Chinese people will switch eventually.
If WeChat is ported to the new OS, other apps will soon follow. The result: a Chinese OS that's completely independent of American manufacturers.
It's also possible that this will cause Huawei and the Chinese government to pour funding into Chinese chip designs. Eventually, China will become less dependent on the US and the US will lose another point of influence.
Is this bad for Huawei in the short term? Of course. But is this hurting the Chinese economy in the long term? I don't think so.
If there is an app compatability layer (API parity) I'm sure most users won't notice the difference, and app developers wouldn't cry too hard about missing Google play services, provided there is an alternative.
My bet is Huawei will pick up a team or company (lineage team start packing your bags) to move forward with minimal risk. That or partner with a few other b-list manufacturers and create an alternative.
Hell even Google itself is trying to drop Android.
30% of smartphones sold in the EU in 2019Q1 were Huawei.
You can bet that no bank or whatever will abandon such a large fraction of the users of their app, but is already calling people to get the Huawei OS version of their app started.
Especially given that Huawei OS looks to be a fork of AOSP with the proprietary Google Services replaced with proprietary Huawei services. The developpers will just fork the existing app, using Android studio, and the same language!
Many people won't. Many other people couldn't care less about Snapchat or Instagram. That latter set of people almost certainly still constitute a large enough market to be worth addressing.
Lots of corporate structure alternatives could offer a way around that. Perhaps a French company would support that, after making a deal for a certain portion of those apps' European revenue?
There are web replacements for all of these, but people are choosing to use them in app form overwhelmingly. Maybe that will change, but it would be a pain to try a cell today that couldn't run all of these apps very well.
I can understand why the US wouldn't want them to build out the 5G network in the US, but it's kinda overstepping to push other countries to deny them that access. That's for other countries to decide on their own. In addition, deeming the company a national security risk is kinda ridiculous. and blocking companies in the US from selling to them or doing business with them is simply anti-competitive obviously. I feel like the result will be huawei developing their own homegrown technology and bringing even more competition to US companies. It's obviou s they're capable of developing advanced tech w/o simply copying (I mean they're ahead in 5G). And once they go down that route there's no coming back because they wouldn't wanna make the same mistake twice. can't understand the strategy by this admin., seems kinda dumb to me
"out of sight out of mind" is reason enough to have one. people may serendipitously walk into a bookstore and change their lives; doesn't work the same when commuting.
This is great. At the same time, WTF...it took this long to bring a bookstore to the BX?? Living in Harlem in the mid 2000's I always wondered why there were no B&N around. What's strange is that Starbucks wasn't around either but then they opened up 2 on 125th and they were always packed, so I really don't buy the bogus argument that "there just isn't enough demand". I usually don't indulge in Schadenfreude, but I can't say I'm unhappy with the b&n closings and amazon beating them to a pulp (pun intended).
Sounds really interesting, but it seems like this is all due to the graph extraction algorithm needing to use static analysis. Is this such an important requirement that it requires switching languages? I'm not too familiar with how PyTorch works under the hood, but I suspect it doesn't builds a graph (correct me if I'm wrong) and they seem to get good perf. I'm all for new tech, but just wanna get a sense of how impactful this change would be.
The idea that linear models are linear in the parameters and not the data is a bit confusing. I know the effect of this is that you fit curves with "linear" models, but I don't feel like I fully understand this. Can you explain further or link to some good resources?
Each data point is a bunch of features x_1, x_2, ..., x_n.
You can make new features for your data points using whatever functions you like -- it doesn't matter if they're linear. Let's say we add two new features x_{n+1} = f(x_1, x_2) and x_{n+2} = g(x_2, x_3).
Now if we train a linear model on the new expanded set of features, it's linear in those features. It's not linear in the original data though, because of the new features that we introduced: x_{n+1} and x_{n+2}.
This is so true...I believe this wholeheartedly, had to find my long-last hn login to upvote this. I've read a lot of stories where people start a diet such as one meal a day, or all potatoes...heck I even heard of a guy who was "curing" patients with only rice and sugar back in the day. The common thread among these stories is that they've stopped eating a lot of what they used to (presumably mostly junk food), and so their body can recover. It's not what you put in so much as what you've stopped putting in.
Just to stress that the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. It may be true - or not. But it's important not to assume it's true just because a few stories say so.
Seems like you're jumping to conclusions here. Let's wait to see what exactly happened. I highly doubt that any of these companies just use "straight" ML. For complex applications, there's generally a combination of rules-based algorithm and statistical ML based ones applied to solve problems. So to simply: highly suspect predictions aren't just blinded followed.
