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Apple didn't either (for premium smartphones) until, arguably, basing their manufacturing there helped standup a large infrastructure that could easily be turned around to make Huawei, Xiaomi, and other devices. If Apple had somehow ma
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Are we really doing this? Are you really serious? Besides the fact that most of the country is firewalled off from foreign media, and besides the fact that only one political party is allowed, and besides the fact that political prisoners a
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But competing messages are allowed so while the rich manipulate public opinion, they are not unitary and other voices are still heard, wealthy battling wealthy and large social movements too. These false equivalence’s are really tiring. Chi
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I think Google proved you can live and thrive without the China domestic market.
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What? Where do you get this? The US DOE and EUV LLC a consortium of loads of companies like Intel and IBM spent well over a decade investing in EUV research including many methods like electron beams and using a synchotron. ASML was late to
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That’s down from 97%+, the direction is more important than the current number since the change over time indicates how the company is evolving and it is obviously moving towards diversification.
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Number of papers or patents published is not a good metric. Just look at 5G. Huawei has the most patents but 99% of the patent revenue goes to Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Qualcomm and others because their patents are more foundational and fra
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7nm doesn’t require EUV, 5nm does. You can do 7nm with DUV.
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Finally producing 4 yr old tech with unknown yields and costs is not exactly leaving anyone in the dust. If they did achieve this by IP theft then they’ll face sanctions as well so whether they ship 7nm or not won’t matter if Western countr
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Ah, the “states are laboratories of democracy argument”. You do realize GOP states are crafting laws to punish citizens who get an abortion in another state as well as the national GOP is already taking a our federal legislation for a natio
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This is misleading because the Rendering Engine is the browser. Everything else is a skin. The rendering engine determines pretty much everything related to we standards. Third party iOS browsers are little more than third party themes&#x2F
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Reading these threads is like reading a political debate. “I’m for free speech, but this needs to be banned”, “people have a right to assembly, but I don’t want your parade in my town”, etc Basically, free software zealots supporting super
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Traditional media coverage of this stuff is cringey. It’s always bound up in some “vs” narrative. And the worry over systemic bias is kind of ironic because the tech companies they demonize are aware of it and trying to combat it, but the m
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Honestly, I preferred the days when developer conferences were for DEVELOPERS and not consumers. Announce APIs, DevTools, demo new stuff developers can use. Back when I/O was "Google Developer Day" and used to be mostly Web-
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You can do the same exercise for Apple and find loads of copying, but Apple fans will say the Apple feature or product somehow wasn't a copy. Even in your own list, there are Apple copies, like HomePod and App Clips. Earin preceeded Ai
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Complete nonsense. I can’t even reach most of my coworkers by chat after hours. Everyone in my office is gone before 6. This may be true for international workers or recent grads who don’t have families or friends local, but in my experi
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> More than 50% of the second biggest teacher union voted to teach CRT even in states where it’s illegal. What's really happening is the "CRT" in high schools being taught was already being taught before it got labeled CRT
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I'm simply stating facts, Epoch Times is not a reliable source. And as the Slate article pointed out, his 7 pages of citations were all his own articles and only one citation was Peer Reviewed in a journal with any credibility. Slate
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In other news, accurate information shifts voters to Democrats. Did Robert Epstein analyze how many Fox News viewers shifted to Trump? My own experience in watching relatives slowly radicalized by Fox News hints this may be a fertile groun
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To me, these arguments are vaguely reminiscent of the philosophical arguments from the 80s and 90s. I also remember some people using Go as an example of a problem to which ML approaches won't work. We've gone from people giving u
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In my experience, private APIs are expected to be refactored, and you should not depend on them. I don't think sales/marketing are involved at all. For a public API, sure, but don't expect private, undocumented APIs not to br
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by cromwellian 5y ago
"Attention is all you need" was published only 5 years ago in 2017. BERT in 2018, GPT-3 in 2020. Now DALL-E, PaLM, LaMDA, etc. The pace of AI progress is frighteningly fast. I really thin it's plausible that by 2030, AI is wr
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Keep in mind Tesla’s factory makes the batteries and motors in the same building, it’s vertically integrated. For Ford I know these are imported from Europe and China.
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I wonder if you've looked at AssemblyScript https://www.assemblyscript.org/
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The majority of the core 5G patents came from Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, etc. Huawei filed a metric ton of land grab incremental patents on non essential details which is why they get less than 1% of 5G patent revenue. https://
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I remember in the 90s it was NOISE: Netscape - Oracle - IBM - SUN - Everyone Else.
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Here, let Jeff Dean explain how it works (and why this is a complex problem that a lot of the naive 'build a better search engine than Google' miss) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fc32/72302461b74217662085a8
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To me the real deity of CS is Donald Knuth, not for theoretical contributions (ok, but TeX now), but for assembling a large swath of computer science into a biblical form which educated a great many people. His books were indispensable for
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I think the 'decline' has been greatly exaggerated, in part because it actually helps right-wing populism to exaggerate it. Yes, in some ways, there has been a decline in manufacturing labor required, but it's not strictly b
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There's a difference between the informal culture of rank and file employees, how they see themselves and their peers, and the upper management. Culture at the bottom can get diluted by hiring too rapidly and a high degree of churn, wh

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