skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The travel ban was the administration's attempt to do a "Muslim ban" legally. Yes, it sucks as a Muslim ban, but that's still what it's trying to do.

As for "temporary," that's an obvious lie by the administration. They claimed that it was a temporary thing to keep the country safe while they reviewed how people from those countries are vetted. The original ban would have expired by now, so they've had enough time to review their vetting process according to their own metrics, but the administration is still fighting for it in court. Why would they do that unless it was intended to be perpetually renewed?

As far as the ACA goes, the "skinny repeal" that failed in the Senate yesterday by a single vote was definitely not Obamacare-lite. It would have basically torched the entire medical insurance system by retaining the protections for pre-existing conditions while removing the individual mandate and not replacing it with any other incentive to maintain coverage while healthy. That's rather extreme.

On Paris, if climate scientists think the agreement is a joke (and that is, as far as I can tell, not at all true), then the fact that the administration withdrew from it surely demonstrates that they are quite extreme.
In my own personal experience, I can honestly say I've never "intentionally" clicked on an ad in the past 20+ years I've been on the internet. I will say I've certainly looked at ads in magazines, billboards, tv commercials (before tivo) and even those small planes pulling banners at the beach.

I am not surprised that digital marketing is not that effective. What does surprise me is why its taken this long to figure that out.
Ask HN: In 10 yrs, where do you see technology causing major societal shift?
Within the next 10 years, where do you see (and what type of) technology being applied to create the largest (impacts the most number of humans globally) societal paradigm shift? Why?
Basically this. Apple's walled garden puts them in a position of power where their only choices are comply or leave. By contrast, Google could ship an Android phone in China with vpn features removed, ban vpn apps from the play store, and I would still be able to install a 3rd party vpn app.
Yeah, here in the slums of higher-ed dev/IT just having a github repos of any original code makes an applicant novel. We never really discussed an applicant's github code with them, but we absolutely read through and took it as a very positive hiring signal.

You don't have to have a huge contribution history or a project with a ton of stars, just having something out there matters to some places.
> Embodiment seems to be a branch with low hanging fruit, when it comes to advancing AGI.

If it were "low hanging" it would have been picked already. Reinforcement learning with AI agents is hard, especially in a dynamic environment with many types of objects.

I think the path towards AGI is to do simulation coupled with deep learning. Simulation would open the door to predicting non-trivial effects that cannot be learned by example because they are so rare that there are no training examples. We can generate artificial training examples to cover all the rare cases.
It's disingenuous from the perspective of what it's like to work at a company.

I worked at a comparison shopping site that turned into an SEO house towards the end, after we failed to get direct traffic. The entire company slowly shifted focus improve our SEO, because that's what dragged us away from bankruptcy. Our engineers were tasked with finding ways to get indexed in Google higher, tweaking our site layout constantly. Search became about latency, since Google crawls faster sites faster. Crawling became about getting more content to mix up and show to Google. It became a rather depressing slog, all things together, after we stopped worrying about users and started worrying about SEO. It was explicit and pervasive.

If you work at Google, you only worry about ads if you work on the Ads team. If you work on search, if you work on GMail, if you work on cloud services you work on and worry exclusively about making those products the best they can be, for the users of those products. If I weren't also a user of Google products, I would almost have no idea that Google had ads; they just aren't a salient part of a workaday engineer's job.

You can still argue that from a business perspective every product is tainted, but from an engineering perspective, ads aren't a consideration at all, let alone the first consideration.
Hu? How exactly would the lack of export of the work of half a million people "go away pretty quickly"?

Also, noone is talking about opening up anything, just keeping the access that already exists, which they are obviously trying to "reverse" right now, apparently successfully ... and you are saying that cannot actually be done?

I am not sure I can follow your argument?
Market size and profit aren't an acceptable excuse for hypocrisy.
Still getting TONS of car advertising, after I bought one 8 months ago (when I see it).

seriously car ads are what pushed me to JavaScript off by default since their ads are almost as rude as porn ads. Even the normal advertising reset trick of "open all in new tab" on a folder with a dozen cloud/server hosts didn't swap out advertising to their normally sane ads.
The profit means Cook keeps his job
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879325 and marked it off-topic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/6oh37g/scalaquest_a_...
I assume you're trying to call attention to confounding factors like improved medical care. That's really tough to answer, because 60-year-old cars today aren't driven the way they were when they were new, and they're benefitting from modern tires and brake materials.

I'm sure there are analyses out there of the probability of serious injury or death in various crash scenarios in various types of cars.
Here's a link for you to give people on Smalltalk hotloading:

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-at-Xerox-PARC-w...

The impressive part is how Jobs would complain about something in the desktop with Ingalls just changing it on the spot with Smalltalk's rapid prototyping and live update abilities. Key example:

"One of Steve’s ways to feel in control was to object to things that were actually OK, and he did this a few times — but in each case Dan and Larry were able to make the changes to meet the objections on the fly because Smalltalk was not only the most advanced programming language of its time, it was also live at every level, and no change required more than 1/4 second to take effect."
Are you the developer? This post seems like an attempt to draw attention to a silly idea...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14880659.
I think that it's good to be on retainer, but I didn't find that providing hosting was worth the effort. A few hundred dollars here and there was not enough. If clients needed technical assistance, then they could pay a retainer or an hourly rate.

Example scenario to consider: if you're providing hosting, and the site gets hacked, and you're the webmaster, you have to clean it up without pay. If you manage a lot of sites, and they all get hacked because you put them on one server, then you get to clean up a lot of sites without pay. It's better to get paid hourly for those kinds of things.
Sbt 1.0.0-RC3 and sbt 0.13.16
It's unclear that Xi cannot pull that off.
It means that either Cook is CEO of Apple, or he isn't. Either way, Apple will still be in China.
Magazine ads are often fun to look at. Great photographs. Sometimes very entertaining or interesting ad copy to read. Often informative.

Most importantly they are usually for valuable, useful, and desirable products. Banner ads on the other hand...
Industry is what they sell. The largest division at Goldman Sachs is IT but it's still a bank.

If a bunch of accountants just invested in tech companies they would be a VC fund not an accounting company.
I relocated my family down from Atlanta to Mexico City a couple weeks ago. We're living in a beautiful neighborhood, in a flat. And we love it here (Condesa) -- it's amazing in practically every way imaginable. As I was reading the linked article, it struck me that one of the reasons that we are enjoying our honeymoon period is that we are less isolated in this urban setting than we were in our suburban "cabin in the woods" in Georgia. We stroll outside, and meet the neighbors and enjoy the plentiful street cafes. And Tacos!

It also struck me that one of the main sources of stress and arguments since moving here is that our internet provider, who is selling us 300MBps fiber service, installed their router/wifi access point in one of the bedrooms, surrounded by glass and thick concrete walls, meaning that the signal did not propagate to the rest of the apartment very well. We have literally moved countries, and are not proficient in the language or culture, and the main thing that has pissed everyone off (myself included, no doubt) is that we Facebook videos stutter or don't work at all while we're sitting on the toilet.

Don't fret about us though! Yesterday, I finally had some network technicians over and put in a fine new set of wireless access points. One in the back of the apartment, and one in the front. Cutting-edge technology, and now we can get 200+ MBps connections practically anywhere in our flat. Even the toilet.
The author's general problem is that he seems ignorant (or willfully ommiting) the expert systems period in AI (realized and popular in the 80s, academic foundations discovered in the 60s and 70s).

I agree with the article that GP AI is likely to ultimately be a fusion of bottom-up with top-down systems, and that expert systems seem to be getting short shift after their earlier failures while neural networks are possibly receiving overly optimistic expections.

To be fair, I believe this is the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus , and he appears to have a cognitive neuroscience background as opposed to computational AI. So I wouldn't be surprised if he actually was unaware of 1960s-80s CS AI research.
I see this as positive in some ways. Previously most topics made a pittance compared to the "mesothelioma attorney" kind of topics. So if your site wasn't about one of these high-paying keywords, tough luck. Retargeting levels the landscape a little.
Or the mechanism is developed during a "critical period" once depth perception has developed. It isn't necessarily totally learned behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period
Smadav 11.3.5 Serial Key with Crack Full Version Free Download
I find it rather odd that you deny validating Naziism and then spend most of your comment defending it by saying communism was worse.
That's an Apple business decision.
Thanks for informing us all that you can do joined up writing. A skill almost as rare as playing the guitar, I'm sure.
It's not that I haven't heard about leaking traffic to third parties before. What I meant is that so far none of our users have complained about this being a concern for them.
In Spanish it's more or less pronounced like this.
Coincidental killers
Given Poe’s law, it’s difficult to know whether anyone is exaggerating or not. So belorn’s question is most likely genuine. Once the answer to the question is known, the debate could continue one way or another, but not until then.
Don't do business in china! It's that simple. If you can't do business in a local without getting blood on your hands, then don't do business there.
Elon Musk has better things to do than run Tesla
I think even more people will be affected by IP clauses in their work contracts which state that any work they do even outside on their own time is the property of the company they work for. many cannot do any open source work at all. Some need to get explicit and lengthy approval from HR, managers etc.

in short, most in companies cannot easily build up a personal github profile.
>However, keep in mind that it provides an unauthenticated web interface that exposes all domains that have been visited.

No, it doesn't. At least not since version 3.x with which i started using it...

If you want more detail than just a broad overview, you need to login (though that is just a password, no username needed)...

https://imgur.com/a/jjcYp
They could stop blocking sideloading, for one. That way they could comply in name but keep the block ineffective.
Many of them could remain mostly as-is in the case where the database is local, as they already ask for the database name and password, and don't move forward until it's right.

So just adding the extra step when a remote database is specified might suffice, and preserve the easy install for most users.
Thank you very much for the link, and nice summary. This looks very interesting, I'm grateful: my learning habits mean I'm liable to playing with second-hand scraps of ideas, and missing out on sources.
Your reply, while overall correct, still underestimates the problem of "how do we invent AI?". Data-sets shouldn't be "tuned" or "refined" (tems I see in practically every "AI" article); if they need to be remade then the consumer is not only not AI -- it's not even a clever NN implementation.

Forgive my cynicism if you can, but in my eyes you guys just support what might make you money one day (or already does) and thus aren't objective. You're like the parents that are completely blind to their child's defects due to paternal / maternal hormones.

There's no AI on this planet. There are not even beginnings of an AI. Deep learning is practically a statistically biased classification algorithm and not much else.

To me the term AI is being abused. I want AI to exist, but I am seeing every indication that the area is falling victim to capitalistic interests and this won't change anytime soon.
100% agree. Their business, their rules.
#102 Long Distance – Reply All by Gimlet Media
I see a lot of very cogent arguments defending Apple as only following the law when it comes to VPN laws of China.

I'm not old enough to know this first hand but I believe the anti-apartheid movement against South Africa was started by students and spread to the corporate world before world governments stepped up to ban doing business with South Africa.

This seems to be a specific example of corporate advocacy leading governmental policy.

If the Chinese government's rule over the Chinese people is so egregious to the world, I think Apple would be on solid ground if they refused to do business in China and also refused to do business with Chinese companies outside China.
Given the amount of stupid ads I see I sometimes click one when I see something that is remotely interesting (dev tools etc), hoping to train googles AS (Artificial Stupidity) to serve me more relevant ads. (No, I'm still happily married and I cannot figure out why a company that sits on my personal email and most of my internet searches for the last 15 years cannot figure that out. Especially as I have even configured my ad preferences in the settings.)
Not to be rude, but why do you think that contributions to in-house/closed-source projects should count as contributions to open source? By definition, if you contribute to an open source project, you should be able to point to the public code you wrote. What you're describing is basically previous work experience (which is already on your resume).
I was ready to point that "coward" also should be prefixed with "almost" then, but then I read that link:

>We have great respect for the professionals at the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good. Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them. But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.

[emphasis mine]

I think you read what you wanted to read, not what was written. What exactly did you almost believe? There is no "we'll fight to death against all laws and leave markets on failure". There is respect to the agency and "please, no" to non-lawful demands. Maximizing this the other way to "I didn't believe anyway" is just a denial. They have mutually benefical intents, but they ain't no force against a man with a law in one hand and loaded gun in the other. They live in reality.

If we only stopped turn claims upside down, the world already would be much better place despite local goverment vectors.
Introduction to Neural Networks
The Aconitine Insurance Murder
I'm one of the minimega authors. A friend pointed out that we made it on the HN front page, so I thought I'd come in and offer to answer any questions people may have.
Another tactic I'll use is actually parse thru apache log for adwords clicks looking for duplicate IP's. File a complaint with google to get a refund if I see patterns of abuse.
Building a Blog with Next.js
And yet using a VPN is still somehow "against the will of the people" ...
It comes with age, at least. Babies are afraid of some kinds of heights, but not others. Too bad that I don't remember what kinds they fear.
now china boots you out and you lose a huge market for nothing. oh, and the competitor now enjoying the higher margins will use that money to boost their brand globally, so now you've got less margin and more competition.
I only ever delivered static pages, so my solution was to throw it on S3 and charge them 1.5x whatever the Amazon bill was. (Slightly fancier formula; that's the basic idea.)

(Okay, I actually usually went CloudFlare -> S3, because it wasn't much more set-up, but really drops the bills on static content delivery with a lot of caching.)

Automatic security by experts, minimal configuration on my part, and easy to hand-off when clients wanted someone else to take over. (Also, since it was in an AWS account I controlled, it meant I retained control of the website until they paid me -- never came up, but it never hurts to have leverage.)

I never made much off of it, but it wasn't a negative on my cashflow and kept a lot of clients in contact with me -- "Well, we wanted this new page and since you're the one running our website, let's just use you!"
How to Start Promoting Your Business Having Just $100 in Your Pocket
I'm honestly a little disappointed it's "just" an automated safe cracker.

I wanted to see a hulking brute of a robot peel the safe like an apple with its powerful metal claws.
I haven't intentionally clicked on an ad nor have I intentionally look at an ad in magazines, tv commericals, etc.

I've gotten rid of my magazine subs years ago and haven't owned a TV in years.

> I am not surprised that digital marketing is not that effective.

Depends on the type. Certain google/facebook ads get far better traction than any traditional ad.

The truth of the matter is all ads are ineffective. It's just that digital ads are easier to track ( the impression, clicks, views, etc ) whereas "traditional" ads are not.

The problem for companies/ad agencies/etc are that kids/younger demographics are spending so much time on social media. We know that some digital marketing works because these youtube stars make a killing selling their own merchandise that they advertise on their own channels.

The best thing for ad industry is if traditional media dies and goes away and then they could focus their attention on "digital" rather than traditional/print.
People spend more time on devices than TVs so advertising will follow in the long term. In the short term it will take companies like this to force the ecosystem to keep clean.
Far as restarts vs crashes, Burroughs MCP could do something similar albeit not as impressive or flexible:

"To accomplish such enhanced protection, a newer mechanism was introduced in the mid 1990s. In an unfortunate and misguided attempt at compatibility, it was named after the then-proposed C++ language construct of the same name. Because the syntax and behavior of the two differ to such a large extent, choosing the same name has only led to confusion and misunderstanding.

Syntactically, 'try' statements look like 'if' statements: 'try', followed by a statement or block, followed by 'else' and another statement or block. Additional 'else' clauses may follow the first. During execution, if any recoverable termination occurs in the code following the 'try' clause, the stack is cut back if required, and control branches to the code following the first 'else'. In addition, attributes are set to allow the program to determine what happened and where (including the specific line number).

Most events that would result in task termination are recoverable. This includes stack overflow, array access out-of-bounds, integer over/under flow, etc. Operator (or user) DS is not recoverable except by privileged tasks using an UNSAFE form of try.

MCP thus provides a very fault-tolerant environment, not the crash-and-burn core-dump of other systems."
To be clear, "ability to censor" is basically just having an app store. Companies can decide what they'll include in their store, which means governments can also regulate what they're allowed to sell (or block the app store altogether in that country).

That doesn't mean app stores are inherently evil; they still do a lot of good by making sure people can easily find and pay for high-quality apps.

As you say, a reasonable alternative would be to allow side loading of apps, so that people can find and load apps distributed via various peer-to-peer ways, without Apple being responsible.
> For instance, slavery is wrong no matter what the law says.

I hope you realize that you are only saying this because you happen to be born at this particular point in human civilization.

For a very long time, people thought slavery is right, including the people who wrote your constitution (assuming your are from US). It is easy to say that slavery is wrong now, but not in 18th century in the US. Think of China as the US, a few centuries ago, when human rights are still a concept being explored.
Amazon is still a single point of failure when you backup S3 to S3.

What if they deploy a silent corruption bug next year?