skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure they will.

Consumers in China who wanted a new iPhone would probably rather stay at home than go out to buy a discretionary consumer device like an iPhone. Many will have less income with which to get by, meaning they wouldn't be able to afford an iPhone even if they were willing to go buy one. And with Apple stores closed in China, it's kind of tough to buy an iPhone there.

Meanwhile, people who really need a smartphone elsewhere will take this opportunity to buy a different phone.

Economic shocks have long-lasting aftereffects. Don't assume that the result of this hit to iPhone production is simply a phase shift of Apple's product cycle and consumer demand. For example, Apple will probably take cash away from its next stock buyback in order to cover the upfront costs of this hit to its revenue. And they may not be able to provide the kind of pricing and incentives that they were planning to provide before the virus hit.
This is not a tech focused article, it's a business / investor article. It doesn't care about the definition of AI from a tech or software perspective - it cares about classifying types of companies (SaaS vs AI) so that it can make reasonable assumptions about expected performance of those categories and create boundaries / guidelines for how to think about investment strategy.
The they're-a-bunch-of-quacks story doesn't have to explain the Nimitz incident. They were given footage and reports of the incident, but the existence or nonexistence of the event is independent of them.
There is some advertising redirect thing going on. Ghostery blocks me going to techcrunch at the moment. So I guess I'm not going there anytime soon.
I'm not convinced that was some ulterior goal, but even if, I don't mind as long as it is followed by actually regulating the remaining players.

As I keep saying: we don't need innovation in adtech. We don't need more companies in this space. We need this industry burned down to the ground, encased in a concrete tomb, with warnings for future generations plastered all over it.
In what way can any social media company "censor" someone?

I don't read Twitter much. I still get plenty of information from Facebook, Podcasts, Hacker News, random blogs and websites, news websites, Discord chats, YouTube, etc.

Even if Twitter decided to kick out someone, all of those other avenues are available to them, some of which aren't under the control of almost anyone.

It feels to me like we're living in the age where it's absolutely easiest to "publish" anything at all you want, and yet people are constantly complaining how hard it is. I just don't get it, it seems factually wrong.
Not a problem. VPS's are a commodity, you just switch to another supplier and repeat the steps. If it's too much trouble, make a bash script that runs the setup. If you can spare a few extra dollars per month, sign up to additional providers for redundancy.
It is a solved problem however. We chose not tot use it (in terminals).
Awesome to hear from somebody close to the source. There's a third option. There are entire industries where automation has not been practical because of the necessity for many hardcoded rules - problems outside of bland image recognition, including those solved by novel architectures like GANs and encoders and such. ML has finally gotten to the point where complex heuristics can be learned to automate those tasks which were impractical previously. Now you can legitimately write and sell ML services which meaningfully analyze, catalogue, and search data in ways that are currently human intensive, but just unique enough that regular programming won't cut it. There will be a proliferation of such businesses in the near future. The first wave is in development now. I've said it repeatedly, and I'll say it again, we are on the verge of an internet-like change in society. ML is poised to take human endeavors to new heights in the next decade...and if innovation and hardware continue to progress, I think the recent proliferation of the ML zoo and associated theory has given us the foundational tools for true AI which we may see in our [distant] lifetimes.
A recent discussion of straights and freaks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21670128
There's no reason to do that in a non-entertainment app, unless you want to manipulate users for your own benefit.
Would you trust a bank that protects their vault with the same kind of lock as your front door?
You don't. But if you have a 144hz+ monitor at home it's just plane annoying. You notice the lag.

I'm currently fighting this. The trouble is I guess they move people around a lot and I noticed everyone has the same monitor...
Well any risk is going to be paid by the customer in the end. If they lose 0.01% of their deposits because of a vulnerability, they're gonna be charged more by their insurance and eventually charge it on their service fees to customers.
> framing it against a traditional VC model might be a bit of a mistake

Google Ventures for example has a similar capital services model. Once you took money, you had access to a pool of GV folks who could help you with design, finance, engineering, etc. Having this talent to tap in to helps you avoid spending early money on things that aren't worth a full FTE but need to be solved.

The only thing new here is that they took out the writing of the check first.
Santander in the UK does this too. You can tell because they only ask for 3 characters out of your password whenever you log in. What's ironic is that whoever did that propably thought they were being super clever.
Speaking of 4k, one question bothers me -- will we see HDMI 2.1 or DisplayPort 2.0 in the 2020 GPUs? Because if not, it would be another 1-2 years wait for a solution capable of doing 4k HDR(10bpc) at 120 fps, or even just 4k 10bpc 4:4:4 in case of HDMI.

Frankly, don't want to buy a GPU that will be outdated in a year, simply due to its connectivity.
So you measure the number of programs by the number of binary copies?
They are also missing the 0.01% of gamers like me that want to use two gamepads at once :(
I specialise in legacy code. Not that I'm opposed to doing a greenfield project now and again, but I genuinely enjoy working with legacy code. It's a fun challenge and the "stink of old" on it keeps the must-have-shiny people away for the most part.

However, it's always a challenge. For example, sometimes you have subsystems that are begging to be retired. For example, on one system we're maintaining about 20 KLOC of GWT code. For the last 10 years or so, it hasn't really been worth moving away from it, but there will be a day (that is rapidly approaching, I think) where the cost of supporting a mostly abandoned Java framework that compiles into JS outweighs the risk and cost of slowly replacing it.

There's a real difference between being pissed off with the choices your predecessors made, or lusting after the new, hot framework and saying: nope... this just isn't viable any more. Planning that transition isn't easy either. Again, it's one of the reasons I enjoy this kind of work.

And sometimes, you even just decide that you're going to work with what you've got. Ironically, though, this usually involves more churn, NIH and reinventing the wheel because code written 20 or 30 years ago did not have the facilities that we desire in modern development. You think, I'd love to enjoy the benefits of that new framework, but there ain't no way that we'll be able to use it. How do I get the benefits using the code I already have? Answer: you study what other people are doing and you build the same damn thing in your environment. Nobody builds the new-shiny for old stuff so if you want it, you have to build it yourself.

I enjoy bonsai trees. As trees grow, the branches become out of scale with the trunks. You can imagine that if your trunk is the size of a pencil, it doesn't take long for the branches to catch up. So if you want a tree that is in scale, you are constantly having to prune off the branches and grow new ones. There is a saying that a bonsai tree is never finished until it is done. Code is the same way. There is no such thing as avoiding churn -- unless you are truly trying to kill off your project. You always have to prune off branches and grow new ones, otherwise development will slowly grind to a halt -- the challenge of adding functionality without changing the code base getting to be more and more complex. But if you prune your branches before they grow you will end up with a stick in a pot. Or if you decide that you want to grow out every bud that pops out, then you will have an impenetrable mass of confusion. Deciding which branches to grow and which branches to prune, unfortunately requires good taste.
So I get that this is sleazy, but why is it google’s job to stop this? How is this different from any other type of middleman living on referral fees?
This field, call it what you want, is exploding with papers, implementations, datasets, frameworks and courses. By any name you want, it is quite useful and has many applications. But if you prefer you can just get hang up on the term AI.
I repeat: what I said above is based on the actual IPCC models (among others) and the evidence they're derived from. All of these are worrying but also surprisingly modest compared to your typical headline about climate change, which is almost by default designed for fearful clicks and social shares. Polar bear populations are of concern and there are credible (but hypothetical) predictions from the U.S Geological Survey that their populations could decrease heavily by 2050. However, at the present time, all known evidence shows that A. they have steadily been increasing over the last few decades and B. are currently quite stable despite warming in the northern Ice Cap. The same goes for the possibility of social upheaval due to temperature increases: it's predicted and sometimes by credible sources, but so far it hasn't been shown to have concretely occurred and no firm prediction can accurately say when or if it will start to happen. Your claim about the consequences of a century from now is even more speculative than this. In reality we have no idea what our world will be like then. This doesn't mean ignoring climate change but like I said, evidence and perspective are crucial.

I want my children's world to be a place they can be healthy and relatively safe in, but having empathy for the future doesn't mean ignoring actual evidence, scientific reports or reasoned consideration.

on polar bears: https://arcticwwf.org/species/polar-bear/population/
> It is a bit surprising since the mechanism does not seem that sophisticated.

I am hinting there at a clever solution that they do not want to show (or a solution that they must not show because of regulations).
Sounds like Facebook wants the regulations, so that a new upstart competitor, cannot invent something novel, and pull the rug from under them.

Like maybe, a social network that doesn’t manipulate us, or scan our faces without permission, or build dark profiles of everyone, or read our personal messages, or .....
Essentially no one I know now smokes. Something was effective.
It is increasingly clear to me that vast majority of programmers do not understand the profound difference between modern Machine Learning and software development.

AI may just be a buzzword, but neural networks and ML are not. The tech has just arrived, this is fresh, evergreen territory, and the first wave of applied machine learning is quickly approaching, in quiet development across industries. Things are about to get really interesting with the academic explosion of neural network architectures and theory, and I would strongly recommend to any developer to spend a few months getting up to speed!
Agreed in principle, but it does show the Twitter moderation to be completely arbitrary. Given, this is not the only case.

Not sure where they are going with this, but they probably will blame the Russians.
It seems you're not getting serious answers here, so here's my take.

Please report this via the US-CERT at https://www.us-cert.gov/report

This will allow you to report it, eventually from an anonymous email address, without exposing you directly to the bank which might react bad to you. CERT can handle the coordination with the bank, this is what they do.
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In many companies architects is just a synonym for a project manager that happens to also grok UML.
Early 2019 I went for an interview with Uber. Mind you it wasn't in Silicon Valley, but at a smaller office in Europe. Anyways, the interview process is very similar to other big tech companies - 5 interviews, 2 on coding, 2 on systems design and a manager one. I've done and I'm still doing phone screens and interviews for my current company, but the level of unprofessionalism in Uber still stays with me. Most of the interviews were okay, but I remember the last systems design one, where the interviewer walked in with a glass of Bailey's and was acting like he was owning the place. That really put me off. Don't get me wrong, I like a drink as much as the next guy, but there is a time and a place for that. Definitely not during an interview. When it came to offering me a job, they did send me a RSU package as well, with the promise that the stock was massively undervalued and will skyrocket once the IPO is out. Guess what - just as everyone expected the stock tanked.
I'm so glad I didn't take the job. It just showed a culture of not-giving-a-fuck, laziness and false promises. And that's not even in the headquarters. I'm definitely not surprised about the different levels of misconduct going on there.
I did report the Bailey's guy when they asked me for feedback, but I still regret not walking out as soon as the guy walked in.
My point is - if that's how they handle interviews, I wouldn't even wanna know what the overall culture is and I'm glad I stayed away from it.
Inserting ASCII quotes instead would result in exactly the same problem.
Where is such 'decent job' part of the wonders touted as "AI", which widely successful product/service sold as AI-powered benefits from it?
One problem Apple faces is getting factory workers who went to their hometowns back to the factories. Apple had actually planned to ramp up production starting in the end of February. So this interruption is a larger hit than you might expect at this time of year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/coronavirus-...
If I were a non-programmer, I'd not have time to learn the basics of Swift or Kotlin even if it took only a month, if all I wanted was to build a small app for friends. With Apple I already have to deal with by virtue of owning an iPhone, but I would be reluctant to enter a relationship with another party just for the sake of my small app. On top of that, careful observation of the space tells you that an app is likely to outlive its service dependencies.

Dependencies you don't own are a liability. The less you have of them, the better.
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To save others looking for it, a PDF version (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) is available here (https://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/).
As far as I'm aware, at the behest of it's trading partners, China had already made strides to implement IP laws prior to the trade war. Once again, the goal of the trade war isn't to improve China's engagement with it's trade partners, which can be achieved through bi-lateral trade agreements, but to address the growing power of China.

Edit:

To clarify my own opinions, I'd be really happy for a trade war if it's objective was to change China's policies. If China grows unimpeded with the same human rights, and lack of enforcement of IP laws, it means the whole world would have to compete on the same terms. This would mean a degradation of human rights in first-world countries in the long run.
I’ve seen enough people who are in love with their excuses to know that some places are just going to have legacy code. If I stay there, there is some other legacy code lover who is going to take a job bothering another team that would have been happy to have me.

Nothing is perfect anywhere, sure, but there are degrees.

You get the spaghetti when you take your eye off the ball. When you start making excuses for why we are going to do dumb things just “for now”. And by the time you notice the three year old comments that say “this is temporary”, well, your processes are set. This is the culture, and if you make a stink, people are thinking more about “why now” than “why not”.

The only way I know to get out of that is starting the conversation early about how we can do the things we always do faster and more accurately, and how we can do things we’ve never tried before. But that tree takes a while to bear fruit. And it requires coworkers who are willing to try something new, because for sure as shit nobody has shown them how to do this before.
It can be useful. For example I don't want to select the line nunbers next to the code.
Compare to Windows 10, which got a Spaces-like feature (called virtual desktops) in 2015.
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So if I run a large chess forum, and want to delete posts that aren't about chess, I would have to choose "publisher"?

No. Any such law could easily have provisions that exclude moderation for off-topic content (which would be defined carefully so as to include spam).

It would mean you can't delete "trolling", "bullying", on-topic flamewars and other categories of things you might want. To do that you'd have to indeed become a publisher. And then you'd need to respond to complaints quickly and take down libellous content, or become responsible for it.
No handshakes, no deals: Silicon Valley VCs hit pause on China
That shortage took many quarters to work itself out.
FWIW, I had the exact same experience, and I lost faith in the "operational VC" model. Hiring the right people is hard for everybody, and the chance that a VC can spin up an "agency" style department that somehow has the best people is really small.

The entire model attracts the kind of "consultants who give advice" you describe. After all, people who want to get their hands dirty, i.e. people who are a good fit with startups, are overwhelmingly going to want to work directly for said startups.

We also had this super weird mismatch with perceived value. The operational VC "billed" agency-style, so by the hour, at (to us) outrageous hourly rates. It was like 6x what we'd pay a salaried employee doing the same work. We didn't "feel" it as bad because it cost us equity, not money. But we'd have never hired that agency for that money, if it was cash. The moment we realized that this was the case, we stopped the collaboration. It was a costly distraction and nothing more.

I'm curious if Hoffman found a way around this, but I don't see it in this article.
> there isn’t much difference between the two

Can you post a link to RCT-based evidence backing this claim? I don't see anything on CDC website or any professional medical organization about Facebook being as harmful as cigarettes.
So quite a lot?
There's a lot more product than just Facebook, making this look a lot like a witch hunt. There are games, foods, brand retailers, who all do this to the exact same extent. The difference is that facebook has utility that lends to participating as frequently as possible (same as MySpace and newsgroups before that). The regulation is needed because of the ubiquity, not the behavior.
Problem is the scale. Script kiddies and junior programmers are 0.1x to 0.6x or people reinventing the wheel by not using a framework, they could be far less and let's not talk about security. Experienced (senior) devs should be counted as 1x. Beside knowing to programming fast, they (should) know how programm more correctly.
I remember that kind of thing as far back as Encarta(?)

Back then, I was writing papers and it was kind of handy.
I enjoy it so much (since 2017) that i'm going to london Jamstack !
The same reason you might be concerned even if a doctor can deliver a baby safely despite not washing his hands in between a cadaver examination and touching your wife.

Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?
The reason they are interested in it is the accidents which have supposedly occurred there or what I reckon is the UAP and biological tissue stuff mentioned in the article. Somebody was digging a hole in the ground and got zapped by something is what I read elsewhere. They have also reported sightings of orbs flying around that zapped a dog. The explanation as to what it has to do with everything is that the equipment picks up similar energy signatures all around this place to the UFOs and there are sightings of those as well. Honestly don’t know what to think TBH but certainly not going to say I’m sold on all of this. I’ve seen plenty of weird things myself. I once saw some guy going 30 mph on a unicycle through Georgetown in D.C. and it was incredible the amount of skepticism there was just trying to convince my friends standing nearby it actually happened until they saw him later going over a bridge. They were all certain it was not physically possible. I find it humorous the pentagon got worried that forces of precognitive evil might spread into the government yet on a day to day level we’re more worried about Facebook? We are sooo not ready to deal with any of this objectively if there is any truth to it.
No one outside of the US actually believes that. This is nothing but a trade war.

Its going to be an interesting fight to watch, but I suspect that by the time this ends the US will have lost more than it will have gained.
Indeed, the title here made little sense - I was reading the article and it sort of contradicted what I got from HN...

Thanks for pointing the titles actually differ.
Not saying you're wrong, but faithful hardware emulation is really hard. The VICE team are still working hard on perfecting a Commodore 64 emulator and recently completed their implementation of the VSP bug, which has been discussed elsewhere here on HN[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314959
Generally, you can, but they are a different beast. You have little way to measure them, they are very time consuming, high risk compared to Ads (because you can't change your cards when you notice a week in that customers don't like some word etc). That's a valid long-term strategy, not something to get you business next week when you're starting.
Although the rest of what you say is true, it's actually a myth[0] that all Tasmanian Aboriginals were killed off (something that Tasmanian Aboriginals find frustrating in itself).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Tasmanians
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I think he realized he was lied to by high-level people and has succumbed to the reality that all this is deception.

But here he is in 2017 talking to Kay Randall-May, his ‘best psychic’ about research at Stanford where she claim she communicates with “the Others”. Research at Nolan Lab -

https://soundcloud.com/project333/connectivities-that-you-ge...
> But your human weaknesses are the same ones we all have.

But they aren't. By personal observation and statistical reporting, I know that most people don't have inattentive-subtype ADHD.
Those warnings were so successful that companies threatened small nations proposing them.

https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8?t=655
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