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I think your custom link title gives far more relevant context than the TC title, and in far fewer words.

My last submission got on the front page then they edited the title back to the (IMO opaque) original title, citing the guidelines[1]:

> If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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No. As of a month ago, anyway, Zoom did not have e2e encryption for video calls.
Given that the federal government is paying hospitals between $13,000 (covid patient) and $39,000 (patient on ventilator) for every Coronavirus patient [0], you can see how the incentives might cause hospitals to coerce doctors into listing COVID as cause of death.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/facebook-p...
I don't know the correct answer but is it that surprise?

Uber offers their service in 63 countries. The nature of their business model requires the presence of physical branch office in these 64 countries.

In the Tokyo, even the restaurants run by very old people who don't understand what the Internet is support UberEats. That means somebody physically visit these restaurants, negotiate to support it, hand them the tablet with SIM and patiently teach how to use it. I doubt they could do that tasks with just a bunch of contractors.
The crux of the conversation is: either everyone is going to catch this because of how contagious it is, or we all stay home for ~1-1.5 years until a vaccine is widely distributed. There isn't much of a middle ground.

Everyone will catch this. To think otherwise is folly. Our intrepid leaders have had between 4-6 weeks to sort things out. Hope they did.

My kids can go play outside. This is getting absurd.
Is the resignation actually related to layoffs or the title just clickbait? Because "amidst" means nothing concrete.

It would seem the actual article title is: "Thuan Pham, who fled Vietnam as a child and became Uber’s CTO in 2013, is leaving the company". Maybe it changed after posting, maybe not. But the clickbait we have now is a bit disingenuous. The article TechCrunch cites as its source has far less ambiguous wording:

"Layoffs of that magnitude, which haven’t been finalized but could be announced in stages in the coming weeks, could result in more than 5,400 of Uber’s 27,000 employees losing their jobs. Separately, Uber’s chief technology officer Thuan Pham—who joined Uber in 2013 and is the longest-serving senior executive at the company—has resigned from the company, said a person with knowledge of the situation."
Whether it is scalable or desirable is debatable. But what, I think is not debatable is there will be a time in the future where self-isolation is required again. The schools need to prepare now for when that happens.
Yeah, and the clinic is in the remote Bakersfield, California, not yet affected by the epidemic [0] - many fail to notice that important fact!

[0]: https://kernpublichealth.com/covid-19_dashboard/
We have laws for murder. And for constitutional protection of speech.

It's even more ludicrous that the alleged crime is statistics. Meanwhile, Imperial College statistical models were proven wrong almost immediately by Oxford University, but they are still allowed to speak after triggering hasty decisions that affected millions of lives.

We are leaving unaccountable the people who literally yelled "Fire!!" to billions of people, but it's suddenly imperative to suppress speech that informs collective decisions that are complex, regional and contextual? What does Google have against learning?

It would take little effort to prepend a correction to the original video and/or publish a revised version. This is Hacker News: surprise, someone is wrong on the internet! They get corrected. It's better than being wrong offline and never being corrected.
As c-suite exec, better to be incompetent during the good times than to be competent during the bad times. makes sense that he’s leaving.
I wondered the same thing. Sleeping under a fish just seems kind of odd.
Also April 21 (checked the HN link and it says 7 days ago).
Scams do happen on established accounts too. Accounts get stolen. Accounts get sold on private forums and Facebook groups. Established sellers do go rogue sometimes too.
DO has IPv6 on the public side of their network.

Couldn't tell you why they've chosen not to use IPv6 for VPC networks, though. Probably just for management simplicity.
Amusing. But, are we in March right now?
A criticism of the "grow at all costs" mindset: they aren't even executing on that efficiently. Per their GitHub account, they have 162 open source libraries. That's 162 open source solutions they could have found elsewhere and moved on to more pressing business needs.
> I did not get the chance to see the video before it was taken down

I suppose that’s the real problem, in so many words...
> Nothing says organizational dysfunction better than having a disempowered employee email the same last-ditch "please may a human see this" support email address that's given out to customers.

And yet it's all too common. I currently find myself "escalating" issues constantly because other people aren't helpful. Usually it's easy to go up the chain, to their manager, then that manager's manager, department head, ...etc

But every so often you find yourself in a situation where the next step is upper management, then what do you do... (This is at a 90K+ employee company)
Here's a noted first amendment expert explaining why "fire in a crowded theater" is a very bad example to cite:

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
> but now realizing that wasn't actually a hard requirement.

There's going to be a lot of that. I know a couple people working in big orgs where major decisions like going paperless on certain forms -- which they had begged for for years, and had numerous meetings to work out how they could ever be paperless, and what the path to get there would look like, target dates, etc. -- suddenly happened one day to the next, because it had to be done.

Will be interesting to look at business management changes in the future. What do decisions look like if you just say they simply have to happen?
U.S. deaths in early weeks of pandemic far exceeded number attributed to Covid
I was aiming for neutrality ;)

Back when public schooling started in the US, I gather that it was about preparation for factory work. And military service, I guess.

But I do agree with the dead comment that it tends to kill off creativity, curiosity and playfulness.
I’m an American and was highly confused by this statement.
Indeed. In 2019 they had GAAP revenue of $14 billion (and GAAP net loss of $8.5 billion). The article is clearly wrong, their quarterly revenue is way above $39 million - they haven’t reported Q1 2020 earnings yet, but revenue will be in the billions.

Regardless, layoffs are necessary. Even before COVID, Uber was burning money at an absolutely insane rate, and really don’t have much runway for a public company. Obviously COVID makes the situation much worse. Heavy layoffs suck for everyone who loses their job, but they are necessary here.
It seems like the optimization of resource usage that is done with software ought to outweigh anyone's idea of frivolous usage, but then again, maybe Jevon's paradox. But if everything good is bad, you know, maybe nothing is bad?
Not an American term. Just a typo that, like everything about Uber, is a little too fishy.
I did watch the video and I can safely say that these doctors make massive and very convenient statistic mistakes throughout.

Sample size doesn't help if the sampling method is biased. Even if tests were available to everyone regardless of symptoms, you would still have a selection bias that would skew the numbers. The only way to accurately estimate overall infection rates in the general population is to test a random sampling.

Then there is the "comparison" of Sweden (no lock down) and Norway/California. They mention the death counts and population of these countries in another attempt to show that the "number of cases is high and the number of deaths is small regardless of lockdown" but completely gloss over the fact that Sweden has more that 5x the covid deaths per capita that Norway and California have.

Regardless of if this video should be censored, these guys are awful scientists.
Pretty much any HN comment thread even tangentially related to "cloud" usually has comments from employees at AWS, Azure, and/or GCP -- you know, Oracle's three primary competitors. -- not to mention many other big tech companies (Facebook, Netflix, IBM/RedHat, and so on).
No. The private network was originally shared across all accounts, but later on they changed it to be isolated per account. It's been that way for a couple of years.

The introduction of VPC just means you can isolate within the same account.
In the standard library, it's primarily in the range-based functions that you see this, where the type doesn't generally need to be known. And where you do see it, the documentation will describe what the function returns more accurately than any convoluted made-up type the function signature could show you.
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I agree with your sentiment, but any unnecessary energy use is still wastage and still needs to be generated, leading to pollution, even if the carbon footprint is smaller than when using coal power plants.
Perhaps the thing didn’t exist and they had to create it? Perhaps the open source thing didn’t fit their needs?
Its a fairly standard CAF deal, but it requires a multi-year contact.
It's not that simple. We live in a suburban neighborhood. When I was a kid we had tons of kids in the neighborhood I grew up in to play with. Now? My family is the only one in the neighborhood with kids. Their classmates live quite aways away across busy streets. I'd have to drive them to their classmates houses. People just don't have kids like they used to.
I don't listen to a lot of house, but this mixmag cd[1] from Dimitri from Paris, Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk, I just keep coming back to.

A lot more flair than most "plain" house though, guess that's why.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4mIoV3U84
Alternatively, you can have human-centric P2P networks like Scuttlebutt and Dat where you don't have to worry about sybil attacks. It's a trade-off, because these networks are invite-only, but once you're in you're good to go.
Whether or not something is a derivative, or it is a new transformative work is is legally transformative in a lot more cases than you would expect. Cariou v. Prince page 4 and 5 is the most famous example, and even this minimal change is legally transformative. https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/cx/2013_Cariou.pdf
Here is a link to the news site which originally uploaded the press conference to YouTube, along with a statement from YouTube, and re-hosted version of the video:

https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-wi...

Hopefully this solves your problem with the “overtly ideological outlet.”

(Edit: originally had copy pasted wrong link)
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That's the main issue as I see it - it makes many uses quite murky so people will just avoid those all together rather than risk someone deciding later on it was a comercial endeavour and thus breach of the license.
Pretty sure you can't successfully sue a newspaper for printing an interview where misleading facts are promulgated either. They may dispute those facts or choose not to publish the interview, but if the newspaper prints the interview as is, you can't win a lawsuit over the interviewee having the data wrong. Likewise, a newspaper's editorial page is free to post incorrect opinions, or not, according to their editorial discretion. Are there any instances you're aware of where newspapers were successfully sued for incorrect reporting, except in the case of slander?
the planes are rather far apart from each other and alumininum isn't the most flammable thing. Also there is about 300-1km cordon around the whole thing with warning signs saying "this is national security area", and it's so sparse that it's probably rather effectively surveiled by about 3-4 people unless, say, 1000 people try to do arson at the same time.

Apparently theft of radar equipment is more of a thing than arson.
Perhaps not perfect substitutions, but business acumen is seeing a solution that's 90% of what you're looking for is more than adequate. It seems unlikely the organization identified 162 truly novel problems. It appears some needless reinventing of the wheel may have occurred. It's a common problem that certainly isn't exclusive to Uber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
"Hey Joe, look at the news! If we use Messenger, we can't get wiretapped!"

That's a limited ruse because at some point evidence has to be entered into the record at trial, and if the fact that the government could reach Messenger after all came out, this scheme wouldn't work again. Of course, often investigators can back-reconstruct evidence that they can present -- and if in some case they can't, well, maybe next time. Other times trial evidence might not even be a goal. So a limited ruse, but not that limited.

Is it plausible? I think so. Is it likely? No idea.
i disagree that extremly many Free Software or Open Source projects are not up to quality standards. i use them every day and 95% is of high quality. higher than many closed source applications or libraries.

this is not a FOSS question. (i would not touch a closed source library as s potential dependency with a 10 foot pole. it's either FOSS or i write it from scratch)

this is a question of the ability or willingness to adopt and maintain 3rd party dependencies.

fear of FOSS could be added as another reason, but that reason is even worse than mere unwillingness to work with other peoples code.

in order to use a 3rd party application or library as a dependency you must be able or willing to maintain it yourself, in case you run into an issue with its support. (that's one of the big points of FOSS, btw)

you are right about unnecessary features being a risk, but again, that has nothing to do with FOSS as a choice.
I’ve seen people in conservative forums using BitChute. I’m not super familiar with it, but it’s somehow peer to peer. Streamable also seems to be popular.
Have you tried to negotiate longer terms yet?
Same, frankly given so little heads up I'm amazed things have gone as smoothly as they have
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Unfortunately you can't just throw technology or money at problems to solve them.
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This is a pernicious problem with journalism in general(or really, any writing that wants to convince you of some point of view).

Whenever I see the weasley language of "X happens amidst Y" or "As Y grows, X happens", I just assume that X has nothing to do with Y unless I am given evidence otherwise.
Uber's q4 2019 revenue was 4B $.

A drop of 20 million (ignoring the fact that quarterly results look at YoY, as opposed to quarter to quarter) from expectations would be... quite impressive? ( quite in contrast to other reports of a 80% drop in volume of rides.)

I think what might be interesting to watch is their forecasts for next quarter, as well as for the year.
> Which is confusing, because I thought the DMCA only applied to copyright (it's the Digital Millennium _Copyright_ Act, after all) but perhaps I'm wrong and it includes provisions about trademark as well?

As far as I know, a legally enforceable "DMCA takedown" can only be about copyright infringement. However, YouTube is under no obligation to not honor takedowns that aren't legally binding.
It's gone from 78.8 to 78.5 for males over the last few years, most people think due primarily to the opioid epidemic. And the population of NYC is barely growing, maybe a percent or two a year. These factors you mention aren't even in the same neighborhood as being large enough to explain the data you're reacting to.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNLE00INUSA
Where is this place? I agree with grandparent - for the past decade or so, having your “own datacenter” means leasing floorspace in an actual datacenter run and managed by someone else.

I live and work in the Bay area. I was part of the larger org that ran Uber’s datacenter (co-located) and that’s how it was talked about.
> I guess my point is that, as an engineer myself, I often feel very disconnected from the users themselves. We see errors and issues as percentage of total traffic. Low number of errors, not important. We don't always stop to think, wait is there an actual person or business that relies on this for their livelihood? This one error, what's the impact to the user that depends on my systems?

I feel the same way, in fact, I won't see any production errors until a ticket is assigned to our team. So if the business decides to ignore certain errors or issues, I simply won't know about it. And if I know about it, I won't get a chance to fix them. And even if I fix them, they most likely won't be pushed to production.

It's one thing I truly liked when working at startups, you're much closers to users, and it makes you care more. At that time, I had no problem staying late or working weekends to fix an issue a user had experienced. Because when a user experienced a problem, it would most likely also be a problem for me.
Oh wow, and we just had this story, I'm not sure if it's similar enough to merge:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011146
If Google is liable, then HN will be liable for comments, and any website with user submitted content will die except Google, which has the money to fight lawsuits.
Nah, before that they was spawning a whole new VM for a service as well, it’s low quality programming to blame, not the tools.
If you're just provisioning software on an individual server, then sure. I agree. It kinda works okay.

What I'm talking about is using the cloud modules to spin up servers, and god help you, entire VPC set ups.
This is what I love about C++ that isn't provided by [m]any of the "modern" languages (not including Lisp). I want programs in my programs dangit!
It isn't exactly what they did but it is fairly close. They consistently incorrectly extrapolate the covid positive test rate from a biased sample (biased by both the testing guidelines and self-selection) to the general population, not just for their county, but also for California, New York, the United States, Italy, Sweden and Norway.

They then use this to massively misrepresent the lethality of Covid 19.
I did watch the video. At about the 5-minute mark, they make a huge error in extrapolating the percent positive of tests to the general population (in California, 12% positive test rate). As many others have pointed out, that is an inexcusable error that leads them to an wildly erroneous conclusion about the mortality rate of COVID-19. Recent antibody tests in Santa Clara County and Los Angeles showed a rate around 2-4%, and those studies were criticized because those percentages are close to the levels of false positives one could expect in the antibody tests. So at best, the conclusions in the video are off by a factor of three, and most likely, more.
> Everything on our website, including how we display prices and payment policies as well as the availability and popularity of specific properties, among other features relevant to the customer booking experience, is intended to help customers

Is this a joke? The last time I looked at their site I had a dozen different types of modals saying ONE ROOM LEFT!! ALMOST OVER!!!, large-text prices with fees and taxes (30-50%+) hidden, continuous streams of alert boxes on the bottom saying "x just booked the room you were looking at! Only 3 left!"

This has been done for years[0][1][2]

[0] https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipula...

[1] https://medium.com/@ilyadoroshin/bad-ux-how-booking-com-dece...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15152439
The information article says they are going to layoff 800 tech staff from 3,800 in total.
It is actually based on the ec2 instance type you decide to boot, and generally the bigger the instance the more ENI's you can attach. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-en...

The EC2 k8s network driver they wrote essentially will attach/detach extra ENI's on the fly and pre-allocate IP addresses to your EC2 host to allow for fast pod spin up/down.

I found this article pretty helpful to explain some of the AWS differences: https://www.contino.io/insights/kubernetes-is-hard-why-eks-m...
> The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New England Journal of Science and should not act like one for just one topic

Nor is cnn, fox news, msnbc, etc. They all exercise editorial control over what goes on their channel however.

The rules by which youtube exercises its editor control is its guidelines and policies from my understanding.
I’m afraid I’m insufficiently familiar with the details of the WA system to continue this.

If you vote the day before Election Day and then submit a cancellation form an hour later, will you be able to submit another vote or will the system take too long to process your cancellation?
D's classes and interfaces are much like Java's, so it's possible and easy to write functions that express return types like that. It's also quite restrictive for generic programming. D's metaprogramming features are much more powerful. That means a template can return different types that do not conform to a single, easily-expressed interface. The std.algorithm package is built on that concept.
DOCX/PPTX/XLSX are standardized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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At a time like this $$ matters a lot. Must be a sweet sweet deal.
Speaking of a moon telescope....[1]

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_...
Memrise for memorization and colloquial phrases - they film native speakers in native locations, prioritizing everyday conversations over academic study.

Drops for pure vocabulary development - spaced repetition for the first 100/500/1,000 words.
Constitutional protection of speech does not force non-governmental entities to grant a platform of speech to anyone.

Nobody is saying they have a crystal ball, but everyone is making decisions to minimize damage to society, including private platforms.
At what scale does colocation make sense as opposed to a long-term commitment on AWS or other clouds, where you get a discount?
For businesses that actually have users the biggest cost is not instances, it is the per byte billed network cost, including cross-AZ cost.

AWS cross zone traffic within the same region is not free:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...

and I distinctly remember getting bitten by the same kind of a bill at Google for traffic between their AZs within the same region, which makes me guess that Azure has the same business model.

If Oracle offered Zoom free traffic inside the region between different AZ's then it demolished AWS and GCP pricing.
> no court would ever uphold this removal

You mean enforce? Youtube can remove whatever they want; they don't need to be in the right about it.
Well. They don't have much to cancel really... I don't know if they would, if they could. No way to know that really. Just that they're really in a different business than the others.
How to download the comments for video? Or the "live chat" on some videos?