skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck this reply and everything it represents. I truly detest this madness and everyone who believe in such warped nonsense. One giant pile of argument from authority bullcrap.

This idea that only narrow set of domain experts can speak up about something is blatantly insane. You are not an epidemiologist either, so by the same token, you don´t have the right to criticize anything anyone says, yet here you are. So maybe you should heed your own advise you damn hypocrite.

I can do the same dance and say epidemiologists are not statisticians so Fauci should never EVER talk about numbers. Similarly, Trump has no PhD in economics so he should never EVER talk about money. Ooh, also, you´re not an NBA player so you should never EVER talk about how a game should have unfolded.

This is nuts man. You make your arguments, we listen and we assess based on the level of evidence and logic you presented. The piece of paper on your wall does not tell me shit about fuck. I couldn´t care less about who makes an argument. If credibility is a function of imbued institutional authority in the form of a piece of paper, and that´s all it takes to convince you that someone´s opinion should be heard but not others, then YOU are the problem.
H/t: Sacha Chua [0]

[0] https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/04/2020-04-27-emacs-news/
> Or you could just not do the censorship in the first place and give people the freedom to make their own personal judgments whenever they’re presented with conflicting perspectives.

> You’re assuming that some global institution has to be The Arbiter Of Truth because common people are too stupid to think for themselves and I find that assumption disgusting.

The market is the sharpest vote the people may give for companies. Next would be holding businesses liable, which Google is in various ways. If Google is accountable for the content it serves, and it is in various ways, then that is the people's will in motion.

I find it alarming that you think you understand my thoughts without getting into a conversation with me, to the point of announcing your disgust over a forum.
It includes the number working on their Eats, Driver, autonomous driving, internal products, etc. It's the employees of Uber, the company, not Uber the ride share app.
I know that this is how the common thinking goes, but this is also the same thinking that those "big bad corporations" use, and that the "big bad government" uses, etc.

My point is that we're no better. Do we stop and think... Hum, what's happening to that 0.0001% Did they just miss some important email from the USCIS about some mandatory thing they needed to do? Will that get them deported? What if they missed a memo from their boss? Etc. And in the case of the article here, does it mean that a few dozens of people haven't been paid in a few weeks?

By reducing everything to some number, I feel it disconnects us and trivializes things.

I don't know that I have an answer. But I find that it is interesting how I think everyone in a company can somehow wash their hands on issues the company is causing by adopting this kind of mentality. Well, given the constraints we had, we went for the big fish only. It's almost some kind of oppression by the majority. Majority of users get their new features while a minority suffers.

I think it's easy to start scape goating left and right: well our team isn't given enough resources, well we missed out on profit targets so had to cut back, well investors are pulling out, well government imposes all these regulations on us, well voters wants us too, etc.

So I guess we're all a victim of the system and no one is to blame or could have done anything about it.

Maybe I'm being a bit cynical, but it's something I've been asking myself more. Could I actually do something about it at my work? At least when it comes to engineering systems without such error, maybe just thinking about impact one such failure could have, I can push a little harder, I can consider it a little more.
Cannabis might be the only crop where that level of teaching is necessary.

Have you checked corn prices lately?
That 27,000 number isn't all software developers.
Relatively speaking, yes. But even under the best circumstances, it's still draining. I just worry that it will color their perception of remote work.
The point here is that youtube is not a harbinger of scientific truth. These doctors present their findings with their collected data to come to this conclusion that the according to them, this virus is not dangerous and the quarantine should end.

Does Youtube also censor videos where plumbers present an incorrect way to install a toilet that can lead to backflow and flooding.

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 - Coronavirus.

If anybody feels that their data or interpreation of the data is incorrect, they should post their own video on Youtube, refuting their claims.

Instead what Youtube is doing is just silencing them.
> and offering only a carp over their heads

Is this an American term? Or is it a typo for 'tarp'.
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FYI the full video is available at the website of the news station that
uploaded it to YouTube (where it was removed):

https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-wi...
The source is gone.
Meanwhile this diatribe clocks in at an unnecessary 12MB.
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Similar story for the office suite. Microsoft keeps a lion share of the desktop market trapped using their office software by using anti-competitive practices like switching to new formats like docx, xslx, etc. once other office software successfully reverse-engineered the formats like .doc because they know if they lose the office software market they’ll slowly lose the desktop OS market.
While \relax is indeed a no-op “command”, that is precisely why it doesn't affect anything here. The way TeX works is that (roughly speaking), after expanding macros and acting on other commands (primitives) it encounters, it treats every character it encounters as another member of the current horizontal list (paragraph). Then it breaks this list into lines, etc. Whether you insert \relax or not, the horizontal list is the same: the uppercase A will be followed by the period. So you need something like \hbox{} or (equivalently) \null (something that actually gets into the horizontal list) between the “A” and the “.”.
Cannot stop laughing about the PSP. Sorry.
If you're saying that it's a problem that something that has become of great public utility is a de facto monopoly entirely in the hands of private interests, sure. But given that, the unfettered censorship is a feature, not a bug.

If there were a public utility similar to Youtube, it would have to have a clear policy for censorship, and some means for a public review of any decision to censor. And then you might have a legitimate complaint (though in this case there was a pretty clear case of a material factual misrepresentation, regarding the mortality rate of COVID-19). But since that is not the case, Youtube/Google is pretty much free to censor anyone on any basis they choose, and they owe no one any particular explanation for their decisions.
The copyright holder can sue you in the UK, if they feel like it.
The problem with with freedom to just post whatever by whoever, even if with credentials (perhaps more so) is that it can influence people in the wrong way, before it is criticized or debunked. Even so, there is ample evidence that plenty of people take any info that supports their point or worldview and stick with it and repeat it, even after it has been critiqued or shown to be wrong, etc. So I don’t think complete freedom of speech is a good thing. You have to consider the negative effects, as long as there are negative effects, you can’t say it’s unanimously “good”. That being said, there already is a channel for Doctors and researchers to publish: peer reviewed journals. Key words here “peer review”, this is when other professionals in your field of research review your work. And it’s not youtube or a blog post or social media. The fact that they went around the peer review process should Make you suspicious about their agenda.
Section 230 of the CDA was written expressly to give YouTube-like companies the right to do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

> One of the first legal challenges to Section 230 was the 1997 case Zeran v. America Online, Inc., in which a Federal court affirmed that the purpose of Section 230 as passed by Congress was "to remove the disincentives to self-regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont decision".[8] Under that court's holding, computer service providers who regulated the dissemination of offensive material on their services risked subjecting themselves to liability, because such regulation cast the service provider in the role of a publisher. Fearing that the specter of liability would therefore deter service providers from blocking and screening offensive material, Congress enacted § 230's broad immunity "to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children's access to objectionable or inappropriate online material."

[. . .]

> Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44, 49-53 (D.D.C. 1998).[71]

> The court upheld AOL's immunity from liability for defamation. AOL's agreement with the contractor allowing AOL to modify or remove such content did not make AOL the "information content provider" because the content was created by an independent contractor. The Court noted that Congress made a policy choice by "providing immunity even where the interactive service provider has an active, even aggressive role in making available content prepared by others."
Article states:

> The outlet suggests the discussed cuts could impact upwards of 20 percent of Uber’s 27,000 employees

which checks out -- 20% of 27,000 is 5400.
They aren’t. They fixed that almost immediately. They said it was just a mis configuration.
> That's inexcusably dumb.

Even if that’s true, what does it have to do with banning the video and preventing the public from making their own decision?

Right this moment I can go on youtube and look up a million rap videos that talk about guns, violence, murder, and more. I can look at videos that would lead me to harm myself in all sorts of ways if I didn’t have a brain. By picking and choosing like they’re doing, it leads one to distrust the company which will ultimately hurt them.
March 19th: "Uber shares soar after CEO says enough cash to ride out coronavirus crisis"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber/u...

April 21: "Uber Bookings Now Down 80%"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22938687

April 28: Uber lays off 5400, CTO resigns

[edit] - Fixed the dates. I've lost all track of time.
Uber is down 27% from its IPO. Not as bad as one may assume, given the hard data coming from its filings and, of course, the news coverage. Lyft is down 58%.

At the troughs, Uber was down 48% and Lyft 72%.

This moment --the layoffs and departure-- feels like a capitulation of the private equity valuations. We shouldn't feel good about people losing. But many have been shouting about how insane the blitzscale model is. Maybe it achieves it purposes for early investors -- that peak moment of IPO liquidation. But it certainly is no good for the employees and their morale for carrying on.
Well, it’s also hard to watch the source video when YouTube goes out of their way to delete it. So here in this very thread, is a great example of the harms of taking down the content. It makes it hard to even have a discussion about its merits.

I don’t understand why YouTube couldn’t leave the video up, and put some kind of warning or interstitial advising of problems with the content. I would have problems with that approach too, but certainly less so than I do with the wholesale deletion of the video.

Anyway, you can find it hosted here: https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-wi...
Given Uber's high level of internal competitiveness, their culture issues, and their grow-at-all-costs ethos, I would be totally unsurprised that they have a lot more people than you'd see at a hypothetical saner company delivering the same value.

Even if that's true, it doesn't mean that a large cut like this will help anything. It's totally plausible that this will the make culture worse, get staff into a scarcity mindset, and reduce the levels of collaboration and value focus.

Losing weight can be good, but just cutting off a limb is not the best way to go about it.
It's not "littered" in the documentation for anyone who understands the basics of D's ranges. auto is the correct choice here. Range functions are lazy, meaning they are almost always used in a chain of function calls that ends in something like `.array` to get a concrete type -- an array in this case. At no point in that process do you care about the actual return type of any of those functions.
At least California has plans to do school in July instead of just giving up:

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/04/28/...
AFAIK, there is not a single study that "[shows] infection rates for Covid-19 are far higher than official numbers indicate". There is no place in the world (again, afaik) that is attempting to report the number of infected people, all the "official numbers" are roughly either "confirmed infected" or clinically-confirmed infected. All health experts (as far back as early january when we just had numbers from Wuhan) were saying that the actual number of infected will be much higher than those confirmed infected. There are a lot of studies that indicate that those experts are correct (and I am, maybe unfairly, assuming that those are the studies that you are misrepresenting).
Thanks for the analysis QuinnyPig. That AWS bandwidth price is outrageous. Wow!
Let's assume it is true that richer areas have more builders of tomorrow. That's going to be true whether or not they get better schools. And giving them better schools does a disservice to the population. So "it sounds great" is severely misguided.

Giving better schools to students that highly achieve at least has some justification, but is probably unnecessary if we get all the schools up to 'competent' and have some money for various kinds of advanced placement programs.
We need to ask about the unprecedented censorship at this time: what is At Stake? Is Google planning a new healthcare division that is invested in specific viewpoints?

For decades, the US has provided the average citizen with limited/no healthcare but freedom of speech and thought. In sudden weeks, this has been inverted.

What is the prize hidden in the party cracker which justifies censorship of speech and thought with the (implausible six months ago) claim by social media companies to care about the health and wellness of the average person?
Thank you! I need this, and a cost estimate is amazing. Legend!
They've definitely over-hired at times -- if you raise a lot of cash, you have to spend it somewhere.
A King Who Became a Pirate
If they're smart they will maintain the ability to jump to IBM and play them off each other.
Docker and Kubernetes are the worst offenders then. Modern DevOps often fire up a separate container for the smallest service.
Another huge chunk of the "pollution" is the bytecode and interpreted languages. Getting rid of the languages and VMs without AOT-compilation will reduce the carbon footprint a lot.
BBSes are still alive and well [0].

[0] https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/lists/new-bbs-systems/
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> How is it fundamentally dubious?

It's fine to have a trusted organization to make decisions. It's not fine to place that organization above all criticism.

I think their statistical methods are suspect and likely wrong. I don't think they should be censored and the act of censoring them is actively harmful if you don't want people taken in by misinformation, then we need to actively produce good information. There is not and cannot be some way to absolve a free society of that burden. Censorship only helps to convince people that you know you're wrong and you're hiding from criticism. This is especially bad when you're right.
One can compare it to its immediate neighbors (Finland, Denmark, Norway) and get your order of magnitude right there. Norway: 206 deaths, population a bit over 5.8 million. Finland: 199 deaths, population a bit over 5 million. Sweden: 2,355 deaths, population a bit over 10 million. I'll let you carry out the division yourself.

Comparing to its geographical and cultural neighbors helps deal with differences in city structure, public health system, trust in government, population density, etc.
Does Youtube also censor videos where plumbers present an incorrect way to install a toilet that can lead to backflow and flooding.

1) They probably would censor the plumber, if they received enough complaints about it, and 2) an incorrectly installed toilet doesn't have the potential to kill tens of thousands of people, whereas erroneous information about the danger of COVID-19 very well could. So they're not waiting for the complaints.
Following this line of thought, the Hacker News homepage should receive an Energy Star award from the EPA for not having insulting auto-play videos, 20 CPU-burning JavaScript trackers, 5 webfonts, and 40 useless images like others do.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are. Lashing out like this convinces no one, and only discredits your case—which, if you know more of the truth than others, is a bad thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's where the health savings accounts (HSA) and subsidization comes in. We want people to be able to afford healthcare but not abuse it. So what should we do?

First, require each person to set aside part of their income to a HSA.

Second, top up the values of those HSA's through government transfers for the poor and lower income.

Third, mandate that HSA's can only be used for real healthcare (and not alternative medicine). This way, individuals can afford healthcare but will still take responsibility to not deplete their accounts unnecessarily.

Fourth, (and in response to the NhanN's question) subsidize healthcare providers because healthcare tends to be underconsumed. Why is healthcare underconsumed? When we think about the importance of our own health, we only think of ourselves or our families. But we are valuable to our employer, to our friends. To correct for these positive externalities, some subsidization is essential to bring down those costs.

You are right in that my post didn't address the issues of childcare, let alone genetic diseases, long term conditions etc. where the price mechanism doesn't really make sense or fails. Any healthcare policy will have nuances that I cannot capture in a comment. But for the majority of healthcare consumption, we should really be trying to be as efficient as we can be precisely because of how costly it can be. Throwing away the price mechanism just because it fails for the edge cases is not ideal.
I’ve watched school technology budgets get shoved right into the back of the closet. The money gets spent on capital and consultants. The end users, teachers and students, are rarely given instruction on how to use all this tech. No education plan is developed to use this tech. If you’re lucky you’ll get a tech savvy teacher or precocious student who’ll make sense of it.
Oh, indeed. Well, the phrasing still easily leads to confusion as it could be interpreted as falling to $22 million (which is way too little), rather than falling by a range of $17-22 million.

Would've been better as "revenue to nosedive by between $17 million and $22 million in the quarter"
Very different from the last time I operated a planter. I wonder how much the tech cost in the tractor cab, let alone the tractor and planter.
<pre> or <code>? That would be nice, but I don’t think Medium has that.
The prize of reducing the scenario where a tiny minority of people can legally cause the deaths of thousands of people if their fantasies are fed by the media they seek.
Interesting to hear, because I used to hear the opposite: things like Nvidia drivers taking a month or two to be available in a new release. That has changed in Fedora?
Ah! Good old C.

I did not dare to open the gcc man page, now I think I will look at it.

For that constraint, one have to pass an option. I want to know if any language (other than V) which has this as default.
With DNSSEC, the DNS is spoofable. The two most common spoofing modalities in practice are LAN-style spoofing (airport and coffee shop wireless) and registrar ATO, both of which DNSSEC doesn't touch. Ironically, the former spoofing modality is directly addressed by DoH (or DoT, if you trust your network operator) and doesn't require coordinated or universal deployment.

There's a reason fewer than 2% of all .COM domains are signed; it's because DNSSEC is moribund.
Thanks. 51 minutes is too long for me to watch. Anybody who knows of anything in there that addresses the sampling bias issue, please point me to how far in it is.
Nit - I think you mean April 28.
Drone flying? With 20 acres need to fly back and charge ... and some ai software.
The Internet needs a novel way of establishing legitimacy since it’s much harder to verify things seen online. I don’t know the solution but it seems salient in today’s world where there’s so many fake news articles, etc. used to influence the public for the sake of private interests.
Imagine migrating 100 PB from S3 to Oracle's object store. First of all, the egress fee will cost you $5,000,000 (no joke). Second, it will take months.

Don't think your early stage startup will ever have that problem?

That's exactly what a lot of other people thought 5-10 years ago, and now they're stuck in S3 which means they need to use EC2 to manipulate that data which means they may as well put it all in AWS because egress fees will eat their lunch.
Hum, I don't know much about statistics, so I'm not totally following, but this got me interested to read more about this "tails of our curve".

I feel common metrics applied to software systems arn't very elaborate. Like I said, you might look at percentage of errors over total. Then you might take a goal like ok, let's try and have it less then 1%. The number chosen is arbitrary and has no rational, could have been 2%, or 0.5 but 1 sounded good right now.

Every metric seem mostly linear and arbitrary, nothing fancy. I wonder if applying something more thorough like what is done in research and leveraging better statistic could make things better.
those last two happened in April not March. I still think it's pretty stark to go from 'we are flush with cash' to '5400 laid off' in one month, but let's not push the idea that they fell off in one week.
Sounds like how we're treating IRAN/Cuba/others w/ sanctions during a pandemic. I guess we'll reap what we sow again if we keep it up. Seems when you do bad things it comes back to bites you in the ass.
Americans losing faith in what Trump says about the coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos
There's usually no reason to know the return type of any range-based function in D. It's not like auto is applied as a return type willy nilly. And anyone who understands D's ranges and how they are used should have no problem seeing a function declaration that returns auto.
Hard to take advantage of opportunities when you are treading water. Teachers have met with incredibly frustrating wall after wall, trying to apply tech, trying to adapt to new conditions in which parents are giving their kids unlimited vacation, yet they are expected to keep a spreadsheet of contacts with children... There's a lot of uphill here right up front.

The main upside is that when people can finally take a breather at the end of this, I'm sure that at _that_ point more people can realistically regroup and be creative moving forward.