skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also true. Now the million $ question:

Whom would you like our society to rely on to generate quality work?

I don't think there is a satisfactory answer to this question. Public research becomes more and more of an industry every year with the publish-or-perish game, while a solely private solution is obviously open to very biased conclusions.

There is no smart solution to a stupid problem. But the truth is that _as an institution_ the NHS is the only actor whose mission is to optimize towards public health.
that suburbanites like suburbs is so obvious to not need stating.

the more pertinent question is, do suburbanites like suburbs enough to pay the lion's ahare of their cost rather than being subsidized?

the answer is no, as implied in the cumulative critique.
This is what I expected too. This one has nav, aside : http://classless.de/#extra

Plus a couple bootstrap classes where HTML5 has no elements : grid and card.
Thanks for this fantastic comment. You absolutely hit the nail on the head, from my perspective.
Not at all. You can design a beautiful “modern” site with orders of magnitude less resource requirements with ease.
I already said Vulkan and OpenGL apps are not mine. I just use those. How their vendors going to deal with is not my concern. I am pretty sure they will have dealt with the issue by then.

My desktop apps that use hardware acceleration and I still care about are DirectX.

In any way keep reading news and adjust your stack and rewrite your applications every time MS sneezes. Good luck. I am pretty happy so far investing in features rather then rewriting.
Open Thread: Why isn't Quibi working?
They won't tell us according to https://security.googleblog.com/2012/06/security-warnings-fo...

And I doubt they display this warning any more, it seems like it was a bit of a publicity stunt back in 2012.
Oh, it translates into software developers' suffering, it just doesn't translate into project managers' suffering.
I was at a lunch years ago where some former Microsoft executive was present. Really wealthy guy and now doing some sort of policy advocacy or something. This was around the time of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and he was talking about the need to improve software security by creating some committees or something[0]. I suggested to him that since OpenSSL was already widely used and operating with very few employees on a tiny budget it would be a better investment of time and money to just give OpenSSL a couple million dollars to audit their code and clean it up. He was sort-of flustered by this suggestion and talked about how that doesn't solve the problem because there is just so much software that is insecure. Now, obviously that is true, but I don't see how his proposal to solve the problem by having meetings was any better.

I think really wealthy people have two problems when it comes to this: (1) there are a lot of people out there who want money but can't deliver. (2) many of these wealthy people, like the guy I mentioned above, want to be actively involved in solving problems. He didn't want to give money to OpenSSL because his only role there would be giving them money. Instead, he wanted to create some organization with his name on it so that he could be seen to be doing something.

[0]: I don't remember exactly what his proposal was, but I remember thinking it sounded really bureaucratic and unlikely to have any real benefits in practice.
No, they're pro-people-who-call-themselves-Communist-and-also-have-a-lot-of-geopolitical-power-and-market-share. China is most certainly a capitalist state through and through, and Google is a money-grubbing company whose sole motive is profit. It really isn't hard to talk about these things in frank terms without resorting to silly culture-war-style name-calling.
I'm not sure what you mean by this question. at a certain point, it deteriorates to the point where it is no longer safe/useful. then everyone with the means to do so will leave and the tax base collapses. I guess in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter if some nonviable communities die while others grow/start, but you probably wouldn't want that to happen to your community.
How far does this go? How far could it go?

Can one take out an ad with "共匪" in the text? Adwords against it? Is this censored on Orkut? Would Google consider censoring Gmail? Or Google Voice? Would they consider bleeping Google Meets?

Google will need to be very public about who signed off on this and under what framework.
Not even close (case studies linked below). Their examples only look at individual projects from several cities, instead of whole cities. They convincingly show a few houses paying $252/year in property taxes will only support X sq ft of road. But that's not really surprising-- more dense houses paying $1000/year property taxes in some other part of the city will subsidize the other parts and the city will avoid financial ruin.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-pon...
Two small things: I might have mis-understood you, but you can't sell Apache licenses for those who need them without those people subsequently having the right to give away your code under that (open) license to anyone they like. Which means, if worst comes to worst, you'd sell exactly one license.
Also, there is talk about LicenseZero becoming more flexible in the near future as to which private licenses are offered to buyers (e.g. company-wide licenses), so I'd watch that space.
Section 230 of the CDA either needs to be re-interpreted by the judiciary or Congress needs to get its act in order and pass a new law that is more reflective of society in 2020 and beyond. It's not 1996 anymore...
> The biblical story of Lot is all about that.

The moral flaw "the crowd" made was that it was men attempting to coerce sex from other men. Lot wanted to solve the problem by throwing his virgin daughters into the crowd.. which was apparently a perfectly righteous thing to do.

And anyways, that's why you shouldn't get your morality from an ancient book from a very different culture. Please don't throw any of your family members into crowds of rapists, it's not polite.
A company focusing on delivery can do the job more efficiently and competently. Just the fact that they can route deliveries more effectively instead of going restaurant-customer-restaurant is a big win.
“if we didn't have a government that was pretty much a proxy for large corporations “

I agree with that. I just don’t think term limits will make a difference in this effort.
Hey are you talking about the footnote link [0] on the demo page?

If so thanks for pointing it out, looks like I forgot to add the `fn1` footnote id on the element. Fixed it.

[0]: https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/demo/#fn1
TIL, on another thread, that Trustroots is actually open source. I used it once 5 years ago, and I think it has a lot of potential.
That doesn't matter when companies ship their own app stores installed as systems apps like Samsung and Amazon do.
"But what value of R would you pick?"

I don't know -- and until we can agree on the answer to your simple question with a high degree of confidence, I think complex models based on specific assumed values of R obscure more than they reveal.

A little bit of modeling is useful because humans are intuitively bad at exponential math and we need scary graphs to jolt us awake sometimes. But when we don't even know the basic parameters (transmission/hospitalization/fatality) with a high degree of precision, complex models with myriad parameters create a false sense of confidence.
Whether the Imperial code is good or bad doesn't actually matter: you can derive the headline numbers that motivated the lockdowns analytically, without any simulation at all [1].

(The real problem with the worst case estimate is that it assumes people don't individually change their behavior in the face of a pandemic.)

[1] https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1258879531022082049
That last part is mindblowing given the fact that the health insurance industry in the US is trying to argue it shouldn’t have to pay for COVID-19 treatments because it’s part of a pandemic and not part of normal medical treatments.

I guess if your model is:

if pandemic and COVID:
is_covered = False

You can have a very clean pandemic model.
I have almost entirely switched to using an editor which supports real-time preview for Markdown editing. There is a plugin for my editor (VSCode - but I'm sure that something similar exists for most other editors that support plugins) which has keyboard shortcuts for marking content as a given type (e.g. Alt+c will mark selected text as inline code). Perhaps this would address the problem you're talking about?
I believe this model is quite old (at least in some form) so there have been opportunities to review it. I confess I haven't looked, but I haven't heard any defects have actually been identified. If the model stood up to peer review I assume the results it produces are at least consistent with the expectations of the people who wrote the mathematical model.

Hopefully this will be a watershed moment that makes it easier to cost a research software engineer onto a grant in the future.
Patrick McKenzie nailed this in a tweet thread a few years ago:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/patio11/status/936629...
The bundled cooler with the Ryzen helps a lot as well, as those low tech hunks of metal are crazy expensive.
As someone who's only worked with PID controllers, do you have any pointers to the more complicated stuff you're thinking about? A wikipedia article maybe?
This isn't as weird as it seems in this new weird world. The "most official" support channel for Spotify is their Twitter handle while their email form is the secondary option.

Letting internet outrage drive the support queue is oddly pragmatic.
Haha thanks, you're being too humble ^_^

BTW loving the xz logo and the website. Overall super cool!
Lots of users using your projects, and this is a little perplexing but true, is not the most indicative thing with regards to being a good or great software developer in industry. One of the unfortunate realities of our industry is that we have allowed "developers" to, not always but quite often, be reduced to checkbox-checking, acceptance-criteria-filling bolt turners. It is Taylorism[0] writ large, and while scientific management has some undeniable benefits it is all too easy to turn craftspeople into...well, like I said, bolt turners.

Being good at shipping products doesn't make you a good bolt turner. It's something to be proud of, to be sure. But it's not something that translates into interview success at most places.

I would advise some mock interviews, etc. with those friends (assuming you have friends who have the insight of a hiring manager in whatever you're looking at) and see where you fall.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet:

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

-Section 230

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Six-Words-That-Created-Interne...
It looks like Google translate doesn’t offer suggested synonyms/related words for that term either. It translate the word to “gangster”.
I find it so ironic that the reason for censoring a slur against communism is because a capitalist company stands to lose revenue from angering the government of China.
From the actual Google Support question, this was posted on 11/10/19. Why are we only now just noticing? Was it previously confined to China and has now just rolled out globally?
Looks like I called it, and wrote it in my postscript, even as you were replying! Good show.
Or the fundamental attribution error. If someone else does something wrong, it's because of who they are as a person; if I do something wrong, it's because of my special circumstances.
> software quality is not valued in academia.

And in general, it shouldn't. Code written by scientists is almost always throwaway prototypes. So it absolutely doesn't matter how decoupled, or easy to extend it is. The only aspect of quality that matters here is the simplicity, in the sense "it obviously has no bugs" (and related practices like testing). This is something that could be taught, but I think it should be also addressed from the other end of the spectrum - more pressure put on verification and reproducibility of results.
The risk of using a country/region as an example like this is that it's hard for them to shake the image when things improve.
> The problem is, unsophisticated models do not predict anything. You apply them in one country and they do ok, and apply them in another and they get it totally and completely wrong.

That's the nature of all models, "sophisticated" or not. Relatively simple models may or may not be useful for a particular case, just as relative complex models may be.
It's full-time employee in this context, but if you ever need to search for an acronym definition again in the future try

https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html

;-)
It appears that the comment is only deleted when it’s made on videos. I made a comment on a YouTube “post” and it’s still there.
Implementing Azure DevOps Can Help Fix Your Broken Development Culture
It will 100% be filled with scammy and fraud apps instantly.
I need to subscribe to read the full story and I don't want that.
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How can you call McDonald's predatory pricing? They have been cheap and profitable for decades.

At best you could try to argue that they make their money fleecing dumb "business owners" who pay for franchises.
The current administration was elected to clean house. They're just supporting a different set of oligarchs than earlier administrations.
Oh nice thanks! this one is much better.
Slightly off-topic but this made me wonder: is it possible to store the 1000 most used web fonts locally and tell your browser to use the local version instead of the Google version?
Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
What's the system? Do the absolute bare minimum required for success, and if you don't need the additional overhead, avoid it. Find Jimmy bogard on vertical slice architecture in YouTube for some good talk on pragmatic , simple designs winning over theoretically sound but heavy and unnecessary architectures, well worth a look
Another one I've seen recently is the reaction to covid. I live in Tokyo, and being in tech circles was doing my prep shopping and isolating a few weeks before everyone else. I had one Japanese friend invite me out for drinks like 3 times in a week, I turned her down saying I was isolating due to covid and got a 'wow you're so strict!' reaction. Not two weeks later and the government declares a state of emergency. Suddenly this same friend, and all her friends, are filling Instagram with 'Stay home' stories and virtual workouts. Granted, not everyone in Tokyo took it seriously, but the change in behaviour within the majority of my personal circle was literally overnight.

For another one - bubble tea. A year or so back it went from not popular at all to lines over an hour long outside most bubble tea places, and the word 'tapiru' from tapioca and suru - roughly 'to bubble tea' was one of Japans hot phrases for the year [1]

[1] https://japantoday.com/category/national/nominees-for-japan%...
Wall Street does not reflect the current economy. It reflects the major corporations future prospects. In the current economic situation, Main Street has been forced to close and does not have the cash to stay afloat, which is very good for large companies who will have less competition and easy acquisitions
China is communist. You can invent long, hyphenated euphemisms all you want.
Will the people who previously defended YouTube/Google's other censorship come out of the woodwork again? It's not as if it is no longer a private website able to moderate its content however it desires.

Will they respond to this controversy with that then-popular xkcd strip[1] about how, "if you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech riots aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door."?

[1] https://xkcd.com/1357/
> If I think Walmart is unethical, is it okay shoplift from their stores?
You've made a false equivalence here, a more correct question would be:
"If Walmart prices a gallon of milk at $0.25, either by mistake or for the purpose of getting people to buy milk at Walmart and not their local grocer, and I buy 100 gallons to give to people who can't afford milk right now, is that unethical?"
...to which the answer is, no, that's not unethical, you paid the price listed on the tag and Walmart (conceivably) paid the dairy farm their usual rate, so the only company hurt was the one that made the mistake or predatory pricing move.
From my (German moved to the US) perspective:

1. Stop putting college kids with a bachelor degree in business in charge of software development teams. "Management" is still seen as something very 'fancy' in Germany. Being "a manager" carries a lot of weight.

2. Allow Engineers to advance without forcing them into management. A lot of very talented engineers in Germany are forced in mediocre middle management / product owner positions as the only option to gain some more influence.

3. Pay
People value TV ads and newspaper articles/PR, and they value new things.
> it is exceedingly hard to know that there are no mistakes

But that's true of all software, no matter how well engineered. Usually when we discuss issues of code quality, we're looking at long-term maintainability and overall efficiency - that is, targets that are achievable. I'd love to see some effort toward quality metrics around provability of correctness, but I'm not even sure that's possible.
Stop Driving 5 Miles per Hour over the Speed Limit
Open source doesn't change anything here. Bytecode has a extremely tight relationship with source so even if none of the code is open you can still strongly point to specific pieces of code that cause problems. The core issue with detailed explanations of the malicious behavior that trips over automated detection is that it enables malware authors to more easily hide malicious behavior.
There was a previous unrelated discussion about this just a few hours ago which was climbing to the top of the front page when I saw it. And then just vanished: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264

It's not flagged, it just went from #13 on the front page to invisible. In a single refresh. How does that work? Looking at the votes and age, it should be in the top 5 of both Ask and the front page. What's the metric or decision that made it disappear?

@dang might be worth commenting on this? Moderation is fine, opaque removal of content with no explanation, not so much. I fully believe @dang has the best interests of the community in mind, so please give us a clear explanation of what's going on here.
Eventually it will be inflated away. Someone has to pay the piper.
Te irony is that in a better world this would be great news. 1'Due to great technical innovations, we were able to free up 16M FTE previously required to maintain our economy. We are continuing to redistribute what still needs to be done and expect starting next quarter the average required workweek can be shortened to 24 hours per person, leaving all much more time to leasure and pursue personal interests. The outlook for hitting the 20 hours/week milestone has been udated and is now expected to be reach in 14 months from now'.

Instead neo-liberalism serves us this distopian neo-feudal regime that requires all to 'work more/work longer' just to slow our decline into near poverty while a select few 'rulers' horde all the fruits of progress.
The rural half (population-wise) of the country is quite sparse, so limiting your "bubble" is a little easier. The urban half of the country are in cities where most have instituted enforceable shelter-in-place rules, and are generally more liberal so may pay less heed to the rhetoric coming from some members of the federal government.
Could someone give a short example of some ugly code in this repo?

I've quickly looked and I did not find anything clearly uglier than what I have seen in 99% of online repositories...

Quite the contrary, to be honest.
I doubt this will be of much use to you but here are the emails I received from Google.

I appealed to Google on March 27th at 9:18AM. Received a response on March 30 at 5:31 AM telling me they received my appeal. Google denied my appeal on March 30 at 8:43 PM with no more information than the original. I responded to Google within minutes on March 30 at 9PM. I received an email back from Google on April 1 at 1:10 AM with a final "fuck you."

Here is the last email from Google:

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Thanks again for contacting the Google Play team.

As much as I'd like to help, I’m not able to provide any more information or a better answer to your question. In our previous email, I made sure to include all the information available to me.

As stated in our previous email, we have confirmed your violation, we will not be able to reinstate your app if you don't provide proof that the app is from, commissioned OR supported/acknowledged by a government entity or public health institutions like WHO.

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And the original rejection from Google:

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During review, we found that your app violates the Sensitive Events policy. Specifically, we don't allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.

You can read through the Sensitive Events page for more details.

For example, your app currently contains content towards a specific sensitive event, such as Coronavirus, without legitimate source of information.

If you are one of the following, please provide verifiable documentation for our review.

A government body/healthcare organization who developed this app.
A developer commissioned to build this app by a government or an official health organization entity (examples include WHO, Red Cross, Hospital, etc).
An app supported/acknowledged by a government or official health entity for use.
Alternatively, please be advised that we will not be able to reinstate your application without the above documentation.

You may also want to read through the Protecting People From Misinformation paragraph in article Coronavirus: How we're helping on Google's blog.

If your developer credentials are still in good standing with Google Play and if your app allows for it, you can publish a new compliant version of the app by following these steps:

Make the necessary changes to your app to address the issue described above, if possible.
Double check that your app complies with all other policies listed in the Developer Policy Center as additional enforcement could occur if there are further policy violations.
Sign in to your Play Console and upload a new app using a new package name and a new app name.
Thank you for your understanding. Please let me know if you have any other questions on Google Play policy.

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Your app can't even mention the words Covid or they'll suspend the app and ding your account. Absolutely preposterous.
> or, applied here, Uber's going to take a while longer to die than your startup.

So what? I'm so confused by this. This is exactly the point of "taking more money than you need". If Uber has a huge warchest of cash it means it can pivot as it pleases. Isn't this good investment advice then?
The netizens of China have come up with very clever code talk to get around censors. For instance, Hu Jintao's surname can be broken up into the Chinese radicals for "Old Moon." So instead of Hu, they refer to him as Old Moon, etc. I wonder if non-Chinese Google users will be doing the same thing soon.