skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's true, you have a point there ;) It's probably my bias talking. Good luck with the project; I love Markdown, but it's great that other people are exploring alternatives.
Seems reasonable when your core business has been massively impacted. Being a public company can't make it easier.

Also as a startup, good sub-answer to the "Isn't Uber / Twitter / Dropbox etc working on this?". Yes, but in a market downturn, your investors want you to dig in harder while their investors want them to survive and focus on core.
John Carmack has reviewed the code and didn't seem to find it all that bad, so there's that.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258192134752145412

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1244302925855326209
I'd be curious about LiveSafe - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livesafe.a...
> Medicare and Medicaid are incredibly expensive and inefficient.

This appears to be, at the very least, debatable:

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20110920.01339...
- twitter

- subreddits of interest with <100K subscribers

- https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (not the frontpage)

everything else is spoonfed garbage
I hope your youtube account isn't linked to a gmail account you consider important.
To be fair, Google is in a no-win situation. Post-2016 election, there has been enormous pressure put on Google (and Facebook and Twitter) to ramp up their censorship from the anti-Trump center/center-left/left. The mainstream media is on it too and relishes taking shots at social media every chance they get (the YouTube 'adpocalypse' was spurned by a hit piece by Washington Post against some minor doofus thing that PewdiePie did, and explicitly targetted advertisers of YouTube).

Even tech commentators are in on it. Kara Swisher, for example, has been railing at social media companies every chance she gets to get them to ramp up censorship against things she deems offensive.
Then sell proportionately to the buyback, you'll probably even make some money to get taxed on
This looks very interesting. FWIW let the "unit" be a whole neighborhood.

Living neighborhoods: https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

And integrate regenerative food forests. See Village Homes in Davis, model eco-suburb ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes )

Add carbon-neutral small-scale integrated alcohol fuel production ( http://alcoholcanbeagas.com )

- - - -

My mom lives in a neighborhood that was all built together at the same time, it's owned and operated by a corporation. There are a few downsides but the upsides are enormous:

- No wires. All that was run underground. It's so worth it. You can't understand how ugly and nasty the wires are until you've lived without them.

- Central laundry on each block. High efficiency machines. Regular maintenance (although by a contractor, and they are sometimes slow to respond.)

- Infinite hot water. The hot water heater is industrial, huge, it never runs out!

- On call professional maintenance staff! Plugged sink or toilet? One call to the office and the guy will be there later that day. Included in the rent.

- Parking space included in the small parking lots & garages.

- Outdoor maintenance, landscaping, yardwork, repainting, repairing the roofs, etc. All of that is taken care of.

A good management company is IMO a better bet than going it alone.
Which gets interesting when advice changes.
I used CoffeeScript for a few years, and I went in deep. I loved the succinct and elegant syntax, it made coding in JavaScript a joy. I still think it's a wonderfully designed language with merit and worth.

When I decided to move on to ES2015, one reason was that JavaScript grew up, adopting some of the ideas of CoffeeScript, and the non-standard aspects of the latter became incompatible. (I recall some ECMAScript features couldn't be implemented in CoffeeScript, at least for a long time, due to existing syntax.)

A bigger reason was the mindshare of the developer community. When the majority adopted Babel and staying "future compatible", using modern language features that are guaranteed to be in the standard.

I want the code I write to be accessible to the majority, so more people can read, understand, and contribute to it. This is important for team work, such as easier onboarding of new members, so they don't have to learn a new (flavor of) language.

Choosing an "alternative" language also has long-term implications. When a developer moves on to a different project or company, they leave behind the code for others to maintain and develop. I realized that CoffeeScript would become legacy code, that someone will have to convert back to "normal" JavaScript eventually. I couldn't justify my developer convenience with that associated cost to others.

Funny enough, these days I prefer to write in TypeScript, another alternative flavor. I'm not "all in" yet, mainly because other developers at my work haven't picked it up. I have the impression that TypeScript is more of a standard than just a flavor, so I believe that writing it will not incur a long-term cost, but rather be a benefit, as more maintainable, type-safe(r) codebase.

Still, time will tell if that's true. Maybe I'm again contributing to legacy code, this time in TypeScript.
Because policies are written and interpreted by humans that have the common sense to understand that there is no connection between the browser app and the content it displays.

This entire thread is a discussion about Google's automatic tool flagging a podcast browser erroneously. If Google's response was to uphold the suspension then there would be an actual story, but they won't, and so it isn't.
Some interesting background on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_bandit
I live in Montreal (in a less severely hit area) and there's definitely a psychological element to it.

My elderly father lives with us. He worked in hospitals and during his heyday he had to deal with all sorts of contagious patients. His youth wouldn't have spared him from some of those diseases, but I don't think he worried too much about it.

But now he's 80 and ever since this pandemic started, there's only been fear-inducing news every day.

On one hand, there's the very real fact that the elderly are dropping like flies in Quebec due to poor management of retirement homes (which my dad saw coming years ago because he'd worked in those as well and the situation had only continued to degrade since he'd left).

But on the other hand, you've got all of these auxiliary news reports that only feel like negative reinforcement and has you solely focused on the virus as if it were the only threat out there now. And I think that messes with people's mind.

The day my dad stops being scared of the virus won't be the day the virus is gone, because that'll be in years, if ever. It'll be the day the news stop telling him to be scared.

But either way, my wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to work from home and minimize our outings for a while. I wouldn't expect everyone else to be able to do the same.
Why would Google do this, though? They seem to have mostly ceded the Chinese market.
On first reading, this all makes sense. On rereading it and applying to myself, I don't know what to think. I do always feel comfortable even in new jobs/roles and think everything will work out, not because I think I'm so great but because historically it always has. I experienced imposter syndrome for about 1 week once, can't even recall when or where as it wasn't a significant event--it passed. Beginning to suspect that I'm a bit of a what's the correct term? narcissist, sociopath? Basically I trust my own self assessment strongly enough not to be brought down by external factors. Maybe I have my own mental "Trello board" (as mentioned in another comment) in my head of past accomplishments. I probably do have a bit of Dunning-Kruger which I think is a good thing--if you knew all the things you didn't know, you'd be paralyzed from doing. I believe my success is from finding hacky/pragmatic ways of getting things done, resourcefulness, not building the perfect thing.

Don't know if this will be of any help to anyone, but I thought I'd share a different perspective.
"Do the right thing." (...based on political context and who is paying you)
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure you can give an email multiple tags on Thunderbird. Although, you run into an issue because some email servers don't support tag sync, so that might be creating an issue here. Or so I think.

In any case, best of luck with it!
With this policy Google should ban Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, every news app, Reddit, etc, etc, etc.

Of course, they won't, because this policy is absurd and enforced unevenly.
I used the original title, it was removed by a mod.
If you taxed 5% of stock buy backs, you’d probably collect $0 as that money is shifted elsewhere.
I'm not sure how reliable the following site is, but it looks like this has been banned at least since 2012, along with a long list of words that I find shockingly restrictive.

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-...
There are far more low-effort trolls than there are dedicated trolls, who are then few enough in number to be dealt with by other measures.
It is easily the best bang for buck CPU on the market, that allows pretty much 99% of workflows that require a PC. Gaming? Check. Programming? Check. Graphics design? Check. Video editing: also check (but on the lower end, true that).

It has also some really fantastic thermals, it does not produce that much heat. I use it in a fully fanless / passive cooling setup and it works great.
Preface: I have no opinion about whether the drug works or not, and whether the evidence provided here is good.

Wow - where are you finding any "glee" in this article? The only hint of any kind of emotion I can find are very tame reminders of instances of irrational support for the drug, and how important it is to remain objective about things like this. Of course, that's frustration - any glee, if present, would come in the places where the author talks about the evidence to the contrary, but the writing in those places seems very straight forward. Ironically, I think you may be injecting emotion that isn't there due to the intrinsic sociopolitical nature of the story. Emotion the author may indeed have! But it's not in the article, as far as I can tell (again, I'm talking about petty glee, not frustration).

And even giving you the benefit of the doubt - that there is something you could at least describe as happiness - it would make sense, since strong evidence either way would be cause for happiness. If the author is happy, it could easily be because something good happened: Evidence against something dangerous (irrational support for a drug). I would hope they would also be even more happy if the opposite, even-better case happened (strong evidence that it works), and I totally understand being skeptical that they would indeed express that attitude, but it's irrelevant since the article is about the opposite case.
> These include the lack of testability, debuggability, reproducibility, separation of concerns, documentation, or usability.

Or maybe these things aren't actually as important as we think they are in professional software development?

If they're able to produce useful scientific results (in general, not specifically in this case) without those things then maybe they don't matter as much as we think they do?
What if "共匪" is presented graphically? Do the sniffers have the image recognition to flag those too?
Some people can make a profit playing at casinos (more so in the past than now).

Does that make casinos dumb? No, just imperfect.
They've dropped it and added it back then dropped it and so on

I realized first hand they did evil in 2013 (stomping on and or blantantly stealing tech from those dreamers they inspired to dream/do/innovate) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
> A dividend is taxed, however.

You know what else is taxed? When a company buys back stock, reducing the number of shares outstanding so that each share represents more of the ongoing business, thus sending its stock price higher. The tax on this is called a "capital gains tax," perhaps you've heard of it?
>that suburbanites like suburbs is so obvious to not need stating.

That's not what I said.
They look at their bank accounts.
Eh. Eventually monopolist/oligarchical capitalism and top-down socialism become isomorphic to each other.
"Khosrowshahi said the company is winding down its product incubator and artificial-intelligence lab"

Does that mean they are officially out of the self-driving car business? Wouldn't you need your AI lab if you were still pursuing that?

Also, if you're hitting the paywall: https://outline.com/VL6xaR
I wonder if Google Play Books pulls down works with that phrase included within.
> As a user, I wouldn't want the government to tell me what software I should use. As a software engineer, I wouldn't want to be told what software I should write.

As far as I am aware nobody is telling anyone what exact software to use or to engineer. Also nobody seems to be calling for that.

What has been applied here instead are standards. That's quite a different thing and I'm pretty sure, as a software engineer, you're used to be told to follow standards, aren't you? They exist in other fields, too. Like citizen rights and protection of personal data.

The advise not to use a specific piece of software because it doesn't appear to adhere to existing standards (by an agency with the sole purpose to watch over compliance) is also very different from telling people what software to use specifically.
What's the opposite?

"Sturdy broad quick harmonious complimentary pipes boost productivity"

Details are inescapable, whether you are painting or composing or writing software. Ideas have holes in them and designs fall apart in your hands during implementation.

The best approach I found is to just write down mistakes. I'm building software that reverses the freelance market. Instead of an endless list of buyers requests, there are dedicated stages buyers and programmers select, and everyone works together. Instead of tracking project goals, mistakes are track and there's specialized production stages to software design.
I think for emacs/tide I'll just be able to follow the instructions for Atom here: https://github.com/justjavac/typescript-deno-plugin
https://archive.vn/vkqbT
I think you are reading things into the comment your replying to that aren't there.
its really sad to see Google kowtow to China. i guess money trump everything.

a free, open and democratic China is Taiwan. you can see it by Taiwan's handling of covid 19. they are open about their cases, allowed press to ask unlimited questions and show everything to Taiwanese and not conceal any info.

its sad that Western companies love money more than the Western values that they always talk about. "Don't be evil"
Imagine you posting “nazi bandits” on a WW2 video and seeing it vanish after 15s.

We in the IT community need to disassociate with google as much as we possibly can.

Free speech is more important than ever.
Good questions.

Not getting scammed - you may want to hire a lawyer to review any long term contract but the ownership right now is structured like a stock ownership with a vesting schedule - the ownership being tied as shadow equity in the property itself while you live there and then as you move into other properties being tied to the value of the whole portfolio.

It gets tricky in assigning ownership in a durable way. That's a key problem we're trying to solve.
Somewhat on topic: a reply to that tweet simply had the captain kirk facepalm gif, and twitter warned me that it may contain sensitive content. Social media is creating a milquetoast society.
Back end implementation for the Apple/Google exposure notification API
How do you propose identifying these "skilled software engineers"? University doesn't teach "professional software engineering" so all these hotshots coming out of school into industry can't be what you're looking for.

There is no standards body defining the skills one needs to be considered professional. There is no responsibility on practitioners unlike other engineering professions. If a mechanical engineer screws up and causes death, it's going to be bad for them. Software routinely screws up with no consequence.

Hell, take two "software engineers" from FAANG and give them a piece of code and they won't agree on whether it's good or bad.

None of this is to excuse poorly written scientific code, but if "professional software engineers" want to throw rocks, maybe they should fix their own glass house first.
I was just about to post this:

Communist bandit (Chinese: 共匪; pinyin: gòngfěi) is an anti-communist insult directed to the Chinese Communist Party. The term originated from the Nationalist Government in 1927.

This is direct censorship on behalf of the Chinese Government.
Similar happens with the name "Eric Ciaramella", which YouTube instantly deletes. This is a name of a CIA whistle blower. It would be interesting to know what other words are in the YouTube censor list.
Going to be quite interesting to see how Starlink will be co-opted as well
I did not get an offer, but I did reject interviews to work in the support team
at Google Cloud. Moral implications aside, the job required me to move from
Brazil to the US, and I had no interest in living in the US.

No regrets about my decision.
Youtube is blocked in China though, so using VPNs technically Google shouldn't know they are based in CN.
Rappi?
All youtube comments should end with ‘Communists Bandits’. Digital civil disobedience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
Why not both?

My computer still computes with 2 GB of ram. It’s just that developers are gluing more and more stuff together to do things we did on Pentium processors with 64 MB of ram.
Anyone working at Uber, can you share how is morale in Uber at this moment? How might this affect hiring in the future when they need more people, but people don't want to go there?

Honestly, in the beginning of 2020, I was too optimistic and planning to apply to Uber around June, thinking that corona will go away
Youtube is in a tough spot. They will be blamed:

- if they don't take down speech some consider hateful

- if they take down speech some do not consider hateful

共匪 is seen as an insult by a group, but others do not. If Youtube bans nothing, then hate speech thrives and they get bad PR. If Youtube bans anything anyone flags as hate speech, then they become de facto as censorship agents for foreign powers. Anything critical can be seen as offensive and taken down by CCP or Russia.

Youtube is more and more siding towards removing content. I wonder, can US regulators do something about it?
Anyone know from the inside how this affects stock vesting and pre-IPO stock options?
The top 90% already pays the bulk majority of taxes. If you push them to hard you get what happened in France, a stagnant economy with no innovation as it all fled to countries with a more competitive tax rate
>What kind of reflexive jingoism is this? Just because something critiques one aspect of the US doesn't instantly make it "anti-American"

The arguments made in this article are not specific to US cities or towns. Go to virtually any country in the world and it is the same.

I can't think of any other reason for this article to have made it to the absolute top of Hacker News. It certainly didn't make it based on the content of the article.
As a simple example, a school with a division 1 football team like Ohio State will spend approximately $100 million per year on athletics but that will be less than the athletics programs bring in. The mens football and basketball teams will bring in almost all of the revenue, and will support all other athletic programs (and athletic scholarships) at the university. The Ohio State football stadium seats more than 100K, and the minimum ticket price is $22 so you are looking at more than $2M in gate revenue for games, plus TV contract revenue, plus merchandise it sells all over the state, plus donors and alums who will pay far more than $22/seat for corporate boxes or to attach their name to some aspect of the program for commercial purposes.

Stadiums can sometimes look for public subsidy when being replaced or re-built, but they can equally make a claim that their presence brings in millions of dollars of revenue to the local area over the course of a season and that the cost of the stadium can easily be amortized over decades (something that is actually easier for a collegiate program in a mid-sized city to claim than a pro team in a major urban center.) The ancillary facilities like practice space, offices for coaching staff and other infrastructure are almost always paid for by the athletic programs to the best of my knowledge.
I recommend reading the past HN post and thread "Don't write documentation in Markdown" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675165
In this walled garden, these words will not be spoken.

Communists killed like a 100 million people. And for some odd reason, Google decided to side with the communists.
Remember, Google is doing this for your "benefit"! You might hurt a commie's feelings. And then they may just have to kill you too.
> Get to work.

lol. it's your point. you get to work. i'm not your bitch.
That doesn't justify their behavior - it condemns it.
A year after launch, Oculus says Quest is starting a VR revolution
I haven't seen this mentioned, but if this was the result of an automated process with no human review, do apps from com.google.* have a hardcoded exemption? Is there a low paid outsourced staff somewhere that provides the same exemption function? Are there any examples of Google's automated processes banning any of their own apps (or the entire account....)?
GitOps Days – 20/21 May 2020
Saying that delivery can work for most food in most places just because dirt cheap pizza and super dense NYC can do it, strikes me quite naive.
The insight I might have not made clear, is that if you have “this node and its children are already sorted” metadata, then it’s cheaper to check whether a given (fine-grained) input chunk is already sorted—and if so, to directly construct a node from it—than it is to feed it blindly to the sorting algorithm.

If such a pre-check is in play, then the sorting algorithm itself will basically never have the sort of “runs” of sorted values that make some algorithms cheaper. Those “runs” were already plucked out and turned into nodes!
Loss of aircraft data is taking a toll on weather forecasting
Has Svelte Come of Age?
Google left the mainland Chinese market long ago and all of its services are blocked there.

The most likely explanation is that some mainlander inside Google has been pushing for this with the "this is racist and hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" argument.
Who can do that? You're assuming that people can downsize. For most rent, childcare, healthcare etc is just another recurring bill, not unlike taxes.
You can disable storing media to your photo folder. That was the first thing I did after installing it. I've never had issues with support on wifi, and that's a large amount of my usage of it.

Its killer feature was what it did before it was acquired by FB, really not much difference since then. The killer feature was international messaging without SMS/MMS costs (and poor reliability) and only needing a phone number, so you could take it with you easily as you moved through devices so long as you controlled the same number. This got presence around the globe making it easy to message almost anyone, almost anywhere.
It might be easy to say this, but I believe I would quit if I was asked to implement something like that. But perhaps I'd be different if I were paid $300k a year. (I sure hope not, though)
It's much more accessible, as you need to know less to use it.

Consider - using Eigen in a C++ project, or calling install.packages("eigen") in R.