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I seriously doubt that there’s anything to “look into” from @dang’s perspective. A huge share of his moderation lately is focused on “nationalistic flamewar”, and from his perspective, it’s probably easier for any thread that might tend towards that to just quietly sink off the front page.
It takes some amount of people flagging it before it shows up as [flagged] but flagging submissions affect rankings before it reaches that point. On top of that "Ask HN" posts also have some modifier on them that makes them drop quicker, these two effects seem to be cumulative, explaining why it dropped so quickly
Absolutely. You're being downvoted because we're once again forgetting history as this modern wave of left-leaning pearl clutchers feels justified in having biased moderation which is aligned with their political views.
Worth pointing out that 3xxxG parts are Zen+ and not Zen 2 like all other Ryzen 3000 parts. So the CPU in the 3200G is very different from the one in a 3700X.
They weren't the only gaming system. There are 2 phone ecosystems today and that's the central device in most people's lives, the phone is a bigger deal.
You should add your email address or website to your profile, so people can contact you.
There's a certain quote by Mr Krabs that comes to mind.
Well, everyone knew it was coming. Dara has been pretty transparent about the timelines, plus there were a ton of leaks in the news about details over the course of the last few weeks. It looks like everyone in eng got an email this morning that stated in bold italics whether they are affected or not. Gotta say I appreciated that clarity.

But the day's just starting so I don't really have a grasp on what teams are still around yet...
We don't know that. How would we ever observe such a thing?

Like the core problem of consciousness is that we experience it, but have no way of identifying it otherwise.
Not necessarily, but if you can justify one thing for yourself then it should help you understand why other people behave similarly.

Whether buying hardware or working for google is worse is another debate, but you should be able to see why people can work at google and not necessarily feel guilty about it.
A real-world example would be companies that make parts for nuclear bombs, but also make parts for thermostats.

If there were no other thermostat companies, you might have an argument. But there are plenty of other thermostat companies, and plenty of other tech companies than Google.
> ...we can just use Google to find information that directly contradicts your claim.

Not really. Google hasn't returned to the mainland market. Youtube is blocked.

That little bit of developer interaction or Project Dragonfly - whatever its state may be - does not contradict that.

If you believe this sort of censorship is ordered from the top in order to get back into the mainland market, that's fine. I still prefer my explanation.
> Most people who have trouble defining hate speech are people who, at least partially, agree with it.

"If you don't think it's hate speech, it's because you're a ___ist too" is a shameful way to argue.
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Gotta make sure those Brits remember their class distinctions
I always assumed the activity in comments might affect how long the submission stays on the front page.

I don’t know this for sure and this is just a guess. It would be great to know the details, waiting to learn more seems best.
>Working for a startup is an extremely risky decision. As a top engineer, you get shitty pay, and a really good options package that in most cases ends up being worth nothing because most startups fail.

How about structuring it differently? If you e.g. don't receive options but actual shares? Hold those shares not by yourself but via a shell company. Then you never pay income taxes. Since you are in Europe, look up the successors of the current Double Irish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Depending on the application/field, one option is to combine it with open source hardaware. People tend to accept that they have to pay for hardware.

The best would be to combine paid hardward + subscription for software. Does anyone know any fully open source example of this? I don't.
I mean if anything their prices are crazy low. I can buy about 30 minutes of a real human's time to deliver me food for about $3. With pizza joints and Chinese takeout it's averaged into the prices but not with these delivery apps. I've seen a few inflated prices but almost every restaurant around here is just charging the same as they always have.

A delivery service that supported the restaurant would be way way more expensive.
> it is hard to apply such a criteria across borders. In California, for instance, political affiliation is considered a protected class.

This is hard. But it's a different category of hard from the problem Google has chosen for itself.

Let's assume California has a protected class that New York doesn't. China has protected classes the U.K. doesn't. That could mean a comment visible in New York isn't in California. Or it could mean something else.

This isn't an easy problem. One needs to map comments to various protected classes and then measure "hatefulness" according to local constructs. One needs to decide what to do with content so flagged. But that's objectively easier than doing all of that plus coming up with the definitions for protected classes.

Viewed through this framework, deleting a comment, as Google is doing here, is almost always wrong.

> it essentially legalizes political persecution

The First Amendment is supposed to protect against this. Protected classes govern private actors.
Chopra annoys me too, but he is actually a good dude (IMO): the stuff he talks about is based on Vedanta, which is an old eastern tradition. And he tries to connect this with modern science. I say go for it.

I'd much rather put people like Oprah Winfrey or Tony Robbins on a woo-shitlist. But not Chopra.
The argument is not moot. Employees can still sue Tesla for making them return to work in violation of a lawfully issued closure order. If any employee gets infected as a result of Tesla reopening, they (Tesla) are not protected by any liability shields that would have applied to another business that waited until it was authorized to reopen.
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So because one company does bad things, it's OK for other companies to do bad things?
> Different signal sources and also differently configured/trained systems receiving and interpreting those signals.

I think that this is a little too general a statement, given that it could be used to describe almost any human variability.
and they dont' pay % of their revenue to the 'base station entity'.

This Uber trick: taking % of the revenue for the fixed cost service (they provide to the taxis drivers ) is the master trick making uber money.

So far, in Europe, all taxi corporations charge taxi driver FIXED (quite small 100..200 usd/month) amount for operating telco/web/radio and coordinating fleet of taxis.

Uber's ability to push bulshine here is really business milking 101 course: Fixed costs, uncaped incomes.
I think he's arguing (and I would agree) that it is blatantly WITHIN the standards and norms for some dudes to complete ignore community mores and bend/break every rule imaginable to get laid. The risk is non-zero. At the individual level, everyone should acknowledge the risk, assess it, and implement control measures to reduce its potential impacts on you, personally. To fail to account for it is simply dangerously naive.

I don't think I've used Couchsurfer since....2012? Roughly the same time I discovered Tinder. I absolutely treated CS as a dating site where you had to be extremely discrete/low-key in your approach. I rarely offered my couch but did offer local tour guide-like services to cute women which was essentially a first date. I would never consider staying at a male host's place; even as a Marine I would assume the rape/murder risk too high. Maybe I'm just a misanthropic cynic but I don't trust anyone to behave themselves. I also have never seen the appeal of the "broke backpacker" travel methodology, perhaps colored by experiences living out of a backpack in the military, which usually sucks. If I have the money to fly halfway around the world, I should have the money to afford comfortable private accommodations. If I'm going to mingle, I'd prefer to mingle with the locals rather than other foreigners on a shoestring budget (or rich people PRETENDING to be on a shoestring budget).
I stopped using Ubuntu 10 years ago, when I had a weird issue. Out of nowhere computer locked up and required a hard reset. It took a while when I figured out that issue originated with Intel WiFi card. I eventually found the bug, it turned out that kernel crashed whenever the adapter sensed an 802.11n packet (the protocol was very new at the time so it wasn't everywhere yet). Ubuntu still decided to go ahead with the release, yet hold off on including freshly released major version of Open Office (I think version 3), because of stability. This was extremely frustrating, because there was no fix and no option to rollback to older version. So that was when I dropped this POS and used a different distro. I'm wondering if that's again Ubuntu issue and not CPU.
You seem to not know how taxi companies work. They are independent contractors except they are even more at a disadvantage. They need to pay money upfront for their shift and spend half their time earning that money back before they even make money. And they have no benefits.
I think we've been talking past each other a bit. If I'm continuing down that path, I'm sorry...

My point in responding to your point on evolution, is that we concretely understand the mechanisms by which evolution emerges. If you cut out the natural selection, you have no evolution.

We can use the word "emergent" to convey that the web of actions that leads to evolution is highly complex. But, for evolution, one can still isolate those actions into relatively orthogonal, self-contained narratives (mate selection, disease, symbiotic relations), that come together with the effect of evolution.

In contrast, we do not concretely understand the mechanisms by which consciousness emerges. We do not have a good methodology to break down consciousness into its constituent parts, such that you can union them iteratively and end up with consciousness.

To be clear, I'm not a materialist. I don't think you need to be a materialist to think that the phrase "emergent behavior" (as commonly applied to consciousness) is a cop-out explanation, that we shouldn't be satisfied with.

I do think it's possible to construct those orthogonal narratives, and union them to get consciousness. Again, I don't think it'll be accomplished in our lifetimes. I don't think we have the language to describe it currently. But I do think it's possible, and in the meantime, it's misleading to use phrases like "emergent behavior" to smuggle out that possibility.

To be clear, I'm not taking issue with your use of the word emergent (which is more nuanced), but with the OP's. And it's not the OP's fault, because I've seen it used identically elsewhere.
Out of the three cities in the research triangle I'd say Raleigh is the least like a college town. I'd expect Chapel Hill to be much more affected by this with the impact on Durham being somewhere between the other two cities.
Could you expand on this?

I'm looking to gift a laptop that's good for ML stuff. What features should I be looking at?

Any specific recommendations?
The fact that there's a medium paywall preventing from me reading this article serves as "imposter syndrome" in itself.
It has to do with the scale of capital. If these are YC scale $150k investments you'd need more than 100k investments. Which means maybe you'd have to vet 10m companies at a 1% acceptance rate (which is less exclusive than YC.)

There aren't 10m seed stage companies, and the effort involved there would be insane.

I still think you're right that they should have gone for more smaller investments to the greatest extent that it was practical.

As you go for larger and larger investments there is less risk and less reward. Also a bigger chance of one mistake wiping out a huge chunk of the return.

Warren Buffett also has this problem and why his investment returns trend down over time as the amount of capital at play goes up.
YouTube filtering slurs and hateful memes is not surprising.

They would target anything that gets spammed and reduces the quality of discourse (such as it is on YouTube).

I see no evidence that China is getting any special treatment here. It was the subject of hateful spam, so now it gets a filter. Same would apply to any other country or topic.

From my perspective, the absolutist "freedom of speech"/anti-censorship belief is naive. There would be no havens for intelligent communication online without censorship.

When an intelligent, well-reasoned critique is deliberately suppressed, protest is warranted.

Until then, it's shrill and spammy and divisive and ascribes nefarious intent to people simply trying to keep the room clean and is, ironically, best moderated away to preserve the quality of discourse elsewhere.
i know no lawyer wants to provide conclusive opinion here, but this has to be illegal
Another useful one is www.google.com/ncr which opens Google in English (NCR= No Country Redirect)
The number of people living in poverty has increased since 1950, while the rate of people living in poverty has decreased.

If we're too busy patting ourselves on the back about the latter, we become blind to the existential threat posed by the former in the face of a global technological revolution which is making tools of mass destruction available better, faster, and cheaper at exponential rates.
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Why? For the vast majority of people, Uber is a taxi service.
Yes, but we cannot measure pain "objectively" at all. The equivalent would be if we could build a CPU, but could only determine how fast it could process by asking it to rate its processing power on a scale of 0 to 10.
Well, I see his approval rating barely changed the last 3 years by the link you posted. It was 43.4% on March 2017 and it's 44% now. It means a huge chunk of the American public likes what he has been doing the last years, or at least can't find a better candidate.

I'm afraid it's wishful thinking to think most Americans are sick of Trump. Some are, for sure, but the data you posted isn't showing anything significant happened.

He will likely win again from what I'm seeing.
I like to think I’d take the high road but the Milgram shock experiment[1] shows that most people, including me, probably wouldn’t.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
> Please upvote another attempt

FYI, you may get downvoted or flagged for asking for upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they find interesting—not for promotion."

(I didn't downvote or flag your comment, just wanted to let you know about the guideline.)
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This --> "so what's "slowing your career down" is your management... not your kids or your own performance."
> a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels
> The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.

Financial, political, religious entities controlling newspapers and book publishers is a problem known (and well documented) across thousands of years.

Same for near-monopolies of means of transportation, materials, water, and other.
I get that but that's just conjecture right?

As far as China disconnecting from Android or forking it... that seems inevitable. Deleting some comment's wont change that.
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Wow, you should be ashamed of yourself. This awesome kid makes a difficult, ethical, well thought out choice (as explained in the article), and you’re calling him names on the internet. Time to reflect a bit on your own choices i would say...
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Earlier today, a post linking to this article vanished: https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/. It was generating upvotes and discussion.
Actually it's super-easy; barely an inconvenience.

Most Western customers really do not care. Like, really-really. The default attitude is "Well, China has its rules and the Western nations have theirs. They can get along." Leaks between rulesets are relatively rare in the sea of regular day-to-day operations.

And honestly, I don't think the CCP's goals are as far different from the goals of, say, the US government's as some believe. The countries are trading buddies. They're both empires with a number of citizens that is too-big-a-number-to-visualize-in-one's-head. If they ever came into direct conflict, these differences would start to put Western-headquartered countries in difficult positions, but that's not the current state of things.
Everything has downsides.

ARM Linux support is lacking. To make my library easy enough to use, I had to make the Debian package myself. Wasn’t too hard, here’s a bash script https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/net-core/packa... but still.

The newer .NET Core-introduced features are still not integrated perfectly into the older ecosystem. The new ref structs can’t be generic arguments, resulted in copy-pasting there: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/1.0/Vrmac/Draw/Text/K...

For some use cases, generics are not good enough, again had to copy-paste a few lines: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/1.0/Vrmac/Draw/Main/I... This last one can be trivially solved with OOP stuff, however I didn’t want any virtual calls or heap allocated objects in that particular place of code, for performance reasons.

Even in the latest .NET Core 3.1, SIMD support is not good enough. Compiler generates very inefficient code: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/13811 ARM Neon support is lacking. Even on PCs, in my C++ I needed instructions, both vector like vcvtph2ps and scalar like BSR, not exposed to .NET but readily available as compiler intrinsics in C++, including ARM-targeted gcc on Linux.

But overall, .NET is quite good. Sometimes it can even beat C++ performance wise, like I did there https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/Tex... or there https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Input/Ke... by embedding data into code and passing the code to JIT. The readability suffers, though.

I’m equally proficient in C++ and I would estimate it would take me 2x longer to do completely in C++. (1) GC is just too good to ignore for non-performance critical parts. (2) Runtime library is awesome in .NET: I/O, compression, text handling, weak references, async-await, thread pool helped a lot. The C++ equivalents are either nonexistent, or twice as hard to use. At least based on my experience.
Sounds as easy as hitting yourself with a medium sized hammer :)
>you need enough money to start

That's true everywhere, isn't it?

>Taxes are so high that you will likely struggle (or just close) the first two years

You pay taxes on profits. Especially during the first years you should have so many expenses that taxes shouldn't be a problem.
ban the political party they don't like?
You couldn't move to Canada easily?
I totally agree with this. I've seen Dara speak before and I've always found him extremely genuine, intelligent, and insightful.

That said, I've seen a number of layoff announcements from CEOs recently where there have been a number of "Wow, really great job announcing those layoffs" comments. And, while I agree with that, part of me thinks that we've become so conditioned to especially shitty layoff announcements and corporate double speak that when someone does something that really shouldn't be that difficult (speak with empathy, genuineness, but clarity on what must be done, and treat employees who are leaving well) that we're all particularly impressed.

I'm in no way saying layoffs are easy, and I know many good CEOs who agonize over those decisions. At the same time, I think we should try to raise our expectations of how employees should be humanely treated.
To begin with, citizenship is forced upon you. You don't have a choice about it. Yes, you can (in some cases) renounce it, though that's quite a momentous task - it involved pretty much cancelling your existing life, and takes many years. And as you say - most other countries may be worse - and the ones that aren't may not accept you either way.

Not working for Google, in particular, is extremely easy. Something that roughly 99.999% of the world's population succeeds at without even trying :-) And most people who are working for Google are also likely to be able to find another job quite easily.

The two are not comparable. At all. In any way or form.
I can't imagine how companies like Uber, Lyft and WeWork could be sustainable in the long term with huge costs and a high burn rate, but this action is definitely in addressing the future Q2 results in the summer which is the actual results including the impact on the coronavirus outbreak.

Essentially for companies like Uber and Lyft who don't focus on fast growth, VC cash raising and generating little money with huge costs, the actual reality is that this is nothing more than the emperor new clothes. Unfortunately there are no sacred cows being saved here, especially engineering being affected in this.
Take into account that Ultra (breaking of enigma) was only made public in 1970s (or 1960s if you count information about Polish intelligence breaking enigma before WWII). NSA only stopped using similar rotor-based designs in 1980s.
Yeah of course, apologies if that wasn't clear.

The best solution here would probably be to package up the core routines into a library and use this from either R or Python.
Penrose's stuff is very interesting, and I always enjoy hearing him talk about it. But for me it is a soup with too many ingredients. Better to look at the ingredients separately, for example, the idea of microtubules maintaining coherent quantum information. That already is very interesting, and would make a good meal.
I don't understand why the firings are waves. Is this a logistics thing, or a morale thing somehow? Because it seems like it would negatively impact morale, more than anything.

In either case, don't feel obligated to answer given the current circumstances. I'm sorry this is happening to you and your company. I'm sending you and the other workers good wishes.