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But nobody is asking for bullet proof software here. Nobody is asking perfect MC/DC coverage.

If governments are so incompetent that they can't forsee a crisis like this even one month in advance, where even sanitizer hoarders have better foresight, then off course nothing can really help. Governments do spend billions and trillions of money on national defence, and an issue like this when it's almost at the door should be given the zame priority as national defence.
I think it's possible to "assign" someone and grant permission for them to access information, a bit like power of attorney.
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At the risk of being branded insufficiently anti-chinese, anti-communist, or overly suspicious: I don't believe it.

I mean obviously I believe putting the comment in youtube will get it deleted. I just don't necessarily believe it means what it says or the reasoning is because Google is pro-China.

First off, 15 seconds all the time means automatic deletion. Is this really a common enough phrase that they have automatic deletion set up for communist bandits, how about communist yak-fuckers? That sounds pretty unlikely to be set to catch that phrase, so maybe it would just be caught by an automatic sentiment/profanity analysis. How about just yak-fuckers, how about bandits? I'm not going to try all these out myself because

I don't have the linguistic expertise to know if that ideograph means communist bandits, I do have some co-workers I could ask I guess, maybe tomorrow.

Everyone is asking about the phrase in other google services, well in Google translate it translates it as Gangsters when I go to English and Italian. The second one is pretty suspicious because Gangster isn't an Italian word but that's what it gave me a couple minutes ago.

I guess I will wait until later to see how this pans out before getting my rage fully on. rage cautiously in prep stage for now.

on edit: fixed some grammar.
The famine/genocide in the Ukraine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor )had a similar dynamic too. Ukraine was exporting food to the USSR while ~4 million native Ukranians died and millions more experienced serious sickness or complications / birth defects.

It's pretty sickening to consider how often man-made starvation has been used as a weapon against particular nations/ethnic groups. Especially since it so often gets hand-waved away as an "act of god" later.
Per capita deaths in the US are far below the levels in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, the UK, Italy and Spain. So it must be the other parts of the world watching in horror, because many other Western nations are dealing with their own horror at the moment.
> you should have to provide an alternative that doesn't compromise workflows, interoperability, or standards.

The thing is that it's absolutely trivial to set up a workflow that from a user standpoint operates identically to fax, but it still doesn't happen because of institutional inertia.

Standalone fax machines almost don't exist anymore. You can still find one if you look for it, but the majority of them these days are multifunction print/scan/copy/fax devices. Almost all of these devices can be given credentials to an email account and configured to automatically print messages and supported attachments received in that account. Likewise, they can almost always have a "speed dial" button configured to scan a document and email it to someone as an attachment in some standard format.

Put those two things together and as far as the users on each end are concerned the icon on their speed dial button might have changed but everything else appears to operate the same. One end sets a document on a machine and presses a button, the document feeds in, and a short time later it spits out at the other end. It's more reliable, higher quality, and potentially even faster if it's a large document.

It's equal or better in every single way, but if you actually try to implement this you'll almost always get pushback from one end or the other, if not both.

I say if an organization requires fax for anything in 2020, not just as an option but as the only way to do a specific thing, that organization should be considered unfixable and just thrown away to be replaced wholesale. Even if they default to fax for anything, that should be a huge red flag that things need to change.

Fax is evil and should have been dead a decade ago.
>One thing about Snowden specifically, he's understandably careful about protecting the secrecy of his residence. I'd be really surprised if the US government didn't know where he lives

I agree with that, but it's reasonable to assume other countries would have some interest in him. His international value has likely dropped by now, but I'm sure many agencies wondered what else he might have.
Uhh, you realise food delivery was a thing before all these startups, right? The startups built an app, they didn't invent the concept nor the demand of food delivery.
I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with equating ethical with generous. Basically it turns ethics into money, with the idea you can buy ethicalness.
At a minimum doesn't the CARES act transfer at least $500 billion to SMBs and unemployed people, via PPP and Federal supplemental UI? And since this is all deficit spending, it's implicitly backed up by the Fed being willing to purchase Treasury issuances? My point being that if you buy into MMT and you don't think what has happened in the last couple months has created any inflationary pressure then you probably believe you can spend another trillion with little risk.
Yeah, the X series processors come with the Wraith Prism which is a really nice cooler. My processor isn't overclocked but the fact that I've never seen it get above 55 degC with the prism is impressive.
The words “communist bandit” are not “hate speech”. This is ridiculous. How infantilised have we become these days?
On why questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp4dpeJVDxs

On what is the reason to continue living: To be in harmony with nature.
I believe you misunderstood the author.

He is not saying to use the current language's hame for the language picker's icon (I would use a globe, personally), but instead to use the language's name in the list.

For example:

[GLOBE]
>English
>日本語
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Many Google employees are young people from mainland China. Lots of them have a very favorable view of the Chinese Communist Party. I know this because worked there, talked with fellow employees about this, and closely followed the internal discussion when Project Dragonfly leaked to the press. I doubt many Googlers from the mainland see anything terribly wrong with this censorship, just as many had no objection to Project Dragonfly.

Can you imagine China's reaction if thousands of Americans worked at Tencent in Beijing, and had access to users' chat logs and browsing histories? Besides raw intelligence-gathering, this data could be used to blackmail and coerce Chinese citizens. Wouldn't it be seen as a threat to China's national security?
I wonder, like, how much of that (and legitimate tax revenue) could be recovered or prevented each year by properly funding the IRS and other departments.

Where is the outrage compared to that of welfare queens, which don't exist in high numbers?
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Yea, by the time I'm reading your comment, it won't let me change. More used to corporate numbers where everything is in 1000's haha.
Agree that it's a different case than OP's.

Though I'm still puzzled at how Google allows so many YT feeds showing live COVID stats.
Don't worry. There'll be an "innocent" explanation. There always is. Mods here "can do no wrong." And when they do...well, it just puff it disappears (as in they ignore it.)
Wow.

It's almost like the missions of popular websites fall in line with protecting individuals against government-sponsored attacks on whistleblowers.

Witness protection isn't some flashy thing in movies. It's real and society benefits from it.
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There s no “we” in the IT community, theres the “well funded groupthink” and “the sea of the unknowns”. When did the IT band together to achieve something?
For this to happen there would need to be a nationally accepted PE certification for 'software engineers' on par with other engineering disciplines. It's unreasonable to expect non-experts, and experts from other fields, to perform credentialing on a case by case basis.
I just took a quick skim through the repository and I'm not quite sure what everyone is so upset about. It looks like simulation code.

I would argue that the real problem isn't C++ but tooling that is aimed at producing source code as an artifact as opposed to repeatable executions as artifacts. There are effectively lots of models in this system, and the code represents all of them tangled together. But that means that you have source code, parameters, tracing, and output as a thing.
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Is that really true everywhere?

Where I live, we have these services, but I don’t see huge push of Grubhub/DoorDash/Uber. If anything, restaurants are all setting up their own ordering platforms.
That is utterly terrible advice if you actually believe it. Yes, a Google might hire some (very) well-known figures primarily to be public spokespeople. But you can't seriously think that companies are lining up to hire mini-celebs in various tech circles to come on board just to hang around the office now and then.
I thought the self-driving unit had been spun off. This article [1] (from April 2019) said:

"Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), which works on self-driving vehicles, has netted an investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund ($333 million), Denso and Toyota ($667 million combined) … The investment values the division, known as the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), at $7.25 billion and creates a newly formed corporate entity with its own board."

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/uber-nabs-1-billion-self-dri...
>So... basically everyone who isn't a Trump supporter, then?

No. There are plenty of non-Trump supporters[1] who don't care for YouTube censorship. However, the calls for censorship and pressure on social media companies came as a result of the panic-induced from Trump's election and Russian election interference, which does correlate with anti-Trump voices, more specifically Democratic party establishment and their supporters.

Those aren't the only voices to call for censorship. There is also a parallel cultural war that pressures social media companies to censor hate-speech (as defined by supporters). This tends to generate a lot of noise from both sides, but I think it's probably minor in the grand scheme of things. That Democrats in Congress are cracking down on social media is by far a much bigger deal - because they can actually punish these companies through laws and regulation - and they have been threatening to do so.

[1] I supported Hillary in 2016 because, for all her faults and unlikability, she would have been a reasonable and competent leader. So no, I'm not a huge fan of Trump, but I also don't pearl-clutch every time he says something dumb on Twitter or in a press conference. In a similar vein, though I think he should be a one-term president, I don't think it's an existential threat if he gets elected again.
Let's be honest, that kid is a moron. Most people wouldn't have even noticed the ads as they are so ingrained in the internet these days. The average person I know still clicks on the first google result, without realizing it's an ad, and wonders why it's not the correct website.

I've no doubt he'll make it as a programmer but there was no moral quandary here and the money probably would have done him a lot of good.
> And over the next 12 months we will begin the process of winding down our Singapore office and moving to a new APAC hub in a market where we operate our services.

Wonder where the new APAC hub is? Could it be Hong Kong? They have had the unrest issues but haven't been impacted much by covid, relatively speaking.
That's roughly equivalent to Cinebench points per dollar, which is unrelated to gaming performance, if you want that. Doesn't mean the 3600 is bad, but it does mean that these kinds of synthetic benchmarks tell you very little about gaming performance, which is less about the speed of the cores themselves but rather memory latency, something all current Ryzen CPUs are architecturally very bad at (20-50 % slower than Intel).
Found the CCP shill.
We have 1 vote. Can I get another vote please? Anybody, lady in the back? Yes. alright!
Opening a startup in Germany, Italy or Spain means enter a world full of bureaucracy and complicated rules: you need enough money to start and an accountant hopefully knowing their stuff.

Taxes are so high that you will likely struggle (or just close) the first two years and you will eventually start accumulating tax debts. Errors

On the other side, some european countries came to rescue with some smart solutions — like the Estonian e-residency program.
Not really? They still have to ship them out of Texas to another state that will allow them to sell directly.
Then customers will have to drive back to Texas.
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Google will just ban "oompa loompa" to appease them.
A few years ago, I reverse-engineered the HN ranking algorithm [1]. Basic ranking is based on votes vs age, but there are numerous other factors. Penalties are applied based on words in the title or the domain. Posts with too many comments got penalized as controversial. A "voting ring detector" triggers other automatic penalties.

HN ranking has probably become more complex since I looked at it. Manual moderation also impacts ranking.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
>This is absurd. There is plenty of money, we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks and completely rebuild our entire society from the ground up.

Even with a 5% tax, buybacks would still be better than dividends. The bigger problem is that dividends and buybacks are functionally the same (return money to shareholders), but they receive different tax treatments. Instead of trying to patch the differences with more taxes, we should make both have the same treatment when it comes to taxes.
Any serious attempt at modelling this over python would use the pydata stack (numpy, pandas, etc), which run on top of C++ anyways.
And layoffs.
Yeah I've seen what looks like the same pattern.

I'm not sure this is a behind the scenes Snidely Whiplash situation or ... just mass flagging by users with a specific POV.
> listicles and click-bait. 5-10MB of Javascript per page load, 1px tracking images, endless stupid ads, and now every single site that I go to has a pop-over that I should sign up for something, which gets in the way of the content that I am only going to spend 30 seconds reading anyway and then never return to that site ever again

This exactly describes my experience on this website.
This does not explain an instant move of a submission made 1 hour ago from top 10 to 3rd page, where there are submissions made 1 DAY ago.
Yes, 1080p at 60fps which is still the most popular resolution out there according to the Steam Hardware Survey.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I wonder how Dara’s approach will pan out if things get much worse (most economists predict that there will be a greater recession than 08 unless urgent fiscal and monetary actions are taken immediately). Friends in the oil industry have described the environment as cutthroat and unpredictable, swaying wildly from euphoric good times to brutal cost cutting when oil prices fall... I was shocked at how they were treated but in a cyclical market that’s the only kind of company that will survive the lows.

Hopefully it doesn’t come to that but who knows.
Yes. I understand. And Twitter, Facebook, et. al are asking us not to use them. So let's stop.
https://translate.google.com:

共匪 => “Gangster”

Interesting.
It's easier to dip your toes into, but it is a terrible language to learn software development with. It's such a hodge-podge of ill-thought-out and ill-fitting components with random names and no overall sense of structure that you're never going to learn core CS concepts from it, let alone good programming practice.
In most fields, our society relies on private industry to generate quality work, even when the work is very important and doing it wrong might kill people. I'm not an anarchist, I do recognize there are reasons that the government should provide some things. But the idea that private industry uniformly produces bad results because they don't care about anything but profit just seems silly to me. Producing good results is profitable!
That's the whole problem with the "Learn to code" movement, tbh. Plus Python and Java are terrible languages when it comes to those broader swdev/softeng concerns.
by "like that" do you mean "a community moderation system" or "a system for the CCP to backdoor explicit takedown rules into the system?"

Based on what we're seeing right now, this is likely caused not by the latter, but by the former. Consider: the ML-assisted thread moderation logic can be vulnerable to brigading. If several tens of thousands of Chinese people decided to start flagging comments with that phrase, YT would also start killing the phrase (because its sample is biased towards seeing "That phrase usually results in a flag, so the community clearly doesn't want it").
I was thinking the same thing.

In my class, at no point was it explained why we would want to do this. It was "This is the math for a P controller. Here's some homework. Now test. This is the math for a PID controller....". Things didn't click until years later.

Looking back, it was a shortcoming in so many classes I took. Actually discussing the problem we were trying to solve adds so much intuition and understanding to the mathematics.
I don't work there anymore, but this is a confused argument born of zealotry. Taking Google's money to work on open source is totally fine. More money spent on good things might even mean less spent on bad things.

For example, nothing good would come from the Go team quitting over unrelated political stuff.
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> 共匪 is seen as an insult by a group, but others do not

This is where the legal concept of protected classes may be helpful. They're sets of attributes society has deemed one cannot discriminate against. That tends to line up well with said society's line between insulting and hateful.

As a legal definition, these class definitions tend to be precise. That makes them convenient for exporting.

Notably, political affiliation is not a protected class under U.S. law.
Don't say that he's hypocritical

Rather say that he's apolitical

"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?"

"That's not my department!" says Werner von Braun
I'm just thinking about how many $500k to $1mm seeds could have helped founders get their ideas off the ground in lieu of these debacles.

17,700,000,000

17,700 at $1mm
35,400 at $500k

That's a lot of ideas getting fuel and a lot of people being put to work. Even if you filter through for high quality ideas and teams, this is still a better use of those funds.

WeWork was a bad idea from the start. Uber is a great idea without a functioning (profitable) business model.

As an entrepreneur, this kind of news drives me batty.
Does HN always tell you when someone flags it? Or just a critical number of users or something like that?

I see the flagged indicator now and then, but I see it somewhat less frequently than I would THINK things get flagged, admittedly that's all conjecture.
> The Schroedinger equation is just a model, not reality.

Maybe.

> Why is our stomach not conscious?

When I am hungry it certainly seems like my stomach is conscious. Indeed, they have found neurons in the digestive tract.
> We need drone deliveries.

Yes, obviously that will solve the problem that family faces.
https://translate.google.com:

“共匪” => “Gangster”

Interesting
If you’re cutting off someone’s source of income, giving them extra money gives them extra time to land on their feet. I’d say that’s pretty ethical.
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What if the laws against censoring content would be quite strict, then a censoring Chinese YouTube clone wouldn't even be possible.

(In the countries where it's strict. Which could be the EU, US, Kanada, Japan and more. Through it would be more tricky for smaller China dependent countries or autocratic powers. But the other countries could push that through in the way they currently push through commercial interest like copy right).
Interesting writeup. Any appetite for looking at other HP firmwares? We owners of HP 608G tablets have suffered for years after an irreversible firmware update introduced a permanent touchscreen lag.
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> It’s almost impossible to lead en ethical life in this day and age if you do anything related to tech.

That doesn't change that an engineer in the bay area can choose to work for Google or choose to find an alternative place of employment. People can choose more ethical choices without living in a pure ethical panacea.
"But Musk is said to want to start construction extremely soon and aims to have Model Y vehicles coming out of the plant by the end of the year."

That is just delusional.
A version of the article without the paywall: http://archive.is/OOuRC
On Gmail, I used their tags as what they appear on Gmail as, namely "virtual folders".

Thunderbird's tags are a different concept from folders on IMAP.
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It's gauche to say it on the day a bunch of people lost their jobs (and there's no need for the schadenfraude) but I think the underlying point is sane. Uber's business model is replacing FTEs in a a hidebound, regulated industry with gig workers (& good UX!).

If you were forecasting how this company in particular would deal with a downturn, it's a reasonable guess that they'll try to do the same thing to their own workforce, if they can find engineers willing to take on gig work. It's in their DNA.

To be charitable, the grandfather comment is a warning to think about the broader effects of the work we do, driven home by the possibility of a "what goes around comes around" situation.

EDIT: as many have pointed out, taxi drivers don't get benefits either (I originally said one of the margins Uber competes on is not providing benefits).
If a story gets moderately flagged, it gets deranked but don't show up as "flagged"
Google is an advertising and tracking company. Full stop.
In our society it does. They're being incentivized (highly) to do said work.

I'm not saying I agree with the incentive structure but money is one of the core incentives in the US since it translates to other necessities and wants in life. Those working at dubious businesses are being highly incentivized to do so and at the same time, normalizing said behaviors.

Here's the kicker as well, as the clench on labor grows tighter with the middle class being squeezed more and more, people seem oblivious that even if you're getting paid relatively well (6 figures) and have options to jump ship, that may not always be the case when labor keeps caving (sometimes without option) into business incentive structures for compensation.

If there are plenty of people on the labor market capable of competing with you yet willing to do work you won't for money, you too will be displaced. Ultimately, the people dangling carrots in front of us win and we (those who rely on labor for income) lose.