skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube this is absolutely ridiculous.

Now is the word "ridiculous" towards Google or Youtube considered as hate speech?

I mean if you look around YouTube, there are lots of name calling, idiots, rude words that starts with F and S. None of the them were considered as hate speech, but all of a sudden every single negative word used to describe Communist "共" ( Which is in no specific to Chinese Communist, after all there are still a few Communist regime around the world ), and that includes "licking" ( "舔" ) communist, which the word licking in itself isn't in anyway "hateful", is now also considered as inappropriate or hate speech and be removed?

Using the Chinese Communist standards, anything that used to support the Hong Kong movement or demand will be considered as an act of attack on China and also as hate speech. Because you are in support of Hong Kong independence. For those who are not aware none of the five demands in Hong Kong specifically mentioned independence or separation, but that label has been used as any disobedience against CCP to be considered as one. So at what point will words used to support Hong Kong, or even US Government in sanction of China considered as hate speech? Especially when Youtube is already removing lots of content that is in support of the movement.

Edit: Yes Keep up with the downvoting.
I am wondering why there are two separate rounds of layoffs. Isn't it better for morale to just have the band aid ripped quick, once and for all?

What context does Uber have now, that they did not when the initial layoff wave happened?
This is very worrisome. If we cannot as computing professionals raise the alarm about censorship and tech abuses on a primary forum for computing professionals, what options are left? Ethics is an important part of what we do for a living. We cannot back down from that now or ever.
Ehh you're right, actually.

I still think you run into other issues, though.
I was very active in the university recruiting effort at large Silicon Valley for many years. I went to tons of university career fairs. This statement is wholly true. At the undergraduate, the majority of students were US citizens (but there were still a lot of foreigners). But at the master's and PhD levels, virtually everyone was a foreigner.
> political affiliation is a protected class in other countries where YouTube operates

At which point Google should decide on what countries they operate in. If they operate in a country where political affiliation is a protected class, go ahead and hide those comments to users in that country. But don't export that country's values to mine.
I don't understand how the Uber business model isn't profitable besides mismanagement. Taxi companies all over the world are profitable, and Uber doesn't even have to handle the regulation that they have
I think when you take a look at the prevalence and profitability of spam on YouTube, see the fake contest links posted below popular videos etc., shadow banning is extremely net positive.
It's not really the same though - I can choose to work for an organisation, whereas I don't get to choose where I am born.
If you think the idea of trusting giant social media corporations with the levers to control our speech is outrageous, so does everyone working on LBRY.

We are working hard to design systems that have the same user experience as the traditional web, but fundamentally redesigned so that this kind of behavior is outright impossible. LBRY allows for local control of the publishing experience, and layers identity, discovery, and payments on top of a distributed data network.

P2P desktop client: https://lbry.com/get

Web-version: https://lbry.tv

Tech documentation: https://lbry.tech

Almost 100 people contributed to LBRY last month, and more than 2 million people used it.

Come join us, and escape YouTube :)
According to Wikipedia (german article on Tesla Gigafactory 3), Tesla went from the ground-breaking ceremony at beginning of january 2019 in Shanghai to first cars produced there in november of the same year.

They might be getting practice in building factories (what's the learning curve for car factories?).
Analyze product success, not failure
> WeWork was a bad idea from the start. Uber is a great idea without a functioning (profitable) business model.

What's the great idea? That you can call a cab using a mobile phone? That already existed before Uber. Or is the idea that you don't have to hire those people?
Looks like I was incorrect, they were planning to shift production to Mexico in 2017 but didn't.
> infantile understanding

I had to flag your comment for using this hurtful speech.
This is a very poor comparison since nobody chooses their original country of citizenship and it usually takes lots of money or familial connection to obtain citizenship elsewhere.
The very first multi-national companies were neck deep in looting India and smuggling opium to China. The American founding fathers were very aware of this.
It's a lot easier to find such things on Blind, FWIW
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Youtube, and Google as a whole, are in for a world of pain in politics. Google pushes "quality and relevance" when they promote news articles, but this leads to them heavily emphasizing established outlets like BBC / NYT / etc. There is an increasing number of calls from official government representatives for promoting "alternative" news. What will Google do when they get a DOJ request to promote or dissuade a specific political viewpoint that isn't endorsed by their chosen "reputable" media outlets? Is the current anti-trust action against Google happening because of their perceived bias against Trump-friendly news?

"Facebook, Google accused of anti-conservative bias at U.S. Senate hearing"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-socialmedia-...

The volume of low quality biased news is set to explode in the coming years, and Google/Youtube will be attacked by various governments (Turkey, Hungary, USA, Brazil, China, Russia) when they avoid promoting this flood of content, and when Google promotes news and speech that various countries dislike.

Youtube will be forced to remove viral videos like "Plandemic" constantly. Imagine when they start getting calls from the Senate for scrubbing some powerful government official's [conspiracy of the month] youtube video. Or when US House members escalate from personally suing Twitter to creating the House Committee on Online Censorship and use official government subpoenas to harass companies that host content that harm their political allies under the guise of "online fairness".

Enough mainstream and fringe politics has now migrated onto the internet that there are no longer neutral platforms, only platforms that have not yet taken a political and editorial stance on speech.
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Well, construction in China != construction in the US.

US has permits, environmental reviews, inspections, labor laws, etc etc that all add time.
To be clear China built Tesla a factory in a year, it is a big difference.
The greatest joys, rewards, and challenges in life (growth opportunities) come from family (including extended family where possible). (Plus that it simply doesn't look like a good prospect to rely only on government strangers to take care of us when we are old! We can be good to our nieces/nephews too, and others of course.)

In my belief system, these important, challenging, and joyful relationships can extend into eternity as well, if we choose to make the necessary commitments (specific covenants with God) and keep them, learning and improving throughout our lifetimes. Money is like nothing, in comparison.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-family-...

https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs/family

(more at my own web site, linked from my profile, or http://lukecall.net )
no. people without ADHD are not 'living with a form of ADHD' and your 'cure' for ADHD is tantamount to dismissing the struggle of those with clinical depression with a quip about just going outside and getting fresh air.
People are plopped into existence as a citizen of a country. Not quite the same as choosing to work somewhere.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Instead of complaining about code quality, shouldn't SE's jump in and support academia in writing better code?
> Intel CPU market is behind after many years. Long live AMD design + Taiwan manufacturing.

Except Intel still delivers better and more consistent gaming performance largely based on better overall architecture (L3, IMC and what connects these).

Both Intel and AMD are billion-dollar publicly traded companies. I don't get why people would fanboy either of them. I don't want AMD to win, because then they are going to abuse their position, just like Intel did. Conversely, I don't want Intel to win. Two players in a market is already problematic; trying for one player is just suicidal.
If every HN submission were spammed with "communist bandits," do you think at some point the mods would just write a script to block such comments? It doesn't seem absurd to me to think that they might. It wouldn't bother me in the least if they did. That type of comment is even less edifying than "first" or "top" or "did anyone else come here from 9gag."

I work for Google. It does some things I don't like but this does not prima facie appear to be one of them.
Nice trying this out
They want to have political influence and believe they are serving society's best interests. They believe dissenting voices must be silenced.
Here in London Uber is MUCH cheaper than black cabs.
>You don't get special agent treatment for being in WP.

Yes. You do. WISTEC covers their bases, but they can't force large organizations to play ball at a whim. Those organizations need to be willing to help. And it's heart warming to see that they are.
What amazes me is the sales numbers Tesla is able to post in the US considering how many states still ban direct sales and others who place restrictions on it.

Got to figure there is a deal afoot with Texas to get the factory. Regardless, that they want to produce the Y there could herald a depreciation of the Fremont operation in short order.
Illinois Medical District on the southwest side of Chicago just off of I-290 is a prime example of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Medical_District
I have much less mobility as a US citizen to move to another country than I have as a software engineer. Almost any Google employee could have an offer somewhere else within 3 weeks of starting their search.
I write some comments on Youtube that explains my understanding of the situation happening in China, in a objective as much as possible. And it turns out it could be viewed as Pro-china. Then these comments gets deleted by Youtube. Whether its reported or deleted by the system I don't know.
And the Moderna vaccine progress announcement this morning
It is extremely important to make trolling more difficult than policing trolling. If you can’t get over that hump you can’t have comments beyond a certain scale.
Is This AR Shopping's Moment?
I'm in the same boat with a 3700x. I'm pretty sure the 3950x will be available at a good enough price that I jump to that before needing a motherboard upgrade.
The reason why software companies don't generally hire contract software developers rather than bringing them on as FTEs is that they're less effective. Software development is a high-communication, high-trust activity; it's very helpful to be able to explicitly direct and manage the activities of your workforce, because otherwise they don't produce anything useful. For specific tasks that don't need to be high-trust and high-communication (eg. writing an iOS app for a non-critical part of the business that uses a public API), companies are already inclined to hire contractors.

The bigger risk with getting a job at Uber is "will they be in business in 2 years?" Tech company success tends to be binary: either you're growing and on top of the world, or you'll be out of business in a couple years. Just ask DEC, Symbolics, SGI, Sun, Yahoo, AOL, Netscape, etc.
This is a pretty big release, since the new main thread addons are now deployed into the online examples.

Open e.g. the covid & real world apps and type Neo.main.addon into the console. You will see different results => the main thread is as small as possible now and will only import the required files. This does work directly inside the browser without any JS builds at all as well as the webpack based dist dev & prod versions.

For more background infos, please take a look at:
https://medium.com/@tobiasuhlig/using-js-libraries-inside-a-...
The custom hook feels overly abstracted, but I'm tired of the repetitive `useState` setups... This seems like a great minimal approach :)
New submission has 13 points in 21 minutes and still not displayed on front or "ask" page. How come?
Imagine thinking anything Google does comes close to resembling having blood on its hands. It really seems to me that the first world doesn't have enough real problems on its hands.
> I have taken multiple university courses in theoretical physics, in artificial intelligence and in neuroscience, including on the topic of consciousness.

> ...I can tell that without a doubt...

> If you believe...then you are frankly mistaken...

I find it very amusing that you present taking 'multiple university courses' as some kind of argument or credential in favor of the following unshaken belief ("without a doubt"). Did any of your courses teach you to doubt things and especially to question things that you are certain about that clearly a lot of other smart people are not?
Podcast Addict builds an index of podcasts that it makes available to users whereas Chrome does not influence in any way what content users may want to view.

But your question is of course very apt when it comes to the Google Search app or Google's own podcast app.

There used to be this idea (a good idea in my view) that building a search index is a neutral activity that does not come with any editorial responsibility for the content.

Google used to fight for that idea but unfortunately lawmakers (and I think the majority of the population) have very firmly taken the opposite view.

I think that's what's ultimately at the core of this defensive "when in doubt, ban it!" attitude that was built into automatic content filtering tools and hammered into the heads of reviewers.

There are still gaps - the most glaring one being Google Search - but I think Google has largely given up that struggle in favour of avoiding billions in fines
This is true, I’d say the build GP describes would probably be good for someone who is short on cash and wants to build a machine that is OK/Good for gaming and Good for things like programming or photo/audio/video editing. It’s true that that build won’t knock anyone’s socks off and isn’t optimized for anything in particular, but the fact that you can make a build like that with such good parts at that price is a net positive for consumers.
Not likely. Crony capitalism that helps the major car dealership owners but limits economic progress For all. Collectively, these owners will likely donate far more to political campaigns to keep the rules in place than Musk can.
Same thing happened to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20863498. I meant to email dang to ask about it but never got around to it.
uber never seemed like a rational company that thinks of the good of its employees (i know it’s a business, but still).

the cut deep, cut once method for layoffs is doing business 101, but still there are 2 rounds of layoffs at uber
What restaurant doesn't allow alterations?

"I want a supreme pizza, hold the pepperoni, sausage, peppers, onions, olives, sauce, and cheese".
But didn't he say a couple of weeks ago that Tesla's stock price is too high? So is he trying to increase or decrease the stock price?
@nathanaldensr please bring up the options.
Ah yes, the idea that profit driven management is a better juror of freedom than our democratic society.

Whatever they decide, they owe you no explanation or recourse. After all, these people are 'accountable' to wall street.
To them 2008 and Boeing 737 were an unforceable turn of fortune, and they should bear no harm from it.
Miami of Ohio isn't a football school as you know, although it seems they want to try and capture more of the football pie. The school has 36M in annual sports revenue [1], a good chunk of that football. From a source that had 28M in total sports revenue, it stated over 6M in football [2]

As the coach of a multi-million dollar business, 533k is justified. Especially since the talent is currently not compensated. If you want to compete you have to spend a decent amount. You're right that Miami of Ohio is mid-tier but the 533k is a mid-tier salary these days (#112 in rankings). There are 6 other MAC schools with higher coach salaries than your school. [2]

Also, from your own article "The 91,000-square-foot facility was built completely with donor contributions and is used by student-athletes, intramural and club sports participants and youth athletic tournaments."

Donor contributions.... And used by everyone for various sports including youth... So I'm not sure why you are so upset.

Aside from that - there are 108 schools with athletic revenue of 30+M. [1]

And, "The average college football team makes more money than the next 35 college sports combined" [3].

[1] https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

[2] https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/college-sports-football-reve...

[4] https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/miami-university-oxf...
That strikes me as a theory that began with a desired outcome first, as the law does not use the language you’re using, nor does it include any of the distinctions you’re trying to draw. There is no “unless if there’s an ad revenue sharing system” exception to 230.

Aside from the details of 230, I would think long and hard about the unintended side effects of what you’re proposing. Attempts to control what Google and similar can and cannot moderate either results in Google having no moderation power at all (a disaster for the entire internet), or gives the government the power to decide what and what is not protected from Google’s moderation (which is contrary to the point of this exercise).
I assumed this was due to Chinese experience building factories and a large labor pool, would be impressive to replicate that time here.
It's a mess.

ON the other hand some wise open app store wild west... the android app store is bad enough with malware, can you imagine one with nobody minding the store?
Yes indeed. In Boost.Random (which the standard library random was based on), you can do exactly that:

boost::mt19937 generator(boost::random_device());

You can also pass an appropriate length container (as two iterators) which are directly used as the seed without any intermediate object.
Mirror: http://archive.is/O6Sn7
I'd like that. I actually think Chinas rise is one of the things that will make us do that. Similarly, some environmental catastropy might. Not sure how else it will happen.
I like this idea, but it is hard to apply such a criteria across borders. In California, for instance, political affiliation is considered a protected class. The omission of political affiliation from the nationally protected classes in the US is a direct consequence of the persecution of communists during the Cold War. This is actually not a great idea when you consider that it essentially legalizes political persecution of the sort that you find in various dictatorships (a little ironic in this context).
The more I read about WeWork, the more insane it is to me. I don't really blame the charlatans at WeWork, it's hard to blame people for taking money on a product. And they probably do think it's a good business plan.

No, I blame the people giving them billions of dollars. These "investors" are complete idiots. It's shocking to me how little they understand about the companies they invest in.

One look at WeWorks "business plan" and I knew it was all bullshit. It's just ridiculous that so many "smart investors" gave them money.

Ugh, such a waste of money.
I had a similar thing happen to my post [1] a month or so ago — one minute it was #1, then after a refresh, it vanished. No flag (that I know of), no explanation.

When things happen like this, explanations are helpful to the submitter and/or the commenters, whichever was causing the problems.

I suppose this opens things up for debate, but not sure a silent removal of content is great for the community either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633570
Back in 2013, they targeted 35GWh of battery production in 2020 for 500K/y vehicles (source: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/g...)

They've already exceeded that run rate on production and delivery (both batteries and vehicles) while being profitable.

They do have ~a million cars on the road but the software is neither capable of self-driving nor car sharing. They year isn't over, though, and the comment about robotaxis was that the car would be feature-complete[0], not operational.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_complete
Except the US doesn't enforce US companies to delete and censor specific content in other countries. China's human values are restrictive, US human values are highly tolerant.
I am replying to a comment that is speculating they are going for India.
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What do you mean by not "actually working"? What is a "conflict-free environment"? What does hate speech have to do with minority populations? Do people within those populations never say hateful things, even to each other? How do you know they never participated in any forums?

This sounds like an awful lot of assumptions.
it's a good reason for a lot of them to keep working at the company and turn a deaf ear towards what it's been doing.

It's a reason. It's not a good reason.
I've been building a new open-source OS[1] (including a web browser) from scratch and sharing the process on YouTube for a year and a half now.

At the moment I'm supporting myself and my family with a regular 9-5 programming job, but I'm also accepting donations through Patreon, GitHub Sponsors and PayPal. There's been a huge amount of support coming in, especially given the ambitious nature of my project, and I'm quite hopeful that I'll be able to turn this into a full-time gig not too far into the future.

My tip would be to find ways to share the development process, not just the software itself. You don't have to make videos like I do, but write about it, share screenshots, post about it on social media etc. :)

[1] http://serenityos.org/
I vote for 1989年4月 as a replacement. It's just a harmless date.
Show HN: Created a free weather posting app to practice coding
I am a computer science student and started working on an app to practice coding. Learned a lot along the way but would love feedback with the UI and overall concept.

With the current quarantine, working on this app kept me busy and helped me stay positive.

Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codepup.weatheristic

Thanks for any feedback, stay safe!
As I understand it, the first was for comms, operations, and support roles. This layoff was more product-related (so engineering, design, and product roles) and required more thought around how they were going to position themselves strategically going forward.
Very much so, article from Jan 2018: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/working-class-families-ar...

And more from Oct 2019: https://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/commentary/midd...
thanks for pointing it out! When I had posted this initially, I had almost zero karma... ;)