skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct to focus on the effect of parameter choices over code quality. It's been a little funny to watch a bunch of software engineers freak out about unit tests while ignoring everything else that has a much larger impact on the output of the model. I would bet large sums of money that this code is producing the correct output according to the model/parameter specifications.

All I can say is welcome to epidemiology. The spread of a disease is highly dependent on a host of factors that we have very little insight into. Even simple things like hospitalization rate or fatality rate can be difficult if not impossible to estimate accurately. Epidemiologists are open about this, but few people ever want to listen. Humans just aren't good at truly conceptualizing uncertainty.

The theory behind disease spread models is relatively sound, but they're highly dependent on accurate estimates of input parameters, and governments have not prioritized devoting resources toward improving those estimates. I sat in on discussions between epidemiologists and government officials about COVID models. The response to nearly every question was "we don't know, but here's our best guess". I listened to them beg officials for random testing of the population to improve their parameter estimates. That testing never happened.
It's been truly amazing to me how few people understand per capita statistics.

Virtually everybody seems to think that the US is doing much worse than Europe, when the exact opposite is the truth.
These people receive 100s of requests like this. Perhaps they're focusing on funding something else.

Also, I don't understand why people seem to expect a reply to a (probably) cold email.
Yep. In some cases, Google has addressed this by Balkanizing their rulesets. Sometimes semi-literally; the territorial boundaries Google Maps shows are contingent upon the request's point of origin in some disputed regions [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/12/302337754...]

Using such an approach on the global channels like YT comments isn't an option (unless they choose to Balkanize them, and let only Chinese commenters talk to Chinese people).

Google isn't the only firm that does this; Twitter will selectively filter some tweets based on whether it's legal to show that content in countries that have outlawed fascist agitation (which makes for an interesting side-effect; doing a request for a tweet stream against a US proxy server and a German proxy server and delta-ing the results can give you a clear signal on "Twitter thinks this person is a Nazi propagandist." I'm wondering when someone will put an API in front of that and make it a service... "DoesTwitterThinkThatGuyIsANazi.com" anyone? ;) ).
There is no "nationally accepted" PE license for any discipline. It's a state-level credential and reciprocity is not universal or automatic.
Walmart and McD don't do predatory pricing -- they just have lower prices while being profitable.

Predatory pricing is intentionally setting loss-making prices to drive out competition to then hike prices to profitable levels.

Notice this isn't what "ultra returns to scale" businesses are doing -- they're just profitably pricing low.
There's not always a true, causal explanation of why stocks are reacting as they are. Don't be too quick to trust cable news anchors or other stock market shills that make a living making up and touting stock market narratives. By definition a stock price is a split of the public consensus of what's happening, just as many people are selling as buying at that price.

Your explanation seems as good as any.
The most reasonable explanation is that they were targeting Friday, but were late and so it was Monday. Firing 3,000 employees takes a lot of preparation. If there are a few corner case employee resolutions, that holds up the whole bunch
> Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company?

Not a Google Employee , but in 99% of the case it's money + experience/situation.

This is similar to what others tech company are doing ( Reddit , Adobe etc.. ) in terms of arbitrage when they decide to enter Chinese Market , Partner with Chinese VC or with ideas that challenge their values.

Regardless of where you'll go in tech you'll end up in Amoral corporations like Google/Amazon/Microsoft which are driven solely by Money and Growth , regardless of the consequences. ( Remember Gillette and Child Labour ? Nestlé ? )

Also , the last people who tried to Unionize at Google , which could have enable them to do something about it , got laid off instantly[0] , same pattern happened in all others tech companies...

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20983053/google-fires-fo...
AFAIK this goes back to the AMD graphics driver; I just built my wife a Ryzen 3200G / B450 system and she has had a couple of spontaneous reboots too. I did burn in using an old AMD 6970 card instead of the built in graphics and it did fine with that for me; but of course that card wont run the games she wants so we're hoping for a fix too.
James Dyson says he spent £500M of his own money on the company’s canceled EV
google search is a utility class service at this point, a tier below tap water and electricity. the world would be an objectively worse place without it for billions of people. with great power comes great responsibility is how the saying goes, but i can see them fighting tooth and nail to not be labeled as such. same for facebook and others like them.
> Saudi have been fighting off and on with the people of that region of 500+ years.

The Saudi nation-state did not exist 500 years ago and the regional conflicts have more to do with the recent history of British and American imperialism in the region than any ahistorical, Orientalist casting of eternal conflicts in the Middle East. Should we understand the Nazi's assault on Britain primarily through the lens of Saxon raiding during the Middle Ages?

> And SoftBank simply has to do with the Saudis knowing that Oil money will go away and they are not capable of correctly reorganizing their state, so they think they can just buy stock to finance their nonsense government polices in the long run.

This is literally a vulgar form of the Leninist argument?
I think China's government should do something about all those viruses originating from their country.

I understand if it's an accident like MERS from middle east or ebola from Africa. But the frequency of China is a lot, they're up to 3 deadly viruses now: SARS, Covid19, and Avian Flu.

China should at least share their health data on pandemic of these viruses. So other countries can decide a plan of actions. I'm sure they can do it in a way to anonymize these records.
A large portion of taxi drivers are independent contractors.
And this is hardware you can order today and have running under your desk by the end of the week.

This is such a welcome change from the crypto days with GPUs in short supplies and at very high prices, and stagnant Intel CPU performance!
Wouldn't surprise me if HN was big enough to have a couple of Wumaodangs taking care of it.

Well, by now they are probably Liangkuaidangs or something :D

edit: looking at the downvotes, I may have triggered a few of them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act
That seems like the kind of thing Texas might change if Tesla does actually move production there in a major way.
It makes me so sad and angry that none of that is the case. A better world _is_ possible.

I've been struggling with working life, especially in the midst of wfh during this pandemic and the common question I keep arriving at is: "what's the point in all this?" I don't claim to have it hard (I am so fortunate to have a steady job that allows me to work from home) but there's just a level of mental exhaustion and constant low level burnout that everyone is experiencing (especially amongst my cohorts/generation/friend group since that's my sample size) and it's just like... okay we have another what 40+ years of this? all for what?

and that doesn't even apply to the people working those app jobs and doing physical labor, who no doubt have it worse than anyone else I know.
Islam has instituted a 2.5% "charity tax" (Zakah) for over 1400 years now. It's not that those politicians are unimaginative, it's that they're either willfully neglectful or ignorant. Great political qualities to have /s
The Information had a good article on the engineering layoffs (at least the previous round). The CEO decided to cut people to shift development to lower cost countries even when some managers were willing to cut their own salaries to save some jobs.
This must feel really bad. 200k engineers replaced by 30k indians.
> Neither agency cited any specific examples

I don't even know what point you're trying to make.
Except YouTube is blocked in China, so no one really should be trying to solve this to begin with...
Exactly! Gary Dahl became a millionaire selling rocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
It so happens that we've entered a period where technology, morality, ideology, etc. are converging - to censor those who wish to talk about these connections would seem very antithetical to a culture of inspiring bright minds, innovation, and technological advancement for the good of mankind.
I don’t think it’s about a governing body making that decision for you.

If all the policies and processes around censorship were laid out in the open for that to be considered when weighing up the options, people would be able to make more informed choices.
"And remember… don’t be evil" the way its written at the end of the code really feels like a sarcastic wink, like "don't be evil" is a joke that they know they don't actually follow.
Grafana v7.0 Released
The 3700X is very slightly lower on performance per $ but it does have 8 cores and 16 threads so if you're going to be compiling code it's totally worth it.

The 3900x has been selling for $400 which is also amazing value.

Intel CPU market is behind after many years. Long live AMD design + Taiwan manufacturing.
Uh... western companies do a ton of business with Taiwan. The best semiconductor manufacterer in the world is Taiwanese, for goodness sake.

The problem here is not that Taiwan is being ignored. In fact it's got nothing to do with Taiwan at all.
I don't agree it can be easily identified by automated moderation tools.
My favourite book by Greg Egan is "Permutation City." It is a kind of reductio ad absurdum argument for exactly this: if you can simulate brains then where is the consciousness in all of this? Egan's book takes this idea to it's logical extremes. Very cool and mind-blowing when I first read it two decades ago.
>...the US government of the last 10-15 years doesn't have the same viewpoints on anti-trust that they did 20+ years ago.

The Nintendo NES came out in 1983. Didn't they have control of all apps allowed to run on their machine? They weren't charged with anti-trust violations.
I can't fathom how private companies still think that they can make the CCP happy AND their western customers.

The CCP holds values that are completely untenable to western values. As time goes on, companies who don't know this will lose massive brand value in the western world.

The NBA has managed to tight rope this so far, but I doubt they can hold it together for very much longer. The CCP is still calling for the Houston Rockets GM to be fired 10 months after he tweeted vague support for the Hong Kong Democracy movement. They still refuse to show NBA games domestically because of it.

One vague tweet in support of democracy.
Just Open Sourced
Are most people who repeatedly try to edit Wikipedia with disallowed content banned?
A lot of companies don't have a public image because nobody knows or cares what they do. So they have nothing to fear from a few bad glassdoor reviews.
Nah global currency is easy of use, trust and rule of law.
Those multiple barcodes also confuse the crap out of self-check-out stations. Once it picks up on the wrong one, it throws a fault that the attendant has to come back out of, so you can't just back out scan the right one.

What baffles me is that the store/software can't build a dictionary of "known misdirection" barcodes, like "this is the shipping carton not the product itself, fault and tell the user to rescan, but don't just lock up" when they're seen.
Good. When private companies see that something they are doing or enabling could lead to preventable human death, they have a responsibility to act on it.

If an app in their marketplace is helping spread misinformation about a public health crisis, that app can and should be removed from Google's marketplace.

America is a capitalist society. If you're going to do business in Google's ecosystem, you have to follow Google's rules. Google isn't tolerating COVID-19 misinformation, so if you're an app publisher in Google's ecosystem, you should adopt a similar stance.

Human life is on the line here. Google is doing the right thing.
So they've already built a factory in under a year, but it's delusional to think they could cut that time by 30-40%?

I don't think it's likely to happen, but delusional is a stretch.
It doesn't have to be "cognitive dissonance". They simply might not share your political views.
Just tried it on a video about WHO and Bruce Alyward. It's still up after 6 minutes. Either we're inundating their censor bot, it's been shadowbanned, or Google has stopped under the flak. I'll keep checking later.
However, political affiliation is a protected class in other countries where YouTube operates. It's hard to strike a balance on this I fear.
I've participated in several active, somewhat neutral threads here that have disappeared entirely from the site with no indication that they have. Unable to find by browsing backwards by new or backwards from front page.

The one in question was that new Michael Moore documentary. There was a lively discussion, but obviously didn't fit the established narrative here, and it was disappeared.
Academics are not software people, by and large. The code is custom built for a specific graph or statistical run. Typically the people writing the software are grad students with little to no interest in code; they just want the answer. Their interest is in the thing they are studying, not code. They may not even have coded before grad school, nor know matrix algebra or calculus. Excel is a big step for them.

I have experience in this issue. A fellow grad student of mine asked for some help with his code. I said sure, but it'll cost you a 12 pack of beer. After the 11th nested 'if' statement in Matlab, I upped it to a 24 pack. We never did get it working right.
I am paying my taxes to my government as well, does not mean I agree with everything my government does. When it comes to purchasing certain categories of items (like electronics) you have no choice but to buy something made in China, most of the time.
These places certainly still exist! I'm fortunate to work in one. But they're also more rare and the requirements to land those jobs tend to be more stringent. The OP sounds like a relatively junior developer, albeit a highly motivated one; that's often a tough fit for such roles.
You need to put 2 and 2 together. The fact that we know it's a 'flash point for World War 3' is exactly why it would not be defended ;)
He has no sense of time. Every year they're supposed to have robotaxis by the end of the year and they've only just started to jankily handle stoplights
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear. My point is that if this software was destroyed a year ago our response to the coronavirus would be substantially the same.

Basically that we are not relying on this model exclusively or even substantially to determine policy.
I'm from El Salvador and our country ISO code is "sv" which some websites confuse for the ISO language code for Swedish (Svenska) "sv".

It took Spotify a long time to fix that! MSN/Microsoft used to have that issue too.
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with metadata
This is how it should be. You cannot trust developers to not break things. Whether that's from ignorance, incompetence, just don't give a shit attitude, it results in the same. I'm not saying don't update, but update when you understand what the update will do. It's funny (ironic) that the people that these auto-updates are meant to "protect" are the non-tech types, yet these are also the people that tend to not do backups and are most negatively affected by bad updates.
It's 31 Karma AFAIK.
This article is bringing to light a lot of stuff that needs to be said about printers.

Also somewhat depressingly, HP is definitely the most secure printing company. That's not a very high standard though. But what it means is everything these guys have found...is much worse worse at every other printer company. HP was the first printer company to join HackerOne I believe, shockingly they still make some of their server brands in the US, and the security options on their entry level enterprise printers (m406) show at least some effort was put into them (for instance only allowing SNMPv3).

Yet at the same time, why can I only have a max 16 character password on the web management portal? Why does the username have to be "admin" which is obviously super easy to guess?

NOTE: I first saw this article as a promoted tweet on Twitter. This was hilarious to me because it was the first time I had had a relevant promoted tweet shown to me where I also didn't feel like the party involved was being misleading in some sort of way.

EDIT: Had trouble accessing their site. Some things to note that they found:

- Why do you have to download the updates manually from HP? Why can't the printer check? Why is it not automated? This process is awful. Do you then upload the zip file of the update to the printer or the bin file inside, or is it the bin file plus the md5 hash?

- PCL and PJL are languages that predate IP. Very insecure and so many things that have never been fixed.
> forcing China into compliance with US demands.

Except that, as it's clear from the rest of your comment (with which I agree fully) there are no real demands from the US to China except a demand for subalternity. In other words, the only reason behind this moralising and chest-beating is simply that the US wants to keep its power by obstructing a competitor.
Where does it say that hate speech is about immutable characteristics? Is that your subjective personal definition?

Advertisers really don't care that much (and I'm speaking as a 12 year adtech veteran). They play into popular culture and are being carried along with the increasingly sensitive social environment online. Also we're talking about comments, not video content, and it's futile to try and control how others react.

> "It can be easily identified using a few easy qualifiers."

Anyone can find anything offensive and hateful. That's the opposite of easily identified.

> "Most people who have trouble defining hate speech are people who, at least partially, agree with it."

Because it's subjective, according to who's defining it.
I had more problems with the 3700X although on paper it is 65W TDP (same as the 3600). In practice it gets much hotter and draws more power. The 3600 never gave me any problems.
I saw the movie and was thinking of it when I saw this post!
Dude, I’m in Europe too. If you think the Trump administration is “perfectly suited” to do anything... well, that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. I certainly don’t agree with you about that.
PID-controlled sous vide with Clojure transducers: https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/10/06/boiling-sous-vide-eggs-...
Software Burnout Is for Real
I’m not a Google employee, but really all companies of large enough size care only about the bottom line. Large companies don’t have morals, they just try to make money at all costs, full stop. Google is a bit more hypocritical in that they pretend to be about more than this, but lots of companies are similarly hypocritical, especially tech companies. It’s really only small businesses that have any sort of humanity (sometimes).

Google pay better than most, and if you’re on the right team I assume you get to work on very interesting/challenging projects. They’re just as heartless/selfish as any other bigco, but I don’t know that they’re worse.
A good place for the under-appreciated CSS ‘clamp’ function!
I don’t have a firm grasp on the size of these groups, but I feel they are extremely fringe.

These people are also probably against SSN and taxes and whatnot.
"some consider hateful"...

There will always be "some people" to consider anything hateful. Maybe we should just all stop communicating with each other, so nobody gets "hurt".
> Using such an approach on the global channels like YT comments isn't an option (unless they choose to Balkanize them, and let only Chinese commenters talk to Chinese people).

That doesn't seem unreasonable. They could hide filtered comments from chinese users. This would allow the rest of the world to be unaffected by chinese regulation and "allowed" speech between chinese and foreigners.
Decentraleyes[0] does this for JavaScript files. There was a request to add fonts[1], but it hasn't been implemented.

[0]: https://decentraleyes.org/
[1]: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/issues/34
1. State actors also have a long and established history of abuses of power. We should not defer to what they have to say on issues related to their possible abuses.

2. Propensity for creating such a page is a strong indication of extremely poor judgement.
Yes but that is a difficult thing even in our society in the US. Then to project that to the world is harder. In the USA we have values that tend to see political censorship as evil, but in some other countries they see political criticism as insulting and a hindrance to government. I too thought for a long time that any place that censored or punished political dissidents probably was a place that had people yearning to be free. It is not necessarily true as we see in China. I don't agree with it from my values but then again I don't know what is good for the entire Earth.
It's this FoxIT I imagine: https://www.fox-it.com/en/
the best and surest way to have your account deleted from facebook is to post porn.

the best and surest way to delete an inconvenient discussion from hn is to spam it with a political flame war.

i don't have proof that this is the case here but i wouldn't be surprised that such threads are actively heated up and/or gaslighted by nation state sponsored censors.
Where did you get those numbers? And how did you conclude engineers worldwide are being "replaced by" Indians from a statement which says they're moving APAC hub from Singapore?
"Hate speech" was only ever a tool of political control. It's contemporary usage is no accident.
Show HN: Deployed neo.mjs v1.1.56 to the online examples
Related: if you're going to use location, then use the location my browser gives you¹ rather than pulling something out of your ass based on my IP address, especially if you're trying to sell me something. My ISP spans the country, and if you insist my ‘local store’ is 2000 miles away — well, I'll shop somewhere closer.

¹ Firefox: config setting geo.provider.network.url returns JSON in the form of https://ichnaea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/geolocate.html#... — e.g. set the config value to: data:application/json,{"location":{"lat":43.5,"lng":-80.5},"accuracy":1000}
Would love to hear more about your experience. Can you email "websitename"@gmail.com
Wow I just verified this for myself
Yeah I think it's true that some institution are reliant on incredibly high tuition costs, and wouldn't be able to survive. But I don't think that's true of the majority, especially when weighted by number of students. ( Imagine it's smaller colleges that are more expensive to operate per student due to a lack of efficiencies of scale. )