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This is HN. Imo, shilling is fine if it's open, honest and relevant to the discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple....

This application is the internal tool called 'Buganizer' that everyone at Alphabet use to file bugs. It's exposed externally in a limited way that allows people to file bugs for Google products (such as Android), but generally, not much else.

Email open tracking where an association isn't being made is fine, much like the web counters of ole.

They have an applied division which applies ML to Google products. I suspect they are very valuable in $ terms just for the work listed here: https://deepmind.com/impact. Google's entire business from the start was doing research and bringing it to the masses, so this shouldn't really surprise anyone.

Getting trusted access to medical datasets is a huge issue, and so is getting clinicians to use the systems you've produced. Both of these problems are usually fixed with large amounts of funding.

As a junior engineer, this is how I felt. Before the pandemic, getting help was as easy as sending a ping and rolling my chair over. Now, ironically, it's far harder to get help, as getting into a meeting (even a short, impromptu one) is a significantly bigger deal.

I go into a minor state of social anxiety and just struggle to get anything done for a good 10 minutes before a meeting. Mainly because there's far more of a "I'm interrupting this person" feeling when I can't see their screen.

How would one person bootstrap a venture in medical ML without initial funding or datasets?

Any casual observer of history knows that reading/watching content about war is nothing like the reality.

I would not enjoy remote learning for the same reason that I don't enjoy remote working. It's not conducive to a good learning environment. Because most learning is not about the stuff on the whiteboard, but what you learn through casual conversation.

Later in my career I suspect I'll feel differently.

When America asserts itself as the dominant power, international readers American newspapers is not a small market. At the very least, it doesn't match the spirit of the web to have region locked content.

I would assume Google would prefer to not piss off the millions of adblock using techies (including journalists) if that can be avoided.

You're right. Matrix is no IRC. But it's an order of magnitude better than Facebook Messenger.

There are people here who believe Google Analytics is the absolute devil, the reality is much more benign.

OP saying that "I am not a data cow" is just missing the point. GA is logging when you visit the website, some interactions like clicking a link, and generally not much more than that. It is not indexing your hard drive or downloading your photos.

Because despite it being very bad for the poor and middle classes, money printing is at an all-time high. Just like how neither US party is anti-war (but claims to be), neither wish to give up QE. The system is rigged for the super rich.

Android is Linux, even if it doesn't follow the philosophy of your favourite Linux distributions. Maybe RMS had a point when suggesting people call it GNU/Linux. Maybe Android/Linux?

Raising taxes to pay for a bankrupt government just seems like such a backwards way of doing things.

Django debug is quite dangerous to expose online. Are you hosting this on your own computers?

I suspect a lot of these job listings are disguised as generic office work, and you don't know what you're in for until it's too late (NDA, job started, etc...)

The plebs should have more rights to speak freely than the politicians. Or more accurately, the reverse should never be true.

There are many people who can't do anything except React.js, for example.

App installs. I think Play Protect is like anti-virus. I think it also works on apps outside of the Play Store, which makes more sense since it can't just be a server-side thing.

I know that's a popular trope, but I really mean the 'cannot code' crowd. They are separate groups.

> Can't you rule a lot of those candidate (other than CV liars) out algorithmically?

I think all companies do this, but it's really easy to game the metrics. People do it unconsciously, even.

> This seems especially difficult when hiring graduates/junior roles due to the lack of unknowns.

Yep, so it takes hours of interviewing per candidate, across dozens of candidates just to hire to minimise the risk for one role. At a global level, FAANGs are hiring loads, but at a team/local level there's never enough people due to specific team needs or turnover.

The former. Everybody knows top quality engineers are very hard to find, but there is also an inverse problem - the amount of programmers who know nothing but React.js or other <buzzword> is shockingly high.

As in, a significant chunk of candidates cannot write code, have outright lies on their CV, have never used anything other than visual basic, etc...

In addition, basic statistics suggests you need all new hires to be better than 50% of the existing company, or your average skill level will go down, which makes hiring just hard mathematically.

But Valve doesn't pay for exclusives. They just compete on their overall service. Epic is not making something that is actually better for customers.

I own Rocket League on Steam. They bought the game, took it off the Steam store and eventually my operating system entirely, to push their launcher. Not chuffed.

Not really. As somebody who has seen both sides of a hiring process like that, the reality is the vast majority of candidates are just awful. You can probably rule out nearly 75% of applicants right off the bat. Add in hiring laws, bureaucracy, immigration, negotiation, candidates withdrawing, and finding a good person who works for your team can take months.

> and killed their golden goose in their so-called "20-percent rule."

This is factually untrue. The only difference is Google is much larger, making it harder to launch new products.

It might be. Notice that it's only been in use for about 3 years. The difference is you don't tend to upset users due to underlying infrastructure changes.