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> I think, what these employees don't realize is: Even when a company places values over profits, it is still in an attempt to maximize profits over the long term.

Come on. A lot of people create startups to do something interesting that they're passionate about. Customers and profit merely serve these ends, not the other way around.
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I mean... sort of. It seems like hundreds of new emoji are added every few years. They do not draw themselves.

Question is whether or not anyone cares.
Additionally, npm is a production user that runs at least one web service that we know of, for example.
No, I meant Bapu
but with BTC, it would be significantly different, wouldn't it? I mean, you're not selling the BTC to pay your taxes in this case, you are directly paying your taxes with BTC. I'm highly doubting there would be any capital gains tax for this situation.
I think the consensus is that average American buying power peaked somewhere between 1970 and 1980, and it has been declining ever since.

That's plenty of time for an entire generation to be raised with an awareness that any entrepreneurial enterprise they may attempt can be crushed and consumed in short order by a competitor with the backing of the moneyed elites. If you try to manufacture a quality product in the US, and bootstrap your business, the instant you prove there is a market for it, someone will gather up some financing, knock off your product in China, and run you out of your own business. If you build a fun game app, Zynga or King or some other chop-shop with their model will instantly clone it and kill you with their marketing. If you open so much as a lemonade stand, the city will come round asking about inspections and permits.
> who hesitated

Source? I was not aware there was any hesitation or even disagreement from Apple's side. Is there an Apple statement saying they disagree w/ Chinese government requests similar to the statements saying they disagree w/ US government requests? In their absence, is it safe to assume they agree since they have shown that when they disagree they make public statements?
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When I think of design I think of two very different definitions. The first is as you describe, putting some basic aesthetics and usability on an otherwise "undesigned" page/app/etc. The other definition is how I worked on a team that spent over a week rebuilding buttons because the designer didn't like the way native buttons worked in browsers.

When someone complains about how superfluous "design" is, I always assume they mean the latter definition. But I could be wrong.
Come to Boulder:

https://www.ucar.edu/opportunities/careers

https://www.txcorp.com/careers-at-tech-x

http://radiasoft.net/about/careers/
Don't forget the Damore case. Regardless of people's views on content of his memo, this was a case of Google essentially baiting an employee to express their honest views on internal forum, and then firing them for not agreeing with the prescribed party line.
> Those two bombs brought about the end of the war with a lot less casualties (on both sides) than the runner up option (invasion).

You cannot know if a bloody invasion was the only other option. Perhaps doing a test and 'leaking' to the press that Japan was next would work too? Or bombing a non densely populated area?

Also, you simply can't count the causalities of nuclear bombs the same way as conventional ones, since there will be related deaths for generations; increased cancer rates, birth defects etc.
> To some people, that's big, and to many, it's not.

This boggles my mind, so I have to ask, who considers a million lines of code in a code base not a large project? I mean, sure there are plenty of projects larger than that, but when considering whether a project is large or not, I think I would consider a million lines of code well into the "large" category.
One thing that's "wrong" is all the systems which have claimed to be meritocracies but weren't.
Perhaps a GC would help Rust being this productive?
That's true. What I miss is more an analysis of the available resources, how these resources have been applied and what kind of equipment was produced and how. From a purely technical perpective one could argue that German tank development, as one example, was not perfectly geared for mass production under war conditions. Some of the welds on genuine WW2 Panthers were better then some you see on 21st century cars. Why would you do that during WW2? Also the maintenance and repair operations of the warring nations in WW2 deserve a much closer look, the framework to be applied is available now, albeit in the engineering domain and not the historical faculties.

And resources cover a lot more than just man power., So I would argue that the Allies in both world wars had more resources and industrial capacities and have been more effcient in applying them to the war effort. Obviously tactics play into that as well, as does operations and strategy. When you have more you can afford to burn precious power on risky or unsuccessful operations, when you don't you have to be more cautious in selcting your war goals.

Regarding slave labour. That was one way to offset the manpower used for combat. I won't go too deeply into the moral and social aspects of it here, let's just say that this was among the worst things the Germans did in WW2. Again what would be interessting is an analysis of whether it was worth it or not. See, I would assume that using slave labour would result in a much higher degree of rework for the stuff slaves produced. We are talking about Germans here, there have to be at least some numbers out there regarding this. Again, engineering knowledge can help to make sense of these numbers. And I could go on, which was the main reason why I decided to study history (even if it doesn't look like it will lead to anything right now, who would have thought that you can only miss so many lectures to be allowed to take the exam?).
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Especially considering that early morning workouts are not all that uncommon in the hardcore American fitness community...

Heck lots of celebrities get up at that time to do physical training for conditioning for movie roles.

I also want to know the material of that glass and needle...

NM, yt vid of an American magician doing it.

https://youtu.be/F7268AaP9Ok?t=98
Someone may thing that the "Long March through the Institutions" is actually a viable strategy. There's enough warm bodies lining up at the recruiters that anyone leaving the company won't affect it in the least, but an insider may have a shot at improvement.
What are some potential solutions here? Some form of intervention by the US government? I think many of us will agree that the sort of behavior these employees are speaking out against is at least unethical, and it also seems this "profits-over-values" behavior is a common one for large tech companies to gradually start engaging in. To your point, corporations in all sectors always do what makes the most economic sense, even if it means building internet censorship tech, dumping hazardous chemicals into the water supply, etc.

As a society which (hopefully) would like to have some sort of moral compass, how do we prevent large companies from seeking profit even at the expense of our freedoms/health/planet? It seems to me that if the punishment for unethical behavior is economically "less" than the costs or potential losses associated with acting in a good, ethical way, companies will continue to do what we're seeing them do now. My intuition is that capitalism (in its current Western incarnation) can't function without some strict controls to protect what our societies value most.

Or do we simply value profit over everything else? If so, that's kind of depressing, but I get the sense that most people don't think this way.
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This might be seen as picking a nit, but I think the distinction is important.

Ethereum falters not because you can't do much with a purely digital contract, but because people typically want the guarantees of a digital contract except when they don't. There is so much value (if only from inertia), of being able to fall back onto negotiation, or in a more negative circumstance litigation, around an existing contract.

The digital contract is too rigid for how contracts are typically executed in the real world.
This is quite easy to replicate. Just need about 5 jobs that run 24/7 harvesting data.
Agreed. When hiring for a specific position you pick the first peg that fits the hole well enough. The hiring bias problem seems like more of a hiring pipeline bias problem (E.g. sending your recruiter to Harvard instead of a state school resulting in more applications from Harvard students).
Florida grass is awful. It's not even fun to walk in. Coming from the Midwest the lawns here are dramatically better and the grass is very nice for running around in. As kids we spent a lot of time on the lawn running through a sprinkler, playing football/sports, etc...
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No worries. It's a great survey regardless, so thank you!
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Ah! My bad for not realizing that. I would only add that those who give so much weight to tone/delivery heuristics are also to blame. But I see your point, I feel similarly frustrated sometimes and I can definitely imagine myself acting the same way you did.
Collective action by employees can be more effective than a boycott. These Google employees clearly believe there is a chance they can change Google's actions by writing this open letter. Employee activism has changed Google's behavior before, so there is reason to think this strategy might work.
It does not seem all that healthy to just dismiss and ignore and totally negate compounding value of cross-generational achievements and accomplishments...

I think I agree with your post except for this part. What did you mean by that? Are you talking about a person’s pedigree?
Wouldn't it make sense have some sort of solution before it happens? Like Venezuela.
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There’s a DTS that ships Rust 1.26 (rust-toolset-7), however, it requires RHEL/CentOS 7. Red Hat’s been doing a pretty good job with providing newer toolkit’s through the DTS system, but some of them didn’t find their way to RHEL 6.
I'm interested in the question of: how would the global food supply/economy be affected if the US were to halt agri subsidies and let the farmers go bankrupt (it seems to be happening in a twisted way through this trade war anyways so ...).

We know the US produces way too much food than it needs. We know that US food is artificially kept cheap due to subsidies. Would higher food prices lead to more starvation in other countries? More hunger in the US? Or would farmers around the world step up and compensate for the deficit? Would it perhaps lead to farmers in lesser developed countries being better supported and lead to economic growth in those countries?
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If you bring them in at least they have a chance to impress you in person, no?
Explain how inequality of opportunity is not countered by this approach?

Of course people are a sum of everything that happened in their life, but this is a way to make a particular job application much more fair, based on capability to do the job rather than irrelevant physical details. This is not meant to solve everything at once.

The very examples you post are about situations that would be helped if there was blind judgement.
I don't get it.

Yes, it would be much better if we are able to remove discrimination earlier in life.

But this is not a either/or solution between affirmative action and equal opportunity.

But if the assumption that positive reinforcement make a better just society for future generation then doesn't it mean equal opportunity will make also have the same positive effect albeit a little less ?
Even when a company places values over profits, it is still in an attempt to maximize profits over the long term.

This might sound weird but some people (and companies) don't subscribe to the notion that money is the only thing that matters.
Aren't you just pointing out the symptom instead of the real problem we need to be tackling?

> The same group(s) facing discrimination at the employment point also face discrimination earlier in life
We should all heavily invest in the pipeline problem through outreach and what not, but I'm genuinely curious: what happens if the underrepresented minorities don't make it past the blind skill validation?
So looking back at your post, I think the big difference is trusting someone's key isn't equivalent to trusting them. Trusting Alice's key just means I can trust that a statement signed by Alice's key was indeed signed/made by Alice.

The value of the system is that Bob cannot modify what Alice has said and signed. So the only place where Bob could lie is in his own block. Additionally, once Carlos signs his block, Bob and Alice can no longer change their statement either, so we're partly relying on Carlos to verify that he receives the package in the condition described by Bob's block.

One vulnerability I see is Carlos could just cut out Bob and fork the chain with his own block coming right after Alice. To counter that you could have each sender sign off on who they entrusted the package to (i.e. Alice signs her block/creates a block saying she gave the package to Bob).

So essentially the idea is to set up a system of untrusted participants whose identities can be verified/trusted. Bob might have an incentive to lie about who he received the package from or what the condition of the was package when he received it, but he doesn't have much incentive to let other people sign messages using his key.

I'm not sure as a system whether there is actual value or benefits here over other simpler solutions, it's just a fun thought experiment I've been doing to try and figure out scenarios where blockchains could provide real benefits over other systems.
I think you misinterpreted that message. I think "naysayer" is still referring to the working people who take a stand against something they feel is morally wrong. They should focus on the more 'real' business concerns so they can affect actions if not minds.

Not that you are a "naysayer" and are trying to spread fear by commenting on this website.
I can confirm this is still the case. You cannot wear items / symbols of a criminal organization (that's what the law says approximately)
Yes, I agree that the argument is not watertight.

The counterargument is, "Okay, so let there be multiple app stores on iOS, that compete with each other, and let the market price that package of services."

But regardless, let's not talk about whether Apple is providing luxuries or necessities -- that's not what rents are about.
Why could we not protect ourselves? Many ancaps or ancoms would argue that would be possible. The government assumes they know better than you do on how to enforce contracts or protect yourself and impose a monopoly on force by force to make sure you can't build alternatives. So yeah, it is based on the premise that they know better than you do on certain areas of life. People just disagree how wide these areas should be. I may be mistaken though so feel free to prove me wrong.
"The Helias (Helical Advanced Stellarator) reactor is based on the Wendelstein stellarator line and takes into account the design criteria of a power reactor."

http://epsppd.epfl.ch/Sofia/pdf/P4_192.pdf

Alas, it "just" seems to talk about extending the coil design for a reactor, not the rest. I am guessing most of that would be similar as for other fusion reactors, see for example MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
There are certainly exceptions. I remember one documentory that looked at the theory that the roman empire's strength was infrastructure. I simply feel it is underrepresented.
If you're not working by yourself though, the things that make you a human really matter. I work at a company full of talented, smart developers with no focus or priority on communication or people skills. As a result we really lose out on collaboration and fail to leverage good work done by any specific team. I don't need a name or age to assess these traits but i sure need to get to know the person behind the resume facts.
And besides all of the work Apple does to develop and maintain the APIs and frameworks that apps use?
> MRAP's are for combat, not police work

While they were designed for combat, they are effectively the same thing that Brinks uses to transport money. They are meant to stop bad things from killing the people inside. They have 0 offensive weapons.

They are entirely defensive vehicles that have been used to rescue downed officers, civilians in harms way (gunfire), and multiple times in natural disasters where other vehicles would have gotten stuck.

While I get that they "look scary" to some people, they do have utility and come very cheap from the federal government that is trying to get them off their books. Local police pick them up because when there is a gunfight/hostage situation/disaster it's better to have one 5 mins away than an hour away.

I honestly don't get the outrage about them.
Monitor resolutions have been stagnant for a very long time. The 1024 x 768 monitors of old were about the same DPI as today's 1920 x 1080 monitors, since the screens have gotten larger.

I blame Microsoft. For far too long Windows programs haven't been able to scale gracefully, making odd resolutions painful to work with.
"Its users are scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones. "

lol fuck you too, Oleksandr.

Maybe this is some good old Ukranian sarcasm wooshing over my head?

Great article though.
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I have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. Hope that helps!
Git has a great proof-of-work and consensus mechanism in its original application.

Proof-of-work is code that passes tests and consensus is "Linus said 'ok'".
Scientific computing doesn't (only) mean small tight loops doing linear algebra. Scientific applications can be millions of LOC, with all the attendant problems of managing complexity at scale. Polymorphism can well be a useful tool to have in the toolbox. Just because it's not an appropriate tool when writing high-performance kernel code, doesn't mean it's not useful elsewhere.
No. It necessarily does. The enterprise is the final authority regarding whether or not the system is behaving correctly, not a distributed consensus.
Biomass of mammals on Earth as of 2018
- Livestock, mostly cattle and pigs (60%)
- Humans (36%)
- Wild animals (4%)

Wow.
Depending on your testing and release process using an unstable compiler may not be a big deal. Unlike a webserver or a JIT you run the rust compiler once with your final product and can spend as much time as you want to verify the result.
Why not quit in protest?
Shareholders do.
Companies? Only 30% of respondents reported using Rust at work. Presumably a majority of Rust hobbyists use nightly and less so for those writing Rust for a job.
> it doesn't matter that you are a Native Fin and your competitor

But for this fragment that makes it obvious, this post is a masterpiece of hiding its racism and sexism behind a veil of words the author knows HN will like. It’s almost impressive, in a way.
> *We will be updating this post with additional signatures as they come in.

As of a few moments ago the head count was 187 folks.
In the past I tried creative night shifts too, sometimes till 3AM but in the morning I was wrecked.
So what works now: I go to sleep same time as my kids and wake up much earlier.

Benefits:

1) kids get good habit going to sleep at the right time

2) you get a proper sleep

3) at least my morning mind is much more fresh after some exercise

4) your creative wandering is time limited by how early you wake up - that is most difficult especially in the winter, but it is just a matter of habit and doesn't sacrifice health so much.

5) I am unlikely to procrastinate in the morning if I wake up with a planed task in mind
There's something you've overlooked: companies are ultimately run by humans. Humans who make decisions at all levels of the hierarchy, in order to further their own personal priorities, even if it dramatically conflicts with the shareholders' goals of maximizing profits.

In some cases, the personal priorities can be personal advancement. We see this all the time when managers hire/promote their friends, sexually harass their subordinates, and make decisions on the basis of politics as opposed to technical/business merit.

And in other cases, the personal priorities can be moral values. Values such as promoting free speech, fighting censorship, protecting consumer rights, and avoiding layoffs.

The idea that every single decision taken by a company is perfectly optimized to maximize long term profits, is baseless. There simply does not exist any mechanism to monitor and enforce such a requirement. The shareholders have only one lever to pull: accept the current leadership team, imperfections and all. Or fire them and risk destroying the company in the resulting churn. This gives both the executives and employees tremendous leeway to prioritize values over profits, as long as they are good enough to not get fired.
That's a great question, and one I don't have a great and proper solution for. My splitting suggestion above I consider better than blind-only, but it certainly is not bullet-proof.
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> Coming from a C++ background I consider the Rust library ecosystem to be one of its strong points already!

In a sense, I agree with you. Certain kinds of features available in the Rust ecosystem are much more easily available than in the C++ world, and there's been a lively pace of articles published about libraries and applications in Rust. But another sense I got from looking at libraries to use myself and applications to learn from was that the ecosystem is quite smaller and ... not quite as matured as the C/C++ ecosystem (I'm _completely_ ignoring FFI for this argument). Of course, all of this is completely natural, and I'm simply not expecting them Rust ecosystem to be competitive with the much older C/C++ ecosystem(s), but this realization does temper my excitement with Rust a bit.
Very few packages actually contain minified sources - it's not really needed with modern build tools. I think it was an exception in this case, and that by itself could be suspicious. Current version of npm now contains a package-lock.json file which is made to make builds pretty close to deterministic. It contains the entire dependency tree of dependency names, versions, and hashes. I say pretty close because it's still possible to break "npm install" by unpublishing a package.
Great. This should stop the "wage gap" arguments. It will mean even fewer women in tech, but apparently that's what they want.
I refrained from going so far in part because there's places you can still get great info on things like pihole, which would violate the interests of those departments.

But my gut says that it's not that google is defending the sanctity of such results, but that those results are an annoyance and not a real threat, so are just off the radar. When someone with enough sway wants them gone, I've got no doubt they'd be nerfed too.
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Actually, almost all Fortran code says "implicit none".
Yea, the bit about a mixed master race was kind of a give away there.