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> It's plausible to me that Sergey Brin, who has been fairly peripheral to Google's business side for a long time, may have been kept in the dark

compartmentalizing the org structure so that it removes the manager from liability and shifts the blame to a fall-guy is a common theme in organized crime. It is also illegal.
Flattr set out do that, many years ago. They still exist. Brave is trying to address that. There's patreon, and many others. Have you tried them ?
I have been using Google Cloud for many years now. I used it because I thought it was technically superior than AWS and several others. However, for years, many mocked it as a second-tier cloud provider that wasn't "serious". Then Google brought on Diane Green. As a technical nerd, I wasn't too pleased. Their nerdy How-To articles morphed into Enterprise Success Stories. It was irritating, but it also raised Google-Cloud to a "serious" cloud provider.

Even though Rust's marketing pivot will likely irritate many, it's likely better for it long term.
Google ATAP did similar to me as I noted above...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567672
Do you have javascript disabled or a slow connection? That looks like a low res image to make the site load quicker before the higher quality (larger file size) images load.
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Star Trek is arguably utopian. At least that’s how it is intended and perceived. I personally abhor the primacy of the military it glorifies, and also the fashion choices.
Fair enough, it is something I wouldn't risk it either.
Zerosumism
Yes, I'm totally sick of it.

I remember an article, whose title essentially summed up my view on this space - "Star Trek: The Next Generation Was the Last Sci-Fi Show Hopeful About the Future"[0]. I grew up on ST:TNG, and I sorely miss the ideas communicated there. That people can organize for common good. That such organizations, even large and bureaucratic, can be very competent and effective. That individuals can strive to better themselves, both morally and in terms of competence. That the default assumption about your colleagues/teammates is that they're competent in what they do. That we can all cooperate, instead of defect.

Speaking of competence, I wish another cliché would die too. That the world is filled with idiots. It's also very popular, and I also destructive to the fabric of society. But I'll leave elaborating on it to David Brin[1].

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[0] - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a31206/star-trek-th...

[1] - http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/idiotplot.html
No the modern western civil services are not a copy of the Chinese system - it was developed to replace nepotism and fraud.
If you want your secrets to remain secret, you shouldn’t divulge your secrets.
Also, you don’t get to be the head of an organization whose primary goal is to figure out better and more efficient ways of mass murdering people whilst having any semblance of a moral compass, either.
- A mea culpa. Drop Dragonfly, admit that the way it was managed goes against AI guidelines, have a third party, like ACM evaluate missteps, and show your commitment to thought leadership on responsible use for AI tech in the future. Or stop the hypocritical canvassing (outwards promotion of "do no evil"), scrap or de-emphasize those guidelines (which currently unfairly attract idealist AI researchers).

- Fire Beaumont.

- Make secrecy and shutting out privacy and security teams against process and punish violators. Inform key decision makers, such as Larry Page, of controversial projects, and punish violators. Make lying to/obscuring your employees at an all hands meeting a fireable offence.

- Align incentives and OKRs. Promote and reward core values and those that make it sticky. Protect whistle blowers and conscientious objectors. Periodically review (and have subordinates review) managers and people in key positions, not for the profit or projects they launched, but for creating an inclusive collaborative working environment. Put less focus in hiring for skill and more focus in core value alignment.

- Appoint an employee ombudsman and objective ethics audit team. Give them enough authority, visibility, and power to make changes for the better. Make sure concerns of lower level engineers make it to the top. Make management justify putting profit over user safety.

- Offer a few golden handshakes to people high up in management, that are directly or indirectly responsible for the public erosion of Google's core values. Be wise to the fact that the best and most productive/profitable leaders are also prone to shrewd and unethical behavior, and guard against this.
> The startup, whose products are used by millions of free and paying users,

I find it hard to believe, if im honest.
I wonder if a first line of defense could be to license the work as AGPL. Google would then probably not use it AFAIK
for the first few days, yes. But it's smooth afterwards.
How much does such a strategy cost?
> compartmentalizing the org structure so that it removes the manager from liability and shifts the blame to a fall-guy is a common theme in organized crime. It is also illegal.

There is nothing necessarily "illegal" about an org compartmentalizing information. What is illegal is fraud... one person in an org saying one thing, while others in the same org know that the thing is not true. The other problem with overly compartmentalizing information is not related to legal liability at all: if managers don't know what's going on, good or bad, they can't be trusted by shareholders, which can kill the stock price.

Shareholders generally prefer known challenges than unknown ones.
If I keep my whole Google (https://myactivity.google.com) and Youtube history completely empty but still logged in to Google account everyday (gmail and youtube on Firefox), are they still tracking me around the web?
You, in a pair of crimson Speedos, would wobble the knees of any self respecting heterosexual man.
Thank you and I'm sorry to hear that you left us. Please do try and check back with us at some point. I believe you'll see a difference in our approach to how we do things and the decisions we make going forward.
Yea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.
Can't you host all fonts you use on your server? Why use remote google fonts?
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He’s not making a counter argument. He’s agreeing with you...
the stock options are secured by a key and additionally by a contractual agreement. so even if somebody would steal them they wouldn't be able legally enforceable.
Agreed. If you’re an asshole let’s make sure some shit you do sticks to your name.
I have this strange feeling, that first half-hour was totally unnecesary for what the sencond half is. I mean, that it feels that he have to rant always about. Like ok, this ideas are wrong, this is my idea that is totally new(not really) and is the right thing to do. Nowadays, that ranting about Java is not so cool, he have to rant about types. Only to finish saying that he is going to add to Spec something that have already been implemented in Clojure https://github.com/plumatic/schema. So at the end of the talk, what's the point?
Why would anyone want to lose their accustomed & much appreciated extensions for versions > 56? Some compelling reason I've missed?
In the case of a bad leaver event it is up to the employer to decide. So in most cases the bad leaver wouldn't receive anything.
Probably because she’s been doing it to lots of people for her whole career. People don’t usually get caught the first time they shoplift.
Something I've seen in most Xavier Leroy (of Ocaml) slides.

It makes things so clear to me.
The core of the Star Trek post-scarcity is a) near-free energy, and b) ubiquitous access to matter replicators. The replicator is kind of magic, but not total impossibility, and rough approximations are within realm of conceivable "future technology".

But I think first and foremost, Star Trek is being brought as an example of post-scarcity so often because it's pretty much the only story that presented such society and reached general audience. It's pretty much a lone beacon of hope in the sea of dystopia.

Still, I agree with your point. Star Trek is a nice dream, but not a good source of information for reasoning about reality.
Can you elaborate a bit on your comment? I am not sure I quite understand the distinction you are trying to make.

Much like “weeds”, when referring to plants, is a distinction that is only relevant in the context of human agriculture, so it is for “invasive species”. All life is, by definition (reproduction), invasive.
It's like hard slap straight in the face. They changed license because they perceived that multibilion giant(s) feasts and earn money upon their work and gives back not that much.
In return giant just slaps
That makes me sick. What a disgusting parasite. And you don’t see anything condemning her actions. I wish that was the first result when you search her filthy name. Would hopefully impact her jewelry business.
And when the blockchain forks, you get double the stock options!
Was thinking of the same thing for our Saas app? Seems like this makes all Saas deployed on AWS available for on-prem as well?
Why not just have container for every damn site. No one should track me
The thing to remember about Star Trek is that it was never that Utopian except on paper.

The original series wasn't much at all, it was basically the US Navy in space. It does have a lot of moralizing and positivity, but the future depicted is also very much a product of its time. I wouldn't describe it as Utopian because the Federation as depicted is still clearly not intended to be seen as ideal.

TNG was a constant struggle between Gene Roddenberry to showcase his Utopian ideals and the writers to actually have some human drama (which he forbade, because humans were supposed to have evolved beyond that,) so it's the most optimistic of the series, most of the time, sometimes (IMHO) to its own detriment. One of the most hated characters in Star Trek, Wesley Crusher, was Gene Roddenberry's vision of the Ubermensch, but he came across as an insufferably perfect Gary Stu.

Further series deviate from the Utopian vision with... mixed results. I personally think DS9 is the best of them because, being an arc-driven series, it gets to flesh out its characters and cultures to a degree other series couldn't. However it's also a series about how a self-described Utopian society can abandon its ideals and morals when faced with a brutal adversary.

I think it's best to approach Star Trek as sci-fi (light on science more often than not) drama first and morality play second.
Sorry, but I don't think you fully understand how the patent system works. Examiners generally look at published patents and patent applications. Even though they theoretically can, they don't look at abandoned patents that were never published (generally called secret 102(e) art). Also, filing a true patent application is pretty expensive, minimum $5k to do it properly. There are inexpensive options, such as provisional patent applications which can be as low as ~$100, but examiners don't look at those either.

If you're worried about someone patenting something you created, and you don't care about getting your own patent protection on your invention, you'd likely get more mileage from publishing a detailed blog article than filing a patent application.
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Agreed. As much as I liked the old site I think the rust team made the right call on this one.

Perhaps the old page could be moved somewhere close to the language docs instead of being removed, but I'm confident whoever is in charge has given this much more thought than I could ever give (as well as most of the commenters here).
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Once you're past the "basic vocabulary" stage, watch films in French, but with the French subtitles.
Have a look at the temporary containers add-on which does just that. It is completely usable. I just create a permanent container for sites where I want persistent cookies.
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> I talked about this in the interview and suggested they could make around 2 million per month if they hired me and used my script.

Obviously I don't know how the rest of the interview went, but the way you put it in the retelling makes it sound a lot like it was distracting from all the other reasons to hire you.

"How about that two million guy?" - "We hire developers, not libraries"

It might have been that they not only picked up the idea from the interview, but on top of that also did not hire you because of misplaced conditions. If that part came over more like "you can't if you don't", then it would be seen as a challenge: "sure we can". I think that just telling them that you have previously worked on link monetization and wrote a library about it would have been a much better interview strategy than dangling some made up number in front of their faces. As an interviewer I would fear that a candidate arguing like that would be prone to taking their regular salary as granted and renegotiate something on top for every quantifiable contribution.
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Part of the problem is the fact that writing in general follows certain patterns and people want to see those same patterns repeated over and over again, like for instance the hero's myth or man in a hole. People don't want to see reality, because reality can be banal, depressing, ambiguous, complicated, or incomprehensible, they want to see certain myths repeated over and over again.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180525-every-story-in-the...
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Parents generally do not value the opportunity for their children to abandon the parents' society in favor of some external one. But they do value the opportunity for their children to earn money. Market access is what they want. If they could do it without culture access, they would.

The contrast is live in the US in deaf communities. Deaf community leaders have a strong and unconflicted opinion on surgery to restore the hearing of deaf children: it's bad, it's a denial of the inherent worth of deaf people, and you should be ashamed for even thinking that a deaf child's hearing needs to be "fixed".

They think that way because they have a direct personal interest in the size of the deaf community: the larger the community is, the more power community leaders wield. But they have zero interest in the well-being of any specific child, and less in the well-being of a child who isn't even part of their community.

In contrast, the deaf parents of deaf children are often very conflicted. They know a child is better off being able to hear. But the child is unlikely to participate much in the deaf community (important to the parents) if its hearing is restored.

But still, I think it's hard to argue that it would be an example of disempowerment to exterminate sign language by restoring everyone's hearing so they can learn a spoken language and communicate with the people around them.
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I've recently been experimenting with creating an extension, and the automated signing was literally one of the first things I did when I followed the Hello World tutorial. It's very easy to obtain an .xpi that you can distribute to your users yourself.
Of course, or do you think I enjoy doing false statements?!?

Enjoy the video from 00:20:40 up to 00:21:10.
The hard truth is someone has to pay for content in the end. It's either ads or some kind of paywall or micropayment.

It's okay to say no to ads, but then we shouldn't circumvent paywalls. Free content is free only as long as someone somehow still pays for it.
I performed MD simulations all throughout my PhD, on three different supercomputers as well as on a virtual cluster I set up on Azure. I didn’t say latency wasn’t a bottleneck; but the parent poster asked why additional bandwidth would be needed. It’s definitely necessary, but not sufficient.

I would argue though that for simulations with very long-range force fields or ones that include quantum chemical effects, bandwidth is THE bottleneck. Latency more so for short range force fields for non-reactive potentials.
> She has an impressive resume.

> Why would she do something like this?

Because the latter may be the reason for the former
Awaiting obligatory "go 2 considered harmful" YNews article.
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> If a research team discovers something new, lawyers will make a patent out of it that is broad / vague enough to prevent any further research in that area by competitors.

Not quite right. If an inventor creates something marginally useful at a large company, there's no question that their lawyers will try to patent it. But the purpose is not to prevent research in the area, in fact the opposite. Once a company has a patent on something, they'd likely encourage further research, knowing that they have a financial interest in the research going to market.

All big companies do this, and once the research matures enough to become a product, all the companies have modest claim to it, but they all have an interest to bringing it to market. In some cases, these companies fight who gets what in court (e.g., CRISPR), but in others, they come together and agree on a royalty scheme roughly proportional to their contributions (e.g., MPEG, H.264).

The point is, no company patents something to stop research on that thing, it's quite the opposite.
The big difference between C++ and Rust is that, when you scroll down in this Reddit thread, it shows that the Rust guys have a clear path for fixing this issue, whereas there is no fix for this in C++ (that I'm aware of).
If you mean automatic micropayments when reading articles then you'll still be tracked, because the payment provider has to track what you read to make the payments and even has to be able to provide a log of it in case there is a payment dispute, so they will store what urls you visit and when.

Without a proper log payment disputes can't be resolved legally.
I recently did an online course on algorithmic information dynamics where Hector (one of the scientists quoted) was the instructor. The entire course is available online https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbvAAv4mbxdgp3qZRr34z...

I really, really enjoyed the course. It was very interactive and Hector was involved actively on forums with the students. Post the course, Hector suggested a couple of research directions and groups of students (myself included) are following different research directions. Here’s the Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/algodyn (we have a slack group too).

I’m myself part of a group where we are trying to create a crypto-currency approach of exploring Turing Machines and their outputs. In case, anyone’s interested let me know. (Hope if that proof of work wastes computation. What if we could instead do useful work of computing universal distribution of algorithmically generated strings). In case anyone is interested in contributing to the project, our project meeting notes and goals can be accessed in this doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1np8cuFgfdrtRIaPL3oJPmmf_...

Overall, I’m very excited that researchers like Hector are making the field of algorithmic information theory more popular.
I don't disagree, but that's a normative argument about what addons we should choose to use.

My concern, however, is Mozilla putting themselves in the position of making that judgement for their users. Even if we agree that this isn't a good addon, does that mean it's fine for it to be censored by Mozilla?
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The good news is that very few people are at the top. Most are in the middle, and it's entirely possible to be ethical and in a good middling position.
My introduction was in BASIC (sinclair zx80), I started my profesional life as COBOL coder, in the meantime I reversed ASM to "unlock games".

I can asure you that in every step allong the way, the code (-base) I created horrified me 5 years later.

My point being: I appriciate the advice "throw it away and do it proper" but I can asure you, given enough time, the next person will not understand your solution.

Being it old languages, being it old paradigms, being it olt skool tricks of the trade: code stales. The best advice on this subject I read here (a couple of times) is to try to understand the requirements and take it from there. If that is not to your liking, you proberbly are in the wrong line of work and should try to do only greenfield stuff.
>>You are implying that ancestors of these landlords

'Ancestors' makes it feel they are from the 15th century. In reality these are people from 1960s/1970s. In most cities at that time buying a property was a no-brainer investment. There were public sector companies springing up all over the place, and the first round of urbanization was well in progress.

Also you don't even have to go that far, even in the 1990s, during the peak of onsite-money techies in Bangalore were swimming in, most currently high valued properties in the vicinity of ring-road today were available for almost free(Comparative to IT salaries of the day). Like 75 - 200 rupees/psqft.

The real problem is. Property hunting and buying is a long drawn process, that spawns over a year. Everything from scouting for opportunities, to negotiating, getting legal work done, raising money through loans, paying taxes, registration, long term care and maintenance are high effort consuming activities, that will drain your energy and stretch you will power to water film thinness.

Most of the crowd either does not have what it takes to think in terms of such long durations of time. Or even if they do, they have to undergo that process several times to build a decent portfolio of properties. That means weekends, and other holidays all go away towards this. This is above beyond any other maintenance you have to do. That is far away from opportunities being invisible. These are issues related to personal enterprise.

That's one big reason why Mutual funds have taken off so well.

But big returns await for those people who can scale the real estate mountain even today.

>>If you think moving out of those places is called instant gratification then it's hard to argue.

The good part is you will get what you want. So everybody will get what they want.

If some one wants properties as investment they will get it, and if some one wants to spend that money for a good quality of living they will get that too.

Those decisions have consequences. You just have to understand them and be fine with it.
No they can't! That alleged incident was over a private chat, not a public tweet.
Can you please link to or point to the recent results in computability theory that you are talking about?

Also, is your code for exploring Turing machines public? We could perhaps use it in our project (see my other comment)
Smart contract is exactly how you solve convoluted captables. Currently shareholding is such a mess that for any bigger company you do not even know how many shares are there - rarely they sum to 100%. at least when shares are represented as the tokens you know how many are there and who owns them - at all time. that's already a huge step forward

pricing of privately held companies is set by last funding round so you can say it's taken out of the thin air ;> you can also have market valuation if you try to tokenize shares and trade them. does not seem wise for early stage company though

also smart contracts do not solve malicious intentions of programmers and business owners, they are just tools and you can write fair self executing options plan or perfect decentralized scam

also Ethereum VM is much simpler to learn than commercial law which you (probably) also do not know