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Ask HN: Googlers, is Google promoting specific protests?
Project Veritas recently released documents which apparently show that "Resist@Google" is promoting protests for a particular political perspective, going so far as to suggest specific chants. [0] This seems quiet egregious, and I'm not really sure if I believe this. Can any googlers confirm or deny if such things have happened?

To be clear, I'm not trying to ask a loaded question or argue for one political tribe. I'm trying to verify what I've been hearing and make sure I'm not getting fed fake news by going to the one place I know of which has lots of googlers. I know veritas has an agenda, but no one else seems to be refuting it. Thank you in advance.

[0] https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GoogleResist.pdf
Thanks, it's so easy to forget that we'll never understand each other without listening to each other.

Re: 2, I am beginning to embrace my role as it is now, and I feel so much better about it already. Whether it's short- or long-term, I can take pride in my ability to enable her to be the best mom and wife she can be.
Properly executed an explosive startup that burns fast and fails hard can still net the founders substantial change just by setting their own salaries and running investor money through the ringer fast and furious.

I don't really think its in the self interest of someone trying to make a successful product in tech to take a landslide of outside capital to try to grow a functioning, healthy business. But its definitely in the self interest of the founders if the goal is to get big and blow up. Because getting big alone has many benefits - besides the aforementioned pay, you become connected and influential in the industry in ways that can absolve you of responsibility to outside money in your future ventures or interests.
You too are blinded by the limitations of your tools. Of course the shell performs all kinds of computations. Just not a useful enough set of them that you don't still need "bc" and "awk" and "sed" and "grep" and many other ridiculous "Unix Philosophy Compliant" tools.

I complain my screwdriver sucks when it's made of plastic, and it's only good for driving plastic screws into styrofoam.
A few years ago Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all successfully kept engineer pay down through anti-poaching agreements[1].

Unions provide checks and balances against that type of abuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
What am I missing? That all leads back to 'to cook'.
Yeah, I think I agree with this. I've always worked at companies with increasing autonomy and responsibility. And before that, I was in a number of youth programs focused on accountability and responsibility.

And totally agree that not everyone can or should do remote. It makes a lot of people unhappy. And it doesn't work for a lot of employers b/c they can't find enough of the right people. Or they have some real job-related requirement that makes it difficult or impossible to do remote. Like, how do you have a remote welder or a hardware engineer or biologist or forensic tech person. They need access to physical stuff and/or a lab with expensive equipment.

So, it's not a panacea. But it works really great for some people if it's setup right. And it can be a competitive advantage.
A reasonable person would understand that this is within the context of modern history.

It's common knowledge (grade school level?) that the earth was once much, much hotter (and at other times colder) than it is today.
It’s obviously implied. The temperature is very noteworthy and the headline writer’s lack of space for more specificity is a distraction.
> search engine that just work

For some definitions of "just" and "working". Even ignoring the business limitation, the UX of Slack search is meh. That said, I'm yet to see any of the modern web&mobile-oriented IMs that would have a decent search UX.

But yeah, your list is solid. They offer plenty of value, just mixed with plenty of negatives.

A big source of the complaints against Slack is usually the network effect - in context of both work and OSS communities, it's usually somebody else that makes the decision and imposes it on you, forcing you to run face-first into all the "legitimate reasons to not use it" you listed. Half of the pain would be gone if they opened up their service to third-party clients; I'd say the reason they didn't have as much opposition from people initially is because they run the bait-and-switch with IRC gateway.
No other "liberal democracy" has spent decades destabilizing democratically elected regimes, propping up dictators, and applying economic sanctions in nearby nations in the name of fighting communism, causing a massive flood of refugees fleeing those nations.

Why can't America try paying the cost of its actions for once, instead of pushing those costs on innocent families and children fleeing famine and violence?
I personally don't consider it just a small improvement. Tearing drives me crazy and I'm comfortable sacrificing a frame to make sure it never happens.

However, I will admit that Crinus makes some compelling points.
Yeah nothing to see here, just another historical extreme heat-wave hitting an entire continent. How dare they suggest this isn't ordinary. /s
Therefor you are making an assumption that compounds/reinforces your confirmation bias as opposed to actually seeking further further information to determine whether the article is correct? Is that a close-minded approach or a knowledge seeking approach? To what other "professionally interested" group do you also automatically give the benefit of doubt?
> have only been actively measured for centuries at most

We have reliable ways of estimating past temperatures. Gas from ice cores, temperature-influenced mineral formation, et cetera. Many of these methods are more accurate than thermometers from only a century ago.
Mattermost, it's awesome. My company already left Slack
> STV, ranked choice, IRV, etc.

What we really need is approval voting / range voting. First past the post creates polarization because it causes there to be two parties and requires every issue to be bifurcated into on of those two boxes, and if your preferences don't all perfectly align with party lines then welcome to hell.

But the problem with proportional representation systems is that they would require flipping over the table in the US. Senators are from specific states, Congressmen are from specific districts, and that part of the system isn't the broken part, it's actually helpful -- if your state or district has a specific problem then you have a specific person who actually cares about it because your vote matters more to them than the vote of someone else in some other place.

But apply range voting to the same districts and states and you don't end up with a two party system, because two very similar candidates no longer split the vote with each other. Then anybody who can represent a given district or state better than the incumbent can win the election regardless of party affiliation, and you're no longer stuck choosing between two party platforms because now there are twelve.
> With the rise of China and its exponential military spendings, do you think that decreasing us military budget would be a wise strategic move ?

The budget is essentially unchanged[1]. The value of that budget has increased exponentially because the value of Chinese currency has increased. China has not directed any more of its resources to its military.

Even more foolish is acting like the Chinese military is capable of threatening the US any time soon. Like fuck, at least we still kind of fight proxy wars with Russia; we do nothing of the kind with China. China is totally incapable of force projection outside tiny pacific islands. China is the only nuclear country that has a "no first use" policy on nukes. They have a single aircraft carrier, compared to the US' eleven. The US has as many carriers (which are the single dominant mode of force projection) as the rest of the world combined.

The US military is so absurdly oversized that we would benefit strategically by spending the money on R&D or the economy instead. Until such a time as the US expects to literally fight China, Russia, and the EU at the same time, the military is massively excessive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_China#/medi...
Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science
>better to be specific

The word nation is not found in either the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution. I consider nationalism, nationalistic movements, to be anti-freedom, they engender only division, hatred, enemy seeking, scapegoating, and laws to protect and enhance such things. Who is free in the U.S.? Perhaps citizens? There is even a movement that only natural born citizens are real citizens, and naturalized citizens are second class and could have citizenship stripped from them after the fact if they violate certain laws. It's not enough to imprison them, they have to be stripped of citizenship, in this view.

What about all persons within the U.S. are they free? The constitution applies mostly to persons, not just citizens. Most all individual rights and protections apply to persons; citizens get some extra privileges like holding federal public office. And yet a great many Americans are very confused about this, thinking constitutional law, rights and protections only apply to citizens.

Therefore I put nationalism as my specific enemy of the American dream, and of freedom. Patriotism is quite nice, in particular as it relates to America as an asylum for most of its history. But when patriotism is infected with nationalism, it becomes jingoism, and that's dangerous. Eventually no one is free.
Professional photographers should (IMHO) either shoot tethered or get an external USB 3.1 (>5Gb/s) external card reader. Fstopper recently did some quick benchmarks, and the transfer times were significantly faster:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWhvc-UCOA
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Drifters... Drifters...

Is this a Universal Paperclips reference?

https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Drifters
Too many candidates on stage. Each of those candidates is prepped to only drop soundbites... best soundbite of the night wins the "debate".
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ndbfbfnq
Objectively prove reliability and get back to me.
Thank you. I'm going to peruse this and MIT's offerings as well. I also need to learn the basics of another country's language...
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Tritium is quite weakly radioactive. It is effectively shielded by a few millimeters of air. As long as the crew doesn't drink the cargo they should be pretty save.
"Well funded sales team" is unfortunately what makes closed products win over open ones.
Good insight, thanks. I do notice some bouncing from crisis to crisis with her. Not that all of them are manufactured -- some are very real and unavoidable. However, she has a tendency to fall into the role of victim, where these things in her life happen to her, and she's just trying to survive. I would LOVE to figure out how to help her out of that mentality and take ownership of all aspects of her life.
More than 95% of the company doesn't have time for all this. And no, nothing is being promoted.
Right, but the idea here is that you shouldn't be allowed to comment until you've at least apprised yourself of the subject.

Of course, hiding a button with JavaScript is trivially defeated by your typical HN user, but I want to assume at least to some degree of good faith... this would be more of a "commitment device" than anything.
Google wants the ability to promise unlimited storage without any of the responsibility of meeting that promise.
I don't use Evernote any longer for several reasons (lack of Linux support, privacy, etc), but I haven't been able to find anything to replace it for my use case. Evernote has a great web clipper and handles handwritten notes and scanned PDF documents really well. That, combined with its reasonably good search and organization features (tags, notebooks) made it really useful for me.
You just don't have shared memory at your disposal by forking processes. For example, having a rather large dictionary of translation strings which are read-only and static, you have to load these in every process as there is no copy on write property to these "forks".

If your JSON payloads are large, you can't have a forked process do the deserialization of it (because you would need to re-serialize across the communication boundary, which defeats the point).

I think it would be reasonable to have immutable data structures shared with web workers. I also think it would be reasonable to make it possible to pass complex objects (all primitive types supported by JSON) between workers without a serialization step.
If the US only holds its economic ground at gunpoint I don't feel justified living my dainty American lifestyle thanks to boots to the throat of peoples around the world.

Europe endures and prospers without threat of violence or economic imperialism by bomb across the globe.
With that many employees you're signing up for Slack's enterprise tier, and you can bet they price it so that they come out the right side of this cost/benefit calculation for a lot of companies.
Well I was not going to buy one, the price jump from the previous Pro was not something I or many expected or appreciated.

I will get on my soap box again.

Apple needs to be out of China, not moving more manufacturing to that country. What will it take to get Apple to stand up for the rights of the oppressed in China or are they that wrapped up in dollars they no longer see the people component? For a country which struts around in Western countries about their rights and privacy position their continued and increasing production in China shows how much that stand of theirs is meaningless.

They stand for rights and privacy only when it does not interfere with their revenue stream
Suggesting something is not ordinary is not the same as using hyperbolic language. Conflating the two is very unwise.
What does years have to do with it? Look how many engineers have to sit on their hands when github goes down?
Download 'Magnet'

Not a native solution but very lightweight and solves a lot of your issues.

And if you want something extremely powerful and robust, check out Hammerspoon. Much more complicated setup but basically turns the MacOS window manager into a proper tiling wm.
> remember china already sent a column of tanks there one nigth

Taiwan is an island. Sending a column of tanks there isn't something the PLA could just do overnight. They'd need to get a warship past Taiwan's naval and aerial defenses in the first place before they could even think of invading with tanks.
A well-written article mixing personal narrative with exalted principles, and concluding with this stirring appeal:

> At the G20 summit, world leaders should ignore the protestations of Beijing and insist on discussing not just the Hong Kong protests, but also the horrifying internment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang re-education camps. To simply raise these issues is not too much to ask of world leaders. All they need is a fraction of the courage, wisdom and compassion that the people of Hong Kong have shown.

I hope world leaders will rise to the occasion.
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words.
got any tutorials you can point me to for something like this? I want to make a front door peep hole camera after someone recently stole a package from my apartment entrance.
Back in the day, my international economics professor told me corporations will set up, and base their business out of the countries that they see as the most stable. Because of this, it scares me when I see headlines like this, even though it is only production. If anyone has a counterpoint to what he said, I am very interested in hearing it
I like how Window management works in macOS more than the other platforms! The touchpad gestures are great. Or, if you're using a mouse with extra buttons, one of the side buttons can get mapped to Mission Control, which works wonderfully!

I did prefer App Exposé in Snow Leopard, but ah well...
And what is the advantage over lasers in this "shoot down small fast things" role?
Was more curious to just HOW it's done / been done
Probably ~$450M, give or take.
> Objectively prove reliability and get back to me

Metrology and geology are established scientific fields. I'll start you off with estimating temperature based on carbonate composition [1]. (It's not the most accurate method. But it's easy to understand.)

[1] https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_01/
Lifewtr, its what plants crave
Scientists have discovered how people will look like in 2100
>"computation is not meant to be done via the shell or shell scripts"

You are using the passive voice, which is useful when you want to obscure the subject of the sentence. So WHO does not mean for you to perform floating point calculations and string manipulation with the shell?

The shell is a human designed artifact. God did not create the category of shell scripting languages and declare that nobody should ever use them perform floating point or string manipulation.

Windows Powershell isn't ridiculously crippled like bash is. It's still a shell. That disproves your point that there is some universal definition of a shell that precludes it being useful for general purpose programming tasks.
Tbh., if you need two full-time sysadmins to run your IRC server + bouncer + log backup + web frontend, you're doing something really wrong. It's more like an after-school job for a bored CS student.
Game developers today already have to account for significant latency in display hardware, and Windows's display stack has been compositor based since Vista. So while I'm sure many of them are annoyed by it, overall it doesn't seem to be that big a deal.

And then of course there's Stadia...
I have a feeling the majority of this research is conducted by Five Eyes military counter-intelligence branches (ripping it out of the hands of whoever was on the trail before), with the resulting reports passed around in redacted form to those who need to know (e.g. the manufacturers, suppliers, investors, etc.) but not generally bubbling up to the public, except through backchannels (like my friend in the Navy who warned me ten years ago to avoid buying anything with Huawei chips in it, saying he couldn’t get into the details.)

If the current approach is more of the same, we’ll see these reports declassified in 30 years or so, when China is (in one way or another) no longer the same looming threat it is today.
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Most Apple products are manufactured in China and have been for years.
Dutch bank and researchers begin defence against quantum computing’s dark side
1. People have already been abducted illegally in HK, so this is not hypothetical.

2. A population cowering in justified fear is not "only feelings", but indicative of bad government.
Objectively prove that the Earth wasn't created last Thursday and get back to me.
Worse yet. Walk into an Apple store and buy their top of the line laptop and top of the line mouse, and take them home -- realize a few days (maybe weeks, to be fair) later that you cannot charge your mouse with your laptop without a dongle.
If you want to learn Deep Learning without all the math - I'm currently releasing a free video per week for something I'm calling the "Summer of AI": https://summerofai.com/

It walks you through all the basics of deep learning (with PyTorch) with a concept video, code video, and then suggested project for each week.
Are we in China? Its always about terrorism, but NSA/FBI/CIA/3-LETTER-AGENCY fails to do anything when there is terrorism or about to be. They have allowed things to happen. This should fall under the 4A for those of us in America imho.
Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone
Didn't you literally state this in the first post:

> This criticism regards use of precise language, not climate change.
Evernote still the best yet lol
We did. Even in a hierarchy, an executive's primary role is to build consensus, but in a co-op you're contending with increased ego from the participants. In a hierarchy, not being the executive makes it easier to back down on an issue. In a co-op, part of your mind must see yourself as an owner. In a co-op, every active employee needs at least some degree of CEO-ness. And then you have too many CEOs in the boardroom.

> that difference doesn't have to be a death sentence

Despite my failed attempt at one, I completely agree. To me, the co-op must be the way forward. It's the only likely contender I've found that might bridge capitalism and socialism.
Completely false in every way including the appeal to history.

The 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees grants refugees very specific rights that are absolutely being violated by this policy, and the term "concentration camp" has been used in many other cases other than WWII concentration camps to mean exactly the thing the U.S. is doing to refugees on the southern border. I definitely consider them concentration camps, while as yet not being death camps. There already should be holy hell to pay for having done yet again what we promised never to do the last time we had concentration camps, for Japanese-American citizens.

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2019/06/22/tribune-...
> Calling this a concentration camp is like calling a terminal cancer ward a "death camp" because people go there to die.

No, it isn't. Concentration camps have existed throughout history and they haven't always been associated with genocide. But, you know, they do have a connotation of being associated with violations of human rights which is exactly what people are alleging about these detention sites.

The fact that it's not literally the holocaust doesn't mean it's not a concentration camp.
It seems like the author has a definite axe to grind here. I can't recall a single story about Apple's product design that lays the blame for unrepairability at Ive's feet, yet here's this article that implies nobody else was involved in the design of Apple's products.

I'm not much a fan of Apple's chosen method of doing business, and can honestly say I've only liked a few of the product designs that Ive has created over the years, but I think history will be kind to him; his designs helped create the juggernaut Apple is today, and he's leaving at a bit of a high point in his career.
You are suggesting Trump is doing this based on recommendation of his team or in depth analysis of the topic. Your proof being members of his team. Even though trade is complex issue, people will understand careful diplomacy. What Trump is doing is like carrying a sledge hammer and out in full swing against trading nations. There is no pattern or logic to it, other than scare tactics. If you can point out to why you think he is doing this in more convincing manner then I think you might not have been downvoted.
Apple previously (years ago) spoke about the importance of the supply chain, not price as the reason to mfg in China. Steve Jobs gave an example that if you needed to change the design to use a different type of screw then you'd have several manufacturers nearby that you could source from. That's just not possible in the US.
You could eliminate open-plan office spaces.
EAV is not for everyone. You have to have a data set for which each entity can have values defined for some of, but not all of a large set of attributes. It’s a bit like sparse matrices, actually.

And, yes, you want your tools and application to abstract away some of the messiness involved in something as simple as “load/save this object from the database,” otherwise you’ll end up with a much larger amount of code for such a simple operation. I’ve seen it done in a Django app, and it’s not bad to work with once those abstractions are in place.
Note that I probably have a backup of this book (I'm sure it is on one of my old decommissioned backup drives), it's unlocking it that is the problem.