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So as long as you have good intentions you should be free to bring whatever politics to work?

Regardless of how, as long as what your protesting the right things everything else doesn’t matter?
> who leads Google’s Open Research

The only trace I can find of that group/team/whatever is that she leads^Wled it. What does it do?

> in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and her role at AI Now Institute, a research center she cofounded at New York University.

So side gigs need approval, and if there's a conflict of interest (such as: preventing your employer from building something that looks similar to your side gig) you'll be asked which side you're on. Sounds pretty normal to me.
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I don't believe she protested the AI ethics council.
The poster can't possibly expect the RPi people to include an XLR input.
I still use my Hi-Fi, admittedly with an Amazon Alexa as source, but it still sounds great.
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The fundamental problem of tech companies is that they need to keep two groups of people happy: whoever is in power, which is the bigoted right at the moment, and employees, who are generally not bigoted so on the American political spectrum are overwhelmingly left-wing.

This is an impossible task. My opinion is that Google should support its employees and deliberately position itself against the right. No matter how much ground you concede to them, they're going to act in bad faith anyway, so why listen to them at all?
She asked to be moved to RMI. No hiring manager in RMI wanted her on their team, and she didn't complete the ladder transfer process.

Instead demanding a forced transfer.

Could be wrong here, but that's how it was presented internally by Meredith herself.
It sounds like she did step 1 (try to change from the inside, first privately, then through employee protest), and now she's doing step 2 in your program. What would you do differently?
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I’m surprised Google’e executives would direct their managers to prevent what their employees are doing politically in their spare time...
No. All automakers get scrutinized by someone. What's telling is your overreaction to it.
Wrong fit. You should always recognize who is your paymaster.

She would be better off as an independent activist, a face for other disgruntled employees who have to remain anonymous because they have responsibilities to family etc.
There are entry level mics that are USB, but professional mics have XLR outs with a hot, cold, and ground out, i.e. balanced output. You then need some sort of an audio interface like a Scarlet 2i2 to convert and connect it to your computer. An interface can also provide things like phantom power which condensers (a type of mic) require.

Generally speaking sound cards for regular computers aren't very good, so I'd bet the pi's is probably close to non-existent. You'd want some sort of DAC/ADC anyway. For listening purposes I've used a Fiio E9(or 7?) dac, and now I use a schiit stack.
We already got Zuck Bucks coming down the pipeline. It won't be long!
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It doesn't detract from your point especially, but the Tour de France comprises 21 stages and the average stage is around 4-5 hours.
As an engineer who works with smaller parts, my desk and work areas have a constant influx of parts and pieces- and the keyboard and mouse I use take up a lot of space- like two square feet- and being able to move them, rest them on top of stuff, and use the mouse on my leg as necessary is really useful, and I really don't want to go back to wired peripherals.

Similarly, I really like Thunderbolt docks and the like because it helps me cut down on the semi-permanent wire clutter on my desk.
Antennagate was 90% myth. Bridging the two steel pieces with normal skin contact wasn't a significant factor in signal degradation. If it was, the problem would have persisted with the iPhone 4S, but it didn't. In fact the 4S was notable for having exceptionally good reception despite using the same exposed steel band arrangement—albeit with two cellular antenna segments instead of one.

(Major Australian telco Telstra assigned the iPhone 4S their "blue tick" mark for phones suitable for regional/rural Australian customers. This rating was only given small number of phones.)
I'm pretty there was some protest surrounding the ethics council.
Tax levels vary by state, and sometimes by country or city as well. (Texas levies a 6.5% sales tax on all cars statewide, the local taxes don't apply to car purchases.) There's no way to quote a "U.S. price" that includes taxes.
She was demoted without warning while her boss was giving her high remarks. The company reversed the demotion after she brought in a lawyer.

That's retaliation.
If we eliminate king from the result list I would assume it's plural is removed as well. Bummer, that would mean the latent space algebra in this example has no effect whatsoever..
Correlation != causation. Could be that, because cities become tech hubs, and because cities tend to lean left, that anyone who wants to work in tech will move to a city and be influenced by the left-leaning culture. I've known people who were farther right, went into tech, moved to cities, and are now farther left.
The same was very much true for Babbage and the Difference Engine. If I remember correctly, the level of repeatable precision and quality needed to make something like that was simply well beyond what engineers could manage even at the height of the industrial revolution. In theory everything that Babbage was designing was technically possible at small scale, but simply couldn't be done on the scale he imagined.

If memory serves, even the London Science Museum's partial reconstruction in the 1980s was a massive challenge of engineering.
She was not on the AI board that Google disbanded.
I wouldn't have led highly publicized protests against a company that I was accepting paychecks from
The manager feedback was posted in an internal mailing list.

It said no such thing. manager asked her to focus on her day to day job. Her ai ethics work was not aligned to the job she was hired for.
> We provide pre-built binaries for GraalVM CE for Linux and Mac OS X on x86 64-bit systems.

No mention of Windows
> How does this look bad for Google?

Organising protests takes management and leadership skill. Regardless of retaliation, multiple people, predominantly women, who publicly demonstrated this skill are opting not to put it to use at Google.

When competent people leave, it’s worth asking why and what further effect those departures might have.
The Mac line has had text to speech functionality since the very beginning, even being somewhat showcased at the first reveal of the Macintosh by Steve Jobs. https://youtu.be/2B-XwPjn9YY?t=208

Although, I imagine the quality of the reader has greatly improved since 1984.
Protesting against sexual harrassement and and equal compensation are just 'your politics'? huh.
They organized the woman's walkout, so it seems relevant to mention that they were women facing retaliation for protesting the treatment of women.
They didn't even go through with that AI ethics board (at least with that group)
There have been enough significant accidents caused by the motorbikes that reliable drones (flown appropriately) would probably be welcomed, after the usual uncertainty period.
I think you're attacking a straw man here. The people who want you to get rid of jQuery are mostly arguing that vanilla JS does what jQuery does.

As for abstracting the relationship between data and presentation, there is definitely a React bandwagon, but that's kind of the second stage after getting past jQuery.
It is naive to believe you can avoid politics working at one of the largest corporations on the globe. Isn't the Silicon Valley manifesto to "change the world"? What about that could possibly be apolitical? The effect of "doing your job in peace" is to delegate your political responsibility to the people above you.

Accept the responsibility of being an adult who participates in society.
One less person on the payroll to generate negative news and internal strife is surely a positive development.
I find that podcasts or audiobooks can actually help my pacing on longer weekend runs. With music I all too easily get caught up in a good song, let my pace drift faster into unsustainable territory, and wind up paying for it on the back half of the run.
"Apolitical" means no speech or actions to change the status quo. That is fine if and only if the status quo is fine.
The only car that is priced at all similarly is the SRT Demon, and that's a limited run. Are you seriously arguing that the 100D is priced hundreds of thousands below cost, or even 10s of thousands?
This is great. I keep the following in my bash profile for querying CSVs with SQL, which works OK, but this is probably better:

function csv_to_sqlite() {
echo "used as csv_to_sqlite PATH_TO_CSV TABLE_NAME"
sqlite3 -csv -cmd ".import $1 $2" -cmd ".headers on"
}

Two suggestions:

1. It would be a lot more useful if I could link an entire database rather than just tables

2. Sometimes I just want to query a single CSV, so a command line argument where I can just specify the path would be nice
Are you implying that their actions cannot be gender biased?
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When people say they want politics out of something, what they really mean is they want everyone else's politics out. My beliefs are common sense; your beliefs are partisan politics.
libro.fm audiobooks drop to $15 per book if you use their credits. It's a subscription system like Audible.

Unlike Audible, it's much easier to subscribe and quickly unsubscribe. So if you want to buy a book: (1) Subscribe for $15 to get one credit (2) Use your credit to buy a book (3) Unsubscribe.

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Most people would keep taking the check while convincing themselves they're not responsible.

When the somewhat immoral nature of that intrudes on people's thoughts, they can sort of silence it by finding fault with the person who IS following their conscience.
Same here. I still don't have a good solution to horizontal scrolling (shift doesn't work in Excel).
Because Google gives them money in exchange for said work.
Really nice!

Something similar (with a GUI) is https://www.dremio.com/ that I think has gained some traction.
I use two tools inside TW for tag management:

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Bimlas' Locator blew my mind. I've never used anything like it before. That is worth checking out.

If you go the TW5-Bob route, building commandline tools for tags is also a great option.
They completely ditched propulsive landings entirely for the Dragon capsules it's entirely a launch abort/escape system now.
If you ever find yourself in Kansas for some reason, there's an excellent space exploration & rocketry museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, of all places, called the Kansas Cosmosphere. It is very good, doubly so considering where it is. Nice collection, and very well presented. Not exactly close to other places anyone's likely to visit, but a great detour destination if you happen to be driving through.

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It’s interesting to compare this dustup to the “fired for truth” guy, I’ll say that. That guy seemed to have a lot more defenders, external to the company at least.

I guess “free speech” or “discrimination” wasn’t the issue after all.
Didn't the aluminum solid body originate with Mac? Thats been a huge cross product design decision that I personally love.
> The records are no less public in either situation? They can be accessed by anyone

No, that's not true. If you have to physically go to the county clerk's office then you have to physically be in the country. That is a significant barrier.

An example that is even more salient than 911 records: if you make any political contribution in the U.S. you are require by law to give your home address which then becomes part of an FEC database that can be accessed by anyone on earth with an internet connection.
Are you still experiencing pain? I had terrible tendonitis from playing too much chess using crappy trackpads in college lol. Took using https://www.amazon.com/Evoluent-VM4R-VerticalMouse-Ergonomic... this for a few years to fix my hands. Now I'm fine using the macbook trackpad all day.
But your work is innately political.
If by "politics" you mean "not being harassed" or "paid the same for the same work", yes, yes you should be free to bring that to work. Every damn day.
Several reasons:
- autonomy is in the 1/2h range for rotary-wing drones, you would need a lot of drones/operators throughout the race (it lasts 6h on average).
- the cameras/lenses used are huge, in the tens of kg, you could be closer with smaller drones thus requiring lighter lenses, but still, I think you would need big drones to keep the same quality. That means less safe and cheap.
- speed, the riders can reach 80-90kmph when going down, which is about/higher than the top speed of most drones.
- worse visibility/reactivity than a team in a helicopter, so harder to adapt to the action.
- better weather resistance

All around, helicopters are still the better option right now.
I guess they could/do use drones for some specific sections: climbs with a lot of public and similar where endurance/speed is less an issue and you can go much closer.
Nothing. But more or less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3fD5YyN3g She lost, so she's moving to the next company with an * to her name no doubt.
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The fact that we know how to easily break the DRM is fantastic, but it does not make the files DRM Free.
>which is the bigoted right at the moment

Ah yes, let's generalize ~50% of the country as bigots. That surely will lead to quality discussion.
Or maybe the intellectual capacity required to do well in tech also makes it more likely one would recognize instances of social injustice. It's just pattern matching after all.
You don't understand Google culture if you think this line would fly with anyone there. Entitlement for full time employees is baked into the charter, along with transparency. That's a good thing and a bad thing, in different ways. It gave bad actors a lot of autonomy, but it also exposed them to scrutiny and pushback from good actors.

What's surprising is that now these reprisals are trying to push that back to make Google more like other normal companies and organizational structures.
Because in reality both animals implicitly know that the conflict policies are somewhat hardwired as: 'If you push me too far, I will fight you on the beaches.'

Knowing that that is the policy that is implemented, and that fights are always risky, whether a fight occurs will be determined by the reward size and the predictability of the outcome.
So you want to use an analog microphone with the Raspberry Pi? Why?

As far as I know there are three kinds of microphones:

* The cheap analog ones, can be USB or audio jack. Presumably you want one of these?

* The digital ones, USB. Even some MEMS microphone chips now come integrated with amplifier and ADC. This can be almost as cheap as the preceding option, but can also be high quality; seems like the best option.

* The XLR proffesional microphones. You probably do not need or want this, assuming you will use just one microphone per Pi.
Totally relatable. Plus somehow I have noticed that I work out for more time while listening to audiobooks when compared to working out with blasting music. I use this service called auditus.cc to convert all my epubs. And the fun thing is the reading voices available are pretty varied so if I start getting bored from one voice, I make sure I use another one next time.
While this seems like a good idea, you lose the varying character voices some narrators put into their readings, which helps with immersion.
The leaders certainly all are. Not saying anything about ordinary people.

Why would you think I'm optimizing for quality of discussion? I'm optimizing for the material conditions of oppressed people, not some silly debate conducted on an online forum. It's more important to state the obvious truth than to soften it.
There was separate protests that the ethics council was inappropriately scoped and those on the council not fit to be there. The protests Meredith was on was regarding the letting go with generous severance packages of employees found to have been sexually harassing co workers, and the lack of resources within Google for those victims of sexual harassment/assault.
Think Clinton foundation and everyone else’s similar personal “charity”
I'm sure the riders would prefer drone buzzing over getting run down by motorbikes.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/motorbike-driver-ejected-fro...
This is useful for scripting things nicely when working with config files.

Nice work!
> Weird, I saw people elsewhere in the comments mention heatshrink tubing being substituted with electrical tape.

Right, because like I said above, the prevailing paradigm is to skewer Tesla by extrapolating from any available datapoint. So people take "tape" and invent reasons for the tape that don't appear in the article. Some of this isn't the posters' fault, because the article is sensationalized and is clearly trying to lead you to a conclusion about "tape" that it can't make with the simple facts presented.

Which is a media behavior that is, in the auto industry as of right now, almost exclusive to Tesla. No one runs dirt stories about tape on Fords, not because there isn't any (I mean, who knows, but none of would be shocked to read about it) but because even if there was, no one would care.
> Rust procedural macros are like external tools, manipulating the AST as a structure.

Isn't viewing them as like external tools just a C centric view, based on C's (and C++'s) capabilities? Didn't Lisp have macros that manipulated the language as an AST prior to C even existing, inside the language?
There are good quality USB soundcards to be had these days - most with connectors for external mics. This allows you to control the a/d step completely.
Its a shame this submission might be flag killed as there continues to be important issues to discuss.

The main thing it seems to me is that if a worker is unhappy with their company and is so unhappy their protest (and organise a walk out) their employer its even more clear they are unhappy working there. The unhappiness or alienation will increase.

I might have got it wrong though .... did these protestors say they were happy working there and just unhappy with other things or people?

It seems like it's a wider issue that's common across all work places. What should be the best way for people happy working with their colleagues or team but concerned about other things with the organisation to continue their good working environment and share their views? Maybe it's just a HR thing.
Some people think the leaders of Google are entitled to unilaterally decide what people at Google work on, and if you resist that sense of entitlement, people call you entitled.
You mean like every other EV in the US also? Those are all subsidized to exactly the same amounts yet you don't see them selling like gangbusters...
Are you expecting them to add a hi-fi ADC and a mic preamp to a $35 SBC? The existing audio output on the Pi is of terrible quality and I would expect any future audio input to be of worse quality than those $10 XLR->USB mic adapters.
Of course, and that’s why an observer in another planet would say: “look, an Earth eclipse” (or at least they would if the Moon was big enough for the event to be easily noticeable for them or if they paid enough attention, but that’s not the main point).

What we call “a lunar eclipse” is a solar eclipse in the Moon. What we call a solar eclipse is a solar eclipse on Earth. We can also observe solar eclipses (total or partial) on other bodies in the solar system.

I agree that both are real, with a real shadow. But for a (total) lunar eclipse the full Moon is in the shadows, while in a solar eclipse a little shadow traverses the Earth surface.
Anyone with some info on how the European prices changed?
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Missing miss: every single power adapter since the clamshell yoyo.

(Of course it's not clear in any of these cases how to apportion blame for Apple's form-over-function designs between Jobs and Ive.)
One can be used to automate extortion. For example, sites with mugshots popped up once they were online. If you got arrested for any reason and didn't want potential employers to see your mugshot in the first page of a Google search, you had to pay these sites an "administrative fee."

Similarly, you could post 911 records with addresses if they were available with a simple request, and I can see how that could bring property prices down, depending on the kind of incident.
I mean, they can be, but is there any reason to believe they are? Have male leaders of similar protests been treated better? Surely it's not right to infer gender bias just because the victims are women.
It's literally illegal. There are laws against retaliation against whistleblowers. That is why it is surprising.

> I don't understand the desire to stay with a company and accept paychecks while simultaneously publicly denouncing and leading protests against them.

Because you don't want to see the thing you worked so hard to build misused to build killer robots and "war minds"? Seems reasonable to me. Google's got a different mission and sometimes the leadership forgets it, and needs to be reminded.
The G4 Cube was a good idea but was overpriced. Yes it was smaller and prettier than the G4 tower, but it was also far less expandable. It was priced to be a 2000’s-era executive desk ornament, and I suspect they simply misjudged the market for the Cube.

But the idea was solid and a few years later a substantially similar product was released to massive success—the Mac mini.
Harassment is a crime and plenty of workplace laws are in place for that.

If Google fired someone for speaking up against an incident of harassment that would be a huge story in the media.
> All automakers get scrutinized by someone.

Citation needed. I've never seen a story this thin (one photo of tape holding down a nonstructural plastic housing) run about another manufacturer. You have a counterexample?
The same details of a rape (and probably more details than many people even want) would very likely come up in court just the same, you know.
> commandline tool allowing me to join data from different places, without needing to set up stuff like presto or spark. On another hand, I never encountered any tool which allows me to easily query csv and json data using SQL (which at least in my opinion is fairly ergonomic to use).

This exactly describes Drill (https://drill.apache.org/) which can query any data source under the sun (RDBMS, NoSQL, files, clusters, serialized data (JSON, CSV, Parquet...), object storage (S3, OpenStack, ...)) using SQL and JOIN between them with pushdown optimizations. It's got an awesome CLI and can be used in any language via REST or JDBC.
This couldn't ever work. Folks that smart want to do things that are real.
"So side gigs need approval, and if there's a conflict of interest (such as: preventing your employer from building something that looks similar to your side gig) you'll be asked which side you're on. Sounds pretty normal to me."

The rhetoric in the article actually implies that this was an existing thing that only became a problem once she started protesting about google's generous severance package to an employee who was found to be sexually harassing co workers, and the lack of resources to the victims of sexual assault/harassment at the google workplace.