skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the memo, the former employee cites a few moments where he felt uncomfortable at Google, particularly after big news events such as the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and during the ensuing protests against police brutality.

The Vice article, from what I saw, doesn't clarify if the writer themself felt threatened by his coworkers, or if he/she just felt comfortable talking about police brutality against people of color. Obviously, if the writer was experiencing some hostility at work that would be one thing – and surely would be a serious problem worth discussing. But I'm not a person of color, and I'm very uncomfortable talking about police brutality at work. The topic is very sensitive and I don't think it's appropriate to distract my coworkers from their jobs by stressing them out. I work with some people that simply couldn't finish their day if I started a discussion about police brutality, or the murder of innocent people of color, or about X-phobic issues. Work is somewhat of a social place, but it's not really acceptable anywhere to just openly discuss politics, gender, identity, violence, etc. in my opinion. I don't even like talking about my music and movie tastes at work! Work is also, for me, a place where I can come in and be good at what I do, separate myself from the outside world, and have a little fun here and there (and get paid). My office isn't really a place for activism, to me. Does that make me a racist? Or classist? Or sexist?

About the only important things I'm willing to discuss that isn't work related are my garden, my family, and where we want to eat lunch. Otherwise... it's headphones on.
Where does the conversion from .png to tiles happen? Is it part of boxen? I can't seem to locate it within the source.
The "community" in this case is in fact not a community at all, merely a loose set of people who's only common characteristic is having an opinion on systemd. A reasonable user of SystemD, like myself, has no power to coerce a complete stranger who sees fit to email Lennart a death threat.

The "community" cannot stop this. Either Lennart should work on how he handles such criticism/abuse, or Red Hat/IBM should hire a communications professional to insulate him from the outside world. Or he can keep the course and suffer the inevitable...

It's not right that he receives death threats, but the response to that unfortunate state of affairs needs to be realistic.
Maya is a huge program. So any frustrations will probably be around which parts you use. There's a quippy quote about programming languages, "There are two types of programming languages. Those people always complain about and those nobody uses."

Often at large studios, the pain points I've seen with Maya are scaling. For rigging it can be difficult to manage complex rigs. When the number of nodes in the scene increase things slow down a lot. The architecture isn't that great at being procedural or modular compared to something like Houdini. There's similar scaling issues with lighting on a large project (I haven't used the new render layers, but I doubt that will fix core issues). The larger studios have spent years working on their own wrappers to manage lighting large shows, but they're still are looking to other apps like Katana or Houdini.

I was recently talking to an fx artist who started in Maya and moved to Houdini about 5 years ago. They were saying the number of times they got corrupt scene files (on crash) was breathtakingly smaller in Houdini--I think they said 0 or 1 ever. That alone was a huge win for them.

Personally, I hate opening a geometry heavy scene (or one that requires computing a lot of things) just to change an attribute and resave. I've been on a few projects where it'll take an hour or more to open a scene to start working. (here and there if it's a MayaAscii file and I can edit the text)
> the American police is extremely brutal.

Have you seen the homicide rate in America? You cannot quell that level of violence with hugs.

Police in the US operate in an environment where every person they encounter may have the means to kill them within seconds. This is not to ignore police brutality, but these details matter.

To compare the situation to a tiny homogeneous country where guns are illegal is silly.
>giant fork

Not a man catcher?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_catcher
Amazing lighting although one of the characters looks exactly former British prime minister John Major which broke the immersion
> Even if the driver had smoked cannabis one minute before the traffic stop, the driver’s blood plasma THC level would have fallen 80%-90% in the first hour after ingestion, and even more so after two and a half hours.

Can you source this claim from your front page? And if it is correct, how are you making sure the police correlate impairment with THC levels correctly?

If someone smoked 2-3 hours before driving, wouldn't even your device fail in this case? What thresholds are you using?
Hm I don’t know these other tools well but if the trend is FOOS is growing in 3D modeling, I don’t see why 360 couldn’t be seen as heading off that threat
On the right time scales, is there even any difference between "staring into the void" or "moving"?

What difference will it make anyways after you're dead?
The former employee used one particular story to describe things at the company that generally made them uncomfortable over the course of their 5 year tenure there, including their coworkers’ reaction to news events that affected them, and hiring practices that they perceived as biased (“reject candidates of color because of “fit””).

The former employee then makes several suggestions, including rethinking hiring practices, providing more robust diversity training, and additional counseling/support for underrepresented employees.

You can debate the validity/truthfulness you perceive in the employee’s account, you can debate whether you think the suggestions are good or not, but saying this isn’t an employer based issue seems like just putting your head in the sand.
> Well, I think Lennart misjudged how much trouble his projects caused. And especially Systemd was nothing you could easily avoid.

Think about your second sentence a bit, and why it's true: major Linux distributions adopted systemd. Did they do that because it really caused a bunch of trouble or because a deliberative review process showed that it solved a number of hard problems?

A small percentage of people having very loud emotional reactions doesn't mean that it actually caused large numbers of problems and at least in the enterprise space it's been really useful for cleaning up long-running reliability and security problems by removing thousands of lines of SysV kludge and manual work recovering from problems.
Actually, they only ever want financial compensation.

Everything else is a tactic to arrive at a payment. Which is why eliminating the target group's right to an opinion is such an important step.
One issue our Model 3 had was 2 defroster wires were burned out. I didn't notice it until ~5mo after delivery. The glass is made by Saint-Gobain, so arguably it's not Tesla's 'fault'. Would it have happened with another auto manufacturer? I'm not sure how to assess that. I suppose it could have been caused in installation or handling of the vehicle, rather than in manufacturing. Or perhaps the materials and design the automaker specs were the source of the problem more than the manufacturer of the glass itself?
They certainly build their own networking gear (1) and their own TPU silicon, as well as laying down their own cables and even transatlantic cables (2). Then there are the pixel phones and laptops etc.

I cant readily find a link, but their rack-mount servers are I believe "custom" designs just for them (presumably done in-house too), although from what I know they use off-the-shelf CPUs from Intel and AMD (there was an announcement very recently that they were using Epyc now for example) & GPUs etc.

It would not surprise me if only the x86 CPUs & GPUs were the only external things they use, and I bet they're looking at their own custom ARM chips for certain workloads (like they use their custom TPUs for certain workloads).

1 - https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-con...
2 - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/18/google_dunant_cable...
This could be used routinely in placed where any drug use is illegal more easily compared to a breathe test which could result in mass arrests.
I'm surprised that "anti-immigrant sentiment" was a problem they observed at Google. While I was at Google the sentiment was very, very pro-immigrant. The company has a huge number of immigrant employees, after all, and Mountain View is a very pro-immigrant area already.
The fit and finish of Teslas is absolutely embarrassing by any standard, but by the standards of German car makers it’s a total joke.

My theory has always been that Tesla is pretty much done the day BMW and MB and Audi get the hang of the electric thing.

The experience of sitting in a $70k+ Tesla is below that of a Honda Civic. There’s a limit to how long that’s going to last in a competitive market.
Meanwhile in Poland it's been 78.2% in 2018, "down" from 78.4% in 2017. And the Polish government has made it clear that coal will remain the basis of energy production here.

I'm frustrated as I'm writing this on a train from Berlin to Warsaw. One of the reasons why I chose to travel by train rather than fly was the carbon footprint journey, and I'm cutting it down much less than I should be.
The Information's content is top notch but access is $400+ per year [1]. The quality of the stories they write is great but the number is very small and most stories are niche. They also break stories before the mainstream tech press.

I get the feeling most of their customers justify it as a business expense vs a personal one. All of the quotes in their subscription signup flow are from well known founders or execs that subscribe (unclear if they get it for free for the endorsement).

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com/subscribe/one
While there may be political or allegorical undertones, I generally try to enjoy things like movies at face value.

Reading into the story like this ruins the escapism.
> it didn't naturally come to its anti-CCP ideology through an organic, internal and independent process.

I think you give Hong Kongers too little credit here. In fact, by 1997 many of those who hated China already voted with their feet and emigrated elsewhere; most of those who remained had high hopes that China will uphold its end of the bargain and become a well-behaved superpower.

The real irony is that the much more frequent interactions with mainland China since the handover have shown HKers the true colours of the CCP -- a thuggish regime, with zero regard to anything other than their hold to power. You can look up the number of HK people who identify as "Chinese" over the years for some hints.
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I am happy these changes were pushed forward before a politician like Doug Ford got into power as I think we know these would have been reversed as we saw with the carbon tax.
I presume that you could pull it of with a SDR.
Well, I certainly agree with that... money is not a good life goal. Money is an enabler, not an end in itself.

I have also lived having money and not having money. It is way better to have money. Not having to stress about bills, not having to stress about things breaking or needing repair, being able to eat good food when you want... it makes life better. The stresses of figuring out how to get by when you are poor really hamper your ability to enjoy life.
> Translated:

Is this a personal opinion type translation or are you (hypothetically wink) referencing some inside information from either one of the parties?
+1 for Solaris, the anti-Star Trek
> Driving under the influence should be detected by professional law enforcement observation.

It is. I've been pulled over a few times in my life. Never had a breathalyzer test done, because they assumed (correctly) that I hadn't been drinking. But human observation is far from perfect. And even harder to defend in court.

> Then if suspected after being pulled over, tested clinically. This is not that difficult.

What does "tested clinically" mean. If you mean a breathalyzer for cannabis, well then that's what this is. If you mean a blood test, well, it's pretty hard to get someone to a lab in time to detect meaningful levels of THC from recent smoking, as the poster of the Launch HN notes. It is pretty difficult.

> Even if a certain level of any substance is detected and measured, level of impairment is not.

This is tricky. As with alcohol, different people have different tolerances. Some people can have one drink and feel tipsy, others don't feel it at all. So we set a legal limit for how much alcohol you can have in your blood, regardless of how you feel. You have to draw the line somewhere and we've decided as a society to set it at a point that's more conservative in order to reduce accidents related to drunk driving. And there are plenty of drunk driving accidents. This would do the same thing with pot. Yes, you might feel perfectly fine, but I don't want your subjective opinion of how well you think you can drive under the influence of marijuana to be the determining factor in whether we let you drive after smoking pot or not. If you want to smoke, stay put or take an uber.
If you don't have a fundamentally serial workload (and usually either you don't or you have a lot of them you can parallelize across tasks) and you are willing to write bespoke CUDA code for that workload, Nvidia is telling the truth.

CUDA's sweet spot lies between embarrassingly parallel (for which ASICs and FPGAs rule the world because these are generally pure compute with low memory bandwidth overhead) and serial (for which CPUs are still best), a place I call "annoyingly parallel." There are a lot of workloads in this space in my experience.

But if you don't satisfy both of the aforementioned requirements and/or you insist on doing this all from someone else's code interfaced through a weak-typed garbage collected global interpreter locked language, your mileage will vary greatly cough deep learning frameworks cough.

Finally, it doesn't matter who's doing it, marchitecturing(tm) drives me nuts too.
Apologies, one thing I forgot to mention is that once reasonable suspicion is established, and an arrest happens, if you aren't blowing over 0.08 for alcohol, police will request a blood test. It's possible that for frequent users, THC will show up in these blood tests even though they haven't recently smoked. If an officer screens you on our device (which only has a 3 hour window of detection) and there is no THC, they have no further reason to request a blood test. Thoughts?
While cynical I think it's more narrow minded to consider only the benefit to purchasing such escapism objects.

Let's keep in mind the long term costs to future generations as we indulge, shall we?
It's worse than that - they only received 15 cars. The order was cancelled before the other 85 arrived.
And that’s why people need guns. It’s easy to dismiss people getting pushed aside with forks as not a big deal. It’s easy for the police to keep ranks. It’s easy for people in other countries to ignore it. But if the people can start a shooting war, even they can’t win it, that changes the situation completely.
Fracking also causes significant groundwater pollution which is often handwaved away by politicians. Keeping gas cheap gets you more votes.
It does say that multiple times:

> It is believed that some of the crowd control devices are capable of emitting electric shocks in a bid to neutralise any perceived threat...

> The control weapons, which potentially have the ability to shock people, have been part of the training...

> Amnesty added that it has information that more than 200 shock capturing forks were sold to the Linhe District Public Security Bureau back in 2014.
For data visualizations I use gdb's Python API. For simple things that can be just adding pretty printers, for hairy things it can be a custom command that prints extra information or dumps it to a graphviz script.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-API.html
Evolution is an iterative process and _every iteration_ has to be able to live and reproduce. It's limited by what it can do.

Like, just look at laryngeal nerve. It's pretty dumb that the nerve has to go around the collarbone. But it's not surprising when you think about the iterative nature of evolution. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve

And let's not even talk about the size of human skulls and maternal death in child birth.
From the original:

> As I went to pack my bag, I noticed that my co-workers had stopped working long enough to stare at the television screen, which showed thousands of protestors filling the New York City streets just blocks from where we sat. Suddenly, one of my teammates spoke up: "Ugh. This is getting a bit ridiculous," she said. "I'm sorry. Does anyone else think this is ridiculous?"

Valid question. And not everyone thinks the same way. And people should not under any circumstances have to walk on eggshells because someone might be offended. Where is the line drawn? By the person who is offended? We should just all not open our mouths.

> My hands stopped zipping up my backpack, and I turned my head far enough to see her in my periphery -- sitting behind me with her head shaking and arms folded in exasperation.

So what? So what??? (Not to mention that there could be many explanations for 'exasperation or even if it really was 'exasperation'.

> "These protestors aren't going to solve anything," she said. "Like, what are those people even trying to do? Seriously. What are they trying to do? Make people mad about getting stuck in traffic? Piss people off because they can't get to Grand Central? It's annoying. I just can't stand it."

Perfectly fine to say and I would have said that. To bad most people are not willing to admit that they either think similar things and/or don't think that is bad to say under any circumstances.

Bottom line: Stop trying to make everyone stop voicing their opinion with your thought police about what is acceptable.
Changing your conversations, or more importantly your opinions that you're willing to express based on the person in front of you - well that's just a normal trait that allows you to participate in society at large.

A tame example: I don't talk about the latest in non-volitile memory advances with my friends that I play videogames with.
So the alt-right gets a seat at the table when discussing whether or not the mainstream media oppresses them? But the media must sit in silence?

So the Russians get a seat at the table when discussing if Russian-born Ukrainians are being oppressed? But the ethnic Ukrainians have no say.

So gun rights activists get a seat at the table when we discuss if their 2nd amendment rights are being oppressed? But the gun-owning majority gets no say?

Do members of the Church of Scientology sit alone at an empty table when discussing how they are oppressed? Members of major religions who have members routinely massacred have no say?

How about white supremacists? They’re a small minority. I’m sure they’d claim to be oppressed.

How about men being unfairly oppressed by “me too”? No place at the table for women!

Hopefully you can see how ridiculous your position is. You’re choosing cherry-picked situations where the answer is something you agree with. You’re also assuming that no group of people would ever deem themselves to be oppressed when they are in fact not - but that’s clearly not the case! You’re also forgetting that it’s entirely possible for a minority to oppress a majority - just look at Syria.
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The sub-title suggests this
"Amnesty International has criticised the use of the "electric shock capturing fork" against protesters".

also in the text

"It is believed ... some .. devices are capable of emitting electric shocks... "

It's a strange way to write an article. Unless you are doing it for the clicks.
Yes, I think you are right. I think this is part of growing up pains that Google is going through.

Initially you are a cool small company where you're making buttloads of money, people think of you as very cool/smart/hip, you feel great going to work, wearing company's colors in public, every time someone talks about the company it's to praise it and express their envy towards your job. People are encouraged to bring their whole person to work, that improves productivity and makes the office feel like home. Of course, this works very well because of all those things I said plus the fact that with a small sized company the make up of the team is mostly non-diverse and even when it gets some employees belonging to minority groups, they are very likely to be of a similar socio-economic background.

Then the company grows. Mistakes are being made, some more accidental than others but with a large company affecting everyone's lives and making offensive amounts of money it's inevitable it's going to do things some people hate it for or going to create enemies, people that dedicate significant parts of their lives to criticize everything there is to criticize about the company. Now the environment outside and inside is not as great or relaxing. You start to not wear the company colors anymore and notice that if you bring up the company you work for in conversation the immediate reaction is to complain or to criticize some past action. Also now you have a very large number of employees compared to the starting days, with different views/ideas/socio-economic backgrounds so there's lots of friction and it's extremely easy to say something that someone somewhere will find it offensive. I think in that situation a return to a more traditional "let's not talk about non-work stuff at work" approach seems better to me.
Where does the methane go?
I second this. By Appling the info you find out what you don't know. We fool ourselves into thinking that we know more than we do.

When we reread we tend to skip things that we think we know but don't.
If I checked your comment history, would I see you fighting for fixing the outsized amount of suicides committed by men in the USA? If not, do you think it'd be reasonable to assume you're happy with the current state of affairs in that arena?
2016 went the way it did because of the electoral college - the winner of the election actually lost the popular vote.
One of the "funnier" pieces of spin and "revisionist history" that eaks of ignorance that came out during the BLM protests was assertions that the 60s civil rights movement "would have never shut down a freeway". The irony of this being said around the anniversary of the march from Selma to Birmingham is particularly loud.

https://www.theroot.com/mlk-would-never-shut-down-a-freeway-...
So, just because some men had a crappy idea — at the same time people also thought the earth was made in a week — every white man who ever lives is now precluded from an opinion. Dear lord.
Just how loudly do you think people would complain if PulseAudio decided to link in JACK and replace it, instead of getting out of the way (and becoming a JACK client itself, I believe).
Jack does not overlap with PulseAudio. Pipewire does, but it came later and has the explicit purpose of unifying Jack and PulseAudio.

Upstart is decidedly inferior to systemd; the event-based architecture is much harder to understand and apply than the target/dependency architecture of systemd. And systemd is in use in distros ranging from embedded (LibreELEC) to enterprise server, it must be doing _something_ right...
James Damore was fired for misogyny, which is not a valued viewpoint anywhere on the mainstream political spectrum.
Author here. I created this due to a lack of holistic documentation/articles for working with captures on the command-line. It is not complete, but with over 60 webpages, you will be able to get value out of it now.

Feedback is welcome.