skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google somewhat prides itself on it's 'open culture'[0] and I'd say that this is not only well known, but is a point of pride in it's hiring process and a recruitment tool. The ethos of talking about anything and everything is celebrated and encouraged.

To then have an 'open' culture in every respect except with racial issues (broadly defined here) as indicated by the memo's author, does not square.

Sure, the OP here may agrue that a work first culture is better (and I agree to a certain extent), but that does not fit within Google's culture.

The memo's author is correct to point out the mis-match, and in the open culture of Google should be celebrated for doing so.

If they do get flak for it from higher-ups, then I think it is fair to state that the open culture of Google is de facto dead and Googlers should adjust.

Happily for HNers, this means that the FAANGs are on the way out and their 'moats' may start to develop holes that can be exploited by start-ups. Look out for the greybeards sooner than later as the elves start to leave middle earth, so to speak.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-culture-of-transparen...
And Google responded by encrypting data immediately.
If you're not paying for it, sure. But even in open source, money talks.
But Twitter isn't that important, so the whole argument is moot.
One of the great ironies of political life in the UK is that we are now celebrating generating electricity for "X days without Coal".

This is of course a positive thing, but it was arrived at by the politically motivated near-total destruction of UK's mining industry in the 1980s (the then right wing Tory government wanted to destroy the heartland support of its left wing Labour opponents).

What was a socially divisive, bitter class struggle for years and years, that nearly brought down the government, is now a strategic masterstroke of climate change planning.

Life is odd.

[#] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%8...
FANG (or FAANG) isn't a ticker symbol though, just industry jargon.
When wealthy white bullies get caught up in their anger, they don't get killed as often. Sometimes they get elected President.
Maybe a tool like two sticks that can pin down rioters in the neck hold them there would be more effective.
You don't "have to" do anything under the law. Nobody comes and holds you by the wrist and makes you do it. You just have to pay fines, or go to jail for not doing it.
I would like to add my (unwanted) two-cents: I'm of the (soft) opinion that protests often cause more harm than good - or, will have a neutral effect - to a cause, particularly when there is anything 'uncouth' to a protest such as violence or obstruction of traffic.

As much as I hate to say it, I struggle to think of what the Women's March or Occupy Wall Street tangibly accomplished.

Can someone provide studies or articles demonstrating the effectiveness of large protests in changing the populace's views?
OP's comment casts doubt on the validity of the article's conclusions. Maybe OP didn't look into it as much as others. The response to OP reaffirms the validity and sways my skeptical mind. I enjoyed both comments; indeed good discussion.
Arctic wildfires: How bad are they and what caused them?
That seems like a needlessly complicated way to cancel an order that also makes Tesla look bad.
FANG at least makes more sense since the abbreviation is a lot faster than typing out the multiple company names.

Ambivalent about stock tickers. Sometimes have to look them up, haha.
By "full", do you mean "not empty"?
We absolutely consider ethical implications for bringing this product to market. We currently live in a world where it's a "free-for-all", and officers establish reasonable suspicion, which leads to an arrest, without any objective evidence. We hypothesize that this is part of the reason why there's a higher number of PoC arrested. This doesn't happen with alcohol, because there is an objective device.
In the US it's approximately 30%.
Better question is who can work on the better solution?

The article claims it is a problem of consumption, but yet also it's a systemic problem. You can't fix systemic problems from consumption choices, and blaming individual consumers for systemic problems misses the point entirely of: a) who is to blame, and b) who could fix it.
There’s a theory that mainstream media outlets deliberately (or algorithmically) select and highlight news stories that are maximally divisive. The Eric Garner story got much less press than the Michael Brown case did, because the Garner one was quite clearly a case of police abuse. Only the most fringe elements would claim the police acted fairly in that situation. Meanwhile, Michael Brown’s death was (at least at first) in a much more fuzzy area. So, more controversy, more clicks and comments.
Would Google also support Trump supporters celebrating the victory as openly as other people took the stage to cry about the catastrophe?
How is this submission going to generate intellectual curiosity? It's posted so environmentalists can gloat.
There is another part to the story, to why low-number number are betters. They were faster to dial on rotary phones but also faster for the machine on the other end of the line. As the rotary dial on your phone was turning, so too was a device at the phone company. The smaller the total number, the faster that machine could had your call off and start on the next. That's why the most populated areas, places like New York City (212) Chicago (312) or LA (213) have low-number area codes. And it is why "1" is often the number used to designate a long distance call.

Anchorage Alaska: 907 (2x as long as NYC)
All of Idaho: Either 208 (2x) or 986 (4x).
Here in the U.S. the right wing has instead managed to convince the Labor demographic that it's on their side.
Or "this is a workplace, you're my coworker and not my friend. My stance on this matter is none of your business. Moving on."
Absolutely, during this period videos of black men being killed by police became a viral trend. Really hard to absorb.
Killing a living, breathing person is nowhere near choosing to not make a new one, morally, practically, legally or in any other sense.

Edit: choosing not to have children (and I don't think that's a reasonable way to expect people to try and address climate change) is not population reduction. It's population control, if you like. You are making sure that the population doesn't keep increasing. Killing people on the other hand is population reduction. They're really not the same thing at all.
How does your device work for people who have taken edibles vs smoking?

I am not a chemist nor biologist, but ethanol escapes through mucus membranes and afaik, thc does not.

So, I am curious what mechanism has thc in the breath while people are “impaired” but not while they are heavy users that haven’t had any thc for 24 hours.
If someone lost 40 pounds playing beat saber everyday, wouldn’t that be transformative to them?
> such stories wouldn't psychologically trigger/racially divide people and so

being profit-seeking corporations, american news is pursuing eyeballs and clicks. truthiness, accuracy, bias, etc. are all variables in the profit equation, and not always a major influence. if idpol (or whatever) is stirring up the viewership, it will influence how they approach the "news", in different ways depending on who the producers view as their principle audience.

inserting the whole "seeking to divide" as a concrete motive seems like a dogwhistle (particularly being a narrative beloved of antisemites).
I’m ready to breathe clean air though.
Yes I know what it is. I simply don't understand what that has to do with my original comment.
He's been that way for a long time; before he ever touched systemd. Same situation around avahi, and later around pulseaudio. I agree some people have behaved unkindly as well, but that doesn't excuse what he does. He also has a nasty habit of forcing his work into places where it is not wanted (especially now that he works for red hat).
The reason that a specific political bent in this country uses laws to curb the Second ("shall not be infringed", lol) is because any amendment altering or abolishing this right will never be ratified.

It's just much easier to sneak in legislation like the Hughes Amendment and hope a favorable Supreme Court and political climate allows it to stand.
Thanks for bringing up how this is Google's fault -- or, at least, the failure of Google and everyone else who isn't Apple.

iMessage has lots of problems. I've screwed it up a lot of times switching SIM cards, I can never understand why it needs to know if I want to contact my iMessage contact by email or by phone number, or why the messages thread differently depending on what I use. But it GENERALLY works okay.

Meanwhile, I use Signal with one friend, and just about every time I launch the damn app on my phone or desktop, it complains that I need an update, or I need to re-link something, or my safety numbers of changed, or some such crap.

And it's all better than Messenger.

And all of THAT stuff is better than Google's incessant abandonware. I loved hangouts.. until I didn't.
>I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.

Those non-gamers are still want to going to want all sorts of things going on in their VR scenes with framerates high enough that 10% of the population doesn't get motion sick.
Absolutely agree with you. Critical thinking is a good thing.
> Is that conversation different now?

Well… yeah, but only because I’m going to be careful what I say to avoid stepping on somebody else’s feelings. To dance around the point just a bit - there are people who I can safely be completely honest with, and people who I cannot safely be completely honest with. I’m not sure I’m the one who needs to be doing the adjusting to change that.
I for one wish you the best of luck, and hope you develop an effective and accurate product. While I may have conflicting feelings about police municipalities and the justice system, the breathalyzer has overwhelmingly been a good thing, and has saved countless lives by keeping the roads safe.

Questions:

- What do you think the likelihood/timeline is that these tests will eventually be comparable in speed and accuracy to alcohol breathalyzers?

- Have you yet looked into the legal implications of a cannabis breathalyzer? Does it fall under the same rules and restrictions of a standard breathalyzer?

- How rigorously are you testing for false positives? Can you tell someone who has taken drugs but they have worn off vs someone who is currently high?

- Will you be making your data open source? Companies that sell proprietary technology to police departments can notoriously complicate legal cases when they do not disclose technical limitations or the possibilities of false positives or negatives.

- Will you be restricting your product sales only to regions where marijuana is already legal? (If it's already illegal, they have other more accurate ways of establishing possession, I presume they shouldn't need this device except for nefarious purposes).
Yeah.

There are only ~80,000 coal miners in the US now, which is 0.06% of the full-time employee population.
Most of Diamond Age is incredible, the rest not so much.
Tesla in the news again for something that wouldn't be considered news for any other car manufacturer.
A given level of THC affects some a lot more than others. There are people who feel extremely "high" with 20 milligrams, and others who feel nothing. I do not believe you have a solution to this problem. The only thing a police officer should be permitted to do is give a field sobriety test. These devices are going to create more problems than they solve.
The same arguments apply to programming — but many people entered the field when JS became easy to fiddle with in browsers.

UI is important in terms of cost slope, and easy UI allows people (like GP) to dabble — even if they aren’t going to make a masterpiece (or become professional programmers).

Your comment strikes me as incredibly elitist: we should want anyone who wants to dabble to be able to, even if they don’t meet your standards for “good art” — just like we want people to have access to scripting languages, for their own purposes, even if they don’t meet our aesthetic preference of “good software”.
Is it really an issue in reality though?

I seem to recall reading that almost all cases of accidents where the driver tested positive for cannabis, there was another drug involved - usually alcohol.

To be clear, I'm not saying it's OK to drive under the influence of any psychoactive drug - it's plainly not. But I worry that legalised cannabis is going to be demonised by people with something to sell, and about the motivations of the sellers.
I had an opinion similar to you, I didn't care about the drama of one team or another, what the significance of some move, or kick, or foul was. It seemed like just an exercise in physical prowess, and just a matter of genetic skill.

It irritated me to be asked about sports or asked what I was a fan of...

I grew a respect for sports after trying a few of them. From martial arts like Kendo or Jiujitsu, to high level chess, with enough practice you learn the rules and get an intuitive understanding, and then you see.

You see the physicality of a sport and you know how amazing that physical feat is, because you've tried something like it. You can understand on a deeper level the drama of the moment between two opponents as they are deciding what strategy, tactic and move to employ.

I may not always enjoy talking about some niche that someone else cares about, but I am now at least somewhat aware that they are trying to connect with me and they care about it because they probably know something that I don't.
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> the parts of America still dependent on it economically will go with it. We are not ready.

And you'll never be. You didn't learn from the lessons in the UK of the 60s through 80s when output dropped dramatically. It's taken decades of EU investment for places like the Welsh valleys to begin to recover.
Nobody talks about the Stonewall riots at work, or how gays couldn't marry nationwide until years ago, but I don't assume they're anti-LGBT for failure to discuss these things.
Having private entities, or the government for that matter, control hate content is only a good thing when their definition of hate happens to coincide with your definition of hate. It's all fun and games until one day you discover their definition of hate has expanded to include your beliefs. By then the train is going too fast for you to have any chance of stopping it from squashing you.
Way too many things will go wrong here, mainly that it will fall into the hands of the police.

How does this react to other forms of cannabis ingestion (edible, topical)?

Is there science behind cannabis impairing your ability to drive like alcohol or is this just a hypothesis that you are willing to make money off of?

Are you OK with your technology potentially targeting minorities and continuing the war on cannabis which was based almost entirely on racial motives in the first place?

What levels of cannabis are in your views "acceptable"?
It looks like this company is mostly interested in the 3D aspect of Blender, but what's gotten me really excited from viewing the demos is Grease Pencil. I wonder if anyone out there is using it professionally for traditional 2D animation. I also wonder how much attention this cool tool will get in the future.
Well, I write Java and C++ for a living. Maybe that's the same as COBOL if you're a front-end JavaScript developer? What, exactly is there for me to "stay up to date" on?

I'm not saying that you should never learn anything new. For example, I really hope that I have a chance to ditch C++ and Java both for Rust one day, but I can't just go and do it today and that's fine. Change does not need to happen at the pace that some people seems to think it does.
> but that doesn't excuse what he does

It doesn't excuse the community's behaviour either to be fair.

> He also has a nasty habit of forcing his work into places where it is not wanted (especially now that he works for red hat).

I seriously doubt he has such power.
Unfortunately it's not as big a win as it sounds like. Per the article much of the economic force can be attributed to natural gas, which is better but not much, and most of the really huge coal plants have just adapted to regulation and don't show signs of imminent closure.
Drunk driving has also ruined countless lives.
I wonder, if we got the opportunity to talk to the folks that invented the alcohol breathalyzers, if they had the same kind of pushback? Alcohol breathalyzers help deter drunk drivers, but there is nothing currently out there to help deter cannabis-impaired drivers. There's definitely an education piece associated with this.
That was true a few years ago. In 2018 it was down to 28%. Now it's about 24%:

"Short Term Energy Outlook -- 2019-08-06"

EIA forecasts that the share of U.S. generation from coal will average 24% in 2019 and in 2020, down from 28% in 2018.

EIA expects electric power sector demand for coal to fall by 2% in 2020, compared with an expected decline of 15% in 2019. However, planned coal plant retirements will continue to put downward pressure on overall electricity demand for the fuel. Almost 13 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity generation capacity has retired this year or is scheduled to retire by the end of 2020, accounting for 5% of the capacity existing at the end of 2018.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php
They have these everywhere. I've seen them in malls, subways even hospitals. They work because the biggest weapon commonly available are knives and those are limited in size. I'm not sure what the biggest size you can get is but it is somewhere around 18 inch kitchen knives.
> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which appeared in 1900, is widely recognized to be a parable for the Populist campaign of William Jennings Bryan, who twice ran for president on the Free Silver platform – vowing to replace the gold standard with a bimetallic system that would allow the free creation of silver money alongside gold.

This is more "crackpot theory" than "widely recognized".

> the Scarecrow represented the farmers (who didn’t have the brains to avoid the debt trap), the Tin Woodsman [sic] was the industrial proletariat (who didn’t have the heart to act in solidarity with the farmers), the Cowardly Lion represented the political class (who didn’t have the courage to intervene)

This, on the other hand, doesn't even meet that standard. If you read the book, the joke about those three characters is very clear -- the Scarecrow is the intelligent one, who solves all the problems the group encounters. The Tin Woodman is the empathetic one, who constantly worries about inadvertently harming anything else. And the Cowardly Lion is the brave one, always volunteering to put himself at risk for the benefit of the group. It's a major theme of the novel that they all already have the things they claim to need.
That seems like a pretty harsh thing to say - intoxicated driving has also ruined quite a few lives.
Are we even sure this is a problem? There seems to be no consensus on the impact of driving on THC [0].

THC has neurocognitive impacts, but those tend to be small and long lasting. It would be strange to tell users they can't drive for 30 days or longer.

[0]https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/26/driving-whil...
This isn't about Google, I'm not even sure it's about race or class.

This is just how people are. Put enough of them in a place and let them get comfortable with each other and you will hear this.

That has been my experience in the industry for 17 years now. 8 years at a very large company with plenty of employees.

Stressed and bitter employees tend to talk this way. Others don't. Some might not feel comfortable talking about it, some might talk about it with their other friends.

But in general I've noticed that people who are comfortable and being themselves can vent racist and "class-related" opinons freely around the office. In teams of 6-8 people there might be one or two of the types of people who tend to take charge in these discussions. Or initiate them.
> What’s keeping you in check?

It's going to be fairly easy to test this. You take one group of people who haven't smoked in the last few hours and you test them. Make sure it doesn't go off. You take another group who have smoked (I'm sure plenty of college students would be happy to sign up for this trial) and you test them, make sure it does go off. It's pretty simple. It's a machine with an empirical number, so you don't even have to do this double blind.

And if it doesn't give good results? It won't hold up in court. Every lawyer defending someone with a positive result (whether false positive or true positive) will argue that the device isn't accurate and the case gets tossed (or even the ability to use these as evidence). If it doesn't hold up in court, police really won't have much incentive to use these anyway.
It's legal where I live and the drivers on the road have not changed significantly. For those opposed to legal cannabis use, it's easy to blame any traffic infraction on cannabis. I don't think we have data available that backs up that hypothesis. In areas where cannabis has been legalized for recreational use, the incidence of traffic accidents has remained the same.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24417
Even if we asked for more information, you are assuming, or mandating, that we process it in real time, which is really difficult for those of normal intelligence. Also, being told something is completely different from having the life experience as context. Eg I could guess what it’s like to be a Uighur living in Guangzhou, I could even ask some questions, but really I still wouldn’t know enough to talk meaningfully about it.
In California, it's 3.3% and that's all imported power that's on existing contracts. We will be free of this very soon https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...
Some more obscure games were there, for example Sun Microsystems once released a book about games available on Solaris, which included a flight simulator amongst many others. Though I am unable to recollect the name.
Nothing new under the Sun. The viewpoint that any effort to be sociable with co-workers is a pretense is 100% valid and deserves to be respected.
> For an appsec team to have a chance in hell they need to be able to understand the application code, no?

No, especially for networked services.

There is a lot of homework that has to happen for security teams to even begin to look into the actual source code.

What you need to learn is how the application interacts with the outside world and how to secure those mechanisms. It can be a black box – and for the most part it should, otherwise you'll be bogged down in minutia while there are big holes waiting to be plugged.

What you may need to understand in more depth is the protocols in use and access controls. But again, the programming language or the exact code matters little. Even if you have to do stuff like correctness proofs, congratulations! You are now part of the development team. Now you need to add security folks to look into the big picture again.
I think many programmers are skeptical of advanced type systems because the OPs straw man is what gets advertised at the water cooler. I've seen it myself in professional settings.

My impression is that advanced type systems interest people because they're cool moreso than because they're practical tools for reducing errors.

The kind of discussion I see on this post generally reinforces my impression.
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People pinned down by these things could have their heads slammed against pavement.
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Intel can afford to do its own silicon and they are not going really well security wise right now.

But that was not the message, is about understanding risks.