skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comes hot on the heels of an announcement from Apple that they are starting up a new program to allow select security researchers access to iPhones with a majority of security features disabled. I wonder if it is somehow related.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/apple-to-...
Thanks. It sounds really high for basically minimal risk and not even actively sourcing the clients, but I guess that's how these businesses work.
This is an unsustainable position, you can’t fight every battle.
There is a lot of evidence, historical and recent, that shows that the CCP is pushing for the assimilation of the Cantonese subculture.

A sample of some recent articles

"China Is Forcing Its Biggest Cantonese-Speaking Region To Speak Mandarin" https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest...

"Hong Kong education chief forced to clarify controversial comments about teaching Chinese language in Cantonese" https://amp.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/216738...

"Guangzhou Television Cantonese controversy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_Television_Cantonese...

And there's also evidence of the CCP re-writing history https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/ching-cheong-hong...

You've also ignored the point about how HK did not succumb to the Cultural Revolution. I think that this is an important point on the timeline where the culture of HK diverged from the remaining Guangdong region, which is one of the things that give Hongkongese their unique Chinese identity. For example, Hongkongese retained their religious freedom, as well as freedom of the arts, and language.
I think there’s an expectation that the community at google would be more open.

It’s kind of like how that one Alexander Scott article, people of like minds tend to coalesce, leading to things like almost nobody on reddit being anti-abortion despite it being one of the most popular websites in the US.

I’m sure a lot of us work in places where basically everyone is uncomfortable with police brutality. The fact that the Google team wasn’t (along with other points in the article) could lead to the hypothesis that Google in fact has a bit of a more conservative culture
I started meditating in the beginning of the year and it really has helped me with a lot of things. It has helped me the most with anxiety and my ADHD/concentrating.

Ive been using Waking Up with Sam Harris, which is talked about in the article. It has a ton of learning materials, self-timers. It follows vipassana meditation and the app offers metta as well.
I can tell you that it’s every company I’ve interviewed with in Atlanta for the last 20 years.
The really crazy thing is a small time blogger I know got fined thousands of dollars for not disclosing a product endorsement on her small time blog.

The FTC is up and active and enforcing the rules... on the smallest companies in the US.

Somehow in this country if I get a free meal at a restaurant, post about it and don't disclose the free meal, I'm a target. But bribing police is legal without disclosure to courts? I can pay 'experts' to testify in court without revealing I'm paying? Just when I though the corruption couldn't get any more entrenched, I keep finding new areas of deep rot.
I really think it is irresponsible to keep repeating dietary hypothesis as fact.

The notion that red meat is bad for you does not have compelling evidence, based all my years of obsessively researching this ... and with the help of equally obsessive and more qualified friends.

As far as I can tell, how a diet makes you feel and presents visually is the closest thing we have to a reliable indicator of the health effects of that diet.

From that standpoint, many many people get amazing results from a diet high in red meat.

I cannot urge people enough to maintain skepticism with regards to “scientific” dietary advice, and try to do what makes them feel healthier and more energetic.
I haven’t ruled out emigrating from America either. I follow modacitylife[1] on Twitter, and love the cycling centric culture in that small city just outside of The Hague.

I like the design of that city more than, say Manhattan, which is another candidate.

[1] https://twitter.com/modacitylife
Man - cows eating seaweed is no more natural than cows eating corn. We need to stop bastardizing natural systems for our own comfort and convenience.
> Silence on an issue is not a political statement.

Of course it is; it's merely an ambiguous one. It either means "I am happy with the status quo" or "I am too afraid to express opposition to the status quo."
Ah, loyal customer is a commonly used term for a customer who has conducted business with a company for a long time. Not sure why you put it in quotes or why it confused you, but you can google it.
Yeah, I got my satellite companies confused. I was thinking of digital globe and their 31 cm offering (got a quote from them fairly recently).
>Additionally, frames build for chain gearing (instead of internal gears or single-speed/fixed) lack tension adjustment by either a horizontally adjustable dropout or a bottom bracket excenter mechanism.

Sliding dropouts are undoubtedly preferable, but any modern frame with a BB30 or PF30 bottom bracket can be trivially converted to an eccentric bottom bracket.
Blender, despite its "odd" UI, is the best open source GUI software out there. I don't use any other GUI open source software -- I pay for Microsoft Office and Adobe Applications -- but I find Blender to be useful, productive, and complete. It's solid, and has a very good community. Unlike other open source "alternatives" to commercial software (like, say Gimp or Open Office), it's actually _better_ in many ways, and not just FUD or useful to casual users.
Hacker attack closes ECB website
Haven't worked my way all through the paper yet. But is it correct that an attacker can perform this attack to something like a keyboard that has been previously paired and everything? What kind of user "interaction" would be required? Will the OS re-pair the device and (possibly) notify the user?

This seems really powerful and dangerous. Probably not that many people who uses laptops and BT keyboards, but many of the iPad keyboard covers uses bluetooth.
The Ford Focus is still a 3000-pound car these days. Even "economy" cars these days are rather heavy, and you'd be surprised how little those 70s cars weighed. Old Mustangs are positively lightweight. While the land boats are mostly gone, cars in general have gotten larger and especially heavier, even with lightweight technologies and materials used to offset the increase.

The way I read it, the OP was talking about people needing to drive micro-cars (e.g., ones that can only hold 2 people, like the micro-cars that are only sold in Japan). Those cars would fare very poorly in a crash against just about any typical car (let alone SUV) on an American road.
Being annoyed by a protest on your commute isn’t racism.

It’s certainly true that he could have heard other things which were racist and decided not to share any of them, but I don’t really know how to evaluate that. It’s not fair to demand ironclad proof from anyone sharing their personal experiences, but it’s also not fair to condemn Google based on a nonspecific claim with no details that racism happens there.
Or "I am focused on other things and not giving this topic my consideration."
This is why diversity is our greatest weakness.
Daily reminder that Google and other "progressive" companies are eating themselves alive.
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Also I seem to remember a multiuser 3d tank game, maybe xtank? I don't really remember.
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Cows allowed near the ocean will naturally graze on seaweed.
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I agree, we need to slowly study other groups of cows to see if this is a viable solution.

I'm reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling at the moment. He had a great point about "single numbers" - the jist was to always be skeptical of just a single number or metric.

Here's an example [1]. During WWII, soliders were dying in their own vomit because they were laying prone on the battlefield, in sick beds, etc and left unattended. Doctors tried using the Recovery Position [2] and saw a decrease in those types of deaths by about 99% (this is in the book).

Sounds like it should work for other types of people, right? First aid organizations quickly updated their "best recommendations" for all types of people: sick, drunk, young, old. This position was the best possible position for increased airway access, thereby decreasing preventable patient deaths.

It wasn't until the 1980's that this idea was challenged. A few health organizations noticed an increase in infant deaths. Hong Kong's group was the first to investigate this [3]. Other groups joined in and realized that infants, when turned on their stomach, do not have the strength to tip their heads after they vomit. As a result, infant deaths increase when they are placed into the Recovery Position.

The recommendation was quickly updated in the late 1980's / early 1990's. Now the recovery position is recommended for people ages 5 and up.

Between 1940 - 1985, there was a larger number of infant deaths because one group of well-meaning people took some knowledge they gained for one group and quickly applied it to all other groups.

I think this study (cows reducing methane based on diet) is a great idea. But we need to be cautious about applying this quickly to all cows, else we could kill half the cow population and cause the cost of beef to skyrocket.

[1]: https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/notes/, Page 163.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2866397?dopt=Abstract
> pay an amazon-bankrupting amount of money

I'd love to see this even though I know it won't happen but I want to go through a mental exercise:

(Off-topic but) where does this money go to? I think about things like traffic tickets or any other fee or fine and I can't think of anything that's any good. If it goes to anything that taxes would go toward, it will cause pressure to decrease taxes and make our governments dependent on this income.

Is there any good answer to this? Prison for the CEO and the board seems much easier in comparison.
Ugh, fuck those guys.
Am I the only one completely unsurprised? This sort of thing has been the ideology of the American professional-managerial class for decades: that diversity in the identities and freedom in the lifestyles of professionals themselves are profoundly important, worthy of celebration and extension into infinite new domains, but that those who simply don't reach the material station (ie: income, wealth, and accreditation) of professionals (ie: Googlers) deserve only contempt. "Political correctness" to defend the ingroup, but with an explicit celebration of doing material damage (ie: homelessness, gentrification, regional depopulation) to the outgroup.

It's a classic instantiation of the California Ideology[1]. The only bizarre or disagreeable bit is how it ever got passed off as somehow altruistic or progressive.

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
I know people who called and got a 1 week trip.

A problem is there's a "risk" in calling. There's no 100% guarantee that you won't get a knock on your door 30 minutes later.

I know people will say that suicide has a clear and obvious risk, too. The problem is that people fear the embarrassment of being paid a visit or people knowing about their troubles more than they do death.
most often, yes, it is just to raise revenue. but it also creates an opportunity to sidestep some of the protections that a driver should enjoy. technically, a police officer cannot pull you over without cause, but unreasonable traffic laws essentially create a cause to pull anyone over.

I don't disagree with GP, just pointing out that it's a bit more sinister than just writing tickets. many situations where police abuse their power and/or use excessive force begin with a legal traffic stop.
> Silence on an issue is not a political statement.

At the very least, one should not make assumptions on someone's stance on a subject based on their silence. A lot of people lately seem quick to ascertain intent based on little or no context, and that's not a good way to deal with others.
The world is not absolute. It would be nice to be able to take an absolutist, moral stance against things I disagree with. But as I get older, I realize that one must be able to compromise and see in shades of grey.
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Probably not, no.

First, you’re not going to get your resume in front of me without a college degree, CS degree or equivalent experience is a bar that recruiters apply well before I’m involved.

But as far as I can tell, Google CodeJam is an individual sport (I may be mistaken about that, but Google’s page won’t load in my browser, so I could only read the Wikipedia page about it).

The key thing about the ACM contest is it requires BOTH effective cooperation with a teammate AND the desire to solve programming puzzles.

Now, just to be clear, I’ve fired people who passed this bar; being a smart puzzle solver who’s social enough to collaborate is a great start, but it turns out lots of people just aren’t interested in shipping software. I still think ACM team participation is a strong signal, it just doesn’t cover the fact that being an adult means 90% of every job is boring, and not everyone is ready to do the boring stuff when they’re fresh out of college.
I'm not even talking about abolishing ICEs or anything like that. I'm just talking about fixing whatever political problems cause America to take literally decades to build a single bridge or other infrastructure, when other industrialized nations get it done in a small fraction of the time and cost.
Sure but who is denying that you don't need to pay the other 95k? The article is arguing against a straw man. Nobody is saying that electric cars will be the end-all solution to climate change. Literally no one.
Yeah, I did oversimplify that. I guess I was really saying, that if your trees live for 100 years, say, it's not like the whole forest disappears once the 100 years are up.

And, of course, if it's used for forestry, the trees will be continually removed and new ones planted.
They don't claim it because they seceded it to Russia in order to keep peace with Russia: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-China-re-take-Tibet-but-not-Mo...
> Hence diverge, aka not terminates.

By focusing on FP nomenclature (whether an exception is regarded as "divergence" or not depends on your language -- note that I said "terminates"; the point is that the trace for each execution is finite) you're missing the issue, that exists regardless of language.

> It does, because foo does.

`foo bar` never crashes (unless I made some silly bug).
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I mean, you know there are no 'cows' in the wild. We made cows from aurochs.
> “I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,”

I'm not surprised countless of other topics are far safer conversation topics. They are here to do a job and not get involved with politics and touching incendiary topics would be downright stupid. They certainly have an opinion in some way. But they're not stupid enough to share it.

Why on earth would you ever expect your coworkers to talk about gun rights, abortion, police brutality etc over Malaysia 370 in an office environment?
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edit: What I wrote here is wrong. It was not confirmed it was only a narrow ruling.

And as the courts have recently confirmed, even protected classes cannot compel a business into speech that contradicts their own sincerely held moral and ethical beliefs.
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I think this article missed the mark by leaving out all context.

They don't mention the black employees role. Some roles at Google are relatively more diverse. It would be interesting to hear if his peers were diverse but not opinionated, or perhaps they were opinionated but not as much as he was. Or if his peer were not diverse and not opinionated, etc.

The article mentions a team but doesn't clarify if he was on a team or if it was a team of subordinates. If my boss was black and the topic of police brutality came up, I'd avoid saying anything as well.

Lastly, "And though I eventually grew more comfortable using challenging moments to educate my co-workers..." comes across poorly. Depending on how I felt a coworker was consistently trying to "educate" me regarding social issues, I could see myself purposefully avoiding those topics around them and not engaging.
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That falls under "I am happy with the status quo." There are people who are not fortunate enough to be able to ignore these things.
>If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime.

Shaming others into action isn't sustainable. At best, they'll join you begrudgingly but drag their feet doing so and not recruit the next set of allies on your behalf. At worst, you persuade them to join your opposition.
For those interested in evidence based meditation for treating mental illness, I suggest the following video and book.

The mindful way through depression: Zindel Segal at TEDxUTSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4w3W94ygA
The book that the talk is based on:
https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Way-Through-Depression-Unhapp...
Where would we be today if people stayed silent about discrimination in the workplace and society at large (racial, gender, sexual orientation)? Silence is a privilege. Silence is what perpetuates power inequity.

Silence says to me: "My six figure paycheck is more important to me than having an opinion on something that is negatively impacting my colleague and their demographic."

Silence is something oppressed communities do not have the privilege of. Black people simply cannot be silent when they fear for their lives at every traffic stop. LGBTQ+ people cannot be silent when politicians are constantly trying to undermine their human rights in the name of religious freedom. Women cannot be silent when politicians do the same to their bodies, and the workplace constantly undermines their value.
> The real problem, as the author tangentially points out, is our over-reliance on cars to move us around.

And the author fails to explain why (in the context of climate change) that's actually a problem. Suburban areas have a disproportionate carbon footprint specifically because of ICE-powered cars being required to go anywhere; if those ICE cars become electric cars, and that electricity comes from solar/wind/nuclear/hydro/geothermal/etc., then... where, exactly, is the carbon footprint?

Hell, at that point the suburban areas could actually be net carbon sinks, given there's more room for big carbon-devouring trees in between single-family/duplex/quadruplex homes than there typically is between skyscrapers packed as tightly as possible (as is the norm in even small cities, let alone large ones).
The problem is the fundamental shift away from the long accepted design philosophy of software doing one thing and doing it well.

This means "grown adults" can't uninstall the software components that they like, because they aren't individual components anymore.

Systemd would probably not be hated on as much if it was only a "better" init. But instead it is an opaque and centralized system that is replacing a growing list of tooling (
init, ntp, cron, syslog, network config, to name a few)
I can't help but feel like the continuing rise of situations like this will end up in a return to a professionalized work environment, one in which sociopolitical and personal opinions are kept to oneself and the focus is purely on the work. Most of these conflicts seem to arise because the line between personal and professional has been eroded almost entirely in contemporary American culture.

While in theory an organization that can openly allow its employees to discuss and debate all of their strongly-held opinions, it seems to mostly result in chaos, even somewhere like Google which ostensibly employs some of the smartest people in the world. It would seem far more efficient for a firm to simply ban discussion of controversial and personal topics. Of course, this is entirely contrarian to the zeitgeist, in which local and familial social bonds have largely been replaced by co-workers and the idea of a "professional" as in "not personal" is perceived as an antiquated tradition.
> But when you have workforces that are hyper-vigilant and politically correct show disregard on topics that touch a really wide population, like the African American community in the US in this case, that makes for a stark contrast.

The company has made unambiguous statements of support for BLM yeaaars ago (tweeting "we need racial justice now" after talking about Castile and Sterling IIRC), and a company-wide meeting was interrupted by BLM protestors sanctioned by the company taking the stage (after IIRC Trayvon's shooting).

The author's complaint isn't that Google or its employees overall are silent on BLM. It's that their their specific team isn't talking about it with the frequency that they've arbitrarily decided they should. It seems like a pretty typical case of thinking that everybody should prioritize the exact political issues in the exact order and degree that you yourself do. You could make the exact same complaint for "people don't talk about DAPL as much as I'd like", or Nestlé and water rights, or climate change, or Syria etc etc. The only difference is that it's be ludicrous to consider any of the latter complaints as implicit discrimination, and yet for some reason you don't think it's ridiculous in this case.
Watched a youtube video of a very capable builder creating a container "home" in Yucca Valley. Total joke.
> They played a high pitched sound into the earpiece? Wow, that's on another level.

Yeah I expected the name calling but that was just something new. I guess I had really upset them. I imagine they had put my relatives on some kind of a "high value" mark list after they had gotten so much money from them, and they thought they were getting another easy $500 from them again. Instead they spent 30 of their time talking about weather, holidays, barbecue styles in US and other crap.

> There is something about just watching, say, scammers doing the shell game in the streets, that is incredibly draining.

Agree. In case of my relatives, I have to admit, I share some of the shame just because I felt I hadn't done my part to protect them earlier. There is an element of that that expand to the society. You know, watching this happen to other members of the community and thinking what can be done to stop it, why are they wasting their resources like that.
I'm talking about the gif linked by the poster, not the article.
Unfortunately the service does cost money to run, and it is hard to pay operating costs without some sort of income, so it's hard to fault the service for charging money for a valuable service, especially on HN.

This lawsuit (if it goes to court - many cases do not) would decide whether it is, or is not, "allowed". Still, contracts can contain all sorts of clauses, not all of them will be permitted/enforceable by law. Famously, non-compete agreements aren't enforceable in California but that doesn't stop them from appearing in California employment contracts.
Zoncolan: How FB uses static analysis to detect and prevent security issues
I'm sure you'll be shocked! shocked! when it turns out the CCP has an interest in running those enterprises, rather than shutting them down.
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