skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience as a juror at a criminal trial in California, it was not left to general understanding that the anti-DNA expert called by the defense was paid by the defense. The prosecution got it in right at the beginning of their cross exam. of the expert.

In the opening 'graphs of TFA the People should be paying experts, police officers and prosecutors, and the police and DAs should be deciding on the viability and priority of the case as they do for convenience store robberies etc.

Imagine if "Rich man" had a wife who was killed and a "Poor man" who he wanted to see convicted of the murder. Now you have police and DAs who are clearly on the take and the conviction can be funded by "Rich man". And "Rich man" can supply the "evidence" and the "experts" who explain it.
>More than anything it is precisely an exercise in whether dependent types are useful even if you aren't getting 100% watertight assurances with them.

They are. Anyone working with linear algebra can tell that. Hell, arrays tracking bonds in types rather than in some runtime checks would be a huge thing.
I think this request for more mental health support comes from Google's "we're everything to you" policy. Googlers here and elsewhere have compared Google to a college campus in many ways - "you go be smart and do your thing, and the Company will provide for you". Given than mentality/social compact, it's understandable that this employee would think asking for more mental health services would be ok.
Except this is not semantics at all. It specifically mentions publication.

Again, limits to publication is not the same as an expectation of privacy, which cannot exist in a public place.

This is why invoking privacy when arguing against surveillance in public places is nonsensical.

I note that while my main point was the difference between privacy vs. anonymity people argue on a detail...
Would this be able to track edibles?
LOL. We're linking tabloids on HN now?
If we are being simulated on an analog computer this could be an effect of the thermal nose :)
Is the pro-thc crowd really so focused that they would prefer impared drivers be untestable?
That's why I like having a hybrid. My daily commute is entirely electric
I honestly don't understand your comment.

It's pretty clear that the author is bringing these issues up precisely because other employees at Google did not heed the advice you give:
"“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit’ and so much more,”"

In other words, there were many Googlers who did in fact discuss these issues at work.

Sure, it's nice to say, "I would prefer...", but honestly, we would all prefer things to be different than they are. But they're not.

And this is where I really don't understand your comment. Your comment seems to totally ignore the very issue that is explicitly mentioned sub-headline of the article: Apparently, some people at Google not only felt free to discuss these issues in the work place, they did so in a profoundly unprofessional manner thereby creating a hostile workplace.

So stating that "I would prefer...not discussing these things..." doesn't really address the issue that these things were in fact discussed.

That's sort of like saying, "I would really prefer it if my code always worked the way I wanted it to..."

or.."I'd really prefer not to procrastinate so much on HN..."

Don't we all? Alas, that's not the world we live in. The crux of life is what do we do when things happen that we prefer would not happen?

Controversial issues were discussed at work, the author of the memo highlighted the problem and gave solutions, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't, but I think it's important to move beyond just stating our preferences.
The author is kinda talking about civilization. And no, expecting humans to give up much on that front won't save the planet.

We have to improve on a lot of fronts and the attention argument is one of the better ones... finding better ways to achieve the same is worthy pursuit. Sailing across the ocean to save on emissions worthy action for some young female climate activist, but certainly not something many of us would be willing to do.
No, because that's even worse. Sports are incredibly boring and mindless; I'd rather talk about paint drying than some stupid, pointless sports game. At least politics is something that actually affects everyone whether they want it to or not. Only a minority of the population gives a rat's ass about sports, though the sports fans always delude themselves into thinking that everyone likes them, and try to push sports on everyone constantly.

How'd you like it if I kept trying to talk to you about my favorite bands?
> I'm glad many big studios realized this in that they either build their own tools (Pixar/Dreamworks) or they adapt Open Source (Blender) and help improving it.

Places like Pixar/DreamWorks developed proprietary tools because they didn't exist when they started. Disney/Pixar heavily uses Maya. Disney was one of the first places to use Maya before it was released in the late 90s. Like many other places they heavily modify it. DreamWorks uses a lot of Maya and Houdini, but have proprietary rigging, animation, and renderer.

I haven't seen any of those places contribute much to Open Source unless they're driving development.

I haven't used Blender much at all. Apps like Maya, Houdini, and Nuke have a lot of under the hood architecture necessary to use in large studios that I hope Blender has, too. Photoshop, for example, is very difficult to build that kind of pipeline around.
This is Hacker News's fashionable way to refer to companies: not by their actual name but by their NASDAQ ticker name.
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What you're asking for sounds awfully like extrajudicial punishment that doesn't match the severity of the crime at all.
What does the good witch of the North represent?
His account is violating Twitter's impersonation policy. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-imper...

> The profile clearly states it is not affiliated with or connected to any similarly-named individuals or brands.
So you believe whatsapp is not e2e encrypted? Or they're going to roll it back?
I'm in the same boat with my cimeter knife. My possible third option is buying a knife sharpener to do it myself.
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Yes, don't discuss religion, sex, or politics at work. This used to be professionalism 101 (outside the context of workplace discrimination/HR, obviously)
I bet cops will the target market...
But that's a clearly inaccurate view. The cars work, very well. They have sold mass numbers, in opposition to car dealers, conservative oil and gas industry opposition, the automotive industry. They have little maintenance (far less than regular cars). They seem pretty safe overall. I've owned a number of high quality cars, such as an audi s4, and my tesla since 2012 (7 years ago they had all this stuff!) has worked well. These cars are made and driven by humans, so there will be some mechanical problems, people with crash them occasionally, they are filled with energy and can catch on fire occasionally.
How does an optional event force you to pow-wow about your feelings?
He’s personally called me a cunt and I’m a friend. Tone policing him about a 9 year old tweet is ridiculous.

Twitter has worse problems currently on their hands with the altright and Propaganda sources.

My guess is that they’re trying to appear “equal” in their reports to Congress. So removing almost decades old post, like my friend’s, would make it appear they’re removing right targeted comments.

It will make that spreadsheet move a tenth of a percent on an unread slide deck @jack can consume while he’s at a sweat lodge.
The company has a very generous mental health policy. 25 free counseling sessions a year. They're supposed to be for short term use. However, I heard a separate complaint that none of the available counselors were African American and thus wouldn't understand the employee's specific issue.
Do you mean "LED panel" in your Police-1 product page?

Can this detect THC that has been consumed by means other than smoking? Vaporizing? Edibles? Tincture?
I wish I had a charging station at work. My commute is short enough I don't need it fortunately
Why is the word "gun" listed as a "bad thing"? That seems biased just to make mass shootings seem worse than other disasters/loss of life.
"This guy" happens also to be a pretty prolific developer of Netscape fame and others. (xscreensaver included.)
Given that marijuana arrests disproportionally target people of color, have you considered the ethical implications of bringing your product to market? The accuracy of your device doesn't affect how or on whom it will be used.
I read the article's message as follows: electric cars are still cars and cars
are always going to be bad for the planet, so stop driving any cars, including
electric cars.

So he's not trying to argue for a total solution or no solution. He's arguing
that the proposed solution is actually part of the problem, and that it is not
a solution because it is part of the problem, not because it is a partial
solution.

You, and others in this thread, are saying that electric cars are a small step
towards a solution to climate change, even though it is not a complete
solution. However, any solution to climate change, partial or complete, needs
a reduction to our greenhouse gas emissions and electric cars do not achieve
such a reduction (to CO₂ specifically).

That's because having only a few people buy electric cars does not reduce CO₂
emissions given that everyone else keeps buying more and more normal, dirty cars; and having
everyone buy electric cars does not reduce CO₂ because then we have enough
electric cars that we are still emitting more than we can afford to.
Sure, the window manager could be the Motif window manager, or perhaps FVWM.

I meant the widgets inside the window. The blue-tinted ones are GTK+ with ThinIce; some of the darker grey ones are Motif.
Would this detect edibles?
That thesis has been ably challenged:

http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm

I'll just quote a bit from the end:

> Thomas A. Bailey once suggested that we set up a computer network to keep track of misinformation that has been corrected--sort of a national clearinghouse for discredited myths. Is it time to move Littlefield to the computer trashpile of misinformation? Given the mounting evidence against it--given that Littlefield himself has admitted that it has "no basis in fact"--should we forget the whole notion of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a parable on Populism? That would be a big mistake. Perhaps we can no longer say that Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz "as an allegory of the silver movement," but we can still read it as an allegory of the silver movement--or, as Henry Littlefield noted just two years ago, "we can bring our own symbolism to it." Recent scholarship might have taken away Baum's intent, but the images are still there, vivid as ever.
To clarify, these are images that you have to download and host yourself. This isn’t a service offered by Microsoft; they’re providing the free license and tools, but you still have to have your own hardware to run the VM.
diversity of code base is a strength, except to vendors and pointy-haired ones
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So many naysayers here, many of which probably aren't sharing the road with cannabis consuming drivers in a region where it is 100% legal like here in Canada.

I've consumed it many times, and I know how impaired I'd be behind the wheel. It terrifies me to think of all the idiots who are probably out there driving while stoned, pretending they're "perfectly fine."

EDIT: cool, these guys are around the corner from where I'm sitting (Google Waterloo) in our old office building. Best of luck!
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We tend to count calories in foods via combustion of their components then adding the average caloric content of each gram of fat (9kcal/g), protein (4), alcohol (7), and non-fiber carbohydrate (4) in the average serving size of that food. Keep in mind that US food calories on labels are equivalent to a kilocalorie.

Last I checked, combustion was not one of the stages of digestion in the human digestive tract. I'm not a nutrition researcher, but it's always seemed intuitive to me that different compounds behave differently in a complex, gradual chemical system even if they behave similarly in a simple, rapid high-energy reaction. This is already acknowledged in the fact that dietary fiber is known to be mostly excreted and so isn't counted along with other carbohydrates.

This story is much about a small change by proportion changing several aspects of how digestion works in a mammalian digestive tract, including how efficiently the energy is taken up from other parts of the diet. Now in vitro is not in vivo and cattle aren't humans. But I think we're still far from settled on all calories being the same, and more evidence is building for the opposite conclusion. There are even multiple cases of fecal transplants leading to weight gain or weight loss, with the recipient's digestion suddenly resembling that of the donor causing body weight changes.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-food-manuf...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03789461
It would be interesting to see input latency comparison.
Google has long had a policy of 'bringing your whole self to work.' The company actively encourages (or at least, encouraged) its employees to be political, and to be 'true to themselves' in the workplace.
Read receipts are disabled by default IIRC. In the rare cases where I'm drafting a message long enough to worry about the typing indicator, it's usually easier anyway to compose it in a text editor/notes app and copy/paste when I'm ready to send.
Why not? There are links to buzzfeed, nytimes, vice, etc all the time on the front page.
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> The Federal Reserve (a cabal of international banks that is not part of the US Government) seized control of the US monetary system

The body that controls the US monetary system is the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Board of Governors are Senate-confirmed Presidential appointees. I'm not quite seeing how this is not part of the US government.

Sure, the Federal Reserve System involves private member banks, who have some role on governing the regional fed banks, but those don't control monetary policy, the Board of Governors does.
I think in general all of these things just start to come off as dishonest, when senior engineers think about what makes them feel "senior," or what they respect and value in "senior" colleagues.

At some point I think senior engineers realize that coding is the absolute least of your worries as someone expected to do things like interface with the business side, plan medium/long-term roadmaps, improve dev tools or general architecture to make juniors more productive, or mentor/train/manage juniors.

When the entire process seems to be heavily weighted towards coding, it gives off the vibe that this is a company that recognizes overworking and churning out code as traits of a senior engineer, instead of shrewd decision-making, efficient delegation, smart scoping of projects, strong leadership skills, etc etc etc.

I don't want to spend my free time building a portfolio of random bullshit code any more than I want to spend time on your take home test. Because I can't for the life of me see why having an impressive (or average) github profile should be the leading indicator for senior engineering skills.

What is wrong with simple live-coding sessions on very small pieces of code while discussing objectives, edge cases, extensions, etc? Coupled with a high-level systems design session with whiteboard diagrams but no code, and a behavioral interview assessing leadership skills, extracurriculars, personality type, etc. Sane companies seem perfectly fine with sticking to this formula.

Where is this idea that we need more and more, deeper and deeper assessment of candidates coming from? What problem(s) is this solving to look at large amounts of pre-written code from candidates?
Then talk music? TV? There is a reason that "water cooler talk" is the conversational equivalent of elevator music. You need to get along with people on a professional basis to accomplish a goal, and things that are divisive and hinder that should be discouraged. Politics creates rifts in families, of course it will cause work problems.
The war on drugs has ruined literally millions of lives:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs#Arrests_and_incarcer...

with all due respect, I hope you fail miserably.
No one needs a 5-bedroom house. In most of the rest of the world, that's something that only very wealthy people can afford.

And if you don't like the housing options in the Bay Area, don't move there. It's very simple. The only reason housing is so bad in the Bay Area is because people keep moving there and complaining about it, but still putting up with it.
Agreed on the "typing" thing being somewhat invasive. I'm not sure that can be turned off...

In iMessage, the "seen" notis (read receipts) are set on the reader side. They're totally customizable and can be globally disabled.

I have them on personally, because I find that it encourages good reply etiquette on my part, but they're easy to turn off in a granular way. chat-by-chat, whenever you want.

I'm not sure how this works for IG, others. I believe in whatsapp you can turn them off at the expense of losing that info for everyone else, but I'm not 100% on that.

The feature is extraordinarily useful in group chats. If you're trying to change venues while coordinating a group activity with people that haven't arrived, you get a realtime picture of who has up-to-date information and who doesn't. Makes a big difference.
This must be stopped.
Wow, just from briefly scrolling around I'm appalled by the sort of stuff that people are willing to put in writing and send to their coworkers at Google. e.g. managers admitting to having shit-lists of people that they won't let on their teams
I get your point about walking but running? Every personal reason to be running outdoors ultimately ties back to the exertion involved. For example, running to "clear one's mind" is predicated on the effect physical exertion, cardio exercise in particular, has in calming/resetting/clarifying one's state of mind. I guess I could have clarified my original point better as I meant it more in terms of someone choosing to derive personal benefits from physical exertion.
Some advice about splitting equity when one person has already put time and money into it: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...
> Absent that, I wish android could bundle images into a dead simple hosting site that send me a link to all the images, at max resolution, displayed with zero chrome whatsoever, in a browser window. Then I can download them like normal assets (with my press-and-hold browser utils. no third party UI).

I would not be particularly happy to find out that someone I was messaging on an Android phone could easily just send up any images I send them to a public site.

(Already not happy with Google having data about me that I do not consent to thanks to people with Android phones)
GPGPU has been around for at least 20 years and the roadmap was clear. Pretty sure it came down to execution.
Is it that they disproportionately target PoC, or are they simply smoking and driving more often and getting caught for it? Do we really expect every single crime statistic to show a completely perfect, proportionate representation of the host population's ethnic makeup?
Boeing actually attempted that on 787,with some VLAN trickery.

FAA caught it and forced them to redesign the setup.

As for actual AFDX networks - they have hardcoded forwarding tables and no MAC learning, and separation between networks tends to use data diodes
To read that "editors/vim" is an obscure tool is nothing short of astonishing.
If you really think those things are separate and not connected whatsoever, just wait until you see how much disruption and inconvenience climate change will create for your work diary.
openrc, runit, s6, upstart*

dmix, jack, pipewire

* now maintained at https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/startup
YEP!

Its so sad how few people are aware of this and the fact that we were FUCKED when 1913 Fed Reserve happened....

and after the fact Woodrow Wilson the scumbag wrote a letter regretting the decision and signing of the act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act
> perhaps Google just has an argumentative culture

I think this is probably the salient point here. Google is trying to create a "cool culture" where everyone can speak their mind and spend endless hours around each other. I don't like to work at companies where everyone "is a family" or uses their coworkers as their primary friend group. As much as I respect and enjoy the company of my coworkers, there is a strong chance we are not all compatible as close, personal friends but can still make progress for the company together. I prefer that my close relationships are not intertwined with what I use to pay my bills.
I remember reading a story about a Grandmother who ate a strong pot brownie everyday for medical reasons and it had little noticeable effect on her.

We know there's a direct correlation between alcohol levels and driving impairment, but I've not seen evidence for this link with THC. Are there studies that have found this? (Please forgive my ignorance...)

If someone uses X amount of marijuana (what this tech can establish), do we know that this will always have effect Y on the driver?

For example I know people who are heavy marijuana smokers who can smoke a whole joint and you'd never know whereas someone right next to them will take one puff and lose their mind.
"Smart Grid" utilities can even "borrow" electricity from a sitting car's battery when demand/price is high and "repay it with interest" when demand/price is low. Some CCS chargers and car models already support this idea, but it may be a while to see it in practice.

You generally don't need a full charged car at all times of the day: if you and your car both know you'll be at work for the next 8 hours and most likely you only need the 20 miles to get home, and a couple after work errands (plus some range floor for emergencies), there's plenty of leeway in how and when it charges.
Awesome products and this makes so much sense given the rise of the cannabis market.

I am surprised by the amount of comments here that seem like they are more or less arguing against enforcement of DUI laws that will save lives.