skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this was inevitable in the long run. From the very beginning, Google has tried to have the atmosphere of a college campus rather than a normal workplace, probably (at least in the early days before every tech company started doing this) to help them stand out among job applicants as an alternative to stuffier companies.

The thing is though, professional work environments (where there are typically norms around never discussing politics) are the way they are for a reason. Just like Bitcoiners are rediscovering why finance regulations exist, Google is rediscovering why the cool, relaxed workplace ends up causing more problems than it solves.
The protesters are more working class than the richer HKers with multiple passports. Sure, they can leave, but it is much harder for them to establish themselves in a new country. They can buy a plane ticket, but then what?
As an example:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1120320958382755840

@Pinboard has collected a bunch of these.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apinboard%20PAC
If I remember correctly K80 memory is actually 24GB, not 2x12GB. This is a pretty important distinction in this context (training GPT-2).

Also, you can get at least 6 K80s for the price of a single RTX Titan (also 24GB). So it would be faster (I don't think RTX Titan is 6x faster than K80) and 6x more memory for the same price. It's a very good deal.
They never really did, but they used to assume Googlers would have "strong opinions lightly held", i.e. while you may have strong viewpoints it wouldn't get in the way of doing your job or allowing your coworkers to do theirs. I guess they're finding that's not really the case anymore.
Sure, why doesn't your second option call for all countries to pay Brazil then? Instead of just western countries.

I can even accept that richer countries could pay somewhat more. But, still, there are a lot of non-western countries that are quite rich. So, why only western countries should pay?
Your gender is not related to your sexual orientation.
Wear a respirator and goggles and do it during the coolest period of the year; even so, bring some water with you. Put down as much as you can afford to (as thick as possible, but evenly thick). When my contractor did mine, he put in 1-2 feet thick.

Also, because I live in Phoenix, we installed some ventilators on the roof to help exhaust hot air in the summer (in addition to the peak eave "vents" at the ends of the house). We wanted to do an exhaust fan, but there wasn't any way to get one into the attic. So far, the ventilators have worked fine.
It's almost as if embracing "the personal is political" makes people feel morally obligated and virtuous for airing every half baked and divisive political opinion. And now they want to put the genie back in the bottle? Far too late.
Since this is google, it is getting interesting:

>organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
It's funny how we pigeonhole "things that actually matter" as "politics" and that those things are somehow taboo. I mean, what's MORE worth talking about than human rights, the environment, history, etc.?
I've demonstrated that Gtk+ is not ugly, and you don't get to claim it is if you choose to develop ugly applications with Gtk+.
Ah, yeah, that does sound extremely painful. I'm guessing you've already tried using noveau to see if that works better?
I spent 6-8 hours in Pompeii and 4-5 hours in Herculaneum. If you chop down you can see Pompeii in 2-4 hours as well, but then you would miss out the immersion in ancient culture. So I wouldn't recommend visiting both at the same day.
Would you consider the Stripe[0] dashboard or Figma[1] ugly? I'm not agreeing with the parent's statement, but whether or not a WebApp or Native App is ugly is impacted more by designers, not implementation.

[0]: https://stripe.com
[1]: https://www.figma.com
> Latest iteration is to write the majority of the app in Go and communicate with a native frontend over TCP

You need a protocol over TCP. Something standard and easy to use, hopefully one that people already know and has wide support from libraries. HTTP?

Native UIs are nice, but the cool kids like to stylize their UIs. Things like gradients, shadows, highlights, animations, etc. And wouldn't it be cooler if you go to all that trouble to stylize your UI to have it look the same on all platforms? What if you add another layer on top of the underlying UI framework? Something that lets you compose UI elements from basic shapes, maybe a way to separate the layout from the style? HTML + CSS.

Oh wait, we reinvented electron again.
@Pinboard (yes the pinboard.com guy) has been keeping track of political donations from big tech companies. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1141838179936243714
The difference is that Google's product is almost inherently political, especially when it comes to how they tailor search results and rank news results. I think it is productive that people who work on products that have political ramifications should be allowed to talk about politics because what they do has political ramifications.

I would hate for dissenting voices within google to be silenced and everyone to simply follow orders from the top regarding how they make search ranking decisions. Especially considering the recent whistle-blowers from within google alleging political bias in google search results. Surprisingly, none of which seemed to make any waves here on HN.
> Their job is to create a forum for others to debate, and to try and maintain neutrality

What? Says who?
Note: From 2014.
Discussion from original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7666866
Hi, I'm the author! It's not a dead project, it's just not released yet, someone seems to have submitted it early :). Will post it back here when it's ready for prime time.
Because political discussions are incredibly polarizing, specially these days, and once they are allowed they pulverize the company into factions that cannot work together until the more strident or powerful of these factions takes over and pushes everybody else out or into silence. And when this happens, you have an homogeneous political body as the gatekeeper to the worlds information. What could go wrong?
Alternatively, you could power an A/C with a micro wind turbine. Both have the same problem: no wind, no cooling. I'm currently in 30ºC and the tree leaves barely move.
we've been living in our current house for 11 years. it is a little over a km from the beach in Denmark, it has big doors that open onto the front porch and in a direct line with those doors are the windows in the bathroom, in the summer if we had both open we never experienced the house getting hot. That has actually stopped this year - now we sweat inside. But until this year we had a pretty good way to keep the house cool.
For pure Geopolitics - Peter Zeihan has been more right than the made for tv muppet boy Ian Bremmer.

Peter Zeihan is good. Geopolitical Futures is good but they have some duds in their prediction but good deeper level analysis. Stratfor has kind of become shallow but still good.

edit: On YouTube Caspian Report is probably a better production about Geopolitics.
China is applying a lot of pressure on Hong Kongers right now, including searching devices at the border for any signs of protest photos. The Hong Kong police have requested Octopus card records (the mass transit card that is linked to individual user IDs) and CCTV footage of the airport protests last week. There is evidence of information sharing between Hong Kong police and mainland authorities.

The implied threat is that anyone who participates in protests risks their livelihood and prospects of future education, and that major companies in Hong Kong will not be allowed to remain apolitical, but must choose sides.

These pressure tactics are intended to break the Hong Kong protests, and while taken very seriously by Hong Kongers, have so far failed to achieve that aim.
https://github.com/usdAG/cstc this implements This as a burp plugin. A few Colleagues developed this and released it two weeks ago at defcon
After long debates (since IBM needs them in EBCDIC machines, like z/Series) they were dropped from C++ (I believe C++17, but might already be C++14) so if you use them in a header this might cause incompatibilities.
>Because many people are not capable of programming.

You think too highly of the field. Programming is easy. Everyone, and I mean everyone can do it and eventually become good at it, especially fizz buzz.

>I suspect a lot of the recent CS grads who can't do fizzbuzz end up following careers that don't require programming.

Nah, more than likely they learn the fizzbuzz question and still become programmers because programming is easy. It takes time to learn programming like it takes time to become good at basic algebra or calculus, but literally anyone can do it.

>It's also important to understand that Computer Science is not Software Engineering. Computer Science is fundamentally a mathematical field. Don't conflate the two.

The two fields are intricately related. Most junior devs who lack the academic rigor like to separate the fields into a dichotomy and use this dichotomy as an excuse to justify the lack of expertise on the academic side.

After a certain amount of time you'll realize that all of programming is rehashing the same concepts over and over again just in a new framework/language. To gain deeper insight into the nature of computer programming and engineering and to actually become better, the dichotomy must be eliminated. In the upper echelons of Software engineering, people will realize that computer science and software engineering merge to become the same thing. Juniors have yet to realize this.

Take this for example. Did you know that a unit test does not guarantee correctness of a function? To guarantee correctness of a function you'd have to write a unit test for every possible input of a function. Did you know that computer science offers a way to do prove your program 100% correct without writing a single unit test? This is an example of a merger of engineering and theory. A computer is a deterministic machine amenable to proof yet we choose to treat it like a black box and test it as it was a chaotic system that needs to be tamed. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methodologies but I illustrate this here to show you that SE and CS are in fact different aspects of the same thing.
>I think they just overestimated the ability of their employees to respect each other when they hold differing world views.

I think this can be quite difficult to do just because of the political views involved. For example, how should a gay man respect a colleague who honestly thinks that homosexuality should be punished with death. In such a case, I would say that even asking the first individual to tolerate, much less respect, the second is itself a form of disrespect.

Now, that is a pretty extreme view for today's society but good for making an example with. It is also not too far off from many views that I have personally seen, especially when you begin to imagine the legal changes involved to implement those views.
Another trick I noticed was the shape of the box they used for the different sizes. The box for the "supersize" fries was tapered at the bottom so the fries wouldn't completely fill the larger box when they scooped the fries in, giving it the appearance of overflowing with fries. As you ate the fries, the remaining fries would slide down and fill the void so it seemed like it was completely full.
I am under the impression it was never a debate to start with. A debate implies that both sides are allowed to speak their arguments, yet, Google was actively shutting down and firing people that defended one of the sides.
I sincerely hope I can't get mad cow disease from eating a banana.
Google probably has a higher concentration of "children" (loose sense of the word) than your average tech employer, as it aggressively poaches junior engineers, focusing heavily on academic technical proficiency over other professional aspects, and then many don't stick around long term.
This. I worked at a midstage startup for 3 years. Even the major newspapers would print (or at least publish online) your press-releases practically verbatim. They seemed particularly susceptible to anything which contained some dubious statistics.
Once had a coworker out of left-field start telling me how one should be free to assault someone based on the arbitrary assessment of their speech being "harmful." This coworker wrongly assumed I would agree with them, and was rather taken aback when I shutdown the conversation as opposed to expressing my agreement.

Now you've gone and run the risk of creating a hostile working environment. Why people feel this is a sane mode of being is beyond me.
It's a basic "work for hire" contract between two parties. No other employer will tolerate this. If you don't like it - quit and write a blog post.
> elected due to fake news and extreme right radical content freely spread in Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube.

not true.
Sciter/Rust (https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter) was not tested: https://gitlab.com/z0mbie42/rust_gui_ecosystem_overview#not-...

but conclusion "The most promising seems to be Flutter" was made already :)
Others as in not their employees. Google indexes all the worlds information, who says their goal is to impose their opinion on it? Isn't neutrality in indexing the assumption?
I'm the author, yes @niea_11's comment is right. We add a HTTP Virtual File System. So you can stream the SQLite files over a static HTTP Server like Amazon S3 using HTTP Range Headers to do it efficiently. No dynamic web software needed.
> Everything is political.

Math is not political.
So the key to a diverse organization is not talking about politics? Seems unlikely.
> EU and USA do not contribute much.

Not true.
One thing that was found with solar panels is that because they are dark colored, they heat up in the sun, and on an angled roof, the gap between the panel and the roof has a "chimney" effect that draws the air up and out the top edge of the panels, which helps to cool the roof.
>Everyone wants to be able to have their political opinions, try and convince others, and not get fired.

In fact, many people do not want to try and have others convince them of their political leanings.
Isn't it because local calls are free in America, but they've never really been free here. Also I do get spam calls in the UK occasionally. Maybe once every couple of months.

Also they're more obvious because they're always from a landline number, and barely anyone uses landlines anymore. In America landline and mobile numbers are mixed so you can't tell (as far as I know).
Samsung magically fell to zero market share in China in the span of 2 to 3 years, that's a warning to any company doing business in China, now they are targeting Fedex over the alleged intentional diversion to the US of some Huawei packages, when China is angry at Korea, Lotte and Samsung became sacrificial lambs to the pent-up ire, Fedex and maybe some other American campanies may be the new ones (Amazon narrowly escaped the witchhunt of anti-China items since they exited China themself just months ago).
At work? A lot of other things.
If you live in a dry climate (I'm in Colorado), consider a swamp cooler. It's an amazingly simple and efficient machine: just a water pump and a fan, and peanuts in electrical costs compared to a full air conditioner. As long as you can establish airflow throughout the home, it feels just like A/C on days below 95F; you won't feel chilly on 95F+ days, but it's still quite livable.
If timewasting was the problem, wouldn't they be clamping down on all unproductive conversation, not merely the political?

I mean, wasting 10 minutes is wasting 10 minutes, whether I'm talking about politics or football or TV.
It’s not that far apart Lobsters and insects both belong to the invertebrate phylum Arthropoda.

If you want to include both spiders which are Chelicerata and grasshoppers which are Hexapoda that’s Arthropoda.
Really nice, thanks for sharing
I dont neccesarily discount it, but I dont have any .net core or Azure experience significantly and it seems any half decent job is using those. Also I'm kinda sick of windows, but thats not something overly important job wise
Works well if your data is big and doesn't have to be read on a web browser.
If they take that shortcut in Python, it tells you that they probably know Python, which also likely suggests they could think it out if they had to. If they think it out the harder way, that shows they can do that, which suggests they can get some things done. It isn't rare to find applicants who have more than 10 years of experience who somehow can't do either.
What I believe Google would say:
"Closing your JIRA ticket"
They have, but when they do, everyone in latin america call them imperialists, so, why bother?
Lol I would not eat the fruit from a tree with a known dead body feeding it. Even if the science claims it’s okay it just seems weird.
Most professional settings would not have permitted these company chat boards in the first place.
That article is all I can think about whenever these political problems come up at Google. Here's a link for anyone interested: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

I don't recommend reading it unless you can tackle the entire thing though
If all the discussion stayed within the confines of the company and away from headlines, and they never generated lawsuits, and HR never had to hear employees complain about how such and such had an argument with such and such, then I doubt anyone would mind.

It doesn't matter what the philosophically correct definition of politics is--what matters is reducing HR complaints, lawsuits, and negative headlines.
The Hundred Year Marathon is probably the best of the bunch. https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Marathon-Strategy-Replac...

Richard McGregor's work on the CCP is also very good and worth reading.

Orville Schell's Wealth And Power is also quite good for politics/history.
In that case I'd recommend

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower [0]
by Hudson Institute's China expert.

and

Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America [1]

These are rather hawkish but unfortunately also nailing the truth.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696000-the-hundred-yea...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855077.Unrestricted_Warf...
And today, Cathay Dragon sacked the head of the flight attendant's union.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/video-gallery.htm?vid=1476318
And there I was hoping they would solve all the world's problems from their campus in Mountain View.
Serious question, how does being lesbian (sexual attraction description) go along with being asaxual, which I understand to mean the lack of sexual attraction to others?
No, that's not a remotely legitimate security concern. The pilot is not politicized just because some people employed by her company are protesting. Even if she were politicized, what's she going to do, crash the plane?
Isn't the point of traps largely to prevent air from traveling either direction through the drain?
Nice!

As a side note, there is also:
https://www.oocities.org/

And for some times (now dead) there was Reocities.com, some of which has been itself largely archived on the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180308165314/http://www.reocit...
Related (the idea of having android-like permissions for desktop linux): https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issue...
Not every place where groups of people participate in shared activities must become a forum for political battles.
Honestly .. now I need to know about the first destructive latching of satellites more than anything else on HN today ..
Not if your work directly impacts these things as Google's often does.
> I ordered expecting it to arrive in 2 days.

Was the estimated delivery date in checkout and order confirmation e-mail in 2 days?

I've encountered some rare items (refurbished car parts) on Amazon EU that seemed to get sourced on-demand, but it was always accurately represented on the estimated delivery date so I haven't cared.
I assume you're being sarcastic/exaggerating, but even so.

This is just a perfect example of how polarised politics is today. Society just needs to calm down and evaluate itself instead of bickering over nonsense.
> I think it was like 111F / 44C.

HA! That's like a cool summer day - stay a while here in Phoenix, and you can easily experience 120+F days at times.

Nothing like it being 2am and 100+F degrees outside...

On the flipside - shorts at Christmas-time!
20 Years ago?

It happened (by my count) at least twice after the Bell system breakup with Telephone companies accepting government money to bring the internet to rural areas.

After that, I think the broadband companies (many have since merged or otherwise changed) have done this at least twice.

You can ignore any arguments by broadband providers or telco companies (or wireless companies) that they should be protected from competition and given money to build out rural broadband. They're more corrupt than almost any other US companies, and they've stolen billions of USD.

The Internet (at least the backbone) needs to be a public utility, owned by everyone and neutral to everyone, period.

Unfortunately this won't happen until the corruption in the US government is rooted out.
I've been there in July, visited them both in the same day: Herculaneum in the morning and Pompeii the afternoon. Is impossible to visit everything in Pompeii only the afternoon, in fact we went only in the most famous places but we completely missed the most northern part. I think that in a full day is possible to visit a lot of it, but it depends how much you want to stop and listen to the audioguide (highly recommended).
Herculaneum is fine visiting it in the morning, you can enter on each and every house, read the textbook that explain a lot about it, etc.
A few advice: prepare yourself for a lot of walking under the sun, those places are really hot (especially in July). In Pompeii there aren't many places to rest in the shade since almost every house have no roof, but there are some fountains where you can fill a water bottle.

On another note you should really spend 2-3 days in Naples, a city which I found (unexpectedly) very interesting and fascinating.

Finally you should really make this card [0], it allows you to take every train, metro, bus, funicular railway, from Naples to Sorrento and allows you to enter for free in the first two cultural sites that you visit. So I recommend you to go first in the two Roman cities and save a few money that you can invest in good pizzas :).

[0]: https://www.campaniartecard.it/campania-3-days/?lang=en
In my experience this is pretty common. My last company I used to get warnings for using swear words in private messages.
Precisely. These aren't "merely" politics. These are the issues that shape peoples lives, for now and for future generations. One of the greatest cons of all time was the casting of Climate Change as a "political" issue. It's our lives we're talking about. Our very existence.
The sums in question are for some reason ridiculously small. Seriously, $2500 donation? That is some serious political spending from Google!
Even if your place of work has a hand and a demonstrably relevant position in a lot of global political discussions?
I fully expect their next product to enable our webcam, take pictures of us naked all the time, threaten us with blackmail that they will post it on the internet, unless we buy YouTube Premium, and somehow all of it will be "agreed to" ahead of time by their privacy policy.

And because politics are non-discussable, no employee will be able to stop this.