skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's always been understood as poor form to personally attack another employee, there was never any need for a rule saying so. In the same way, a "culture of openness" is always embraced with the implicit caveat that being "open" about criticism of decisions made by executives is also unacceptable and will be met with retaliation. That doesn't go both ways -- executives can be openly critical of you by name and on whatever terms they wish. Our generation didn't invent office politics, after all.

So this new rule is so broad as to be meaningless, it's sort of like making a new "no complaining" rule (which isn't as uncommon as you'd think). It demonstrates that the "chafe" was never about the rule. When we see workers purposefully making these criticisms anyway, as with this new hire or someone like James Damore, it means they've probably already understood that google won't act unless it represents a serious threat to their productivity. This is the company's first initial attempt to squash that sort of effort.
> America is not a democracy — it is a constitutional republic with democratic elements.

People like to say this all the time like it's clever, but being a republic does not preclude being democratic. The United States is a democracy.
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My dog is on it. Seems to help her random onset lameness.
Goebbels shaped talking points, too. I don't think merely "shaping talking points" is any kind of defense, regardless of whatever the controversy is around the policy the talking points are being shaped.

On the other hand, whether this is truly something employees of a company should be concerned about is also at issue. There are many other things a company of Google's size does which are (probably) highly objectionable: what makes this one special?
I'm pretty sure RPC privacy boost was underway before the leaks. It was just launched more hurriedly after they came out.
Public utterances are actions which can have consequences. If you're in favor of free speech, buckle up because criticism of public figures is protected speech.

But in this case the "consequence" to esr was somebody apologizing for linking to him. Methinks the parent protests too much
Your suggested title is more misleading than the current title. Not allowing employees to personally attack other employees isn't restricting internal dissent. Employees are free to voice their dissent all they want as long as they keep it professional. Posting memes and trolling another person is unprofessional and childish, and would likely get you written up or even fired at practically every company in existence. The fact this was ever deemed acceptable in the first place is actually the more shocking news.
Markets work best when there is transparency: for instance adding MPG to car labels helps "the market" make good choices by informing customers at the point of sale. The law which dictates an MPG sticker is "the government getting involved".

Another example: trademarks allow superior brands to win over time. The enforcement of trademarks is "the government getting involved".
I think you're wrong about that. My Firefox Developer Edition install has upgraded itself to 71.0b6. My Firefox install is at 70.0.1. Both claim to be up to date...
I have a Withings sleep pad that sits under my mattress and I find it significantly more accurate than other decives I've tried.

It also easily tells between activities in bed (even motionless ones like reading or watching) vs sleeping (and all the assorted cycles). It also measures heart rate, breathing (and how many times you stop), and even snoring.
this is a patent lie repeated too many times.

here are some cases i just googled.

2004 Amazon bought chinese company Joyo

Amazon buys into Chinese market
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-buys-into-chinese-market/

2015 3D Systems bought chinese company Easywa

3D Systems buys Chinese company
https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/outside_the_loop/...

2018 Xilinx bought chinese company DeePhi

Xilinx Buys China AI Startup
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333482#
> being a republic does not preclude being democratic.

No, but the particular form of the US republic does so in practice.

> The United States is a democracy.

The United States may have been built around an idea of representative democracy, but in function it is more of a plutocratic republic with quasi-democratic rituals.
I feel like Namecoin and Ethereum Name Service are the most promising replacements for certificate authorities that I'm aware of. Are you aware of any better suggestions?
I like this.

Please consider adding the ability to script clicks on elements, e.g. buttons.

I manage a site where we load a subset of articles on initial page load and then have a "Load more" button that executes Javascript to load another batch of articles. Getting a list of articles from our CMS is a bit of a hassle so being able to scrape it easily instead would be ideal.
I'm afraid that negative growth and generosity won't go well together.
I hope they wouldn't accept that applying extra-legal pressure on tax collectors is ok. Or pressuring people who craft talking points for raising taxes. The situation would get a lot uglier than a few grumpy voices at Google.

This is a silly position, and presumably the number of employees involved is very small. It isn't like he is going to be involved in border policy issues while working at Google.
I grew up that way and simply took my own where they could free range.

No way would I tolerate it being otherwise.

The value to the child is immense!

Just one example: during a crisis time, or disaster, who do you want as peers?

I will take the free ranged humans any day. They will have some sense of what "do what it takes" actually means, and few enough boundaries so as to stand a chance of applying it successfully.
>1. You elect the guy who gets the "reasonable" dole in place

I mean, the US already has food stamps, medicare, EI, disability... quite the socialist smorgasbord really. I thought you were saying those were 'unreasonable' while UBI was 'reasonable'. What did you mean then?
https://www.google.com/search?q=nothing+to+hide+hacker+news&...
One of logstash's main draws is as a data transformation pipeline. You can do lookups via dns or a json or csv file, for example. From what I can tell vector is just a simple log shipper.
Yep, the most convenient setup so far for passing notes/urls between a phone and a laptop. Slack is good too but somehow scrolling to your personal chat on the phone is cumbersome.
Both, but the similarities in the three can be striking regardless of ordering.
> increasingly more Millenials [0] support censorship and surveillance

Not so much support, I'd say - but rather indifferent or "gotten used to it" to the point that it doesn't seem to be a problem in their view. It is much closer to apathy and ignorance.

There is a bit of a generational gap at play here. Most millennials were brought up in rather comfortable conditions. Food, health, stable life, education -- for them this is the world how it always have been and always will be. Fascism, world wars, dictatorships -- all that is a distant news on tv (that they don't even watch or have) or in history books (books? what are those?)

Also, with the never-ending facebook newsfeed, that automagically shows them things that they already agree with, fewer and fewer want to leave that bubble.

In other words, millenials are ok with total surveillance because they do not fathom the real implications of what survelliance state is going to be. They have nothing to "compare it to", no intuition, nothing to relate to. For them it will "never happen".

... which means when it happens, it will be really, really bad. It is akin to having early symptoms of cancer, but if you have never been close to such tragedy in real life, you just go on ignoring the symptoms, go on until it is too late.

I guess it is a fate of every generation, some kind of 3 generational "gap":

1st generation - experiences it, puts in laws and organizations to prevent it from happening in future (examples are United Nations after WW2, nuclear non-proliferation treaties between US and Soviet Union, etc.)

2nd generation - happy / golden generation that still knows remembers the lessons of the 1st one and enjoys the safeguards instituted after the events that are keeping them safe.

3rd generation - decadence and calm before the storm. No one is alive from 1st generation to tell them the horrors of the world wars first hand. 2nd generation are "old timers" and essentially ignored. Personal experience of the 3rd generation is comfort, convenience and never ending entertainment.

For the lack of a better metaphor: Winter is Coming.
If an executive at Google posted memes and personally attacked a rank and file employee, they'd be met with the same pushback. The notion that this was only a problem because it was directed at an executive (or high level employee in general) is quite ridiculous. Personal attacks are not acceptable, full stop, regardless of who they're directed at.
They are less popular for the same reason that Go is popular: if every project is its own DSL, it becomes more difficult for newcomers to ramp up on a new project. That’s exactly what Go is good for.
The marginal cost per child has increased dramatically. In developing economies an additional child can sometimes be an asset as they are free labor for a family farm or business.
In a developed economy(specifically the USA) the cost per child is primarily driven by educational expenses. College education and also private high school and elementary education.
Despite what people say it much more difficult to be successful without a college education. The options for obtaining a college education without your parents money and without student loans are slim. There are two possibilities; military academy/ ROTC program or athletic/academic scholarships. The ROTC military is the most likely one but not everyone is accepted. There are many medical disqualifying conditions such as ADHD ect.
So if you are a college graduate and you want your children to have the same life opportunities that you did, then there is a limit to how many children you can have based on your income and net worth.
> Your nifty platform or weekend project could easily become the vehicle for someone else's crimes.

We might as well all pack up and go home then. God forbid some group coordinates an atrocity using the comments section of our blog, for want of proper risk analysis.

Best leave it all to the oligarchs. They know what they're doing. They'll look after us.
Diversity of thought is important.

Making silly stands against people with opposing political views will eventually prove short-sighted. It's always best to assume good intent and treat people as you'd want to be treated.
Your deduction is correct.
Another more recent example is when America destabilized Ukraine. Predictably, we had no interest in that business either.
This is a great example of teaching coding by making a game out of it. I think maybe a hint function might improve the over all experience but still very nice....

I would like to suggest a traffic light control game with pedestrian and vehicle calls for the next game, avoiding grid lock between multiple intersections is a problem that still plagues traffic engineering departments, especially with pedestrians as people do weird things like go halfway across the road then turn around and walk back. Railways and emergency vehicles also cause troubles.
The Post Office Helps China Defeat American Rivals
The point of that wall of text you wrote is that we pay taxes so that a rogue government agency can play all kinds of stupid fuck fuck games with us and other people all over the world and it is high time that it came to an end one way or another.
I too think this is funny af
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Obama separated families, too. Would the Googlers have the same stance? I doubt it. I think this is 'bubble politics'.
>This sounds like some conspiracy tinfoil hat old man rant (I swear I'm non of those), but I hear regular "non-tech" people airing the same complaints more and more.

Nah, people here are savvy enough to recognize it.

The term conspiracy theory was created as a way to disenfranchise reports when the government actually does something harmful. But you, like most people here, can tell the difference between something manufactured like flat earthers and NSA's machine learning projects.

I worked at a CDN and did analytics over a lot of the worlds http traffic. So yah.. sadly, it's a real problem.
Framing the issue like that is incredibly unproductive. It's a more complicated topic than that.

Anyone can create a strawman like that and easily set it alight. What takes real insight is actually understanding the issue, why sides of it are unhappy, and how to address it reasonably.
No one said you should care. But you shouldn't dismiss it based on the invalid argument that it is easy to create.

There are people (including a Prager propaganda video featuring a jealous painting peofessor) who claim that art like Pollack's isn't art or isn't good because it looks like paint thoughtlessly splattered on a floor or a smock. The point is, it doesn't, and the way it doesn't (chaotic yet balanced multiscale patterns of colors) is interesting.
Please don't confuse my adamance in defining the problem as an applied ideology in the real world. I'm pretty damn pragmatic and don't play purity politics.

I'm sticking with my statement, because it's true. I welcome reasonable refutations to it.

You overlooked the word "regulate". That means laws, but applied towards health and safety of products sold, rather than punishing the consumer.

We still need DUI laws (and related), but otherwise it's a personal choice all the way down.
Does anyone know of any inexpensive VPS or cloud instances that provide support for wireguard?
Dated pre-2011.

quote:

**UPDATE**

The project is now hosted on Google
code [0], and is morphing into a
single-CPU Cray X-MP with a working
copy of COS 1.17: The Cray-1X Project

[0] https://code.google.com/archive/p/cray-1x/source/default/com...
This is a fantastic post. I particularly love the analysis about how QR codes have been underestimated in the US market. Great work by Avery Segal! He's been doing some great things at a16z. Rising star in tech!
Responding like that is incredibly unproductive. It's a more complicated topic than that.

Anyone can create a strawman like that and easily set it alight. What takes real insight is actually understanding the issue, why sides of it are unhappy, and how to address it reasonably.

Do you see how unactionable this comment is? When you're responding to an idea or post you don't agree with, try to explain why and offer an alternative idea. Yes, you're not obligated to do this in general, but IF you're going to post why not make it constructive and informative?
The whole point of having human readable code is to help avoid being scammed, so having a code embedded that a human cant read but is what actually used for the link defeats the purpose
Tell all your friends while pretending that it's a secret?
seeing this. i’m going to consider this. ty. tysm.
Unlike a Pollack painting, your signature is boring.
You need to be resilient to all of these things to handle normal failures. So "hard shutdown" is just "free extra chaos test."
To me, it seem to be larger than one tool. I think of it as a color in a pallete, with which one can paint software. Octarine.

To put this statement into context, I'm speaking as someone who had been writing code in C, from the era of PC XT. Perhaps NIPS 2010 was a rite of passage to ML for me. There is a screen, full of industry grade C++ and PyTorch in front of me, right now...
There are languages like Go intended to write large systems by large teams and languages like Forth that are better suited for small software written by a single programmer.

There's no need to choose between Zig and LX. Use the one that better fits the problem. If for your case that's Zig, good for you.
Thank you for sharing your chroma tags work.

Could the same technique be applied to QR codes? Would it improve QR read times?

At rush hour I have to wait for many people to scan their QR code train tickets, it is surprisingly slow.
> until American companies are allowed to acquire Chinese companies (or otherwise operate in China)

this is a patent lie repeated too many times.

here are some cases i just googled.

2004 Amazon bought chinese company Joyo

Amazon buys into Chinese market
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-buys-into-chinese-market/

2015 3D Systems bought chinese company Easywa

3D Systems buys Chinese company
https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/outside_the_loop/...

2018 Xilinx bought chinese company DeePhi

Xilinx Buys China AI Startup
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333482#
No one cares, burgersandfries. Take your oh-so-new user id and pump 10+ comments into a less political thread.
Not OP, but also run my own email server, using postfix, since 2012. It is sad that there is such a widespread belief it is impossible to do unless you're google. Decentralization of basic internet services helps everyone, so if you're at all interested and willing to learn, go for it!

There are plenty guides on setting up postfix. Follow them, cross reference a few, read the docs and use the various free email test sites to sanity check everything. If you've never done it before, expect to dedicate 2-3 days to this.

Ongoing maintenance is approximately nothing.
Git is an immutable history of all work ever done on code.

Take a look here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master

And here: https://lkml.org/

Wikipedia does a pretty good job of maintaining document and discussion history as well.

In both projects, you can pull on any random thread and trace it all the way back to its origin. And if the team (and maintainer) is doing a great job of capturing the thought process behind a decision in commit messages (as Linus does so well), then you're in really great shape.
Negative spin: So your current fitbit will be useless in around 2 years, your data will be used for sales and the whole thing will collapse as a sunsetted product in 4-5 years.

Positive spin: new features, better integration with google ecosystem (whatever that means), ... um?
People like new stuff, old things bore them, a perfectly luxury 2 year old Benz car will Be replaced by a newer one. You know is a old model, so the newer model also works out for status. They need it to entertain themselves, directly and indirectly.
If you have a Pixel phone, open the camera, scroll right to More, open Lens and point your phone at a (human readable) URL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
In-between, after Apple bundled Zapfino making it accessible, and before Google Fonts made Lobster accessible, it was Zapfino that was abused everywhere.
For a large number of games and platforms, USED products are the entire category. Specifically with Nintendo, the vast majority of games for NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Wii, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS can only be acquired on the secondary market.

Some games have been updated for newer platforms (or even emulated on newer platforms by Nintendo to re-offer them for sale). But many, many more have not. To say that this decision on Amazon's part is not a ban against a product category because it is just banning resale of used products ... Is incredibly myopic.
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Amazon makes it pretty clear they sell used products and it's hard to imagine people not realizing that they offer used products unless they are new to the site and have never searched for any number of out of print books or old video games.

They aren't banning all used products anyway they are only banning used Nintendo products which is a bit of problem when Nintendo stops making "new" copies of old games and consoles. If I want an original gameboy or a copy of Super Metroid I should be able to buy them on Amazon from every available seller and if I'm a small used game shop i should be able to sell my products on the largest market place in the country without begging Nintendo for their permission.
This is the level of discourse you get from people who reverse binary trees all day.
This is the tragic comedy of people who espouse "conservative" values but don't put intellectual effort into it. There worldview is that whatever was canon before they were born is unassailable, and everything else and after is devoid of merit, but they can't explain why without appealing to authorities.
How times have changed! When I was 5, I walked alone to kindergarten everyday.

It was a half-mile away. All side-streets.

Of course, that was back in the 1970's, when crime in the USA was but a fraction of what it is today! ;-)
This seems like it would have the opposite effect as it would allow for higher earners to work further out and decrease demand for in city housing.