skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least when I was there, the line was drawn somewhere between SVPs and normal employees. People seemed pretty okay memeing on Vic Gundotra. But there were other characters at Google who were just ordinary employees, and people felt at least a little uncomfortable when you discussed them excessively. I think the meme templates for a specific person I have in mind were removed entirely.

Ultimately, it's about the level of power that people wield. With great power comes great responsibility. Vic tied the compensation of every single employee to the success of Google+. So there is going to be some pushback, especially from one of the 75,000 people that have no control over how the social network does. There were also various circumstances that just made it feel right. One day there would be an email from Internal Comms about a day in the life of Vic Gundotra, mentioning how few hours of sleep he gets. It was then dug up that Vic did a car commercial where he talks about falling asleep at the wheel and how the lane assist feature saved his life. You have to find that kind of funny. Or maybe I'm just a terrible person and my cynicism ruined the guy's life. Either way, I was amused when people poked fun at senior leadership. It kept them honest. Every SVP thought they were Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, but really they're just coming to work a little sleepy every day controlling a machine much bigger than they can understand.

In the end, making fun of specific people was a tiny tiny part of the culture of openness at Google. I think it was worth taking the bad with the good, but it seems like that didn't scale too well. I feel like that's just part of the lifecycle of a corporation. The companies whose engineers invented computers and the Internet just aren't around in their original form anymore. Apple made it out. Microsoft is doing pretty OK. That's about it. I feel like Google is the next IBM; people will live out their careers there and keep it alive for the foreseeable future, but I am not sure that people aspire to get their first job at IBM anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the culture that made Google Google has been determined to not maximize investment returns over the next quarter, and so it has to go. It worked for IBM, right?
Then who would drive for them but true gigsters? People only looking for sidejobs.
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Then don't give the QR app root.
I don’t think you did overlook anything, as that’s how I understand it. But I also get the point of the parent. I don’t understand why it has become so common to half-apologise or disclaimer the things that may be easier for you than others. I don’t see these same disclaimers when people talk about eating at a nice restaurant, taking a flight, being warm in bed, drinking clean drinking water, or not starving.

For me, it’s redundant. Some people have more access to greater abilities than everyone else, and some people will be able pay their way to a more comfortable life than others, but it doesn’t mean we should have to provide recognition of that on behalf of everyone that can’t.
But hey, what's a little cultural cringe among friends, to show off one's ignorance of its connection to genocide.
It's a hangover from the days when Googlers were largely adults, and capable of being treated as such. After growing so huge, it's obviously not sustainable to keep hiring at this bar, so they're putting in stricter rules around employee behavior just like almost every other company does.
Mine are rechargeable.
> That _is_ the nim name.

Well, a nim name; there is no the nim name.

> you don't have to use Nim,

That would be the lucky situation for now; if we band together and write cogent criticisms, we may be able to keep it that way going forward.
The smallest range that providers are willing to deal with are /24 (256 IPv4 addresses), and each IP is around $20, so that's a minimum of $5,000 [0].

But I only need one IP address, and I'm willing to pay $500 for it. Is there a way to make this happen?

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That is what I took "distributable unit" to mean, yes. Perhaps it's not fair to say that this is true for "hello world" as you've shown in your Visual Works example and jolmg has shown with GST.
That is by no means an apt metaphor. Mathematicians are in the business of creating new mathematics, not in studying the "language" in which mathematics happens to be written. Of course the history of mathematics is replete with contributions from physicists and others, particularly during the period when the educated could turn their hand to nearly any such discipline and find a problem on which progress could be made.
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If you read further in the documentation, you can find the bit where you can remove all the objects you don't need for anything other than emitting "Hello World" on the terminal. On an older version of Squeak I was able to get it down to about 250k, which is about on par with the Golang hello world.
> This has some interesting implications – there’s no ‘divide’ instruction, for instance, because it can take a variable amount of time to finish. To perform a divide, you need to first compute the ‘reciprocal approximation’ (something we can do in exactly 13 cycles, it turns out) of the denominator value, and then perform a separate multiply of that result with the numerator.

Note that the special sauce behind this is the same as the special sauce behind fast inverse square root. The integer bitwise components of a floating point number permit a really good approximation of the log base 2 of it. And once you have the log base 2 of a number simple arithmetic does interesting operations.

log2(x^-.5) = -.5 \* log2(x)

log2(x^-1) = -log2(x)

The same trick can be used to calculate any constant power over the range [-1,1]. -.5 is the most famous for whatever reason, probably because of the "what the fuck?" comment in the open source quake code.

I'm not entirely sure why this knowledge was known at Cray, then lost, and had to be rediscovered at SGI or whatever. And I'm not entirely convinced it ever was lost. But if it was lost, I imagine it had something to do with replacing engineers whose bread and butter was done on a sliderule (which is inherently built on the premise of manipulating logs of numbers) with engineers who always had a pocket calculator.
Also, most likely all URLs would end up coded like https://go.to/abcdef

Edit: just found clicking go.to redirects to flock.com.
> 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.

Very much not the case at Google historically. The level of criticism against execs was vicious, to the point that a lot of it was IMO in bad faith.
The industry is pretty certain Boeing is taking a loss on this contract in order to secure additional future contracts for the platform.
Or a 10$ Exotic gummy.
I think there's a difference between the Obama administration of both scale and intent. The scale was ramped up dramatically with an explicit intent to punish people with losing their family. So yeah, part of it is bubble politics, but there's still a qualitative and quantitative difference.
So let me ask you SillySaurUs... if Google invites you out to demo your blood/sweat/tears and you have no power/connections/money are you going to accept their invitation?
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>”some employees say the new rules smack of censorship.”

Wait, wait, haven’t I heard that companies by definition can’t be accused of censorship because they “are not the government” when people protested Google’s censorship in YouTube and its search arm?

But, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, yeah it’s censorship! Good one.
If that became widespread, I could see places that display QR codes like the bar in your example take steps to make the QR codes physically inaccessible.

For example, they could put the QR code behind glass, and have a sign telling people to only scan the code if they can see it behind the glass. Someone could still paste a QR code of their own outside the glass, but it would be pretty obvious.

Or instead of printing them on paper, they could have a small LCD screen dedicated to displaying the code. This could be designed to make it obvious if someone tries pasting a code over the screen. For instance, the screen could be a bit bigger than the QR code, which could move around the screen, like the bouncing ball or logo in many screen savers.
Why don't you provide some evidence for your claim, since you believe all the evidence in the OP is invalid?

I could claim that whatever it is you do (including your HN comment) is no more complex or interesting than monkeys banging on typewriters.

Saying that careless sprinkling sand is as good as a Pollack is very nearly the same as saying picking numbers off the top of your head is as good as a secure RNG for crypto. It's not, in ways only an ingorant person fails to understand.
1. If carriers are only good against poor nations, why are most of the worlds navies buying, building and deploying them? China, USA, Britain, France, Japan, S.Korea, Italy, Spain? Just following an outdated fashion? Or perhaps they realize that nothing is more important in modern, high intensity warfare than airpower?

2. SAMs are pretty much useless for the foreseeable future against stealth fighters. Until that's resolved, carriers and airpower will reign supreme.

3. You're vastly overestimating ASBMs, the corresponding targeting systems, and underestimating how the US will handle them.
"Which platforms are going to do the targeting..."

These are called "ISR" (intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance) platforms and among the forces afloat these could be the E-2C, SH-60B, "other aircraft," and drones.

"How long does it takes for weapons to arrive?"

Is mach 3.5 fast enough for you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-174_Standard_ERAM
I actually agree(d) with that reasoning, I also initially assumed random placement. Others on this page suggested them being steerable.

But we're both very wrong- I read the whole paper. Some aspects are well thought out and highly technical, while others are glossed over as requirements tbd.

Briefly: He does intend to steer/ orient the discs using radiative pressure from a network of control satellites and gps-like navigation "beacons", but overlap is also required to take into account the required oblique angles and transparency of the discs.

I'm left being very impressed with the provided technical details of the disk constellation, but even more skeptical overall, mostly due to lack of detail on some major supporting elements. He offers no detail of the required deployment method, or even the scope of the required navigation and control network. He also states each disk will require a gps-like receiver, 2 cameras, some power and processing capability, and a method of communicating with said networks, all while still assuming 1g per disc and no added cost...

It's not conceptual level, so much as it's conceptual for maybe one out of dozens of required massively scaled elements.

Also, it addresses no risk management / mitigation concerns.
> Poggia stressed that the order is retroactive, meaning that Uber would be expected to pay social charges for all of its drivers since it entered the Geneva market in late 2014.

It's rather late for that
If you crawl a package repository such as PyPI, you will find a lot of that same stuff in packages as well. Which is even weirder because those are created from a setup.py which does not have a `git add .` equivalent. People are not good at building clean archives.
What you can’t do is delete the data that Google is collecting on you without an account. Data your family gives them. Data from your emails that land in gmail inboxes. Data from the umpteen thousand cookies that lead back to Google.

I’d like to see what Google has on me, but without an account I can’t.
The strangest thing is the camera industry's non-response to smartphones. There's a fellow named Tom Hogan who writes in extreme detail about the camera industry and noticed years ago that camera makers should open up their APIs and work much harder to integrate with smartphones. Here's one recent example of that message: http://dslrbodies.com/newsviews/are-customers-asking-for.htm...

Still, Apple discovered a user problem—stringing together multiple apps to create a one-step process—and is trying to solve it. Are the camera companies doing the same? Doesn't seem like it.

So for now I can only dream about the camera that lets me load some variables into the EXIF data of an image (hashtags, caption, destination, resize choice, priority) while shooting, pushes that over to my phone via something like SnapBridge, and then because that phone app supports Shortcuts, allows me to say "Hey Siri, Output Images with Priority 1." Plus, when I get home be able to say to my computer "Hey Siri, Archive all Images."

Camera makers have done some half-assed wifi, Bluetooth, and NFC integrations with smartphones, but for the most part the camera still lives on its own, still uses out-of-date SoCs, and generally behaves like the year is 2005, not 2019. The various cameras I've used aren't even smart enough to do simple things like transfer a selected image to a given social network whenever the camera gets within range of a wifi access point it knows. And almost none of the camera makers seem to be serious about working on this problem. It's like Sony missing the iPod (a useful analogy because Sony is in the camera industry and, apart from its imaging sensor division, has missed the wave yet again).

Edit I forgot to add that I believe Sony just introduced a new $1400 flagship camera, the a6600. https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6975583891/sony-a6000-a610.... It has a 4-5 year old sensor in it and software that is even older. Kitted out from scratch with high quality lenses, it's probably $2,500 – $3,000. Imagine how many iPhones Apple would sell if the sensor were not much changed from the 6s and the camera software not changed at all.
Yes, I'm sure this will be different than every other time Nintendo has shut down competition. This is Nintendo's MO. They are notorious for going after fans and even legitimate resale.

Edit: Just to be clear I'm not against fighting counterfeit products. This just means you'll be paying more to get counterfeit products labeled as "new".
> given China's extreme behavior on restricting US Internet companies from their market, this is more than fair game.

Except that the US always complained about this behavior from the Chinese government, but now it wants to adopt it as normal. It looks like the Chinese way of doing things is winning...
Yes, and I noticed similar battery issues. I am using an old iPhone SE, so the battery isn't terrific anyway, but it definitely caused an impact.
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Your comment made me think of a great comment on the topic I had read here a few months ago. After some digging around, I found it, and it turns out to be a post of yours, too! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924858

Very cool, thanks, keep posting!
It’s amazing how anyone can work at google given their data mining of children.

It’s amazing how anyone can work at Microsoft given their assistance to foreign authoritarian governments.

It’s amazing how anyone can work at Netflix given their censorship for Saudi Arabian subscribers.

It’s amazing how anyone can work at Facebook given the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

It’s amazing how anyone can work at Amazon given their horrendous treatment of employees. Seriously - you hear about those pee pee cups?

It’s amazing how everyone doesn’t renounce their American citizenship given America’s historical injustices to [whoever you feel was wronged].

The only option is to quit your job and live off the land on an uninhabited island. Not sure how else you can stand to live with yourself without being a disgusting hypocritical ingrate. How dare you?
Back when I was a boy, the local park had an old steam locomotive set up for the kids to play on and around. It was quite popular. Being all iron, angles, and sharp corners, there was nothing safe about it, but I don't recall anyone getting hurt on it.
First, thanks for offering, I appreciate that!

But no, I think for the most part it was pretty benign. It looks like they were planning on doing some kind of maybe SEO gaming or something using my de.licio.us clone I made almost a decade ago. I had about 23,000 accounts with .ru and .lv email addresses, many repeats, almost none of which interacted with the app at all.

Many recently created, even today. I think there must be a script that loads in users or something like that.
Child abductions are an awful thing. I also feel like living in fear is no way to live. You can't learn street smarts without a little practice. There has to be a balance between 'it won't happen to me, go nuts kids' and 'kids need constant supervision'. I try to teach them to be aware and watch out. There are limits. I leave Nextdoor to my nutty neighbors.
Isn't that what GVFS is? https://github.com/Microsoft/VFSForGit
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That's who they claim they've got driving for them, so that sounds reasonable. Or they could pay the taxes.
I think from history we can see that google will experiment with multiple products in the same space and kill off unsuccessful versions (video, social networks, chat, productivity etc) and that they will also make bets on more fringe areas and kill it if it doesn’t work. Fitbit seems different then, because google doesn’t have an alternative product nor is it a niche market (the fact that Tim Cook says that we will all remember apple most for their contributions to health probably means this space will blow up!). Fitbit clearly couldn’t innovate fast enough so for consumers it’s probably just a good thing.
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Yes. You can use KittyHawk software or DJI and set up a flight path.
You can buy a single ip but it won't be routable on the internet. All major routers on the internet drop any routes smaller than a /24.
Yeh "endpoint security" is hard. You need some trusted specialized hardware or network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption#Endpoint...
Choosing short term, surreptitious pleasure while ignoring potential punishments after death is nothing like typing a curse word in Google and immediately getting visual feedback that the indiscretion was flagged.
Also, I think the public has no problem with the government spying on other people. They just don’t want it spying on them. So in that regard, it opposing the policy, but instead mitigating the risk to your own communications is an expected result.
If I had known that from the start, I would have found git much easier to learn!
Wow, thought it was just me who found that Youtube recommendation cluster. It does seem to pivot around Hiroshi Yoshimura. “Green” was the portal into that world for me as well, but there’s plenty of other nice ambient discs of his in there (Air in Resort, Wet Land, Surround).

On the periphery of that group, if you want something genius, check out Motohiko Hamase (especially “Notes of Forestry”). Squarepusher-like electric bass skill over minimalist classical loops. Never heard anything like it.
Executives get away with more crass offenses all the time but even if they didn’t, you’re ignoring a key power imbalance that defines this struggle. What purpose would it serve for an executive to post in this message board? They have plenty of recourse already if a bad hiring decision has been made.

I think we’re also conflating “personal” attacks with criticisms that just happen to be about one person in particular. The meme in the article is criticizing google for exposing their relationships to key actors in child imprisonment policies in the US (connection was exposed by hiring one of them). By this standard there’s no criticism you could make of the company unless it didn’t apply to anyone, which doesn’t sound very meaningful. The same criticism could be levied (with the same picture/meme text) if they decide to hire Mike Pence next year, will that also be considered an unacceptable personal attack?