skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an interesting in-depth article about series of leaks and internal turmoil that Google experienced:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...

1. Soon after, on the plane ride back from a work trip to China, Damore wrote a 10-page memo arguing that biological differences could help explain why there were fewer female engineers at Google, and therefore the company's attempts to reach gender parity were misguided and discriminatory toward men.

On Wednesday, August 2, Damore posted his memo to an internal mailing list called Skeptics. The next day he shared it with Liberty, an internal list for libertarians—one Damore hadn't known existed. By Friday, the tech blog Motherboard was reporting that an “anti-diversity manifesto” had gone viral inside Google.

Pichai was on vacation when his deputies told him that Google had better deal with the Damore situation quickly. Pichai agreed and asked to corral his full management team for a meeting. By Saturday, a full copy of Damore's document had leaked to Gizmodo.

2. Google was reportedly in the process of bidding for a project. It was called the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, otherwise known as Project Maven. The project would involve labeling past drone footage to train a computer vision algorithm so that, once everything was in the cloud, new drone footage could be analyzed automatically.

There was no consensus on Maven inside Google's fractious workforce, which includes former Defense Department researchers, military veterans, and immigrants from countries under US drone surveillance. Even the employee group for veterans was split on the project. But Maven's opponents were organized in a way that Google hadn't really seen before. Employees fanned out into different groups.

3. More leaks from inside Google fed the frenzy. Screenshots of conversations among Google employees on internal social networks, some dating back to 2015, appeared on Breitbart. Meanwhile, on a pro-Trump subreddit, a collage appeared that showed the full names, profile pictures, and Twitter bios of eight Google employees, most of them queer, transgender, or people of color.

For the employees who were being targeted, the leaks were terrifying. How many of their coworkers were feeding material to the alt-right? How many more leaks were coming? And what was their employer going to do to protect them?

4. Late this June, Project Veritas, a right-wing outlet specializing in stings and exposés, published a slew of leaked documents and snippets of hidden-camera footage from inside Google.
> Putting a pitted date in for every ~2 cups of water also adds just enough sweetness

Saw this and had to moan, sorry but this particular trend is a pet peeve of mine. You know dates are sweet because they have sugar in them right? Getting an equivalent amount of sweetness from regular table sugar instead wouldn't be any less healthy, and would be much cheaper and less perishable.

I guess you get a bit of dietary fiber and trace amounts of nutrients from a date too, but that doesn't seem relevant when using them as an ingredient with other things.
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People agree that this is what is happening.

People disagree about whether it was reasonable to expect Google management to be anything like the public image it tried to cultivate.

I, personally, expected this reaction from management and I wouldn't have put my own career at risk. But I also never thought Google was an unconventional company.
> just weird that people demand that their job adheres to whatever weird thing they like.

Seems like that has more to do with the things you find weird than some kind of politics.

If you're a"normal" person and like"normal" things you can do just fine with an attitude like that.

Some people are different.
What's your issue with CloudSQL or Spanner?
No the IDFA is for native apps only and does not exist on the web. It is not exposed to websites.
> The documents concerned a mandatory tool that was recently installed on the Google Chrome browser on workers’ computers, the employees said. In October, some Google employees raised concerns that the Chrome extension was an internal surveillance tool designed to monitor their attempts to organize protests. It would automatically report staffers who create a calendar event with more than 10 rooms or 100 participants, according to an employee memo that outlined concerns about the tool

From a technical viewpoint, I don't get this. Why create a Chrome extension to monitor usage of Google Calendar? Doesn't Google Calendar have an API they could use to do this on the server-side instead? (And if it doesn't, maybe they should add the necessary features to their API to enable this, and doing that might then benefit their customers and their partner ecosystem.)
Absolutely, not only a single neurotransmitter but can have completely different effects in different regions of the brain and most articles are extremely reductive.

This study in particular though is very well done, just publishing striatal dopamine and hopefully we'll see more studies like this in the future to piece it together.
At our company if the HR goes through your social media, and finds any evidence you may be socially activist or virtue signaling or otherwise very loudly proclaiming your disapproval of something some entity is doing, you will not be hired. You will not even get a call back. You will be labeled as a potential troublemaker (not in the good way) and be placed on the blacklist.
I'd also love to know more.

And upvoted so you can get that sweet dopamine hit.
> It's listed as "unproven" so I don't see what your complaint is

My complaint is that very frequently Snopes lists claims without proof as false. And does not editorialize about why it might be "deeper truth". But in this case, it lists the claim as "unproven" (implying it might be true, just lacking proof, despite no indication of such proof might ever be found) and does editorialize.

For example, here's "false" rating: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-veteran-service-dog/ (chosen randomly - first "false" story I encountered on the site).
Approached with the same criteria as above, we could say that it's merely "unproven", since while we don't have a proof Trump ever evicted a veteran, he owns real estate, so he certainly could have. We could even editorialize about "deeper truth" in this claim, in the same vein - that not finding it in this case doesn't mean Trump couldn't have done in in other cases, and he did many other bad things, etc. But in this case Snopes correctly chose to not do it, stick to the facts and label it as "false". In the case above, regrettably, they did not.
Agree. I think price are just artificially low because of competition. Of course they are cheaper than Netflix, they are trying to steal market share. We shall see in a few years.
Holy cow I thought you were exaggerating! Apart from a single Wikipedia article near the bottom every result for the search “computer” is an ad!! Not even a bad article full of SEO crap but a straight up ad!
You can skip the recording and read the ruling itself. It is fairly short and there is nothing in it that is difficult to understand.
The College Board recently added an "adversity score" to the SAT that "will reportedly reflect students' family income, environment and educational differences" and hence help level the playing field. Maybe all of that could be replaced by a measure of dopamine production. Rather than measuring external correlates of adversity it could be an objective measure of the actual internal experience.

I wonder how people would game that in order to increase their chances of admission.

The concept of intersectionality seems to be an attempt to measure chronic adversity using oppressed identities as a proxy. It could theoretically be replaced by a more direct, objective measure like this.
The return of Python dictionary “addition”
They may not want to when all one’s family and friends use it. Personally I couldn’t stand the business and deleted it years ago, but for some people it’s not a option. They need it to communicate, plus there is no clear alternative in 2019.
The greed as well? Normal jobs aren't paying anything close to 200-300k+ that you'd be pulling at FAANG/HFT.
RedHat has been using IRC a long time.
That's why I started posting photos to LinkedIn
Creating a One-Step Deploy Compiled Lambda Layer
The company must provide benefits required by law. Everything else is discretionary.

What’s definitely optional is for a company to take a stance on a political issue just because a vocal minority of their employees demands that.
While the nix package manager supports the coexistence of multiple versions of a package, the nixpkgs package collection does not contain every single versions of every package. However, it does make it very easy to refer to past versions of a package by importing package specifications from an older version of nixpkgs.

I think this is a reasonable choice, considering that the main purpose of nixpkgs is to provide packages for the NixOS distribution. It's impossible to actively maintain every single version of every package.
This wasn't recovery.

I was at the Tempelhof and people told me that it's privatly owned and the onwer wasn't happy with the current usage.
What's the difference between a hall-effect sensor + transistor that the manufacturer promises is a hardware off switch and a hardware switch with inaccessible contacts that the manufacturer promises is a hardware off switch? Either way, the consumer is going to want a light or other indicator that shows when the camera is in use.

Reed switches are available that are a few mm long, they aren't exactly huge.
> Films get a majority of revenue from the box office.

Which would no longer be protected from others obtaining copies of the film and showing it.

> They could sell high-quality masters to streaming services, etc etc

Which then can be legally streamed by anyone else immediately.

> People will pay to get a lot of art in one place, to get it in guaranteed high quality, and to get it quickly.

Yes, and anyone else can take this role of curation. Curation is cheap compared to creation. A 17 year old quality-compulsive downloader goes a lot of the way to having performed this function ;P

> Except the difference is that contracts only apply to those who agree to them.

Yah, so once someone breaches contract everyone downstream can have the content.

> Copyright applies to everyone.

This is a good thing.
Hopefully you weren't at work.

"Dogmeat12, can I see you over in the HR Director's office immediately?

-Your Manager"
If you're not going to link or at least screenshot some examples to support a claim like this, it would be better to not post at all.
The 80/20 ratio is a huge thing, good call. Often, no service at all, or unusable crap service for everyone is politically preferable to leaving anyone out.

That play of getting those %80 features into production and leaving the %20 people to fight it out afterwards as tech and feature debt is standard product management, but it takes extra finesse in govt.

I have seen some great success stories. Seemingly simple things like QR codes for game tags, federated logins for citizens, online license and permit renewals, a city parking app, pothole reporting.

This project is really interesting to me: https://www.open311.org/learn/
> you'd have no problem giving such consent. I, however, would not be willing to give such consent.

That logic only works if you don't still benefit from the research findings that are obtained from my data. e.g. "tragedy of the commons"
What are the business reasons against this? I so wanted the ability to hide specific domains from Google search, that I installed an extension, and then it stopped working. Luckily I was able to find a Tampermonkey script that does the same job.
“Linux/GNU” is a new one. Not sure if it’s a typo or a troll, but if the latter, it’s a pretty decent troll if such a thing exists? If it’s a typo, geez dude. You’re going to give RMS an aneurysm.
Is there any reason to believe IBM hasn’t been a good open source citizen?

Arguably a lot of OS progress that we are seeing today, especially in the enterprise, is a direct result of IBM’s decades old investments in tools like Eclipse, which was probably the first enterprise grade open source development software, but more importantly, by promoting OS in the enterprise in the late 90s and early 2000s at a time when MS FUD about Linux was at an all time high.
I’m mildly interested in politics and don’t know the answer.
And what if you do not give HR access to your social media?
Thanks, I'll try a Pi 3B+, have only played with the 1 and 2.
Hulu on my Apple TV 4K works great for me. I've been very impressed although I also have a good experience with Netflix and Amazon Prime and I do have a fiber internet connection.
Ah okay. Someone who grew up in Berlin told me it wasn't owned by the city.
> You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs.

It's easy to say this if your coworker likes football and you think sports are dumb.

But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death to Gays" and you just happen to be gay?
In the old days it was also routine for people to own eachother so I’m not sure how much that really means.
How much wage theft is treated as a criminal matter vs a civil matter?

Furthermore, cops aren't exactly skilled at digging out such things. Wage theft is something for the department of labor, not the cops.
The reference may be to the fact that Amazon (for example) provided only space for Muslims to have prayer rooms, but no one else.
Is hiddenness really the pertinent criterion?
> just weird that people demand that their job adheres to whatever weird thing they like

What about "weird" things like not being comfortable with taking on a new project with the military that ultimately helps kill people, or amassing as much personal data on the entire population as the NSA?

I mostly agree with your sentiment on the surface. Dont talk politics or religion at work, do your job, and things usually go just fine. But life is way too complex to label individuals' moral objections to employers crossing into controversial territory as weird.
Or management wants to help a foreign government trample its citizens' human rights?
People have become militarized with activist results like the departure of Brendan Eich. Lines have been blurred. People are making demands sometimes that are unreasonable.

Metoo movement in tech caused expulsions of many heads. Even if unrelated to the job.

Connections to Jeff Epstein is causing people to lose positions.

Political positions of support for Trump is causing customers to take stand against heads.

Where do we draw the line between association and belief and job?
Microsoft’s upgrade cycles for Windows 10 are a big problem for many companies. Many places deferred PC upgrade cycles for 6-10 years because they didn’t need them.

Now they are stuck with an accelerated upgrade cycle and big capex.

With respect to other subscriptions, I think that you’ll see pushback. Adobe and Microsoft play hardball, which gets old quick.
Money, "Impact", resources.

This is a very HN comment, but I'm not sure how you can't see why someone would want to work for bigcorp...
> Aren't things like this governed by local laws?

In the US this is governed by a patchwork of federal, state and local laws as well as employer policies.
Greta Thunberg's Speech to US Congress about the Climate Crisis
Welcome to Bluechipworld, Google.

Microsoft has been here for some time.

Apple is still trying to get comfortable, but has picked out a favorite chaise lounge.

Facebook should be showing up, any day, now.
You're just describing the triage process that already exists.
What's your plan here?
Somewhat related but why not have an object store like ceph but expose the guarantees of the data (cap or whatever) and just interact with objects? Bonus points for making the API pluggable.
Choice has next to nothing to do with evolution. You’re born with the genes you have and you may or may not pass them on, whether you’re a wolf or a potato. (I say “next to nothing” because with sexual reproduction, maybe you can choose which traits from the opposite sex to pass on.)
The monitors probably (correctly) aren’t authorized to use the API.
Because it's not good that one company knows everything about your life. If I have to keep explaining why I won't bother.
MobileEye (which was acquired by Intel) does not make cars but is a competitor in autonomous driving technology. They're based in Israel.
Hundreds of years? Faster than that. If we just keep burning carbon we'll warm faster than IPCC predictions. Most forecasts assume we decrease.

We'd probably lose Boston, New York, San Francisco and Miami this century, or at least chunks of them.

It's not just where the waterline is either: what matters is where the water goes in storm surges. Most current coastal cities would be unliveable within a 100 years I think, if we keep on burning carbon and do "mitigation" only, as OP suggested.
"Jimmy's doing 3 months of self-flagellation to prepare for the SATs!"
If you're not comfortable doing that project, ask to be re-assigned; most good managers will make that accommodation for an excellent employee. If you're not comfortable working at a company that does that, don't work there. On the other hand, I have no issue working on a military project; your actions could cost me a job if the project gets cancelled. Don't force your views on others; let me keep showing up and doing my job. I shouldn't end up un-employed because of your personal ethical issues.
> Don't we already have the technology for that?

Some would argue that we have a major problem on our hands ;).

Regarding, "I'd rather not", the point is well-taken. I'm probabilistically alive because my grandfather, who had orders to ship out the time of Japan's surrender, did not participate in an invasion of Japan. I live in a country whose political system endures in part because of the dedicated active service of more than a million citizens and in part because of the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives to the cause.

When I say, "I'd rather not." I hope to lead by example. The weapons we have are sufficient to cause the end of days, which seems like enough. I don't mind if the tools I build have some military use -- making a better bandage keeps anyone who happens to be leaking blood alive. I do mind if the primary purpose of my work has lethality in mind.

I'm a precision-measurement experimental physicist, and the thing we do is optimize. I believe it would be corrosive to my soul if the goal of my daily optimization is the death of another person -- a person with a mother, a father, friends, loved ones, and perhaps children. So long as the world is at peace (and one can readily argue that it is not, or that battles are won before they are fought), I will not make weapons. If I have to make weapons, they will be good ones.

"Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, as unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin-home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This was a fatal mistake for the Kzinti, of course; they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had decided to study war no more was that humans were so very, very, good at it." -- from the jacket of the anthology 'Man-Kzin Wars'.

Or, to draw an idea from the cultural history of China:

"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.

He uses them only when he has no choice.

Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.

And victory no cause for rejoicing.

If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;

If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself."

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 31 (https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu31.html)
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Well I'm also using a Pixel 2. So the good news is that this exists if you upgrade. I didn't realize root was not available on 10 (this is the first phone I haven't rooted and so I haven't been keeping up)
Days later, the HN post "a virus ruined my virtual reputation and I'm now banned from the internet".
Although it's generally quite hard to get fired from Google, leakers have always been dealt with severely. Google once upon a time fired a member of the original Macintosh team for leaking information about the Christmas bonus.

My guess is that the increased closing off of various documents is to do with the increased amount of confidential partner-related information as Google scales its cloud business.

But, as is often the case with Google, much of the disillusionment here seems to be due to unrealistic expectations and nostalgia. There have always been secretive projects at Google. Chrome was super-secret; you needed special authorization to get into the Google+ area; you needed special authorization to get into areas where new Android hardware was being worked with; you needed special authorization to get into the X area; etc.
Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test
I use it all the time when I’m on a 1gb SIM overseas. Works for 95% of websites.

Since it’s a proxy/VPN, it also gets around paywall limits.
Meaning, we abandon all coastal cities, and countries where a few billion people currently live?

No one has yet retrofitted a local climate. Air conditioning works on the level of buildings.
Not really, the politics rule is more because in a reasonably diverse workforce will have supporters of all sorts of stupid ideas and it is not fruitful to have people arguing about them on company time.

There is a lot of tension in labour relations but no-politics-in-the-workplace philosophies cover a lot more than that.
Actually, C# had a REPL even before Roslyn: The Mono project shipped one about 4 years prior.
Sounds efficient.
Apple already has a search engine.

Swipe down on the home screen and type some stuff, and you get “Siri suggested websites”. It also answers basic questions and gives previews of relevant parts of the sites.
Let’s just say you can’t stop someone with administrative privileges.
They aren't recapturing the cow farts.
And the Greek yogurt and cheese don’t see to be getting cheaper. I understand like with 20 months aged parmesan that the warehouse time and labor probably far outweigh the milk as input costs, but yogurt cmon, I’ve made it myself for way cheaper (without economies of scale) but its still expensive for brand names at the grocery store (like $8 for big jar).
An extension is the kind of random IT junk companies push all the time. Pushing surveillance into the server side of a core product is rather more heavy an operation.
Installing an extension to monitor employee use of a company computer is legal and generally accepted behavior.

If the Google calendar is for a personal gmail account, then accessing the calendar details server side is a huge privacy breach.
This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d#...

They point out the plan assumes you can launch planes from a few different points around the globe. You don’t need global agreement, but at least access to some foreign airports.
There is no good faith argument here that can paint with so broad a brush; organized labor is also not free from extreme acts of violence and extortion.