skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies themselves are inherently political though, just by existing. They exist in the context of society and are made possible by the legal structures created by politics. And they generally advocate for themselves within the political system (a good example is lobbying).

So there are certainly limits in the workplace and there is a line to toe for toleration and polite conversation, but saying "politics do not belong in the workplace" is pretty absurd.
Wouldn't it be possible if we launched from the moon instead? Most of the trust of rocket is loss to get out of the earth gravity well.

(Not that we're anywhere near having a rocket factory on the moon... but maybe one could be assembled and fueled in orbit?)
Funny you mention it, because I currently am working at one of those two, and for my next gig am seriously looking at the other one in the pair. Note: I love my current team and project, but nothing is permanent, and it is always good to be on the lookout for the next thing, in case things go sour or if you want to switch things up.

Overall, I agree with you, but it isn't that employees there don't care. It just honestly feels like the overall group of employees at Apple/MSFT is truly more diverse (not just in terms of race and such, but in terms of socioeconomic upbringing, culture, and diversity of thought), hence why they are used to being respectful of other people's views (even if they totally disagree with those) and not succumbing to the monoculture kind of thought, because it would be almost impossible to have a monoculture there in the first place.

There are definitely a few small enclaves like that at Google as well, but it feels more like a giant monoculture with some small enclaves, while I get the inverse feeling about Apple/MSFT (a giant diverse non-monoculture group, with a few small enclaves of monoculture).

Anecdotally, I have many friends working at all 3 of those (Apple/MSFT+Google), and they (independently of each other) brought up the same point when conversations got there.
The downside to becoming wildly successful and influential in a culture is you begin to come under far more scrutiny from that culture.
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I am curious to see if Matthew Walker replies.
I use my phone. I have termux on android, with password protected ssh-key and it did save me a few times.

I assume there is something like that for iOS, or other phones.
I'm pretty sure Google has seen an exodus of alienated top performers in the past years (who happen to be predominantly Asian and White males). So now Google is realizing that maybe demonizing their core demographic through fostering hostile identity politics inside the company is threatening their core advantage. I expect more crackdowns from the leadership in the future, including restrictions on Memegen and other toxic internal forums.

I cannot stress enough how bizarre the internal politics truly were now that I left Google. It's interesting to see posts from Xoogler activists in Xoogler boards who try to introduce themselves as some sort of oppressed heroes, only to be stonewalled by the alumni community who couldn't care less about their PC agenda now that their career isn't held siege to PC whims.
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I would be interested how the performance of running a homomorphic circuit compares to running the same algorithm without encryption
Here are two simple database definitions:

Database in Pulumi:

const db = new gcp.sql.DatabaseInstance('app-db', {
databaseVersion: 'POSTGRES_11',
region: 'us-central1',
settings: {
tier: 'db-f1-micro',
diskType: 'PD_HDD',
},
});

Database in AWS CDK:

const db = new rds.DatabaseInstance(this, 'AppDb', {
engine: rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.POSTGRES,
engineVersion: '11.5',
instanceClass: ec2.InstanceType.of(
ec2.InstanceClass.STANDARD5,
ec2.InstanceSize.XLARGE
),
storageType: rds.StorageType.GP2
})

Not to mention they have higher level constructs like DatabaseCluster that will handle the underlying details of replicas and create the lower level resources for you.
I don't. My approach probably isn't ideal. But I find it really hard to start with tests for new solutions.

With a basic understanding of the problem and the expected solution, I start off directly with prototype code - basically creating a barely working prototype to explore possible solutions.

When I'm convinced that I'm on the right track (design-wise), I start adding more functionality.

When I'm at a stage where the solution is passable - I then start writing tests for it. I spend some time working through tests and identifying issues with my solution.

Then I fix the solutions. And clean up the solution.

At this point my test cases should cover most (if not all) of my problem statement, edge cases and expected failures.

When it comes to maintaining the solution, I do start with test cases though. Usually just to ensure that my understanding of the bug or issues is correct. With the expected failure tests, I then work on the fix. And write up any other test cases needed to cover the work.
This has been used in magic for years and was introduced by Lubbor Fiedler as “Lubor’s Lens.” (I have a few by my desk. I contemplated making a large one as part of a television special I recently shot.)
It's very hard to actually have private, internal dialogues in a 'townhall setting' among an employee group so large.

Recordings and videos could get leaked at any time by an employee to the media or on social media, which will further blow it up (ahem, like with Facebook) or perhaps take things out of context or cause more chaos.

Google actually trying to have a serious - and not just PR/HR-bullshit - discussion about highly nuanced, opinionated, divisive topics relevant to the workplace in this type of mass-meeting setting is basically playing with fire out in the open.

(This isn't a take on yes/no politics in the workplace, just an interpretation from Google/Facebook)
I wish Twitter did this. I still think in person meetings are the best, followed by phone calls and emails (when in person socializing isn't possible). I really don't miss a site like Facebook.

But Twitter's use case is different - it is nice to have a place to check for quick updates from federal governments to our local post office and everyone in between, including thought leaders and such.
This. A 1000x this. There are hurdles for people that are systemic, some of those being racially, gender, and/or purely economically based.

The "personal responsibility" line get touted around these conversations quite a bit. It's not so dissimilar from the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" line. Quite often by racists/racialists or wealthy classists.

Yes, people should be personally responsible and held responsible for their actions. And also yes, systemic problems are also problems that cannot be ignored or absolved by saying people should take personal responsibility for their actions.

Take crime, when the poor and disadvantaged find themselves in the US court system, oftentimes their crimes are punished more harshly than those from more well-to-do situations. That's not the fault of the poorer person, that's systemic.

You can say neither the rich nor poor person should have committed the crime (personal responsibility is a "good" thing) , but the fact that the rich person might get off or have a lighter sentence such as probation, isn't the fault of the poorer individual - that's where the systemic failures start to rear their ugly head.

Please note: I don't discount personal responsibility (quite the opposite) here at all - however I'm sure my comment will be met with criticism by those that beat the drum for "personal responsibility" as being the primary mitigating factor in all things around these types of topics.
Or even lesser things like setting a responsible sleep schedule, being financially responsible, fixing himself dinner...
Yes, it had hundreds of millions of users.
> What exactly is the proposed solution?

Start requiring taxpayer IDs?
I started building something like this at one point and called it AppBox [0], to make installing apps on the device similar to installing apps on a server. I think Docker took over this role.

[0] http://appbox.rkeene.org/
What matters is not if you would pay $1, but if your friends/family are willing to pay $1. Without them the network is useless. I don't think one can build network effect fast enough with a paid (truly) social network.
Sounds like Googlers spoiled the well. I'm not sure exactly why but Google employees always seem to be in the news about something and have leaked conversations that management had with them. In some instances the controversy is warranted (Rubin Payout, etc.) but it must be annoying from a management perspective.
Activists at work used to focus on things that would improve the lives of workers. Now they just want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
On one hand, it's interesting to see how sellers adapt to the rules set in place by Amazon, but on the other hand, it's annoying to sift through hundreds of items with questionable reviews or sources.
I don't think large blocks of comments qualify as strong typing: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/blob/76df2e85214ad13465...
"this is just a bonkers amount of money to ask." I couldn't agree more. I am not sure what Jimmy Wales is thinking here... there is no way this site gains any serious traction. I wouldn't pay $5/month for facebook... hell I wouldn't pay $3/month... you know what, if Facebook wasn't free, I wouldn't use it.
I would pay $1 to remove each feature that annoyed me. It may cost me $10, but my quality of life would significantly increase, while not being a total pariah.
At least in the case of Reddit it's quite different.

The primary value by a huge margin on Reddit is the text content, the comment / discussion section in each thread.

Pinterest is basically entirely built around the rehosted images they pull in. It's by far and away the primary value on the platform. A distant second is the typically small amount of associated text with a given post.
Weekly seems a bit redundant to me, but at minimum a quartetly meeting helps people understand how what they do corresponds to the bigger picture, as well as how well the big picture is actually going.

Also, by letting employees know that their work ties into the bigger picture, you help encourage a bit more innovation at the lower level / on the ground, so to speak.

I've been at companies that did it well, very poorly, not at all, and everywhere in between... So yeah, sometimes really useful, other times the meeting itself can feel like make-work.
Google famously hired one of the activist organizers of Occupy Wallstreet: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-who-organize...
If people stealing packages were reliably subject to fines exceeding the value of the packages, they'd stop stealing pretty quick, and it would be cheaper for society than putting them in jail.
Surprised I had to scroll so far down this thread to find someone else with this sentiment.

When did social networks become epicenters for sharing and arguing news and politics? Someone make a paid social network that forbids news and politics and you'll have my attention.
Roger Penrose is still around
Some politics isn't work-related.

Some is, especially when a company has 100,000 people. I think, perhaps, it is easy for people to forget that when some Googlers fought against the Dragonfly project, it's because they have friends and loved ones who are Chinese expats under threat from China's government (meanwhile, some Googlers are Chinese citizens). When some Googlers fought against project Maven, they were only two or three degrees of separation from people who had lost loved ones as "collateral damage" in US drone strikes during the "war on terror."

I think one of the most interesting questions is whether a 100,000 person multinational can survive without a hard "Don't question leadership" culture in a world with simultaneously this easy flow of communication and people and this much inequality and conflict.
This came out of Gentry's PhD thesis under Dan Boneh, for which Gentry won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation and Grace Murray Hopper awards, and later the MacArthur Prize. It was the first demonstration of fully homomorphic encryption, and therefore resolved a very large open problem in theoretical cryptography.
To be clear, Kafkatrapping, which is what you’re doing, is the most insidious manifestation of this culture because it turns everyone who isn’t trying to out-do the next one into a potential “enemy”.
Depends on the SKU. Lots of NUCs have full vPro (at least the Intel branded ones).
What's interesting is they often don't even have you return the item.

While not cost effective, I think having you return item, verify it's a knock off, then take some action would be better long run. Apple products had TONS of fake chargers on Amazon for a while.
US "left" is basically center though.
The propulsion technology for an interstellar mission is available today, there are proposals for probes powered by RTGs or even nuclear reactors and driven by ion engines. Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions that can be exploited for gravity assists happen every 20 years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_probe#Proposed_in...

It's entirely a political problem. There is no will to fund such a mission, and what's worse is that in the US funding is approved year by year.
Mouser (and Digikey) are both really excellent. They aren't cheap, but that's probably part of why they're excellent.
I’ve had dailies for a long time and now really love acuvue moist. Way less dry. if the delta between weeklies and dailies is 1, moving to acuvue moist has been another 0.3 or so
Two issues with this article:

1. Obscurantism: Yes, money is complicated and most people don't know much about how it's created and what it even means, exactly. However, the leap from there to the claim that you _can't_ know, or that _nobody_ knows simply has no basis.

2. The BitCoin angle: While it is a good thing that you can easily (sort of) understand how BitCoin is created and how much there is, the article ignores the _implications_ of these facts about BitCoin. There can never be a democratic decision to inflate or deflate BitCoin; and - most BitCoin is already in existence and owned (the majority probably by a pretty small group of people), making it a sort of a pyramid scheme, as late-comers to the BitCoin game will be fighting over the scraps.
Compiling the Nvidia 415.27 drivers on Linux kernel 5.x
Not anymore. US left has stretched very far to the left in the last few years while the right has moved slightly more to the right. It's created a whole new "center".

Here's Pew research, check page 12:
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/201...
Imgur is (IMO) turning into the same thing. Banning direct links, forcefully redirecting direct linked images to their ad packed pages of mostly stolen content.
Bird that hides food for later provides insights into cognitive evolution
Interesting: "To avoid local-generalization systems that artificially "buy" performance on a specific task, Chollet restricts priors to 'Core Knowledge' found in developmental science theory: such as elementary physics, arithmetic, geometry and a basic understanding of intentions."

I can see the plausibility of this but it raises an objection that the hardest tasks for a computer are those seemingly simple for a human being while tasks involving analysis and abstraction are often easiest for computers, Moravec's "law"[1]. I think one could also put it as solving neat problems is simple for machines, solving the messy intersection of several problems and exigencies is what's hard (and what's required for generality, since most things turn out to be messy).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
`DatabaseInstance` not only has TypeScript type definitions, it's actually written in pure TypeScript: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/blob/master/sdk/nodejs/...

Pulumi also does have a number of higher-level constructs, which you can learn about here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/crosswalk/aws/
Nice try FDA
.org domain name registry to be sold to private equity firm [pdf]
Did you die mid sentence?
That's why I'm saying have folks put-up $2,500 when you sell more than 10-20 items per year. It won't be perfect, but it puts a big speedbump there for folks who want to rinse and repeat. A lot of overseas sellers have very low labor costs, so new accounts are cheap from a person perspective but $2,500 is not cheap overseas - so the accounts paying this would be ideally be then really cared for.
I find the concept awesome so i joined it as 201 person i suppose. Here is an invitation link for you: https://wt.social/gi/tomasz-smykowski/work/buwn
They do. Have you ever tried to sign up for an account?
Breaking the Black Box
Which is also not great.
My screen was showing that they $100/yr lets you and 200 of your friends jump the waitlist. If you max that out, 50 cents per person isn't so bad.

EDIT: I logged out and back in and it looks like it let me in without paying...
Yes. I have decided to change my buying priority. When I need something, I first look to local businesses. If I can't find what I want there, I look to manufacturer websites. If that fails, I used to go to Amazon, followed by eBay.

I think I need to just go to eBay at that stage, and drop Amazon entirely.
i don't think easy was the point.
Interesting - as much as I like sourcehut, my only complaint is that it's noticeably slower than GitHub for me. It's not terrible, by any means, but I've noticed it a few times when I push to both.

My guess is that I'm closer to a GitHub datacenter (or AWS region?) because they have an office here in Boulder.
Surely making text only instance (or network) of Mastodon wouldn't huge endeavor. Attracting people could be bigger challenge
How will that be different from a messages or WhatsApp group?
Most people I know who have had it are happy. But I'll never do it. I have a fantastic microscope available just by taking off my glasses and I don't want to lose that.
SMS?
Red Letter Media had an hilarious discussion (with Macaulay Culkin, no less) of Roar on a recent episode of their series "Best of the Worst": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaSkO4TosYo
Insert, Update, Delete Data on S3 with Amazon EMR and Apache Hudi
Pointless work meetings always fatigue me quickly...
Money. Charge or require even a deposit of $2,500 on a credit card in your name.

Sure, you can continue to was accounts (and even legit business may decide to invest in 3-4 different names to cover different segments / backup protection). But right now the scam seller cost / pain is so low for bad behavior (other than in time which they have lots of) that something needs to change at least a bit.
I fail to see how that really matters. Facebook had all kinds of media exposure (Cambridge Analytica, Libra, etc). Nothing happened.
You can curate your reddit feed to include only text posts and links
The process/decision tree is open and transparent. There's still going to be the potential for implicit bias in the system, but there's no way to remove that entirely from the process (I guess unless you move to a luck based system in which the decision is just made randomly, but nobody would like that)
Video Games as High Art? Roger Ebert and the Cultural Ghetto
So Uber wasn’t breaking local taxi laws for years?

Everyone knows that farmers and companies employing low skill labor have been employing illegal immigrants for decades. Other presidents both Republican and Democrats have looked the other way because both sets of employers would not be able to find enough cheap labor otherwise. No one wants to harm the farm belt because of their outsized electoral college influence.
Developing Web Apps Using QML and Qt for WebAssembly
To charity. That's $240 to charity a year. Is that so much to sacrifice?
I just encountered this: a product with numerous reviews but many of them talking about a different item. I assumed it was some id getting migrated or not migrated and as a result reviews ending up on the wrong item-- it didn't even occur to me that it might be intentional.

As annoying as scams like these are, they really speak to the ingenuity that folks bring to software and their attacks of it. I already know to not trust most things on the internet, but I can't help but admire them either.
I don't think anyone expects this other option to be as profitable as facebook. If you actually managed to create something 1/7th the size/profitability of facebook and considered it a failure I guess I'd suggest you might legitimately suffer from visions of grandeur.
That can work, but it depends on what you're buying. Target doesn't carry about 99% of the sorts of things that I buy online. However, I have a physical Target just down the road from me, so I've probably already checked there before I even got on the internet.
YAHOO!!!!!

This is very good news. I can't think of another ruling more in need of overturning, at least not in the tech/IP area.

And, for the Supreme Court to consider it, at least four judges have to vote to hear it. That means that almost a majority thinks that Google at least might be right.
That stuff is all old, banks aren't giving people trouble these days.

Canada is likely to have a BTC ETF in January, so you could say Canada is pretty open to BTC at this point (it is treated like any other exchangeable currency).
We (Sandstorm) had an HA/scaling story, which we called "Blackrock"[0], and it was (and still is) the basis for the Sandstorm Oasis hosting service. I actually think we spent far too much time on that part too early. It turns out we could have operated Oasis by running regular single-machine Sandstorm on a beefy (though not that beefy) VM and been fine -- honestly, we would have had fewer outages and better performance. We probably should have spent our time making the platform work better for developers and end users instead, and built out the scalability later when customers really demanded it...

[0] https://github.com/sandstorm-io/blackrock
I've had a HP LaserJet 1012 for about 20 years, I've probably replaced the toner 3 or 4 times. I think it was about $200 new, so that's like $10/year, and it doesn't show any signs of giving up soon.
I like the way you write and comment your C code. Very nicely written.

Except all those spaces between the # and “define”, no sir I don’t like that :)
>We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.

Who will determine what a bad actor is and what criteria will be used. We have already seen the effect of people banned from sites for political and religious views, so do we really need another site that will just do the same?
I don't think I understand, but am happy to help clarify. That is a TypeScript file where the type `DatabaseInstance` is defined. It's a completely normal TypeScript type—it will get picked up by editors, verified by the compiler, and so on. It is exactly the sort of type you'll find in CDK.
All of those taxes are already per vehicle. The license plate tax is per vehicle. The tax paid on a gallon of gas is per vehicle. Tolls are per vehicle. There is already an embedded penalty for low occupancy because the costs are spread across fewer people. Fighting congestion is already a major cost: time. Who are you trying to decongest the roads for? How will you avoid creating a situation where only the wealthy are allowed to drive, and now all you've accomplished is making their driving experience more pleasant?
I sure do. I miss it. I think it was doomed the moment it went freemium instead of strictly pay.
Hmm are you sure? I just installed 1Password 7 for Mac, and it has replaced the 1Password 6 (which I had a license for).

It has detected Dropbox sync out-of-the-box and kept working with existing settings. But it won't refill passwords, unless I either subscribe or buy a license (a pop-up forces me to do so). I'm curious why you're not seeing the same behavior.
Edge AI is going on big time. Here's what you need to know