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What is the line between 'voicing your concerns' and sabouteuring the business you receive paycheck from ?

Why do the think inflating their own believes over the beliefs of others needs to be encouraged, funded and praised by the company they work for?

Did this person object when google fired James Damore
Or is 'selective outrage', is the norm? May be it is the norm for Burce Hahne, but then, how this can be this be universally just?
That is assuming that software is ever written 'correctly', which outside of (semi-) academic exercise is never the case (so far).

You can have a program with 1 purpose and no added features experience a variety of critical flaws over a period of 30 years. While there might not be a 'decay' as such, there definitely is new understanding and as such new attack vectors.

The same goes for the stuff the software runs on top of. Your program might be programmed just fine, but if the CPU it was programmed on no longer exists and the replacement CPU has new features that allow that program to be exploited in new ways, that is still a flaw of the software. It couldn't have been foreseen, but it still happens.

The concept dat the things we build are frozen in time never holds up. The difference with software vs 'other things' is that it doesn't degrade or get 'used up' (as you wrote yourself). But the things around it do and as you cannot write programs against all possible future contexts, it will need maintenance for as long as it is in use (from a software perspective - a business thinks differently about that, especially risk analysts).
What USB interface do you use with the DBX 286?
CO2 increase is having beneficial effects on agriculture.
>Google spent decades selecting for these "moralizers" and is now reaping what it sowed; "don't be evil" was a cultural slogan that carries consequences if it attracts a particular kind of mindset.

And apparently that mindset drove an enormous amount of profit and, at least in the beginning, gave the company some sort of social conscience.

It's amazing that you can be so against these things
We have a number of Dockerized Rails apps hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It isn't quite as smooth as Heroku but once setup it has been quite solid. The parity between develop and prod is decent, we use docker-compose and localstack to simulate backing services.
Please - quit your overpaid tech job and actually work to change the status quo. No one is saying you have to accept the status quo.

But your lectures while driving past the homeless in a $100K tesla on your way to swank vacations are tiresome - particularly as you build that money off the status quo you are so eager to say is terrible.
And a proper DataView implementation. Currently, DataView is around 40 times slower in Firefox than in Chrome.
I think you made their point yourself

Go change the guidelines. No need to tell anyone anything at that point.
Well, this is hacker news. Expect us to complain as hacker news commenters would. Our complaints don't hurt the original article. We're just discussing how we feel about it. It was posted here and it's fair to debate how it relates to us even if we weren't the target audience
How is it anymore “self important” than any other blogger or internet commenter talking about climate change or human rights?

Why are you calling “caring about people” a “proclivity” as if it was distasteful compared to the pure and high minded pursuit of profit at all costs?
"they will not have any compatibility issues anymore and can improve their browser much faster than before"

?? You'd would like to believe... Microsuck ? those idiots? You think they are going to make a better browser? for all the money they have they seem to hire morons to developer there shit software.. Edge? crap Vivaldi 10x better
Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
What I have found more frustrating than those in denial of climate change lately, is those who deny responsibility. That the real problem is in other countries. India. China. America. Little old X in Europe can't possible be the ones that need to sort it out. Therefore there's no point changing our habits.

I feel a little hopeless in these discussions. I have little hope for change. I cannot argue against the fact that our impact in Europe will not be enough. This requires a global, concerted effort and it's hard to argue against the logic that it won't matter what we do in Europe if everyone else doesn't follow suit. We are just delaying the inevitable.
I don't think that's true, precisely because the employee with a complaint can potentially increase their leverage significantly by educating and organizing other employees around the cause.

Your analysis seems to assume that there's some fixed percentage of employees who think some action from their employer is bad, and if that percentage is high enough, then all those employees could quit, which would either somehow signal to the employer that their action was bad or would damage the company so much that they would need to change their actions.

I think that's wishful thinking, and of course the percentage of employees with a complaint is not fixed and can be directly increased by internal efforts to organize. That applies not just to internal awareness, but also public awareness: note that we're only having discussions about cases where employees attempted to organize other employees.
Seems like running shoe Luddism to me. I've been using Brooks PureFlow shoes for years. They just happen to be at the slowest running shoe ever created. I'm looking forward to what happens to my running times in Nike vapor fly shoes if only because I love technology. Good thing I never want to compete and I'm also oldAF.
2. If they think Google is discriminatory towards LGBT employees and minorities, contributing to climate change etc., they are in for a big shock once they are really out of the Google and SV bubble.

This is a particularly subversive brand of whataboutism.

"Company has participated in Bad Thing."

"Ah, but Other Company also participates in Bad Thing! Your criticism of Company is therefore invalid!"

"Company took $1,000,000,000 from Bad Industry! We should scold that behavior!"

"Ah, but Other Company took $2,000,000,000 from Bad Industry! Company therefore shouldn't be criticized!"

One action can be bad without negating the badness of another action.
Say solar panels cost $2 per watt, 6 liters/hour is about 20 watts of power, is about 40 dollars of solar panels. Plus whatever the reverse osmosis equipment costs.

This system gets approximately 6 liters/hour/sq m... so it makes sense if we can manufacturer it for less than 40 dollars per square meter and space is cheap.
I think there are so many people already recognize climate change as a mega issue and just feel depressed. I would like to see more leadership messages of what is done and can be done in the present.
> LGBTQ people were treated well, and in no way discriminated against, or at least in a visible way at least....

As a minority LGBTQ person, let me say it's almost never in a visible way, but trust me, it is there.

It's usually called something different, or dressed up as something else, just like how it is treated in political discourse.

The fact that it's not obvious only makes it worse and more unnerving for the gaslit target.
If that last sentence was directed at me, I fail to see what you've perceived me to be against. I'm in favor of people who may feel they were sold a false bill of goods when they joined re-evaluating their position and either fighting internally to change the direction the ship is steering or leaving the company if they don't see the direction as changeable.
Pinning carbon pounds to diamond prices might still be an interesting idea. At about 2268 carats per pound, the 2016 per carat cost of diamond at $30,925 (USD) gives us $70,137,900 (USD) per pound of carbon. That actually sounds like a reasonable base price to set carbon taxes/market rates, given what we know/expect of carbon models lately. (No idea how you'd bootstrap that without crashing modern society, but this is currently still mostly a thought experiment.)
That I'm not sure of, anyone have experience with this?
Lots of equipment-intensive sports like cycling fair well enough with regulations.

It’s just a shame that a pure a sport such as running is being hit by a similar arms race.
If you want something cheap: For Linux 18.04 / Windows 10 dual boot, I just bought an HP 15-cs2073cl: $450 refurb from Microcenter. Everything works and I think the price is pretty good for a Core-i7 / 16 GB / 1920 / 1TB laptop.

Here's a link, but I see the price already gone up a little:

https://www.microcenter.com/product/612786/hp-pavilion-15-cs...

It has a slot for an M.2 card that does not interfere with the rotating SATA drive, so I'm about to try that. I'd like to have both installed. SSD is nice for Linux but is absolutely required for Windows.

One nice thing about Dell XPS: they have the Thunderbolt port. I theorize that this is potentially very useful for a corner case that I have: you can add a PCIe box and add a parallel printer port card that accepts ancient security dongles required by certain engineering software that I invested in the past.
Given the increasing popularity of 500 mL and 1 L units of bottled water, and the ubiquity of the 2 L HDPE beverage bottle, I think it would have been safe to measure the potable water output in liters. About the only things still sold by whole gallons any more are milk, water, iced tea, and lemonade, in the 1 gal jugs, or water in the 5-gal water-cooler jugs.

I'm more confused by the efficiency numbers exceeding 100%, which seems wrong. A theoretical efficiency of 100% would find the solar irradiance energy of 1 m^2 and then find the volume of fresh water per hour that produces an equal amount of energy when its salinity is increased to the mean salinity of seawater (about 3.5%). So if you can get 5000 Wh/m^2/day from insolation, and the energy difference between salt and fresh water is 0.810 W * h/L, 100% efficiency would be a 1 m^2 area producing 6173 L/day of fresh water. You're just dividing the daily energy of sunlight on your panel in Watt-hours by that 0.810, to get L/day.

The units in the article are all wrong anyway. They say "a rate of 5.78 liters per square meter", but there is no time factor mentioned whatsoever. An MIT roof gets mean 4.59 kWh/m^2/day of solar energy, so 100% efficiency would be 4590 * 1000/810 = 5667 L/m^2/day (1 m^3 = 1000 L). If the number given was per day, that's 0.1% efficient. If it's per hour, that's 2.4% efficient.
surgery with a chainsaw works ok, too, in certain cases
I feel like the edges of rush hour in LA have turned into a very wide band. There are enough people that have worked out a flexible start and end time which basically makes your commute time the same if you leave anytime between 7am-10am.
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I am definitely against the newest measures taken by car companies, e.g. Porsche completely covering the engine (and voiding warranty should you access it) save the oil reservoir, on the newest 911s.

There is also something missing from my metaphor which is that even when the parts no longer exist, the car can still continue to run until it breaks down, rather than being remotely killed due to an external signal separated from the car itself (e.g. servers shutting down and triggering some switch in the code).
I get it... Smart TVs with embedded apps are being retired in the same way, but at least when that happens you can use an aux connection to make the device still viable in some sort of way. I use an HDMI wireless connection from my laptop for example, never needed apps to run from my TV since day 1.

I avoid buying most devices that do things that my Laptop and desktop PCs can do these days with function-specific (dumb speakers), because even if worst comes to worst I can always install Linux and keep grinding for the most part.
So the actual time would be around 20 to 30 minutes, but you didn't plan accordingly for the bus...How is that mass transit's fault?
When I say "value" in this context I'm just talking about money. I'm not making a moral value judgement about individuals or the company overall. All I'm saying is that employees are clearly creating more monetary value for the company than what they're being compensated.
My understanding is that once you start cloud seeding, you can't really stop...if you stop, you'll have runaway warming at a significantly accelerated rate[0].

I'm pretty wary of geoengineering, just because we don't really know the second/third/nth-order effects geoengineering solutions might have. I'm not saying it should never be done, but I think much more research is in order before doing something that literally affects the entire planet.

[0] I believe I learned that from this book (which I thought was excellent), although I'm not 100% sure: https://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Cl...
gravitational wave detection? Have you looked at anything in that realm?
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I commend the innovation involved in this shoe, but I wish this shoe did not exist. If you buy the shoe you are buying an advantage, but if you don't, you risk getting passed by those who do. With Boston qualifying times getting faster each year, people on the bubble will have no choice. With a cost of $250 and a shoe that only lasts two or three races, running got more expensive.
Again you fail to see the irony in your statements
Socialism invalidates the concept of intellectual property. Find another boogeyman.
I think it is some event, but the importance scales depending on your distance to it. I have had coworkers whose departure was a major shakeup to me and my life. More distant coworkers have provoked some thoughts. The departure of someone at another firm usually has no relevance to the general public.

I think it is reasonable to make a statement, but wonder who the target audience was in this case.
My 2019 Apple Report Card
I don't know if it's a fair takeaway to consider the decline in non-streaming music was unaffected by streaming that early on. Napster launched in 1999 as a first iteration of what could be considered a streaming service at the time. This chart doesn't represent that impact at all since it's focused on revenue, but timing wise I think there could be correlation.
Excerpt:

"Bye’s eFlyer 2 has a target certified reach of 238 nautical miles or three hours of range, plus VFR reserves. “When you look at the typical flight-training mission being 1 to 1.3 hours long, and required cross-country flights being 50 and 100 nautical miles long, our eFlyer 2 fits perfectly into that mission.

And it costs just $3 to $4 per flight hour for the electric ‘fuel’ to operate,” he says."

If this plane can truly fly that cheaply, then there are new markets that this could open up...
We know the historic average, but also variability, and I'm pretty sure that data just so happens to be a standard example of what is specifically called the "normal distribution".

So I don't see what the problem is with charting, say, the 98% confidence interval, calling it normal, and stating that values outside that range are 1-in-50 year events.
In this case rayiner seems to use Socialism as a word contrast to headlines use of Capitalism.
As the used car market dries up, the price of used cars goes up. This increases the resale value of new cars, which lowers the net cost of buying a new car (because you will get more when you resell it). And the reality is, there's no shortage of used cars in America.
actually, researching this a bit more.

I think managing workload through HashiCorp nomad+consul, on
FreeBSD Jails driver would be a better/ligther weight approach then using k6s on bhyve VM.

(assuming that a project can use nomad+consul)

https://github.com/cneira/jail-task-driver
Oooh, thanks! Updated!
> Weather is not climate. Even when it supports climate change.

It's certainly been quite a shift to watch. 10 years ago, you'd hear "Sure is cold today, so much for global warming eh?" followed by cries that weather is not climate. Today, it seems that a hot summer day, or a cool summer day, or a warm winter day, or a particularly cold winter day, is just more proof of climate change.

I say this as someone who thinks climate change is real, by the way--but I am amused at how this all looks.
Autopilot was active, but according to the article update, not purchased by the dealer. The deal between the dealer and the final owner of the car didn't play a role in this.
It's also pretty common for people to create new accounts to post things they wouldn't otherwise post on their mains, isn't it?
Contrasting Transparent Logs and the Update Framework
Have you actually tried that?

Unless its changed even more recently - they _do_ publish a parts catalog.

And every single item, down to the most commodity screw/bolt doesn't list a price, just says "Contact Tesla for Sales". And according to at least a few people who have indeed contacted them, "Sorry, that part is not purchasable".

Basically as if a state said they had to make parts available to be (potentially) purchased online, and they had followed the very letter of the law.
I cannot wait, the day my charger comes with cuda cores or tensor core and my on charger AI modulates my power.
All property is a government granted monopoly. The government threatens violence to keep people from copying music. The government also threatens violence to keep people from copying apps, from farming in your back yard, from copying all the JS assets from your website, etc. All business models are built on the government preventing people from doing what they could naturally do.
My only concern (this goes for political administrations too) is that resigning is a one-time thing. It gets press, hurts a bit, but that’s it... then you’re out and can’t make internal change. And you’re replaced with people more comfortable with the bad status quo.

I respect when people stay, too... they’re trying to make change from within where they have some power, rather than outside where they have none.
There's two ways to change the current system:

1. Work in the current system and try to slowly impact it and change how it behaves.

2. Start a violent revolution and start a civil war which will end in millions dead.

Which one do you prefer I do?

I also HAVE to participate in this system if I want to live. That's one of the reasons I want to change the system.

My participation in this system isn't consensual.
TL;DR: its the NSO Group

These are the same guys who were outright permabanned from Facebook for hacking the whatsapp of about 1400 diplomats, government officials, human-rights activists, lawyers, and journalists scattered across the world.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/30/nso_facebook_employ...

If a shady government wants you gone (and doesnt have the resources for black site rendition like the US) then NSO is basically their starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group#Pegasus_spyware
It's created by people who like to take pictures, what else would you expect, man page format?
Slightly disingenuous: the GPL bans itself from the App Store because the App Store imposes additional restrictions on the software.
I maintain an empty inbox at Google (2018)
> one day or a decade

For one thing, a day and a decade are pretty different.

But more important, while a decade is really short on geological timescales, and probably isn't long enough to see natural/geo driven or many astronomically-driven changes... a decade is long enough for humans to get a real idea of trends in human-driven changes, or crossing of certain boundary conditions for long-horizon changes.

Is that a double standard, or is that a more finely articulated view?
Assuming reasonable charger design (ie. at least some overcurrent protection) the internal ESD protection of USB-C port in the device that only ever expects 5V (think SRV05-4) should be more than enough to safely trip the overcurrent protection in the charger (or overload it enough that the destroyed component is the charger and not the device).

On the other hand there are documented cases of USB-C PD between two device-ish things (ie. things that can be both power source and sink) failing in variously spectacular ways.
I think you are reading way too much into my satirical critique about the terrible "just a job" mindset (avoiding the obvious "I was just doing my job carrying out the Holocaust" analogy), which as a generally independent critique can stand on its own legs without needing to be specifically applied to the current scenario at hand.

To really clarify this, I made the exemplary initial job "janitorial duties".
> For some reason, many of these homes are massive McMansions with 4 bedrooms, 2 car garage, backyard etc. This makes it even more expensive to either own or rent (compared to an apartment) and completely inaccessible to a lower-middle-class family.

The reason isn't mysterious. That is what keeps the quality of the school up.
Already done? That chart shows the damage is clearly continuing and projected to only get worse.
> If you always had to be 95th percentile in your current peer group (general couch potatoes, high school championship participants, world championship participants, Olympians, Olympic medalists, Olympic champions, Olympic champions twice in a row), then the 95 just doesn't mean anything. Then you just have to be the single very best according to your logic.

This is the typical experience for the ivy league types common on HN though.

They had to beat their way into the 95% of their zone school, then 95% of their magnet high school, then 95% of their elite college's graduating class, then 95% of their big N corporate ladder, etc.

Despite the filtering at every step of the way, the curve is always bellshaped! And it feels like shit if you find yourself on the left side of that curve among your peers.

But I guess it's healthier to think along the lines of: "What do you call a medical student who finished last in their class? Doctor."
> For large-scale desalination, however, it is almost certainly more cost-effective to use solar panels, batteries, and large scale reverse osmosis systems.

For large scale desalination, you need to attach tiny magnetic particles (think nano-scale) to the salt, and then extract it with magnets. And as a byproduct, you'll get Lithium.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in....

Just FYI that all the links in this are dead apart from one that links to a youtube channel called "Russia Good"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFHWLAMQ2hWPc7fbssfSUg/abo...

Any better sources on this?
> The city needs to actively make it harder to use cars with bus lanes, road diets, removing parking, etc.

After thinking about this a moment, you might realize that this mostly just makes life harder and more miserable for the poor, disabled, etc. Most people don't have a plausible option to change their mode of transportation--they just have to suffer.

Beyond that, these "improvements" often don't even benefit their intended targets. I currently live in a city that has this "make it harder" smug in spades. Ironically, the resulting improvements have made it a scarier place to walk and bicycle, due to the attention overload induced on drivers.

As the saying goes: God save us from people that only mean well...
The author says elsewhere that he has (paraphrased) gotten in trouble with hacker news for linking to it in the past.
Your entire premise is based on considering this a problem. Why do you think how other adults choose to spend their money should be a problem that needs correcting?