skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost never deal with crazy people on Munich public transit. That's a combination of a broader swathe of society taking transit here, plus German society doing a better job of taking care of the homeless and mentally ill.

The buses are generally reliable and frequent. Train + bike is comparably fast to driving during rush hour.
What's interesting is that this thread is getting a ton of new accounts defending Google. Suspicious.
Yeah. Right now, I'm using primarily Edgium, then Firefox, as Edgium is blazingly fast; As Chrome was when it started...
Depends on how interpret participation. Unless someone participates, you cannot know their score, so I guess a bare minimum participation is indeed required to be able to make comparisons. Theoretically there may be a guy who can already deadlift more than you, he just never tried.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I have my own notes as well for running under Ubuntu that I really should get around to polishing up and publishing as well. I second that throttled fix. I boosted single core performance by 34% and multi-core by 63%! (https://twitter.com/xan_nick/status/1199821047840817153)
I'd probably read an article by a ex member of mensa that wrote that.

Arguing vociferously about how that "wasn't such a big deal" would make me wonder what ax you had to grind with people who talk shit about mensa.
Wait till they get a cease and desist letter for using 'alphabet' in the domain name.
> Now, I dream of working at the suburban office park I can get to in 5 minutes (during rush hour) from my house, which is right across the street from my kid's day care. Maybe in an electric car even.

Personally, I find you need some kind of minimum time separation from work, otherwise you don't get the sense of separation between work and home life. I had a 5 minute walk from my house as a work commute once, and I much prefer my 30 minute bus ride today, because by the time I get home I'm in "home mode".

The main issue with transit time in the US is that American cities have made intentional policy decisions that result in land uses being far apart and sprawling areas, so a nonstop car trip is the only reasonable option. But everyone making nonstop car trips doesn't scale, which is why the Lincoln and Holland have hour-long waits into the tunnels more often than not.
Right. You still need batteries on your boat, just not for desalination.

An interesting aspect of the history of water jugs is that the humans were cultivating them for thousands of years before they started cultivating food crops: https://phys.org/news/2014-02-mystery-bottle-gourd-migration...
> how?

How do we know that employees provide more value than their compensation? Because Google makes profit.
I sort of guessed that it's definitely an Israeli company. Otherwise which country and it's Companies get every legal permission after breaking every possible law?
deep nudes didn't last a week and where you're going is closer to exploitation by proxy, i.e. cgi duplication. I can see the SCOTUS briefs already...
A football field is 5351m^2. Futbol pitches vary.
Programming Language/Framework, Call of Duty Map, or Both?
People are also generally not that easily tricked. If you play up the "bring global warming home with anecdotes" game, then you're equally vulnerable to "hey, sure is cold today, what now, Al Gore?" Nobody will be convinced of anything by this sort of nonsense.

Weather is not climate. Even when it supports climate change.
moral high grounds are luxury decorations even google couldn't afford any more.
> How to Escape from Immoral Mazes

Keep to the Right at all times?

Or else Left works, too.

Just don't vacillate.

:)
And there's no shame in that. But a person can find shame if they do have the resources and choose to stay in an unacceptable status quo.
Money presumably. The fact that it's comically expensive in per mile costs, in some cases nearly $1 billion/mile[1] in LA, in addition to maintenance costs would just nuke the ideas.

[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...
It suffered from simple CPU overload, in order to have priority inversion you need to have preemptive multitasking and synchronization primitives. The scheduler on AGC was essentially cooperative.

Side note: that is partly what the 90's term “Network Operating System” is about. Both Cisco and Novell managed to market the hell out of the fact that both IOS and Netware are not real multitasking OSes but essentially giant event driven state machines (nice related buzzword: “run-to-completion scheduler”), which they managed to market as being a good thing.
Journalists are usually not the ones who make UX decisions.
The nice thing about working markets is that it would naturally pressure people to do the cost effective stuff first. If buying carbon offsets is appropriately expensive you have a major incentive to avoid buying them.
Another way of looking at it, building transit doesn't get anybody to work faster, but it does allow you to scale population density, which in turn allows you to build more housing for a region that may be in a housing crunch.

If you can imagine that one day the world woke up, and some god replaced every building in LA with a skyscraper and every parking lot or driveway with a multi-story parking garage, you could use Marchetti's constant to predict what happens next: People move closer to work to reduce their commute, then the roads in the inner city get more and more congested, and the effective size of the city shrinks to fit the "1 hour commute" rule as it's now impossible to live in what are currently middle and outer neighborhoods, as their commutes would far exceed 1 hour.

Adding more transit allows us to grow the effective size of the city even if every building in the city is a skyscraper. On a smaller scale, this is basically Manhattan, after all.
Usain Bolt is 6'5"
Say Goodbye to CoreOS
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This is a great post, and it's unfortunate that so many people are missing the point. You may not like the writing, or the layout, or the title, and you may be able to pick holes in the argument, but who cares? That's an easy, boring game to play. Take it from a reformed cynic -- you will grow so much more from trying to figure out what's right about someone's argument rather than what's wrong.

The key insight in the article is: For many skills, becoming highly proficient is easier than most people realize. That is both true and highly under-appreciated, in my experience. Any time you can combine those two attributes, you're writing something important. Keep the "ridiculable" posts coming Dan!
Thank you!

I've been using this app for a long time. It makes me way more productive.

If you use it, I would like to learn about your use cases. Please do share.

and, wow, even for a simple code, Crystal is this faster than Ruby.
> Google employees provide a lot more value to Google than they are compensated for.

This is because of the ethics those same employees are complaining about. An ethical Google makes less money, employees will necessarily have to be paid less, they will then go on to the next unethical company that can pay them more. It is completely ridiculous to bring home a huge paycheck and complain about the very thing that enables that huge paycheck.

They want a world where they make the same $$ at ethical as non-ethical companies. It doesn't work that way. If they can't give a shit enough about their own beliefs to sacrifice something - $$ vs ethics -- then how can they expect a faceless corporation to give a shit enough about that person's beliefs to make that sacrifice? It's a completely, ridiculously, unrealistic expectation.
LGBTQ+ activism doesn't just involve fighting for rights for people who fall within those labels.

It has evolved onto fighting for rights of EVERYONE who is currently being harrassed, targetted, and discriminate against. It's activism for human rights for everyone.

Not every LGBTQ+ activist agrees with this evolution, but a large group do. I'm personally in that group.
Well, sadly yes. Amazon is a horrible company (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...) in many ways. Yet the stock has made Jeff Bezos a bizzilionaire.

I have no plans to ever work for Amazon even as a software developer - but I wish I had bought the stock.

I held Wells Fargo for awhile - specifically because they bragged about how good they are about extracting fees from customers. I would never bank with them, I use credit unions exclusively.

With the Trump deregulation mania encouraging stuff like this (https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/us/florida-weed-killer-sprayi...) I will need lots of money to escape as a climate refugee.
I liked it. Fight me.
Bicyclists also don’t routinely drive into buildings and destroy them. And this is all while working with a tenth of the public space we give cars!
Like I said: they shouldn't need to encode images very often, and that doesn't seem like all that much of a common use case (nor would it preclude a browser from implementing decoding and just not supporting FLIF for encoding-dependent functionality like that).
> Sure "it's a business" but does that give it a green card to act how it pleases?

of course, yes! As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law. Do you not act as you please? Do you not eat a $40 meal while a homeless person is lying outside in the cold? DO you not send your kid to a private school at $100k/year while the kid down the street (down the highway) struggles for school supplies?

> So please, stop telling people how to behave and act and protest. We're not putting in 100 hour weeks because someone before you had the audacity to go say the current system is inhumane.

I am not tell you how to behave, I am tell you to not tell the company how to behave. You are free to leave and go do what you think is right.
Except they were there for 14 years. Unless it became instantly diametrically opposed to their belief system in the past couple of months, the author has put up with the changing environment for a long time. They're not some skill-less laborer; after all, they worked at google! they could get another job pretty easily, no, one with a company that shared their personal values?
> Food and drink are measured in Imperial units.

Maybe if you don't mind losing your global Mars orbiter you don't:

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

_everything_ is measured in metric, period.
Edit: I remembered incorrectly, child comment has a better explanation.

Even if you win exactly 50% of your games, you will still eventually rank up. This is because you gain an extra star when you rank up. For example, let's say you start at rank 3, 4 stars.

* Win: Rank 2, 1 star

* Lose: Rank 2, 0 stars

* Lose: Rank 3, 4 stars

So even though you went 1-2, your rank didn't change.
> resolving conflicts between two engineering teams is an everyday occurrence

And how difficult do you think it is to learn this skill?

If it's an everyday occurrence in huge companies, and any new hires above entry level are expected to know how to do it, it sounds like something anyone and everyone will learn. Which sounds like a real easy skill.

If it's a real easy skill, why do you need to have it already when you join? Why can't you learn it on the job, like you learn a bazillion other skills?

This kind of thing comes up a lot with technical stuff... people think that X (something you can look up on wikipedia or SO and teach yourself in an hour or two tops) is really important, therefore they can't hire anyone who hasn't learned X. But whoever they hire must be a person who's super eager to learn new stuff.
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By the way, as with so many things, this is something for which there is a pronounced class divide. Upwardly-mobile, highly-educated Hacker Newsers may see a firing as a bump in the road, a legitimate slap on the wrist for bad behavior, but I assure you that working-class people with working-class prospects interpret an attack on their job in the real world as a seriously disproportionate response.
These days, that kind of thing is offloaded to third-party smartphone transit apps. Most people have working smartphones, and are probably using them while waiting for the bus anyways, so it's more helpful (and cost-effective) than to provide signage at every stop.
Same can be said in Chicago.
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Props for your recognition
You're telling me to accept the status quo and be fine with it.

That's telling me how to behave. The company is just an entity that needs to follow the set of guidelines set by people living in that society.
I agree with that. But the government forcing property owners to let other people use their property at prices set by the government is pretty socialist: https://completemusicupdate.com/article/us-copyright-royalty.... See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Royalty_Board

Imagine if we had a government board deciding what prices people could charge for App Store/Google Play Store apps. (It's not like we're talking about radioactive waste or something involving externalities, where government regulation might be justified.)
A faster algorithm matters more than the choice of programming language, as algorithm textbook authors love to remind you.
Class D fire extinguishers are for extinguishing flammable metal fires, involving e.g. lithium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum, and so on. Disposable (primary) lithium batteries contain metallic lithium that can ignite.

Lithium ion batteries contain lithium in an ionic (non-metallic) form. Lithium ion batteries contain flammable electrolytes and polymers, so they can burn, but these are not metal fires calling for a Class D fire extinguisher.
I've pushed an update that allows you to display multiple trends on the same plot now, if you wanted to take a look.
I mean, what is Instagram, Tinder, Facebook, etc other than a series of slides?
How A Former Mobile Tech Darling Crashed, Rebounded–and Got Acquired
On the section about the greater rainfall and the doubling of intensity, they ended with this text:

> We can't conclude that these isolated incidents are caused by climate changes.
>
> On the other hand, we can conclude that such incidents have already become more common. And that it will likely cost us several hundred billion NOK to arm ourselves against all this water.
I think the claim is that Google is more willing to dismiss LGBTQ employees for these issues than others. However, it's also plausible that LGBTQ employees are more accustomed to having to fight for their rights and hence have trended to be amongst the "loudest" complainants?
In general yes, but in this case the trains are not being used:

> Even as its budget has expanded, the number of people actually using public transport in la has collapsed. Total ridership is down almost a quarter since 2013. Three in four Angelenos travel to work on their own in a car, the highest figure ever.
Difficult to say since we don't even know what technology we'll discover in 10 years from now.

If you look at the wildfires in Russia from 2010 which helped trigger the Arab revolutions in 2011 it should give you an idea. That occurred 10 years ago when we weren't even at +1C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in...

Also:

> Rockström [director of the Potsdam institute] doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or maybe even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-...
Consider what happens if everyone who has a moral complaint about their employer immediately quits rather than staying around and attempting to chase the complaint up the management hierarchy and/or educate and organize other employees to voice the complaint.

I think utilizing one's power as a worker and aligning other workers to increase workers' power is far from hypocritical. It's a great way (perhaps the only reliable way) to hold companies accountable for their actions and improve companies' treatment of workers and society.
That depends on what one wants to do with one's labor.

They'll certainly compensate you well, and they have flexible hours and treat software engineers and SREs like royalty.

But Googlers who joined up 10 years ago really didn't have to also ask the question of whether their work was directly benefiting military AI projects (or merely providing an agnostic service that everyone was using; search is certainly something that benefited good and bad use alike, but partnering with the military and submitting contract proposals for drone targeting operations is a moderately different can of worms).
Agreed. I like that chart too. But doesn't it pretty much show that from 1800 to 1920 that the damage was already done? It was steady for 3000+ years then jumped drastically over a 120 year span.

edit: Obviously not "damage is done" let's not care, but rather, how little emissions started the slope change.
On my T480 I can use two fingers to trigger a right-click. The only issue I ran into with the mouse was where both right-click and two finger scrolling don't work after I have resume the laptop from sleep. To workaround this issue I just reload the mouse driver. It doesn't really bother my workflow much, but if it does then I'll run this rmouse command in the terminal. (I probably should script this to run on resume automatically, but I'm lazy :-) )

alias rmouse="sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse"
How about we get into cloud seeding. I’ve seen plans costing it at under $10 billion a year per 1°C decrease.

Seems like the most sensible option for me.

There’s already ample literature proving the tremendous impact of cloud cover on global temperatures.
It is because the flow of money that powers climate research, green industry, and climate activism is largely dependent on stirring up fear in the public to garner acceptance and support. Climate change is a real problem but so are the perverse incentives in our research institutions.
I’m guessing they made enough money from google to retire. I’d imagine any company that may hire him would look at this website and probably pass on them.
I wonder why they didn't use this simple argument in court, or else why it didn't work.
No. I only hike and camp intermittently, but I wear north face clothing in a wide range of circumstances because I find it to be effective, durable, energy efficient when washed and dried, and packable.
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
This makes me wonder if someone could jailbreak these cars and offer the features for free. Seems like for $7000 for a feature there must be huge incentive to do so.
To me it looks like that while the high-minded idealists remained mostly the same, it's Google that transformed itself into something completely different from what it was the early days. It should be noted that in 2005, when this guy joined Google, both Android and the acquisition of Doubleclick were at least 2 years away. Google execs were probably already planning the move into an advertising and spyware behenoth back then, but I'm pretty sure the lower "cogs" like any freshly hired techie, wouldn't know that for quite some time.
So? Facebook makes profit, the gas station down the street makes profit.

How does a software engineer at Google worth more value than one at timbuktu? No, they are not. They just are not in the right place at the right time.

Do you think selling ads is changing the world? Do you think that makes you worth more than someone else? Wake up and smell the coffee.
This reads like a moral screed. That's fine. They're entitled to their own views, to voice those views internally, and if they aren't adopted to leave the company and write a polemic.

Ultimately, two thirds of their complaints involve taking a position counter to the stated national interest of the United States. Sure, maybe they believe that national interest is wrong, morally objectionable, or whatever, but the inference you draw from the writing is that it clearly is. That everyone at Google knows this is wrong, should be stopped, but isn't because of the monetary gains of doing these things.

> 2. Google Cloud sales to the oil and gas industry

I mean, if Google Cloud makes the extraction of natural gas more efficient then that strikes me as a net good for the planet. A large part of the emissions decrease in the U.S. over the past decade is from the economic viability of natural gas relative to coal. Dream of a bucolic lifestyle all you want, but reality should be confronted in these matters.

3. Expansion into the weapons industry and the business of killing

The business of killing terrorists - with increasing levels of precision - strikes me (and every administration in memory) as clearly being in the national best interest. The better targeting capacity available, the less collateral damage and need for U.S. boots on the ground abroad there will be.

You can, of course, find drone strikes morally objectionable. You can find killing what are deemed threats to the homeland as objectionable. That's fine. But to state this as an objective truth is to find yourself holding a position at odds with nearly all elected law makers.

If you, as a company, agree or disagree with U.S. domestic and national security policy, fill your boots. But Google working in concert with the U.S. domestic and national security policies isn't choosing money over morality per se.

People have different perspectives and these people clearly have perspectives unaligned with their former employers. Good on them for leaving. However, I have to say reading this screed makes it seem like the adults in the room are the executives they lambast.
> This is written to mislead people who do not know the relevant background information.

How dare you put words in my mouth. I have no skin in this whatsoever. It was written as a statement of fact as I see it. The motive behind the scarcity is not something I was discussing, and is, as I said a commercial one. Legislating that a 3rd party parts market must be catered for is potentially a slippery slope.

As for anti-capitalist? This is right out of the capitalist playbook! False scarcity leads to control of the market place, which leads to capital, by way of higher repair parts or increased revenue in terms of new device sales instead of repairs.