skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Google believes that it would not be able to maintain its competitive edge with lower quality, lower paid employees. Having worked there, I think they are right on that account. In fact it probably wouldn't even be able to function after a few years after people who don't know what they're doing totally screw up their monorepo and eng processes.

But there's another function to high pay: sucking the oxygen out of the atmosphere. They basically hire a significant chunk of systems (and nowadays also AI) programmers available in the industry, and keep them for as long as they like. Left to their own devices, those programmers would be able to start companies, or help Google's competitors compete with Google. As things stand, everyone else (including the likes of Microsoft) gets the folks who have failed the FAANG interviews. They still sometimes get good people, but not as good as to show them the way from the corners they've painted themselves into.

Where it all goes wrong though is when they actively attract "activists". From direct observation, few, if any, of those activists actually pull their weight once hired. In fact they often prevent others from focusing on their work, so their productivity contribution is often negative. They mostly spend their days on activism on the internal Google+ and do little else. You can actually see everyone's commits at Google, as well as graphs of how much code they contribute. When I was there, I'd check those dashboards from time to time only to confirm my suspicions, without fail.
Thought experiment: It would be interesting if you could somehow reverse centuries of terrible marketing on blood diamonds and make sequestered/captured "man-made" diamonds more valuable to the average person than ones mined, you might find a lot more interest in sequestration/capture.
Climate change deniers cannot be convinced by science because their objections are not based on any facts. The science on climate change is unimpeachable and has been known as such for decades.
Show HN: No 1Password API? Host One Yourself
I had a recent task of automatically syncing SSL keys that are dropped in an S3 bucket to 1password, so that every instance created using our terraform module is instantly categorized in our ssl vault. Thing is, there was no direct way of doing it...

Just a cli, which can't be shipped to AWS Lambda. So I built a python wrapper around it (https://github.com/lettdigital/onepassword-python) that I could then wrap in a WSGI server.

Here is the API you can host yourself: https://github.com/lettdigital/onepassword-api

Just `docker-compose up -d` and you are good to go. Really, no need to even download the cli, it is all taken care of.

One thing to notice is that there are two authentication methods. Well, actually only one, but there are two types of submission: passing your credentials everytime or using the `login` route and then using the token+shorthand returned. This means that the API is stateful :(

One other thing. I opted to use GET routes with request body. I couldn't find another way of doing these routes without resorting to a custom Authentication header, so any suggestion would be much appreciated.
When did this trend of naming things [noun] capitalism start?
Seeing is believing, i think the UX with tons of pictures actually help the credibility and impact of the story.

I think they choose the right medium for the message.
>One cannot publicly criticize a company while enjoying cushy paychecks

Why is it that you think that the people who see the sausage being made are exactly the ones most unqualified to criticize it?
New york city is 468.484 sq mi in size... so we're talking about covering 1 to 2% of it in these panels... I'm pretty sure that much roof space is available.

Of course it probably makes more sense economically to do it offshore or just have a giant field somewhere outside of NYC and pump the water in, but you could find the space inside the city if you really wanted to.
Agree. My argument is that you have to explain climate in ways people can understand.

I think everyone will agree tht the tree line can’t be 100m higher just because it was warm one winter. Trees take a while.
I would be willing to bet that the median employee at google is losing them money. This is true of all big companies.
It's difficult if not impossible to quantify, but I'd suggest that google has lost an enormous amount of goodwill through their departure from 'don't be evil'. It's up there with the goodwill they've lost gaining a reputation for abandoning products. How much that filters down to the adsense coalface is debatable. But it absolutely affects the choices of top talent about where to work. Facebook is notorious among my coder friends for being a place that has to pay a large premium to attract talent, because of the shame of working for such an unethical company. No company is bigger than its reputation - certainly not a company that serves people, rather than industry. Part of what made Google so popular - so desirous as a place to work and research, was a sense that many of their policies, e.g.: the embrace of open source technologies, open standards for the web etc; were actively good. This belief helped google mindshare enormously. It's absence cannot help but hurt the company in the long term, in concrete financial terms. What they stand to gain in short term embrace of military contracts etc, will cost them not only their reputation, but their place as a major innovator. If it hasn't already, that is.
Might not be super low-tech, but I just got a bunch of Schiit Audio gear for my desk. I wanted analog controls for things like volume, EQ, input / output selection, etc. In an era where everything has a remote and tactility is an afterthought, I still enjoy a good analog potentiometer / switch.

I detailed the setup on my blog if you're curious: https://ethanaa.com/blog/thats-a-lot-of-schiit/
How much water can I get in a moon?
Excerpt:

This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness.

Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where

hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but

sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might.

What sort of everyday rules-in-use do people play by when there are no fixed standards to explain why some succeed and others fail? In the words of one corporate manager, those rules boil down to this maxim:

"What is right in the corporation is what the guy above you wants from you. That's what morality is in the corporation."
Thanks, someone already posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270107 ... I asked for the same reason I need the text representation. I don't have time right now, but want to read it. I don't have any huge problem with site format or firefox, I just needed something more efficient.
This is being downvoted but, barring certain circumstances, I think I agree. There's an irony in a discussion about climate change going way off topic.
True - though copyright is a government granted monopoly, so there is a tradeoff. It's not real property. Copyright holders get special privileges granted by the government to control what others do with the copyrighted material, so it only makes sense that it comes with strings attached.
Hard drives 5 years; yeah it happens but then usually fast after active use: if they do not fail fast then they usually keep going. I have 100s of HD's here from 25 to a few years ago and most of them work fine. Especially the 90s/00s then-expensive scsi discs do not seem to fail. But cheap internal and external HD's from that time are also still all working. If they get beyond 5 years (and by far most do), they get to 20. Anecdotal ofcourse.
That still was announced a while ago. When reading the title I though it was something new (maybe now Python decided to keep the keys sorted? ;)
While economy and consumerism are destroying our planet, we are complaining about the UX of an emergency call.. In other news stories I see participants of Extinction Rebellion being arrested by police as if they were criminals, while temperatures world wide are breaking all records and the ramifications are clearly seen almost anywhere on the planet. It just renders me speechless.
>You’ve basically listed the modern British class system: upper, middle, lower/working.

Errr, isn't all of the West structured like that?

You're either the wealthy upper class who own the capital, land and means of production, or the middle class, responsible for keeping the upper class wealthy and in power(finance/law/consulting/politics) or the lower class, performing the basic services for the other two classes(building, cleaning, security, etc.)

AFAIK, that's how it works in most places on the planet including Europe and the US and it has been like that since a long time just that now the upper class has better PR.
> The reason for the funny behavior in treating integer keys differently is that property keys are always treated as strings, so obj["3"] and obj[3] can't be distinguished, and arrays are also ordinary objects, so setting obj[3] was made to do the same thing on any object rather than special-casing arrays and non-array plain objects...

Note that special-casing arrays is precisely what implementations used to do (i.e., for non-Array objects, the order in most VMs was simply "properties in insertion order").

V8 was the first JS VM to stop special-casing Array (and this was done before Chrome went public, and was the behaviour in the first Chrome beta). It turned out that virtually no websites relied on "array index" properties appearing in enumeration order (there was some breakage, but it was relatively few and far between, and believed to be worthwhile for the gains in cache-hits when accessing properties), and this also allowed the more compact array representations to be used for them.
A New Pattern Language for Growing Regions
> I don't think I ever saw a card supporting 802.11a exclusively, it was part of a chip supporting multiple standards. And then you would always use 802.11g.

This ignores the historical fact that 802.11a cards predate 802.11g by multiple years - A-only cards were available in 2001 when the initial draft of the G standard was announced.
> of course, yes! As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law.

This, it's even mandated by law to appease shareholders by making as much money as possible. Google changing their ways might just increase the number of shareholder x company lawsuits their legal team has to sort out.

https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/s...
I think you are allowed to defend yourself with force against physical attacks - perhaps that's why they are making the connection. Be interesting to see someone use that as an argument in court but I'd hate to work with someone who used physical force based on this definition of physical security.
> So a football field could collect... 40,000 gallons of water.

How many swimming pools of water is that?
I have a T430 at home that runs FreeBSD that acts as a spare PC/browser/home media server. I never have to screw around with anything. FreeBSD has come a long, long way.

If I gave you a new Mac or PC, you could spend hours "screwing around" with it tweaking and customizing it, Linux even more so. If you absolutely need 802.11ac, then FreeBSD is not the right OS for T480s. But how many people actually require that speed?
There are plenty of sports for which I find this still holds true. A lot of it comes down to how much the required skills to be great are around more innate skills (e.g. speed, height, jumping ability) vs acquirable skills (technique, flexibility, problem solving, mental fortitude). It's very hard to be a 95th percentile soccer, basketball, or track athlete without a decent amount of innate athleticism. But I've seen plenty of not-particularly-athletic people get to 95th percentile in things like climbing, grappling, long-distance running, etc.
The company has pivoted significantly in the past approximately three to five years (first with the founding of Alphabet, which resulted in Larry and Sergey stepping back from the helm, then with the appointment of Sundar as CEO). Some extremely unsavory things about the way the company operated at the top-tier management level during Larry and Sergey's years also came to light in that time period.

My wild guess is the author stuck around long enough to see if things would turn around and has become convinced they will not, and this is Alphabet's new trajectory as a compnay.
I'll not address your points individually, but instead deal with your final notes. Yes, I believe that every quantum entity may observe and cause wave function collapse _in their subjective view of the universe_. It's easy to believe everything is objectively real whether observed or not because our local views - when compared - are highly correlated/decohered.

If you find yourself talking about what it means to observe by breaking down how the eye works, then you're aligned with Wigner's thoughts on it. I am not; an observation in my world is akin to an interaction with. It does not mean "awareness" in the sense that a brain might acknowledge something detected by the eye.
How many people believe in both CCC and materialism though? Virtually all physicists, who tend toward materialism, have rejected CCC; the people who believe in CCC tend to be panpsychists already. You're correct but kind of aiming at a strawman.
Any why that doesn't work is my point about day-care. There's a % of students in that room because they can't be anywhere else.

And we're all part of that % at some point in time, no one is always accomplishing something. But school is between this and that time only.
But company doesn't know who has phone with given MAC address, while computers MACs are probably assigned to employee.
I mean that they (the author) appears to hold politically and social positions, which trend towards a common cultural subgroup, colloquially known as SJW's, or "progressives". I'm not ascribing approval or disapproval to that group, and I'm not trying to drag any positive or negative connotations from the title.

I'm just pointing out that its rare to read an article where someone complains about the company they work for, and then stops working there. It was a refreshing change of pace.
> Progressive mode lets you ignore it before it's fully loaded.

Huh? It's obviously easier to ignore the spinner than to ignore a low-res image. You've seen the spinner before.
> Consider what happens if everyone who has a moral complaint about their employer immediately quits

This is in fact the quickest way to ensure that this behavior immediately stops
Yeah that is pretty disgusting. By doing this, it steals a label with a 'fairly' clear meaning, agenda, and history to prop up any old complaint. This is beyond disingenuous and actually will end up causing more harm to LGBT issues in the future.
The man in the article commenting that his father could no longer read the weather because the signs were wrong is my personal experience too - I've been tramping and hunting in a particular area of our Southern Alps since I was a child, and everything I learned about predicting the weather there when I was young doesn't work now. It used to be that autumn was the time of year with the most stable weather - lots of clear skies, no rain, so ideal for crossing rivers.

But now there's a lot more northwest winds in autumn, which causes heavy rainfall that floods rivers. And likewise, the spring "monsoon" when continual nor'westers are the defining weather pattern (when I lived in an alpine village, 29 days of continual rain in November was the usual) now extends significantly into Summer. And of course, the rainfall events are getting more extreme, damaging roads and hiking infrastructure - like this: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/fiordland/routeburn-closed-for...
They are lying, they have been inventing doomsday scenario narratives for decades. I'm in my 40s and the lying started in my elementary school. They haven't changed the approach that much in all these years, I can clearly recognize the same lies from when I was 10 years old being peddled once again today.
Ease of battery replacement is another set of tradeoffs. 15 years ago, phones were bulkier and weren't as water resistant. Some phones still have easily replaceable batteries. Other phones, like the iPhone and Pixel optimize for form factor above ease of service - which is not surprising given that they're on the top end of the price scale. Nobody bats an eye about the fact that it's more expensive to service a Mercedes than a Toyota. iPhones are the Mercedes of smart phones.
In that linked YouTube video, I didn't hear hiss or find anything objectionable in the sound. But I found it really distracting the way the microphone was so big in the picture. It even looked like it could be easily adjusted so the mic was in the same place but the stand was more out of the way. But if it was me, I'd go for a smaller / less obtrusive one even if the sound wasn't quite as good.

Funny how different people are sensitive to different things.
Maybe they believed they could make it a better company from the inside, and have finally given up?

If everybody good runs, whats left is no good.
You're comparing both systems using watthours of energy expended, so mentioning enthalpy of water vaporization is unnecessary and confusing.
this seems like they were fixing a bug. The previous owner had autodrive enabled but never actually paid for it. Sounds like a small claims issue to determine how much money the dealer is owed for buying a car that doesnt have everything it was supposed to come with.
The last two interviews I had involved no coding at all. I got an offer from both companies..
> By getting mostly usable content in as little time as possible to the user you decrease perceived wait

See, this is the issue. Progressive images aren't "mostly usable content"; they're vague, ugly blobs.
Basecamp's new email client will disable tracking pixels
The next time I'm supplying my orbiter with beverages, I'll keep that in mind.
Quitting in protest really requires you to do it somewhat publicly if you want to maximize its impact. Losing one employee has some, but not much impact. But the publicity destroys a lot of goodwill among prospective employees and the general public, and might serve as an example for others (both at Google as well as others).

Besides, the protests over the last year or so have always attracted dozens of why-dont-you-quit-hot takes on HN, and seems only fair to let people know when their demands are met.
> Is there a text version of this thing?

Reader mode in Firefox (probably also in other browsers) gives just the text of the story, without the images.
Tunneling could let nonstop car trips scale. If the Boring company can produce a similar improvement in tunneling costs that SpaceX is on launch costs, it could be a reality.
"hey, why are you complaining at every company meeting/company event?"

"imo the company makes its money in some really shady ways"

"oh so what are you going to do about it?"

"complain at the next meeting about the company...."

???
I believe the hope is the smart technically minded people on HN might have some insight or way to innovate solutions to at least mitigate climate change. Unfortunately, the best we can come up with this thread are UX critiques. I think it just illustrates how daunting of a problem climate change really is.
I disagree, I live in Southeast Australia and have never seen so many people accept climate change as real as this past summer.

If it takes a slight misunderstanding about weather relating to climate change to get immediate action, isn’t that a good thing?
I don't know about google, and can't say about direct experience, but almost every tech company I have worked, LGBTQ people were treated well, and in no way discriminated against, or at least in a visible way at least....

even amazon, was pretty equal about minorities and LGBTQ folks as they treated everyone equally crap....
I agree, this is more of a slideshow than an article, and I don't think having it as an article with pictures would make it more plausible. The pictures tie in neatly with the content in a way that doesn't annoy me as much as other similar experiences have.
Here's how it was made: https://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/

It's history here on HN is intriguing, and a little sad. So many submissions, so little discussion. Do people feel that there's nothing to be said?

3 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829772

2 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138505

1 comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768096

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9385926

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140319

Many of the preceding comments were people just saying that there were lots of submissions, but no comments!

Even so, there are, indeed, so many submissions with no comments at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19522499

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19045643

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731896

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473226

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10356347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330913

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10327532

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7292482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6832507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179041 <- August 8th, 2013.
don't use their products then?
Okay thank you for your input.

We'll continue to fight for the rights of everyone who is being discriminated against.

You should learn more about intersectional activism :)
I'm skeptical of that claim without some good supporting evidence. Submarines tend to maintain CO2 concentrations 10x higher than atmospheric, and they have a better reactor safety record than civilian power plants.
Business Intelligence Doesn’t Need More AI; It Needs More Humans
I work out rigorously and regularly, focusing on core and upper body strength. I take brisk 6+ mile walks several times a week. I have a super ergonomic chair with little levers and gauges to configure it in minute detail. I still get massive neck and shoulder pain if I don't sit in a way that gives me the posture of a cheeto.

I have long since opted for painless over imposing, but if you're one of those lucky persons who can stand up and work, that's probably your best bet.
Actually this is FB wants something bad enough and Jens Axboe works for them.
That's because he's not trying to explain it. The article is about quantum determinism. He offers two explanations, depending on how one views the source of consciousness, dualistically or physically. IIT doesn't explain consciousness. It's merely a correlation.
Good point, it probably is. However, they only mention it to attack Guerra's credibility (and indirectly, Chevron), but surely it is relevant that the arbitration found for Chevron?

I have to conclude that the article is telling only one side of the story. That's OK I guess, but people need to stay aware of it and refrain from forming an opinion without more information.
Maybe make it an exponentially increasing cost, such that most people can afford 2-3 renewals, but the cost increases steeply after that. The first $X per renewal could go to the copyright office, and everything above that to the Library of Congress.