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> Whether they seemed reasonable or not.

Isn't following unreasonable orders by definition you know unreasonable? I mean if your boss told you to jump of a bridge that seems unreasonable right? And you would still do it? After all he is your boss and you don't want to get fired, right?
it isn't defamation if it is true and I think everything not pertaining to Tim Bray was already a matter of public record.
I think you're underestimating the "wokeness" of industry. Especially how much a token good guy is worth, when they are scarce. And overestimating his sacrifice. His net worth is at least 9M USD. That's already enough so he doesn't need to work a minute more in his life and do almost everything he could think of.
Better analogy would be if you go to drink overpriced coffee in a fancy place, but midway the drinking they have to unexpectedly close the shop so they take your porcelain cup and pour the leftovers to a takeaway cup and usher you out to drink the leftovers in the alley.
What an utter disaster this society is if having a conscience makes you "radioactive" to employers. I can only aspire to be as radioactive as possible, then.
I've seen this topic touched on a few times recently but i feel like there is a major flaw in a the assumption that the current pandemic related loneliness/isolation can be compared to more traditional forms of loneliness/isolation.

Traditionally lonely people don't have anyone to communicate with, people in lockdown do have people to communicate with but now have to do it remotely, just doesn't seem comparable to me.

Speaking for my friendship group that is extremely socially active normally, everyone seems to have happily moved to social media and zoom drinking sessions with little ill effects.
> It’s a scenario that might make sense here.

Perhaps. I have worked half my career in academia & research, going back to when Solaris (SPARC) workstations were a thing, and this was never a problem.
How do you know they are wrong about masks? In Sweden the scientific consensus is still that masks for the broad public are unnecessary.
You seem to imply that it's okay for YouTube to censor content as long as the content is 'factually incorrect'. What is your definition of 'factually' incorrect content? More importantly, how do you prevent YouTube from coming up with their own definition of factual correctness and start banning content at will.
Ignoring the bad faith questioning, I dont have to provide a gold standard in order to criticise Amazon. Everything I've said is extremely well documented.
> it takes huge balls to do something like this.
> The economic loss has to be somewhat taken in relation to your total wealth

> Very few people would have the courage to walk away from big sums of money purely on principle.

A good number of engineers refuse to even interview with FAANGs and other nasty companies on principle and they don't get any public praise.
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Of course the theoretical possiblity cannot be excluded. I think you're right, this can be the cause for confusion. It can also be used to promote certain agendas and spin. It even gives a certain degree of credibility, as there will be scientist that cam be quoted verbatim. I think this article falls in the agenda category, and not the confusion onr.
Lithium sulfur still has a tiny fraction the energy density of hydrogen. It's very unlikely, probably impossible, to ever beat hydrogen on energy density with a battery.

Also, Li-S still has too low of energy density for airplanes, and given the long recharge time problem batteries fundamentally are a no-go in aviation.
> There seems to be a consistent theme of employees being treated with suspicion, condescension and outright hostility.

I'd suggest working with or managing a place with low-skilled people. They of course aren't all like that but it seems it attracts low-motivation, low-effort, or low-caring. I can only provide 2 anecdotes, but I can see why people get treated this way after time.

I highly doubt there are many people that just start their management role in a hostile, suspicion, condescension kind of way. Normally it takes something repeated over time to build up those kinds of traits of dealing with something

In college I used to work for RPS (they got bought by Fedex or UPS, I forget) sorting packages. To get the job you had to lift up to 50lbs and memorize the first 2 digits of the zip code (just the region so it was like 20-30 numbers) and you'd stand in front of a big chute and sort boxes onto 1 of 3 conveyors. The amount of anger people would take out on other's boxes was insane. Kicking, punching(??), throwing over the ledge (we were like 3 floors up), or just outright stamping of boxes was nuts. After working there I learned what it means to package something well as I could not count on any package of mine being treated with respect.

The other anecdote are my wife's pharmacy techs she has to manage. Some of them will bitch and moan if they have to remake a drug, sometimes outright REFUSE to make a drug if it means they have to gown back up and go back into the clean room. They will disappear for an hour after delivering a drug (up a few floors). They will take well over an hour for lunch breaks. It is a very maddening situation because all of these actions means the kids don't get what they need on time.
For me the lockdown (I am in Germany so it is relatively lighter than some other places like Italy or Belgium) was not a big incovenience, the only thing I am really missing is my Martial Arts regular training.

For the rest I just had more time to devote to hobbies so I am more or less fine, so far.

I have a page devoted to Loneliness/Solitude on my personal website (https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/Solitude.html) and I will add the OP article to the reading list in the appendix.
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But your belief is already logically inconsistent unless you are saying we should allow porn, animal cruelty, or ISIS propaganda on YouTube (the last one is very clearly suppression of a political opinion, and abhorrent one, but nonetheless).

This is the issue, if you are saying YouTube should allow all content then you need to be consistent and allow all content. If not you really just disagree on what content should be censored, but then you can't make this out to be a censorship vs free speech debate, because you agree on censorship, just not on what gets censored.
I judge the video not by the enthusiasm of the people involved, but by the actual contents of the video.

You know what is an important workplace skill (tech or not)? Speaking intelligibly.

Some people seem to think that all criticism of accents is bad, because racism. This is actually backwards. I myself am an ESL speaker, and therefore have some trouble understanding heavy accents. Using people with heavy accents in a video instead excludes people who speak English as a second language, since we, as a group, are not trained in it. Our experience of spoken English have mainly come from TV and movies, where people speak clearly. So when we see something like this video, we are effectively excluded from understanding it.

Saying things like “was it really that hard” is condescending. Yes, it’s hard if you don’t have a lifetime of training, which people in English-speaking countries do. We ESL speakers don’t. Producers of videos should be more considerate.
LH2 is a liquid. It's likely airplanes will use liquid hydrogen as a fuel.
Did you have a hard time getting your foot in the door?

After 15 years, most people do not care anymore about your education; but when getting that first job, unless you have an impressive portfolio (and even then...), that piece of paper is huge.

With a recognised piece of paper, you can get much more easily get into a recognised company, which has a trickle down effect for the rest of your career.
There is no doubt signaling at play, but one important signal conferred by graduating is “can slog all the way to completion of a multi-year, somewhat difficult, often tedious project, following somewhat arbitrary rules along the way.”

That’s close to actual job requirements in a lot of places.
For aviation purposes, it's cheap enough.
Write a simulation game.
Googling "social media sites" gives me far more than 15 alternatives to Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. You're like people arguing that Youtube has a monopoly because no "serious" competition exists, only the weasel-words you're using are "at scale" to pretend the entire rest of the social media ecosystem doesn't exist.

Wasn't it a meme not long ago that young people didn't even use Facebook anymore, that it was turning into the "old people's social network?" How does that happen if Facebook is Standard Oil and no competition is possible? I guess all of those other sites and apps simply aren't operating "at scale?"

The discussion of whether and how social media affects political and cultural discourse, and especially how the gamification and incentives of social media do, is worth having. But the tendency of arguments to depend on slippery slope fallacies which assume the entire web beyond three or four popular sites simply doesn't exist or doesn't matter is incorrect.
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right but there is a rhetorical undercurrent of this person doesn't really believe in this virtuous thing they are doing, and is thus a hypocrite. Because being a hypocrite is one of the top sins of our culture.

Of course it is weird because the person doing the accusation of hypocrisy is actually against the virtuous act, and is thus for people not believing in the virtue.

It's a weird rhetorical trick that sounds sort of unhinged the more you hear it.
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i dont see why the two are mutually exclusive or something. You can both have a reasonable education in a college AND have it play a role as signaling as well, because nobody is going to check what you studied in details.
I suspect the same percentage of people exploiting the system in warehouses as in office jobs, still you can see very "inhumane" rules only in warehouses.
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Just because countries have mandated a mask requirement doesn't mean there is a scientific consensus yet. You all talk like this it's a fact that masks for the broad public will actually help. In my country the general advice is the opposite. We simply don't know so I'm not surprised that WHO hasn't taken a firm stance yet.
Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?
Google was going to turn off access for LSA apps soon, and this includes IMAP for Gmail. However, with the pandemic they delayed this indefinitely.

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-app...

Since May 1st, using IMAP to access a G Suite account stopped working, though, with a message:

> IMAP command 'AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <authdata>' returned an error: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)

I know the credentials are good because they work in the browser. Maybe an automated process somewhere kicked in?
Same source, so same potential agenda. If some other new outlet, preferably multiple, are confirming the facts, that would be different. All I heard about the Wuhan lab story was CT stuff back in January and February, until it popped up again recently after Trump, allegedly, pushed US intel to dig into it. And now this, at it's core, anti Fauci piece.
did not mean it that way, but that i've never seen in the tech press someone noticing that e.g. walmart doesnt have massage rooms
As a longtime horizon user (at least relative to the time this project exists), some of the points you mentioned are definitly on the radar:

- Navigation Buttons: I proposed a solution here: https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon/issues/119#issuecomme... This is part of the effort to add icons and toolbars to things that right now are reachable behind the spacebar menu

- Many TH (as well as audio/synthesizer-related) parts can be found in the work branch of my fork of the offical pool: https://github.com/atoav/horizon-pool/tree/work The offical library/pool only includes parts that have been checked by four eyes, so many parts are still open as Pull requests: https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon-pool/pulls

As for the other points:

- on 1: Starting projects: for me it is only entering a project title and selecting a path, which is reasonable unless you are the type who wants to decide things like these in the end on saving.

- on 2: While I also like single window concepts better (with panes like Blender), I think having schematic, board and pool/library editors in seperate windows is kinda reasonable.

- on 4: You actually can. You are not forced to use existing parts if you use "Place component"

- on 6: Given how the whole thing works, such a thing like "Part properties" doesn't really make sense. In Horizon everything you place on the schematic is either a generic unit (E.g. "Two-terminal resistor") where you can enter a value or a existing part mapped to this generic unit (e.g. a "ERJ-6ENF2003"). This is (on purpose) different from how other EDA-tools do it, but in practise it works quite well. The point on the different assign window is something I'd like to have changed as well : )

- on 8: if you want to move something you have to use the move tool which you invoke by pressing the m key. You can also move things with the arrow keys.

Generally the UX paradigm of horizon is very much built around single key shortcuts or key sequences. And if you don't know the keys just press the spacebar and search for the command and it will tell you right there.

As for now the experience for power users is very fluid, but when it comes to installation, onboarding etc. the whole thing could use a lot of improvement (and are gladly beeing worked on).
If HN moderators started censoring posts because they disagreed with them, or thought the ideas were "too dangerous" (rather than just because they were spam) then yeah people would start complaining about it.
I find it so curious you think of something like a marathon as Type 2 activity. For me it's the supreme Type 1 activity. As in when I am running there is nothing else I'd rather be doing even with the pain etc.
Why would they say that when there is no scientific consensus yet?
You know that stuff about the human brain being terrible at correctly calculating the odds? I think this sort of rule-making comes from that.

Maybe you'll hire a bad sheep every 20, but you'll be so scarred that you'll make a rule making 19 lives miserable, just to avoid the lone asshole taking advantage. In the same way as we think children shouldn't be left out on their own (because we read about some pedophile at the other end of the country), we then assume employees are assholes until proven otherwise. It's shitty for everyone involved, really.
This isn't about PATH resolution, this is about pretending to have a program installed when it isn't. As other comments have pointed out, this "actual solution" also fucks up any Python script you try to run because nobody writes scripts thinking "what if python isn't actually python". What's next, selling a car that looks like it has an engine, but on closer inspection actually only has a flyer for the closest mechanic under the hood? Should I check if my plane actually has wings instead of cardboard cutouts made to look like wings every time I take a flight too?
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Sadly, this is quite evidence backed. Somewhere around 1/3rd of the UK population have racist attitudes based on multiple surveys across multiple decades. In the 60s and 70s there was close to 75% support for ending immigration into the UK for non-whites.

So yes, it's absolutely believable to have 15M racist wankers in the UK.
If you've been following the field at all (i.e. who the paper is aimed at), the sentence is obvious and non-controversial. There have been many tasks where deep learning has even exceeded human performance (a stronger claim than that sentence).

>Even the most state of the art computer vision/object classification algorithms still don’t generalize to weird input, like familiar objects presented at odd angles.

"some x are not y" does not invalidate "many x are y"
> Reading through his post, it doesn't sound like the goal was to change things

I think he did everything he could think of to change things:

"At that point I snapped. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. I think I made them to the appropriate people."

with no result, and no evident likelyhood of positive change.

Which is why he had to quit.
I mostly disagree with this.

At a certain point it becomes inexcusable, and I personally never judge them as being stupid or lazy, I just attribute it to lack of empathy.

It’s painful for people that have to regularly deal with something not straightforward (over complex) or just plain old messy (no concern over what it would be like to revisit the code for anyone, even themselves).

Ruins my day(s), and it takes some mental gymnastics to justify serial offenses of this kind (e.g We got it done , that’s what matters - great, but you slowed down velocity at every later stage).

Lastly, I think when you find yourself asking ‘why is it done this way’, you’ll notice it’s a pattern. It’s never a few pieces here and there where you can reasonably understand, it’s always endemic throughout the codebase.

So sure, not stupidity, just a pungent disregard for others.
I went from lurking on HN to joining during the "MOOC rush" exactly because people did not seem to get that for the broad student population, online is nowhere near as useful as in person. While there are some percentage of people who have the motivation and skills to get out of online systems everything they would get out of in-class, the percentage is small.

For example, when I am teaching a class, it is a dynamic process. I am responding to people's questions, they are responding to my response, etc. Most of that goes away online. There are some attempts to recreate it, but most students just do not find it is the same.

You put your finger on it exactly: "most people who get in, finish."

But that doesn't address the article. I am not a lawyer, but the suit seems foolish to me. Colleges were ordered to close. That seems relevant to me.
We tried shining light on bad ideas. It didn't work. All the light the world could muster was being shined onto the lack of a link between vaccines and autism, yet there was a measles is having a resurgence.

Suppression doesn't really sit well with me either, but "disinformation" is nothing new. There are plenty of ideas that are similar to David Icke's nonsense and most of them predate 2020. Things like "the moon landing was faked", "the Earth is flat", and "the government is controlling us through chemtrails". The difference is, someone else believing the Earth is flat doesn't affect me the same way a measles outbreak does.

This isn't a conversation to have in the abstract. The idea that David Icke is spreading is that the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to 5g cellphone service. 5g being deployed in Wuhan is somehow evidence of the link between the two.

What light can you shine on that idea, to get people to stop shooting telecommunications workers and burning cellphone towers down?
> Personally, I think it's some black-budget government project that somebody wasn't supposed to reveal.

That's exactly what they want their adversaries to think so adversaries are going invest a ridiculous amount of resources in achieving projected but non-existing capabilities.

Japan's FOMO reaction is proof this genius form of inception is working. The authority fallacy never fails at scale.
But this is the exact example of misinformation spreading easily. I assume you a a reasonable, rational and well informed individual like most on HN, but you still believe this bit of misinformation. The WHO never said that the virus could not spread from human to human, they said "there is no evidence for human to human spreading". That nuance makes a big difference in meaning, the absence of evidence for something is not evidence for the absence of something. But this nuance was lost in all of the misinformation spreading.
> specced XML, ATOM, JSON

Urgh. Not exactly excellent engineering.

Downvote me all you want but that's a pretty low bar.
PulseAudio is the only program I've seen really stress my Ryzen. I recommend fixing the default sampling config if you have similar issues.

This is a really entertaining writeup, given the subject matter.
The box in question is in use as a media server, but reloading logind logs out the X session, so it wasn't really possible to test properly until today. Having the opportunity to restart the machine (probably I just needed to systemctl daemon-reload?) the "don't kill my processes bro" options are working.

The distro is kde neon.

The point isn't that I can't (or the distro maintainers can't) get it to work, the point is that the aggressive systemd default breaks established practice, and that this is typical systemd behaviour: arrogant and uncaring. IOW user-hostile in the fullest sense of the term. It's not like this is an isolated example.
> 21st century? 20th century? 19th?

Does it matter? We can't change the 19th or 20th centuries. Perhaps we can change the 21st...