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> Calling your climate change denying coworker a backwards dumb-ass is not illegal

Illegal is when you call the police. There's lots of behaviors that the employer is better to prevent before you have to call the police. If it rose to the level of illegal, there's a lot of things that already went wrong.

> Weiss specifically called out this behavior as unlawful discrimination.

If she was uniquely subjected to harassing and hostile behavior then it's discrimination, by definition. If that treatment is routine for anyone that dares to voice an unorthodox though in NYT, then it's not discrimination - it's just deeply sick and broken culture.
It seems like we're a lot further along the road than that - though perhaps not at the end of it - since this type of behavior is wide-spread.
I just disagree with this. We will see Wal-Mart and other chain retailers make their own POS software/systems.

3-4 cents isn't a lot. Unless it's added up by all of the people shopping in those places over the course of a year. The incentive to cheat the system is there, therefore the system will 100% be cheated. That's The American Way, in my experience.
These are words, but I can't perceive any larger meaning from them. Locke, Hobbes, and Kant also weren't alive to write such books, yet they apparently are philosophers? I'd appreciate if if you took the time to put together more than a single sentence.
> You trust intel, and you trust their software and hardware does as advertised, but you don't need to trust the hosting company (Google).

I should note that this by itself is a fairly hilarious proposition.
No one had mentioned Hitler at that point. See another child comment for clarification.

Edit: To quote the CTO later on "I could see where the endless review discussions might end up heading so I split the team into product and project before we hit Godwin's law."
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This is a political opinion.
My knowledge of Graviton is limited, but based on Amazon's description of Graviton 2's encryption capabilities, it seems more like an equivalent to AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME), rather than SEV.
I read, but putting it in a co-processor makes little sense if you care about memory bandwidth and latency -- which you should to keep the vector unit fed. Fujitsu have carefully designed this stuff with such considerations in mind as far as I can tell.
There was $130 billion available in the PPP fund when scheduled to close on 6/30 (the program was extended).
> Calling your climate change denying coworker a backwards dumb-ass is not illegal. You can of course be fired for that inappropriate behavior, but it isn't illegal.

A correct statement, but one that skirts around the issue at hand: in this situation the people berating their evangelical coworker are creating a hostile workplace environment and the company is obligated to take actions to remidiate this situation. If the climate denier points out this hostile workplace behavior, they're not censoring any particular view. Only the hostile actions of their co-worker.

While Weiss' high profile position makes it much more likely to receive public scrutiny, she is indeed entitled to the same workplace protections as a mid level software developer. Working as a columnist doesn't absolve a company of their legal responsibility to curb workplace harassment. Your workplace is a captive audience. What is legal for some random person to say to you is not at all the same standard that is applied to co-workers. Weiss calling this behavior out as discrimination is not calling any particular belief illegal, only the treatment towards her by her coworkers.
"by people that were no smarter than you"

You say that, but I don't think you know me.
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> share a bunch of memes making fun of them

Making fun of people is crossing the line? This seems like a dangerous slippery slope to say the least. Suppose I make an entire career out of making fun of (say) Irish people. Jokes and stereotypes like "they drink a lot" and "they get into bar fights" and "they're dumb potato farmers" are my bread and butter. Most people would probably agree that this kind of speech should be protected.

However, because trans rights, LGBT, race, etc. has been so profusely politicized, it's become a third rail. Making fun of a trans person and an Irish person are, for whatever reason, not on the same playing field any more. I'm not sure what the solution is, but let's not pretend there's no problem.
You are asking for a cure, but I can only offer a diagnosis.
SGX has a stronger security model, but targets enclaves instead of VMs.

If you want something to run in SGX, you will likely need to rewrite the software (you can’t call syscalls directly in SGX since you cannot trust their results anyway).

SEV’s security model is weaker (no integrity), but lets you use essentially normal VM images.

Disclaimer: I work at Google in this space.
They match my experience with most Google software at least, maybe worded in an extreme way but hey that's forums for ya
End of the day, the letter is a provocative piece written by a provocateur. It's hard to be a provocateur in a large enterprise that explicitly self-identifies as the paper of record and an institution.

I don't follow this writer, but based on open letter (and the fact that the individual published an open resignation letter in itself), the individual sounds like someone who didn't function well in a work environment full of big egos. It's hard to swim upstream in that type of org.
This is a lesson that Google really needs to learn. If you’ve ever been on the wrong side of Google you know that they will dodge you like you are collecting debts and often the only way to get their attention is to shame them in the media, back channel someone you know, or engage them in court. They probably could have avoided this fee entirely just by answering the phone and realizing that the automation missed something.

I try really hard to like Google because overall they have done a lot of good, but sometimes it’s just jaw dropping how a company with so many smart people fails so badly at the most basic things.
Advertising is a pre-purchase concern however, and requires companies to not be deceptive. "You'll figure out what our term really meant after you buy it" isn't much of a defense.
Is it possible to self host the code, but then automate syncing backups to public Github.

That way you can use 3rd party integrations, and be part of the Github ecosystem 99% of the time, but when they do something like this, you have an emergency place to work from?
When I've worked on small teams we avoided complexity by hardcoding locations and using GUI management tools and all these other things that still exist - and honestly, are better today than they were in the past, when you'd also need to get yourself a rack in a datacenter to run stuff.

I think there's a big swath of people adopting fancy tools to try to solve problems they don't have and won't have for years, but I don't see that having destroyed the ability to do things the easy way.
This is cool and I appreciate software development insights is getting some love. Full disclosure, I wouldn't say I'm working on the same thing, but we definitely have some overlap, when it comes to software development insights, which is gaining steam.

Your dashboard gave me some interesting food for thought, so I'll do the same and share with you, some of the things that I'm working on, that you are free to incorporate into openbase.

https://imgur.com/Y06Tk3f

https://imgur.com/Yjk2dzR

https://imgur.com/RJw4ygS

https://imgur.com/xXi9EMd

https://imgur.com/nROCA0O

https://imgur.com/xhb2haD

https://imgur.com/sZ2YpIM

https://imgur.com/HVSNhS0

https://imgur.com/TnInleD

My focus is not on the discovery part, which you guys are working on, but rather, I'm more focused on providing "business intelligence" for the software development lifecycle.

I do agree with you that code metrics can only tell you so much, as it's not really meant for discovery. Code insights might provide things like stability, investment, complexity, etc., but like you said, you can't tell from code insights, if the code is easy to use or not. Discovery is a serious problem and GitHub has certainty not solved this problem yet, so what you guys are working on, is a problem worth solving in my opinion.
As a thought experiment: are there any examples that you can personally think of where self proclaimed liberals used hate and fear to shape public discourse?
>He's a businessman, not a scientist

How can you even say that? I've heard more scientific discussions out of him compared to all the other CEO's I've ever heard speak combined. Musk has a head for physics and numbers and can easily come up with calculations for classical mechanics, material technology, information theory off the top of your head. For you to say the contrary is doublespeak.
I suspect we have some "deep staters" in attendance. Everything you know, you don't. Everything you believe is false. A liberal conspiracy exists and it's hiding in plain sight.

If you ignore these "throw the baby out with the bathwater" comments, some good discussion is being had.
It makes a big difference, actually. Few regimes go full-on totalitarian right away - it's more common to have a gradual erosion, where they operate within the letter of the law for a while, while gradually diminishing the spirit. So the more the letter allows, the more abuse you'll see from the get go.
> Anything that has a simple and elegant feature-set ends up coöpted by people who just want to build big ungainly architecture and ends up inheriting features from whatever megacorp the coöpters came from

So true.
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Education should be available to everyone, agreed.

Public school is compulsory, and not necessarily about providing an education. Whether everyone is entitled to free/subsidized daycare that may also throw off some education is open to debate. To me the important point is to untangle formal compulsory public schools from education, because although they overlap somewhat they aren’t the same thing.

I think parents should have the right to homeschool or unschool their kids as long as they aren’t endangering their children. Personally I think homeschooling to enforce religious indoctrination is close to abuse, but I’m reluctant to force parents away from that. The majority of homeschoolers in the USA are religious homeschoolers. They also fight the legal battles for homeschooler rights, which us secular homeschoolers benefit from. The state is reluctant to give up control of our children, as every homeschooling parent knows. And that has nothing to do with education no matter how it gets presented.

I know that homeschooling and unschooling are impractical for many parents, which is regrettable, because they only have the option of putting their kids in school and hoping for the best. Parents who have the time, patience, and interest in getting the most out of public schools — those whom teachers call “engaged” parents — could probably dispense with school altogether.
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File ASAP. Even if by the time it goes through you get a job, they'll still pay you for the time you were unemployed. Presumably you already paid into unemployment, get some of that money back now that you need it. Even if it comes weeks from now and you're happily employed, use it to rebuild savings or pay off credit card debt etc.
Like the op said, split second takeover is not required in a flight autopilot
I think what the GP is suggesting is that having those items on the TOC without further explanation makes it look like this book will insist that in order to be a highly productive developer you should have a poor work life balance. Which is nonsense at best and harmful at worst.
Thank you, aliswe!
> to require that if you can sign up from a web site then you can also cancel from a web site.

This is unfortunately not a freedom we enjoy in the US. I recently changed my car insurance provider to a much cheaper one bundled with my home insurance. I called to cancel the old one and talked to the rep for like an hour. He didn't even really try to save my account, made a few half-ass efforts but mostly just chatted. It was early in the pandemic lock down and I didn't have anything else to do anyway so I just talked to the guy for a while. A month later I notice another charge from them. Turns out he just ... didn't cancel it. I think he kept me on the phone so long for plausible deniability if his call got audited, and then just marked me down as a retained customer. When I called to cancel the second time they did actually cancel and refund me back to the original cancel date, fortunately. This was Progressive.
I had to return rental equipment after canceling FIOS service last month.

A few weeks ago I started getting automated calls from “Alex at Verizon” (obviously a computer) reading a script reminding me that the equipment needs to be returned. The only problem? Sometimes it would call 5 times a day, leaving a new VM every time.

I think it should be illegal to claim to be human, and generally these messages should always be delivered by text message with an option to reply STOP.

On the plus side, I brought the equipment to a UPS store where they scanned the barcode stickers directly into their system, handed me a receipt and an hour later Verizon had emailed confirmation of receipt. I didn’t even need to pack them.
Sure, but you didn't answer GP's question.

95% of these sites are conservative-leaning. That's the story here, and as GP says, implying that this is a problem across a wide ideological spectrum is wrong.
Financial times.
It may be harder to monetize short video content than short text or longer videos (maybe that drives YouTube revenue nudges for longer content?).

But people like short videos, so there's a tension there. If you're in ads, maybe just buy a few short video companies, get their patents to sue their competitors, and shut them down, so no one gets access to the thing that they like but is less lucrative for you.

But maybe you're right and they would have followed an IG model just fine.
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> It is true that highly knowledgeable people know that Musk is an idiot conman

That and the richest man on the planet. What does this tell about us as a species? Some compare him to the late Jobs. I think this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
imo sporadic and non-linear makes for good content. Also, I've tried live-streaming coding before and I found I got a lot more done than if it had just been normal coding time, because you can't just idly check HN.
Meh, having your opener call out a specific project as bullshit has that effect.

Pulling the snark would have resulted in more people getting the main point.
Thank you for the explanation. That seems very complicated.
With a copilot the pilot can go to the bathroom or go to sleep. Or die. Copilots are autonomous.
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Arresting someone is not how intimidation works. If you arrest someone, your intimidate gets the light of the court.

Leftist extremism is exactly avoiding the court system by applying pressure to rob people of their livelihood - a much more immediate, public, and potent method of intimidation - and an excellent way to set an example to others who might speak against the theocracy.
To specify a podAffinityTerm, amongst others.
The SLA you mentioned there was problematic because it didn't actually cover how much you were losing if the service went down. A SLA that would cover that would certainly not be useless, and likely not be toothless either, even if insurance was involved.
From my understanding, most subreddits that are banned generally are breaking wider rules, which often consists of hate spilling outside of the subreddit itself

From my experience, reddit is actually pretty hands off as long as what you do is contained to your sub, but brigading is a very common occurrence in these more "heated" subreddits, intentional or not.
The equivalent Intel technology is TME, which is not present in any commercially-available processor yet.

MPX was an instruction extension that was never widely adopted and that Intel has deprecated.
That’s why I put “just” in scare quotes.
How many critical domains and TLS certs expire with many months of notice? In a proper shop, someone will be alerted. Most places are not on the ball, and that alert is going to go entirely unnoticed.
Alarming, but not surprising.
The article reads as if this wasn't the case. Do you have a source that mentions this? Everything I can find reads exactly the same as DMCA, where there's no 'central authority' to listen to, but you're just expected to treat each request as if it was part of a lawsuit.

This is especially insane, since this was undoubtably the action of an agent at Google, and we have no idea how many claims Google does properly handle. If each wrong handling is a 600k fine, you will quickly see every single request approved.
I think everyone here remembers that time they wrote a simple HTTP server, that just works, and would continue to work today.

If anything, I hope that we can recognize that there has been advancements in computing. Back in the day you would be open to attacks left and right. It was the wild west back in the day. Today, you can take that tiny webserver and put it in a VM, and voila, now it doesn't matter if anyone breaks in. As long as you didn't add the SSH key to github or anything like that.

We can have complex programs, as long as every-man doesn't have to know the details behind it, or implement it or risk losing access he previously had.

I think new protocols that are extremely hard to
implement falls under that, and I don't think Qemu or Linux does, as nobody loses anything when Linux adds new complex features.

We have to make sure, at least, that we continue to support HTTP/1. I think we already lost a lot when we moved away from IRC.
> I think it will also be good to highlight account receivables, where you have delivered the good but haven't received the cash. Even though this rarely occurs in a SaaS model

Hah! You'd be surprised at how much businesses suck at paying their bills. And it's not really customer friendly to shut them off either.

As far as I know, huge amounts in accounts receivable is industry standard.
Sure, but the grandparent doesn't say "I read the NYT but here are some flaws..." or "The Houston Chronicle is better because..." it says the entire enterprise has been directed "in support of bias".

I am arguing against being blind to the news source's virtues. If we don't want to be blind to the world we have to pick our poison(s).
Assuming that the robot is properly maintained and no parts break.
> You don't understand hate speech.

This is "no true Scotsman" in its full glory, but I'll bite. Even if we agree that "Gender Critical" was hateful, in no way would the sub be "hate speech" as it would need to (by your own definition) target specific people with the intent to hurt them (which was explicitly against the sub's rules).
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You are absolutely right - you can't just handover a kill switch for your business to a megacorp. However, there are a lot of instances where alternatives are not viable because of the same megacorps. For example, email is a major online ID and being locked out of it can be disastrous even for an individual. Ideally, you would want an email server of your own - but then the 2 major email providers simply junk the mail from small servers even when they have good spam filter score. Similar story about search engines directing traffic to imposters. There are no reasons to believe that this is unintentional. This wouldn't be a problem if everyone else had the same priorities as you. What alternative do we have other than to loudly shame them where it matters and get as many people to off those platforms?
I own a Tesla and love it. Having said that, “full self driving” is so far off what it actually does it’s actually not just a marketing issue, it is a safety issue.
I’ve had my Tesla drive towards an incoming lane, slam on the breaks in the middle of the highway with no cars in front of us, swerve into another lane with no warning, and probably other hiccups I don’t remember.

I know now I not only need to keep my hands on the wheel but I need to actively make sure the car doesn’t kill us. And I know the car warned me the feature required awareness, but its name made me think it was way more developed and safe than it actually is, and that disconnect will surely cause other drivers to trust it more than they should.
Bari Weiss was tweeting insults about her co workers in public during a meeting about her behavior. If this came from anyone else they'd be fired in a heartbeat. This is her politicizing a normal action.
How about being fired?

If you remember - the majority of McCarthyism's intimidation was in his "do not employ" lists of people.
It has nothing to do with race. China is bad because of the CCP. And the Chinese people suffer the most because of it. Remember in 1968 when the CCP encouraged the cultural revolution that lead to the death of millions of Chinese at the hands of the Red Guard? Or when the Red Guard literally cannibalized their fellow citizens as an ideological purity test? Same party is still in charge with similar goals, just a different leader.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre
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Don't like what etcd has become? Fork off an older version and help maintain it as a simpler product.

Open source is a market. If you stop building it, they might come too.
The 5 Conservative sites in Maine (a battleground state) are identical local business directories with no apparent news or editorial content. All have footer links to https://locallabs.com
The 1 liberal site was full of content, it looked like a well run site, albeit with an obvious "bend".

The Conservative sites could be placeholders, abandoned attempts, or the content could be hidden (I didn't dig that deep)
They don’t claim to have it. I’m just pointing out that the claim as written is true.
There's increasing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is spread through aerosolized transmission. This means that the longer people are in the same air space, the greater the risk of infection. Masks will help a little with this, but it changes the dynamics of social distancing in indoor spaces dramatically.
Nobody is ignoring the smoking history of people who make claims about quitting smoking.

But a lot of people are rejecting such claims on their surface if they come from someone who smoked, or knows a smoker, or was once rumored to have sat in the smoking section of a restaurant 20 years ago. (As if that should be tolerable by anyone other than someone who, in their heart of hearts, is a smoker even if they’ve never actually been seen with a lit cigarette before.)
I think it's good to clarify that rsync's algorithm requires an agent on the remote computer to compute those hashes without sending the file over the network.
Seconding his book Last Chance to See, it is a fantastic travel/nature book with all the usual Douglas Adams flare.
I’m also curious whether this is legal in the Netherlands. Certainly strange that it’s encouraging me to check on my neighbors to see what they’ve downloaded.
Yeah, but unplugging your servers does not count as "my provider is down".
maybe the cost of answering the phone and putting the effort to fix something that automation missed, case by case, outweights the risk of getting this kind of fine.

This is why punishment should be exemplar, read disproportionate, and the basic customer support should be enforced by law. Otherwise companies will just take the cheap way out and risk lawsuits.