skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to know how many of these exits were in engineering – those with the privilege to know another engineering job is immediately available somewhere else – versus other roles in the company.
Honest gut impression - they were probably dead weight anyway? Talking politics at work rather than, you know, getting work done.

I've certainly worked with a number of the type.
People are dissatisfied because of the vageuness around the start date for general public; not at the state of self driving.
By Waymo's own timeline; they were supposed to deliver this atleast 3 years back. This seems to be a much bigger problem than anybody anticipitated
Kind of crazy how all these articles come out about what it's like working at Stripe and how to apply. Everyone I've talked to who has applied has not received a response from their application.

Even in my most recent experience I wrote a cover letter, reached out to multiple Stripe recruiters. Most of them either ignored me, or said that they were not working on that role and said my status is still "pending".

I imagine that Stripe's recruiting team is overwhelmed but it was unfortunate that they weren't able to get back to me. I ended up accepting an engineering manager position over payments at another company.
If it's completely decentralized, that might be the case. However, as far as I understand it, one usually trades crypto on exchanges, so you're back to trusting one counterparty.

With regards to getting screwed, the history of exchanges getting "hacked" and all the crypto disappearing should speak for itself, and with regards to transparency, just look at Tether as an example of how you can avoid it.

Sure, it happens with banks, too. I still have no clue how Wirecard managed to do what they did, without getting caught, in face of credidble reports of malfeasance. But in general, it has become much, much harder to wrong others, or to be reckless. And that is because of the regulation everyone keeps decrying, as if somehow they were the subject of it.
Where did I claim unionising is extreme? I claimed that Kickstarter specifically unionised because of extremism, namely, the belief that it's essential to help fund those advocating violence against conservatives (or really, anyone who isn't Marxist). I also claimed that other SV tech firms that unionise will probably do so for similar reasons, rather than the classical (non extreme) reasons that affect everyone like wages or working conditions.
Because the vast majority of tech companies disagree with the law, and were probably expecting SCOTUS to overturn the case. When they realize that they're leaving money on the table, then we're going to see claims and counterclaims all over the place.
Spyderco Delica. Good steel that isn’t too hard to sharpen (VG10) and common enough that you don’t have to pay out the nose. Fiber reinforced nylon handle is strong and light.

Edit: without getting into the deep details of different steels, just keep in mind that many ‘higher end’ knives tend to be harder/more brittle than your every day Walmart special. This provides real advantages in edge sharpness and retention, but you don’t want to go using them as a pry bar as they are more likely to snap. Knives are for cutting, not prying.

Also, 20 min on YouTube to understand sharpening goes a long way.
Okay, to be pedantic, pseudo-polynomial time.
> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned.

I would suggest that this is not true.
I don't see the hypocrisy. Like I said, the company's been quite open about the fact that they will continue to engage in cryptocurrency-related politics.
https://stripe.com/es/marketplaces Is the most NFX'

Sigma is sold separately but built with everyones data too
'Kid influencers' classed as child labour under new French law
The policy seems pretty reasonable to me. Surprising that 60 people would quit because the company wants to make money instead of virtue signal.
Is It Essential to Be Nuts to Be an Entrepreneur?
Why is this being pitched (in all the press I have seen) as a "google vs Oracle" fight? This is a direct attack on software development by Oracle, who will also suffer if they prevail in the courts.
After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
At what point should my team kill BitBucket and get on the GitLab train?
Well, you were asking.
I don't doubt this is true. However, given that the author put his name on it, it's impossible that this blog post could be anything but glowingly positive (unless he wanted to complain on his way out).
Yeah, that was already taken decades ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Percent_Nation
Thank you, this truly warms my heart!

I have poured too many hours of my life into this little detail. It still doesn't work great though:

1. It is hard to click on on mobile devices

2. It sometimes renders behind the comment or is not clickable (not always, just sometimes). I am afraid this has something to do with the way browsers render the CSS sticky position, so I might not be able to fix this. I am not very experienced in CSS though, so if you've any advice on how to fix this I would truly appreciate it!

Because of the above two issues I might need to go back to just a fixed minus button. :(
Whatever happened to large-scale antibody testing? You'd think that someone would be testing a few thousand random people each week to see how many people have been infected to date. That sort of thing was being done in the US back in April.[1][2] But it seems to have stopped.

If you're going to talk about "herd immunity", you need that info to get anywhere.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...

[2] https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-testing-antibody-new-york-ny/...
Google should have bought Sun.
The point is life-quality is way less than Netherlands or Belgium.

Ofc when I throw party in my studio apartment, It becomes one of the most dense places in the world. But that does not result people fighting for beers, as long as there are enough beers in the fridge ;)

Essentially, there are a few beers in India's fridge. That results in a fistfight.
Meet vs. Zoom at 30k Feet
Members of my teams happened to be presenting at two entirely different events today, on back-to-back hours. One one Zoom, one on Meet. Both streamed from American Airlines' Go Go Inflight on an A319. The Meet worked. A few moments of dead air, but mostly streamed live audio and slides, complete with transcription. Zoom failed to connect over app and multiple browsers. At this point I've been trying Zoom for 15 minutes and will probably give up.
I've linked this before, but this video of hooking a 1930s teletype up to a Linux computer is what made ed click for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE

It's one of the best things on the Internet, IMO.
I might have missed some news, has Tesla already deployed completely empty cars on public roads?
Of course, it's impossible to know now, but I wonder how many people would've still left if there was no exit package. It's possible some decided they wanted to work somewhere else and saw a way out.
They are suborbital, while this is certainty an achievement its also far more limited in value and market. They have existed for a very, very long time. They have done the first test flights a long time ago now and have for years promised to be operational.

The problem is this, the amount of money they are spending is essentially impossible to make back with suborbital tourism, even if NASA helps them out with some extra flights.

The have a large team and they have burned threw 100s of millions to get to this point and there is still no clear schedule. The continue to make flashy media events showing of seats and designs and so on.

At the same time, their public stock price is incredibly high. To get it there, they seem to imply that they are gone develop hypersonic transport. Hypersonic transport is much, much, much harder then what they are doing so far, and they have struggled mightily for a long time to even get the engine to the point where it is now.
Your life may not be political.

My life may not be political.

But the life of a black trans woman? That's political by its very nature, in today's climate. One party doesn't want her to be allowed to exist, the other does.

Believing it's possible to be "apolitical" in any time of polarization is a privilege of those who benefit from the status quo.
It's not like all hinges on oral arguments. Lots of organizations informed the court in this case, about the issues at hand:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do...
> Man the lack of a 5700x is really making it hard for me to not justify getting a 3700x on sale

Sounds like a win-win for AMD. Either they sell to customers that demand the best absolute performance, or they sell to customers that demand the best value. Since they offer products to meet both demands, they don't really care which type of customer you are.

Zen 2 is still a fantastic processor, and it will certainly be more affordable than Zen 3 for the immediate future.
> This might not just be a disaster for Google - it could be a disaster for software everywhere.

Not in the EU where there is precedence with SAP/R3 saying APIs are not copyrightable.
> iirc they all link against something that has a BLAS/LAPACK API

Eigen can consume these I think, but they are optional. It has it’s own implementation of these, written in manually vectorized C++, with intrinsics, up to and including AVX512 (controlled with macros). For parallelization it uses OpenMP provided by the compiler (also controlled with a macro).

> Has that changed?

It’s hard to directly compare Eigen to the rest of them. They don’t do the same thing.

One feature of Eigen is lazy evaluation. Expressions like a+b or a×b don’t return another matrix or vector; they return a placeholder object that only computes something on assignment. For complicated expressions this can be a huge win, e.g. r=a+b+c+d will read from a,b,c,d, compute sum of the 4 on the fly, and write into r without temporary copies in memory.

However, also makes Eigen’s source code outright scary, and hard to debug or optimize.

Anyway, based on the old pics there http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark they are more or less comparable. Things like alpha·X+beta·Y were much faster in Eigen (probably due to that lazy evaluation thing), Hessenberg was much faster in MKL, in general they are close.
IBM used to be an engineering-first company. But people are expensive and engineers are some of the most expensive people there are. So when the bean counters took over IBM, they decided to get rid of their expensive people and replace them with cheap, fungible labor. Then IBM embarked on a series of experiments about how they could continue to make money with said cheap labor. This is the result.
I cannot fathom how your link could possibly support your contention that 0-4 and 5-17 are "definitely" a 99.99% survival rate (IFR of 0.01% or 1 fatality out of every 10,000 infections). I suspect you are misreading the table? Care to elaborate?
Remember that this is a press release, not independent journalism. This press release tries hard to position it as "people left because of the severance was really good" because that narrative is in Coinbase's interest. That may be true, but it's also possible most of 60 people quit through this program because they were upset about it.

In an ideal world a reporter could answer your question by talking to many of the people who quit and ask what motivated their decision, but the severance package almost certainly came with an NDA that would make doing so impossible.

So we'll likely never know. Probably one should assume that the answer doesn't look great for Coinbase's narrative; if they thought it would, they might have done a survey and published data from it.
The following companies buy 0-days. Each has a slightly different business model:

Zerodium - http://zerodium.com/
Azimuth Security - https://www.azimuthsecurity.com/
NSO Group - https://www.nsogroup.com/
ZDI - https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/
SSD - https://ssd-disclosure.com/
IBM is going to fade away.

They're divesting lower performing (but not money losing) ventures in order to not hide the performance of their higher performing pieces. This is so they can show the unsustainable growth that stock holders (still) demand from corporations.

They'll look great on paper for a while as you say, at least until their cloud business fails for some reason. When you average growth over a whole company, you do mask high performing parts with low performing ones... the same is true of cash flow and revenue.

If you get rid of parts of your company that are solid performers but aren't doing as well now, then you're getting rid of some of your safety net in the hope you won't need it.

IBM's most impactful business (in terms of wide use) is probably their research labs. Many, many chips today use SOI and copper interconnect technologies. That sort of research doesn't apply much to the cloud, but maybe they're hoping their AI stuff will.
"pick your peer group wisely because you’re giving them write access to both your conscious thoughts and your entire worldview." is something I have found to be difficult but required. Very nice friends of mine have simplistic views on issues I am interested in or lack the ambition I would like to have. We still close but we chat about personal problems, not work.
Yes, I'm old enough to have done editing on printing terminals, when I was in college; I liked TECO much better than ed in those days, though. You could chain a bunch of commands together to minimize the amount of paper you used up, but it took practice and a good memory.
>Is there a legal or internal Google policy basis for the distinction that you're setting up?

I understand OP to be distinguishing between "overbroad" and "not overbroad" warrants. The legal basis for that distinction is the particularity requirement in the 4th Amendment[0]. Overbreadth is a common point of contention that gets warrants denied/challenged when they probably cover a lot more targets than just the suspected party, for example, in this high-profile geofence search case[1].

An example, if you can prove "the perp lives in this apartment," it's okay to search it. If you can only prove "the perp lives in this apartment building", you can't get a warrant to search the whole building, because you'll definitely wind up searching a bunch of innocent people.

The different search query you're referencing was for a specific name during a 38-day period[2]. A man of that name had been defrauded by a person using a fake passport with an image that appeared in Google's image search results for that name (but not Bing or Yahoo's, meaning it was likely obtained from Google). That, like the address, should yield a smallish number of total searcher (depending on the name/address).

OP seems to believe that warranted, specific searches aren't as unchecked as "giving data to police based on search keywords" seems to suggest. I'd tend to agree. Given the evidence presented, you could write a similar article saying "Bank of America is giving banking information to police based on Walmart purchases, court docs show".

[0] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-04/09-parti...
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/new-federal-court-ruli...
[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3519211-Edina-Police...
The answer probably depends on where you define the "birth" of IBM - the founding of the companies that merged to create IBM, the date of the merger, or the date they changed the name and/or began producing business machines with the name "IBM" on them.

In the context of the thread, it's reasonable to say that both at 22 and 45 IBM had strong leadership (Watson Sr.) that successfully managed a diverse group of subsidiaries. Although in neither case are there any products like a modern digital computer involved.
This is kind of a hijack, but it's at least related: Are there any websites/apps that can approximate a solution for road destinations in the real world?

For example, given a list of cities, an approximate solution on actual roads to visit all of them once?
I think issue is not the number of cameras so much as that number will increase but the Chinese system that uses AI to track people.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/china-cctv-bbc-reporter/

Issue in Belgrade is that the current government is quite corrupted and World media are covering very little about demonstrations regarding recent rigged elections. Basically, current government is in this way looking a way to suppress opposition even further.
If I would compare it is very similar situation like in Belarus, and this is high tech upgrade to give dictatorship additional power.
Yes, I am aware of the issue (see my recent comment on one of the parent comments).

I am afraid that it is an issue with the way some browsers render the CSS sticky position. If you have any CSS knowledge, I would greatly appreciate your input!

For my information, which browser do you use?
You can also just run Pi-Hole directly on something like Fly.io, and DoH to it from your local machine. :P
> That narrative is already in your head because it’s the prevailing belief system.

My point is it's not a belief system, it's history. Those things I mentioned really happened and continue to happen, eh? E.g. the Aral Sea really did vanish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

Most of your examples serve my point better than yours, it seems to me:

> fixed the ozone layer

We literally poisoned the sky.

> Whaling is banned

After we nearly hunted them to extinction.

> black fish

We imprisoned and tortured some whales for entertainment. We do that less now.

> Acid rain

We poisoned the sky another way.

> coal

We poisoned the sky a third way. We do that less now.

> A large portion of new power capacity is renewable.

Yes, but a generation or two too late to prevent global warming due to a couple of additional ways we poisoned the sky.

> national park system and NWR

Okay, I'll give you that one. We're not actually orcs, we just act like it when we're not paying attention.

(In re: space, I'm pro-spaceflight, so I won't mention how much poison each rocket launch dumps into the sky.)

- - - -

If you want to point to an example of humans improving an area we could talk about the Loess Plateau which was destroyed and then revived:

> The plateau was highly fertile and easy to farm in ancient times, which contributed to the development of early Chinese civilization around the Loess Plateau, but centuries of overgrazing, subsistence farming, deforestation for fuel wood gathering and cultivation of crops on slopes, exacerbated by China's population increase, have resulted in degenerated ecosystems, desertification, and poor local economies.

> To reverse this trend, the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project was launched in 1994 to rehabilitate the land and improve the people's livelihoods. The project guided the people living on the plateau to change animal husbandry practices; encouraged natural regeneration of grasslands, tree and shrub cover on slope-lands previously used for farming; and land restoration through terracing and replanting. These efforts allowed the perennial vegetation cover to increase from 17 to 34 percent, and "[e]ven in the lifetime of the project, the ecological balance was restored in a vast area considered by many to be beyond help"; in addition, more than 2.5 million people were lifted out of poverty by doubled incomes.

> Restoration has occurred over an area of about 35,000 square kilometers (about 5% of the plateau's total area).

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau#Agriculture_and_...

> it’s amazing that almost every household does it in an effort to help.

I agree, FWIW, my personal narrative is that humans are nature-accelerators and not intrinsically evil (no "original sin" in other words), we just haven't been paying attention.
Very well put. The same management philosophy happened to Boeing, and I think more quietly to many companies thought too big to fail in the last 50 years.
The stance "I am now and forever apolitical regardless of the state of the world or how political decisions affect me or others" is true no politics.

The stance "I am avoiding politics because there's nothing worth my time to be an activist about but I would if that changed and political decisions started seriously affecting me, my family, or my friends" is "the status quo is fine."

The stance "I'm avoiding politics because it's bad for my metal health or $any_criticism" is an act of protest! Super political.

I have genuinely never met someone in the first camp.
That's a lot of discussion and analysis to add to a weekend project especially in today's media environment where stuff like QAnon sprouts new memes and conspiracies every day.

In this specific case Trump is grousing about non whitewashed version of American history that include education about slavery in the US, treatment of Indian/Indigenous tribes, etc etc. and generally anything that questions America/Capitalism/Traditional Gender Roles/etc. In short close to anything vaguely progressive happening in schools counts as "radical indoctrination" for some fragments of the right side of American politics.
Companies aren't generally supposed to be political. Is the story here that Coinbase is offering a severance for employees that feel the company should be doing more? Seems like an incentivized quit.
These days, long shore workers are pretty much under the umbrella of stevedores. Another synonym? Docker.
I don't know where you're getting your numbers or where your users are, but Android doesn't have a 90% market share either by users or revenue. At least in the US, iOS represents a majority of both.
You sound like you might run a lot of Shadowrun games. I've run tabletop Shadowrun games, and I've never had a weirder search history than when those games are going.

"Hm the players are going into the bank and need to stop some bad guys, I need a map quick"

Google -> "<my bank> blueprint"

"Crap they want me to describe the gun the guy has but the book has no picture"

Google -> "<gun name>"

etc. etc.
I wonder how many agents they pissed by blocking their access through exposing the holes...
I feel like this is the start of a rising tide. I think Brian's stance is great, companies have missions, they should focus on those missions. Everything has become so political that your work, which occupies a large portion of your life, should not be divisive.
I am a lifelong EFF fan and supporter, but... well, if everyone (ad / tracker people) is using this code and set of techniques I'm better off not pointing out how wrong it is. :)

It's almost like how Airwolf used to toss out chaff left and right to escape the bad guys, I have Earnest Borgnine in the back going "Why can't we hover like regular helicopter people?" as Firefox tosses out fake font results to Javascript sniffers.
They actually design tech that goes in other companies' chips.
I highly doubt they walked in the door, spent 8 hours talking politics and collected their paychecks every month.
This is very interesting. The CEO said in his initial letter that Coinbase should only engage in politics that are relevant to their "core mission", but it's kind of interesting to reduce a candidate to "What can this candidate or party do specifically for our business?" and ignore other policies that a candidate or party may seek to enact.

Pretending that you're unaware of or completely ambivalent about the consequences of shifts in political power (so long as it benefits you financially) doesn't really qualify you as "apolitical." You're still involved in the political process even if you stick your fingers in your ears and chant "nananana I can't hear you."

I hate to sound incisive, but it kind of seems like the position that Coinbase's leadership has taken is "The board and CEO will decide what qualifies as 'apolitical' and as such will dictate the ongoing political activity of the company, which they have no desire to stop being involved in."