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Even reading just your own, clearly biased, summary, it sounds like you are describing "worker solidarity".

People just shrug when "leadership" at a company fires people randomly, places bad managers on good teams, demands unwarranted apologies from workers and makes everyone obey arbitrary demands.

But when a group of employees try to take any of these powers into their own hands they are immediately written off as toxic.

Tech workers have been fooled into thinking that they are a respected and privileged type of labor. Anyone who has been in the industry long enough has already seen this degrade over the years. A decade ago engineers made much more decisions at companies, had some say in the quality of code and technical direction companies were in. Software devs are still paid well but are increasingly told to keep their heads down and focus on code, and zero consideration will be given to any technical concerns if they remotely impact some PMs quarterly goals.

As boot camps ship out more and more "good enough" engineers, and a "just ship it" mentality dominants, quality technical skills become less and less of an advantage.

Technical workers squandered their advantage by thinking that some how they really were better than everyone else, and that they would forever enjoy easy employment, high salaries, respect at work and comfortable working condition. In a few years I think most technical workers will see that in the long run Amazon's engineers and Amazon's warehouse employees become more and more a like.

Sadly, comments like this show most engineers will still rabidly support management rather than risk rocking the boat, deluded into believing it will extend their privilege in the marketplace just a bit longer.
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The hair is a thing in itself in some cultures.
It honestly baffles me. I also expect had I - or any of the people I know - made similar threats, we would be fired on very short notice. The fact that Google just let this past threat slide seems highly unusual to me.
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> Software differs from material objects—such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline—in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These facilities are why software is useful; we believe a program's users should be free to take advantage of them, not solely its developer.

Users take advantage of free software mainly in the few domains where copyright and patent law don't get in the way of free software. Free software is largely irrelevant in the greater number of domains where copyright and patent law prevent the user from doing anything of value with it.

E.g., let's go back in time and use free software to build a world encyclopedia. Yay, we made a quintessential use case! And in record time!

E.g., let's go back in time and use Lilypond to publish beautiful, diffable text-based TABs, melodies, and lyrics for everyone's favorite songs in the world. Boo, I must have set the time machine too far back and got eaten by a T-rex. Sorry, users.

In this way a lot of the most useful Gnu software remains "shadow banned." It gets used for niche projects, and a dev can certainly conceive how, say, some domain would be improved if they just adopted free software so-and-so. But the uses that would attract and benefit massive numbers of users are off the table. And neither Gnu nor FSF has the power or competency to make the changes to copyright/patent law in order to enable those uses.
> I wonder why this incident ever got any publicity outside Finland.

CAUSE NUKELEEAR IS BAAADD!! <- some uneducated reactionary, probably.
Sorry :p Something messed up.
"I’m sick of this framing. Tired of it. Many people have tried to explain, many scholars. Listen to us. You can’t just reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias"

That's not being professionally assertive.
Right, but how do I find that tight-knit community (and begin to trust the people in it) if none of the people I currently associate with are interested in that niche & can introduce me to it?
Still no. And in case of those people, I dont even get to observe how others treat them, so the other effect from parent comment does not apply either.
Why? Maybe this is my Australian worldview, but if my company is doing unethical things, here is my progression:

1. Speak up internally.

2. Speak up externally.

3. Speak to the media.

Do you think the Uber sexual harassment whistleblower should have kept quiet?
Yes, I considered that, and I agree that it's an industry that does cause psychological harm to make a buck. But that still seems a little different than causing respiratory illness - maybe not that different, really...
What does the network look like for P2P streaming?

Host -> Server -> Peer1 (relays to) -> Peer2 (relays to) -> Peer3 [...] -> Peer10 ?
> “There’s a bunch of gaps in how we’re currently observing Earth from space [...]”

It's weird to hear places that were expected to be private to be called 'gaps' like they should be visible but weren't until we had the technology to fix that.

> Capella launched a platform allowing governmental or private customers to request images of anything in the world

'or private customers' adds to the looming creepiness of our future.
> When she sings with Duke Ellington’s band in Belle of the Nineties

That performance is chilling. No one can say she didn’t understand the blues.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS5aPlgWa8

It feels obvious to me that she and Groucho Marx, then Bob Hope a little later, had styles that presaged the much more naturalistic acting traditions that are thought to have begun with Marlon Brando and James Dean.

Don’t know of any dramatic actors who figured it out that early.
Spend any time in Berkeley and one will quickly come to the realization that Karens aren't the exclusive domain of the right.
I blame academia. Seems like most of these people spend years on degrees in critical theory, the whole time being coddled and told they are victims and never confronted or forced to argue with logic. Then when they leave the bubble of academia and get into the real world they expect the same treatment and the only thing they know how to do is play the victim card.
The first time I saw this trick, it was on a DEC PDP-8 in the late 1970's. There were a number of songs available.
Unless the likelihood of getting caught is less than 50% in which case this was still the smart financial move for the company based on expected value. The way to get people to pay attention is to hold people involved in corporate misdeeds personally liable.
> As the SEC’s order finds, one of Robinhood’s selling points to customers was that trading was “commission free,” but due in large part to its unusually high payment for order flow rates, Robinhood customers’ orders were executed at prices that were inferior to other brokers’ prices. Despite this, according to the SEC’s order, Robinhood falsely claimed in a website FAQ between October 2018 and June 2019 that its execution quality matched or beat that of its competitors.

Reading through the comments had me confused, but it really boils down to a misleading FAQ page. All of which is pretty damn funny because of how innocuous I view FAQ pages to be.
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Love this take! Every PR person I've met comes off as low-empathy and/or bullying. There's something to be said about how they target the normal human experience (feelings, desires, wants, needs) in a crass sociopathic way in the service of capitalism.
> I have a very different view: programming language design is applied psychology, not mathematics.

It's both, and probably more.

As you note, programming languages are the ultimate human-computer interface. They have to serve two masters - the computer's unforgiving hardware, and the inevitably fallible humans attempting to harness the computer's power. Each master requires different types of proof/evidence of the language's suitability to the task.
So what, someone being born in Europe does not automatically make them white. It just seems fishy to me. When she’s getting this amount of privilege from “being black”, saying that she identifies as black when she is clearly not black should not be enough.
In my opinion, we need programming experience (PX) research. While programming languages don't have to be purely textual, they primarily are, and this is a big constraint on typical programming language design. I don't know if it's been quantified, but there is certainly a qualitative ceiling to what's possible with typical text-based syntax. That's why most languages are just permutations of what exists, and there's always limits.

We have such rich ways to express information and interactivity, and these are nearly completely ignored by the PL community. I see hybrid programming languages and environments, that are part visual and part textual, as the future in the same way that languages like Fortran and Lisp and then text editors and text-based IDEs were once the future.
Exactly. The OP correctly argued that libre practically implies free-as-in-beer, but I think the point of the distinction is to argue that free-as-in-beer doesn't imply libre. So it's a useful distinction.
Yep I live in Skåne and so far people are still happy to get too close to you, don't wear masks in public especially when shopping etc.

My workplace only went full wfh fairly recently with the latest recommendations and still 2 weeks ago people were organising face to face meetings...
This is how we end up with software archaeology as a profession. :D
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Funny how commenters here complain about Google's ethics on a daily basis, but as soon as people who don't look like the typical tech geek raise issues with the company, everyone jumps on Google's train.
The keyboard part is always somewhat surprising to me. There are layouts, some designed for specific languages, others to cover as many languages as possible, that enable entering all of the diacritics and custom characters one might need. Now obviously those never managed to gather steam, but I have to wonder why. Do people just not feel strongly enough about it?
> 2) academics profit from copyrights.

Academic work usually doesn't have a long shelf-life. Textbooks already get replaced every few years. So there's little incentive against advocating for shorter copyright terms that would allow most academics free access to older research materials without impacting their own income.
> there are obvious power dynamics when large market actors can get people to waive their right to sue.

When this was all going down, RobinHood was a plucky startup being praised all around the valley, not a 'large market actor'.

> There's a reason they're called "inalienable." They're not supposed to be self-alienable either.

Not sure which founding father suggested the inalienable right to tort, but apparently he was overruled since it didn't make it's way into any founding documents.
Because this is a political act rather than one based on principal.
Again, if that were the case, there wouldn't be "tensions in google's ethical AI group."

They're clearly unhappy, and so are many google employees. This clearly isn't just one person, this clearly is bigger than that.

> You'd be hard-pressed to find an ethical issue with how Edward Snowden handled the revelation of mass illegal spying on the American people.

What ethical issue is there with the revelation of problems in the ethical AI division of google? You just "don't like how they act." I've heard many people say the same of individuals on street corners...not a great look.
And the labor of others is paid for by the taxes you pay.
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> first try to change how Google behaves

By, say, attempting to publish papers and have internal discussions about it?
But that has nothing to do with it being a circular definition.
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The astronomy problems presented by StarLink are really overblown. It is of especially little relevance to the average person gazing up at the sky, who generally finds the parade of satellites pretty cool.
or a whole bunch of small corner cube reflectors (such as you would see attached to a sailboat mast for intentional greater radar visibility) in a grid like array.

https://www.westmarine.com/WestAdvisor/Selecting-a-Radar-Ref...
It's disappointing that Github doesn't have repository mirroring, like many competitors do. I suppose that would encourage people to leave their walled garden but still take advantage of their features.
There is a huge difference between skillfully navigating the internal politics and procedures of a company vs issuing demands based on flimsy evidence/feelings and threatening to take your toys and go home if you don’t get your way (and then throwing a social media tantrum when they call your bluff and accept your resignation).
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OK, but pretending that the world hasn't moved on from these niche publishers seems naive to me.

Perhaps I should have said "in the modern world, word of mouth doesn't work..."

Today, chances are those niche publications & communities are going to be online. And how do we determine the trustworthy ones from the ones that are just trying to exploit us? I guess we need to rely on word of mouth to determine which mouths we should listen to words from...
this is a fine. SEC takes it because it has to. SEC is a regulator and fines are a way to regulate.
This entire thread is just “are my opinions unethical? No, no it must be the entire team of professional ethicists who are wrong.”
Only without the even momentary modicum of self-reflection that implies.
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The government works for me. I work for my employer. Do you see the difference?

Imagine hiring a plumber at twice the market rate, and instead of fixing your toilet, they start cashing your checks while making demands and telling the world on twitter that you’re abusive and racist. Who would tolerate such nonsense? Nobody.

This isn’t about criticizing an employer anyway. She could have discussed her concerns with them in a civil way. But that was not her goal. She is a narcissist, and there’s no winning with those people. They need an enemy in order to prop themselves up as righteous, and anyone will do. Working in good faith is a fool’s errand.
This is a very tame reading of the mistake. Telling customers that their stock orders would be executed at prices matching other firms, when in fact Robinhood was executing those orders at inferior prices -- that's a big misrepresentation. You're paying extra for something while being told that you're not.
France is already over regulated. The yellow vests went to the streets to protest against reforms taxing fuel to somehow offset for climate change, then grew into an anti establishment movement.

Yes, it's true, we'd rather have a big government that runs the show than big corps (from overseas).

In fact Facebook threatened to leave the EU over a ban of sharing data with the US. I shall toast to the EU if this ever happens.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/889pk3/facebook-threatens-to...
> that companies like Google only exist in America in no small part due to that fact

That's a non-sequitur. There are many things that make America, and every other country, unique. Maybe America produced Google because it's the only country with that population size that's made up virtually entirely of immigrants?

It's also an is-ought fallacy. America is also the only rich country that's built that much of its wealth on slave labour, so does that mean slave labour is a good thing?

> let their ridiculously permissive (and coddling) employer pad their bank account

As a reminder, just in case the principles of capitalism, quite ironically, elude you, the company hires employees it expects will pad its own bank account more than it pads theirs.

> Not once they realize how everyone else lives.

It is certainly true that the conditions of most Google employees are much better than those of the rest of the world, but they are so because the company's employees created that wealth.
Seconded! I would love to hear about the Stripe interview process from someone who came up just short but had a good experience - I've not seen many accounts like that for any company.
This is the same bike I had. The drive belt eventually frayed/snapped. Sunny customer support was terrible and I got way more help trying to fix it on a Sunny owners Facebook group.
Static linking is static linking. Whether it's C, Go, or Docker, in the end, the problem is the same: once vulnerable, that very binary/image is always vulnerable-
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Sure, but California has similar levels of sales tax to Washington and the highest state income taxes in addition.
There's an element of charm to reading a book about talking about books you haven't read.
It's fascinating how nobody can say how this paper was such an ethical stab in the heart for Google, it's all about process.

The paper's out there! You can read it!
The timeframe in which there was such a thing as an "Ops engineer" is so brief it could be considered a fad, owing to the complexity of the solutions to deploy software that arose then.

> Why should developers always be concerned with the platform details?

Every platform has constraints. Do you have effectively unlimited memory, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, zero latency and infinitely scalable CPU available for the process(es) you are responsible for? Can you be sure that given system call is available and behaves exactly the same everywhere?

Of course not. If you were to act as if these things were true at all times, you would create something with sub-par performance and reliability, eventually driving up the cost of deployments to impossible levels.
Those always confuse me even more. Is OP the top level comment or the post we’re commenting on? Different people seem to use it differently, which isn’t super useful for communicating. And is GP the comment two above yours or two above mine?
I disagree with you. I think learning openings will help you just as much as tactics even at a level way below 1700. I posted about this on my site [1] but the tl:dr is that opening principles are not always enough to get to a good position and learning openings the right way will help you develop at later stages.

[1] https://listudy.org/en/blog/when-to-learn-chess-openings
> The order finds that Robinhood provided inferior trade prices that in aggregate deprived customers of $34.1 million even after taking into account the savings from not paying a commission.

Sooooooo the fine is nearly 2x the cost to consumers due to malfeasance. That should cover your concern here.
If you could convince credit card companies to waive their fees for small businesses and make it back by charging more to big businesses, that could be a pretty big win.
Not at all. That's like saying that "a boxer is someone who does boxing" is circular. It's only circular if you define boxing as "that which is done by a boxer", instead of "striking an opponent with such-and-such ruleset, this equipment, etc. in an event sanctioned by such-and-such organization."
Excel formulas are the most widely used programming language
Has Apple announced when apps must be ready for this IDFA update?
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Quick question: Can you split any key, like the password to my LUKS or password manager? Is there any limitation for the content of the file to be split?
My mum loves children and has raised me and my brother well and has been a part of the lives of countless children.

You know what she has never done that I can remember? Belittled them, talked down to them or not considered that they were _humans_ with their own goals and values. I can't say that she never lied to us (Santa Claus etc) and of course sometimes she would force us to got to bed or do homework or whatever, but it seems obvious that she genuinely cared at all times and she was happy when you were able to do something new or achieved something.

The vibe I have seen from those in power and their supporters have been one of arrogance and utter contempt bordering on hatred for the masses that won't blindly obey them. They have no interest in protecting the population, they are just there for the power.

I think Fauci did care, a few others probably did too, but the general tone on twitter, reddit and the media was one of contempt.

I vaguely follow a (real) conservative on twitter, and she was also pretty arrogant but obviously from the other side, so this is a bipartisan issue, I think.
I wonder if there are studies linking this disease to occupations which routinely disturb ones circadian rhythm like air travel.
If it was consensual I wouldn't have an issue with it. The fact that I'm not being given a choice means I'll just avoid taking the test. Consent matters.
And the new group will happily sign off on any future Google actions as completely ethical.
> be a journalist in order to write your first articles

Says who? Writing an article is what makes you a journalist. You don't need to be a journalist to write.

This whole "the definition is circular" argument is bizarre, it's like something from Zeno trying to prove that movement is impossible because first you have to move. "So how can you be a mover in order to make your first movements if you're not allowed to be a mover until you've made your first movements?"
Does French not have problems with different words that if the accents are removed get written the same way, but have incompatible meanings?

Portuguese is full of those, and it's a major source of resistance on changing the language in Brazil. (Although Brazilian resistance may look like plain acceptance from French standards.)
So do you honestly believe that if Gebru were to interview at another company and they performed a background check asking why her last position was terminated if she put "voluntary" it would come back with no problems?

Do you likewise honestly think that if she applied for unemployment services in the US should we be denied because of willful termination from her last job?

Everyone I know who has been fired, when it's reported to the company, the phrasing is always "Person X and the company have come to a mutual agreement", but in my experience it's never really mutual.

I've known many coworkers that threaten to quit over issues, but it still depends on them making that choice formally. Otherwise they are fired.
Sure, and maybe they misjudged their power and overplayed their hand, but why is it that the law is the only guidance for management while employees are held up to a higher standard? If management can do anything as long as it's legal, so can the workers.
Are you planning to release it as a Cypress plugin?
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This makes no sense to me. If you don't believe in the raison d'être of a company, you should not join the company. There is no need to delve deeply into competing theories of the corporation. I'm willing to bet that even over in Europe, Ruger, Sig, Glock, Walther, and Beretta don't have a ton of gadflies on staff who are paid to write papers calling for the outlaw of handguns.
May be an unpopular opinion, but K&R 2nd edition is still the best beginner's tutorial for a fast start into the C for me. As the knowledge starts to build, better learning material and experience will also be consumed.

If I had read this lightning fast guide, I would be a bit lost. After displaying "Hello, world" on the terminal, do I really want to learn how to display "Hello, World" in a GTK window?
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You never hear the anti-smoking crowd complain about that.
I taught myself C using K&R when I was a teenager... back in 1991. The second edition was only a couple of years old.