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> you're not making a great case for why people don't need to know what a sigma algebra is

I can assure you most people that do stats / data mining / big data / machine learning do not know or do not remember any more what a sigma algebra is.

> wouldn't it be swell if this is how we practiced medicine too? patient has early stages of atherosclerosis just do a triple-bypass or something, it just works.

C'mon writing websites is not surgery. There are some people with deep knowledge required in the industry as a whole, but you really don't know to know much to write an app or a website, especially an internal corporate tool. And this is where most working hours are spent.

It's the reality of things. I mean just look at the OP link. Do you think this is targeted at people that already know what a sigma algebra is?
I've always been surprised that no major airline has vertically integrated into owning their own plane manufacturer (e.g. United to acquire Boom as a company).

Is there a regulatory reason preventing this?
>>you also have to start being realistic about what value having a really high-performing team of 10 or 20 people somewhere deep down in your org chart really gets you: not that much.

Seriously questionable conclusion. It is exactly those types of teams that will create the next generation of outside-the-box product/service that will lead the next generation of profit for the company. E.g., it wouldn't surprise me if Amazon's data management team was such, and now AWS basically is the golden goose while their core biz is marginally profitable and has many problems (counterfeiting, stuffing, fraud-rife review system...).

That said, the value of such teams is often squandered by higher management that too often sees the new product line as cannibalizing their existing cash cow products. Fixing that problem is more key than fixing the problem of deadweight, or at least as important.

I'm no Apple-head but my impression was that Jobs' leadership focused not at all on deadweight, but on being the first to cannibalize their own products with new innovations.
This is incredibly ignorant of the history of the region. It’s also patently untrue. The amount of misinformation that westerners propagate about Israel and “Palestine”, which has never been a country, constantly amazes me.
These are rules that you've invented, not every "cancellation" results in a firing even for people posting actually racist stuff. Indeed, there are plenty of people with racist posts who are routinely not fired by these companies.

The contradiction is pretty clear - the guy is decrying these tactics, but still saying this person should be fired using exactly those same tactics.
ok, so s/Jew/Zionist in the post and it's all ok? The thrust of the essay seems to be condemning violence in the name of an identity, whether that's a religious, racial or national identity, and it seems to me Zionists don't make a distinction between Jew and Israeli.
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I don't think that's really such a huge loophole. Pension aside, it's a 2% difference in total tax burden that's probably going to be swallowed up by other company related admin expenses anyway.

I'm self employed and get the bulk of my income through dividends. As with the example above, I often end up paying roughly the same amount of tax as someone with the equivalent salary would.

The big advantage for me is that I can have a very good year and a very bad year and pay an appropriate (smoothed out) level of income tax across both - which seems fair to me.
> which has since been removed

Literally within the past day, along with the rest of his entire blog. This post was still online yesterday!

I also don't see any form of public acknowledgement or apology anywhere on his site or twitter. Perhaps he made one but I just can't find it. I'm not sure how people are affirmatively concluding that his views have changed so substantially since this post.

> Taken out of context

The full post speaks for itself. Nothing is taken out of context here; he's directly making offensive statements about all Jewish people based on stereotypes and actions of the Israeli government, which literally has no relation to the majority of Jewish people in the world.
Is their tech any better than what the concorde had 50 years ago?
No way. Commercial air travel is ready for a 10 year slowdown.

The main profit center for commercial air travel was businessmen going places, not too concerned how much flights would cost.

Now business meetings happen by video conference. Flying round the world for a 3 hour meeting will never be big again.
They've been trying for a while. Ultimately, taxation is a national prerogative, and requires unanimity in Council, so it's unlikely to change any time soon.
For the curious: I've written a basic space colonisation algorithm to simulate leaf venation patterns in a browser here: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1211361

(note: I wrote this many years ago and it's horribly inefficient, I don't even dare to look at the code anymore, but it's on that same page)
Honest question here - how do you criticize Judaism the religion without being called a bigot? Christians and Muslims are fair game for discourse. Is the Jewish religion and its followers not fair to criticize? They have many of the same arcane and backwards beliefs as other Abrahamic religions.
Since it include both political and ideological fights in the guidelines it doesn't really matter. It definitely fits this thread. Added ideological to OP.
That's not substack. It's the entire news based media.

Journalism is probably at its lowest ever point.
> a good deal of people involved with the factory process and its engineering are having a hard time stomaching it.

Yet we continue to make the sausage.

Whenever privacy stuff comes up on HN, the comments go really weird: "Privacy is good, companies should stop spying on users. Targeted ads are intrusive and collect too much data." - said by people whose next JIRA ticket at work is to add another ad tracker to their own product! Point this out, and suddenly it's "Well, a job's a job.. We have no power over what we work on, and just do what management says." - Right next to the other HN article talking about how software engineers have a great deal of market power, company choice, and mobility due to the shortage of engineers. It's just contradiction after contradiction.
What do you think "Jewish" means then? You think being "Jewish" is an equivalent adjective to being "French"?
Where does Rust use libcurl in the standard library? I didn't think it did, but it's very possible I'm wrong.
Things need to be maintained. Public HDB housing from the 1970s in Singapore is as good if not better than the new builds going up here in Germany. Destitution is not a moving goal post. You need adequate food, water, housing, healthcare, education and security. This is what UBI has to cover. If private housing is soaking it all up through rent seeking then it can be solved via rent controlled public or public/private (like Singapore’s hdb) housing schemes. You want more then you have to work for it.
The solution is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27242611
My teacher friends (younger age groups than yours) said essentially the same thing. Some fraction of students simply disappeared during remote learning and no amount of phone calls to their parents could get them back. On the other end of the spectrum, some students had stay at home parents with them for the entire duration and were doing just fine. Students in the middle were okay but would have done better in person.

It seems the challenge now is that the most prepared students have gotten further ahead while the least prepared students fell further behind. Managing the increased divergence in coming years will be a challenge.
> I would be unable to identify this as satire.

That's more a statement about your reading comprehension skills than about the flyer.
If I understand what you're saying, you're setting aside the context that [the state of Israel exists and has a controversial military doctrine], and reading the Google guy's post as specifically targeted at people who share the Jewish faith?
He also wrote a blog post in which he confesses being homophobic: https://web.archive.org/web/20210603012214/https://www.kamau...

I was confused about why Google said "LGBTQ+ community" in addition to Jewish community, and I think that's it.
I have known devote Jewish Americans who are extremely critical of Israeli politics. I would be hard pressed to call them antisemitic.
Such strong arguments, such as “I guess,” and my personal favorite, “as a matter of probability.”

Just fanning the flames, let’s work together to find a solution instead of gaslighting.
So there used to be basically 2 classes of furniture in IKEA. The first is the cheap, university student priced stuff that would break after a year or 2. However this was OK because it was not expected to last ages. Then they had their "higher" class stuff that was made of real wood etc that would last 10+ years easily. What I feel has happened in the last 10 years is that the "higher" class stuff has lost quality and is now made of the same crappy material as the cheap stuff.
Anything in the outdoors. Rock climbing. Either you learn these knots or you will die. Either you learn how to navigate, find the trail to the cabin, or you are going to spend the night in the rain. Either you remember to bring your gloves ore you are going to loose fingers. Either you learn to read and understand avalanche warnings or ... everything in the outdoors comes with a risk that focuses the mind.
This is indeed what I meant. Of course it's encrypted by default, but unless you verify the keys, you're trusting the server to be honest which is not the point of end-to-end encryption.

Because you can verify keys, the chance of them getting caught inserting interception keys is pretty decent (if a small % of users does the verification), so they're quite likely to remain honest and anyone who might hack a Signal server would also think twice where the gain is worth triggering this indicator of compromise.
It reminds me of The Incredibles where the boy wasn't allowed to compete because he's so much faster than everyone and has to hide his ability. At the end when he is allowed to compete, he is told to only barely win; to downplay his capabilities.
Are you confusing sonic booms with regular loud aircraft? Sonic booms over land are illegal in most countries. The US military only ever does supersonic exercises far offshore.
I assume also for thread collapsing. For some reason, it is pretty slow on large threads.
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> will scale to practically anything

Mmmm it's not quite that simple. Erlang requires thought and effort to scale, same as anything.
Can’t you do coast-to-coast? I thought the requirement is no sonic boom over land, but you can fly out over the ocean and then turn around at Mach N. Eg SF<>NYC would be an obvious route that is worth adding some miles at the start, if you can go 3-4x quicker.
This is off topic. And getting away from root article.

However Before Israel there was the British mandate. Before that Ottoman Empire.

The Palestinians in Gaza never controlled the land.
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The founder is dead. IKEA is returning to the mean.

Steve Jobs is dead. Apple is returning to the mean.

Bezos is out. Amazon is returning to the mean.

Google founders are out at Google. Google is returning to the mean.
No Damore sent supposedly confidential feedback when solicited to do so by diversity trainers. That content so enraged the diversity staff they leaked it to the rest of the company. Perhaps Damore was naive in thinking the feedback about diversity training was welcome or confidential, but he definately did not send a company-wide email to anyone.
It's amazing how some people have gone through the past year and are still completely oblivious to what just happened to the world.
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Different times. Communications and financing are a different beast today. One can reach out to folks they'd never have interacted with in the old days (Twitter, for example). Someone with experience could put together 7 digit financing in a few days, 8 digit financing in weeks, maybe more.
No one is forgetting the Holocaust or historic pogroms on Jews in Europe when they criticize Israeli military actions or forced displacement.
Israel offered its vaccines to the Palestinian Authority, and the PA refused them.
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If they take too long they might have to compete with suborbital rocket flights.
Nothing to do with Israel's recent creation, many states have been created recently without them being targeted by neighbours for mass destruction and genocide.

What makes it strange is sense of normalcy people (sorry, I mean racists) have about a sense of white / Islamic supremacy over Jews, that makes them think it's ok to say things like 'we will wipe every Jew off the face of the planet' etc.
Even better, support the ACLU. They will fight for people even if they are not privileged enough to be in higher education.
I acknowledge the darkness of history and a desire for security in territory owned by the group you identify with. However, Israel is now repeating history by displacing present-day non-Jewish people who also have familial bonds to the territory.
I am outraged, but on the other side for me the whole diversity industry is parasitic with undertones of blackmail. And I am generally speaking fan of poetic justice.

Which puts the whole situation as the old joke said "what is mixed feeling - seeing your mother in law drive off the cliff in your new Ferrari"

Another thing if we go more nuanced is that this "don't fire people for stupid shit" is something of a detente. I view it as pragmatism, not unbendable moral conviction. So if you have broken it, you are no longer protected by it. And let's be honest - chances of a person in this position not having a lot of outrage in his public social accounts is quite slim.
The problem is that professional mathematicians have a common language that they all have learned which serves them well...and they're the ones writing the Wikipedia articles. Imagine if all the programming documentation you worked with was at the level of a 1980's first book on BASIC.

Set theory is the concrete starting point after that training, and the first step of concrete problems is to translate them into an abstract form of maps on sets. It's a decoupling. Instead of translating n techniques into m domains (n*m bits of work), you develop n techniques in terms of set theory, and translate m domains into set theory (n+m bits of work).

Physics majors largely use the same pieces of math on the same domains, so this decoupling doesn't make sense for them. Similarly, most domains carve off some piece of math and statistics and specialize it. But if you're writing a reference, whose specialty do you choose?
And that is why I stopped calling myself a progressive years ago. In my youth I thought progressive meant trying to continually better yourself and your community. Now the focus seems to be on cancelling any viewpoint that conflicts with yours. The new trend of digging further and further back in the past makes it even more counter to my previous beliefs of the word
I enjoyed reading Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia which is all about how Polynesia became populated.

https://www.amazon.com/Sea-People-Polynesia-Christina-Thomps...
And on mobile Google likes to switch the order of the nav buttons: "All, Images, Maps" to "All, Maps, Images" depending on the search query.
He said Jew, not Israeli. He is intentional in the use as the entire article is about Jews and Israel. Also the person in question is not an idiot, he is a mature adult smart enough to work in stem at Google. Your argument essentially absolves any anti semitic statements / actions by blaming the Jews for it.

This is exactly the definition of anti-semitism, and now I am speaking about your words, not his.
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> They fired Damore for writing an email that was tone-deaf, insensitive, but largely supported by research

Damore was asked for his feedback on Google's diversity policies, and that's exactly what he provided.

Most of Damore's critics haven't actually read his memo[1], but rather formed an opinion based on the character assassination campaign against him, a campaign his employer publicly sided with.

Over the 4 years since the controversy I've asked countless Damore critics to point to the specific part of his memo that was tone-deaf, insensitive, or bigoted. I'm still waiting for an answer.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
Most but not all apparently, though I don't think it's as bad as the one you reply to seems to imply. E.g. there's already some 'a lot of anti-Israel is also antisemitism' sentiment creeping in in some comments, without data to back that up.
Israel, a nation with a strong national identity, a small nation not a multinational organisation, generally governed by right wing governments, hugely successful in terms of meritocracy, good entrepreneurial spirit.

Filled with a nation of people persecuted for millenia, who have been victims of racism forever, who yet become massively successful, and don't act like victims.

Yes, I understand it's a ridiculously annoying example that counters every woke left ideal. Can't blame the woke for being anti semitic.
His bigotry goes beyond that. Kamau Bobb's blog posts were almost exclusively about White and Jewish people, and the theme throughout is the mistreatment by them of Black Americans. There is a very clear tone of distaste for white and Jewish people in his posts.

Search for the word "white" or "Jew" in his blog [1] posts to see for yourself.

[1] http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/

Since Google supports "cancel culture", Kamau Bobb needs to be fired.

> The cost of elite education for our children is extraordinary. I dropped my beautiful black star into a sea of white children and it hurt.

> among the increasing number of white women holding leadership roles in the academy and in the public and private sector, they surely see younger versions of themselves in the next generation of white girls. It is a natural instinct to want the very best for them.

> In a nation with a history such as ours, that imagery is connected to a much longer and darker legacy – a legacy where white men have abused black women and girls with impunity.

> I do not need to be convinced that diversity and excellence are intimately interwoven. But what of my White counterparts? I really do not know how White people learn about Black or Hispanic people in ways that are honest

> Perhaps it is time to focus the inquiry on our White counterparts. They may well feel marginalized by the shortage of academic inquiry into the complexity of their changing American citizenship alongside people of color. Their sense of self-efficacy may be undermined by their pending loss of majority status.

> I was learning about the resilient spirit of black people in America in the context of white American barbarism.

> It is still true that white people kill black people in America with impunity.

...and he's been accused of racism before: http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/2011/08/accused-of-being-racis...

It goes on and on...
You have them on SoundCloud [1]. Note, there is a mess with numbering of episodes.

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This. You can be critical of Israel's actions. You can also be critical of Israel's existence specifically as a nation that discriminates against non-Jewish citizens. None of this means you are an anti-semite who wants the destruction of Israel, let alone Jews.

By and large, for example, the UN security council resolutions that the US keeps single-handedly vetoing are not calling for any destruction. They simply condemn Israel's violent behavior.
Agreed, I thought Boom was positioning itself as “the cost of a business class ticket”, not “the cost of a Concorde ticket”.
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The majority were not zionist, including my family. The Holocaust changed that.

The premise of zionism was never "having a natural "homeland" because of your DNA." The premise of Zionism was that Jews could not stay in Europe, particularly in the age of nation states. Most commonly, this was referred to as "The Jewish Question."

The majority of secular Jews believed in emancipation. The majority of religious jews believed that only god could create the Jewish state. They were also skeptical of Zionism's desire for secular Jewish identity.

That said, my grandparents never referred to themselves as zionists. Before the war, zionism just meant "want a jewish state to exist." Foreign politicians (eg Churchill) were referred to as zionist for this reason. After the war, it generally meant exuberance about zionists political ideologies of the time. Founding Kibbutz, farming, hebrew language revival, etc. "Zionists" wanted to take hebrew names, for example. Today, "zionist" just means Israeli patriotism.
"How many of them turned out to be true or collaborated?"

The overwhelming majority have turned out to be true.

So, what now?

The faux equivalency "they're all the same" (usually pointing to a tiny, minuscule fraction of stories where something was errant) is exactly how we ended up with the rise of overtly fake news. In the same way we have normalized politicians who lie overtly and repeatedly by casting them all the same: some politician took exaggerated credit or said something that in some contexts might be misleading, ergo he's the same as the one who lies maliciously at every turn. "They're all the same"
Sure, without bounds-checking all hope is lost, but then you're in a hopeless place anyway.
That’s an...incredibly poor and uncharitable reading of his argument.

It’s not a good essay but he definitively isn’t advocating for a genocide - and indeed is arguing against Israel committing a genocide in slow motion. At worst he is conflating Zionists with Jews, an unfortunate generalization which is anti Semitic but nowhere near the mental image most people have of anti Semitic behavior.

Additionally he made these comments 13 years ago and not on company property. Assuming the offenses were equal performing one more than a decade ago vs. last week on a company system is always going to have a different response. Your comparison isn’t a fair one.
> The umbrage that the GP seems to be taking is that Signal doesn't require you to verify your key, nor is it particularly visible.

Only the latter really, but yes. It doesn't need to be required -- see the footnote text where I elaborate: Threema also doesn't require it, but it's very visible, so people do it and thereby avoid having to trust the server.

> only really starts bugging you about verifying keys if they suddenly change

Does it? I haven't seen that, though I think the only key changes so far have been in group chats, perhaps that's different. This would be quite an improvement over WhatsApp that I wasn't aware of (if it really does this).
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Trying to get correct estimates feels like it violates some basic quantum principle of physics. Were venturing into Schrodinger territory here folks.

On a more serious note, good idea and nice site. I may give this a try. I have been thinking along these lines myself, using simulations to complete different dev related tasks