skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Egypt were to abandon leave with Isreal, they would take in refugees and then allow them to return back across their border to Gaza. Maybe they fear that Isreal would bomb them, but it would be harder to politically justify if Egypt wasn't agressing AND the returning Palestinians were returning to create a peaceful state.

The problem seems to be that Palestinians don't want peace, or are unable to separate themselves from the terrorists government.
Right, I spoke without basis on facts. Thank you, I have done some research and changed my opinion.
you'll probably have to talk to the dynamicland folks; i'm not sure what their current strategy is for getting it out into the world, but it doesn't seem to be the obvious 'upload the software to gitlab and hope for the best' approach
> We could automate menial jobs so people have time to make art and music but apparently we'd rather automate art and music so people have time for menial jobs

> Unexpected item in the bagging area

It's almost as if the menial jobs are the hardest ones to automate eh?

It's been proven again and again that what's second nature to us is impossibly hard for computers and vice versa. We can't math, we can't remember things reliably, the average person can't do art very well and most of us suck as writers too. The more effort something takes for us to learn the more we appreciate it as a society, but unfortunately those are the easiest pickings for automation because we have already worked out the entire process of learning it logically and not by intuition.
Tonedeaf "logic". Destroying incomes harms most people while disproportionately benefiting only a few. This decreases wages and increases competition for an ever shrinking pool of jobs. Eventually, there will only be shit jobs paying peanuts that are too expensive to automate.
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Also, because lots of people work there. And also, it isn't true that it's unique to them.
I’m sure he expected to be fired over this. If he didn’t he’s a coward.
Look at the people in your life. Coworkers. Neighbors. Folks you know. "Dating scene" is all about "right now".

Marriage (and Love, imo) is better looked at as finding a friend with whom to share a bigger life. someone whose foibles fit with yours.
Regarding your last question: we just went through a period where shaming people publicly had huge effects. However, partially as a result of that, and other important factors, people changed their tolerance and rage parameters in a way that is less likely to call for change in the progressive direction.
> sets goals for housing

I don't think the federal government does that at all but please someone correct me. Immigration is a federal issue that gets decided mostly on the federal level. Housing is not a (direct) federal responsibility, again correct me if I'm wrong. The government can give incentives but it can't dictate how much housing needs to be build by the provinces/territories, municipalities, etc.

Here's an example, how the BC government is explicitly trying to get more housing built: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/local-gov...

Edit: It's actually not that simple as I thought. This is a good read about the topic: https://theconversation.com/housing-is-a-direct-federal-resp...
I completely agree. You shouldn't have to down grade..
You don't actually have to make a device node, you can just create it directly within the CPIO archive.
Another big tech, big money, little conscience problem. So disappointing that there is so much willingness to make money regardless of what it supports but that that courtesy is not extended to those who do the actual money making.
lot of recommendations has to do with supply, noone has nowhere near as good supply as tiktok
Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.
> If you're not from Canada, you honestly can't fathom how bad things have gotten for people living here.

100%. People outside of Canada really don't realize how bad it has gotten here.

Yes, housing costs are up all over the world - but Canada's housing crisis is off the charts. Hell, even many Canadians that are comfortably housed don't even realize how bad it has gotten.
This is why we need tech unions. We should be able to take an ethical stance without getting fired.
My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace.

Seriously, it's as simple as that. We are here to work, not philosophize about politics and current events.
/me eyes Tesla
> the answer is often that the existing rent-collectors must be allowed to continue collecting their rent at all costs.

Well, to be fair, this is also the case in other parts of the world. They just differ in what part of the economy the rent-seekers have latched themselves on.

(Though I have to agree that allowing them into healthcare was a uniquely bone-headed decision.)
> And the minimal assurances in Mr. Sweeney’s curt response were swiftly undercut by a litany of public attacks on Apple’s policies, compliance plan, and business model.

So according to Apple [edit] one isn't allowed to say bad things about a company publicly or they are allowed to ban your account? Interesting view.
What actual, measurable results have you seen?

Is your business doing better than it was before you started? If so, what do you attribute those improvements to?
Google did this to themselves by spending years encouraging radical politics at work. They harmed themselves, maybe irrevocably, and the entire industry by normalizing this behavior.

Now it's politics they don't like and they want to close Pandora's box. I feel no pity for them or the fired employee.

This is why we have social norms to keep politics private.
Automation can be used in service of different groups. I specified.
No, they should not continue to be in a position where they can continue committing grossly negligent actions and harm others.

You can train them once they are removed and reinstate them when they can do the job right, but supporting their continued harm of others so they can “support themselves” is detrimental, counterproductive, misguided, and extremely selfish.

You are literally better off paying them to do nothing. Please at least do that instead of paying for harm.
We probably told them too. I assume US won't accept airplanes into its airspace with passengers that haven't been cleared to a security specification that looks almost identical to what TSA does.
If this automated future automates the process of dismissing popups as are employed by this site, I'll welcome it.

Something like 5 popups, including hijacking the back button.

Edit: I know ubo exists. This is more a point about this site throwing rocks in glass houses. AI may be one source of our dystopian future, but it is not the only one. This is pollution of the commons that is the open web just as much as (AI) SEO spam is. Have some self awareness for god's sake.
Yeah, I had the same issue and came to the comments to find out it it was just me.
It's not the same level, you don't have to take off your shoes for example.

In some airports (like in Haneda) you don't even have to pull anything out of your bag. Bag on the conveyor belt, yourself through the gate and you're done.
Hosting an event with Israel is politics.
It should not need anywhere near that much. Maybe some defaults in your docker setup, or a docker-machine VM is in play?
Was surprised to learn it's not even a real twitch emote, it's a frankerfacez emote. Although, most emotes used on twitch are FFZ as well, since you can use them without subscribing to a streamer and the restrictions on a streamer adding them are far less.
> Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly.

Just because something is done by most companies doesn't make it okay. Are mass layoffs "rightful" in any sense of that word?
So being anti-Genocide is a fireable offense at Google?
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I don't agree with you and I'm actively boycotting all companies that work with Israel. This is why consumer brands can't support Israel, I'm not alone.
Musicians/DJs/etc. also often do corporate gigs to eat. I'm sure they'd often much rather be playing for passionate fans in a bar than playing at some event where half the time the attendees are largely ignoring them except to wish they would turn down the volume so they could have a conversation.

Somewhat different situation than the Spotify case which is arguably mostly an advertising channel while corporate gigs actually pay directly. But creatives of all stripes doing things they'd rather not do so they can live, do what they want to do, and have a sliver of a sliver of a chance to breakout is extremely common.
And the landlords. If the financial and risk incentives to do short term housing did not outweigh standard rentals landlords would not Airbnb.

If Airbnb was not allowed, or severely restricted in residential neighborhoods it would reduce options for holding onto a house that could be sold for single family housing.

Landlords take advantage of loose enforcement of Airbnb permitting. I have seen a landlord create a fake living space to get a permit they should not have had first hand. There is a site that uses data to indicate these bad actors working on a much greater scale than this.
Government: hey no fair, people are demanding more housing than we're willing to let developers supply
I'm thrilled to be able to message a doctor, even if I have to pay for it.

In Canada I had no such option.
An illumos distribution which is supported by rust, and the rust stuff would successfully build but `npm install` wouldn't because they didn't provide binaries for that platform and it was much faster to just switch to esbuild than figure out all that was needed to get it supported.

I only tried rollup from the beginning because the ES6 project I was trying to bundle suggested it.
theres a github repo somewhere of open source equivalents to paid software - anyone know what im talking about? i havent been able to find it since i saw it
>“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired

Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem?
I'm confused by your logic here, the fact that all other big tech companies would do something is hardly grounds for considering an action "right" in any moral framework I know of.

"Unsurprisingly so" I can get behind. But "rightfully" is a stretch I wouldn't agree with.
Just go to Mexico or an online pharmacy and get your meds at cost. /s

The US healthcare system is completely broken. Hospital systems and doctors offices in general lost a shit ton of money last year. There has been massive layoffs throughout this sector. There will continue to be this year. This year they all are going to try to survive by recouping their prior losses. Get ready for more fees.

In addition - there is consolidation in the physicians groups. Mom and pop groups are almost unfeasible at this point. Look for venture capitalists to scoop in. Guess what - you won't have better care with after those changes - I can promise that.

Lastly, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control. They hike prices on any and all medications that they are able to. They recently hiked flovent to a cost that no insurance companies or hospital will pay for it. There are limited alternatives at least for kids. This is medications that that has been out since the mid 80s. It is a controlled market, with high barriers to entry - you can either permit a wide west time of pharmaceutical environment or you can understand the need for a regulated marketplace and meet with with equivalent regulation in terms of pricing.

Finally the insurance companies are the worst. I don't know anyone with a good experience...the only ones that have a positive experience are those that don't use it. I try not to hate any single group but I hate insurance companies.

The system needs to be burned to the ground. It is fragmented and burdensome for healthcare providers and for patients. It benefits no one at this point. It creates additional workload for providers hospitals and patients alike.

I am afraid of what will come in it's place but can't we worse that this shit.
Most of the comments below are citing statistics for Canada or the whole Province of Quebec,not Montreal, which is like using the US housing statistics for NYC.
This doesn't exactly work when companies themselves make political stances. When companies grow larger than nationstates they are inherently political.
They weren't fired for taking a stance, they were fired for how they took the stance.
It can be good for some things, and is more convenient to schedule (don't have to drive there, no risk of getting sick from other patients). Plus, there's a chance that in the future it could enable people in HCoL areas to get medical care from providers in LCoL areas, which would lower costs dramatically. I think for now the state-by-state cartel is still quite strong though.

But I agree that for some appointments it obviously doesn't work because you can't examine the patient or take vitals the same way/at all.
having self-control could be a result of having higher IQ: being better able to figure out the future results of current behavior.

And "higher IQ leads to power" (on average, population statistic) is not counterintuitive.
> If he just complied with the EU then he'd be voted out by the board by the end of the week.

Most companies like Facebook and Microsoft quietly comply with the rules as best they can with as little fanfare as possible. Maybe after paying a fine or two. As far as I know, there hasn't been any oustings because of that.
No catch, just the threat of "and if you keep trying to violate EU law, we're going to keep levying billion dollar fines on you until you either obey the law, or you cease all operations in Europe. Which will get you sued some more because you're still on the hook for support after you leave"
Wouldn't this be expected? He announced himself as a Google employee and this "represented." I do think it is dumb we act as if some random employee acts as a representative for their company, but here we are with all our social media taglines "my views are that of my own and not of my sugar daddy." I'll totally stand by these peoples' rights to make such protests. You gotta ruffle some feathers for what you believe in. But ruffling feathers has consequences. (This is regardless of my views on the situation, which is that there are no good/righteous sides in a war).

Works at Google and says he *refuses to build technology that enables surveillance*!? Who do you think you've been working for?
I'm all for some good old civil disobedience as far as every day choices go in the outside world.

However, I also think if you're employed somewhere there are reasonable expectations as far as workplace behavior goes that would prohibit the same "protest" or "civil disobedience" type behavior.

It is interesting that the protestor immediately declares that they don't wan to work for such a company. It sorta begs the question of "Then why do you?". It seems like their choice is obvious.
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Yes, it is true, it is definitely an accelerator.
Both side in that war are behaving badly and nobody should take either side. I look forward to the day when allying with any theocracy is recognized as an ethical mistake.
This just shows that employees have 0 power and companies like Google are more than ready to fire you if you get in their way.

Businesses that live and breathe billions do not care and any attempt to cave into employee demands, then the investors will move in and force it through their changes. (Especially public companies)
A lot of work can be inherently political. If your company pivots into mass surveillance is it unreasonable to speak up if it's against your ethics framework?
> So according to DF

I don't really think that's according to DF, more so Apple.
tech unions are unlikely to support random employees disrupting company events like this. they would instead provide an internal system for routing complaints in a consistent way.
Did you set new parameters for the relationship, and they eventually accepted it?
>What TSA needs is proper oversight, better KPIs, and a cultural overhaul to stop treating passengers so terribly. TSA ought to provide an SLA commitment, consistently and openly report on their actual service level, reward managers who improve it, and fire/demote those managers who degrade it.

I agree, we need to teach TSA to Scrum and we need to do it yesterday!
You already lost me at "as a knowledge worker" but the content before that was very valuable to me.
the audio is surpisingly natural
This the same company that called for a company wide feels meeting after Trump won in 2016?
Great piece on Boeing from Last Week Tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc
Of course, one person's ethical stance is another person's inane diversion. Imagine someone started disrupting a PR event by calling Biden a pedophile or whatever the outrage du jour is. Do they deserve protections?
I have never read Marx and have no opinion about his works. Doesn't change the fact that owners of capital can use automation in detriment of workers and you are splitting hairs to avoid the point: Luddites were technology users who opposed automation being used at the expense of their jobs and your oversimplification doesn't hold water.
I'd go further and not pay the bill, document why (failed to provide the agreed service?) and send them a notice of it. At least.

It's effectively a scam, don't give in to scammers.
"Non-Profit" hospitals with incredibly bloated administrations paying a CEO $10MM a year to order constant hospital expansions and ever growing outpatient care so they can reliably spend off any possible profits.
Their stance wasn't the issue. Their actions were.

I don't think such behavior would be tolerated most anywhere.
If you don't care about the best possible performance you can (and so most people should) just do whatever is easiest to reason about and not waste your time trying to figure out how to satisfy the borrow checker.

But also yeah, Rust is just a really nice programming language, I prefer to write Rust so obviously I'm going to write software in Rust and that's likely true for others too.
Israel is not a person. And this wasn't even a member of the government IIUC.
There's a difference between standing up in the middle of a PR session and violence, much like there's a difference between whatever might happen in a school and what Google is doing.
You can't make them on the filesystem itself, gen_init_cpio lets you specify device nodes to be created within the archive, but they are not actually created on the live system and do not require privileges.

I made my own CPIO library: https://github.com/desultory/pycpio and one of the main goals was this behavior, so I could create CPIO archives with device nodes without privileges. It's really as simple as writing some bytes to a file saying "when you extract this, create this device node". It's not like any archive actually has a device node, just instructions for where to put them, and what properties they have.

Certainly, you can't extract these archives as non-root, but you have to go out of your way to make an initramfs have non-root privileges.
Family offices have tripled since 2019, creating a new gold rush on Wall Street
Because many other kinds of companies have unions that give the employees a means to redress issues without such stunts. Our tech lord masters have done a good job of convincing us in the industry that crushing unions as if they were the robber barons of the past is a good idea.
Cringe.

Mass layoffs are part of the Faustian bargain you accept when you sign the offer letter to work at the behemoths of capitalism. These are the biggest like top 10 companies in the whole world.

It’s just business.

But then again even those making 400k plus TC make appeals to emotion instead of rational thinking.

There are plenty of jobs for these people where they can make 200k TC and not risk getting fired, which is still a good salary.

If you want more and more, you must play with the devil. It’s really not that complicated.
> "No politics and religion in the workplace"

Supporting a state, that is actively committing a genocide, with cloud services is a political choice.
"I am to human consideration what the generated images are to actual sandwiches"
They'll try harder to find an excuse next time.
Oh, it's serious. Sure, he doesn't have the logistical or institutional knowledge and abilities to actually execute on it on its own, but his allies do, and they've shown that they'll do whatever it takes to keep riding this tiger, even at the cost of the country.
It's appropriate to protest within a company, because human beings are free to choose what is important enough to their own personal values to be worth taking actions that will have consequences, and to choose which actions they believe are worth doing. But certainly the base case expectation people should have is that such actions will result in being fired. And personally I also agree with you that this does not turn out to be a very effective form of protest. But people get to make their own choices!
There's a difference between purpose-built rentals, and Airbnb taking over what should have been long term rentals.

I live in a resort town where we implemented strict rental licenses as otherwise the whole town would be on Airbnb, with nowhere for locals to live. There's no more land to build on within 50km. We're seeing a lot of housing be torn down and rebuilt as 4 unit townhomes on the same land.

The town is now attempting to balance between vacation homes and long term rentals, with fines for unlicensed Airbnbs.
Does Airbnb take a public stance lobbying for change on these big levers? The company is powerful enough to transparently fund and back political action on these other areas.
This needs to be emphasized more. It's not that they took a stance, it's definitely how they did it that warranted being fired over it.
It’s both, not either or. Build more housing and regulate short term housing more so it doesn’t decrease mode badly needed long term supply.
This is the one that was featured in my memory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314814

But the most recent one is also interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527437
What I think might happen is people will say "wow ML is just like the human mind", and extrapolate from there that people who aren't special boys like them are just NPCs and don't have as many human rights.
Google deliberately instituted a cultural policy where employees were told to "bring your whole self" to work. The belief was that a person does their best work (and the company performs best as a result) when people bring the totality of their values and interests to work. This made it so internal discussion forums covered topics that would be completely inappropriate at most other workplaces, and people are encouraged to voice their opinions in company meetings. Likewise, there was a spirit (in principle though definitely not in practice) of "everyone here is equal," which again encourages people to be very loud.
If the alternative is the company going out of business? Yes?

People can rightly protest the way layoffs are conducted but the idea that a company is "wrongful" to have a layoff sometimes is silly.
Jewish people take on no special moral obligations by being victims of the Holocaust. I can't tell if you were implying that they were, but just for clarity's sake.
It's not immoral to fire multiple people from a company.
No, of course not, and I don't even think you meant that question in good faith.

More explicitly: you can be (and are encouraged to be) anti-genocide at google. However, disrupting a public company meeting is definitely a fireable offense.