skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so every write to an executable page would have to clear that bit then, triggering an interrupt on jump to let the translator jump in?

i'd venture a guess that the rosetta jit stuff probably does some kind of prelinking.

kinda makes me wish i had an m1 mac to play with...
You can still have smart contracts and shared ledgers. There are efficiency and collaboration gains. This will likely happen anyway, regardless of what happens in the public permissionless space.
>New Twitter CEO Flamed for 11-Year-Old Tweet Quoting ‘Daily Show’ Joke About ‘White People and Racists’

https://www.thewrap.com/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-old-tweet-...
Looks like only official Docker images from Dockerhub will be in the ECR gallery. "Other images are under consideration for the roadmap next year, along with authenticated private registries."

Meh.
>Google fired the three workers... for "clear and repeated violations" of the company's data security policies. The four deny they accessed and leaked confidential documents...

Surely if they can prove they didn't leak anything (or Google can't prove they did), they would have an easy wrongful termination lawsuit? They wouldn't need to sue on these flimsy grounds?
At the very least, certain definitions have been ratified by Google if they've fired anyone for "being evil" - have they?
The immediate carbon impact of driving should be solved by improving public transportation and weening people off individual transportation.

The immediate carbon impact of proof-of-work should be solved by banning proof-of-work. What is the problem any of this is solving?

It seems to me like your defense of proof-of-work is "it needs to be this way to work properly and it's not that big a deal", but why do we even need it to work? If it has a clear carbon cost and no perceivable benefit, then it seems obvious to me we should get rid of it.
I’d argue that’s the entire point of courts…
Ha. That was the first thing I thought of when I read this.
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>These two points seem contradictory. If you are very powerful, you can draw on great resources, and you can address many things.

Power isn't a single resource that can be accumulated and spent. The accumulation of soft power over public discourse isn't the sort of thing that inherently helps you put out fires, and in fact managing that growth can be one of the fires.

>There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.”

Which GP covered in their 4th point. Even a CEO who doesn't believe that answers to a board who does. And if the board has reservations, they answer to shareholders who do. It's a structure that continually passes the buck so no one has to consciously decide to put profits over people.

Fiduciary duty is a pretty slick moral hack, making the act of chasing the dollar feel like a communal good.
I've lost the original reference, but Joe Marshall once wrote in comp.lang.lisp:

Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in that the 'shell' was the DDT debugger. You ran programs by loading them into memory and jumping to the entry point. But you can also just start writing assembly code directly into memory from the DDT prompt. Minsky started with the null program. Obviously, it needs an entry point, so he defined a label for that. He then told the debugger to jump to that label. This immediately raised an error of there being no code at the jump target. So he wrote a few lines of code and restarted the jump instruction. This time it succeeded and the first few instructions were executed. When the debugger again halted, he looked at the register contents and wrote a few more lines. Again proceeding from where he left off he watched the program run the few more instructions. He developed the entire program by 'debugging' the null program.
The article contains a link to an Adobe blog that talks about fair use of copyrighted material.

It references the fair use doctrine in a way that is not fully analogous to this type of use and mentions the Google books case. It also mentions that this is not settled law. It's clear that the author wants it to be fair use, but that might cloud their analysis.

Keep in mind that Google was scanning books that the legitimate owner of the physical books gave them permission to scan. If I buy a book and want to use it to train my model, fair use says I am free to do so. If I grab an unauthorized torrent of a training set, itself containing images were not legitimately purchased or licensed, there is absolutely no case law that I know of that says it is ok. I have to spend my money on lawyers trying to argue that I'm in the clear with no guarantee of success.

Maybe I'm wrong - I'd love to hear a convincing argument to the contrary!
Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap (C) heartiste

Society cannot see anything, it's just an abstraction. Let's not confuse government propaganda with reality. The only people who might are 20 yo virgins with a major in STEM. Who should do themselves a favor and internalize all
heartiste had to say before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236676 catches up with them.
Noted, but I can't encourage site users to contact anyone but the mods for this concern. While others may note it and fix it in passing (year is swell, thanks dang), formally, the path of record is the footer contact link.
https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/video/1027/cruisin...
This is obviously correct, at least with respect to prisoners.
It also does not require that male aggression be socialized—it holds equally well if it's innate.
Rosetta contains both an AOT static binary translator and a JIT dynamic binary translator. That’s how Apple managed to get JS engines working even when the host browser was running as x86-on-M1.
I wonder which side is required to define "evil" in this case? Probably Google's lawyers... Might be interesting what they come up with... If it ever gets to that point.
It seems the title is implying that the people suing think Google had an obligation to not be evil because that was its motto.

Reading the article, the lawsuit is about something more reasonable: They signed an employee code of conduct which included "Don't Be Evil". They organized a movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto, and believe they were fired for doing this organizing.

Say you were hired as security. You signed a contract stating you wouldn't let anyone enter the building who doesn't have a valid employee id. One day a VP forgets his ID at home, and puts you in a tough spot. Fearing you'd be fired because you violated your contract, you deny the VP access to the building. The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired. In this case, suing the company for following the rules it made you follow seems reasonable.

The problem here is "Don't Be Evil" is so vague. I'm unsure it will have enough standing to succeed, but it's not entirely unreasonable.
Yeah but you still have to chew the food yourself ... not 100% automated.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Code is assembled into a shared memory buffer. The application spawns a child process that runs the code in the shared memory buffer. The parent process attaches to the child using ptrace to inspect and manipulate the CPU state and memory of the subprocess.

The app is entirely written in Ruby. So, it might run on Apple M1, but only if you're running an x86 Ruby interpreter through Rosetta.
Agreed! I don't mean to complain about docker, they build great products.
Because it was the moment Twitter decisively shifted from an open fair neutral public forum, where contributor accounts could be neutrally & objectively confirmed to be who they claimed to be, to a biased forum which refused legitimate identification of anyone not in line with certain sociopolitical views.

Anonymity is important, and Twitter gave that to anyone who wanted it. Identification is important too, and Twitter denied that to dissenting views (not weirdos, but about half the population - normal mainline opinions).

Twitter isn’t grade school. It succeeded as the new global online public town square, widely quoted as an authoritative forum. If @Talanes posts something important, good to know it’s the real Talanes people assume it is - but if he’s denied a blue check because he promotes wrongthink (even if shared by hundreds of millions), the validity of the post is questioned.

I’ve seen enough “not really who you think it is” accounts obfuscate truth to know it’s a real problem. Online identity verification, when wanted, is important.
Not exactly the same, but https://www.endbasic.dev/ tries to achieve precisely that: a REPL with built in graphics for learning purposes, albeit with BASIC instead of asm.
Can't be forgotten since the 90s, it has YouTube videos uploaded in 2016 here https://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kids/man/active.html
Insider selling is usually not a strong signal because you sell shares for multiple reasons, diversify, buying house, divorce etc.

Insider buying is considered a strong signal because you usually buy because the insider thinks the share price will appreciate in the future.
That's just the pickle though - short of straight up eugenics there aren't really any legitimate "solutions" to the endless growth problem humanity faces.
Who wants to hear Edward Kemper (the serial killer, a tall, imposing “co-Ed killer”, who was also well read) recite audiobooks? Anyone heard his Star Wars reading before? He’s absent from this library.

edmundkemperstories.com/blog/2019/03/09/list-of-17-books-narrated-by-edmund-kemper-for-volunteers-of-vacaville-the-blind-project-part-1-of-2/
There's literally no other way typ find out if this can be handled in the courts.
Sure. But again, parsimony: we have lots of evidence for aggressive male socialization (including decreasing aggressive socialization as society becomes more egalitarian), and relatively little reproducible evidence for innate male aggression.
This is better than the rant from the other day but still has some questionable parts.

1. Saying PoS is bad because it has more economy of scale than PoW is contrary to what we see in reality. People need to verify their first-principles thinking.

2. The "you can't run a PoS node" stuff is not universally true and seems like an unacknowledged PoW bias.

3. Talking about what happens after hard forks is like worrying about surviving nuclear war. The focus should be on preventing it IMO.
When I first got my 400, I set it up to run on my 4K monitor at an appropriate resolution for such a monitor and.. it was super slow. The mouse pointer lagged, everything was terrible. After changing to 1920x1080 it was smooth as butter 60Hz even using the browser, so I think something is definitely going on in terms of drivers.
NPR indicates the key substantive issue is whether the workers improperly leaked data. The workers say they didn't, factually, leak data (apparently). The 'Evil' bit would allow the workers to present evidence at trial of the substantive right or wrong of what Google was doing, whereas it's irrelevant to vanilla issues of data security. Attorneys structure complaints like this every day of the week, and it's functioning precisely as intended-- NPR ran an article about 'Evil'.
Step 1. Hire thousands of social justice warriors.

Step 2. Deal with thousands of internal lawsuits related to "social justice" and internal squabbling.
Using the window as the application launcher is genius. Tabbed windows at the OS level is also great. I'm honestly blown away by this.
> There's a lot of reasons for this but I believe genetics is at the core.

We could blame estrogen and other sex hormones for making women prioritizing social behavior over other things, but my bet would be on culture. When genetics and environment meet, it is generally differences in environment that create large changes in behavior.

Looking back at the cultural outcome of world war 1 and world war 2, boys were molded to exist in their family until the age of 18. Then they were drafted into the service of the state, and if several years later they survived, form their own family and social life. Girls in contrast could keep their connection with their family, and thus was also expected to do that. This is the historical base for which our current culture is formed from, and while most military drafts are gone the culture has remained to some degree. Boys are still expected to "leave the nest" at early age, and girls are still expected to keep the social connections.

If culture expects women to be social and men to earn money and be independent, it doesn't seem strange that on average women will also be more social and men be more focused on earning money and be independent.
If you whistle-blow when your company does "evil" things... and you're fired for being "evil" (company claims whistleblowing is evil) then this could actually be a case with more merit than "that big company is evil but they said they werent" which is how most people are reading the title.
I have a toilet related startup; https://Loodio.com - an automatic music player for bathrooms that gives the user privacy while using a toilet.

People find the idea awkward to talk about but I find it funny and necessary - Apparently one of the Seven Sages agrees with me according to the article.
You keep asserting this, but I remain unconvinced. Can you expand your "argument" from "It can't" to something a little less vague?
Ignore the media reporting around the lawsuit and turn to the complaint itself (it's linked in the first sentence of the article [1]).

The complaint centers on a Code of Conduct that the employees signed, and then that the employees were terminated for speaking out internally about what they felt was a violation of the "don't be evil" motto. I'm not sufficiently familiar with California employment and contract law to know how much of a leg this case has, but on a quick scan, one of the counts (discrimination due to sexual identity) is dead in motion-to-dismiss phase, one (slander) might survive if amended, and the other three will turn on whether or not the Code of Conduct's statements that employees should speak up about perceived violations of "don't be evil" is enough like a contract to make retaliation in firing because of it a violation of contract.

Notably, it never asks the court to decide if its acts were or were not evil. It's not insane enough to be thrown out immediately, but there's several facts about the Code of Conduct I'd want to learn about that aren't in the complaint.

[1] This should be standard practice for anyone reporting on legal cases, and it frustrates me to no end that it is not.
That may be a small part but a much bigger factor is price differentiation and market segmentation. A 55" monitor is pretty extreme - any gamer who wants that is going to be willing to pay for it. A 55" TV is perfectly normal though and bought by normal people.

Same reason nVidia's AI cards are so expensive even though they're very similar to their graphics cards. Or "audiophile" speaker cables are expensive even though they're identical to cheap ones.

Product prices are partly a function of the price people are willing to pay (demand).
In fairness "Don't be evil" isn't really a meaningful goal, it's so vague as to be meaningless. E.g. I'd be surprised if any decision got reversed because it went against it.
Yeah, because there was a convenient public toilet right there and the soldier reached over its wall. Or, maybe, the "vinegar" was the ration of sour wine the soldiers carried.
Ah, great point! I had assumed that the Ruby interpreter would be x86, but that isn’t a reasonable assumption now that native builds are common.
That isn't the reverse at all.
What LSP is missing?
Ask HN: Why can't we send something to the moon?
I started a project in 2017 called `to-the-moon`: https://github.com/aklos/to-the-moon

Obviously, it's a joke. But I keep thinking, what if we could actually get a small propulsion device into Earth orbit? All it would need is a solar panel and a fart, and we could set it on a trajectory to collide with the moon. Even if it'd take 10 years to get there, it'd still be really cool.

There are services that launch small satellites into orbit for a fee (usually something like $30k-$60k per 1kg payload).

Why isn't this feasible?
In 5 years, the Turkish lira has lost ~70% of its value against the US dollar.

In the same 5 years, the value of bitcoin has increased 1,000% against the US dollar.

Care to expound on the consequence to the citizens of Turkey? Because that is often overlooked when using this glib analogy.

I'll do it for you: your argument is meaningful at the expense of the livelihood of millions of people. BTC is a money laundering mechanism, the economy of Turkey is made of real people. The two are not comparable.
yeah, www isn't redirecting. the link is https://drawabox.com/
Yeah I make many diagrams and graphs using PowerPoint and often people think it's made by some professional illustration software. And I use PowerPoint for my presentations too. Still, I wish it were possible to have some features of Beamer in PP. Also, it's a shame that drawing a simple x-axis with ticks on it is still very time consuming on PP.
Over George Mason's (among others) protest the convention decided not to include a bill of rights in the constitution. There are a few reasons for this, one of the two more traditionally held is that it was seen as unnecessary given that many states already had their own bills of rights. The other reason supported by the historical record is that many of the delegates were concerned about giving the appearance of those being the only rights guaranteed to the people.

There is a third popular opinion, which is that the convention had been a hot, contentious affair that dragged on for months and everyone wanted to go home so they tabled the bill of rights for a later date.

You will note that none of these reasons is that anyone objected to the principles in the bill of rights. More importantly, many of the rights guaranteed in the first 10 amendments are directly targeted at the causes of the revolution. This lends significant credence to the "it's important but let's not do it now" argument, and undercuts rather dramatically the idea that the country was not founded on those ideals.
I don't really follow the forums as much as I used to, but diyAudio [1] always seemed like it had a good distribution of domain experts to help quash the craziness.

[1] https://www.diyaudio.com/
Very cool! What stack did you use?
(Disclaimer: I wasn't there at the very beginning. I joined in Nov. 2005 when the motto was already in place.)

The origin of "don't be evil" had nothing to do with politics. It had to do, especially, with selling search placement, which was something that search engines before Google regularly did. Whether you bought ads on Search or not had no bearing on where you came out in the Search results, and you can doubt that all you like but it was true.

I'm not AS sure about this one, but another evil practice which inspired the slogan was: giving preference to your own products in search results. Google didn't need to do that back in the day, because it didn't really HAVE any other products. It pretty definitely succumbed to that evil once it had some.

If the case is not tossed, the judge will probably construe the term for the jury, similar to how a patent claim is construed. The two sides will fight over the construction, but the judge's ruling will stand. I'm pretty sure he'd construe "don't be evil" by what it meant to Google, and not what the three ex-employees thought. If they were in doubt, they could have asked.
I'm inclined to agree, however if you remove the feelings from the situation - it doesn't seem much different to any other contractual obligations - like the amount and frequency of their wage payments.

If your contract stipulates that you (and your employer) should "do no evil" without supplying a definition for "evil" then it really isn't that much different to any other contractual breach. Also, you'd have to be stupid to put that in an actual contract.
Yeah, it pretty much IS unenforceable.
https://thewritelife.com/how-much-to-pay-for-a-book-editor/

1-10 thousand for hiring someone to edit.

That could be the entire profit of most self published books.

Someone like Brandon Sanderson has not only an editor but continuity staff to make sure his plot lines aren’t full of holes and timelines make sense. But he sells millions.
I agree with your point but i'm not sure i agree that people disagree on first principles that much, and i think people mostly pay lip-service to liberalism more than practice and believe it.
Pfizer poised to request authorization for coronavirus booster for 16 year-olds
Wait, what does reason mean precisely then? This sounds half-baked. Let's say I have the preverbial lever which kills someone but gives me a million dollars. Is it reasonable for me to increase my own utility by pressing the lever? Thus would Levi say it's not evil to do so?
I got the new TV three days ago... I'll let you know once I've spent more time with it?

As of right now I have an Apple TV hooked up with my Vizio sounder and it all works really well. Have had no issues.
Linux also does not allow you to overwrite a running program; you'll get ETXTBSY.

The difference to Windows is that Linux allows you to delete (unlink) files that are in use. The inode actually owning the data continues to exist until the program is dead.
> Coupled with an increase in food delivery efficiency, kitchenless flats could become the norm in densely populated areas.

Sounds dystopian. Hustle and bustle of life aside, physically cooking things can be enjoyable. On the other hand, when I cook "from scratch", I'm buying conveniently packaged ingredients (I don't grow or grind my own flour for example), so maybe I'm happy with my current level of effort from simple familiarity.
So you say your current position is to be rather carefully around anything by/from Google, but you trust Internet randos to build the binary of the browser you use?

Okay.
IIRC they added it to one of the utility extensions that many Google employees install, although I no longer recall which one.
XBMC/Kodi, or AppleTV if you want a managed ecosystem.
Maybe they want people to read what they have to say! In which case, communicating more effectively is worth time, effort, and money.
Seems Google employees might now have two ways of making money. Once while at Google. And then suing Google after leaving. If they prevail I expect that a lot of other companies will become targets.
because many children are being trafficked by people who aren't their adults.
So.. go back to the old system? Keep the same corrupt people in power, inefficient systems that promote the production of nothing, making the rich richer...
That's a good point. You see phrases such as "consent shall not be unreasonably withheld" in contracts. It's common in leases, where you can sublet with the consent of the landlord. Court decisions in this area are not consistent.
Voice Dream Reader is also very good on the iPhone. It can use any of the apple voices (download high quality versions in accessibility settings), and has other voices available. It can OCR pdf files that are otherwise inaccessible. It also makes a great audio book player.
I love how mask-off this comment is.
Sure, but there's a huge gap between "we all precisely agree on what 'evil' means and 'nobody has a clue what evil means'.

It's pretty unreasonable for somebody to say "I personally think this is evil so I can't be fired for refusing to do it, even though I'm the only one", but it's a lot more reasonable if most people would agree that it is in fact evil.

I could see a judgement for the former employees if Google were helping an authoritarian government identify and punish dissidents. Working with US customs? Probably not.